New-York tribune., 1900-05-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

Il doubt" said Western lawyer. as he passed
through the office OF the Hotel Netherland last
evening there being any author
THE ANAL ity for spelling the word that
OGY NOT way The friend looked at the
CONCLUSIVE. word pointed sign, which
was babies" Why what's the
matter with it. Judge?' he inquired. We'll why
shouldn't 1t be spelled 'b-a-b-y-s not 'b-a-b-i-e-s
it is there? Do you know any authority for
spelling it that way?' was the reply. The Judges
friend hesitated. He knew perfectly well that the
spelling the sign correct. or at least he
thought he did. but the other hand. the Judge
was man of great legal attainments and admit
tedly highly educated, and for such an inquiry to
come from such without authority at
hand which he could consult gave a loop upon
which to hang doubt and made e. him I'M ioatn 1 10 10
srswer. the word ladies presented itself and he
promptly made response Il think, the spelling
Jadss BY eNs analogy Pe Gd" the plural Of baby should
b the eminent urst as he reectye
stroked his chin But he added as though stu IN
babies are ladies' The other man looked at him
silently for a moment and then a great light
Judge Judge. he said W as he i led the the Judge @ toward
cafe the drinks are on me-
Arthur F. Trenchard of Washington. n c., In
commenting on the announcement that the old
Madison house at the capital was
CHANGES about be changed into an apart
FOR ment house, said yesterday the
MADISON'S Fifth Avenue Hotel 1T Is queer
OLD HOUSE. how very few people in Washing
Ton seem aware that this Is the
historic house where Madison spent two years Of
his Presidential term after the British partially
destroyed the White House by fire in the War of
1872. Standing on Pennsylvania-ave., three blocks
northwest of the White House. is the old man
$40 SION Where Madison took up his residence upon
the British. There it IS said the Treaty of Ghent
brick houses, with peaked slate roofs, and a drug
store has occupied the ground floor these many
The s, Washington 1 of that day was but tiny;
pigs loafed at will about the streets, and The darky
servant was and the white servant was not. De-
void OF street lamps, and with the ordinary dirt
dd, WAS alwags avs reduced by the rains TO b@ggy and
mine mine whose father was gallant officer in our
were on their way to attend tend party that tip PRESIDENT
Madison giving in this sef-sane house when
s IN No or nf served to 9f
G h2te r. and so the gentleman carefully gathering
to the home Of our fourth President where having
for another pair Of neither m sarments It's to to
pc pc prought from home. a@ his own had heen ruined
by the enforced journey on foot
ION August "a 1874" continued Mr. Trenchard.
the British occupied Washington and set fire 70
the Capitol the White House and
THE BRIT such few other public buildings
ISL VISIT were then in existence. To paint
IN 1872. public building to do any
pairs or other work upon it calls
FOR Congressional appropriation. and l remember
some twenty years ago when for some reason. the
appropria tion had gone and the paint had
peeled off; the marks OF the flames OF that fire
showed plainly the side of the White House.
and We're an outward and visible manifestation of
the love borne us in childhood by kinsfolk
across the sea. The Capitol also suffered but for
All that the central part of the present structure
Is the original building, and 1t shows plainly, too.
for 1t is of sandstone, while the wings added
think, in the ffties. are of marble The present
Sta tuary Han. as the old House and the clerks
office leading out of it to the southeast called.
IS Is the room In which John Adams gasped out his
life. after being taken suddenly i'll upon the floor
of the House. The old Senate chamber was the room
where the Supreme Court now sits. Within it's walls
Clay brought forward his famous Missouri Com
promise measure, and many of the famous of
the beginnings of the Republic framed those wise
and benetcent measures that have done much
10 make us what When the wings
built the plan called for rebuilding of centre
as we'll but II never got further than the
struct1on OF the dome which in consequence is In
the position 1t Is TO occupy the building that is
is