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McNALLY CO. S\\nii\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE\\nTO\\n^A^ASHINGTON\\nINCLUDING COMPLETE DESCRIPTIONS\\nOF THE CAPITOL, L BRxlRY OF CON-\\nGRESS, WHITE HOUSE, THE DEPART-\\nMENTS, MOUNT VERNON, ARLINGTON,\\nAND ALL OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nIllustrations from Recent Photographs, together with Maps, Plans, Etc.\\nPrepared Especially for the Work.\\nCopyr.iGHT, 1900, by Eakd, McNally Company.\\nCHICAGO AND NEW YORK\\nKAND, McNALLY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.\\n1900.", "height": "3204", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "5yiiu\\nSECOND COPY.\\nfiegUter of Copyrighfa,\\nTHE CAPITC", "height": "3204", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "EAST FRONT.", "height": "3204", "width": "2143", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nCHAPTER\\nPAGE\\nI. An Introduction to Washington H\\nRailways, Cabs, Streets, Etc H\\nDistrict Government 14\\nII. A Tour of the Capitol 15\\nIII. The Library of Congress 45\\nIV. On Capitol Hill 79\\nV. From the Capitol to the White House 85\\nVI. At the Executive Mansion 91\\nVII. The Executive Departments 99\\nVIII. From the Monument to the Museums 115\\nThe Washington Monument 115\\nSome Scientific Departments 119\\nIX. The Corcoran and other Art Galleries 129\\nX. Churches, Clubs, Theaters, Etc 135\\nXI. Official Etiquette at the Capital 139\\nXII. Streets, Squares, and Residences 143\\nXIII. Excursions about Washington 159\\n1. To Mount Vernon 159\\n2. To Arlington National Cemetery and Fort Meyer 172\\n3. To the Soldiers Home, Rock Creek Church, Fort Stevens, Battle\\nand National Cemeteries, Catholic University, and Brookland 180\\n4. To the Zoo, Rock Creek National Park, and Chevy Chase 185\\n5. Georgetown and its Vicinity 186\\n6. Georgetown to Tennallytown and Glen Echo 188\\n7. Georgetown to Glen Echo, Cabin John, and Great Falls 189\\n8. To Bladensburg and Kendall Green 191\\n9. To Benning and Chesapeake Beach 191\\n10", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "r^5\\nAN INTRODFCTIO^^ TO WASHINGTON.\\nEQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON\\nIN WASHINGTON CIRCLE.\\nBy Clark Mills.\\nWashington has two railway stations\\nand one steaml;)oat landing. The railway\\nstations are\\n(1) Baltimore Ohio Station, at\\nNew Jersey Avenue and C Street, one\\nblock north of the Capitol\\ngrounds. Into this old, Railway\\nante bellum station of the Stations.\\noldest working railroad in\\nthe country come the Royal Blue and all\\nother trains of the Baltimore Ohio sys-\\ntem and its connections from the North\\nand West, and from the South by way of\\nthe Shenandoah Valley. Street cars may\\nbe taken here for any part of the city, and\\nbaggage wagons and electric cabs will be\\nfound in waiting. It has no restaurant,\\nbut several exist near by.\\n(2) Pennsj^vania Railroad Station, at\\nSixth and B streets. This is half a block\\nfrom Pennsylvania Avenue, midway be-\\ntween the Capitol and the Treasury, and\\nconvenient to street cars. Carriages and\\nexpress wagons are always in waiting\\nThis is the station for all trains of the\\nPennsylvania (Baltimore Potomac) and Northern Central railroads, and their con-\\nnections north and east, including the through trains to and from Boston and for\\ntrains to and from the South over the Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, Chesa-\\npeake Ohio Railroad, and Seaboard Air Line. There is an excellent restaurant in the\\nbuilding, which, though rather small, is convenient.\\nThe Steamboat Landing for all Potomac boats and ferries Norfolk, Mount Vernon,\\nAlexandria, etc., is at the foot of Seventh Street. Steamboat leaves\\nfor Fort Monroe and Norfolk every evening at 6.30. Steamboats.\\nThe street-car system of the city is extensive and convenient. All\\nthe principal lines are operated on the underground electric trolley system, and all are\\ncontrolled by either the Capital Traction Company or the Metropolitan Railroad Com-\\npany. Each transfers from line to line of its own system.\\nThe cars on Pennsylvania Avenue are green or yellow. The green cars run between\\nGeorgetown and the Navy Yard the yellow cars between Mount Pleasant, at the\\nnorthern extremity of Fourteenth Street, and the Baltimore Ohio Rail-\\nroad Station. These lines separate at the Peace Monument, and at New Street Cars.\\nYork Avenue, and both transfer with each other, and with the Seventh\\nStreet line. The Seventh Street line runs from the Arsenal and steamboat wharves\\n11", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 PICTOKIAL GUIDE TO WASHIJSTGTOIS\\nnorth to the boundary, where it connects with the Brightwood line for the Soldiers\\nHome, Brightwood, and other suburbs to Fort Green, eight miles from the Treasury. A\\nline along U Street connects the Seventh and Fourteenth street lines, and extends to the\\nboundary at Rock Creek, where it connects with the cars for Zoological Park and\\nChevy Chase. The Chevy Chase cars also come directly to the Treasury during the\\nbusy hours of the day. The above lines are operated by the Capital Traction Company\\nand exchange free transfers.