Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1894, Page 15

ACRES OF PALACES Japan's Emperor and How He is Managing the War. HE HAS FOREIGN PAPERS TRANSLATED The Empress and His Majesty's Secondary Wives. PALACE AT KEKIOTO Frank G. Carpenter.) HERE Is NO ruler in the world so interesting today as the Emperor of Japan. He has moved from his capital, To- kyo, 400 miles west- ward, to his naval station at Hiroshima, and he has practical- ly taken control of his army. He has his parliament and his cabinet with him, and he fs directing the Raval and military forces by telegrap». There is no monarch in the world who is less understood, and of whom the world knows so little. You hear little said about him in Japan, and the information which I got had to be worked for, and it only came in response to many questions. Among } others whom I interviewed on the subject was his majesty's grand master of cere- mories, Mr. Sannomiya. He told mo that the emperor was the hardest worked man in Japan, and that he had directions to bring all telegrams that came concerning the rebellion in Corea directly to him, no (Copyrighted, 1804, by ‘The Emperor. Matter what hour of the night they came. He said his whole day was devoted to work, and that he had his fingers on near- ly every branch of the government. I} heard the same from other Japanese states- men, and the change in Japan is 20 more wonderful than the change which has tak- en place tn the character of the emperor. Kept in a Glass Cage. ‘The present Emperor of Japan was kept in a sort of a glass cage, figuratively speaking, during the first third of his life. He was forty-five years old last November, and he was put on the throne at the age of fifteen. This was when the Shogun was still commander-in-chlef of the army, and was practically the ruler of Japan. I had at one time in Kioto a guide furnished me by the governor of the city, and he took me into the palace of the emperor, where the present mikado lived for the first part of his life, and told me something about him. At this time he was so holy that no one mentioned his name. When it was necessary to write it a letter was left cut from reverence. He was, like the Emperor of China, a sort of a son of heaven, and he was kept tn this big palace, surrounded by a baker's dozen or so of concubines «nd a lot of servants. Whenever he went out it was in a closed cart, and he knew nothing Whatever of what was going on tn Japan. I saw iis throne. It looked more like a four-poster bedstead than anything else. It was covered with fine white silk, and the emperor sat cross-legged on the floor, and he had a couple of swords on tables beside him. I had to take off my shoes before I was admitted into the palace, and I walked for about a mile over soft matted floors. The palace is altogether Japanese in struc- ture. It has sliding walls covered with gold Jeaf, and {t is decorated with paintings by the old Japanese masters. It was in it that the emperor recelved the foreigners for the first time. This was about twenty- six years ago, and it was shortly after that that he moved his court to Tokyo. He has visited Kloto several times since then, and at one time came back to open the railroad | at Kobe. The Emperor's Palaces. The home of the mikado at Tokyo is far different from these old Japanese palaces in Kioto. He has a vast estate right in the center of thecity, made up of hill and valley, containing lakes and woods, and vast one-story palaces. It is sur- rounded by three moats, some of which ich Thess 1 by marble bridges, and ou find soldiers in mo uni- | moats are in places from 0 /| forms. to 20) feet wi They are filled with water n tus flowers float upon zreen leaves. w a combination of They cost three mil- alis of many of the , rade of iran The a frames. t of number thrown into one, an parlors ere la S nost ‘oideries, eiling the cloth covering Many of the floors | Cost $10,000, are | und they are all covered with the fines! 1 softest of white mats, on th top of some of which are magnificent rugs. I don't know how many rooms / there are in the palace buildings, but | they run well up into the hundreds. | There is one dining room that will seat ndved people. There are ball rooms wing rooms, libraries and studios, and there are bed rooms finished tn both foreign and Japanese style. The banquet- fg hall takes 540 square yards of matting THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DEGEMBER i, i8SA-TWENTY PAGES. to cover It. Its ceiling glows with gold, and its walls are hung with the costliest silk. There are six imperial studios in the palace, and the throne chamber has a cetl-e| ing paneled with the Japanese crests. It is here that the emperor receives the for- eign ministers, and he talks to them through interpreters. They bow three times when they come In, and also bow three times when they back out, and the receptions, as a rule, are very stiff on the part of both the mikado and the foreigners. ‘The Mikado’s Daily Life. The Emperor of Japan, according to the people most closely connected with him at Tokyo, has by no means an easy office to fill Japan now contains more than 40,000,- 000 people, and there are a baker’s dozen of political factions, many of which are anxious to create