Show OUR washington cef flat krom jitni taiti i washington april 25 ISM washington is m dull terribly dull just now cow al all I 1 the newspaper correa cones pond euta think second term hus has about died out and the eating citing situations to which it gave rise rise have boon boea worked tor for it 11 thoy worth spring is la with such accessories cess ories ories BS as sunshades sun shades bouquets strawberry straw borry vendors street harpists harpis ts and the woman with the hand organ and the baby but society is la cop comparatively parit tive ly quiet weddings tire are still in a vogue b but ut tho the ray gay world was waa pretty e ty t well exhausted with the tha win 1 ter r a rout and does doea not levort to ito ita ante lenten zest but aprils torpor in il washington will be more than fur for b by y amity y in slay L everybody very bodY is is talc 1139 t on th the 0 national Kation ul drill aud nil preparations are being carried forcari as rapidly as aa pos poa sible bible angur who lins boon appointed c oom maudant of the C camp a nip Is IB in appearance commanding it and nd the embodiment of soldierly qualities ua ila wears side whiskers aud and eyeglasses eye glasses and is is altogether a beryline very line looking officer ue ile lives with lia his family in an old fashioned brick house in in georgetown arid and Is 13 on tho the retired list of the Army for which ho remarked that ho he was glad because he would have leisure to attend to his now new duties I 1 while it if ho he were in in act active i yo service he could not lot have accepted the position but bat the drill is is not the only billed for may gay society always flocks to the bocky club races and they will come oil oaf next week then fore foie P in abs circus is coming is is coining toe the national association of hotel keepers is is caming there are to be reunions of one kind and another a their and the nav na oiling of the garfield statue and the meeting meetie of tile the army of the cumberland Oum berland will ano also take place early in in the tha month of flowers it looked last week before dent Clev cleveland elands a views anti and wishes concern concerning ings a second term bad been reported as if nothing on earth could prevent his mation now that the manifestation or of alleged coyness and indifference concerning that pos I 1 sivility lity is alleg alleged e d of him it loo loola ka as it his bis re nomina mation tion could not bo be pro vented by anything on the earth beneath or in in the heavens abono above till all things also the human libart heart desires the inaccessible and it if mr cleveland should see fit to say any definitely that be did rot cot wish to be 13 president resident tor rot a second toron term there would bip apa a mineral general clamor for him bun coming camink oven aven from those who tiro are now his bia political enemies enemies the ibe interstate inter state commerce Oon amerce oora com mission has been wrestling with th he long and short haul ba 1 ul across the con all the transcontinental rail w ways ays have applied for the of tho the short haul claus epand have put pat forth as good if not better rear rea so boris as why ill ift should be dono done than liban these that were given and proved sufficient in the be case of the bouthern Eon thern railways it looks as if the commission eio will mil havo to serve all alike although it is a court authorized to do de cide different ways tor for each railroad it can suspend in one case and re fuse to do so in a precisely similar on one a while our lawmakers law makers are away conveniences and improvements at the capitol which they voted money for are ara gradually being mada imade two no new w elevators are to be ba put in il place ace ona at aba senate end and ana one at the house end ot of the building There will then be ba four elevators in the capitol one at each of the four corners which will wih add brately to the convenience of fisit visitors ors as well as legislators tho the contract for constructing truc ting the two new ones was yes berday awarded to a chicago cora co m party pany at the amount ampro by congress tor for the whole work was the landscape architect of the national capitol capital recently made the grave mistake of setting out but ever green trees orr orf the mhd now new marble ter race around the ibo north and west fronts of or thi the capitol building the dome has long been criticised criticized sa as looking coking too large or out of corpor tion ion to the rest of the structure I 1 and be tha terrace was plagued and built for the ibe purpose of I 1 increasing the alpar ent at height I 1 ight of the tb building of course those these trees break the aba architectural continuity and destroy absurdly tho the very illusion of height which the terrace is intended to ere ate instead of seeming the baso base of the be capitol facade the terrace tiow frow looks liken wall around the with trees glinted on the lawn ali n 1 side the aba trees can bo be so aaen e a from E a distance over the parapet of the ter race and the effect is is that of an on n closed garden from every standpoint it is also argued by art critics abat the vertical lines of the trees ree abe y are irish yews bews are incongruous wath the ho horizontal line in the class classical idil architecture of the C capitol a pito 1 and the architect has decided to remove them |