Evening star., 1901-05-31

d SllHS ueStToyeu one OF the cat eyes, ana
few days afterward in an attemnt to
| knock a train from the track the cat lost
half It's TALL but the cat came back. and
thereby hangs the tale, not the cats tail,
by the way. -
when 1 filed the papers for the pension
, Of Mrs Tuttle. whose husband was ser
geant in the 18th United States Infantry
it was found that all was in good shape,
except his discharge papers, and l at once
requested that search be made for these
documents. She was certain that her hus-
band had left them somewhere in the old
homestead and diligent search was at
once instituted. The old house was ran
| sacked from cellar to garret with no result
and when the effort was about to be given
up in despair 1t was noticed that the old
cat took a great deal Of interest in the
garret. It went to a box In one corner OF
the room and jumped into 1t. Upon look
| ing into the box it was found that four
kittens were nestled in some old paper.
When an effort was made to look into the
box the old cat grew ferocious and at
tackled the SearCherS. One Of the party
who did not like the cat any way picked
up book and threw it at 1t. This book
missed the cat but struck an old paste
board box on a shelf and knocked 1t to
the floor where 1t burst open and the con-
tents rolled out on the floor. Upon pick
ing them up the discharge papers and
5000 In government bonds were found.
The old cat now wears a blue ribbon and
has the run Of the house, in fact nothing
Is too good for it,
washington as a manufacturing city
does sound strange doesn't 4t?" said Walt
L. Briggs Of Chicago at the Arlington on
Tuesday, but it seems less peculiar to me
than the fact that your city has net long
since taken a more decided step In this
direction. With the transportation facili-
ties, both by rail and water, as well as
many other natural advantages, do not
see how you are going to prevent enter
prising men from making this CONNER
cial city in time. Nowhere else in the wide
world will you find a city OF 100000 In
habitants with so little manufacturing. OF
course. 1 am aware Of the prejudice against
this especially among the older and
weather. people The feeling is and 1t
is true to some extent, that a manu-
featuring town cannot be an absolutely
cleanly one. However, there Is no need
that Washington shall ever become dirty
city. like Chicago or Pittsburg. You have
thousands Of acres Of available land lying
around you which. while not in the heart
Of the city. yet easily accessible to
rail- and water carriage. No need that the
large factories should be located in the
central districts Even in most Of our
largest commercial cities the large manu-
factories are located aside from the CEN
trail business districts. The heavy hauling
need not be done through your F street or
your avenue. and IT, for any reason. 1t
should be necessary to do some Of this
hauling through the asphalted Streets regu-
latfons can be made, as they are in other
tires on these CARTS With this precaution
the streets would not suffer.
every time come TO Washington see
some Of the streets or avenues being torn
up said James d. Walsh Of East st.
Louis, ILL.,. at the National "and 1t reminds
me forcibly of the time when my city was
lifted bodily out of the mud and raised an
average Of ten feet.5 This was back in "a
and '95. Owing to damage done by floods,
a general unhealthy condition and a desire
to improve the value Of realty, 1t was de-
termined to raise the street grade from ten
to fifteen feet. Railway tracks were laid
down the middle Of the streets all over the
city and dirt hauled in and dumped. In
the course of year or SO the grading had
been mostly done and every street and
avenue In the city was on an average of
ten feet above the level of the first floors
Of the buildings Standing on the street
level and looking about the scene reminded
one of vast dyke system with dams regu-
larly arranged. You had to go up stairs
to get from your house to the level Of the
street, ana YOU had to go down stairs to
get into the meat market or grocery. Dur
Ing rainy periods, Of course, the mess was
something fearful. The yards and first
floors OF the houses were flooded with thick
pasty mud that ruined everything with
which It came in contact. This condition
soon induced FASTENED efforts to raise the
houses and lots. In the course Of the next
two years the entire town bad been raised
to the general level. The trouble of former
years caused by floods of backwater when
the mississippi river was high has been en-
tirely done away with. the price Of land
has Increased wonderfully. and we now