Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1889, Page 7

MAY 25, 1889—-TWELVE PAGES. SOUND JUDGMENT IN REAL ESTATE VALUES. HEN WITH FORESIGHT AND FAITH. Prominent Dealers in Lands and) Houses in and About Washington. As the saying is, real estate men get up early fm the 1 In other words, they are bright, active m on the alert for opportu- nities and quick to grasp them. They play an important part in the development of a city. They not only foresee the future, but to a great extent they make the future. Upon their judg- Ment capitalists invest their money, and those who are in search of homes or small invest- ments consult them as they would their lawyer or physician. In this city the business has de- veloped into a profession, and a large number of the dealers devote their entire time to the gement of real estate in its various rela- Some bere was an incident of some other calling, and no one thought of making it a separate busi- ness. Now there are large real estate offices, with corps of trained assistants andclerks. Per- haps in no other city is there such a num- ber of competent specialists in this line. They are a progressive element in the com- munity. They believe im improvements of all kinds, and they take an active interest in every enterprise that will be of benefit to the city. They induce foreign capital to come here by showing in what way it can be invested profitably. No man of means who visits the city can truthfully say that there is no opening here for good investments. The real estate men point out to him opportunities, and judging from the large number who have not only placed their money in Washington prop- erty but have made their homes here these op- portunities must have been gilt-edged. A sound head upon a good pair of legs is the only capital with which most of the successful real estate men in this city started in business. If in the course of years, as is natural, the legs lose something of their youthful activity, the quick judgment and the confidence which see & town lot ima forest never deserts a genuine real estate man, which goes to pgove that there is no such thing as growing old in the business, As the real estate men hold such an important place in the community, the readers of Tue Brae will be interested in knowing something about the business careers of some of the lead- ing men as given below. Fiteh, Fox & Brown. Mr. James E. Fitch, of the firm of Fitch, Fox & Brown. real estate brokers, and of Bell & Co., bankers, came to this city in April, 1865, just at the close of the war. He joined a firm mposed of his father, William Fitch, Lemon ine (now District commissioner) and John Fox, of Uniontown, who were engaged in a gen- eral claim business and were especially inter- ested in claims for damages by the troops. Congress taking adverse action on these claims, the firm was soon after dissolved and Mr. Fitch continued the claim business alone, ad- ding to it that of a real estate broker, there being then but two or three firms in the latter business. In November, 1866, he was joined by Mr. Robert C. Fox, his present partner, their business soon developing into one of large | ig bares In_ 1872 Mr. Edwin C. Cutter purchased an interest in the business of the firm, and it became Fitch, Fox & Cutter, and so continued until March, 1879, when Mr. Cutter was sueceeded by Mr. Geo. W. Brown, and the firm became as at present, Fitch, Fox & wn. In addition to the real estate busi- ness the firm, in Janu- ‘ary, 1883, established, in connection with Mr. Chas. J. Bell, the bank- ing house of Bell & C which continues to do basiness under that name. Mr. Fitch is also secretary and treas- urer of the Mutual Protection fire insurance company, of the District, which was organized and a charter obtained from Congress in 1376, mainly through his efforts: a director in the National Metropolitan bank: the treasurer and a trustee of the Church of the Covenant: a member of the board of trustees of the Reform sehool of the District. and is al connected with several other charity organizations. Mr. Robert C. Fox, of this firm, came to Washington city in the fall of 1 as a tutor in Latin and Greek in the Columbian college, having spent the two Years previous at the University of Virginia in the study of ancient and modern languages. After filling his engage- ment to teachtwo years at the Columbian col- lege, he resigned and made arrangements to go into business. In the spring of 1861 he was appointed cashier of the Washington office of the American te’ graph company, whi position he held during the war and until the absorption of the Amer- ican telegraph company by the Western Unio: Re While Mr. Fox has been very in business for the past twenty- notallowed his in to wane. He ser boardof tru: been for many ve university oni ERT C. FOX. ars he has sonal matters or Wallach on the schools. and has yearsa trustee of the Columbian He has been, for several years past. the secretary and treasurer of that cor- poration. and the secretary and auditor of the Columbia institution for the deaf anddumb, He bas been identified with the Children’s hospital as director since its commencement, and was one of the five men who initiated the movi ment that resulted m the formation of the