The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-10-07
WASHINGTON letter.
National Capital Presents
Animated Appearance.
EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS.
President Roosevelt is Busy and
Happy.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
/ WASHINGTON, d. e., SEPT, "a, 1904
Unlike other American cities.
Washington presents busy and AMI
mated appearance between half past
eight and nine O'Clock in the fore
noon. At that time $4,000 children
are pouring into the school houses;
30, 600 or more clerks are filing of to
the various departments; a hundred
or over Of push-cart men, their small
wagons loaded down with tropical
and California fruits, are dispensing
to all quarters OF the city from the
great central market, while the
streets arc thronged with the carri-
ages of important Government oiiici-
ais upon whose shoulders the weight
Of empire rests. 1t is scene typl-
cally American.
! 1t will not be the fault Of the
present AdNinlstrati0n II those who
wish for information regarding the
progress of the United States do not
obtain 1t. An important work has
just been issued by the Government,
compiled by the Bureau OF Statistics,
being the annual review Of the foreign
and internal commerce Of the United
States, for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1904, and an estimate for the
current year. TIE summary contaiDs
many statements regarding the com
merce, finances, production, trans
portation, etc, OF this country, and
l supplies the latest and most complete
| information possible. The popula-
r tion Of the States is now estimated to
n be 81, 1853, 900. In 1900 the wealth
$ per capita was Sl,235.s6. The pub.
/. lie debt per capita has fallen from
& $40. 98 in 1856 to Sll.Sl today. The
largest amount of gold coined In any
one year was Sill, ,344. 220 in 1890.
: The gold now in circula tion amounts
. to S6i6, 5S6.3l9. The number OF
J. national banks today is 5,33l, as
o against but 66 in 1859.
d,
al In the matter of imports into this
country it will surprise some to learn
= that Notwithstanding our great agri-
y cultural and stock raising resources
81 we imported, last year, food and liv.
animals to the amount OF S2l2, 2,057,
l. 293, and it is estimated that thi'
i year the imports Of the same article:
"a will aggregate S234,378,39S. Gu
;. heaviest imports are Of crude article
for domestic industries. Last yea
these amounted to nearly 3S4 million
= Of dollars. Regarding articles manu-
! featured wholly or partially for use
le materials in the mechanic arts, tn
ry imports for 1904 are much large
J. than ever before, reaching the sum o
st 1856 millions of dollars. In 1891 tn
We amount was 100 millions Of dollars
at Articles manufactured ready for con
sumption show a slight decline fo
this year, being l66 millions OF dol
: lars as against 1863 millions for 1903
,: That the Americans are prospcrou
:" aud have plenty OF money TO spend
n shown by the fact that for the pres
to ent year it is estimated they will i'm
port 1872 millions of dollars worth
ng articles of "vOluntary use", luxurie
lie etc. Our total imports for 1904 al
yn estimated by the Bureau OF Statistic
Nv TO amount to sOsl, ,O90,976, declir
~ over last year OF but l6 millions
49, dollars, which is really but 4 sligi
" fluctuation when the vast total
considered.
m. President Roosevelt has been
very busy man, and apparently ha
,d py one, since his return to this cit
at all events he has made a series
>, striking and felicitous speeches, d
cidedly In the interests OF peace al
loc national good ncighborhood, much
MS the satisfaction OF those who had q
ties Measure OF listening to thet
rks Among bis distinguished guests 7
the mast week nave been the Primate
.ad England, the Rev. Charles Wagner
,de Paris, author Of THE Simple LII
,.;s, with whom whole evening +"
iys passed swapping sentiments a
stories. the delegates to the lule