Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. SIGHTS OF PARIS Visitors Are Apt to Find the Gay City Disappointing. ——_>— REALITY COMPARED WITH THE IDEAL The Round of Cafes, Restaurants and Taverns. ONE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE ——e - Gpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, November 20, 1894. MERICANS WHO ~e, A live in Paris oxpert- “¢ ence a real timidity & in dealing with their be _tourist friends. They | have a constant fear the ‘visitor will meet 7 with disappointment. Paris is a disappoint- ing city. Is it for art and archaeology that you have left your wife and friends and crossed the deep? ‘No; most Americans—I speak of men—de- sire to keep at a safe distance from the Louvre. For they’have come to Paris, not to study, but to “rest.” Do you desire to see the monuments, the sewers and the catacombs, the morgue, the Eiffel tower? Yes; I may drop in on them some time when I pass. But—I can get a guide for them. That’s true. But still, to cut them out will narrow the sights down. How would you like to meet some families? We can show you some delightful curiosities in that line, if you wish it. ‘No; no families.” Well, then, there's nothing left but light amusements. “Let's start in on the light amusements!” The resident of Paris then suggests the theate “No, no; no theaters.” He says he does not know the language well enough to un- derstand the pieces. Besides, he has seen Coquelin, Bernhardt, Hading, Moune:-Sul- ly and the rest already in America. The opera? “Yes, I want to see the opera, once—but not tonight?” But not tonight! Why should he? Has he not heard Calve, Melba, Eames and the De Reszkes in America? Well, it is almost dinnertime. What shall we do? I want to do exactly what Parisians do.” oulevards and Cafes. There are 11,000 different species of Paris- fans. But we are just now on the Boule- vard, and here there only seem to be two kinds, namely, (1) the kind that sits, and @ the kind t! walks, “Let's walk and sit.” It is a chill and foggy night along the joulevard. The lights slant through the log and slide in shining lines along the slippery asphalt. A crowd continually moves on westward. Itis a crowd of bus- Doesn’t Wish to Visit Mo {mess men and clerks. And there are shop ris—and pretended shop girls—skurrying y, with skirts well up. All those who, sing us, come east, are loiterers, and tter dressed. The Boulevard is full of whispered conversations, exclamations, cries, and “buses, cracking whips and dashing cab lamps, showing yellow in the blue elec- tric haze of Paris in the twilight. Now and again the cafe lights shine through the fog and make {t look like smoke. The western sky has a dull red; but all around us it is bluish gray, splashed with these streaks and nebulaes of artificial light. From out the westward moving crowd there drop into the cafes dozens, hundreds of the men and girls and women. They seek the warmth and sunshine of the cafe, which is not a drinking bar, but a real parlor. Let's sit. Absinthe? I have as yet to meet the first American upon his travels who desires to taste the green drink of the French. “Waiter, two Amer picons!” It Is a patent bitters, quite Parisian, made up of alcohol, some quinine and many other drugs. It should be flavor- ed with about one-third its weight in cura- coa, though it may be drunk with sirups. ‘The waiter pours a wineglass of it, more or lees, irto a common goblet. Fill up the goblet with ice water, as you would for absinthe. ‘Great Scott, that is a nasty mess! A Critic of French Cooking. Will you play cards? Or read the papers for half an hour? Or talk, talk, talk? Then you must sit and stare around you with the vacant stare. That is Parisian, also. Nine-tenths of all Purisians, who sit star- ing into vacancy at 5:%)p. m., while sipping now and then their drug-made drinks, have no idea of what they stare at. They feel a pleasing reverie. Hope brightens. And the {deal gets a chance to spread herself. The ideal ts the mark of Paris. To the Parisian all women are beautiful, all men are brave, and Parts is the one delightful city of the world. Perhaps this is the rei zon why the tourist comes to Paris, wit his head full of ideals he cannot realizi “Come, let's get out of this. It must be dinner time.” An hour = street again. .” asks the tourist. “Do you think it ls a proper or aesthetic thing to cook up rabbage with a partridge?” No, but they have always done it. And the name sounds well—perdreau aux choux. In time one manages to cultivate a vicious liking for it “I could not eat that pumpkin soup. It was so sweet. Commence a dinner with eet soup?” That 1s another taste to cultivate. The late lamented Charlemagne was very fond pf sweetened pumpkin soup. You see, you Yome straight from America, the land with- yening Types. out traditions. Here it 1s different. The French ine is like the French polite- fees; centuries