Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1892, Page 9

e >} ace 3 amount of agente seteets | VISITSTO CANDIDATES DO RICHES PAY rity of the new city, and the commissioners bea | ste Former Afinounoements toDemocratic & SEASON OF DEPRESSION. N But the prospect soon changed. The sales of Presidential Nominees Recalled. lots at public auction fell off and finally the commissioners abandoned the attempt to dis- lotein this . Then the a 4 Pines oes gas tal’in aren the Pur! GREELEY, TILDEN, HANCOCK. LF TONS ‘OF SOLID GOLD. gone and they want some more! [ don't know Say on This Question, | ald ete which war to turn, lam at bay. Ihave not sell the property for the amount of “ money and am afraid to bestow it in answer to debt. But worst of all, Mr. “Morris and his ae-| How Each of Them Recelved the Commlt- Chauncey Depew's Opinion—Old “Pat and | any of these letters.” —— = the time Frage tig yg bw tee—Some Interesting Items From a News- Call” Ventures His Views — Elisabeth | MANY PHILANTHROPIC oIrTs. iret payment were uw 0 > rand ei ‘Thompeon—Peter ibessbiianee triea “ also Hopped further work on tho twenty houses | P&PEF Published Misty, Xone | Soe— Cooper's | tried to plead for her philanthropies, “You which they bad begun. The individual owners | Personal Recollections of the Late Cyrus W. How Vanderbilt Was Worrted. | must have brought immense relief to many who had made sales to this syndicate, as well as| Field. the commissioners, were seriously’ involved. Gloom began to obscure the fir prospect and the poor people,” Isaid. “The $150,000 rou hw | spent to provide heads of families with work OW HAPPY ARE | “doesn't seem to bave done much good,” #he bankruptcy and ruin threatened indi- 's Nat interrupted. “It is skill and industry and vidual citizen and the elly.. ‘The property sold eee ee ae LRNOUNCEMENT | thats change of venue had been obtained and = : Fea lest paditiee that wha peneunent sien by the city bad been transferred to Mr. Morris | ANNOUNCEMENT | tin) at Alexandria of this case was hdd. Wal q ig money” worth | tions—help from within rather than from with- and his associate, and when disaster came to of his nomination to Mr. | ter Jones appeared for Dr. Blake and Mr. Swan, Ui the labor and anxiety | out. Ihave found that out from these letters, = hem they deoded their property to trustees. A Cleveland isto be made | district attorney, forthe cit. alf dozen ad which it costs? eu long period of law si jowed and the a “Jove feast” i vertisements of runaways appear. a8 also an ad- | Pry. £300 to every settler in Saline BEGEEEEREE stracts of a good deal of the property inthis pS in How | ccctlemabef coleman ba Wegiaia tyr Gen Theanine aif @IEBBEBEGERE ROR city ehows the process by which it was finally York, where the nomi- | Maton of Gunston Hall, the author of the lions really worth she said. “But you would be (BEREERRR Fc extricated from the meshes of the law. A num nee for Vice President | of rights of Virginia. Anadvertisement of an| ans morethan theowner | amused and maddened bs the strange lotters1 Stecsge- case, ber of the large owners of Property in the city is: to come to receive | accommodation coach from Georgetown to of one million? | get from there.” ¥ were seriously involved by this failure and the announcement of | Washington, making five tripsa day. “It will igi “The Vi Col telescope. the werv- some of them never recovered from the blow. I have interviewed nema Calage “ope, the song his nomination for the | continue along the avenue. faking up and put- several well-known mill- ice for the se ad reat science = and } ting out passengers on the Carpenter's "Emancipation Signing.” houging rhia Aisapton eh ealad tah eters ata 4 ale second place on the | advertises lot for lease corner 17th and G fonnires, asking answers on the walls of the Senate chamber in Washi cantar eben adbeast eerie ee \ democratic ticket. 1 | streets, with right of purchase for $600. Full- to the above questions— | ton all «peak for the wisdom of your bene paved ery eile pas gre ges have attended three of | er's line of lo Baltimore, fare reduced to Cornelius Vanderbilt, | #0*,” I insisted; “and no woman in the world commissioners in the year appeal to 82.50," is and the receipt of new | but you, not even the President's wife, has the Congress for aid. The work of pre] thove important gather-| Foods by Gibbs & Covle. ‘The Mr. Coyle of | Pusell Sage, Chauncey Depew, Leland Stan- | freelom of the foot of Congrom. Ismet thet buildings for the use of Congress and the ex- ings. The first was in | this firm was Mr. Andrew Coyle, father of Mr. | ford, Elizabeth Thompson and others—and it | something? ecutive departments, however, had been going | 1872 when the committee appointed by the | Leonidas, Fitzhugh and Randolph Coyle, and | reems as if their views might be of general in- | “Yes, roa,” she answered, “butt alll fale #0 far pn and during the five years from 1792 to 1796, | convention which met in Baltimore July 9, | the Mr. Gibbs is alive and engaged in ‘some | terest, especially in-the light of the sad business "Bort of what I meant. If T only knew bow to inclusive, tho expenditures for all purpotes | 187, visited Mr. Gresley at Chautauqua. Tho | Teal estate matters, aged 7 in Homestead, Pa. el ee ae amounted to about 880,000 yearly. largest see | dollar do good! So much of my money has dis- items of expense were’ for tho orection of ‘the | *¢e0nd was in 1876, whentheannouncement was | {7 iwiy cttermard fer vo mnt years cathiet of | (,Jt "2 8 week or twongo that Icalled on Mr. | abled and crippled honost men, made them lazy President's House and the Capitol. Only the | made to