trouble. The changing The Crown Prince. condition of the people makes plenty of work. You can never tell who is going to fly off on a tangent, and the newspapers have to be carefully watched. The em- peror keeps his eyes on everything. At least, I was told so. He rises early, and breakfasts about 7 o'clock. He uses @ knife and fork whenever he takes foreign food, but he prefers the chopsticks at his Japanese dinners. He eats beth kinds of food, and is very fond of rice, taking it with every meal. He likes meats, and is by no means averse to sweets. He usually eats his breakfast alone and also his lunch. His dinner is served in table d’hote style and with all the European accompan! ments. Contrary to the regular practice in Japanese families, his wife often sits down at the table with him, and aiso the crown prince. His work begins as soon as his breakfast is over. From 9 o'clock until 12 he receives his ministers and discusses maiters of state. After this he takes his lunch, and then spends a little time in reading newspapers. He watches closely the Japanese press, keeps track of current public opinion, and, I venture, changes his actions somewhat to sult it. All the papers are looked over for him, and the passages which he should see are marked. Ordinary misstatements or criticisms he passes over, but if a newspaper becomes at all danger- ous, he gives an order to his censors, and the newspaper is stopped, while its editors are liable to be thrown into prison. He has also the leading foreign papers, and the articles of these which treat of Japan are translated for him, and he keeps track of public opinion all over the world. He takes our illustrated papers, and the arti- cles relating to the pictures in them are sometimes translated. He does a great deal of work in the afternoon, but toward evening goes out for exercise. He is a good horseback rider, and is fond of fine horses. He has about three hundred in his stables, and these are of all kinds, including number of fine hunters. The emperor ts fond of hunting, and he has large game preserves where there are deer and wild pigs. There are plenty of pheasants, and his majesty is said to be a very good shot. An Imperial Duck Hunter. “There is one kind of game,” said the man connected with the government who gave me the above information, “which the emperor is especially fond of, and that is duck-netting. There are lots of wild ducks about Tokyo, and the emperor has great duck-ponds and duck-ditches tn his | palace grounds into which the ducks come and are caught by means of decoys. The ponds cover acres, and they have embank- ments about them which are cut up by little canals running out from the pond. These canals are so lined with trees and embankments that a man can easily hide along them. The pond is studded with de- coys, and grain is scattered about in the canals as bait. The ducks light and go up into the Canals, where the emperor and the nobles are concealed, each with a net in his hand. They throw these over the Noble Gir! of Japan, From the Em- press’ School. ducks, and they catch them in large num- bers. It requires great skill to throw the net properly, but the emperor has caught seores of ducks in a single day. A Rich Monarch. The mikado ts by no means a poor man. He receives about two million and a half of dollars to keep up his palace and his household establishment every year, and he has a large private fortune. Mr. San- nomiya, his grand master of ceremonies, told me that he knew all about his invest- ments, and that he was a good business man. He has a great deal of money in public land. He 1s not extravagant in his living, and the customs cf Japan are such that he does not have to entertain as ex- tensively as the monarchs of Europe. He has magnificent turnouts, and rides about in great state. He opens parliament in person, and at the back of the senate chamber, behind the president's chair, there isa little alcove where he sits, and from whence his address is read to the members. He has the appointment of a large number of the members of parlti ment, and the constitution Is so adroitly word-d that he is still the almost absolute ruler of Japan. A Bine Blooded Monarch. The Emperor of Japan fs entitled to be considered the most aristocratic ruler on earth! The royal family of Japan has a genealogical tree which reaches to heaven, and their traditions state that the emperor comes from the gods. There have been one hundred and twerty-cne emperors of Ja- pan, and they all belong te this family. The first one governed Japan just about He was the throne loag before Juilus Caesar ired to be the emperor of Rome, and ee hundred years before Alexander the ‘at thovght he had conquered the world Japanese have the history of all of emperors from that time down to this, and they will assure you that the mikado is a lineal descendant of the first emperor, whose name was Jimmu Tenno. A Word About the Empress. Any other royal family would have run cut in less than this time, especially in an isolate cour apan, but the Japan- ese have a law by which the emperor can- not marry one of his own family. He has twerty-five hundred years ago. on to marry the daughter of one cf the court nobles, and the empress is, therefore, not 1 She