Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-09
What hucifer Could See In Wash.
ington without Opera Glasses!

WhAi huCifer Could See IN Wash
ington without Opera Glasses!
More women clerks getting from nine
hundred 10 fourteen hundred per annum
for $40 worth of work per week, than any
where else in the country, OF in any other
country
More employees drawing small salaries and
doing the work Of those drawing high sal.
aries than in any other town in the United
States, or IN any Of the workshops of the
country at large
More city people made swell headed re-
garding their own individual ability ~ in
consequence of the well-paid Government
pay roll than anywhere else under the over
head canopy.
More laws (Civil Service especially con-
tinually violated than in any other city or
state in the country
Pictures below the Avenue and other
pictures, far more gorgeous, above the Ave
nue.. considerably above it.
Old Governments clerks trying to appear
young (along with sons and daughters from
twenty-five to thirty acting like sixteen
year olds) by racing off to pink teas and
social hops, after nightfall than anywhere
else
More intelligent laborers working for 81 rs
TO 81. so per day (wheu work can be had).
and more half educated dudes drawing from
ten to fourteen hundred per annum steadily
than anywhere else in the country.
Old department employees cleaning off
snow from sidewalks in their shirt sleeves.
and young department employees going
around town dressed up in overcoats, kid
gloves canes and football hair cuts in mild
weather
More light headed women perambulating
the streets with mop-rag trains. and com
planning about cigar stumps than in most
other towns throughout the country.
More poor men sent down for begging a
dime, and more favOrites at liberty to steal
q e.. Jobs on the Government payroll than
in any other city, town or state in these
here free aud enlightened United States"
More aversion to overalls and less ability
to do good day of intelligent work in the
same than in any other town north of
Mason and DixOn's line
More cheap people living in large-sized
houses, and struggling to appear as if they
had coat Of arms hidden in their closets
than anywhere else in the country.
More parlor socials pink teas etc, with
common place music, and more common
place talk interspersed with dawdling gos.
sip, than in any of the busy cities through
out the country.
More skirts worn large and roomy on the
sidewalk, and powerful tight fitting across
the hustle, than in a good many other
places, cities towns, states etc.
Would see cheap spinsters of equally cheap
families racing around to their neighbors
after sundown to get the latest news from
horrible papers in New York and Wash
ington
Would see soldier back-Siters who were
rabidly for Cleveland a few years back Ay-
ing flags and hula believing for the G. o.
/ P
| Would see aristocratic families with rela-
I tives of high (7) education male aud fe.
male, endeavoring to get upon the Govern
ment pay roll (and in the past succeeding)
without going near the certi6cation route.
Would see the SUNDAY GLOBE and other
papers hated and feared, yet much read and
talked about.
Would hear young male Willies. who
knew not a rammer-pipe sheath from a tube
magazine, nor abreech sight from a door
latch, criticising army movements to david
ling summer girls on front steps
Would hear cane-carrYing Reginalds who
could not overcome the hand kicking Of a
Colt "A airing their views on the Philippine
campaign and showing how wonders could
be performed
Would see Christians, church hypoCrites,
ETC. with souls entirely too small
to ever be converted beyond their present
and individual ends
Would see many Of the above. mentioned
class who believe, infallibly believe, that
the coat upon a mans back is a sure indica-
tion of the merit beneath, {. G., silk skirt
makes the woman and an equally SNOWY ex-
terror makes the man.
Would sometimes see old Government
clerks going around playing perpendicular
hat pulling popinjays to sixteen year-old
dressed mp females.
Would see old darkeys arrested for hol.
lowing rags in the streets in daylight, and
would see male and female loafers entirely
unhindered render a large portion of the
summers night hideous with loud gossip,
laughter and mighty poor singing. Would
see that the aforementioned was only plain
nigger and the others belonged to our most
obtrusive circles Of influential department
"sassiety."
Would see a city too poor and trifing to
furnish plain soap to its unfortunate guests
who wear stripes but having plenty of funds
to many times span mud puddle streams
Rock Greek sampled with expensive iron
bridges
Would see dearth of Government jobs
for soldiers who saw plenty Of fighting but
plenty of just such jobs for certain families
Of influence who never swabbed gun
OBSERVER.
Georgetown, d. c.