Gov. Tilden in his residence in Gram- | the Patriotic Bank, advertises glass, china and pr —- Arlington. At the end and spirities: and dependent—-multiplied beg north wing of the latter building was erected, | mercy Park by the committee appointed by | crockery ware, P. Mauro advertises the sale of | of the bu My fo De ner enatoed my call Lasked, | gars instead of diminishing them! — I wrraign and there during the early years both houses | the convention which met ut St. Louis June | Baron Krudener's fui The baron I pid y ae pert 4 — r aie the bar of conscience for my bad held sessions and there was still room for | 97, tre, and again in 1880 when the committee | the Russian minister. Q ee at % 4 . ver been in it, but I should imagine it did, the Supreme Court, Today that portion of tappointed by the convention which mot in THE LATE CYRUS W. FIELD. fobs wonlaa'ts; > = the building is occupied almost exclusively | Cincinnati t aunounes to Gen. Heaceek bin id whi vtronge ingyen thas Vata of them. She is a constant stud ee eee ete, See eeeerety | Gactunatl ince to The death of Cyrus Fieid leaves a void which ’ the Mrs. Thompson bes one as well as the most de mics mainly —progresive, i i will not be filled in our day. I had the is not “very rich,” according to | agnostic. I. helieee beilliont Ine comes eaner Doane aes Shai ate aeping ure of knowing Mr. Field since 1852, hoard . rappers fifted in = quota as oud St oben bea the walls of the Capitol having been built but a| | The committee with a number of others went | was here secking aid from Congress for the -* he continued, after a minute, | the awim” fifty years ago short distance above the foundations. The | to Governor's Jeland, and at the general's Atlantic cable. His enthasieam was remark-| <OCf,may think it is going to par. and after- | Je amount expended on these buildings when the | headquarters made the announcement. Mr. | able, then a young and vigorous man, and his | fmt aivencn. be Sauses peek Gate ee ae teat of government was removed here in 1800) English of Indiana, who was the vice presi-| efforts were untiring. He obtained the conf- | PUt alwras + perhaps that's what you | ge ~ B10. dbo Tt, 2196.00 on, the White House and | dential nominee, was among the guests on that | dence in his project of every one he came in | I A gortane of a hundred millions any | : $170,000 on the Capitol. However, no- such | occasion, and the hes made and the re- | contact with. He labored here night ter than a fortune of one million?” Teed | I talked with amounts had been expended in J796, for one| sponse of Gen. Hancock were admirable. | and filled the National Jaleltigencer with arti-| -ven.” he oald, “it sequires more car eod | reason, if no other, that the commffssioners did | Some hours were spent in partaking of the | cles proving the feasibility of a plan. " Capt. | tires a mnan more to keep'it, but i will nos bor aa a ay to pend, aus far they | hoppitalities extended by the’ generals There | Berryman of the navy. who resided here, liad | fret man more to keep it. but if will not buy had sold only about 200 lots, for which they re- | was a remarkable display of confidence in Gen, | by his deep-sea soundings paved. the = | Seketage any grenter enjoyment teal, peek ceived about $96,000. Then they had the pay-| Hancock's success by the best-informed dem.| Mr. Field's scheme by demonstrating in the =< , would have garet Puller, Chas, A. Dana and ts of Brook farm. PINIONS ABOUT It. ter Cooper during his vere to the “I have been luckier than most of led, “for IT have been the ex- of my own will, I have seen the ine Sts - | bly not. Riches do not generally confer hap} ments from Virginia and Maryland and in addi te fi "i of th most precise manner the bottom of the ocean, | PY s Pr work for ‘2 on were in debt. They intended to erect two ee sal beet rptelndlr edad, | its hills and valleys, depressions and elevations, | De"" 0" geese par apse Bg Lao nany other things I wa’ Saas r oe estimated would c 000, and | " y Mr. Morse some years previous . of his printed schemes for bet. MAP OF WASHINGTON AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED. also a hall for the judicinry. It was clear’ that | Sage of the stoke: jorated sean eo for congressional aid he was suc- | 2,60 and gets a heap of satisfaction ont of it. a oll the pose. the builders of the now city must have money | state pride would be awakened to such an ex. | cessful. Doubt of ite success was more general | H¢ Spends it all. On others, of course, most of - Another nagnate,” whose name I do not * 4 Ba it. nlightened selfishness. He get his pleas- from some gonrce or else sell the public prop-| tent br { jon of ‘many | than belief in it, and even when the. first mor- Pi feel at liberty to mention, once wid to me 7 7 | Pecmas cn tlactet: ‘Thee bea heen Ses THE OVERNMENT § BIO SHARE. sno | ertY ata sacrifice. They therefore appealed %0 | politieal adversaries”) PPOwtion of many sage came and then silence followed the whole | Fee a are ee others happy. But it must re- | The men who do the most good in this world A A T if 0 N S CIT J « | contest in Congress, covering a period of some} _ BY the agreement with the proprietors the | Congress, not for money, for fait was ridiculed. At length Mr. Field's | = © not the professional philanthropists, but | six or seven years. over this very question of | United States was given the title to 5,653 acres | was a scarcity of that comm: in the public ee ee eee energy and undaunted perseverance was re- 20W to give away money wisely a man needs to A w tos y the great capitalists who keep their money 5 = — | be inspired. It is about the most dithicult