is the daughtor of and she is said to be a ht woman. She comes from Kio- to, in western Japan, and she was eighteen years old at the time she was married. This was away back In 1868, and foreign had not yet gotten well Her majesty wore at into the ways that time empire | Japanese clothes, and she followed, I am told, the horrible custom which prevailed | throughout the old Japen in that she shav- ed off her eyebrows and blackened her teeth. The idea fs that a good wife must show her devotion to her husband by do- ing this, and to render it impossible for any one else to admire her. Later on in her lire, however, her majesty changed her ideas about this matter, and her eyebrows have again grown out and her teeth are as white as those of any American girl. She is at the front of all movements for the introduction of the western civilization, and she frowns on the cld custom of teoth- blackening, and she is at the head of all things which ere propored to better the condition of Japanese women. She has hospitals anc schools, and she is cue of the most charitable of monarchs. The Noble Girls’ School, founded by her at Tokyo, is like one of our best female col- leges, and it is devoted to the education of the young peeresses of the empire. Her majesty often visits it, and she has the girls call upon her at the palace. She ts not fond of society, and she is almost as busy as the emperor. She has her cwn secretaries, and her time is taken up with reading, study, receptions and charitable work. She likes to ride horseback, and she often takes a ride through the palace grounds. She is short rather than tall, and is slender and petite. She has not the very best of health, and was ill during @ great part of the summer, Born to Blush Unseen. There are a number of ladies connected with the palaces in Tokyo who, like the flowers in Gray's Blegy, are “born to blush unseen,” though they do not “waste their Sweetness on the desert air.” J refer to the Secondary wives of the emperor. You hear nothing about these in Tokyo, and they are kept as much as possible in the buck- ground. But from time immemorial the emperor has been allotted a certain number of secondary wives or concubines, and there are, 1 am told, twelve of these in the palace grounds. They have establishments of their own, and are the daughters of nobles. ‘The crown prince is the son of one of them, his mother’s name being Madam Yanagi- wara. Japan's Next Emperor. The crown prince was sixteen years old last September. He is a very bright boy, dark-faced and almond-eyed, of the most Pronounced Japanese type. He is as straight as an arrow, and is fond of mili- tary pursuits, and is an officer, I think, in the army. He has been educated in the Nobles’ School, and he is learning English and French. He has an establishment of his own inside the palace grounds, with his own servants, guards and attendants. He oceasionatly comes over and stays with his father, eating dinner with him and some- Umes sleeping in his father’s quarters. He does not look very much Iike his father, his face being rounder and shorter. The emperor is very dark, and his features are heavy and swarthy. He is taller than the average Japanese, and he has the fat nose, the wide nostrils and the rather thick lips which you see all over Japan. + The Court at Hiroshima, The removal of the court to Hiroshima is causing a great change in this, the biggest city of western Japan. Osaka, Kioto und Kobe lie nearly a hundred miles to the eastward, and Hiroshima is the big town between these cities and Nagasaki, which is on the extreme west coast. Hiroshima is the naval capital of Japan, and is one of the most beautifully located towns in the world. It lies on the sea at the foot of the mountains, and the waters about it are filled with rocky islands. It is cut up by canals, and its sea view is beautiful. It has always been & great manufacturing place, but 1 hear that it has had a great boom since the emperor moved into it. Wages have doubled, and modern methods have come In. Barbers now charge 8 cents in- stead of 2 cents for a shave, and the Japanese member of parliament who wants his hair cut in foreign style has to pay 12 cents for it instead of the 4 cents which is the regular price. Provisions of all kinds have gone up, and the city is filled with concert troupes, geishas and the float- ing population which always hangs around @ pleasure-loving center. Tokyo, the Jap- anese capital, has been materially injured py acetal and the theaters are only jalf full. Fk A, Carfunes aie MECHANICAL MUSIC, ‘che Wail of a Professor Who Declares That Learning is a Lost Art. From the New York Sun, “What for I look blue?” said the pro- fessor. “I will tell you. I look blue be- cause my beezeness is being—what you call him?