Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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charming and celebratedValley Forge Farm near Philadelphia, his-torically famous as the headquarters ofWashington. His married daughter livesthere in a house furnished in the style ofthe period when Valley Forge was in theminds of everybody, and so the SmokyCity sees very little of its Senator. Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, too,lives nearly all of the time, when not inEurope or at Bar Harbor in the summer,in his pretentious Washington house, withinhalf a block of that of Senator Knox, builtby his wife, the daughter of the late Sen-ator Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan. Twenty years ago a study of the Con-gressional directory, then not so bulky avolume as now, would show that nearly allof the Senators and Representatives andhigh officials of the Government, no matterhow big their salaries or how fat theirpocket-books, lived in hotels and boarding-houses. To-day the number is compara-tively small. Times have indeed changedsince Washington was a mud-hole and its 592 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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Senator Robert G. Owens, of the new Stateof Oklahoma statesmen nearly all lived in Georgetown,— many of them at the City Hotel, still inexistence,— whence, there being no suchthings as trolley-cars, and the mud at cer-tain seasons of the year being hub high onvehicles, they travelled to the Capitol, fourmiles or so distant, on horseback. Representatives in Congress, even whenthey are wealthy men, are not so apt tohave fine residences at the capital as Sen-ators are, because the term of a Representa-tive lasts but two years and he does not inthat time, or even if he is reelected to sucha frequently changing body, become a partof the city of Washington. The Senate,being under the Constitution a continuousbody, goes on for ever, and many of themembers go along with it. Senator Allison,the Father of the Senate, has lived nearlyhalf a century of public life in Washington,either in a boarding-house or in a modestbrick structure on Thomas Circle, whichwas the property of his first wife.

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