trade * " ital ci i of the 7,161 hich comprised the entire | treasury and but little credit. All they| The meeting for the announcement at Gram-| warded by a brilliant success, and wealth, fame ” | basy in processes of reproduction. The man | Somence erhestex tae sect Gets eae alae ot Bearer ay eceeie esa des | SAA Fo Coorg ede tab aa oe Big cats | Nas SEEK Usekatceedad be war cborgs se | and honor flowed in upon him.” Almost ‘every | here is that of philanthropist. A great many | wiss equipe aod meeps, Rong. w great factory How Washington Was Laid Out by | government in their midst had offered various | commissioners ‘obtained from the proprietors | © loan of $300,000, secured on the | tionon thesamenight. The house was crowded. | country in the world ied_his great | fain that their money could do ete Oe | does more good than he who builds an alms and divers inducements in the shape of bard | without the expenditure of adollar with the ex- | 0nd guaranteed by Congr Fy caked | 2BeTe were no speeches except convivial ones, | schievement by medals and other marks of | ®™ o.) ou uty ©. A house. ond Be whe launches © ctenandhip or eo- the Federal Government. cash and land. So Marsland and Virginia were | ceptionof the S11 acros taken for public reserva- | ion involved no ready cash the authority asked | forthere were many presont eho becke iteouck | honor. Congress, which had thrown so many : ¥ TREASURE. —_| tablishes a railroad confers more benefit on the ~ 3 only keeping in line with the other states, tions, which they paid for at the rate of 866 per | for was granted, and the commissioners pro-| their party trammels to support Gov. Tilden. | impediments in his early efforts, voted hima| Poor Cyrns W. Field's immense fortane was | world than he who endows an asylum that will wis: ab adie: aaa acre.’ Ellicott made as rapid progress as was | ceeded to negotiate the loan. ‘Their effort to | ‘The most generous hospitality was dispensed, | resolution of thanks and his nme was inscribed | squandered by his son and the fortunes of er. keep thousands frem starving. ‘He who teaches eect can un posed that $192,000 | Possible with the map, but the commissioners | get the money cither in, this country or in | and as vernor’s illness had not then OF dhe Tollof fame among the great benefactors | eral of his relatives engulfed also, immedi- | "¥< %0 Pep Seetree—So bs he ene THE CAPITAL BUILDERS. | |v oe suficient mn teat the new city in | CoReluded not to wait until it could be pub- | Europe utterly failed. | Tho only loan which | come aj and he was at home in his | of the world. Ginbihy atier the Gent af the tne ahd efactor of his kind. . lished. The public sale of lots advertised to | could be obtained was 200.000 in United States | chatacter of a host, genial and cordial to every- THE ELEVATED RAILROAD. readiness for the recention of Congress, but it | take, place in October, 1791, was accordingly | © ber pon stock tnd om the —_ of Mary- body, for he went from one to another until! His next achievement was the elevated road Gita of Wort Bestamece Tahd Out Ammong | was crpected Chet the, copttal behets emit | Mekl., ree remilte hardly fustided the expec | ouuigoas ig. oskditanetn aalgunreagehs Cte Trteramard pnd erected everybody present. Boon | in ‘New York. ‘The road was projected by that time several of the questions that stand at | the mere possession of money confers little Farme—The Early struggles of the Commis- | CUNY, ‘Loom’ which it wns confidently believed | the part of the public to own building lots in | &Tes, to give bonds in their individtal eapaci- Vigor until the close of the electoral commis- | Jamesand Robert Montgomery, two brothers | the head of this paper. __| pleasure except upon mere misers, and they are pe = pal g = alue of money can easily be ex >w. William H. Vanderb shonere Appointed to rect Paitc Baitd- | would set in as soon as the site of the new city | the new city. ‘Ihere. were only twenty-three | ict. This stock was sold at tho market price, | sion at Washington. When theannouncement is | Well known here some years ago as inventors of | pine Taiue Cf Money can easily be oxag Teharct oil alk cae te ings—The Government Took the Lion’s | was fixed upon. In fact, it was not believed lots sold, the purchasers selecting them in the | Which was considerably below par, an en- | made and the letters in reply are published the | Various machines. Capital was raised for the Only what it will bring in the things we want, | 300 ton < ~ gold wi tied. hanes Kent. that the new city would cost the government a | aguares in the vicinity of the President's House, | tire mount netted the commissioners only | isues are made up and the canvass will be one | €xperimental road and it was built, some few | Onl whet it purpose €10 a day is worth just | He never was ints presence in hie lie. ie cent, and so the omission of any appropriation | The prices ranged from #454 to $135 per lot, and | $130,873. of very deep interest. The third party will | es, cae patos jaar Jeers about as much as $1,000 a day. In addition to | Ne ever was Fang ll goer is i > was not so surprising after all. considering that no improvements had been AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS. ery soon display its pare and strength. and, Mleggyevecattie holde map ie . se pea | there is only the gratified pride which | ost It gave him little pleast 3 In the spring of 1791 President Washington | made, not a single street had been opened and | This money was soon expended and the com- by the bye, I misunderstood Maj. Williams, | by property holders to have it removed, o8 i8/ arises trom having made