Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-08
WICKED WASHINGTON.
A Correspondent Makes a Compare
son With Other Cities.
EDITOR suNDAY GLonr.

EDITOR SUNDAY GLOBE:
1t is commendable in the press Of
any city to uphold its interests to the
fullest extent, but when making com
parisons with other cities it should not,
like The Star, oyer-gush itself in ia
vor of its home city. One thing must
be taken into consideration, and that
is Washington does not compare with
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia or
st. Louis in population, but as far as
iniquity, crime, etc, it keeps up its
ratio, for where is there a place in
any other city that can outdo that
place where If it were not for inter.
yening buildings, the stately elms on
the White House grounds would, dur.
ing the setting sun throw their shad.
ows across, what is known as the Di,
vision.
Then we hear a great deal about the
Bowery and like places in other cities,
but take a look at Pennsylvania ave.
nue. from the Peace Monument to Sixth
street-saloons and holes that would
be a disgrace to the Rowery AS far
as Chinatown and Little Italy, you
need not get out of the shadow of the
capitol to find Boxers and Dagos that
would make you think you were in
Pekin or Rome; rats, rotten bananas,
and al complete.
OF course New York has its Tam.
many Philadelphia its rotten Republi.
can ring, which permeates the whole
State; still, the citizens have a redress
If they see fit to use it, but If they viii
keep dishonest officials I'm Office they
alone must suffer. How is it with
Washington? Is there no ring here?
You can pick out a dozen men, some
of them foreigners, OF nearly so, who
rule or dictate our city government
They say there is one Democrat, one
Republican, and the other a what is It.
At the present writing we find our
selves under one of the latter class,
and a second fiddle at that, whose chief
qualifications as an engineer is in
keeping his Vandyke whiskers in
shape. But there is an old rule with
hunters, never to shoot where the game
is not worth the powder, so we will
not waste any space on this military
bull-doHng popinjay. Then they have
what they call an attorney for the Dis
trict. but if they had whitfield the
whole legal profession down to a point
we should say they had cut the point
off in the present incumbent. To be
sure. our police are the finest in the
world. If you do not believe it, just
see how easy some of them carry their
weather eye on the other side when
any of the big fish are liable to be
caught, but let some poor fellow out Of
work under this prosperity Admins
tration, come along, and he is soon
brought up before Shoemaker kimball
and sent down as a vagrant. See too,
how gracefully some of them will stand
on the corner look wise, and twirl his
club while his 'pard" slides up to some
side door to a saloon and gets his
drink. then comes back and relieves
him for the same purpose. Also look
at our so-called District building; that
is. If the crowd of so-called clerks, mes.
sengers, lackeys. etc. are not so thick
that you can not see in. IL is probably
as we'll to support them there as it
would be in the almshouse but a great
deal more expensive. Under any bust
ness institution one-half the number
of people would do the work, and a
great deal better, too. We will not go
farther with this at present, but viii
wait a short time for The Star to show
what redress the average citizen OF
Washington has for the wrongs perpe-
trated upon them.
A C1TIztN