Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-08

There are a number of things laid out in
the plan of Washington by Maj Peter
Charles l. Enfant' remarked a prominent
church d.gnitary to Star reporter, that
seem to have been entirely forgotten. Some
of them. ii seems to me- should be revived,
among them what L'Enfant styled a ma
tional church. His idea, in his own words,
was: A church intended for national pur-
poses, such public prayers, thanksgiv-
ings. funeral orations, &c, and assigned to
the special use of no particular sect or de-
nomination. but equally open to all. 1t will
likewise he a proper shelter for such mona-
ments We're voted by the late Continental
Congress for those heroes who fell in the
cause of liberty, and for such others as
may hereafter be decreed by the voice of a
grateful nation. This was in the plan
which adopted by Congress, and is as
much part of it. or at least was intended
to be. as the building of the federal house,
the capitol or the other parts of the plan
the streets. avenues. and the like. Why it
has been that the church people allow ed
this part of the plan 10 lay dormant so
long is more than can understand
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THE peculiar effect of cigar smoking at
some times, and under some circumstances
known as cigar poisoning" said lead
Ing cigar utditT ~ Il SldE TepOGteI, IS III
tie understood by the trade or makers
themselves. Regular smokers are now and
then affected by it. Sometimes smokers
consume an entire box of cigars. and often
a number of them, without experiencing
any trouble with a cigar, when all al once
they smoke a cigar which completely
knocks them out in a way that they do not
get over it for several days. Physicians
think it is on account of the physical con-
dition of the smoker at the time and that
the trouble does not occur from any par
ticular cigar, and that any cigar would
produce the same effect. 1t is rather
serious thing in the cigar business, for it is
certain 10 make the customer let that
brand of cigars severely alone. The late
Vim. ). Rnose. who for many years sold
cigars at the hocel stands owned by him iii
this city. and at his several stores, always
dis!iked to sell cigars by the box to any of
his regular customers. His theory was that
customers who had a box of their favorite
cigar handy were apt to smoke too many
and the inevitable result was that they
soon got tired of any fdVOrite, while they
would smoke the same cigar for years
without any nut pleasant consequences if
they bought them in small quantities. The
only remedy that | know is for a person,
the instant hc feels any unpleasant effect
from a cigar, to throw 1t away, rinse the
mouth out with cold water and drink
large glass of the same. y large quantity
Ot tCit water IN the -StDIN9C0 seems 10 Heu-
JraliZe the effects of the cigar better than
anything that | know of. My experience
is that cigars are a barometer by which
persons are readily forewarned as to thei:
physical cclsdition. The mere fact that
regular smoker does not want to smoke
shows that there is sonnet hing wrong with
in him. dad it is best TO pay attention to
the indication and leave cigars alone until
he feels that he can enjoy them.'
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with one exception. | think said an
old citizen TO a Star reporter. the leader
of the Marine Band has been an Italian,
OF Italian descent, as in the of Sousa.
The exception was in the case of Prof.
Fries, who was Il. German. Originally the
band was composed of number of young
Italians. who, it was often charged, were
Kidnapped in Italy and brought to this coun-
try by officer in command of an Ameri-
can man-of-war There was no kidnapping
however. about it. for the entire party were
regularly hired as musicians and brought to
this country openly. l heard the band play
the year ii WAS organized. The elaborate
brass horns and instruments of the present
time had rot been invented then and their
music was produced by string and reed
Instruments. such as the clarinet fageo-
let. flute and piccolo. The string instru-
ments We're 'iolins- There was no brass
ahout the band, except trumpets and GYM
balls 1t would be very strange sight tn
see a band parading the streets the entire
front line of which We're playing violins.
and yet have often seen the Marine Rand
parade that way, and Sc have many others
VINO are seventy Years of age. The big man
IN the band OF former days in the Marine
Band IN ITS infancy. was the man who
nlarched IN the front and played a chime
OF bells, which was rugged I'D on a long
pole. He was an entire band in himself
Behind him marched two or three others
who had similarly arranged chimes though
or smaller DrODOrtioOS
been comets, trombones and basso horns
IN existence then, but certainly none of
thein We're ever carried by the Marine Band
uhtli after lS3J. l was married that yaar
ana remember very well seeing the barJ
parade Il day or before nv marriage
ana am certain there were no horns car
rico by the band. except bugles or trum-
pets- don't know that their music vras
not as sweet as 1t is today. 1t sounded 10
Us loikS OF that day so. anyhow There
seemed TO be more music in the string and
reed instruments than in the yarious horns
OF touay and the men who carried the
chlme bells could for sound at IeasT
double discount any of the performers in
the band toaay-'
he original Treasury Denartnent b,,i,d
ing In TINS city" said the same gentleman
was on 10th street, about where the main
uoof u the Treasury Department now
stahis- 1t was "a plain three-story brick
puildlnS, and long before it burned down
was much too small for the force of clerks
nity' who were engaged in it. The fire
Which destroyed ii consumed almost everv
thing In the building, and when the Treas
ury Department moved into a row of four
or hve buildings the south side Of Pann
syiFania avenue between 18th and 15,b
streets, the principal office in the row being
wheTe IS now located ths entrance to the
Grand Opera House. they had to buy every
ihlfS rev and start fresh the books or at
least the greater part of them furniture
etc, all having been destroyed by fire. The
nre which destroyed the original building
was the second one in the same building
though the destruction was not so exte1
siVe- President Jackson personally selected
the site now occupied by the Treasury De-
paFtment. There We're a number of sites
offered in other parts of the CITY for in
lhose days, as nov, people were willing to
sen I" the government, for it was best al Ie
10 pay the Price Gen jackson OnIv So
Iectef the present site as "A second choice
His desire was to purchase the block on
which the Arlington Hotel stands for the
grade On 10Th street was even more oh
1ecttonable then than now but the nen,
bers of 81. Johns Church would not listen
10 the idea of moving their church and