zens’ committee of one hundred that secured from Congress of the United States an an- nual appropriation of a sum equal to that raised by the District for itsexpenses. He also served with that seecial committce of citizens whose efforts resulted in an appropriation by Congress for “improving the Potomac river in the vicin- ity of Washington with reference tothe im- | oe eos of navigation, the establishment of arbor lines, and the raising of the flats under the direction of the Secretary of War,” etc., otherwise known as the act for the “reclama- tion of the Potomac flats.” The third partner in the firm—George W. Brown—was born in this city, where his family bas alwavs been prominent. His grandfather, the Rev. Obadiah B. Brown, came here in 1507 to accept the pastor- ate of the First Baptist charch, a place which he acceptably filled for more than forty years. The subject of this sketch graduated from the Columbian univer- sity in 1871, and entered upon his business career as a clerk in the Nation- 1 Metropolitan bank. Here he remained for nearly 3 yeurs, leaving the bank to fill a desk in Gtoxck w. BhowN. the office of Fitch, Fox & Cutter. Mr. Brown was ambitious, and like all ambitions men he worked hard and suc- cessfully. for in March, 1879.he became @ mem- ber of the firm, sncceeding Mr. E. C. Cutter. He is also a member of the firm of Bell & Co. bankers. His later career is too well know: to the citizens of Washington to needany com- ment here. With his partners he believes in the value of advertising and especially adver- tising im Tue Star. “No other medium in the city can compare with Tue Srar,” they say, aud they say it from experience, B. H. Warner & Co. For the past twenty years Mr. B. H. Warner bas been engaged in the real estate business in this city. While he is one of the veterans in that particalar line, he is still a young man, having only reached the age of forty-two. He came to city when a lad of sixteen from his home in Great Bend, Pa.. and havi his own way to make in the world he entered one of the — departments. He occupi his isure moments in perfecting his education, and after a short experience as a government clerk he was appointed a oy collector of intgrnal revenue for the ninth district of Penn- sylvania. With the view of fitting himseif for an independent career, he began the law with Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylva- Bis, and upon his retura to this city he com- YY ars ago the real estate business | pleted his course of study at the Columbian Law school, graduating in the class of 1869. He commenced _ practice but after a few weeks he concluded to enter the real estate business which he did as a mem- ber of the firm of Joshua Whitney & Co. Subse- quently he went into business for himself andg met with such succes that in 1876 he built th large building which is ing columns of Tue Srar give a true indication of the extent of the business of this firm. R. O. Holtzman. is a Washingtonian, and is as good an example of a self-made man as can be found in the District. He was born on Bell street, George- town, February 3, 1848. Notwithstanding the fact that he is but a comparatively young man he has established one of the most extensive and successful real estate businesses in the city, an achievement due to &n unusual amount of | pluck, enterprise and good judement. He commenced the busi- ness of life as a page in the House of Represen- tatives at the age of ten, since then he has been self-sustaining. At the commencement of the war he introduc- ed the sale of news- papers into the Union army, and dispensed the first periodicals to the troops after they had crossed the Poto- mac, The grit and push of the little fellow wou him extended not 4 and praise, and after “” » McClellan's Peninsular " . campaign he obtained — B®. 0. HOLTZMAN, the exclusive privilege of supplying the Army of the Potomac with reading mater and stationery. He had here an opportunity to make a fortune, but through the designs of his partner, an elderly man, he lost it. The other made over $100,000. When the war closed he held a special sutier’s privilege at the head- | now occupied by his at firma 916 F street. ime the building finest bu he fine front +s structure on F st: till compares favorably with the ndsome butldings which now adorn thatstreet. I terprise, backed has established one of the In busi- | rner has from the first had gre idence in the future of the city. He has inspired others with the same | confidence. His ability in planning and de- | vising a business enterprise is only equaled by his boldness and skill in execution, He has been an extensive builder, and has been prom- inent in the development of suburt erty. He has probabl; more local enterprise man of his nak itable and financial institutions of the city has taken an active interest. While still at the head of his real estate business he is the presi- deut of the Columbia National bank, which he rgely instrumental in establishing. Mr. r has an elegant city residence at the orner of Massachusetts avenue and 21st street, and acomfortable country home on the 7th had clearedaway and peace had come again he obtained a clerkship in the Post-Office depart- street road. Associated with Mr. Warner in the