Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-11-08

there, and some have undertaken to
build homes there for themselves, on
the installment plan. Alexandria, al
belt an ancient city, has fallen into
business decay ever since the great shot
and shell discussion between the Sec
lions of our country. But of recent
years it has been growing gradually
into modernized conditions. Every
body feels and almost knows that in
short space of time. say ten years, ii
will become part of the national cap
ital, as it once was. The commuters OF
to-day will be the fathers of resident
families there in the next generation
Northeast of the city proper is VIII
lage of 10000 inhabitants, called Eek
ington; and it is subdivided so that a
portion of it is called Brookland. This
populous suburb is now builded up to
the city limits, SO that only old inhab-
itants know it is a suburb which has
grated itself onto the boundary line.
lexington was until recently the I'M
divided property left by Chief Justice
Salmon p. Chase, to his brilliant and
beautiful daughter, Kate. just few
years before her death she sold it, and
it was converted into building lots by
enterprising real estate dealers. 1t is
a beautiful place, and it is the product
of commuters.
lexington has a history, although
there is nothing left of the old coun-
try place which is visible to mortal
eyes. Many wonderful political deals
were there arranged. The most no.
table occurrence of all was in January,
1877, when Kate Chase entertained Sem
ator Conkling SO charmingly and en-
chantingly that she kept him away
from the capitol while the electoral
commission bill was being enacted in
TO law. If Conkling had been on duty
he would have defeated that bill. But
Kate Chase kept him away, the bill
was enacted, and Hayes became presi-
dent.
Col. Andrew Geddes, chief clerk of the
department of agriculture, lives at
Kensington, a suburb Is miles to the
northwest of the city proper. He says:
ave have as pretty little place asany
of those which have been built up
around Chicago by its commuters, al.
though it is not yet SO large as some OF
them. i can take an electric car at
eight o'clock every morning, open my
morning paper and read it all the way
to the city, arriving at the department
at half-past eight O'Clock, which is
half an hour before the department
work begins. Quite number of Wash
ington business men, as well as govern
ment clerks, live there, and We are all
proud of our country homes"
Arlington National cemetery is on
the heights across the Potomac river,
and the old Lee mansion is visible from
every part of the city. West of Ar
lington is Fort Myer, an army post of
the regular army. Between the fort
and the aqueduct bridge, distance of
three miles, the entire hill country is
divided into lots and called Fort Myer
Heights. Here the commuters are
building homes by the score.
Then there is q splendid new electric
line running through Georgetown,
past President Cleveland's former
country home, and far out to Rock
Vile, Md, where an excellent seminary
is located. This is a fine ride, with
the homes of the wealthy all along
the route. John r. Mclean, of Ohio.
owns a baronial estate here, of which
any of the noblemen of the old world
might be proud.
And, best of all, these commuters Of
ours live where there is plenty of tim
Der land, and they are buying cord
wood for from So to IS cord, and they
are not worried about the coal famine.
Under the circumstances the commu-
fers are 10 be enyied.