ago it was so perfect that It could not be improved—so ft stood still. We are just crossing the wide open Place @e V'Opera. Two cabs dash underneath our three cabs criss-cross at our sides y steam locomotives. “Houp! imbecile! canaille!” the coachman gurses us. A thundering omnibus bears into view, as we bump into a bourgeois, a decorated gentleman, with a short white qaustache. “Mais, faites attention!” he gmaris. “And insolents!” his wife sniffs trembling with her indignation. “Aoh yees! ‘ees me,” sneers a cheap clerk on the sid walk. To the Moulin Rouge. “Say, what did those two girls eks the tourist. “They said that Englishmen have alv- the tramp of feet, the noise of cabs. such big feet The girls think we are English, and, being patriots, they hope to insult us—having nothing to gain from us. “Then they have not heard the report that England is to join Russia and France in order to bring about the isolation of Ger- many?’ “No, those ladies only read the Petit Journal.” “Now, let's go somewhere.” Anywhere you please. “Then let us go and see the Moulin Rouge.” The Moulin Rovge! That is the word which Americans in Paris wait to hear! They know it must come out. The very ladies want to go and see its naughtiness. The cab rolls up the hill. The narrow streets with their infrequent laraps roll back. The Boulevard de Clichy, noisy, rol- licking with tts cafes, spreads out and shows the blocd-red windmill arms of this delightful dance hall, which Americans de- sire to see more than the Louvre. But it is quite an error to pretend—as Frenchmen sometimes try to do—that it is really kept up by the English, the Americans, the Germans, Scandinavians, the Belgians, Austrians, Italians, Spanish, Greeks and We Have This Better in America. Turks, East Indians, Africans, Chinese and other puritanical, self-righteous, hypo- critical peoples, who come as tourists to the gay French capital. Night after night three-quarters of its patrons are Parisians. The Moulin Rouge is great, and bright and loud. It sparkles with rose-colored and canary Mghts. Its air is filled with perfumes, laughter, and its lights are filled with colors, silks and satins, ribbons, laces. The Modified Can-Can. Its center is a* great square dance floor, where 200 couples might waits easily. Around the edges there is a broad promen- ade. Beside the promenade, against the wall, there is a raised-up dais with a rail- ing. There the peopie sit at little tables, drinking, gazing. Round the promenade and pushing out into the dance floor there are 3,000 people, walking, chatting, flirting to the music. Its is a waltz. Some fifty couples find room to spin round and round. “Well, they waltz badly. I'll say that for them.” And the worst of it is, the tourist is quite vight, they do waltz badly. “I'll tell you what, my boy; these girls are not as pretty as I had expected them to be. That is your own fault. You should have drunk up your Amer Picon in the cafe, and another, really yes, another. Or an ab- sinthe. You cannot hope to have the ideal whoop and claw within you on a simple Lalf litre of white wine. The bind strikes up the*great quadrille. All changes. Those who promenaded form in groups, ten deep, around each set of dancers. We are in the front row, ail the better! A-R- ba! La-k There's lace and linen! Item, stockinj Ttem, ribbons. Item, “Yes, I think it’s four girls dancing.” Item—that is to say, cnother item. It is the can-can modified to the quadrille, How do you like it? The present writer is not a detective. He does not keep a diary of the doings of his friends. He trusts to memory. But he thinks he is sure that the composite an- swer of the tourists who have taken him up to the Moulin Rouge amounts to: “Is that ai The Artistic Taverns. The crowds break up. The people prom- enade again. The orchestra of sixty pieces always bangs away; and to the sweet strains of the music there come invitations to drink beer. The tourist trembles. Hé is shocked. Yes, yes, the man who thought the spectacle too tame now thinks that buying brandied cherries for a bright-eyed, well-dressed girl would be too—fast! “What else can we see here?” There is the danse du ventre— “I saw it on the Midway Plaisanc: Then let us go, for we must hurry up to be in time for one of the artistic taverns. Montmartre has enough artistic taverns, from Bruant’s “Mirliton,” which has gone out of vogue, to “The Casino of Concier- ges” (or Janitors’ Club), run by the tough old Maxime Lisbonne. First let us try the Cabaret des Quat’-z-Arts, with several poets living off it. The cab rolls on. Hey, cocher, stop! Bang on the window with your umbrella handle. This is the place. R-r-r-r-uk! The cab wheel scrapes the curb. Two francs. The Cabaret des Quat'-z-Arts is a little room, extremely packed, so much so that you cannot tell exactly where you end and where the lady sitting next to you begins. The decorations are most primitive