—keeked out. No—ah, yes—knocked out by the maker of those stupid idiot mechan- ique instruments of music. There is no longer any need to learn the piano, for, see, all you do now is bring in the telegraphiquo wires from the street and the piano will play itself. Organ—no. Buy some rolls of papaire and put him in the organ and turn the crank, so, and out will come anything you' wish from Strauss to Cherubini. Man- dolin—no. For some much too clever Yankee has make another something which you shall button to the piano,and there, my faith, you have your mandolin. Zither—no. For there are the zithers now that you play with a steek. Chord of F, press this steek. Cord of B, press that steek, and so on. There is no more need to learn any- thing. “Mademoiselle say to me, ‘Ah, professor, why should I practice any more, when Mees So and So, who nevaire took the lesson in her life, has an electrique piano which can play everything as well as you do when she press leedle button? And I say, ‘Why, indeed? Then madame say to me: ‘Ah, professor, I shail geeve- up the mandolin, for I can put a leedle thing to the piano and make it play like the mandolin weeth two fingers.” And I say, ‘Ah, so? Then monsieur say, ‘Professor, I guess I give up the organ thees winter and buy one of those windyphones, like Billee Sweetzer have, wherell you have to do is to move the feet, and the musique conte out joost as you play,’ and I say, ‘Was that so? “And it ees so. The mechanique music have knocked me out. There is no heart any more to learn anything that tgke time and patience when you can have all the good music that you like by pressing the leedle button and moving the feet. It ves not the music of the soul, to be sure; may be it ees not the music of the expression; may be it ees not music at all. Bah! who cares? Ail you want is the tune, just like the organ man and piano woman on the street. Arteest be dam. Vive la mechan- ique! I am going home to invent a violin electrique and an automatique flute that you shall play with the knees. A DEFENSE OF DIRT. London Monuments Protected, by De- posits of Soot and Dust. Every few years somebody raises the question whether St. Paul’s Cathedral in London ought not to be cleansed from the scot witn which it ts encrusted, and ro- stored to something lke its primitive whiteness. Some time ago an experiment of the sort was made on one of the por- ticos, which forthwith essumed a mottled or piebald appearance. Now the matter has come up for discusston again, and the following interesting point is made in a letter to the Times by a well-known archt- tect: “I have had the opportunity, when examining some of our London stone-faced churches, of removing the coat of dirt with a view of seeing the condition of the stone ander it, and have found {t to be perfect. The casing of dirt appeared to be made chiefly of road dust which had adhered to the stone (only the outer coat of all being gray black). AN the deleterious chemicals must have gone out of the lower layer, so that the dirt was a perfect protection. if it were all cleaned off, the stone would be subjec the strong chemicals in our London atmosphere. It must be remember- ed that this dirt only adheres to the parts which are not completely washed by the rain, and that it Is just these parts, there- fore, which are in most need of protection. if at some future time the atmosphere of London should be as pure as the atmos- phere of the country is now, it might bo wise to act on the suggestion, but until that time comes I sincerely trust that no such experiment will be tried. = pea As He Looked at It. From the Queenslander, Australia. Sammy came home from an afternoon at the Natural History Museum. “Where have you been?” said his grand- who saw that he was in uncommonly i spirits. ‘Oh, we've had a splendid time. We've been to a dead circus.’ Set Se Wants the Old-Sty! From the Boston Transcript. “K said the college professor of litera- ture, “I haven't read a novel in five years. I am not very fond of sctentific discussion or treatises on physiology and pathology. ——— DANDRUFF IS AN EXUDATION FROM THE rea of the scalp that spreads and dries, form- Ing scnrf and causing tt balr to fall out. Hall's Hair Renewer cures it. L’ENFANT’S PLAN His Artistic Schenié for the Location of Public Buildings, * IT WAS NEVER CARRIED OUT The: Fine: Coriception Pronounced to Be Still-Feasible. SOUTH OF THE AVENUE Glenn Brown tn Architectural Review. ASHINGTON HAS an advantage over the modern cit- ies of the world, with possibly the one ex- ception of St. Pet- ersburg, in having been designed and Inid out as the capi- \ tal city of a great nation, The first map of Washington was authorized by an act of Congress, . July, 1700. Streets, parks and sites for the President's house and the Capitol are all shown on the map made by Peter Charles L’Enfant in 1701 practically as they exist today. L’Enfant's draft was altered, and the map was com- pleted under the direction of Gen. Wash- ington, who, with a clear understanding of the situation, gave close and painstaking personal attention to everything that re- lated to the District of Columbia or the federal city. This accurate knowledge of details and interest of the President is clearly shown by letters to the commis- sioners and others in authority at that time. The streets were arranged so as to give quick communication between the buildings and other points of interest. The ease with which government property could be protected by cannon has been given as a reason for the radiating avenues. Most important for the future beauty and artistic effect of the city was the selection and location of building and statuary or monument sites. Washington, L’Enfant and Ellicott, who was doing the field work, L’Enfant 88; “to rege through the whole a reciprocity, oe sight” between the important points of the city. A Haphasard System, How has this really wise and artistic scheme been carried out? The Capitol and President's houge are on the ground orig» these structures location nor har- jesign. Each one is for itself. They are nearly all, except the Smith- sonfan ideas ae inferior istic effect when conside alone, and all dre posi- tively bad when considered connection with each other. Instead of the large buildings originally contemplated, the mall Chere is nefther ENtty PLAN. NO. 8.