Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-07-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence

place q nome 1Of Wnlcn the FroIcn
chamber of deputies has just appropri-
ated $15O,OC0. The architect of the gov
eminent and French builders will be
sent to erect this mansion. 1t will not
be completed fer two years.
Senator William A. Clark of Mon
tana has cleared the debris from the
site of the old Stewart castle and will
erect a magnificent house on the site.
Thomas II. Walsh of Colorado at
Massachusetts avenue and Thirty-frst
street has his house built to the second
story. He has set no limit of cost upon
the plans of the architects, and this
mansion is expected to be one of the
most elaborate in the city.
Larz Anderson recently bought a
large tract of lane at the intersection
of massachusetts avenue and Florida
avenue and Twenty-second street and
will Immediately begin the erection of
a marble palace in the style modelled
after the Leodovici palace in Rome. No
limit has been placed on the cost of
construction.
r. w. Patterson of Chicago will build
opposite the Letter house in New
Hampshire avenue a house whose val
ue will reach high into the six figures.
The num Scared.
The Washington monument is badly
SCARED by depredations Of the souvenir
fiends. Inside the memorial slabs pre-
scented by the states in the Union at the
time of the monuments erection and
by various societies have suffered most.
There are more than $50 of these, and
many of them are in a sad condition of
mutilation. Missing heads, arms, legs
and drapery bear eloquent witness to
the manner Of visitors. Just exactly
what value, real or sentimental, the
left ear lobe of the Goddess of Prosper
ity, for instance, can have for any per-
son is hard for a sane man to under
stand. Somebody got it, however.
Most of the slabs presented by the
states bear simply names and dates in
large, bold letters that defy umbrellas
and the like, and these remain untouch-
ed save by pencils that mark their own
erS' But Of the delicate cary
ing there is little left. The handsom-
est slab, though one of the smallest,
measuring 3 by 5 feet, is that present
ed by the American Medical associa-
ton, representing a group of the IA
theirs of medicine. It is about midway
up the monument, about where climb
ers rest and about four feet from the
floor, a convenient reach; hence the
condition Of the figures, two head1ess
and three arm1ess.
Crooked Lobbyists.
eff the dead are capable of senti-
ment, l am sur Captain Kidd and
Judas Iscariot are entirely satisfied
with their demise prior to the days Of
the Washington lobbyists" said Mr..
Theodore D. Cooper of Evanston, Ills,
at the Arlington the other night. 81
have had transactions with them in
several matters, and 1 know whereof
I speak. Two men here took $1,000
from a combine of manufacturers of
which l am q member and whose in
terests were threatened by proposed
legislation and did absolutely nothing
to earn it. l learned positively that
they paid some clerks and pages at
the capitol neXt to nothing for informa-
ton which was all they furnished us.
Then 1 became cognizant of another
deal, in which a we'll known lobbyist
who was representing a claim against
the government demanded and receiv-
ed $4,000 as his share of an appropria-
ton Of $50, 600 for services and ma
tepial delivered to government agents
and after this big mouthful demanded
and received $4,000 additional from
the claimants share as reimbursement
for sums expended for winning and
dining congressman in h interest Of
| his clients"
A Member Of the Navee.
The members of the Army and Navy
club are greatly incensed because a
/ common sailor secured his back pay
and leave of absence and came to
| Washington to spend them. He regis
tered at the best hotel in town, boldly
writing after his name ~. S. N" Then
he hunted UP a newspaper reporter
and gave out such an Intelligent in
terview regarding the defects of the
present navy that the officers are con
| sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of asking con-
gress 10 pass a law making it an of
Tense for any one not wearing shoulder
straps to reg:ste: or sign himself as
belonging to the army or navy.
HI American Red book.
The American Red Book for 1898,
comprising the foreign relations dur
ing the eyentful period al he, Spanish
American war, has just made Its ap-
~pearance. 1t contains an exhaustive
summary of the official correspondence.
The Dupuy de LONE incident and the
bio ring up of the Maine are treated
under sepa rate heads. The first official
notification to Spain that the United
States expected the independence of
Cuba was in a dispatch from Secretary
DAY to Minister Noodford on March
Is, 1888. The president had %preylousllyy
instructed Air. Woodford to endeavor
10 haze S0ain giant Cuba full self