Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
Offices and Diet
for Democrats.


cratic, and h t
Ofices and Diet party controlled in
for Democrats. I I'M 0 CONSEQUENCE
there was considerable overturn in the
House offices. In The Star of Decem-
ber Is, 1875, is a comment on the sit
uation thus created:
The Richmond Dispatch complains
that the reason why all Virginia has
descended upon Washington for office
is that it is but a hop, step and
| jump from the Old Dominion to the
Federal Capital. But that paper adds
dolefully that the great body of the
! legion have to return home diSap-
| pointed, and undertakes to console
them with the valuable moral that 1t
is but relying upon a broken reed to
depend upon public office for support
and that the independent enterprise
and industry of a man are worth to
| him inconceivabIy more than all the
rewards of public office with its in
stability and disappointments. The
Dispatch cannot, however, refrain
from CLEAN of triumph in quoting
from The Star that under the new
dispensation of Virginians displacing
New Englanders in Office here baked
beans are supplanted by bacon and
green's and pumpkin pie is nowhere.
we shouldn't wonder the Dispatch
says, If q man could get now in Wash
ington possum and taters. which are
., much better than the moral ideas
enveloped in pork and beans.
ut Is all very well for the Richmond
editor to exult over the rout of Yankee
viands AT the Federal Capital by the
favorite dishes of the South, but we
doubt il the hungry and disappointed
! 'orifice seekers of his State will join
| in the jubilation. They will probably
| feel like remarking. as Col. Sellers did
about his turnip diet, Dbl possum
and taters in Washington.
| In the letter to the editor printed in
| The Star Of December Is. 1875. is
Mud Around Conditions parditH 8 on pr't CAPITOL
the Capitol 1 nll which intsrs will d tnnse
who traverse that section at present:
Permit me to call the attention of
| the authorities in charge of the i'm
provements of the grounds east of the
| Capital to some of the inconvenience
to which the people living east of and
| near the Capitol are subjected. While
| the improvements were in progress we
were willing and expected to submit
| to many inconvenience. but now that
they are about completed for this
year we desire to have some better &C
commodations than we have now and
some better attention paid to those
| things which are absolutely necessary
to relieve US during our Winter cam
paisn across these grounds. Every
| person who was present at the fu-
| neral services of our late Vice Presi-
dent will bear me witness that the
mud on the space east of the Capitol
| from B street north to B street south
was deep enough to satisfy any coun-
tryman or disgust any lady who was
compelled to cross it. People who
live on the Hill and who pass every
day by the north or south wing Of the
building are obliged to walk or wade
| through this every rainy day or go
| squares out Of the way, when stone
or concrete crossing direct from the
north and south walks around the
Capitol east of the circles would en-
tirely relieve U.S.
In view Of the recent efforts to drive
the sparrows and starlings out of GER
A n.-a f.r tain trees in the down
WoEo LOT town section. The Star
sparrows. D. &c 1ntsrs IT: 1875 will
"A word in behalf Of our ornitho-
logical importations. the sparrows, Is
in season. The little creatures seem
to have thrived and increased In mum.
Der since they were placed in the parks
and are quite numerous in the trees
along our principal avenue. They
have become very tame and confiding
and the boys deserve commentator
for restraining their stone-throwing
propensities and leaving them unmo-
A. - t. II
that the law imposing a fine for killing
them has something to do with the
matter. At any rate, the birds seem
to have a good time of It in all respects
| save one, the exception being IN the
matter of food. z It is therefore sug-