Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-06-14
Blinds Drawn and DrawingI
Rooms Darkened For Sum
mer Rare Beauty of Parks
and Flowers,
RAILROADS LOSE OUT
IN CLOVIS LAND CASES
New Mexico Man Thinks New
York Senators Are Far From
CorpSeSi Currency Bill May
Not Apply to New Mexico,
RN Min G Hnrnesl

(By win c. harness
| WASHINGTON, D. c. June S--With
| the closing of congress the city OF
| Washington is fast assuming condt-
! ton OF summer quiet, the crowds that
| have packed every hotel and boarding
house since the opening day OF con-
gress last fan are gone and the town
has settled down to rest period uhtll
! the reassembling Of congress VIII
Iagain bring things back to life.
| Not that the city is dead and asleep
| by any means, for the capital of the
| United States win ever be more or
| less busy place no matter what season
| of the year 1t is.
! These southerncrs are great people
! to close up their houses for the sum-
mer as if some plague had struck the
( place. Blinds are drawn, linen covers
| put over the furniture, rugs rolled up
land sent to the warehouses FOR Stor-
Iage during the summer and general
air al desolatiOn is made to surround
| the house even if the head of the fam
! iy is still occupying it, while the Wo-
men are off al some summer resort
| during the heated spell
Even the great hotels, places ike
the Arlington, Willard and other IA
nous hostelries do a good deal of this
| By taking down the lace curtains,
packing away the rugs and draperles
of the paflors ana covering every stn-
gle article of furniture with white
linen covers until it gives one the all
overs" to enter the place.
Many OF the great MONIES are closeu
and the doorWaNs and windows BOARD
ed up for the summer Block after
block are in this condition on some OF
the swell residence avenues ike Con
neCtiCut, Massachusetts ana lplIl
street and the impression one stIs Oh
the city Is that II Is a deserted VII
lage.
The awnings nave gone up on an me
public buildings, ana on some Of thG
larger ones ike the state war ana
Navy it makes a very picturesque ad-
when they are new and OF gay stripes
and ColorS.
There are over eight thousand OF
these awnings ON the dhfertht govern
ment buildings here ana IT means a
very considerable cost to the puplc
purse.
Warm as it becomes, however here
in summer this is lovely city IN
which to live for there Is so much
done to make life attractive. The
hundreds of beautiful parks that are
10 be found everywhere are splendid
play in them at night, besides the reg
ular afternoon concerts by the Ia
nous Marine band that takes place on
the White House grounds, where all
are welcome ana allowed TO roam
about the grounds and ENJOY not only
the music but the people assembled
there.
The parks are kept up most peau-
tifulIy and the single item of gar
dencrs must be considerable.
There are two of the lovely circles
which are on my way down town every
morning, Thomas and Iowa In these
circles are great beds Of flowers
which they change often
You viii see crowd of gardeners,
twenty or more in number, all as busy
as bees on a morning with three or
four great wagon loads of potted flow
ers waiting to be transferred to the
beds and at noon you will find the
beds glorious with pansies, where last
week were HVaUintbS and other such