The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-18
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

! "One would think that there would
never be another Inauguration here in
/ Washington said Alfred Frazee. of
/ DAYTON. Ohio at the Regent yesterday.
THE lack of permanence in the struc-
| lures used in Inauguration ceremonies
! certainly gives that impression. Here is
/ "A great event. which takes place quad
rennially, and every four years new
stands are built. new platforms are erect
! ed only to be torn down in few days.
1t ought to be well understood by this
! time that Washington is going to be a
/ parade city. Whenever there is a great
! event to he celebrated, you can be sure
! henceforth that the best parade will be
in Washington. Why not then make
some permanent preparation for such
things, and put up some permanent struc-
lures. At times these structures would
| have to be supplemented by temporary
ones, but there would be use enough for
several stands TO warrant their being
put up to stay.
by not put an ornamental stand. of
stone say, in the park opposite the White
House? You could build in connection
with it, a reviewing box for the Presi-
dent, and YOU could make the whole thing
a great ornament TO the city. There are
many other places where stands could be
put, but none where, 10 my mind they ought
to be constructed Of stone. There ought
! however, to be something semi-permanent
put in these other places. Every four
years, at the front of the Capitol YOU
have to build big platform and pavilion
in which the President takes his oath
You build it Of wood, and tear it down
when 1t might be made Of steel, put to-
Sether In few hours. and stored away
for sdfekeeping when taken down. Those
things are done in cities in the West, and
l do not see why they should not be done
IN Washington. / dareSay the stands with
the steel supports would not cost much
more than twice, or perhaps, three times
as much as the structures of wood, and
they would last almost indefinitely What
has been done on athletic fields for pure
~ commercial reasons. should certainly
be possible in Washington for patriotic
reasons.
The Washington Society Of Artists
when it holds its annual exhibit in the
hemcycle of the Corcoran Gallery. will
not have the entire art field of the city
to itself 1t will only be sharing it with
another younger. but no less interesting,
society OF artists which will be holding
little exhibit of it's own in the rooms Of
the Art Students League ON Seventeenth
Street. While the object of the Wash
ington Society of Artists will be to please
and instruct, the object Of the other or
ganization viii be 10 amuse. The exhibit
Of the latter will be, as it were, an annex
to the former, a sort Of affair to be en-
tered by presentation Of coupon from
the ticket which admits 10 the more pre-
tentious show.
The young artists and students Of the
Art League are very busy preparing what
they call Fake" exhibition Its main
purpose is to carica ture and put in a
humorous light the serious work shown
at the CorcOrau Gallery. and the artists
who are exhibiting i similar exhibition
was given last year, with great success. |
There viii be pictures buTiesquing the
peCuliaritieS~ of local and foreign artists
in various and incXplicably clever ways,
ana there VIII be catalogue to guide
the uninitiated into the path leading to
the point OF the joke. and to amuse him
further by various poems. and other skits.
The Sundry 'cleVerueSSeS have not yet
been all developed. but something well
worth taking in is promised. The doors Of
the Fake exhibition will open just be-
fore the doors Of the real thing close.
Ev-Secretary Villas, who was at the
head Of the Department of the Interior
during CIevelands first Administration,
has been in Washington for some days
waiting for case that he is Interested
in to come up before the Supreme Court.
Ia the lobby of the Raleigh last night he
Chatted about men and things of today.
Il have gone back to my law practice
said he, and do not follow the political
life of the country as closely as / used
TO. II seems to me quite iii and proper |
that man should be able to serve i'll /
some measure his country. and then take |
up the business of his life
Mr.. Villas nevertheless still holds his
political opinions and adheres to the !
principles represented by Mr.. Cleveland, |
especially in regard to tariff questions. |
Referring to the attempt made by Repre- !
sentative Babcock to strike the trusts a
blow by reducing or doing away entirely |
with tariffs on articles manufactured by |
companies whose products have been pro- |
tected by duties, he said:
Il am glad to see that some members |
of the Republican party have come to |
their senses and see how the country is |
being oppressed by the trusts 1t is |
good sign when the first step is taken by |
a member OF the Republican party
1t is not commonly known that prob |