-SUGGESTED LOCATION OF PUBLIO BUILDINGS. Bites already owned by the government or used for public purposes are shown in black. Sites suggested for location of public bul ldings are shown by crosshatching. inally selected for them. The wisdom of the choice has been proved by the pleasure derived from the completed structures. The effectiveness of the White House has been marred by the erection of the Treas- ury and of the War, State and Navy De- partment buildings. In this way a sight of it 1s cut off from Pennsylvania avenue on the east, and New York avenue on the west. When in foliage the trees and shrub- bery in Lafayette Square shvt out even a glimpse of the building from Vermont and Connecticut avenues. The Congressional Library is the first structure to bring an antagonistic element into conjunction with the Capitol. The library has been built across Pennsylvania avenue on the east. Down this street for miles a fine view of the Capitol could formerly be obtained. Now, the dome of the Capitol rising over the library, and seen in connection with the dome or central feature of the library, produces a decided discord. In later years the selection of sites for public buildings seems to have been purely a haphazard one. At present it depends on cost, influ- ence, whim, or the advice of men in no way prepared to advise. No general sys- tem is being followed, no man or men seem to have studied the question as a whole. It all devolves upon committees of Con- gress, who are constantly changing. The engineer corps of the army, through the commissioner of public buildings and grounds, having charge of parks and com- pleted buildings, has more influence than any other department. It is to be regretted that we have no bureau of fine arts, composed of cultt- vated architects and landscape artists. Such “ale le a nr =) aeqovoL” pI seQIC04 x Ft oa IN Se @ Qo00nivo0Q ay > Bosg "2G LIW0o0t c INNO Coo8 Cc SGN Sede SoS Nw GORISSSURSE ass SSeSs5~ | oi SPESSeSer js | Be | a | Be | } carr es Tom wr al “eX eae aA Sw Cor 7. ‘ PLAN NO. 1.-SEe TION OF LJENFANT'S MAP (1791) SHOWING SITES SELECTED FOR PRINCIPAL FEDERAL BUILDINGS. A.—Equestrian statue of George Washington, voted in 1783 by ‘the Continental Congress. E.—Grand fountaius. I.—President’s park. G.—Public walk and carriageway H.—Grand avenue, 400 fect in breadth, 1 mile in length. to the Capitol —- R.—Cuscade. went over the ground together, and “‘care- fully,” as @ note on the margin of the map informs us, “selected the sites of the ‘grand edifices’ whére they would command the wreatest ‘prospect, and be susceptible of the greatest improvemen' It will be seen from L'Enfant’s map (Plan No. 1) that the Capitol is placed on the center line of four avenues, North, South and East Capitol streets, and what was to have been the boulevard, thus giving sixteen pleasing and continuous views as one approaches the building from any direction. There are few more pleasing effects than those produced by the Capitol ending the vista of the principal avenues. Similar views were intended of the Pres- ident’s house. The selection of the site for the Capitol was peculiarly happy in the beauty of the effects produced by distant views of the building. It is difficult .o realize the pleasure produced by the sight of the building as seen from the hills of the District, Maryland and Virginia. The dome 1s constantly peeping out through the trees down the valleys in the most unexpected places as one drives or wan- ders through the country. These glimpses are always enjoyable because the dome in itself is beautiful in all phases of the at- mosphere and the surrounding landscape. Some of the Early Sites. The President's house was located so as to form the vista at the end of seven streets, the southern front facing the Washingtcn monument. The view also of the President's house from the river and the hills of Virginia is very effective. ‘The “grand edifices” were to be licated in the center of parks, in which landscape artists could use their skill to enhance or emphasize the beauty of the building, and make it the crowning feature of the whole. Under such conditions the buildings could be seen, and if beautiful enjoyed. Letters and notes on early maps show that sites were selected for other struc- tures among them being one for a “Nation- jUULN poco a board could study jointly the question of site as a whole and in detail. They could select intelligently designs for buildings as well as sculpture. If we are aiming at the beautiful, the building and its sur- roundings must be in harmony. VE 's Boulevard. The most notable suggestion for build- ing sites on the map of L’Enfant