real estite business is Mr. George W. F. Swart- zell and Mr. louis D. Wine. Mr Swartzell as charge of the rent department of the busi ness. He is a young, active man with a special aptness for real estate matters, and was first employed by Mr. ment. In ashort while he was given a posi tion in the New York custom-house, but realiz- ing that there was but a poor future before a government clerk he managed to find a situa- tion in a wholesale hardware house in St. Louis. Four years passed and Mr. Holtzman’s eves were opened to the wonderful advantages of his | native city in the line of real estate business, and he returned to embark in that business | with F. W. Miller & Co.. then located on F street, between 9th th, in the old Gon- | en nd bui Warner asa clerk and | zago college building. where he had gone to then taken into the | school in his boyhood. The firm lasted two firm. He was born in| years and a half, and then Mr. Ho! Miflutown, Pa., and, having received a com- mon school education, | launched a canoe of his own. | Properi came in course of time, and in 1480 he erected | the building he now oceupies, on the northeast atan early age he, be-| corner of F and 10th streets, where he holds gan to his own ins of his large establishment, Mr. Uolt: living. n ikatrustee and the secretary of the St. ncent’s orphan asylum, trustee of the Real Estate title Insurance company, trustee of the self in Columbia fire insurance ¢ » of matics forms. itional press brick company, and a director of the Southeastern natural gas com- pany of the state of Ohio. Personally Mr. Holtzman is a pleasant, GW. F. SWA employ of the Pennsylva company, and was then engaged with his father as surveyor and civil engineer of his 4 native sequently he went into the | S€via! man, and he owes almost as much of the in his native place as an | CTedit for his success to this fact as to that he :. Parker & Co., of | 18 4 tirm believer in the efficacy of printar’s in Mr. E. Southard Parker, th hier of | in business. He is a judicions, practical adver- the Columbia national bank of this city, was a | titer. and, knowing a good thing when he sees member. In 1876 he came to this city and | #*, he tal Wantage of the medium of Tre began bis e: here as collector in the of Srar to his stock before the public for in- He was in the ania railroad telegraph B. H. Warn is ability and application | Pection. gained him the esteem and “‘contidenc of Mr. Washington Danenhower. bisinagre opie i rmyga manb neta bee is ono of the most active and prominent young the same qualities which had advanced him in | ™€® i0 his line of business in the city, He is his business career gave him a success which the youngest of five falls to the lot of few young men. His pleasant sons of address, clear and prompt judgment in all mat- ters of business is appreciated by all who come in contact with hin He is an expertin the Management of ates and on the value of property. Mr. tzell is interested in re- ligious and charitable work, and his name is identified with a number of organizations of this character, Mr. Louis D. Wine has been favorably and prominently known in business circles in this city for a number of years, Few men have warmer personal friends. His genial, sunny disposition sup- lemented by a shrewd business sense and great energy 1s the secret of the success which has crowned his efforts. Mr. Wine is a native of Loudon Co. n life school teacher. When ayoung man he came to this city and went into the wood and coal business. He was at first employed as a clerk, an having a genth nown and hi; He began his early education in the | public schools of this | city at the old engine house building which ocenpied the site of the present Abbott school. r 6th street and ew York avenue. After finishing the course at le grammar school he ae his studies at s Maryland — state cultural college. When only seventeen WASH. DANENHOWER. Years of age a desire to | become self-supporting and to learn the art of printing induced him to apply for a position as apprentice in the government printing. office, and in this he was successful, obtaining the appointment out of a class of twenty-seven can- didates, After twelve months’ apprenticeship he was promoted to the class known as “rule and figure,” which is recognized as the finest kind of ‘work known in printing. He continued on this kind of work for seven years, gained a thorough L. D. WINE, when he resigned his position and formed a Knowledge of the business tke was appointed | Dattuership with his father, and established a chief clerk and assistant superintendent of the | Tel estate business under the firm of Danen- quartermaster's coal depot. At the same. time | hower & Son, in the spring of 's0. Real estate in he resumed his old occupation as a school | Washington at this date was not very active, but teacher, and had charge of a night school, He | this firm, together with other leading firms of then setabiisbed’ 8 “wood and coal busi | the city: hed gross Sith tn Gop ete ian ia Ga 2 ~ | capital, as is evidenced by the prosperity whic! fered eto eniy att inns | bo atteteded Wann in all Cneteartnnee. re senior member of the firm retired from busi- ness on the Ist day of January, 1888, and the business then passed