what men iy | Sot tt.gare, nlm little pleasure. | Hle drenmed g? NIQUE IN MANY RE-| began negotistions with the owners of the | the land was still farm land and not very g00d | missioners being unable to proceed with the | ¥hen speaking of the alliance party in his state Veron’, forma eT mg a ver pe -tattn call a great succoss. No doubt Mr. Gould bat | Doachmen, ile desek choy aa ie a4 Peete the cy a Per rae earner Althwueh nan an rate | thation te realentle ras ack a aetoton s22e; | work, they again went to Congress, but instend | North Caroling. He sald the "Gene Harrison | lieving New York of the growing inadequacy of | SbOwt, the ame sort of satisfaction that bis {v'unit'one bel. Envy sed ieartce tse oe ' i f a Hion was much the y they _ . g 2 sof | Neigh g ‘ nly ington in one particu-| Oe, in humble circumstances, "gaining a | ago ast is today. Howover, the commissioners | of asking for authority to make a loan, which, | ‘The ronalt. howerer, woald bo the same, as | Passenger trafic from the lower and. busineas prighbor Gen. Grant had —tho satisfaction of | army of enemice about him. The public at lar, anda very import-| Small livelihood by cultivating their ats | Tauddd halk; das the ole sietmc of getting it | after their experience with the credit of the | they are almost to a man democrats. pert of the city and the upper and resident part. | Wir) of peaten the mtisfaction that = ey hae | times abused and villitied him. He was a vic ant one,can lay claim to| and tobacco plantations, were not blind | was out of the land. ‘The proprietors made | United States they realized would only be a| ‘While conversing at the Capitol the other day | Mr. Field organized » company, of which Gov. | 2+ the head of her class, That's all there ete it | tim Of indigestion. He was in constant peril distinction which no| to the benefits. which ” would to | sales as fast as they could, and although they | waste of time, they rare Congress to ad-| s member of Congress from a southern state | Tilden was one, and the franchise, stock, &c.. | Mr. Field was cheerfal then. and even jovial. | °% a. He et = the + | them by the change. They entered into | could not give exact descriptions of the lots | ¥#nce,or,as it would be stated now appropriate, | which has always been largely democratic was | all the effects of the company, was transferred | He om upon the Sentara patvand al without being assailed or i yy wocialistio other city of ancient oF | the negotiations with s good deal of spirit and | sold they gave certificates, describing in gen- | the sum of $200,000. This proponition met | wked if the alliance, ed "ery steeeak in Tne | from the old company to the new one, and mew | Bl ante eal ace Te anand Gated | philosophers. modern times possesses. | With also a very buman desire to make the | eral the location of the land, which appeared to| with considerable ‘opposition from, the states-| district, | He said thoy had over 6,000 enrolled Plas were (dovieel, sad the masemiil oome-| So hen of ‘=e pndneat Geetha RE me ye engin beg why 4 it foe thes i i n assembled i lelphia, and one o! is jetion of the road’ was due ene: : . nd brin ances Grelly aid atin | lke one ofthe nrgestiandholdern, Mr. Borne, | waa kept’ Pres well applied, although some | comminrioners went on inthe spring of 1108 to | eater "Walk thes sttotente ther aie cery | Ms Tiel Toe stock bought frome te ohh ered 2 him in 1658, [Tien the firet Atlantic | there is no protection. y= A. Chorrer. originally laid ont is, | Tete disposed to sticklo and be captious, bus | of the propriciors, after’ they had secured. a | 1ook after the interosta of this measure. There | fr'the souk: Ciethe ieee under the name | Comtany cost the new one about 14 cents on oe ee ae ite. Acarest ‘to him in life. Five years ago he was eee ee worth eight million dollars, [asked him about | All these talks of millionaires indicate that i i i | diction. gro except in some minor | fn, peadhear pare Shanes little cash, a dency to hold on with | Were also one or two of the prominent prop-| of the people’s party or Farmers’ Alliance, | the dollar, and when completed and in running SKELETON OF A SEA Cow. particulars, the plan of | Seat nears prepared by Washington. “Ac. | the hope of getting bigher prices. ‘The com- | erty holders who visited elphia {0 eee | Sond seber es bold the balance of power. | order was quoted at from $150 to $250 a share. nGicewr pay = ‘iauiiui a : the city today. It will | cording to the terms of this agreement all of | missioners, however, had another source of | that Congress did not forget the new city. Tux Star stated @ few days ago that there MR. FIELD FROZEN ovr. A tri mine 1 other day at Mr. | 4 Rare and Valuable Curiosity Newly ‘Se- ty “a5 | the 7,161 acres lying within the bounds of the | revenue, and that was the donations promiced | situation at Washihgton was not at all encour- ik of Mr. Cleveland conducting his | The breach between Gor. Tilden and Mr. Field's bedside, and he speaks of his state as cured by the Government. city, as indicated by the map of L’Enfant, were | by the states of Virginia and Maryland. They | ging and some of those interested began to 2 : is y , i . : : then being pitiful indeed. The Smithsonian Institution is daily expect- next since the plan of the city was first pub-| {> be transferred te trustees, lost no time in making an application for this | despair of the prospect of compieting the build- e only candidate who did so Field was caused by Gov. Tilden putting his E te wbgnarce reper scoiatmarnas tone lished. Copies were then struck off from an ‘THE DIVISION OF THE LAND. money,and after some correspondence with | ings in time for the reception of Congress and | any success was Gov. Tilden, but he was an ex- | stock on the market during Mr. Field's absence 7 ¥ bk ios ory May by the gow ‘engraved copper plate in the city of Philadel-| From this to ‘ja ts 18 was | the state authorities an arrangement was made | SSea (aplecherpieee p oete ceptional political organizer and adviser. When | in England, where he had gone to dispose of | Oh, I was 80 unkind to Edward when I thought | “>! Curiosity. secu oi, handbag general inontl a uataes, install- . a8 direc , in 1800. Natur- | the ti i it i 1 pies ane we phi. A cut of this plan accompanies this arti-| agreed, should transfer to the United States | DJ "Bich these sums were paid in in install-| took place, as directed by law, in 1900. Natur. | the time comes for active political work in a | the whole concern, ir waa said, to an English | !was being kind, If I had onl hed sroes bY au campaign the practical politician had better be | dicate. There had been a number of suite | ough to el doys to earn a mander Islands m the western part of Bering ele and Tux Stan readers can judge for them- | the title to all the land required for the streets pai Giereit-sartaken the prospect of the failure of the scheme of the | left in control. In the ‘heat of a campaign | ie cyte Ay ran) | selves whether it would not serve fora plan of | ang avenues. For this land, amounting to ri ; e instituted by the property holders along the | living, then they would have known the mean- | sea. It is the xkeleton of = sen cow, nearly rie Sock fen by the commissioners | NCW “ity; a8 in that cnse Congress would a theories don't count for much. In fact, as the | line of the rdad, and several ju ta for con- | ing of money.” And the broken-gpirited man | perfect, and the finest that has ever beon the city today. All the streets and avenues | 3,604 acres, the owners were to receive no com- Saami ‘The to erect a| SDly continue ite sessions there. ‘Then. ‘there law issilent in the clash of arms, so in the | siderable sums’ had been rendered, and this | rescated over and over aps bn fee to proerer Aaa wer) discovered. that exist today within the limits of the city, as | pensation.’ Scattered all through the city, ax | "S*70 ordinary one. They were to erect | were a great many who were dissatisfied in gen- | political strife only the practical part of politics | alarmed Gov. Tilden, who feared a fall in the | visitor reminded him of the many thi - ese Wace sy Ord ‘most of the ‘numbered squares, are | Shown by the plan were blocks ‘of lan’ of | city ina comparative wilderness. There was | eral,but in particular beeause money was asked | can be heard. There is so much of the unex- | stock, and so he relieved himself of all the stock | remaining to live for, of the great honote nati | bY Bering’s expedition in 1741 and hae since plan, which is now nearly one | greater or less extent, which the proprietors | no supply of building material convenient, | for from the public a it was er seg od likely to arise in the coming canvass that | he held and prevented Mr. Field's negotiation. | him by all countries for his work for civiliza- | become extinct, the last specimen having bees old. While other cities that | were told were to be used as the sites of public | there were no workmen, and even if there had | 4¢2t from on start that the members o} ion of | (22, Wisest and most experienced political judg-| Jay Gould took advantage of the event and | tion, which moored the continents together, of |goen in 1854. When full grown it weighed as years ahead of . Wi fon | buildings and for parks. For this land. they | been there was no place for them to live. In| £550 999° "Ther tight be willing to een roe | Ment cannot with any safety form an opinion bought large blocks of the stock. and eventually | the fame which he had won and would never | much as 8,000 pounds, and ite fies war said to cows to fix thf lines of the | wore to be paid by the government at the rate | many particulars ‘the commissioners were | Cent icn but then teaencion tare grthe eity | 2 7e Mr. Field was driven from the road, which | lose. Allin vain, He was sure he had nothing | be vere like Dect. It wwe nbont tharte feet long ss os ane for | of $65 per acre. Legh 541 acres were devoted | thrown upon their own resources, Fortunately | catablinhs a sd <a ~~ ar to i on Se wd ISSUES SIXTY TEARS AGO. exes i ——— — — a to live for, i the cane ened ga Me by | and measured twenty fect in girth, having » which the first Presi- | to this purpose, and the remaining acres were | there was found to be an abundance of excel- | “t#blis d sent me Nation : ot | Sovereigns and now hanging on the wall were | ; be the lot of the seat of | laid out into. building lots, to. be “divided ‘be- | lent clay for brick moking riche te she cite aed bee Gee oo nbd ermal eaten iy i aah 7 small and toothless bead and « rough hide like . While he was bi man, was) jiess baubles to hi: tof the infant republic. Washing- | tween the government and the original owners. | brick yards were at once ‘started. One was | Né#fly frantic by the propositions and suggest-| Intelligencer of Thursday, March 4, 1830, and a Prag dtd Patciayiene wrote} [ms ables to tim. tree bark, which was more than an inch im ; i ne was | j ered by’ the ‘committess of. Congress. od Hida in Waats coated boa tank as Sar = ~ RUSSELL SAGE'S VIEW OF IT. thickness and «o tough that the hunters had to in deciding upon a plan for the city, con- | When this division was effected it was found | located near the site of the Capitol building, | 10% offere CO #. | perusal such value had no time to listen to lot