is the line which forms the north and south boundary of the parks between the Capitol and the monument, Naturally, the first thought would be to keep the parks free from buildings, as they are the people's breath- ing spaces. The more the scheme laid out by Wash- ington and L.'Enfant is studied, the more forcibly it strikes one as the best. It is easy to imagine the magnificence of a boulevard four hundred feet wide, begit ning at the Capitol and ending with the monument, a distance of nearly a mile and a half, bounded or both sides by parks six hundred feet wide, laid out by a skilled landscape architect and adorned by the work of capable artists. In a scheme of this kind the stiff bronze men and horses, so common in our parks at the present time, would not be tolerated. Looking from the boulevard across the park a con- tinuous line of beautiful buildings was to have formed the background. They were not to have been deep enough to curtail either the natural or artistic beauties of the park, or to encroach upon the people's right to an alr space. This architectural barriep* would have served the double purpose of completing the beauty of the grounds, and at the same time excluding from view such monstrosi- ties as have actually been erected in this neighborhood. By this time such an ave- nue would have acquired a world-wide rep- utation, If it had been carried out by com- petent ‘architects, landscape artists and sculptors consulting and working in har- mony with each other. The parked portion of the Champs Elysees, which is approx- imately thirteen hundred feet wide and lei oS HDRL_10 i _ae AN JV UU! Nicei== fall SBS OUE Saal Gg = YOULL S 35 PLAN NO. al Church” as a place for statues in com- memoration of ‘heroes whom Congress might honor, and for thanksgiving and funeral orations. This church was to have been used by all religious bodies. Unap- propriated sites were to have been par- celed out to different colleges, academies and societies. The site of the present Center market, at 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue, was selected about 1800, The Mall, extend- ing from the Capitol to the Washington monument was to have been traversed by a grand avenue, four hundred feet wide. On both sides of this avenue, parks were to have been laid out, ending against a background of public’ buildings. These sites allowed room for the growth of the government business. The engraved map published in 17¥2 shows sites for buildings as well as monuments, columns and stat- uary, located so as to be viewed down the different avenues, the end in view being SS ies oss v0 TAT IS ii SHOWING LOCATION OF FEDERAL BUILDINGS AS THEY EXIST IN 1894, C a] *. as i= J Prmatoeatt Naz wa cas See. esQUl fenton three quarters of a mile long, would not have com, ed with it in magnitude or | grandeur. The Tiber creck was to have run from the Potomac river to the astern branch, and near the foot of the present Capitol grounds it was to have formed an effective cascade The Actual Condition. ‘What has been done toward carrying out this grand enterprise? Nothing. The boul- evard was never commenced, if it wes ever staked out. The botanical hothouses, the Pennsylvania railroad depot, the fish com- mission building,the army medical museum, the National Museum, the Smithsonian In- stitution, the Agricultural Department, and the bureau of printing and engraving have all ‘been placed within the park, here and there, it might almost be said anywhere. (See plan No. 2, showing present location is surrounded by small dwellings, markets, provision stores, cattle and horse bazaars, and factories. The creek or canal was gradually used more and more as a com- mon open sewer. This evil was unbear- able, so it arched over and hidden from sight. Where the plan of Washington and L'Enfant has been followed, the artis- tic effect has been successful; where devi- ated from, it has been a failure. The original plan can be commended for other reasons than those of beauty. It has every advantage in point of economy in maintenance, repairs, supervision, inter- communication, transportation, and ac- cessibility of the departments to each other and to the public. To carry out the orig- inal plan, or one closely allied thereto, in the erection of future government build- ings, is feasible, but the probability of such wise action without a competent bureau of fine arts is infinitesimal. The squares between Pennsylvania and Missouri avenues, and between Maine and Maryland avenues, were originally a part of the park, and should still be govern- ment property. If the erection of build- ings, as originally intended, on the border of the park, should be considered objec- tionable, an equally good effect could be obtained by the purchase of the property on B street, north and south, and the lo- cation of future structures upon it. An ad- dition of a very few squares to this prop- erty wovld give the government the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between ‘he Capitol grounds and the Treasury Depart- ment, where property is now compara- tively cheap. Power of a Corporation. In addition to increasing the beauty of the city, such an acquisition would be the means of removing the most objectionable feature in the city from a moral, artistic, and sanitary standpoint. In Plan No. 3 I have shown by hatching the squares which it would be necessary for the government to acquire to carry out the plan suggest- ed. The original boulevard could be car- ried through the mall without materially affecting the buildings at present located in the park. The hothouses and outbutld- ings of the Botanical Gardens are the only ones which it would be necessary pos- itively to remove. A competent bureau or commission would probably recommend the removal of many of the buildings which have been erected from time to time in_these parks. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has its grip so firmly fixed on the center of the mall that neither the Commissioners, who are the board of governors in the District, nor Congress are able to pry it loose. The least this company should be made to do in a regeneration of this com- prehensive plan would be the erection of a depot in conformity with the federal build: ings, and the total concealment of its tracks where they pass through the park. The railroad tracks can be effectually cov- ered by placing retaining walls on both sides of 6th street, running from B street north to B street south, and grading the park to a sufficient height, and covering the street within the limits named. This would allow the railroad company ample room for tracks and switches, as well as giving them shed room for passengers, at the same time preserving the beauty of the park. ih A plan of the kind mentioned, if carried out under the direction of artists, equal to the corps employed at the world’s Colum- bilan exposition, would give the country a parked avenue in Washington unequaled = anything in the world—a triumph of the arts. a A Big Thing for Bill. From the Indianapolis Journal. “I'm sorry Bill got beat,” sald the con- stituent. “That ther bill he was intending to get passed will never git through, I suppose.” hat was it?” asked the other constit- uen' “W'y, you know what is called a derelict —one of them abandoned ships that Is sich a —— to navigation?” “Yes” “Well,Bill he allowed to git a bill through requirin’ them all to carry red lights at night. It would ‘a’ been a big thing fer navigation, and fer Bill, too.” —__ -+e+ Effective, if Not Responsive. From the Queenslander, Australia. A bright youth undergoing examination for admission to one of the government departments found himself confronted with the question: “What is the distance from the carth to the sun? Not having the exact number of miles with him he wrote in reply: “I am unable to state acourately, but 1 don’t think the sun is near enough to in- terfere with proper performance of my duties if I get this clerkship.” He got it oe Of Course They Do. From the Indianapolis Journal. “I wonder,” sald the sentimental board- eress, “if the little birds make any plans for their nomes in the spring.” “Of course they do,” said the cheerful idiot. “Don’t they have to make a nest to mate?” The custard pte that the astonished waiter girl let drop to the floor at this juncture fell on its soft side, and, conse- quently, was deducted from her week's wage: —_——_- + e+ ______ Duse’s Daughter. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the pecullaritios of Elenora Wuse, the great actress, is the strictvess with which whe is rearing her only daughter. ‘The young girl, who is in a conve’ in Dresden, is never allowed to go to the theater or assist in any amateur theatri- cal productions. From the Chicago Record, Miss Silligurl (sobbing)—“I think it's awful mean; that horrid Jones girl has been saying that I paint.” Miss Meannesse—“Never mind, dear. I guess if she had your complexion she'd paint, too.” ————_-or—____ Motherly Love. From the Indianapolis Jourtal. “Isn't it horrid,” sald the Circassian beauty, “to think of the fat lady wedding the ossified man so soon after her first husband's demis« “Yes, I know,” replied the two-headed girl, “but she sayr that the baby has taken a fancy to cutting his teeth on him.” Precaution. From Tid-Bits. After a row with his wife, who violently expressed a wish that he was dead, an Irishman said: “Oh, it’s a widow you're wantin’ to be, is it? Bedad! I'll take good care you're no widow as long as I live. —__+ e+ ___ Not on the Stage. From Life. Bhe—"I took you for an actor the first time I saw you.” Henry de Courey Footelights—"A where was that?’ “I saw you walking down Broadway with yourself.” nd 15 RAILROADS, ‘PENNSYLVANIA RA‘ . Btatiou coruer of Oth and Weis, In ettect 4: .,, November 25, 1804, 10:80 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED —Pulle man Sleeping, Dining, Si and Observation Cars, “Harrisburg to. Chica ncinuats, Indian bree and Tol Buffet Parior Car burg. 10:30 AMG FAST LINE—Pullmay Buffet Pare lor Car to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Harrisdurg to Pittsburg. M. AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS— CHIC, 3:40 PY Eh Pullman Buffet rlor Car to Harrisbu Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, > - Louis, Giteinnatt, Loufeviiie and Chisene st 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS—Pullman SI tog Car ‘to Chicago and Harrisburg to Clev Dining Car to Chicago. sa. i 