into the hands of his son. ‘Though comparatively a young man, Mr.Danen- hower occupies a prominent position among the real estate brokers of Washington, a position fairly earned by his marked business ability and strict integrity of character, ‘The great secret of his success is found in the conscientious and ainstaking manner in which he looks after the Interests of his clients, giving his personal at- tention to all matters of importance intrusted to his care. His nerve to back his own opin- ions enables him to make profitable investments for clients who rely on his honesty and judg- ment. For several years. Mr. Danenhower hes engaged largely in building operations, aud has built over five hundred houses in all sections of the city, the northeast section being specially indebted to his energy and pluck for many of its substantial improvements. During the past year Mr. Danenhower has tried Yberal adver- tising asa means of communicating with the public, and has convinced himself that it is the only way to do business, His year's experience haa resuited in such an increase of business ¢ in ; that he has been compelled to enlarge his office to the firm of Thomas J. Fisher & Co. During | and increase his force of assistanta, “He ateube the long and honorable business career of this utes a great deal of his success to the assistance firm they have been as agents intimately con-| tendered by the advertisements in Tue Sran, nected with the development of property — he feels have repaid him. Mr. Danen- throughout the District. The senior member | Lower expresses a firm confience in the future of the firm since the death of Mr. Fisher is Mr, | Of this city and the stability of present prices Edward J. Stellwagen. He is a native of this | With 4 steady and healthy appreciation of values District and at the age of twenty he graduated | * the population inereases, from the Columbian law school. He had no in- M. M. Parker. tention of adopting the t profession of law. but One of the well-known cop porary cir- le, en- having in view’ the | cles is Myron M. Parker. business of real estate | ergetic man of affairs and possesses social qual- he took a law course | ities which endear, him to a large circle of for the purpose of be- friends. Mr. Parker was born in Fairfax, Vt., Tegal requirements vag | in 1843. He was educated in the public schools forms. Soon after | of Vermont, and at the Fort Edward Institute graduation he opened | in NewYork. Entering an office on 7th street, | the army in 1862 as a between E and F| member of the First streets, and began his | calvary, he served until business career, This | the ciose of the war, as in 1875, Like all} and then received an voung men thrown | appointment as clerk in "yapon their own re-|the War department, sources, Mr. Stell- | Where he remained sev- wagen at first met with | eral years. He studied many discouragements | law at the Columbian X. J. STELLWAGEN. and triais. He had, | university, graduating however, energy and perseverance and marked | in 1876, and taking one, business ability which was not long in finding | Of the honors. In that, recognition. Several years later Sie, Fisher | year he 3 Missg having returned to the city from the north | Nellie Griswold, a niece’ where he had been engaged in business for | and ward of Gen. F. E. some time, and having decided to resume his | Spinner. Mr. Parker Mf. M. PARKER, former business here, a partnership was effected | Was appointed assistant postmaster of this city |with Mr. Stellwagen and the firm of | im 1879, serving two years with ex-Postmaster Thomas J. Fisher & Co. was organized. | Ainger. He entered uctively in the real estate The first office of the firm was at 1223 F street, | business in this city in 1882, and has met with and then later they removed to 1324 F street, | great success. He has been a close observer of where the business has been carried on ever | the values of real estate in the different sec- since. The firm has enjoyed to a marked degree | tions of the city, particularly in the north and the confidence of the public, and the conduct | northwest, his estimates of value having been of large enterpises involving impoPtant anter- | 80 correct that many of the largest and most ests has been placed in their charge. One of ——— investments have been made through the largest transactions in recent years in| him. He has been more closely identified with property in this District is the purchase and | Columbia Heights than any other subdivision subdivision of the Kalorama property, which | around Washington, having had the sale of this as carried on under their supervision, Mr. aly pa 4 since it was first placed on the market Stellwagen is connected with the management | by Senator Sherman. He has been interested of @ number of financial and charitable enter-| in nearly all the large purchases ad) prises of the city, and is @ man of sterling | Washington, and has been instrumen’ lin in- character and attainments. ducing the large amount of foreign capital to ‘The other member of the firm is Thomas M. | locate in Washington. Gale, who is a young man of great personal | He was one of the promotersand is part owner popularity, and is well equipped as a business | of the Atlantic