em * salted with Jetteeon End. Medison. ad the | that the proprietors would have 10,196building | and, in fact, fine beds of clay, as is the case to: Pome were of the opinion that the President's | day that the readers of Tue Stam may be in-| stories, and hence he was not popular, ut f | a asked Russell Sage about this | chop it wath w et PE a genius of the erratic but brilliant French engi- | Jots and the government 10,136 lots. day, were discovered in all parts of the District. | 10")¢" near the. Capitol, One eoonomint | terested in some examples. I find the House | had known him so long that I had become used | ™atter. It was no more difficult noes him) 15s aun ai ouitenmene tae Gumaiienee neer, 1Enfant. gare practical form and shape | The preliminaries being settled everybody | Then it was necossary to erect buildings for the | {Mea Thea onweet ot the tan rit | of Reprerentatives debating for several days a | to his manner. During the pendency of some | today than it was before the dynamite crank ceamamnels deove befene Suse Ghai poune, anr- te the idens of these sages of the republic. For | was anxious that the surveys should be com- | workmen and to import men in some cases, | [\70Ts) ine Abandonment of the plan of erect-| resolution offered by Mr. De Witt, from the | action in the Jegisjature T had occasion to see @ | sought to effect a loan without security. He is | rounding the latter so. that-no danger aight years this plan was the subject of jokes on the | pleted and theland made available for imme- | sending to Englandand Scotland and paying the | pay ap eipdonttes a eal pail for his | Committee on retrenchment, for the removal of | good deal of him through my relations with | worth a good deal of money and they say be has | Come to them. Gulls and other birds perched of travelers anda hep tee) sale. The commissioners in charge of the of men tothe new city. | Bridges were | Anche the Capitol, ‘Then, agnin, the prope, | %27sughtsman who was employed in the House | Col. Pelton, who represented Gov. Tilden in | recovered the $10,000,000 he lost in thas serum. on their backs and devoured the parasites with citizens who came here as visitors. It | work of building the new city re Perhaps Ulla cee ier oct ant awe creek, large | Nae dias te are’ the Procdonta | 2f, Representatives at $1,500 year. Mr. De| the road, and I al fonnd him kind ble in the street one morning ten years ago. | which they mere afllicted. So tame wore they ici more anxious than any one else, as it was the | streama which now form a part of the sewer he sam for the aaa of Ce Vast oes aiad aval ae Witt smd: “This office was got up some five or | and considerate in all his relations with others. | Probably he could foot up fifty or sixty mil- | that one could stroke them without any grasp only way to put money into an empty treasury. | system of the city. A hospital was erected for | ears ps ee patina A of fitting up | Ux Years ago, when a distinguished citizen of | His life ended so sadly. Its meridian was | lionse-it isn't worth while to be too exact, objection on their part. They frequented the plan and to find in the broad streets and | The capital stock on which this city was started tek employes, wharves were built, stone quar- | fhe White Het Ae bot thn wes ot ped UP | the west (Mr. Clay) presided over the delibera- | crowned with a world’s honors and iteage was| It wasa very warm day when I called, and he | thatiows about the mouths of strenies in herds, spacious reservations s valuable contribution | was the donation of Maryland and Virginia and | ries purchased, and, in fact, all the | ‘he White Honse | Finally» bill ersod | fone of the House, and when the mania for eut-| clouded by misfortunes, not of his own crea-| had his cont off and wiped the high recedi being ve ‘to the health and beauty of a modern city. the lots that would fall tc the share of the city | work of securing a plant for build- | *24 the President. “hes was pas: ting ronds and canals first seized the nation.” | tion, but of others who were dear to him. front of his business occiput with a red eile stupid and almost helpless, owing to i i ‘ ry 2. - bir bi cS «y build. For many years LONG YEARS OF NEGLECT. in the division with the proprietors, Every | ing was done. All’ this involved | SPPTopriating £100,000 and the plan of the city | Fie added: ‘This same individual was employed Joux F. Corus, | handkerchief as he handied the marked enve- | ro wager oe ne hee weed ee fe In the early years when the government was | nergy was bent upon getting the lots on the | the expenditure of money and it is not surpris- | ¥®* Z during thesessions of Congress in reporting $ ——— lopes of puts and calls little table before | America were accustomed to stop at the Com- “¢ market, and as a necessary condition the work | ing that the commissioners were anxious that A LOAN FROa MARYLAND. debates for the National Inteliigencer.” Mr. Sad Result of College Boys’ Joke. him, and replied “Yes,” ’ mander Islands to lay inastock of fresh and of preparing « map of the city or rather plan | the engraved plan of the city should be pre-| ‘This money was all expended during the fol- oly abe yd gre —- Grpensor of) Dwight E. Carroll, an instructor in the | came in every minute or #0 and asked hima | galted sea cow, Probably there were. not more howing the location of the principal buil rel tt of lots might be is te i ai ich Wy [oeed Gaels: <cimeiien’ $01 tat cikac eeestenyee fated. andthe ‘necesary funds ‘welured, | ing year and stil the buildings were not | six veara, having in that period advanced from | Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pa., made