New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-07
THE PASSING THRONG.

They talking now In Washington" said
William r. Smith. OF that city. yesterday at the
Hoffman House. of buying all
A NEW that the Government does not own
PROJECT IN OF the south side OF Pennsylvania
WASHING ave. and throwing it into a great
TON park in which the public buildings
OF the future will be placed 1 hope
they will. for 1t would add greatly to the city's
beauty If they do Washington has always and
aptly borne the of the City OF Magnificent
Distances. and with equal justice IL could be
called the city of magnificent parks for city IN
this country approaches il IN this particular The
statuary in the city generally adds TO its beauty but
there exceptions. There is statue OF Frank
lin there that is thing OF beauty. and the
bIoated and mOnstrous effgy OF Webster with
Th 1 they have destroyea ths beauty OK scott
have suffered little from poor sculpture When I
out at the great steam rollers which were used 70
keep the asphalt smooth and TO blot out the marks
say peek out, because IN hot weather IN the mid
would not be allowed without From the upper
windows then could easily see al that passed IN
residential section where you can see the streets
The trees that then slips. inclosed IN
guarding wooden boxes have now grown 70 trees.
and al but est eomPe5e shade on , fnf wider
of arborcuIture."
But the changes in the residential city are more
wonderful than even these physical changes, great
as they are. In the seventies Mo
CHANGES Pherson Square, then the north
IN THE western boundary OF the city,
CAPITAL also the most important centre OF
the city on account OF the people
that lived about it. William E Chandler. Senator
from New-Hampshire. then. now. lived door
from the corner OF Fifteenth-st. 7, and as his
neigllbor on the Fifteenth-st- corner he had Ben
1amin F. Butler. member OF Congress from Massa-
chusetts Later Butler built a house on Capitol
Hill. and his old house became hotel under the
aoFF
place for the present Hotel Normandie. Across the
street a block OF houses had been built by 8 P
Brown which were considered extremely fine. He
sold the four of them, however. the on the
corner to Fernando Wood. formerly Mayor OF New
York and brother of Ben Wood who recently
died. Next door him lived Governor Thomas
Swami Of Maryland. who represented his State for
many years in Congress. These houses passed
directly into the hands of John Chamberlin and
formed part Of his famous restaurant. There
was a picture gallery back OF Governor SWANS
house. and it was in this gallery that Chamberlin
Swami James G. Blaine lived This house he sold
TO James Wadsworth. Of New,York. who in turn
rant. These three houses comprised the restaurant
Buckfngham who sold it to General Van vIiet. who
stu occupies it; and then came General Sherman's
nsishbor was Senator vest. St, Matthew Church
filled mp the balance Of the block"
Where the Shoreham now stands Oliver P Nor
ton of Indiana, lived. and this house. after being
occupied successfully by Levi P.
FAMOUS Morton and Senator Hale. OF
HOUSES AND Maine, torn down to make
THEIR OWN room for the hotel. Then came
ERS the smaller houses. which passed
through a vartegated career to q
hectic finish as hotel boarding house. The home
Of Hamilton Fish Grants Secretary of State. filed
out the block. This house. which later used
as a boarding house. John r. Mclean. OF Ohio.
finally purchased modernized and greatly enlarged.
It is stin his home Catacorner across the square
block with him OF those little white
washed country inns common TO the roads OF
Virginia Saturday We had the terrific rain
storm have seen in years. For hours il fairly
fell in sheets, much so. indeed. that 10 was with
5lfculty you could see the other side OF the
Sewers all over the city chOked up and flooded cell
lars We're the order of the day In one place a
sewer burst. and the kitchen door of a nearby
house lay open the rushing water. Four feet
of 1t entered that kitchen with a bang upset and
nearly drowned the cook, wrecked the entire room
and then disappeared as rapidly it had come