The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-31
LONELINESS OF WASHINGTON.
Impression of tho Capital on .
stranger.

a loneliness hangs over and about tho
national capital for the man or woman
who has not passed the social limos. With
In the lines there in no other city in tho
country 80 fun OF pleasure Perhaps II Is
this knowledge that causes those without
10 feel the sense Of solitude which at times
becomes oppressive
The stranger IN the city sees the capitoi
the congressional library, the monument
the white House, tho department build
ings. the Corcoran art gallery, the statues,
and he has seen all. II he Ia In hurry
he oan do the town In n few days. Then
he treads the wide thoroughfares. some
of them 30 wide that no can scarcely shout
from one side 10 the other as 10 DO
heard. In these walks he soon wearies,
for there ia ssmeness In all he saes
People como TO look alike Those people
are from all parts Of the country, but IL
they fingered long enough they have tho
same stare, there IA n striking likeness in
their dress, and flnnlly, they drr, un-
consciously into the same manner of
speech. This speech Is compound OF tho
dialect Of the different parts Of the South.
TIE nasal twang is never heard In WASH
ington
When the stranger sees one rhop window
ne has seen all They are dressed alike.
When he has walked for an hour he
has looked at all the stores In the town.
Day after day, week after week, month
Whonover one gocr outside OF tho cir
cumscrtb~d business center there IL the
appearance of rest and ease. Tho diver
sity In architecture IL not great. II ono
house has n striking facade the impression
quickly disappears from the MINI because
of blocks and blocks of other houses which
iook II they were planned by an archI-
feet with one idea. Everywhere there IL
the front yard and its iron fence. Some
body has made money IN iron fencing In
Washington There IL no apparent rea-
a0n for an Enclosure anywhere in 1he city.
Where people leave their front doors un-
locked as II the custom IN washington,
the fence would seem TO be useless.
when darkness falls upon tho city the
sense Of loneliness is accumulated 10 the
stranger, or the person who lives here
and has no social privileges. Except for
"a few weeks following an inauguration.
the corridors of the hotels are as quiet
as unienanted rooms, IN. p.rchance, ons
hndN a chair occupied the occupant. In
most cases r. a man whose manner tells
too plainly that he also IL stranger and
q representative of that class shattered.
politically. ~ the civil war.
The hoof beats Of a single horse on tao
asphalt pavemcnts are ~ claar and distinct
ns 10 attract attention. A. the sound be-
comes fainter and Il iosi the silence deep
ens angle persons passing n noticed
He turns the corner, disappears. ana ten
on affseB minutes are measured IN ~ fhs
STRIKES ~ the efert before another gsnan.
~ might 81 the Stranger walks sbott.
fffrt arn tfs na sras lferr IN f4n
department. but fiass believe Hfr
pss.e swing IN end fro trr4wtne rhosf'y
ahRudws eu lUr ws4 tHt 81 ats laart.
staud3nE ecH back from the vide tteeg.
looks like a. stack u shrouds Stop tef9fa
this structure 'SBg enough, md ono wil
sec Hpecires Tor the place H run - tho
#. faI
cal hopes have here bean cFussfd' WINS.
ambitions have here been Nreckedi
n the stranger parssf % no east aed
i9nks through he night iowtra the capt.
tri there in fhs dletaacn. lean c2il awtinst
tae fAs. tAs .re.f ffra Fever iisft
txfnkIs% from this cap ~ tbt halls 81 cen
gfena Tho longer ore locks AZ q thn more
n Krowh until oua almost sapcias 4 hsug"
ing from The starr.
Iut the monument f. the Sghs that com.
pisfes the scnse 81 loneliness u rises oat
- The ground as " ~ had 30 foundation.
T'aera iH NOS sep ~ nrehk iR the isaf-
rem hlB upon which u sinn1h The HhKIp
u75unialn rising from plain. tbe i0fe fTes
on "a waste 70 orairie. the white naiis -
solitary shlp AZ sea. ars nni 20 ienelY rs
fhis monument 90 nlght D. has been salf
ts8t % in tire ono fniag tn washington
wAieh cannot he hia. lhHf. SO Hssre ore
Nsl q IL atJli IN TtkHt. T'aih s. nearly if9e.
vs. FatsVfr fhsfs 10 60 BE- sal8 by wsY -
roruraeraation II thtF uH9Tnamsuffd ataft
taayrirE .5 fees. whatever So cofnscsfnnr-
n}sr. % ls t1e ore 'hinE Hnien fho stranger.
man or woman inclined 60 hrp11ing should
avlid Fy uigHf. eT,eclaAY, is thls iFHe-
Sot he-auee IL irsa cFe7rcHeriuE 'aaa
great rsthrdfsis ans temples er me Stars
ln their r34fpea. i8t hc nuse 30 "a cold.
fartlLding. veieelesu. NHtEhiuT heavily upon
ihe earth and upar enc aeafi - inf be-
holder whose iouslnsst ands !u this white
sentinel nothing resgsnsiYs.- %eN York
Sun.