a hastened as mach as possible. The proprictors | Ficaily Eilicot’'s work eee comet. ready. ‘The commissioners were at their wit's | $40,000 to more than $100,000 nnd now it is | desperate attempt xt suicide at’ his home in Pennsylvania avenue, a thoroughfare some four | were if possible pact com the Laeger | ‘HE Finst Mar. en be — did oe know bygone She ric a a ee ee ae = Yalesville, Pa., Tuesday by swallowing a large auiles in length i | and they wanted to get the money for the ae ; and finallyan application was made_ to the leg- , “became o money?” The de- | dose Prof, Carroll pare aoe prego nae dusty | taken for reservations at the earliest practical | A copper plate was made in Philadelphia and | ialature of Marstand for a loan of $20,000. ‘Tike | bets waa continued, and the Intelligencer says sa peletsrdy! en in figures and symbols, which were all | than 2,000 of the beasts at the beginning: they ck to me. | were siow in reproducing their_ species and the | “You seem to work | last of them was kilied in 1767. They were boys, Mr. Sage,” Isaid; “ther i a prevalent | nearly related to idea that don’t have to work at all.” | southern waters. the manatee und dugong of . ‘ of} 8 . ber of speakers at a gathering of col-| He uttered a significant but inarticulate sound How THE BONES WERE FOUND. P day. There was every reason to believe that | the of the city were printed and freely | appropriation was granted, but with conditions | that many speeches were made on both sides, | "Um! een, | of disay ral from the uw) of his . Seeeanta me erenat aeermte rem ne: | tes ots sora ua Om eaGuM) ox tae eae cree |aedomien thronghout this obuntry and sent to | that showed. plainly bow low tho ocedit af the | "In the Betate on the Sef Mack Mee peter logians a few months ago and while delivering | throat-vn kind of chuckle strangled in itsbirth | Eight years ago Dr. Stejneger was sent by nity in theearly years toimprove one such selection of the city had brought bere quite a | various points in Europe. An agent of the city | S°¥ernment and of the city had fallen. The | (subsequently President) offered a resolution | his address he was, as a joke, guyed unmerci- | and added “They have to work, I guess, if | the Smithsonian Institution to the Commander ouch less all the streets in the cits number of speculators. In a qq way employed, whose buskseae to travel | @Si#lature agreed to transfer to the commis- | ‘instructing the committee on offices and | fully by those in the audience. of a sen- | they keep anything. Everybody ‘clutching to | Islands for the purpose of securing, if possible, Pibich is less than ninety feet in width. Tho | good deal of land had already changed | Tm oePie abuntey aud endgaror to clispose | Houers of the city the sum of €50,000 of the | post roads to inquire into the expediency of | sitive nature the occurrence prey ‘upon his o F ni i i | one or more skeletons of the sea cow,or rhytiog, fect of the matter was the streets were not im | hands, and the hearts of some of the proprietors | ‘rough the country aud endgavor ale MOCK, of | the United | States at par |catalishing « poet road from Norfolk to Dan- | mind and when he ‘went to his oom he “You have enough money, haven't you?” I | 002.0% moreskeletons of the sea bytion, proved. i accou: ragged, joiced by receiving at private sale for | lots in the federal city. ie second sale | on the condition that in idition | ville, in the state of Virginia, by the way of Wel- | ineane. He was afterward removed to his home. | asked; “‘as much as you ad : > ppearnice of Washington ekick | their Insd, which to this tine "had bson | Of lots took place here in October, 1792, as soon | ° pledging all the property in the city for the | don. ee He had not fully recovered from the attack and | “Yes, as much ne I cam use” he | be sought by prodding in the sand with ras- .. If it had been in | worth about $14 per acre, $80 and $90 peracre. | #8 the plan of the city was published, and the | raymont of the money the commissioners | A'report was made by Mr. Powers, chairman | it is believed he took the poison wine tarning toward mo; “yoo Ihave es moch os |f088, Dear ,the mouths of the streams thepower of the municipal government nodoubt | The prospects of the new city appeared to be | Tesult was much more eatisfactory thun that of | and two of the leading property owners in the | < The ret ole, oo ne eae thin ofzete Toke nese | and ro of ai as nthe | of the committee on the District of Columbi can use, I suppose. —— a oe ee Os wen 2 ee rand | exceedingly bright and the atmosphere took on | the first sale, ns 1 y | city chould give their personal bonds, je House recommending many changes, Opposed to Sunday Closing. “Then why don't you stop work?" I boldly | mur ‘ came tor She east cf the sarestorelered. On yess in | golden Bue. perhaps moro golden even than eno ea les piel ar gett mt | wexs done aad the commissioners fold the stock | among them that the District be allowed. dele- | Washington Hesing, one of the directors of | continued; "you haven't w ehild in the world, | Nees aman hehe pasek bemiob eames few spare moments that it gave to ct | that through which a me La at Seni ons Mell of tha loko disposed of at this | 448 discount, leaving s net sum oe gate in Congress, but opposing @ local the world’s fair, Thursday in Chicago declared | } y id; ; | quantity of bones was obtained, ny | tees Sasing Tie taney Teed neatly the | She pocuens aneeaiens Rave. Bean vientag WOM | iS os Lakhs by twa aes, which did not Sacylaud-were mibosyutyity: pelt ebeaeetasd |e himeelf in favor of going without the €5,000, say, 97 various portions of the osseous