The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-26

| SIoes Pcillcs- Iines have changed since
LAY = u ADAMS, Marshall Calhoun,
, Webster and Story- all lived in one bofeI
| " hat time such 2 group of men must
| have had! One woufd have travelled a
| good distance to be in such c9mpany hrt
| washington society Will not 90 ont of
! its way to meet mere member .of Con
! Sress- Society is probably wrong in this
! attitude CT pride for there is a good deaf
/ OF human nature in the average man in
Congress, and one may make pleasant
I comDanionships among members OF
| course the President, though politician.
/ IS yet head Of the social as we'll as the
! political system. but the dipIomatfsts and
! the Supreme CoU. Judges take social
! precedence Of most of the politicians on
| capitol Hill. Next, perha ps comes the
| scIentlnc men. such an army of whom
nave been attracted to Washington by
! the immense scientific bureaus of the
Government At the Cosmos Club. near
| the corner of lafayette Square YOU will
meet more distinguished men Of science
than al any other given spot on the
planet Next in order comes the vast con-
course OF politicians, not only members
( Oh both Houses of Congress, but that sin
guIar phenomenon, the ofice-seeker. who
IS always in evidence in the hotel corri-
doris Then you Will discover as a dis
tinct class the clerks in the various de-
partments, an enormous body, running I'D
into the tens of thousands. after whom
come the retail dealers, and at the bot
tom OF thS great social edifce the negro
population There is no such unique So
cial stratification anywhere else in the
world
The new Washington, it has been said,
IS clean and beautiful 1t is doubtful
whether any such delightful residential
street as Massachusetts Avenue is TO be
found on the globe. American domestic
architecture is as successful as public
architecture is expensive and often bad
but in these Washington avenues it is
carried to the height of comfort and beau
~ The green, weIl-watered, feueeIess
lawns. the grouping of gables and orfeIs.
the pretty porches and squisites trees end
hoWeTs, combine to give a most delightful
series Of pictures There is not the Cs-
tentatIon Of New York or Chicago. hut
there Is more charm The city is favored,
TOO. by It's environments You will soon
discover many interesting walks and
drives. On a fine day in the late Indian
summer one finds great delight in tax
ing the boat on the broad stream of the
Potomac 20 Mount Vernon. the fine old IS
tate Of George Washington. or in going to
General Lees home at Arlington. or to
the Arlington burial ground where the 9
soldiers who fell in the civil war lie
buried IN seTTied masses side by side. Or
you may ascend to the top Of the great
obelisk Thy elevator, they never are so
cruel as to make you climb such height
in Anerica), the Ioftiest building in the .
world, save the EiffeI Tower. where from
the height Of $40 feet you gaze down on
the city lying STEPPED IN the golden light.
and over on the distant hills of Virginia
and down the silyery ribbon of the Po-
tomac. You viii wonder. after such ca
perience that such a city was so long
neglected.
L is d significant fact that. while all the
large cities Of America. self-goyerned.
complain that they a-c often robbed by
their civic rulers and always maladmin-
is>ered. Washington. governed not by
general pslayer'' but by three
~ whatever % the people. is
admitted by universal consent to be the
eisFS On the American
continent The residents Of Washington
enjoy no suffrage they partake in 10 con-
TenuOns they elect 10 member Of Con
gress. no mayor or municipal council II
they have votes. they must cast them in
the States where they have legal doInicile
is an autocTatic city. and It
is safe to say that nobody there wants the
old municipality back. From a mere back
woods settlement Il has grown to a city OF
nearly 2s9 coo people, seat OF a mighty
Government. which has but 70 sit still. as
Il we're and grow Of is Own accord It
viii have 10 make another bargain one day
with the neighbOTiHg States for more room.
but that win be some time ahead. Mean
while. if we leave our the negroes, ii
would be hard 10 find such welI-admin-
stored. orderly. Interesting community in
The world And perhaps it would not be ( {
5asy 10 find such . nest of intrigue-but
II that we say nothing here-London Spec
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