The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 410, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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A PALATIAL R R. STATION.
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Washington. D. C., July 31.—When
plans for a greater and more beauti-
ful Washington have been carried to
completion the capital of the nation
will be In very iruth a city of palace?.
Nearly all of the costly white struct-
ures of stone ana marble will be de-
voted to the uses of the government,
but there will be one building for com-
mercial uses solely which In no syise
will fall short o-f the nation's houses
either in dignity or in beauty.
The union station under construct
tion by the Washington Terminal com-
pany, a corporation controlled ointly
by the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pennsylvania railroad, ia apnroachlgn
completion. The statement is fairly
forced from one who sees the build-
• ing, even in its unfinished slate, that
Mr. Buirnham has conceived an edifice
that will surpass in the beauty of its
outlines and in its Impressiveness any
other building in the world intended
for like purposes.
Beauty a Leading Requirement.
The Union station of Washington
was planned on a huge scale and with
beauty as one of the chief require-
ments because the primary intention
was to make the building worthy of
Its necessarily close companionship
with the capitol, the congressional
library and the other public structures
of Washington present and prospec-
tive. In length and in breadth the sta-
tion will be a greater building than the
capitol.
At the front of the structure there
will be a parklike space containing
720,000 square feet., Fromi this avenues
will lead out like the spokes fiorn the
hub of a wheel and at the end of the
lines of vision along these avenues the
eye will rest upon the capitol, the
library, the Washington monument
and other edifices of the nation's legis-
lative city.
It will be years before (he plans
which had birth in the minds of
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Pierre L'Enfant for the beau-
tifying of the nation's capital will be
carried to completion, but as far as it
is possible under modern conditions
the general line of their ideas will be
followed.
May Remove Unsightly Buildings.
. Between the capitol and the Wash-
ington monument today there is a
mall. The stretch of green is broken
by cross streets, and buildings, some
of them none too sightly, are scatter-
ed here and there. When "Beautiful
Washington" becomes a reality this
mall will be much wider than it is at
present and the buildings which it will
contain will rise in beauty on the right
and on the left.
Between the north boundary line of
the present mall and Pennsylvania
avenue are business houses, lumber
yards, saloons, lodging houses and
many places of unsavory name. If
the greed of the Washington property
owners can be overcome the day is
not far distant when the nation will
own all this territory. The govern-
tween the capitol and the treasury (trustees. It will then be able to dc-
bulldiug, one mile away. This one
government-owned structure Is the
postoffice building, which stands on
the north Bide of the avenue' at the
corner of Twelfth street. The post-
office Is a huge afTair, but it is none
too beautiful. The hope is that, cost-
ly as It was, it will be taken down—
sacrificed to the spirit of improvement.
A municipal building is under con-
struction on the south side of Penn-
sylvania avenue at Fourteenth street.
Near it may "bo erected a home for the
Department of State and the Depart-
ment MPtommerce and Labor.
new Agricultural Department
building has been provided for and in
the days to come other government
structures will rise on the south side
of Pennsylvania avenue, lining the
great green space with its towering
trees, which will stretch away nobly
for a Cull mile from the capitol west to
the Washington imonuiment.
Will Create Grand Avenue.
North of the capitol the Union sta-
tion is rising and the day will come
when an arriving traveler may drive
from the doorway of vtho station
through one of the grandest avenues
of the world and on the right hand
and on the left hand may look upon
a succession of buildings which for
cumulative beauty probably jwill have
no rivals in the world.
Nor will the monument mark the
end of that drive of beauty. To the
righf of this granite memorial to
George Washington is the White
House, with its outlying lawns. Near
It is the gray treasury building, with
a isolid beauty all its own, and farther
toward the west are the Corcoran Art
Gallery and the Continental Hall and
the State, War and Navyi building.
Before many years a stately bridge
will arch the flood of the Potomac and
one irnay cross from the base of the
monument to walk in the shade of the
trees at Arlington, where sleep the
nation's dead.
HOTEL FOR WORKING GIRLS.
Newt York, July 31.—Trowmart Inn,
Abingdon Square, for business women,
will open August 1. As far as the
guests are concerned it will be a busi-
ness proposition; aa far as its pro-
prietor, William It. IT. Martin, owner
of the Hotel Martinique, Thirty-third
street and Broadway, is concerned, it
will l)e a generous attempt to meet a
real social need without a cent of
profit to himself.
The hotel has cost Mr. Martin sev-
eral hundred thousand dollars—exactly
how many he will not say. It will of-
ler accommodations to workingwomen
who earn less than $15 a week and
who are under 35 years old. For $5 a
week, if a girl lives by herself, or for
$4.50 if she rooms with another, she
will have a bright, clean, airy bedroom
and breakfast and dinner. Moreover,
she will have the use of the public
sitting rooms, a piano and pianola,
and a library.
Only to Pay Running Expenses.
mand exemption from taxes, and this
may allow a reduction in the rates.
"I do not wish," said Mr. Martin
yesterday, "ta have the rates so low
as to allow employers to take advant-
age of it. For instance it is not my
purpose that they shall be able to
say to their employes that as they can
get such cheap rates at the Trowmart
they Intend to cut their wages down.
I think the women should pay just
about as 'much as they aro paying at
present, but that they should get a
great deal more for their money."
Many Conveniences Provided.
That they will do so is proved by
the fact that among the other con-
veniences will be a sewing room with
machines, cutting tables and stoves
for irons, and a laundry with ironing
facilities running hot and cold water,
and a steam heated drying room. In
addition, among the guests will be a
woman physician, whose services will
be always available at lower rates than
are ordinarily charged.