building, and has made other an. He was born in = investments in business rty on F street, New York city, where which he intends to hold. He was one of the he spent the earlier organizers and has since been a director in the portion of his life. He jumbia National bank, Columbia Fire Insur- y and Columbia Title company; was engaged in busi- ance compan; ness there when the op-_ also 9 director in the Emergency hospital, i ital for Fo portunity was — pre- ‘ington wpe 9 president of the ward formed a partnership with Thomas Luttrell. and for a number of Years carried on a dry goods business, the firm of Luttrell & Wine being one of the promi- nent business houses of the city. A few years ago he went into the real estate business as a member of the firm of Wescott, Wilcox & Wine. He then became associated with Mr. Warner in business as a member of the firm. and devotes his attention mainly to the mules department. Mr. Wine has held many posi- tions of trust. He has béen the treasurer of several prosperous building associations, and is a director of the Farmers’ and Mechanies’ na- tional bank of in which institu- tion he takes Mr. Wine has a fine country residence at Hyattsville, Md., known as Ravenswood, where he has large real estate interests in connection with Mr. George J.Johnson. He is one of the pioneers in develop- ing suburban property, while his knowledg property values in the city is thorough and ex- tensive. Thofhas J. Fisher & Co. It would be impossible to write the history of real estate this District without reference joining ed of entering the firm of Thomas several institutions, and, while a Seen of. Go seams bers city. Ronny mem! and their social as well tions are of the closest arters of Gen. Hancock, and after the smoke | « + JAS. B Room pie é = course, accepted an appointment as teacher of the Walker *Pablie school in Alexandria county, ii nm. While ers of this city, nor the pnblic generally knew anything about the firm of Hill & Jobnston, for the firm was not then in existence. Now every business man and in- vestor has heard of it, kuows it, and respects it. William Coreoran Hill entered business life as aclerk inthe banking house of Riggs & Co. Here he became very popular and in 1886 he decided to use that po: ity and his mon. talent for his own advancement, so in the fall of that year he formed a partnership Ww. c. AT with Bernard H. Johnston. Their joint labors ly laid the foundation of a solid business. Hill is a son of the late Rev. 8. P. Hill. of city, anda nephew of the late W. W. Cor- coran, his mother being Mr. Corcoran’s sister. = Bernard H. Johnston, the son of the late Dr. Wm. P. Johnston. for a long time br and is thoroughiy i; tified with the be: terests of the cil a number of and his activity in cor mercial life. both here and on the _ Pacitic | , coast, is too well known to need conynent, Hill & Johnston commenced in an office under B. H. JOHNSTON, Wormley’s hotel, on 15th street. but a rapidly-increasing business soon called for more commod ons q and in September, 1888, the firm moved into the ofices now occupied by them—1503 Penns: vania avenue. is, Varad Riggs & Co.'s b They give strict attention to erty placed in their nid specialty of the renting busin attendeil their efforts from the sta now have for their clients some of prominent citizens of this and other cities. | Not a little of this success 15 due to the intelli. gent manner in which they vertising columns of Ti al Success has Hill: We advertise exclusively for experiments in other failures, Our investmen:s in Tue Stan always pay weil.” Wescott & Wilcox. ° Of respectable age and very firmly estab- lished is the real-cstate house of Wescott & Wilcox. Its beginning was in 1875, waen Mr. Wescott opencd up at 20th and became as- ted with it and the firm-name included his, Ww quarters Were soon n imperative necessity, and in 1884 the firm 4 to suit the require- their con- ments of age Pennsyl where they have now one of the largest and most commodions offices in the city. In addi- tion to their ©: » realestate connections they y established a fire insur department, which embraces home and fore co nies. E. 8. Wescott was born in New nd came to this city in i868. He se- appointment to a position in the bu- reau of engyaving and printing and remained there until 1875, when he resigned to enter upon his present suc Waiter Rt Wileox h lived in Georgetown ever since he was eight years old, but is a na- e of the state of New York. After leaving school he beeame an assistant secretary to {” Gov. Cooke, the gov- ernor of the District of | Columbia. Later he 4a entered the real estate office of B. H. Warner, and after remaining there a short time he formed the partnershii with Mr. Wescott whic exists to-day. The pop- % ularity which the firm has achieved liss been aided and abetted by Bd persistent advertising — W- 2 WILCOX. in Tue Stan. That it pays to talk to the pub- lic through the medium of Tue Sran’s columns is not a question for discussion; it is a self-evi- dent fact. John Sherman & Co. The real estate firm of John Sherman & Co, dates its beginning from 1875, when John Sherman, an extensive builder, established an office in the St. Cloud building. The firm prospered, and in 1882 moved to 927 F street, where