7:10. P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS—Pull- and Dining Cars to St. Louis and r Herrisburg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M, PACIFIC EXPRESS~Pullman Sleep- ee ep 350 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara’ Falls daily, oxeept Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira und Renovo, daly, ex- PE oe gga Big ak and Niagara Falls daily, ew Buffalo | dai Saturday, mi "Bleep mira, and Saturda; e Pal urdays only Ws ton to a New York und. the Busts M. “CONGRESSION TED, “CONGRESSIONAL © LIMITED, York daily, for 7:05 Dining Cary, Fo: Or Philadelphia 82. i 215, 4:20, 6:40, 10: delphia oaly, Fast Express 7. Bapress, 2:01 and 3:40) p.m. on wi and 3:15, p.m. duty, ne ‘or Bal 6: 10:00, "10:30, Ti:00" oar i 8:40 (4:00 Limits , 10:00, 10:40 and 11: and 11:50 a.m. and Annapolis, iz “20 pan. Gall, except “Bunter. Sundays, 9:00 . and $B) p. Atlantic Coast Line Ex for Richi inttosilie cog site SOUS", Re sspment daily. Richmond and Atlanta, pm. daily, Richmond only, 10:31 a.m. week Accommodation for Quantico, 7:46 “a.m, ys. 11:50 a.m, 12: 8:15, 8:02, fo:10 45 a. p.m. Th corner of 18th street and Pennsylvania avenue and at the station, 6th aod B streets, where orders can be left for the check- ‘of baggage to destination from hotels snd it Re Mt Sievost, ‘ov, PREVOST, 3, R, woop, BALTIMORB AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effec: November 1h, 1594. Leave Washington from station corner of New Vestibuled Limited m Vesti express, 12:00 2 it. express daily, 11:80 am. aud 8:35 p.m. Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. For Winchester and way stations, a5:30 p.m, For Luray, Natural Bridge, Moanoke, tunooga, Mea and 'New Orleans, 11: cars through. days, x4:20, 5:00, 6: S-siautes), 8:90," x0:30, 0s iD. ¥12:00, x12:05, 12:15, x2:20, (3:00 Cibo, a8 BS, 3000, It Phintesh stad ea Se teas fa 200 “4S-minutes), "B35," 4:31, 6:0 30, ‘00, 10 4:23 p.m. indays, [oor ‘3 331 38 30 am, 42 ua. ae — Db:00, ali:3) acm., 0115, 04:30, For Hagerstown, 011:30 a.m, : Fe Saiyan! ce tay Saabs onan, ab0 urg al ‘Say points, 06:00, Ep al, , a3300, 33, Eos *T205, bv:40, ts, b9:00, G00 45 mipatca ¥11:30, 11:35 p.m, a.m., 12:15 ond (4 PHILADELPH. For Phiindeiphia, New York, Boston apd the east, week 4:20," 8:00, (0:00 a.m. Dining Car), Cai), 8:00, (5:00 Car}, 8:00, 1 '00's.1n- Diskag Car), (12-09 Dining 2000.10, : Car), 8:00, 6:00 Dining can Es 11:30 Sleeping Car, open ‘for passengers 10: Buffet Parlor Cars on, all For Atlantic City, 12:00 noon, Sundays, aExcept Sunday. xExpress ¢ called for and ticket offices, G19 apd 1251 depot, it, B. CAMPBELL. CHAS, oYsctnu nig Manager. jen. RAILWA! (Piedmont Air — Schedule in effect November 18, 1894. All trains arrive and leave “at Pennsylvania tat 8:00 A.M.—DailyLoral for, Danville, Conneats at Manassas for ae daily, ‘Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfoik’ and Western, 11:01 M A.M.—Dati Fg Le mae | UNITED sing md FAST and W: lotte with L w.a ral Manager. I Rion Hee Rt CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule tn effect i‘ ‘Trains leave daily from Union tation (B. and and ots. rheaeae pao grandest in with snd toont complete ‘solid train serv- tHe-lighted Sterm-beated care Washington ise if Se Louie without change: om Washington,” Arrive Ginciana Indianapolis, 11:45 a.m., and Chicago, L P.M. D, Y.—The famous ited. A solid vestibuled train, and Pullman sleepers for Cincinpatt, ae hea change. Pul ae Virginia ‘Hot Es, are. ing 7:1 a.m. Observation car from Hinton. Arrives Cin- elonati, 5:50 p.m.; a, pm; Loule ville, 9:40 p.ml; Indianapolis, 11:15 p.tu.: Chicago, 7 a.m., and Louis, 7:90 a.m.; connects ip Unton depot for all points. 10:57 tox. EX SUNDAY.—For Gid Potnt Comf rt and Norfoll Mi 2:25 P.M. Gordonsvt Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and princi Virginia points; daily, except Sunday, for Rich- Puliman locations and tickets at company’s of- fices, 512 at) 1421 Pennsylvania avenue. ik. Only rail Hine. DAILY.—Express for AM A LITTLE GIRL CAN MAKE TREE ORNA) with fancy paper, gold and lustra paint, se book pictures, {yo cot animals, games, . gilt ornaments, ¢ 2mn* ‘GOU glass Uringing the yles In ball and dinner gowns, etrest costumes, bridal outfits ‘and high-class iwork of every description, all of which Tum prepared to execkte at the shortest notiee. Agent for the celebrated Pingnte’s Corsets. o24-1m. At 1235 F at. FINE BLACK AND WHITE LACES DONE UP IN first-class Parisian st white and satin dresses, laces and “urtaing a specialty; Prices ‘reasonable, | Call Mme. VIBOUD'S, ups cessor to Mme. Valmont, old stand, 713 11th LADIES’ SEALSKIN GARMENTS REDYED AND altered into latest styles, Furs of all kinds re ited. THE MISSES CUNNINGHAM, 1308 Sth st. b.w., near N Bt. ANTON AND CAROLINE LERCH, 826 12TH AND 1206-1208 J st. n.w.—French dyeing and cleaning of every description; evening and party dresses made a specialty. Our patronage extends into the most fashlonable circles. aia == —= UNDERTAKERS. W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 0 F Street Northwest. Everything strictly first-class and on the most reasonable terms, Telephone call, 840. jal-te 2 AUGUSTUS BURGDORF, HING UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER, EW YORK AVE. N.W. . 0028-tr