Mr. Martin explained as follows his
reason for fixing 35 as the age limit
after which women will not be ad-
mitted:
"I believe that women.of 35 can look
alter themselves. The need of a hotel
for them Is not so great, and I shall
discriminate in favor of the younger
ones. I do not think that the girl who
is working needs any particular look-
ing after and there will bo no rules
as to their conduct. Of course,-if any
of them want advice we shall be glad
to give it, but to force it upon them
would be to defeat our purpose. The
guests will have a perfect right to re-
ceive their man friends on the ground
floor. There are sitting rooms pro-
vided for that ^purpose. But no men
will be allowed to go aipstairs."
Girls Must Give References.
References will be asked of all per-
manent guests but stress is laid in the
prospectus upon the fact that of those
who come for a night, no matter at
what time of night, no questions will
be asked. A few roonvs aro to be kept
for transients, and no woman will ne
turned away to take her chances of'
the streets while they last.
was killed some time ago in a duel
with J. A. White, and who left a large
estate, is the plaintiff in the case, re-
cently filed, asking, that the decree of
divorce be set aside with the supreme
court decision referred to as the
ground for the suit. Mrs. Johnson was
the defendant in tne divorce suit, and'
alleges that she was a resident of
Texas, at the time Hie suit was
brought by her husband, and that no
service of summons was ever made
on her in Hie manner required by the
decision, which holds that no decree
of divorce is valid unless the parties
live in the same jurisdiction or had
service of process entered upon them
personally, or had entered their ap-
pearance in the action.
There is liable to be all manner
of complications started as to the
property owned by Johnson, if the
lapse of time proves no bar to this
action, in addition to invalidating all
sales of property made since granting
the divorce, it would also make a
change in the line of de-cent from
Johnson. If the divorce were set
aside, the first Mrs. Johnson would be
legal heir to half the estate, and the
second Mrs. Johnson (for lie married
again after securing the divorce), who
has been enjoying the property, would
be cut off altogether. The other heirs
would ol course come in for the same
shares which they have received.
A great deal of tho property has
been sold since Johnson's death. In
fact, the whole estate has been appor-
tioned and the interests of the heirs
set off, and this has been to a l'rge
extent disposed of. The suit involves
all the lots in the south half of Cor-
dell, including some of iis most sub-
stantial business buildings.
The effort on the part of Susie
Searcy and Peter Van, recently, to
secure a marriage license at Musko-
gee, brings up another peculiar ques
tion regarding the divorce laws and
their interpretation, Tho woman ae
knowledges she has a husband living
in Kentucky, where they separated
I fifteen years ago without getting a
divorce in the courts. Had it not been
for the intervention of her brother, a
A number of inquiries have been re-! reaIdent of Tul?a. who told the district
ceived from women anxious to get' c,er'^ a( Muskogee of the mixed-up
rooms. The'hotel stands close to the1 slate °f hcr mnrital affairs' sho might
shopping district and within easy! , ha<1 hv0 ,hnsbnnds »'y this time,
reach of the business offices, and its' yi'° haS ljcen away from he: husband,
guests will find it well situated. j whose name is Holmes, too Icpg to
"I suppose there will be many! "f"1'8 a ,livorcc fr0'n hi,,1> a"«l
things for me to learn," said Mr. Mar-! "'ic. secured he will have to
tin, "about running a hotel for women, i 1 hls '),aces her in- a peculiar
For instance, I am not clear about1 «,Uiatl(,,1_ sho was positive that the
what sort, of books to get for tho1 s °f Kentucky ,1i(I not require her
library, and I do not wish to fill it I t0 get. il (1Jvoi-ce. hut was advised to
with books so heavy that no one wants1 lnvestl^ate further before she tried
them, or with mere trash on the other! Iliar'3'n£
hand. But I shall learn by experience,! ^ Similar Case at Meno.
After
and, I trust
cess."
make the scheme a su~- 1
WASHITA COUNTY CASE.
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living togetner, believing
| themselves as man and wife, for over
l thirty-nine years, raising a large
. family and accumulating considerable
! iin. I wealth, Charles H. Holden, aged 64,
: The first suit to be based on the re- and Adeline Holden, aged 61 of Meno
[cent divorce decision of the United discovered a few" days ago that the^
meet Wl,l tad, the ground" of Its | ,T 1' ST *0'"= TL'vYv-1 I"" T neoord„,s
incumbrances and there will be a great sufficient to pay running expenses and oui iimmn r . ' , ay | law- Tlie> ftere married by a minis-
park from tho capltcl to the Wash-1 provide a maintenance fund. On tlio',ho district court of Washita ! \TJ? M,SS0"H 18C7> antl ho lss«ed
Ington monument and from Pennsyl- one hand there is to be no endowment „ ,lo;ids tho* title to U,Uv ZrTf n 1 h 7' " n,im',aK° CCrtffolte' whIch
vanla avenue eo::th for about half a fund; on the other Mr Martin does').,, in •• t ' r the they have carefully preserved, and it
| not t„ take arZ ,, Z ' , J" Z, ZZ,* — ""Iy —
Would Ccrl.cc 'ou.lay. After the hotel h„, been op™ C <» conversi,«o„
Today (here is only one government a year and it. Is an established sue-' Mrs M C Tohmon n, r , Gained that their failure to pro-
structure on Pennsylvania avenue be- cess he Intends to hand it over to the wife of he'm " a ' ? C'"'0 a nmrrlage )ico,,so made the COTe"
or the late A. J. Johnson, who mony illegal. They consulted a lawyer
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