The evening times., 1900-04-11
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

Former Governor James Campbell, o.
Ohio, is at the Arlington from Hamilton
Ohio. He came east to visit his son whit
is in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, ant
will return to the Buckeye State within {
few days.
Judge John Mcclure, Republican Ma
tional Committeeman from Arkansas, is a
the Arlington from Little Rock. He i:
noted as one of the most famed criminal
lawyers III the South and for seyera
streaks of good fortune which won for hin
the title of Diamond Dick" He is taking
rest while at the Capital and will remain
North until the Republican National Con
vention meets in Philadelphia in June.
THE work of tearing down old Willard
Hall and the rear of the hotel will destroy
one of the most curious things in Wash
ington," said Chief Clerk Leech at VII
/ lard's last night. I'm the areaway facing
f Street between the hall and the hotel
and growing from the wall of the old hall
is a tree. The trunk breaks through the
wall about fifteen feet above the ground
heard it related by old employees that the
, tree simply grew out of a crack in the ma
sonry and fourshed year after year.
would like to have been able to preserve
it, Millions of people have passed this
place since the tree became OF good size,
and yet | hardly think that one person in
each thousand noticed it,
F. L. De Puy, a manufacturer from
Chattanooga. Tenn, is at Willards on a
visit to the Capital. The reasonable price
of cotton has been responsible in a meas
ure for the general prosperity throughout
the South" he said last night. The South
is enjoying the first real industrial boom
in several decades and all who desire en-
ployment can get it at fair wages Many
cotton mills and industrial plants are be-
ing erected and there is general activity
in every line The South is all right, and
will give New England q hard run for first
place"
John II. Leeds is at the Arlington from
New Haven. Conn. He is noted as an eX-
pert on matters relating TO the east and
has travelled for years in the Orient.
o. f. Jones. ]. F. Wilson, ". $. Cameron.
c. f. Weeks. and J. G. Aldrich, a delega-
tion of citizens from jamestown, y. Y,
are at the Ebbitt to appear before Con-
gressional committee in the hope Of OBJ
tanning an appropriation for a public build
ing in that city.
Senator Wellington of Maryland has
taken quarters at the Ebbitt for the bal
ance of the session and will remain there
with his wife and daughter.
Prof Felix Adler. the noted lecturer and
writer on social science, is at the Arling-
ton from New York He is here to see
some friends and will remain until Satur-
day
Charles De Cordoya the New York bank
er. Is at the Arlington from Manhattan or
a social visit. He is accompanied by his
wife and son.
J. r. Errirger. an official Of the Penn
sylvauia Railroad. is az The Normandie
from Philadelphia on business connected
With his company.
The trout season has opened and all
good disciples OF IZaak Walton are hunt
ing good streams. said Col. \. NJ. Lennon.
Of Philadelphia. at Chamberlins last night
Il think the best trout streams in this part
OF the country are these in Pike county.
Pa. There are hundreds of these little
waterways and each is just brimming with
fish as fine as anything you ever saw. The
scenery is magnificent too. and | have
met more than one Of your Washington
officials uD there