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Show Rivalry, for Finest Cafe. Former Vice President Levi P. Mor ton and Secretary of State John Hay aro accused of engaging In n friendly rivalry as to which shall have the credit of giving the nation's capital tho most modern up-to-dato cafe'. Secretary Sec-retary Hay Is building a 700-room flat or apartment house In Connecticut avenue, one of tho swellest thoroughfares thorough-fares In Washington. One of the attractions at-tractions of the Hay flat Is to be a cafo or restaurant, conducted on a Bcale far beyond anything of tho kind over before attempted In the capital city. A similar Idea struck Mr. Morton, Mor-ton, and ho Is spending thousands of dollars remodeling his hotel property In Fifteenth street. He camo to Washington Wash-ington last spring and Instructed his business representative to proceed, without limit of expense, to surpass all possible competitors In the public-house public-house business. |