th remained un 1835, when they moved to their present quarters, 1407 F street, Mr. Sherman retired from business in 1 and Messrs. LL. C. Young and William H. Saunders, the junior members of the’ firm, ceeded him, Mr. L. Young, the junior mber of the present firm, is a native of Maryland, and spent his early years in farm- ng. In 1875 he saw an pening in this city, and onnected himself with che firm of John Sher- man & Co., as clerk. By industry and close at- L. C, YOUNG, tention to business he soon rose in the estimation of his emplo; and the confidence of the public, and was ad- mitted into the firm in 1887, Since that time ‘he has been with the company and has built up a lucrative business, Mr. Wm. H. Saunders, the junior member of the present firm, is a Virginian by birth and education. He came to Washington in August, 1887, to. enter the regi estate business, and No- vember of the same year ecame a member of the firm of John Sherman & Co. During his two ears’ residence in Vashington he has es- tablished among his ac- quaintances a reputa- for straightfor- wardness, clear judg- ment and business in- tegrity. ‘The firm has prospered € under the able man- WM. H. SAUNDERS, agement of himself and partner and enjoys a large and growing clientage. while it has re- tained its Prestige as one of the leading real estate firms of the city. They are believers in the jue of advertisi and attribute much 4 g of their success to their constant use of the columns of Tue Star. . H. Sypherd & Co. Few men in the real estate line possess a bet- ter knowledge of the value of suburban prop- erty than Mr. James E. Clements, the represen- tative of the firm of T. H. Sypherd & Co. Mr, Clements is a native of Maryland, and is thirty- four years of age. He was graduated at St. John’s college, in Alex- andria, in 1873, at the head of his class, ‘Think- ing that a business course at the Spencerian business college would Z % improve him he entered z Z| that institution soon after, but before com- pleting his business FE, S$. WESCOTT. & teacher he took of law, w resignes and com- Practice of law, being elected the commonwealth attorney of the ad- county of Ale: Vi wh ae ete enore 8 | sometimes, and I TRAITS OF NEW YORKERS. Characteristics Peculiar to the Dwellers on Manhattan Isle. THEY SLEEP AT ODD TIMES IN ODD PLACES— THEY ARE HUNGRY FOR MORNING PAPERS, AND HAVE A BIG BUMP OF CURIOSITY, BUT NO REVER- ENCE—CHARACTERISTICS PECULIAR TO LADIES, Correspondence of Tae EVEXING Stan, New Yors, May 24. Notwithstanding the mixture of races that distinguishes the population of New York city the residents of this town have distinct traits and characteristics that are peculiar to them- selves, no matter whether their fathers came from Ireland, Germany, Maine or Louisiana. And these traits are not noticeable in any other community that [have any knowledge of. The first and most characteristic trait of the New Yorker is the faculty he has of sleep- ing at any time and under any circumstances. Going down town in the elevated railroad train in the morning, whether at the hour when the mechanics and day laborers ride, or later when the bankers, brokers and magnates of business generally set out for their offices, look about ‘on in the cars and I will wager a new hat that if there is a bona fide New Yorker who isn’t read- ing a newspaper he will be fastasleep. Coming home at night you can count more men sleep- ing than reading, although these conditions are reversed in the morning, Take a cross- town or an up-town horse-car in the middle of the day. will wager two hats and a four- and sceurf that, if there are five people rid- ing. one will be asleep. Ihave seen women sitting on stools in great dry-goods stores at 4 o'elock in the afternoon fist asleep. I have the managing editor of a daily evening spaper sound asleep at his desk at noon. I e watched truck and car-drivers nodding the reins in a crowded street, and in this at least the chestnut of the paragraphers about policemen sleeping on their beats has tbe proof of actual fact. I don’t attempt to ac- count for this chronic somnolence of New Yorkers, It can't be the atmosphere, for I adopted New Yo: me unless I have been the whole night before. Perhaps it is the never-let-up struggle for wealth and ra living that makes men work more hours ‘k inclination in the d. pr gressive of the toiling citics of America. The i tire themscives out with their da CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL SOMNOLENCE. I believe this overwork is the se of the almost universal somnolence here, Some men | have been putting up a building opposite my room during the last fortnight. It is a large building. to be occupied by a big retail firm, but to-day the plasterers are at work on the | walls inside, so rapid has been the labor of | construction, I have watched the men at work have noticed the feverish | haste each’ individual workman displays. No movement, however difficult, is made with | deliberation. The bricklayers did not set each brick on the other—they threw them in their pl The laborers carrying mortar over the joists to the engine that hoists things tothe top did not walk—they ran. The plasterers to-day strait 8 con: aay looking up at | their work above their heads, but