and tar- But It nished. The drinks are bad, bad, bad. the assembled company is very smart. is “correct” for certain types of up) middle-class demi-mondaines and the gilded youth to patronize the poets and the artists who set up artistic taverns to raise the wind. Clubmen, young officers in mufti, common soldiers in their uniforms, com- mercial travelers, and decent bourgeois, with thelr wives and mistresses, make wu! the throng. It is a mild excitement. Th are doing good to keep the geniuses from starving. All they ask is that the songs be—French. A Popular Song. Yon-Lug, with his apostle’s beard, here sings “Les Lanterns Rouges, Pauv’ Popu- which are burlesques on anarchy; Marcel Legay is warbling “I Would Pre- fer to Watch My Sheep!” some verses which would shrivel up the English !an- guage if translated. Secot rails againgt goveryment, in an “Enquete sur la Marines” It is political completely, and more outspoken than would be safe for a French editor to print, Yon-Lug is singing “The Red Lanterns!" “What does it mean?* Here is the poem complete, done into Eng- lish. As I have said, it is a burlesque on the anarchists. Some people seem to find in it a deep philosophy, mixed with great mer riment: One night an anarchist, A common workman, a fumiste, Had poured too much wine in his bag, Which gave him something of a jag. He said, in his stupidity, “Bloot Down with all the bourgeoisie! We ought to hang the proprios To the lamp-posts which light up prolos.” Refrain: Just then tern. Just then nation. Just then tern. he saw a lantern, lantern, he saw a lantern, red as a he saw a lantern, lantern, it was a Bureau of Tobacco; and he said. “Damnation!” He entered it, and never cried And then he bought a very good And then he walked out, saying blithely, “Perhaps I was a little bit too lively.” The mob of girls and men take up the chorus, which is easy to commit to mem- ory, “And then he saw a lantern, lantern, lantern! Just then he saw a lantern, lan- tern, lantern!” ‘The Beer Restaurant. “Well, let us go and see a lantern, lan- tern, lantern!” exclaims the tourist petu- lantly. “I can’t stand any more of that! I cant stand any more of that!” And who would blame him? “It is midnight. What shall we do now?” “We might go to the Carillon. It is an- other cabaret artistique.’ “Thanks, no.” “We might go to the Cafe Americain. It is a rich, expensive cafe and restaurant, open until 4 a.m. A lot of well-dressed ladies sit around.”” ‘No, thanks.” Well, then, we might go down to Pous- set's. It is a very fine beer restaurant, where people eat boiled crabs and onion soup.” “All right.” Three-quarters of an hour has passed. We have seen Catulle Mendes, Mile. Moreno of the Comedie-Francaise, Georges Courte- line, and some half dozen other notables. ‘They eat and talk just like the other peo- ple sitting by them, common deputies and Paris merchants. ‘And now what shall we do?" “Why, anything you please. Paris is all before you, where to choose. Do you wish to gamble? There is a prize fight between two English light weights arranged for to- morrow night. We might step into Francis Brady Reynolds’ Irish-American bar and see if Mr. X— there. We could get tickets from him. “No gambling and no prize fights. There is enough of that In old Chicago.” “Well, then, my dear friend, you had bet- ter go to bed. Shall you go Gown to your hotel?” “Yes, certairly, to the hotel.” STERLING HEILIG. P. S.—On a succeedipg night the tourist goes among the cafes-chantants. He does not nke them. PASSION OF CLEANLINESS. The Busy Mop and Scrub Brush in a Holland Town. Correspondence Boston Herald. A Dutch express train stops whenever it gets a chance. The one on which I left Antwerp dropped me at Roosendaal and left me there to kill the better part of three hours, at the imminent risk of my Ufe from a flood of soapsuds. It was 8:30 in the morning by the Roosendaal town clock. ‘The Roosendaal gutters were bab- bling with their soapy streams, the Roosen- daal house fronts were being scrubbed and the Roosendaal windows were being rubbed with chamois skin; the Roosendaal side walks were being washed and the stair- ways were for a while transformed into small Niagaras. A passion of cleanliness had broken loose upon the town, and house- maids and housewives had bared their arms for the fray. It was a wonderful sight to see. Soapsuds, soapsuds every- where; scrubbing-brushes, sponges, wash cloths, water running down the stairways, through the hallways, down the house fronts, across the pavements. ‘Ihe town was taking its morning bath. ‘The long street of Roosendaal shone with its ablutions. The little shops set forth their most tempting wares behind windows which positively sparkled—such enticing little shops they are, where they sell pretty bits of lace af one counter and excellent brown bacon at the other. The confec- tioners’ shops are the most delectable. No- where else in the