Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-02-16
EDWARD C. DAN A.
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. !

t!rcmcnt Of Mr.. Wul,utt Of Colorado on
March the scna.N VIII lose It's luiy
lcft-handed member This will dctract
considerably from the picturosQucncss
Of the body. Many members and spec
tato;s drop all other business when.
ever MIR. WolCott begins writing and
watch hm. lie almost turns his back
10 the desk.
More attlcshps-Contracts for tho
construction of three shcated battle
ships have just been signed at tho
navy department. The contractors,
the Newport News Ship building aad
Iry Dock company OF Virginia, the
Bath Iron Works of Maine and tho
Moran Brothers company Of Seattle.
Wash. agree to complete the ships
within 50 months from date.
Net Matrimonial Agency The 50
crctary Of the interior has requested
the secretary OF state to correct,
through United States representatives,
reports circulating in foreign countries
that the United States government is
offering $4,000 to men who will marry
Indian sQuaws Scores of letters ac-
ccpting this alleged offer have been
received from Franccand Germany and
one frcm Russia. The department is
unable to discover the source Of the
report.
Like a Lumber Camp--A sawmlll
has b, en- set in up in Executive ave-
nue.. the street that runs from Penn
sykania avenue To the White Lot, be-
tween the executive mansion and tho
state. war and navy building, 10 oxpe-
dite the work of erecting grandstands
from one end of Pennsylvania avenue
to the other to accommodate the vast
crowds that are coming to Washington
on March 4 to soc the president inau-
guratCd for the second time There
will be other sawmills at other points
along the avenue, and from now on
Washington will begin to assume tho
appearance of Il vast lumber camp.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Those senators who desire quiet
little conference occasionally, free
from intrusion and observation, have
found new place of meeting. 1t is
the !oner room of the senate reference
library. The library itself is III an
Out.of tho-way place and there are sew
cral routes by which it can be reached.
When three or four senators gather
in this room the door is closed and no
one is permitted to so much as knock.
If other senators come along and open
the door it is different matter All
employees are instructed not to men,
ton that any senators are in this new
rendezvous.
Our Relations With Cuha-A new
turn has been given to the discussion
Of a probable extra session of the
Fifty-sevcnth congress for the purpose
of considering the Cuban question by
| the knowledge of Gen. Wood has
| been instructed from Washington to
remind the Cuban constitutional con-
| vention that it is part Of their duty
to define what relations shall exist be-
tween Cuba and the United States, as
well as to frame a constitution and
that it would be to the interest of
both governments if their work could
be completed and forwarded to Wash
ington before the present session of
congress expires. The secretary of
war admits that personal sug-
gestion had been made to Gen.
Wood to call the attention OF the cons
vention to the Importance Of complet-
ing its work while the American con-
gress is in session.
The Sherman War CoIection-The
hall Of American history of the ma
tional museum has just come into pos,
session of the w. r. Sherman war col.
lection. Nearly all of the generals Of
the civil war were represented in some
way, and hardly a day passed that
tourists did not ask for some mcmento
of the great general. After the death
Of John Sherman. Miss Lizzie and Mr..
p. Il. Sherman of New York, son and
daughter of the general. concluded to
give the valuable relics into the keep
ing of the national museum. Starting
with Sherman's diploma from West
Point, it contains his first commission
as second lieutenant, his uni
forms-the first being his coat, hat and
sash, the uniform of the Third artil-
lery. Among the swords is one that
the general carried at the battle of
Shiloh, and more ornamental one
having a gold hilt studded with dia-
monds. The watch that served him on
his famous march to the sea awakens
great interest.
"Foggy Bottom" Fashionable
Here, boy" said foreign individual
at the corner of the state, war and
navy departments to ragged news
boy. Il say, boy. can you tell me
where Chief Justice Fuller lives around
about here?" The urchin stuck his
tongue in his cheek in thoughtful
way, toed in for few turns on the
walk, and still looking nonplussed,
rolled his head eastward and said:
"Karut jest tell yo'. cap'in, but hits
somewhar down dar in Foggy Bottom"
The chief Justice is within the district
known to old Washingtonians as Fog
gy Bottom" and Just across the street
from him lives Senator Stewart of
Nevada. This is not the first taste of
fashionable life that Foggy Bottom has
known. 1t derived it's name from the
fogs rising from the Potomac river.
For years it was the fashionable local
ity for army and navy people, where
they got good, roomy quarters cheap,
thing that this class of citizens in
Washington are noted for, but in the
last few years the large roomy houses
stood idle. and surprise was shown
when the chief justice selected house
in that quarter. However. the house
itself is great roomy affair, with a
quarter of a block in the grounds. Tho
only thing that mars the fine and
stately appearance Of the place Is a
small stable in the rear that looks
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