framework entire past ould have been willing to | ington city property during the past year. dicate the general interest on the part of tho | Mazslend wore subsequently pal STOPPING THE MAILS ON SUNDAY. scpscalastie getlion soften Sion clean the 2 the extinct beasts, including a number of skulls, modify the WHY DENPANT LEFT. public that wae confidently expected” value by the United States. Apropos of the debate in Congress about | 8° nt appro] 2 and repeated ironically, these heterogeneous remains the skeleton tieal At this time an incident occurred which | 'Those intersted in the city, however, were WHEN CONGRESS CAME. eee: . closing the world’s fair in Chicago (which, by was made up which is now mounted at the Nar the bye, had no existence at this time) here is a | President W. T. Baker declared the bill in its Proved very embarrassing and was the first | not discouraged. In fact, it was still the san-| The condition of the city and of the public tional Museum. It is doubtless comy pris | clond in the sky which was soon to become ! €4ine period in the early history of the city. | puildings when the capital was removed here in | remonstrance from the citizens of Pennsylvania | Preset form not acce : peat siemens dod | piggy tet er mylene gua , i Lyman J. Gage, A. don’t work. I'll doitif THE SUCCESS OF THE ALBATROSS. MORRIS’ BIG SPECULATION. the summer of 1800 has frequently been de- | against stopping the transportation of the mails | gni’A'F. Seches : 't stop you will answer There was a gencral feeling that the boom | scribed and no one now will accuse tho com- | on Sunday. ‘That measure tostop the mails run-| veiticd cgrecm the mency The second best set of bones selected from u was just beginning, and ‘his opinion was | missioners of the city of having prepared | ning on Sunday was introduced aud advocated e gi ‘rat- | the collection was sent to Prof. Agassiz. Some government. To this latter cir- tly stimulated by the appearance on the | Puildings of a luxurious character for either | by Col. Richard M. Johnson—whokilled Tecum- ; of the other fragments were distributed by ex- tainly due the preservation of | making surveys in order to draft a plan of the Steely s PP Congress, the President or the executive de-| seh at the battle of the Thames, which act of the plan. The map gives even | city. He was a man of undoubted genius, but | scene in the fall of 1793 of Messrs. Greenleaf. | partments, although the accounts of the com. | made him squares, the same | of choleric and haughty disposi Morris and Nicholson. Mr. Robert Morris was | missioners chow an expenditure of a little over bers with some excep- | some misunderstanding with the commissioners, | the it financier of the revolution and was | 9 million of dollars from the years 1792 to 1800, cor ——_+0+____ of the cityas it | and finding that their authority was suj 4 one of the wealthiest men of the | inclusive. The proceeds of the sale of the lots, | on south side of E street between 8th and 9th. ¥ inthe |even when it came into confict with his | day. His cssociatos were also men of wealth, | the grants cara the nev oe lcs roe ater oa | Pare ae rac gtceet Between oth and Oth. rare bls sen Timp ‘accompanied by Assistant still threw up the work in with others formed the North American | amounting much more the rter_ of a| the church which stood where Ford's by ‘cnemtned by Oo a pet and refused to have any further con- | Land Company. At the clove of the rovolation | millien af” denes. together with the debts, | was built. : Adjutant General Volkmar of the United States just found ection with the city. If that had been | Mr. Morris belicved that there would be a great | represented the other side of the ceonot.. At a iaieciaai sao: army, went to Mount Gretna, Pa, Thursday there would have been but little embatrass- | influx of immigrants from Europe and that | the same time it was estimated that the pamomneed thet ™ tl to inspect the first brigade, concentrated at that there would e's promising, market for land, | erty stil owned ty’ the United ‘State Ji the | ,, i anmonn cia Cusazeaks aktonie eae Point awaiting orders. The governor thought associ ni in vast ity was worth over |.000. is best opportunity make ‘ingpec- tracts, and at one time owned mo. less than | grow in ponatit rego ecame still | from the Powder House to the old locks, and it tion. gfx 000,600 acres. ‘Their most extensive holding | fore valurble, and ina few yents. the, balance {a spoken of as a beautifal sheet of water,” but was some $.000,000 of acres located in the | of the account of the investment by the na- | that was along time ago. An extract from the tional government in the site for its eapital | recently published diary of Lord Byron gi been purchased from the state of Massacbu- | city became largely in favor of the it, | the poet's opinion of two great names is as f setts and which came to be known as the Hol-| According toa report made to Songree lows: Sunday, 1813, a very note land Purchase. No adequate account has yet| the Secretary of the Treasury in the | Mackint written of the extensive land investments | amount received from the sale of lots owned by Mr. Morris, which. perhaps, may | by the government uj to that date was @583,070. sccounted for’ by the fact’ that | ‘The value of the public property im the ety af ved in ruin ti — = that time was est aaied to: be. Seana in Roverty afer been more than the by being thrown into prison for However, ‘Mr. Morris to i H i frill rr i i | a id 7 i Hl i E i lie wi Wi financial I i i ERY i F els il , 5 H t H which day, San Hits contract was for 6,000 ‘ FH i rte ks ‘ HH i Fy i te i ee BREE lt Fj ti fs hil if i