The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-01-05
THE CAPITOL CITY.
Letter From the Herald'S Washing
ton Correspondent.
How Christmts was Celebrated There
Census Supervisor Hughes Allowed
"a Clerk.
snec.al 10 LIE HERALD.

Spec;al to JHE HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S:-C christina
passed off verv quietly here; so says the
average Washingtonian, but the HRR-
AIDS correspondent is not quite 50.
sure about it. Pennsylvania avenue
and Seventh street especially were filed
to overhowing all of last week, with
a noisy and scrambling crowd of pedes-
trians in search Of presents for Christ
mas, and on Saturday night the streets
were almost impossible. And to make
the scene more abominabc to a natural
~ quiet fellow, everybody in town
seemed to be blowing tin horn with
all the apparent power Of the proyerhial
Kansas cyclone. But about II o'clock
p. M the authorities. issued an ultima
tum prohibiting the continuance of the
nuisance, and the police put it into eff
feet with vengeance, in such manner
that before morning the streets Wera>
covered withsbroken horns.
Enough "booz was apparently be
ing guzzled by the crowd to make it
quite interesting around about the city
court Monday morning; SO your repre-
sentative went down to get a yiew and
was well repaid for his visit To be
! SURE, llt COUlIll L SGtuIt pNllillSSlOu Will
out being escorted by policeman, or
some other dignitary, but that could in
no way affect him, for he had taken the
precaution to ''get on the good side" { {
policeman some time previous his
kindly offices to be used in case of an
emergency 1t was a motley audience
of debauchees which faced the Judge
that morning, and His Honor cleared up
| ~, ly,1yDt Nit ho lt,r,4,b De
who knew what he was doing-and of
one who wanted to assist in the disposi-
ton of a CHI istmas dinner. The de
PENDANTS would plead guilty to runken
ness and disorderly conduct, and a fine
of ten dollars ana costs would be as
sessed.
81 was not drunk, if yer Honor
please said one fellow. as he st; ggered
up to the railing; Il just took little
toddy and it few to my head.
II am fully co infant of that fact,
sir" said the Judge sterny; "the ex-
perience of most of US is that if we take
toddy it will naturally go to our heads;
and that is where we want it, unless you
want to take it by absorption. I'll let
you off easy-only ten dollars and costs.''
The remains of the marines who went
harbOr at Havana, and who were buried
at Havana, have been brought to this
city, and were laid t. rest on a knoll in
beautiful Arlington Cemetery today.
The services were both pathetic and inn
pressive, and large crowd shiyered and
trembled with cold and emotion as they
paid a last tribute to the brave Ameri-
can lads who met death by treachery ir
"a supposedly friendly port of Havana
harbor. The President, his cabinet and
J high officials of the army and navy we're
} present, and the whole throng stood in
the snow and listened with bowed head
; and breathless interest to the simple
funeral ceremonies, VIII lie tears glistened
} on their cheeks. Three rounds of mus
kerry were fired over the heroes by
, platoon of marines, after the conclusion
of the religious rites; then a bugler
stepped rapidly to the front of the fir
ing squad and blew taps. The Marine
Band played a funeral dirge. AS the
sad notes reverberated on the chill Dec
ember air the crowd of spectators began
! to disperse, and the falling Of the clods
could be heard as they struck the brown
boxes inclosing the caskets
Col A. M. Hughes supervisor Of the
census for the Seventh District of Ten
, nessee, who is in this city at present,
, has been allowed a clerk at salary of
S66 per month, and we have been pretty
D reliably informed that our old friend E..
, G. c'Swatz'1 Blackburn will secure the
plum.
= We paid visit to the navy yard the
other day, and saw the much talked-of
= Holland submarine torpedo boat. 1t
r. was an innocent looking machine, re
/ semblng the back Of au elephant or an
Iceland whale more than anything else,
+ as it lay fastened To- The Whuri-but we
were very careful to stly away from the
= s##&