world are there such in- sinuating confectioners’ shops as in Hol- jand—and then the confections! toe A FAHYAH MAGICIAN, He Walks Straight Up im the Afr for Some Hundreds of Feet. From the Cincinnat! Commercial Gazette. Charles Harkinson, a manager and actor, who has traveled ell over Asia, Africa and Europe, tells the following wonderful story of a Fahyah magician, who walked right straight up through the air to a height of several hundred feet: “The Fahyahs are the greatest necro- mancers, hypnotists and magicians of the world, and are supposed to be descendants of the old mijJas of Biblical lore. “One of their principal feats is that of walking upward through the air to a con- siderable height. ‘The Fahyah who per- forms this startling feat first lies flat on the earth, face downward, for a minute or a minute and a half. He then rises quick- ly, and, placing his arms tightly against his sides, deliberately walks right up into the air as high as his powers of endurance will permit. When his strength is ex- hausted by treading thin ether, he simply stops (usually at a height of from 20 to 400 feet), waves his arms wildly a time or two, and then begins the descent. One who secs this startling feat performed will agree with me that it is a difficult matter to belleve one’s eyes, and shake off the idea that a miracle has not been enacted. ‘One who is not satisfied with the ‘alr- walking feat’ may hold a coin in his hand, while Fahyah mutters over it, and then open his fingers and find the coin gone and a slimy serpent in its place.” ses THE MAN TOOK THE PLEDGE. How Secretary of State Palmer Was Worsted in Wrestling With the Civil Service. ¥rom the New York World. Secretary of State John M. Palmer tells a good story about his wrestle with the civil service. “When I was electe: was one little place which was wanted by a fricnd of mine. He was an old soliicr, without much money, and a man (horongh- ly competent and trustworthy. I promised him the place. When I came to appeint him I found that it was under the civil service. I told him to go and take the ex- amination and then I'd 4x iim. He came out fcurth on the list as it was returned to me. he said, “there looked over the returns. The first man had been a little lame on spelling. I ob- jected to him. He would never do. The Be 1d could spell all vight, but was a Iit- tle lame in his handwriting. I got rid of him. The third wrote like copper plate and spelled like a dictionary. No flaws were visible. Then I remembered that he was inclined to be extremely convivial. So I sald: ‘I'll appoint him, and the first time he gets drunk I'll fire him for cause and then appoint the man I want.’ So I ap- pointed No. 3, and what do you suppose the ungrateful rascal did? “Well, I'm blessed if he didn’t take the pledge the day he commenced work, and has never taken a drink since.” — see Divorce in England. From the London Datly News. In the last year for which the judicial statistics are made up (and only now pub- lished)—the year ending October 31,1893— there were 887 decrees absolute for disso- lution of marriage and 30 cases in which decree nisi was pronounced. Pilgrims @ the Cholera, From the Medical Record. The Mecca pilgrimage in 1893 was much larger than usual, aggregating over 250,000 souls. Of this number 25,000 died, most of them from cholera. ++ His Hard Luck. From Fltegende Blatter. HISTORIC REMOVAL Light Thrown on the Transfer of the Departments 0 THIS CHY The Washington of 1800 as It Ap- peared to Officials. FROM wi aes ee Ne SITES The paper which Mr. W. B. Bryan read before the Historical Society on Monday night threw a large amount of light on the -history of the removal of the depart- ments of the government from Philadelphia to this city, and incidentally was a valuable addition to local history. Mr. Bryan stated that he drew some of the material from old letter boohs found in the departments. ‘The richest yield came from some characteristic and gosstpy letters written by Mr. Abra- ham Bradley, jr., the assistant postmaster general in the year 1800 and for many years later. Mr. Bradley had entire charge of the removal of the Post Office Department to this city, and his official corerspondence on the subject is filled with interesting data concerning the Washington of his time. Under date of June 2, 1800, Mr. Bradley writes to his friend, Robert Patton, as fol- lows: “We arrived here on Friday las! having had a pleasant journey as far as we traveled by daylight. Capt, Stevenson, with whom I agreed for a house before my arrival, was not ready to give possession, and the house was not convenient for us. I have therefore taken a large, three-story house within a few rods of Blodgett's Hotel, which will accommodate the office and my family and the postmaster’s oftice. It is about equidistant from the President's house and the Capitol. It is impossible that all the people attached to the