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Has Been a Notable Person in the 
National Capital. 
The good Count Jean Maurice 
Perreard, of the city of Washing- 
ton, who recently concluded a 
visit of three weeks at H. L. Han- 
naford’s house, Magnolia, has been 
‘a notable person in the national 
capital for more than four decades. 
All the famous statesmen of the era 
immediately following the Civil 
War, including Charles Sumner, 
Roscoe Conklin, Ben Hill and L. Q. - 
C. Lamar, were friends of the Count 
and loved to frequent his cozy lit- 
tle establishment to partake of 
some especially toothsome dish 
prepared after the adorable fashion 
the proprietor had learned in his na- 
tive land of France. 
In all these 40 years and more the 
prestige of Perreard has never de- 
clined and today the celebrities of 
the District of Columbia, including 
statesmen, generals of the Army, 
scholars, wits, epicures and editors 
gather about his festal board even 
as they did in the days when Grant 
was president. 
Nor is it fair to omit all mention 
of the chief stellar attraction of the 
Perreard establishment — the 
Countess Perreard, a woman of 
beauty, tact and great good fellow- 
ship. Amiable, wise and interest- 
ing as is the Count, his fair consort 
outshines, cutpoints and outclasses 
him altogether, as he would be the 
first to admit, if there were want- 
ing the corroborative testimony of 
such connoisseurs as Gen. Fred 
Ainsworth, Dr. Edward Bedloe, 
Major Carson and Col. George Mar- 
cellus Bailey, of the Houston Post, 
all of whom, in the heydey of their 
existence, ere dyspepsia claimed 
them, were wont to turn their steps 
toward the “castle on FE street as 
the dinner hour drew nigh. 
“T love to come to Baltimore,” 
said the Count, “for I have friends 
here of many years standing. Bal- 
timore, let me tell you, is, after all, 
the one place in this great Ameri- 
can nation where the peovle know 
and appreciate good cooking. Not 
even in New York, or Washington, 
or New Orleans do you get as good 
sea food served in as appetizing 
style as in Baltimore. I think, too, 
that this city is going ahead along 
all other important lines, as one can 
see even at a casual glance at the 
enormous improvements in building 
sewer construction and betterments 
of the streets.”’ 
“Washington 
likewire,” contin- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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ued the Count, “is rapidly develop- 
ing into the most splendid capital 
of the civilized world, even now 
disputing with Paris the claim to 
first honors. This reminds me of 
the time when I first landed there 
in the spring of 1869. It was then 
poor and squalid in quarters where 
now are rows of stately, magnifi- 
cent mansions facing incomparable 
boulevards. Where the homes of 
millionaires now are in the region 
of DuPont Circle I made daily ex- 
cursions to shoot rabbits. So 
poorly lighted were the streets that | 
one night in escorting a lady home 
from the theater we stumbled and 
fell over the body of.a sleeping cow 
at the intersection of Fourteenth 
street and Pennsylvania avenue, 
where the New Willard raises its 
stately front. 
“The manners and morals of the 
population of the District have kept 
pace with the material improve- 
ment. It used to be an ordinary 
thing to see representatives and 
senators intoxicated on the streets 
of the city. They would even go 
upon the floors of their respective 
chambers in a state of inebriety, 
too far gone to have any concep- 
tion of the pending business. -That 
era of bad morals has gone, never 
to return, and yet there is a con- 
stant agitation on the part of an ex- 
treme and fanatical element to 
force prohibition upon Washington. 
In their narrow and prejudiced 
view they would bring about a pu- 
ritanical regime that, instead of 
benefiting the capital, would entail 
untold harm and reduce it to the 
dull level of a country village.” 
—Baltimore American. 
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In the interests of Safety let us make or re- 
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own shop. All styles of Centers, including 
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Starr C. Hewitt, 158 Essex st., Salem 
Blanche Ring Coming to 
Empire Theatre, Salem. 
Miss Blanche Ring and her large 
and excellent company in her latest 
and best musical play, ‘‘The Wall 
Street Girl’’ is among the many at- 
tractions booked for the Empire 
Theatre, Salem, in the near future. 
When Miss Ring last appeared in 
Salem in ‘‘The Yankee Girl’’ there 
was recorded one of the greatest 
theatrical hits that the Empire has 
ever known, and her next appear- 
ance in Salem will come directly 
after the run of the piece at the 
Tremont Theatre, Boston. 
Theatre partes at the Emnire are 
becoming more and more ponvlar 
with theatregoers from this section, 
mainly because of the fact that all 
of the large attractions that play in 
Boston are seen at the Salem house 
with the same cast and production. 
There is a convenient theatre train 
for Salem theatregoers in this sec- - 
tion that makes more convenient an 
evening spent at this popular play- 
house. 
Langtry at B. F. Keith’s 
Theatre. 
The most notable engagement of 
Mrs. 
a season thus far replete with ex-. 
traordinary attractions is announce 
ed for B. F. Keith’s Theatre next 
week, when Mrs. Iangtry, (Lady 
De Bathe,) returns to America after 
an absence of ten years. For her 
tour this season over the B. F. 
Keith Cireuit Mrs. Langtry has se- 
lected a one-act comedy written by 
Perey Fandall and heself, and en- 
titled ‘‘Helping the Cause.’’ Mrs 
Langtry has the role of an English 
noblewoman, arrested for stone 
throwing and inearecerated in MHol- 
loway jail for two weeks. But alas 
for her unhappy jailers, the lady 
makes herself so agreeable that the 
governor and warden of the jail 
_ with one another inpaying attention 
quite. outdo themselves in vieing 
to their titled prisoner. Her cell is 
furnished in gargeous style, with 
sofas, gilt chairs, oil paintings, ete., 
and everything is done to make the 
lot of the Suffragette pleasant. The 
outcome of the story is both novel 
and amusing. Mrs. Langtry has the 
part of the titled Suffragette, who 1s 
imprisoned for stone thiowing, and 
she is supported by an excellent 
company. 
duction is carried. 
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