Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-25

going to the informer. by which law
q couple of smart boys made $50 the
other day"
"Oficial returns show that durind
the last twelve months the number
of horses slain in Paris for the meat
market amounts to 2.400: 5 per cent
have been employed in making sau-
sages."
X
DR.. Mary Walker, who died a Ter
weeks ago in New York state. wax
a conspicuous figure here
DR.. Mary fifty years ago, seekins
1,.u appointment to ONCE and
endeavoring to promate
her peculiar ideas for womens dress
reform. In The Star of May 81, 1862.
is a paragraph ~ This effect:
"Dr Mary f. Walker. so far having
failed to obtain a position under the
government, has attacked the gallant.
Maj. H. c. Whiteley. chief of the
secret service division of the Treas
ury Department. and asks de-
tective's position in his department.
Mai. Whitley does not see his way
clear to make the appointment
DR. Walker was not without cham
pions. however In The Star of May
| %, 1869, ia letter to the editor.
| signed "A Woman" protesting against
| the ridicule that was being heaped
| upon the courageous pioneer IN dress
| reform, in part, as follows:
"Dr. Mary Walker may be noisy.
outre, impetuous and bad-tempered.
| but she has none of the vices of many
of those who hound and persecute
| her She neither smokes. chews. drinks
| 3, scl- 1vtN In CT
houses of questionable reputation or
/ countenances public performances That
are subversive to good morals In all
these things those who deride her
must certainly concede that she is
not manly She wears a dress that
| subjects her to ridicule, but ! am
fully persuaded that in doing SO she
| dares public opinion from sense
| of the highest duty. No woman likes
| to be singular. and it is not pleasant
| that it shows extraordinary strength
! of character to bear constant. con.
tempt and insult for the sake of
| principle. If she finds that her health
is improved by dispensing with yards
upon yards of fatiguing cloth to bind
| nobody but the dealers in dry goods
| ought to care for that. ] am con
| WINGED that If the Empress Eugene
or the courtesans of Paris had set
| the fashion of trousers and frock
| coats for women the dress would nave
been a rage in America at once. In
stead of that. the papers cooliy an
I, nounce that the empress of the
| French gave $4,000 francs for new
spring dress, and forthwith all snob
and shoddydom set about finding the
| most extravagant goods and style.
making themselves rights with their
| loaded, bepanniered bodies, and no
| body says a word"
| X
Half a century ago Washington was
watching with interest the erection OF
the Arlington Hotel, which
Arlington for many years was the
w., largest hostelry in the cap
AAo'sA' ital, and which a few sea-
sons ago was razed to be replaced by a
larger and more imposing structure
The foundation hole remained long a
public eyesore and finally the govern
ment acquired the site and erected the
building now standing on Vermont ave
nue. between H and streets. The Star
of May 90. 1869, says of the then new
enterprise:
This building was described in The
foundations but since then such extern
siye alterations have been made in the
| original plan that q description or the
present design will not be uninteresting.
The two fine dwelling houses, the prop
erty of Mr.. Corcoran, which have been
1 occupied in their day by two Secretaries
| of State, Hon. William L. Marcy and
Hon. Lewis Cass, and which are on 2
portion of the site of the new structure,
are to be remodeled and become part
of the hotel. The building will have q
front of 1877 feet. with an elevation or 10
feet. 1t will be 131 feet deep. six stories
! in height. The front will be OF brown
| frances, one for ladies and one for gen.
tlemen. - Independent of the
public stairways. private staircases lead
1 to the dining room, which can De reacn-
ed by guests at all times unobserved
Along the first story, where the windows
extend to the floor, there will be a hand
some veranda. Independent OF the pub
lie halls, there will be in the house l1a
| chambers and over 100 bathrooms, &C
cording to the present arrangement
| which will be again altered for adap-
1 tation to the proposed increase OF size or
the building. which will now take In the
house and property adjoining. lateiy
' for $4,000 A connection Is now being
thuilt with view of securing the house
Of William Kennedy, Esq. on II street
| as an addition to the hotel. with suite
| Of six parlors on either side OF the hall
Mr. e. G. Lind Of Baltimore Is the
architect, Messrs. Entwisle 4 Barron.
contractors, and the hotel will cost I'm
round numbers $780, 1t is to be fn
ished in October next and has ALREADY
| been leased by T. Roessle OF Lake
| George, N. Y"