New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-16
THE PASSING THRONG,

r A. Danvers who Is engaged in the real estate
business in Washington. D. C.. when seen at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday said;
THE 1T doesn't seem to be generally
STREETS known but. like Paris. Washington
OF WASH is laid out on military lines. and
INGTON. cannon planted at certain points
would command number Of APP
proaches Take for instance the White House.
Through its centre .he following thoroughfares
pass: Vermont Connecticut New-York and Penn
sylvania and Sixteenth and q SITS The centre
of tho Capitol is the same is also the centre OF
naming of the streets IL simple and easy 10 foilo%
owing to the way in which the avenues cut
diagonaly across the numbered and lettered
streets. and these streets calmly move a halt
block away before again taking up their line OF
m Chen b rn % as go th Street swings
there slightly TO the right and proceeds on a
along il VIII iers1- confidence thai he was still
in Fifteenth-st. whereas he IN reality vonid he in
block northward. That's as plain as can make
IT and about the only thing II really seems TO Elk
a Prel"" Is now very confusing our streets Fe'"'
THE early days OF mining camps interesting.
amusing and picturesque" said Albert Travers OF
Butte, Mont, at the Hotel Imperial
PIONEER last evening, land l shall never
DAYS IN regret the years / spent in the
MINING Coeur d'Aene In its beginning No
CAMPS one travelled under his name
then, as nicknames bestowed
on the slightest OF excuses. For example. one
cold night poor devil named Dan fell into
Pritchard Creek and was pulled out almost dead
and carried to Irish Mikes place When he came
to Irish asked him what ned have to drink, and
Dam who suffered replied. i think I'll have
l--lemonade,' and Lemonade Dan was the name
he went by to the end of the chapter During the
placer excitement OF 1888 very bright mining
pa per, called The Barbarian threw or the cpl
gram that there three kinds OF liars IN the
WOr liars
In trial that took place about that time the re,
Davis had become confused in giving his testi-
mony The Barbarian took occasion to rema are
testimony 1t must have been because he was try
ing to ten the truth why shooting didn't did t,6 9l
the times when It the order Of the day lay
and questions asked for man to die with ms
and there was widespread curiosity as to what ne
had died from. which invariably resulted in a
coroner being called In and autopsy being held
The feeling Of intense resentment" said A. Y.
I.angdon- Blake. Of London. England. at tho WAL
dorf-Astora, us growing in Eng
ENGLISH land against the powers that he
FEAINC and those who responsible for
ABOUT the present war and for the posi-
THE WAR ton in which England finds herself
to-day To date have practi-
caly won not n victory, and each day brings the
news Of some fresh reverse to our arms. When
the storm breaks It Will go hard with those re-
sponsible for bringing the war on. but, neverthe-
less to my mind there is something more than
mere personal responsibility to blame That we
have been outgeneralled and apparently outfougnii
and ouclassed by an untried lot OF fighters would
seem to argue that England is paying the penalty
for the long years in which she has fought out OF
the way and barbarous semi barbarous peo-
pies unfamiliar with modern warfare and tactics
and unused to and not using modern weapons.
Such lighting that Is likely to beget contempt
for your enemy. and tendency TO hold him cheap.
~ and my mind this seems to he exactly "ha'
has happened in 18th Africa; - Ana
'Bu IL seems 20 that there are enc OF wv
unexplained things about the present nght con-
corning which / have longingly looked Tor l g,h,L
and they are first how earth did the Engns,h
authorities so wofully uni erestimate the nulner,,
cal strength of the forces which the beers couIa
put I'm the field? II the extra hunters OF Ineu
which the Beers manifestly possess over ana aSove
the military authorities estimates must come iIo
the Beers of the Cape Colony, as mas oee n IRE,
auently stated. how could they leave that country
in such numbers without the cognizance OF the
authorities there and the consequent warning "
the War Office ut home? And, secondly no" could
the Beers have imported artillery and other
weapons of warfare In such enormous quanutles
az they evidently possess without England Know
ing anything about II and preparing for the very
contingency for which the Beers were preparing
and which has now come into existenceT Inese
are questions which agitatng England Just
now"