they never | stopped a moment to rest, assistants handing them fresh plaster from below as fast as they ran short. No wonder that these poor fellows fall asleep on the way home at night. And it is the same in every calling, Rush, hurry. overta this fellow here, g | chap there, catch this car by runni Pp | speed because it is thirty seconds ahead of the r behind it. Take the elevated road instead of the horse-car to ride four squares because uu will gein a minute—that is ‘ I thank Heaven sometimes that I was born lazy. Imay not make so much money, bat I take a heap more comfort. A third trait of New Yorkers is their eager- ness to read the newspapers. There are one or two good daily journals m this town and some twenty-odd poor ones, but the poor ones as well is the good are read with an avidity ap- proaching a downright hunger for print. I ave seen men fight on a Sunday morning for he last copy of a certain sheet left on a news- id, and the defeated fellow wouldn't buy of the far better journals left in plen' but walked a dozen blocks to get the particu! newspaper he admired, It is fortunate for a good many newspapers that this is a trait of New Yorkers, NEW YORK CURIOSITY. A New Yorker is the most curious of all the earth’s creatures. Certain newspapers, by delving into private scandals and skeletons in family and other closets, encourage and foster this trait, New York women, to all appear- ances well-bred, will stare at any oddity in ap- parel, any peculiarity of personality in another of their sex, with the most sublime rudeness, In no other city have I seen well-bred women evince this vulgar curiosity. A man fallen in a fit draws a crowd big enough to fill Lowa cir- cle, and a horse down on the pavement will block the street across from one side to an- other so as to prevent traffic. The clang of the gong of an ambulance dashing through a street will fill ev window on either side with in- quiring faces and eagerly curious eyes, although a hundred times before the same eyes have appeared for the same reason, and have never scen anything but the black wagon and the galloping horse. If the black wagon were full to the top with mangled limbs, crushed heads and distorted features, they could still see no more than the wagon and horse, per- haps the surgeon and driver, and they know it, too. But still they look, and they always will, LOVE OF PROCESSIONS. New Yorkers just dote on processions, A fu- neral with one hearse and four carriages will draw a crowd of half a thousand, and when the diminutive cortege moves off at trot, as New York funerals are in the habit of moving. the half thousand pairs of eyes will glisten with happy satistaction. The parade of a company of a hundred uniformed men will be followed through half the streets of the city by a crowd, and a band of music at the head of it will make agenume New Yorker wild with excitement. ‘The New Yorker's craze for processions is proved by tbe yearly parade which Barnum’s cireus gives every spring on some Saturday night. People will secure positions of vantage on the curbstones long before the parade of wagons and caged animals is due, and wait patiently three or four hours for the sake of seeing what the average country boy wouldn't stop his plow team to look at. RIDICULING SERIOUS MATTERS, The New Yorker likes to have everything ridiculed which he does not understand or take an interest in, and the newspapers asa rule cultivate this trait in their readers. There are one or two journals which do not, but these are voted too dull and prosy to read, And, truth to tell, they are papers which are away behind their contemporaries in money making. When a distinguished body of scientists held a convention here a year ago there was only one newspaper that gave a fair report of the pro- ceedings. Allthe rest regarded the assem- blag investigators as a great joke, e of brainy and their “reports” were in the main attempts to be funny over the long hait of Professor This or the spectacles of Doctor That, or else there were comical allusions to the long names of certain species in entomology and a hint to the society that it would be a blessing to hu- manity it some scientific light were shed upon the American bedbug. And the august and dignified Presbyterian general assembly that has just been held in New York has been treated by some of the newspapers in the same way. “D'se read that account of the Presbyterians’ excursion down the bay in the Evening —?” asked one well-dressed gentleman of another in a surface car last Monday. “Ought to read it. Funniest thing I've seen in months, Best paper in New York, that ing —.” There is more or less irreverence in Washington, where I have heard young ladies of the up- per circles refer to one house of worship as “The Church of the Holy Telescope,” and to another as “The Church of the Holy Checker- board,” but for downright determined elimina- tion of the bump of reverence, commend me to the inhabitant of Manhattan Isiand. Fancy the degree of humble piety in a city whose every church has an undertaker's advertisi: sign nailed conspicuously on its front, while not even the name of the church or that of its pastor are allowed to be lettered npon the tinct and peculiar. To their unconsciously, ill-bred curiosity I have already alluded. In do you want, do that willinety to ask for some cash down.”