The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-18
TWO LEADING AMERICAN CITIES.
WASHINGTON.


Women ride bareheaded and in
evening gowns to receptions, dinners
and to the theatre in street cars.
The bars shut at midnight. That
doesn't mean FIVE minutes past twelve
but twelve sharp.
Everybody dimes with everybody
else. Nobody eats at home unless
he is giving a dinner party. There
is but one fashionable caterer. The
walters get to be old and familiar
friends before the season is over.
The street. cars run two together.
The first car is heated and the second
car is cold. Take your choice.
No white man gets up in street
car to give black womana seat, and
no black man gets upto give white
woman a seat, but every white man
gets up when white woman comes
into crowded car, and so does every
black man when a black woman comes
in. No woman has to be a strap
hanger.
No mail delivery on Sunday, but
everybody can go to the postoffice-
between 10 and Il and gethis letters.
There are half dozen public mar
kets. Every woman who keeps house
does her own maketing.
Everything goes by precedence.
The butler of Cabinet Minister is a
greater social parsonage at servants
ball than the butler of an under-sec-
retary.
Everybody knows everybody else.
Everybody also knows about the af-
fairs of everybody else.
Most of the department people have
dinner at S. 900 clock in the afternoon.
It used to be S O'Clock. When the
Presindent ordered the government
clerks to work until AGO he disar-
ranged the domestic arrangements in
several thousand homes.
Everybody goes to church on Sun
day. A man who hasn't plug hat
and tail coat is social outcast.
You can buy six street-car tickets
for quarter.
All the bars sell apple toddy. They
keep the roasted apple in big bowl
on the bar, alongside of the Tom and
Jerry and the eggnog bowls.
Everything is done by influence.
When government employe says
my influence is dead," he or she
says the saddest words that can fall
from Washington tongue or pen.
Snow is never cleaned off the side
walks along the government parks and
and reservations. Congress will not
vote the money.
There is but one morning paper for
population of nearly 900, 900.
Free omnibuses start from the CEN
tire of the town to take people over in
to Virginia and Maryland to the pool
rooms. There isn't gambling room
in Washington.
All the hotels and saloons put out
their free lunches at q. 80. That is
the time the departments let out.
There are three hanson cabs.
These were vinted before the war.
Some days it seems as if there were a
million automobiles.
Old negro women peddle "ly hom-
my" from house to house.
Old negro women are the laun-
dresses. They take their bundles of
washing home in old baby-carriages.
BALTIMORE.
They yodel of the aproned charm
ing fine oyle" (oysters) man is not
the most delightful music for the late
riser. 1t is a welcome su bstitute,
however, for "Crabbie.
Many sparrow is eaten for reed
bird and only the connoisseur can tell
the "Slider" from the diamond back.
Yes, indeedy," betrays the native
Baltimore girl.
A walk through Lexington Market
ON any market morning will give a
glorious appetite to the dyspeptic Wis
itor accustomed to buy his food from
stores.
The City Hall was built within the
appropriation. After its completion
surplus was turned back into
the city treasury. This example of a
"graftless" municipal building is be-
lieved to be without parallel.
The very first thing the Johns Hop
kins University authorities are con-
structing at Homewood Park, the
new home of the university, is the
athletic field.
"My, but you have lot of rivers
here, says the visitor unfamiliar with
Baltimore's antiquated surface drain
age.
One might imagine that the people
here keep one servant who does moth
ing but wash the white marble steps.
-Mew York W0rld.