Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-21
ments are worked out and carried to COM
pletion without hesitancy.
Diversified Advantages.

O4tCAoAACo advantages.
Another source of fixed wealth and in
creasing circulating medium is the fact
that with each succeeding year the CAPT.
tai is being the social center OF the ma
| ton and more and more winter resort
not only for the very wealthy who may
desire to participate in its social luxuries,
but for thousands of those whose means
are sufficient to permit them to come
modestly within our gates and partake OF
| the sui generis advantages and privileges
which we alone Of cities can offer. rang
ing from superior educational facilities to
the mere passing of pleasant moments.
While the normal building and general
improvement and development of the
city at large go on apace. and each sue
ceeding year shows heavy and subStan-
tial PERCENTAGE over the preceding run.
ming high into the millions, the national
government has constantly under con-
tract the erection of new buildings for
Official purposes covering additional mil
lions, and it may be said that the govern
ment' has at the present time In invest
ment in its new official buildings, from
those nearing completion to those rising
above the foundations, not less than S1O,-
600, while 81, 100000 will be appropriat-
ed for the erection of the new bureau of
engraving and printing, and like sum
for the erection of another new Office
building for one of the departments by
the next Congress. These are apart
from other millions which have just been
spent and are to be expended In the
furtherance of other national improve
ments. and it should be understood that
when these improvements are out of the
way others will crowd in in their place,
thus constituting practically continuous
performance in national improvements in
sums running into the six figures, and to
these are not added the usual and ordi-
nary municipal improvements which call
for other millions going on from year to
year. All of this tends to do away with
the lapses and stagnation in building
operations which come from time to time
to other centers. and insures for years
steady employment in the various trades
involved.
Big Shopping Center.
Then our tax rate is a favorable one
| In comparison with other communities
and our insurance adjustments equitable.
Our educational facilities. collegiate and
| common school, are sufficient in them
selves to offer peculiar inducements to
homeseekers. Thanks to our new system.
| our water supply Is sparkling and clear.
| and as pure as modern methods and
| skilled hands can make it. being far SUI
| perior to that furnished other municipali-
| ties except in few isolated instances,
while still greater betterment IS contem-
| plated
Another particularly favorable asset
we have is the fact that our laws are
| enforced. There is no lawleSsness here
| concerning which other centers Of popula-
ton complain. The saloons are really
closed on Sundays and also on week days
at the prescribed hours; the back or side
doors are not open nor is the law other
| wise evaded as elsewhere. Our street
| surface car lines are replacing old rolling
stock for new and the service is good.
| with prospects of material Improvement
| within the next year In all quarters OF
the city. The transfer method in vogue
| permits of liberal riding for one fare. and
| we have an advantage over most cities in
that our car patrons obtain six rides as
! against five elsewhere for the same
money.
with a genial climate the year around
| and an excellent geographical situation,
| the capital will develop In a few years
into the great shopping center for an ex-
| pansive contiguous territory embracing
| the greater part of Maryland and Vir-
ginia and extending down to the North
Carolina line. All of this large territory
rightfully belongs to us, and especial eff
| forts and inducements are now being
made TO bring it within the radius of our
| activities in commercial endeavor. with
| ensuing benefit TO our merchants and tie
| city at large