The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-04-30

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Mr.. Richardson was finally nagged into
saying on the floor of the House that his
only connection with the firm was that
they were using his plates and he received
"small' royalty. Mr.. Richardson en-
tered Congress a poor man. he Is now
very wealthy. Once very strong with the
Democrats, they have now grown tired OF
him. This may account for his determine
ton to leave the House. where he has been
for so long leader.
| Mr.. Richardson was nearly four years
in the rebel army. and has always worn
conspicuously on the lapel of his coat the
badge of the Confederacy, the rebel flag.
There are some 40 Southern members
who wear this badge.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is going to
perform a feat never before attempted. y
few years ago it constructed across the
Delaware River at Philadelphia mag
nificent new two-track bridge which was
the wonder Of the country. Now their
business has outgrown the bridge. so the
Pennsylvania Company will take this big
bridge to pieces and bring it to Washing
ton to span the Potomac with it. and over
it will steam into the magnificent new
Union Station. the construction of which
will soon begin.
Mr.. Budget Meakin. of London, Eng
land. is going round lecturing on Darkest
Washington" and he shows you the pic
lures big as life and twice as natural. He
shows views taken of alley shanties right
in the rear of the British Embassy, where.
he says, the conditions are viler than he
ever saw in the Sums of London. He
found just as unsanitary and un-Christian
conditions right under the shadow Of the
Capitol of the Nation.
The Galley" homes of Washington are
but little known in other parts of the
world The wide alleys of Washington
are one of her greatest impediments TO
real progress Congress has always been
penurious in its dealings with the District
of Columbia. and, though efforts are made
n. each session, no law has ever been
passed that would give the District Com
miss:oners the authority TO pull down
ramshackly old houses and alley tene-
ments nor haye they the power to prevent
these unsanitary buildings being occupied
The tenants of the alley shacks are
largely negroes of the lowest class-ne-
groes as far removed from the Booker
Washington type as snow is from Stag
They burrow in the tumble-down old shells
like rabbits i'll a warren. All the crimes
of the decalog are committed there. but
until an NJ. c. is robbed by one of the
half-barbarous inmates of Blood Alley"
the general public. which loves to be ig-
norant of anything that will cause it
trouble. never hears anything about these
breeding places of crime and cruelty. In
The way of buildings Washington probably
presents greater contrasts than any other
city on earth. The very rich and the
abjectly poor have just a wall between
them and no law to enable conditions to
be bettered
Many of these old shacks were pre-
scented 10 faithful old servants by former
masters. property of but little worth at
the time, perhaps. and never improved
cents worth since the war. The I'M
tutored negro's idea of the value of money
was shown not long ago. Over by the
British Embassy rich property owner,
simply to get rid of undesirable neighbors.
offered $1,000 for a little bit of alley
property which belonged to an uncle so
old that he might have seen three cen
turies. in Part. The land was not worth
$1,000 The old fellow smiled and said
money: hit suttenly air. / didn' know
Use 50 Itch. I'll JUS dun keep hit" And
lie did.
The General Post-ofIice scandal grows
1t seems incredible that so much that
smacks of rottenness and jobbery could
go ON for so many years right under the
noses of good business men in the Cabi-
net ard rotling BE- uncovered. At the
present time this great Government insti-
tuition. which we have been holding up to
the world as q model. seems to be literally
noreycombed with maladministration.
The very last sensation mixes two
women "safe crackers and an expert lock-
g
of Gen. James \. Tyner. who has been
Assistant Attorney-General. and her sister,
Mrs. Barrett, whose son. Harrison J. Bar
rett, has been accused of scandals in con-
nection with the get-rich-quick concerns.
Gen. Tyner had a stroke of paralysis
some time ago. and is now a confirmed in
valid. Since the Post-Office scandals be-
gan to smoke Judge Tyner resigned to
take effect the 1st of May. 1t was more
than suggested at the time that Judge
Tyner was mixed up in the scandals, but
his friends hooted at the idea. On Thurs
day. April 23. Mrs. Tyner. on the order
of her husband, she says, went to his
private office in the Post-office Depart
ment, unlocked the private door leading
into the corridor. admitting an expert lock-
smith and her sister, Mrs. Barrett. The
orders, TO open the safe. After he got it
open Mrs. Tyner took out of it every
blessed thing there was in it and sent
the office messenger down to her carriage
with the bundles which she had made up.
Then the two proceeded to walk out of the
building.
When Mrs. Tyner entered the private
office she informed Acting Assistant At
torney General Christiancy and Assistant
Attorney Miller, through whose room she
had TO pass, that she wanted to attend to
some private business at her husbands
desk, and that she wanted the messenger,
Andrew Hogan. After the damage was
done the birds and their plumber safely
away, Mr.. Christiancy is said to have sud
denly bethought himself of informing the
PostmastcrGencral of the presence of
Mrs. Tyner. Gen. Payne wasn't born
yesterday, and he is not slow at jumping
at correct conclusions. He fired two Post
office Inspectors over to the Tyner house
with instructions to secure the papers car
ried away. They saw Mrs. Tyner, and
she told them they could not have the
papers. She said they were of Il private
character. She also said that as Gen.
Tyner was Assistant Attorney eneral
until the 1st of May he had n right to
remove from his private room and safe
anything he chose. So. meek as Moses,
the Inspectors came away.
Then Postmaster-General Payne wrote
a curt letter dismissing Gen. Tyner. One
paragraph of this letter is as follows.