Arizona republican., 1898-04-13
AT WASHINGTON HOTELS.

veek said MT. D. F. FOrney Of Cnl- caeo. at the Shoreham, "he will see Bot of human nature in the crowds that surge in and out in the big "nlte building.
 A good many of these pilgrims act as though their temporal salvation ue- Dended on getting seats in the gal iar;es They have a member or sena- tor's card authorizing a seat where fbey can view the legislative proceed ings hut alasi in nine cases out of ten if isn't of the least use, for every available place has been taken. The galleries are so full of people that they sit squeezed together like sardines for hours at a time, while scores remain on the outside hoping that a few of those within may get weary and come out Their patience may be rewarded after a weary spell of waiting, but many fail to get in and go back to their hotels utterly disgusted at their Ill luck.
 @sI notice, too, that women are among the most eager Of the visitors to get on the inside, and they never cease their efforts as long as there IS the remotest chance of success. A good many of them think that money will open the doors, and one of the doorkeepers told me that hardly day passed that some fair one did not offer him coin if he would manage to get her a seat
 ssIt is a curious thing when all things are taken into account that Editor Brann of the Iconoclast surv1v- ed as long as he did" said MT. Will Sar gent of Texas at the Wellington
 ssIt was only a matter of little time when he would either have to cease his peculiar style of writing or cease eo exist. The people of the section in whi.h Brann lived were not accus- bor ,d to newspaper 'roasts,' and his says ge attacks on local institutions made him many bitter enemies. His death, and that of Capt. Davis, whom he slew in the duel. in the streets Of Waco, make a total of four fatal en- counters, growing out of the original cause of the trouble, the publication of an article refecting on local female college. which aroused indignation all over the state.
 tIt was about this article that the tragic, three-cornered fight ensued De- tween Judge Gerald and the Harris brothers. resulting in the death of the Harris boys and the severe wounding of Gerald With four men gone to their last sleep it is to be hoped that Waco will not suffer the disgrace of any more such bloody deeds.
 t'If Brann's admitted genius had been tempered with any degree of con- servatism or good judgment, he would have made a name as one of the bril- liant newspaper men of the country. Despite his radicalism he had many warm friends, and his paper was get ting to have a tremendous circulation m every part of the United States"
 '"The people out on the Pacific coast are as aggressively inclined and as eager for action in behalf of Cuba as those of any other part of the United States" said MT. Thomas Addison of San Francisco, at the Wellington.
 @The news of a declaration of war By congress will be received with de light on the coast. At the same time I think that a majority of our citizens cordially approve the temperate course of President Mckinley, who has acted all the way through in manner most becoming to the chief executive of a great nation. I came to Washington by way of the south, stopping in New Orleans and in Florida, and every where found but one sentiment pre- vailing- ng-Cuba must be free. War may be bad thing in some of its phases, but this one would have at least one magnificent effect-it would result in the disappearance of the last bit of sectfonalism in the United States. We would be. indeed, one nation, and there would be no north or south, no east or west. from the day that men from every part of the Union stood together in defense of the stars and stripes"
 "A good many of the Boston women who went before the local authorities to urge a modification Of the order re- auiring them to take off their hats in the theaters are rather inconsistent, " said MT. B. B. Banks of that city at the Raleigh. Quite a percentage of them are given to foreign travel and the patrons of the stage when they are sojourring abroad. Across the At fantfc. when they attend the theater, they remove their headgear without LH6 lodSL cOmplant. The rule over there is fron-clad; no matter how di- minutive the bonnet a lady may wear If she desires to retain it she must either sit in the pit or ascend to the galleries.
 "Now, if our Boston danes can ob- serve a foreign custom with such good grace, there would seem to be nc need of rebelling against the same regulation on their native heath, es- pecially when the reasons for the same are SO manifestly in accordance with justice and propriety."
 
 People down our way don't like the idea of having our splendid hotels al Old Point Comfort razed to the ground as we hear may be done in case oi var with Spain," said ex-Congressmar Harry Lfhbey of Virginia, to re- porter of the Post.
 'It would be calamity to the whole country to have to pull down such z magnificent structure as the Chamber lin, which ranks with the greates nf tho TTpitod Ctatac