public offices should be accommodated with houses, the few that have been left are at rents none un- der $250 and $300. Provisions are plenty,g00d enough and cheaper than in Philadelphia. You can buy a peck of field strawberries for a tive-penny bit, garden at 11 cents a quart. Vegetation ig at least two weeks earlier here than in Philadelphia. For my- self 1 lo not regret the removal. The situa- ton of the city is beautiful, and this season is extremely pleasant.” A Prophecy. Under date of June 11, Mr. Bradley writes to the Postmaster General, as follows: “We have not been able to open the office and to commence business until to- day. I left Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 27, and arrived on Friday evening, the zath. The President left Philadelphia the 26th and arrived at Georgetown June 1. The situation of the city is extremely pleasant, and will probably become the greatest city in America. Provisions are plenty ana cheap, but it will hardiy be possible for all those attached to public cflices to be accommodated with houses within two miles of the offices. I have not been able to learn whether any house has been taken for your family, and have, therefore, been ty to store your furni- ture in Georgetgwn. We have taken Dr. Cracker’s house for tgis office (close to the great hotel) and-forymy family at 00 a year. The apportionment of the rent 1 shall leave to you. It appears to me that $200 is as much as 1 ought to pay for a house. Our office is kept on the second floor, which contains one large room and two small ones. The largest room is 27x17 feet, and smallest rooms are each 15x14’ feet. he front room on the first floor was pre- pared for Mr. Monroe's office, with an apart- ment for blanks. Only half the floors were laid when we took the house, and only four rooms were plastered. The owner al- lowed us to expend $i of the rent to make it tenantable. The carpenters are now at work and we shall complete, as far as our money shall permit, by the last of next week, at which time Mr. Monroe will move his office here. * * * We have a flood of business on hand at this time, and our removal has put us a month in ar- rears. It took us a week to prepare to move, load, etc, and it will take us another week to get our things in the proper order.” The removal of the government, as Mr. Bradley indicates, took place in the early part of June. Congress adjourned about the 20th of May, or rather took a recess, to meet again in this city in November, Location of Building. “The information which ts in the letters cf Mr. Bradley,” said Mr. Bryan, “will be recognized as constituting @ valuable con- | tribution to the history of that period. While Mr. Bradley does not give the exact Iccation of the building that was leased for the use of the Post Office Department, his description is, perhaps, as accurate as could be expected under the circumstances; it is hardiy necessary to say that while the streets of the city of Washington were beautifully delineated on paper, and care- fully named, there was no indication, or at least very little, in the city itself that there were any streets. Some years later 4“ traveler to the city stated that he was in the center of the city when he thought he was still some distance away. There was the Capitol and the White House, and midway, as Mr. Bradley says, the large building known then as Blodgett’s, or the Great Hotel. It was located on the site of the south wing of the present Post Office Department. From Mr. Bradley's account, as made more definite by other records, it Is beiieved that the house re- ferred to was at or near the corner of 9th ard E streets. Reference is made by Mr. Bradley to providing quarters for Mr. Mon- roe’s office in this building. Mr. Monroe was at that time the postmaster of the city, and this statement clears up a rather doubtful period in the early history of the city post office. At any rate, the Joint ten- ancy of the Post Othce Department and the city post office then began, which was continued with but slight interruptions up to a few years ago.” Mr. Bryan takes issue with a published account of the removal, in which it is stated that the transfer Was not a very formidable affair. “The oldest inhabitant assures me,” says this account, “that a single packet sloop brought all the office furniture of the departments, besides the ‘seven large boxes and four or five smaller ones,’ which contained the archives of the government. Fifty-four persons, comprising the President, secretaries and _ clerical force, chose their own method of convey- ane Mr. Bryan holds that, while the depart- ments were not very immense affairs at that time, it took more than one vessel to remove the effects. He says: “fhe first blue book, which was printed in the year 1792, shows that the employes in the government departments numbered 134, exclusive of the heads of the depart- ments. The Nayy