New-York tribune., 1900-05-16
THE PASSING THRONG.

1T Is curious" said Richard Eastman OF Hail.
we'll Me- at the Murray Hill Hotel how wor,s
of art become lost for years ara
A SHOP then are found in the most out a
KEEPERS the way places 7 well renenbs-
LESSON ON my fathers telling me that wa,
OLD PICT back in the ffties in an auction
URES. room in Augusta there hung In a
frame an old picture. II was on
some sort of metal. discoored by time and had
been there long as TO seem a part OF the .bon
itself. One day a couple OF foreign looking chars
drifted i'm and looked at thing after another
take for il? they Inquired OF the shopkeeoer sO sO1
upon his replying -. after some haggng they paid
later the shopkscper was parayzed when h. ms
eeyed letter tTom one Of them extending the IN
81 was an etching on copper. think. BY HOgartn
for the world over for II was the only one missing
from a set of ten. which enhanced it's value Thev
IN sa Il ht0S had s1s Tor
time before ne laughed again"
81 have had quite a remarkable experience Pa
Gently" said Arthur Thompson OF Washington. yes
teriay at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
a WASHING ''and that Is I have to all IN
Ton MAN tents and purposes had the hands
MAKES SOME of the clock Of time set back for
COMPARISONS me fun two weeks. Last Sun
day when 1 left Washington the
city was almost at the fulness of the summer foI-
age, but | travelled northward the outward as
Pect of Nature seemed to roll the days back
the full fortnight behind the country about WASH
ington in the budding of the plants and trees. To
my mind this Is the most beautiful OF all ths sea
sons, because everything looks so fresh IL could
eptly be called new season The brilliant green
is everywhere frosted with dogwood and some ot
the color effects wonderful Washington is
ahead OF New-York in thing. and that is in Is
automobiles. You find them there in propOrtiOnate-
ly larger numbers and in infinitely greater variety
Every who them, and IL Is a common
sight to diplomats. members OF Congress and
about in them. They are great fun there. because
they run so smoothly on the asphalt streets They
ara ba al fad
while pretty warm, Is still fairly comfortable
and very amusing place to be In for these three
weeks yet. but the exodus has already begun. and
the great houses are closing one by one and begin
ming to assume the dusty. wOebegone and unOccu-
come But so long as-Congress Is sitting the city
will remain comparatively lively
Senator Clark, of Montana. still remains with
US. occupying the annex 70 the Arlington Hotel
continued Mr.. Thompson 1T IS
REMARKS ON said that he has no less than
MIR CLARK twenty-five bedrooms and guess
OF MON he needed them all while the tight
TANA. over his seat in the Senate was on
This annex originally the
home Of Charles Sumner. and faces on Lafayette
Square, the most beautiful park in Washington
Now that CIark's seat is gone from him. every one
Is speculating what he will DO wiki Stewart
Castle This is the home which Senator Stewart
built for himself many years ago. and at that time
il was out in country fields Now the city Is buit
IIp around and by it, Stewart lived there for
time and then fer wears ii was the Chinese IeEa-
ton Clark first said that he was going 70 ouild
fine apartment house tnere but Tor some leasQh 9
or other he got further than 70 talk about IL
for which the city is rather gratefui, as dupont
Circle is one of the beautiful residential por-
would be an eyesOre. Washington is growing with
great pidity. Already the basin IN which u nes
creeping up the surrounding heights and into the
country beyond