The evening times., 1899-09-12
THE CLOSE OF VACATION
Hundreds Returning From Noun
tain and Seash0re.
Heaps of Baggage Give Evidence of
the End of the Recreation Season.
Many Businesses Stimulated by
the Home Coming of Householding
WashinEtonfans-Ho of Visitors.

Hundreds are returning from the sea-
shore and country Places said a real es-
tate man TO a Times reporter this morn
/ ing, and about the 18th of this month or
| the close of the present week summer va
cation will be only memory TO a big
contingent of the citizens of Wa hingto
who have got their trunks packed TIL !,
return CT the tourist, seashorist and rus
ticator is already fe.t in the rea estate
market, and the shutters and doors that
have barred up hundreds of our handson-
est houses all summer are rapidly comm 3
down before the return OF the tsnants.
| BY the 2Cth of this month Washington Vii
have resumed its normal aspect and the
few who now inger at the seashore o.
| country will visit those place. no more un .
til the first of the summer Of 1890. Real
estate men are all feeling oomfortab e over
the change Of season, which is stimulating
their business, and l will be greatly dis
appointed if the coming back of the vaca
tion people does not produce an cary boom
in all branches of business in Washing
ton"
The railroad depots and steamboat
wharves are giving ample evidence of the
end Of the vacation season. Immense piles
OF baggage are heaped upon the platforms
of the railway stations after every incom-
ing train, and the steamboat landings are
covered with baggage, furniture and other
freight on the return of every steamer up
the river. ----=---4rss
The returning Washingtonians, togeth-
er with the visiting veterans, have stimu-
! lated the business of the hackman, the ex-
pressman, the baggageman, and the porter.
MI flx~frn CtNnrR~ fhn
wharves is an interesting sight. The end
of the vacation season is also demonstrated
about the hotels, where hundreds of pill
grims from the country, mountains,
springs, and the seashores OF the North
are stopping over for few days to wind
up the season and take in the sights of
the ever-interesting Capital of the Ma
ton. The places OF amusement, too, are
oenefiting by this influx of home corners
and visitors, who are swelling the at
tendance of the theatres nightly. and CIV
ing them good start on the new season.
An impetus has also been given the street
car lines, and a rushing business is being
done by the city railways leading TO the
public museums, the departments, and the
White House by those who desire TO in
clude these sights in the roundup of their
vacation.
Among the large number who are swell
ing the poiiIlation of The city must ho men,
toned the department. emrloye-from high
officials down 10 the hunIblest laborer, to
whom the Government giants an annual
leave of a lscncs from winch he is just re-
turning. The shopkeepar. the butcher. the
milkman, the baker, the letter carrier, and
the newsboy all know when the department
clerk and his family have returned, for
business relations are renewed and hun
dreds of steady customers are recovered
who aggregate thousands of dollars in
trade spent with their favorite tradesmen
when at home.
There are comparatively few regrets in
Washington that vacation season is over.
fer, while the minority may spend it in
languor and recreation, the many must toll
through the heat of the day until the ad-
vent of the balmy season, which is POW due
and which all NAV enjoy.