Department was not then in existence, and the general post cf- fice, with Timothy Pickering as Postmaster General, is put dgwn as having no returns. The next blue book was sent to Congress by President Jefferson on January 12, 1802, and the number of department employes is given as 126. The total amount paid as salaries when the transfer was made to Washington was $125,881. The employes for the first year in ‘the new city appor- tioned among the departments were as fol- lows: State Department, 8 clerks; Treas- ury Department, 75 clerks; War Depart. ment, 17; Navy Department, 16, and Post Office Department,- 10,” He quotes the account of an eye witness, one Christian Hines, who has given his recollections of the early days of the cap- ital city. Mr. Hines’ account of the re- moval is as follows: “About this time (1800) the seat of the government was removed from Philadel- phia to Washington city. The v in which was brought the furniture, landed and discharged their cargoes Lear's wharf, and, as the vessels were un- Jaden, their contents were carried away to e War and Treasury offices, the only two t were built at that time. Some of the irniture was stored in the stone ware- house, and afterward taken away in wag- it being too bulky to remove in carts. ns were rather scarce in Washington “That time and our cart was eng with others in removing the boxes of bool papers, &c. J st!!! remomber that many of ag the boxes were Pnertiey with the name, — Hyped ee it will be noted,” mre Mr. Bryan, “that Mr. ‘Hine uses the word vessels, and does not say that ‘a single packet sloop’ brought all the office furniture and records. Fortunately, there is more substantial evi- dence of the extent of this removal than afforded by the recollections of a man eighty-four years old. The disbursements of that year, as recorded in the records of the Treasury Department, show that nearly $40,000 was expended to defray the expenses of the removal. If all the gov- ernment archives and the office furniture was transported in ‘a single packet sloop,’ and there were only fifty-four officials, the cost of the removal must be classified as one of the most extravagant expenditures in the history of the government.” City im 1800. Continuing, Mr. Bryan states that the records and furniture were conveyed by vessels, while the employes came by stage or private conveyance. A large proportion were obliged to go to Georgetown. In 1800 the population of the city was estimaved at 3,000. On the 15th of May there were 109 brick houses in the city and 253 frame houses. During the following year 84 brick and 151 frame houses were com- pleted, and on the 15th of November, in- cluding unfinished structures, there were 721 houses in the city. -Speaking of the city at that time, he says: “The only building that was then com- pleted and ready for the occupation of the executive departments of the government was the Treasury Department building, which occupied the site of the south front of the present structure. It was a plain, Syro-stury:) structure of brick and stone, ith an attic and basement, and contained thirty rooms. This building was destroyed fire in 1833, and the ruins were removed to give place to the present structure, the erqction of which was begun about that time. It was in exterior appearance the counterpart of the old State Department building, which was subsequently erected on the site of the present north front of the theasury building, and was only re- moved within comparatively recent years. A shovt time before the removal to Wash- ington the commissioners began the erec- tion of a building similar in appearance and size to the treasury office, at the south- west corner of the White Hous3 grounds, but It was not ready for the occupancy of the clerks at the time of the removal. It was known as the war office, and in later years was called the Navy Department buflding. . “The Treasury Department, which at that period was the largest and most im- portant department, and ts probably so considered today, took possession of the building which had been erected for its use. The War Department leased a three- story house on the south side of Penn- sylvania avenue between 2ist and 22d streets, nearly opposite the hotel kept by Willlam O'’Neale, whose daughter Peggy gained much notoriety during Jackson administration. The Post Office Depart ment, as Mr. Bradley states, leased @ building at the corner of 9th and E streets. The other departments probably secured quarters in leosed bulidings in the vicinity of the White House, and the habit which the government formed at that early day of renting buildings for the accommoda- tion of the executive departments instead of erecting buildings has continued to mark its policy ever since. Owing to the lim- ited accommodations which had been pro- vided for the government in the new city a large proportion of the government ef- fects were stored