The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-08
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

LIN 1uG OOQhlDOIbO.
Former Governor George S. Boutwell, OF
Massachusetts is, at the Elsmere for a few
days. Mr.. Boutwell, is here on private busi-
ness and will return home on Wednesday.
Judge E. B. StahIman. of Nashville.
Tenn, is at the Normandle for few weeks.
Judge Stahlman is a prominent attorney
and is here attending to legal matters.
II suppose you are freed from the misery
Of local-option elections here in Washing
ton, and you ought to be glad of it, said
j. r. Grainey. of Cincinnati. at the Pa
leigh. today.
Il recently had an experience with one OF
the most neryy deals to carry town for
local license that / ever heard Of There
is little place called Culloden, in West
Virginia on the line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad and being acquainted there
stopped over one day last week / found
that an election was held on January 8. and
that the advocates of license had carried
the day by unanimous vote. Now, there
are only tweuty-seven voters within the
corporate limits of the town and these
twenty seven votes went solidly for wet
goods This was entirely due 70 the efforts
of the engineer who laid out the town, and
I'll tell you how he did it. In October last
the town council voted to have the village
incorporated. and as the license men were
in Office the engineer received certain in
structions which he carried out. He made
a survey which included the property OF
every license man in Culloden and
carefully excluded the dry year
advocates who voted for no license
Every anti-license man was placed outside
the limits Of the corporation and therefore
had no vote The lines were drawn so
to include the wet voters on each street
and to exclude the dry men, and the town
boundary is the funniest thing imaginable.
The geogra phical centre of the town is out
side the limits. while a strip ten feet wide
runs around the town right through the
houses OF those interested and carefully
/ lodging the temperance people l don't
think that anything more nervy than this
has ever been attempted"
"One thing that struck me as being very
| odd in Washington is the number Of little
dogs running around dragged down with
the weight Of huge muzzIes.' said g. p.
/ Keeney. of New York. at the Arlington to-
/ day / made some enquiries and discovered
that muZzlng is enforced here. IL may be
a good thing, but il seems very ludicTous
/ TO me Why. | noticed several little bTutes
( who were about as fierce and dangerous as
/ canary birds tTOtting around in the cold
and muzzed like dancing bears. Surely
the climate here must have some strange
/ effect on the dogs. ] a great lover OF
[ the canine and have several good specl-
mems al home and / would just as soon
I think Of compelling one Of these 20 carry
/ bell and lighted lamp as TO wear muz-
I zle during the winter. This might be
/ good suggest ion. To add 10 the muzZling
/ regulation an amendment providing that all
/ dogs shall hereafter carry a bell upon their
/ collars, and at night a lighted lamp must
/ be attached II might also be a good
/ thing TO require all able bodied dogs 10
carry speed registers. so as 70 regulate
/ their rompings and a clause regulating the
I height al which the tail should be car
/ ried might prove efficient
/ Manager Deviue Of the Shoreham has in
I his possession large autograph album
/ which is not only curiosity but is valu-
+ able because Of the signatures contained
. therein II has been his custom to request
/ all notables stopping at the hotel 10 place
some little sentiment therein. and the col
/ lection is a rare one. One of the odd things
/ in the book is the signature Of Ii Hung
/ Chang done in Chinese by the wearer Of
/ the yellow jacket. Other names IN the
. book are those Of the late Lord Herschell,
/ who died in the hotel, Sir Wilfrld Laurler,
. President Mckinley Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
/ Admiral Schley. and host OF others.
Among the names Of literary and profess
{ sionaI people are those OF Ian Maclareu,
Hall Game. Gilbert Parker. Herbert Beer
/ bOhm Tree. John Hare Ada Rehan. Nellie
Melba. Lillian Russell. VI de Lipman, Ma
| bel Munro. Evangelina CisnerOs. and many
more Each name is accompanied By some
little Characteristic de Lipman having a
sketch Of President Mckinley and Ddyen-
port a cartoon of Senator Hanna.
| William Waldorf AstOr has dis, Ontnued
| he American edition OF his fad publication,
+ the Pail Mall Magazine" said G. z.
! Shores. Of London Englsnd ar the Eb-
/ bitt this morning Il have learned from
/ inside sources as / am connected with
/ large publishing house. that the pGbilCa-
/ tion was issued at an annual loss OF
nearly S100 600. Lord Hamilton, the editor.
( received $4,000 per annum for his ser
vices and other expenses were very high.
I Then there vas a total disregard OF ex-
! peuse and Ia the seven years OF the lie
/ of the magazine not a single advertise
I ment was ever solicited. l l0n't think
/ though that the SUSPENSION is due to lack