— Yankee you ask for areason for this peculiarity she | will probably tell you with all naivete that | crossin; igs were made to be walked on. One lady of my acquaintance says that crossing on | the pavement is immodest, and that she would sooner appear on the street in the daytime in a low-cut ball dress than do it. It would be a blessing if all the dear ladies of New York | could — a season in Washi: , where people lly know the meaning of the word “cross-walk.” FIRM FAITH IN NEW YORK. You cannot make a New York woman believe | that any fashionable fad, any social custom or any species of fashionable amusement origi- nated outside of New York. Bicycling has only recently been taken up by the ladies of New York, and a fair neophyte on the bicycle was enthusiastic in telling me the other day of the sport. She painted in picturesque and instruc- tive words the technical principles of bicycling for ladies, and wound up by remarking that the pastime was yet in its infancy, but that it | would soon spread all over the country. “Oh.” | Iventured, “ladies have been riding bicycles in Washington and in Orange, N. J.. for ever | so long. It is quite an old and tried pastime in many places outside of New York.” “You are surely mistaken,” patronizingly, but sweetly. safety’ is a new machine, and they are all im- ported. Linsisted upon my point, however, and the lady probably thought I was a lunatic. or at | least mildly demented. The next day I dis- covered that she had written to a friend in Washington to find out if what I said was true. | And yet my reputation as a Truthful James has heretofore been rated by that particular lady at from fair to good. os Written for Tur Eventna Stan. Work, Its Own Reward. Why do we strive to emulate ‘The mighty deeds that stir the blood, If all our efforts meet the fate Of death, beneath oblivion’s food? Why are we fired with lofty thought Beyond the grasp of tongue or pen, If all our work must come to naught, If all our sowing yield but pain? I know not; yet would I rather Lift futile arms against the bands ‘That compass round my best endeavor, ‘Than idly sit with folded hands. Fret not thyself, 0 pining soul, Because thou hast no garnered sheaves, Because thou hast not won the goal, Because thy fig tree yields but leaves, Tho Master's eye, takes note of how We do the work that seemeth near all our might, nor question now If our reward be almost here. Give heart and hand to what e’er He Shall send to thee, though seeming hard; For you, task well done shall be Its own exceeding great reward. —MILTON T. ADKINS. jay 23, 1889, WaAsnINGTon, BOOKS AND STATIONERY, Spectra ALE Or Booxs. AT BAUW'S BOOK DEPARTMENT. Commencing May the foliowing Bargains 500 popular 12mos. ing bes’ CHAS. BAUM’s BOOK DEPARTMENT. 6 7th st. EDUCATIONAL, SS HOKTHAND-SIMPLEST, MOST RAPID, MOST SS legible. Proficiency in three montha. 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If the United States were a small power, her “origmal idea of diplomacy,” as the German chancellor's penmen call it, might be consid- ered a caprice, and passed over with a smile; but her people are becoming the greatest na- tion inthe world, It is probable that nothing short of actual violence would now induce any nation to attack her, while she could, if she pleased, almost ruin the commerce of any na- tion on the globe. It is true she has scarcely any regular army, her 25,000 men being over- worked at home; but if a neighboring planet kept no army, it would not be subject to at- tack, . Her coast, if threatened, would bristle with torpedoes and new means of destruction, aud her protectionists. would be too pleased if importation stopped. Her navy, though still smail, is rapidly increasing, so rapidly as to be t of special reports to the maritime and if war were in immediate prospect, her limitless command alike of money and men would soon draw a fleet togethe Besides, apart altogether from her existing r the growth im the strength of the uion affects the imagination of the European states, There are children alive who will see, or at allevents may see, the “North American Re- public” with a population of two hundred mil- ons and the means of raising three handred miilion pounds steriing a year; and the idea of incurring the enmity of such a power is as ap- palling as the idea of fighting Kussia would be, say, by Italy or Spain. America couid be met onty by a confederation of Europe, which, without some great change of circumstance would be impossible, or possible only if ali E rope felt it too dangerous to put up with the treatment one power was receiving. ‘The union already stands toward the Spanish nd Portuguese-American states in the relation in which she may one day stand toward Europe itself. Her foreign office already ciaims some- thing like a protectorate over both Americas, and desires to wield a preponderating intluence from the St. Lawrence to Patagonia, torbids any government to cut the Isthmus of Panama, and warns Europe, in a president's speech, not to meddle with any state “lying south of us,” though it may be 4,000 miles off. a Saturday Smiles. 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