in the stone warehouse which had been erected at the foot of 25th street by Colonel Tobias Lear, formerly a private secretary of General Washington. During the succeeding months of the sum- mer the government officials had an op- portunity to recover from the confusion of the removal and to set going again the wheels of machinery of the government business. President Adams made but a short visit at’ this time. Congress con- vened in the new city on the 17th of No- vember, and the members of that august body did not fare much better than the employes of the executive departments in respect to the accommodations which were provided. Only the north wing of the Capi- tol had been completed and both houses met in that portion of the building. An appropriation of $9,000 for the purchase of furniture for the use of both houses of Congress had been made and liberal pro- vision was allowed to the officers of both houses to defray the expenses of removal. Some $6,006 was spent in providing suitable furniture for the President's house, but it is evident that only a small propor- ticn was in place when Mrs Adams ar- rived there tn November. ——— THE USEFUL BAMBOO. The Chinese Utilize It in a Variety of Ways. Just go and look at your long, slender bamboo fishing pole, and try to fancy what @ house would look like built of that sort of thing. Yet whea a Chinaman wishes to build a house, he doesn’t hire an architect and look up a contractor, and turn gray over plumbers and decorators, he just merely goes and plants a few bamboo roota. Then he goes on quietly attending to his business and lets them grow. Im a few months he hag a fine forest of bamboo from forty to eighty feet bigh, and with stalks ranging from half an inch to eighteen inches in diameter. He digs a trench the shape and size he wishes his house, and proceeds to cut the trees he thinks the proper size and set them up in this trench, which he then fills up. With the slenderer stalks he makes the rafters and shingles it with bamboo leaves. The windows are delicate lattice work of bamboo, and the furniture is of slender bamboo, bent and curled and plaited. His water bucket is a xood big stalk sawed of just below the joint and made as deep as he needs above it. For a bottle he takes a slender piece and treats it in the same way. If in the con- fusion of building he mislays his knife he just takes a good sharp edge of bamboo, and does just as well for everything except cutting bamboo, as if it were Sheffield steel. While he is building he keeps off the pangs of hunger by cutting the littie tender shoots just as they peep from the ground, and cooking them like asparagus. Of course we all know how dangerous it ts to move at once into a new house, it is 90 likely to be damp, and so Mr. Sin Foo catches a severe cold. All he does is to run out to his bam- boo thicket, gather a few leaves, boil them and drink the tea. In a day or so he ts all right and ready to enjoy the delicious din- ner which Mrs. Sin Foo has prepared ta honor of the “roof raising.” She has deli- cate boiled bamboo shoots, bamboo grains baked in a bamboo joint with honey and bamboo shoots candied with sugar. I can’t tell you all they make of bamboo. Masts and cordage, kites, fences, bridges, fans, pipes for carrying water over the rice fields, the finest of paper, and, in fact nearly everything they-use. The stranges! of all uses is to bore gas and oil wells with it. They begin by twirling a hollowed bam- boo pole where they wish to sink the well. This gradually works its way into the ground. When sunk to its full length, they fasten another to the end of it, and keep on twirling. This operation they keep up un- til they strike gas or ol, which comes gush- ing up through the poles. They use them also for bringing brine to the surface from the salt wells. And then just think how much cleaner, prettier and more graceful it is than our ugly iron work. Apropos of this I remember an incident of the dainty little Japanese folk who took part in the Columbian exposition last year. In the space allotted for their village was one of our ordinary iron water taj It never co- curs to us to notice how hideous they are, but the Japanese looked at it, shuddered as one man, and at once set about hiding the hateful object with clean, shining bamboo. Acream of tartar ba der. Highest of all in lea’ strength,—Latest United States Goveramen Food Report, _ Royal Baking Powder Oa, 106 WallSt,, ¥.%. pow- leavening Have Same: Diseases seme All progressive physicians now admit the correctness of “the germ theory of disease.” ‘They kuow that all diseases fre caused by germs, or microbes, which lodge im some orgun, get into the blood, and multiply with terrible rapidity, The trouble may show in the head, lunge, stomach or elsewhere. You may call it by any name you choose, but the cause is the same—microbes in the blood—microbes at the root of your life. Kill them and it cures you. Let them lve and you die. 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TO PAY—BESIDES A WHOLE LOT OF OTHB{ THINGS THAT CALL FOR CASH —THERE’S COMPANY COMING AND ITLL NEVER DO FOR THEM TO THAT WORN-OUT CARPET IN THE HALL—OB THAT OLD-#ASHIONED PARLOR SUITE— GET ANEW ONE ON CREDIT! WE'LL DUFLICATR THB LOWEST PRICES YOU CAN FIND IN ANY OF THE CASH STORES—AND WE WON'T ASK YOU TO SIGN A NOTE—OR TO PAY A PENNY INTEREST—JUST PROMISE UBS THAT YOU WILL PAY A LITTLE MONEY ONCE A WEEK OR ONCE A MONTR. ALL CARPETS MADE AND LAID FREE OF cosT, PLUSH OR HAIRCLOTH SUITES—CHOICE, $22.50. SOLID OAK BED ROOM SUITE, $18. SPLENDID BRUSSELS CARPET, 60e. PER YARD. RELIABLE UNGRAIN CARPET, 35e. PER ‘YARD. MADE AND LAD) FREE OF COST. SOLID OAK EXTENSION TABLE, $8.80, HAIR MATTRESS, $7. VIRE SPRINGS, $1.75. HEATING AND COOKING STOVES—ALL SIZES—STANDARD MAKES, YOURS FOR A PROMISE TO PAY. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH GREDIT MOUSE, 819-821-823 TTH STREET NORTHWEST, Between H and I streets, PARLOR Serviceable BUT NOE Expensive. WE MEAN THOSE Bohemian Prices—TBSe._ to $3.00 Nice for Holiday Gt each. be shown our stock =D BOT Sats MOR Chafing Dishes. Always serviceable. M. W. Beveridge, 14, GLASS AND HOUSEFURNISHINGS, 1915 F AND 1214 G 878. tm Stat ember 25, 1804. 10:30" vin “PENNSYLVASER Lire pun, man Sleeping, Dining, Smoking and Observation Cars, Hi arg to Chicago, Indian aaa aad Toieds, Butter Pastor Car “Parlor and’ Dining Cars CHICAGO AND ST. paid EXPhEss— Eguaet, Dina ace ‘Haccabarg to SE th, Low re, larrisburg to St. ville and N SEXP SSPottman Sh and Harrisburg to Clevel WESTERN EXPRESS—Pull- pind, Dining Care to Bt. Louie’ aad Sleeping Herrisburg to Cincinnati. EXPRESS—Puliman Sleep- tnt? 80, BM PACIFIC & Cananta: Roch: ster Siasare, Pails ain daly” i. 4 ‘anda. ly, ex copt Staal Bor Williamsport due,’ fo a: iliamsport, ‘Rochester, a ‘and Falls dalte eereoe Saturday, with Steep- a Car Washington, to P.M, for Erie, 7 ode Rochester, But- Niagara Falls =i with ing Car to Elmira, Saturdays only, Creek Line, 7:20 a.m. and 4:36 p.m. Pope's gucept, Sunday, ao aenialin, Te, rope binder. ‘Genasvay Sas pin, am, and 4:20 antic “Codst | Li Prean mond, Jacksonville and Le a oO SM. PREVOST, $2 OB qgitmera! Manager. General Passenger Agent. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY, fhrough the grandest the Landsomest ‘aod tost ice west frou Washington. est! pe: the: Hghted Ste heated’ Train. eeplug cars Washington to lis St. Louis without, from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati, 8:00 Indianapolis, 11:40 a.m., and Chicago, 5: St; Loule, 6:56 p.m. a8 Louisville, without chai Hinton, ‘Arrives Cinclunat p.m. loago, 7:30 connects in Union de “it 37 A.M, EXC ™Puliman locations and fives, 513 wiv 342) Peunsylyania a3 and tickets at nats oe avenue. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, Schedule in effect November 18, |1504. Leave Washingtoa from station corner of New Jersey avenue aud O si For Chicago und Nortbae Vestibuled Limited aprons tratas, 11:20 @ St. Louie ‘and Vesti- baled Limited, 3:30 P.M. ; express, 12:01 te For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express j» 11:30 am. aud 8:30 pn, For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. Hor Winchester and wi Luray, Natural OOK ay pbs Eee Se ae. 208, x900, 1 11 E a 8:30 me ATS Eas wm Wor Hagerstown, 11:30 ~F7q* tg 25:39 pm For or Chto’ aba Sa te wae tittdo » rey ‘50, 0, 84:38, yea oi wae fa agri fe Janction and =F potots, roth ma principe! stations obi Dm at 10:00 o' Car), aes “Tuitet Pariok Garston all Pa For Atlantic Ci a.m, 10:00 a.m, and 12:00 noon, 4.m.,'12:00 noon. aExcept Sunday, fa Baggage called far nn nd checked. from hotels residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left. gear tea ave, New York ave. and Bio” “Gen, Manager. oan ‘Pass. Agt. SOUTHERN war ediect November” " 1094, an trains arrive ond taave, at ft Eo com = Danville, —— at ‘Lynebburg with tks Norfou aud’ Woscerse Western, 11:01 A.M.—Datly— MAT cates Datly-The UNITED STATES a fe Riga deere de Sleeper New York to ta wil emphia, ection Tp for New Orleans; connects at Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala., Mi SHORT York and Washi ullman Double rawing “Room Compartment i] w York to St. Augustine. First-class Gay Wash op, to, vet ing withogt we ies AN 10:48 VESTERN = 3 ing, oe at Me aalty, ex a t Sunday, ex cep UNDERTAKERS. W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Northwest. Everything strictly first-class and on the most reasonable terms. Telephone call, 840, jal-tr cereale eee nema Nise wtf ronsisuiryd YORE z i YORK avi x. Televbone 205. Lo ” eata-te COAL AND WOOD Wm. King & Son, 1022 16TH ST, AND 2005 K 8B. SELECT GRADES OF ANTHRACITE FOR PAM» ILY USE CANNEL AND SPLINT FOR GRATES. HICKORY AND OAK POR ANDIRONS. CUMBERLAND COAL. 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