\\nThe Metropolitan lines extend from Georgetown along M Street, Connecticut Avenue,\\nH, Fourteenth, and F streets to Capitol Hill, where they skirt the western and northern\\nside of the Capitol grounds, pass the Library of Congress, and run eastward to the edge\\nof the city. This is popularly known as the F Street line. At George-\\nSuburban town it connects with a line up the Potomac Valley to Cabin John Bridge\\nLines. and Great Falls, and also one to Tennallytown and Rockville. This com-\\npany also controls the Connecticut Avenue line to Alount Pleasant the\\nEleventh Street, Ninth Street, and Brightwood lines the Belt line two lines pene-\\ntrating the Northeastern quarter, one of which extends to Benning, and connects with\\na steam railroad for Chesapeake Beach and the two suburban lines northeastward, one\\nreaching Brookland, and the other Hyattsville, Bladensburg, Riverdale, and other vil-\\nlages to Berwyn, Md. All of these exchange transfers, and all center at the Treasury,\\nbut the various divisions are not separated by the colors of the cars.\\nFare everywhere within the city, 5 cents and six tickets are sold for 25 cents, good\\nupon all lines. A line of herdics also runs upon Sixteenth Street, which exchanges\\ntransfers with the F Street line at the corner of H and Sixteenth Street.\\nHacks and cabs are numerous, and not expensive, and the authorized rates are as\\nfollows\\nOne- Horse Vehicles. By the trip Day rates, between 5 a. m. and 12.30 a. m.,\\neach passenger, fifteen squares or less, 25 cents each additional five squares or parts\\nof squares, 10 cents. Midnight rates, between 12.30 a. m. and 5 a. ai.,\\nPublic each passenger, fifteen squares or less, 40 cents each additional five\\nCarriages. squares or parts of squares, 15 cents. By the hour Day rates, one\\nor two passengers, first hour, 75 cents each additional quarter hour\\nor part thereof, 20 cents three or four passengers, first hour, $1 each additional\\nquarter hour or part thereof, 25 cents. Midnight rates about double these.\\nTwo-Horse Vehicles. About double the rates for one-horse cabs. The law says that\\nwhen vehicles are not engaged by the hour, trip rates shall be charged but when\\ncharges for consecutive trips exceed rates per hour, charges shall be by the hour.\\nBoth the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore Ohio railway companies maintain a system\\nof cabs intended especially for persons going to and from their stations, but available\\nfor general services. Those of the Baltimore Ohio Company are electric automobiles.\\nBicycles are extremely numerous in Washington, and many places exist\\nBicycles. where they can be rented. The law requires them to keep off the side-\\nwalks, avoid excessive speed, and carry lamps at night. The favorite\\nout-of-town run is up the Potomac.\\nAn alphabetical list of hotels will be found at the end of this book.\\nRestaurants have multiplied and improved in Washington during the last ten years.\\nThe most famous restaurants in Washington, since the disappearance of Wormley s\\nand Welcker s, are the Chamberlin and Harvey s. The former occupies\\nHotels and a double house at I and Fifteenth streets, and serves game and costly\\nRestaurants, delicacies beloved of clubmen, prepared in the Southern style which has\\nmade its terrapin, canvasbacks, etc., celebrated. The other, Harvey s,\\nat Pennsylvania Avenue and Eleventh Street, is noted for its oysters. These and the", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTEODUCTIOlSr TO WASHINGTON. 13\\nShoreham, Gordon, and Raleigh are favorite resorts for after the theater suppers.\\nOn F, G, Ninth, Seventh, and other streets in the region near the public buildings, ai e\\na large number of dairies, bakeries, ice-cream saloons, and eating-places of every grade,\\nresorted to by government clerks, men and women, high and low. Dining-rooms are\\nnumerous on the avenue and in Georgetown. The restaurants in the Capitol are good,\\nespecially that in the Senate basement, and there are good ones at the Library of Con-\\ngress and National Museum.\\nProfessional boarding-houses, often with the names and pretensions of hotels, are\\nplentiful, particularly in the region north of the avenue, between Tenth and Fourteenth\\nstreets, and in the neighborhood of the Pension Building and this\\nquarter also abounds in private houses renting rooms and perhaps fur- Boarding-\\nnishing board. All these are indicated by small signs displayed at the hOUSes.\\ndoor or in a window. The best plan for a person desiring such quarters\\nis to walk about, observe these signs, and examine what suits him. A man and his\\nwife can get very comfortable lodging and board for $60 to $75 a month.\\nThe shops of Washington are extensive and fine. The principal shopping streets are\\nPennsylvania Avenue, Seventh, Ninth, F, and G streets, between Ninth\\nand Fourteenth streets, but there are local groups of stores, especially for Shops.\\nprovisions, on Capitol Ilill, in Georgetown, and along H Street, N. E.\\nThe District of Columbia had a peculiar origin, and its constitution and history\\naccount for many of the peculiarities of the present capital city. The first Congress\\nof the United States had the taslc of establishing a Federal capital, under\\na plan for taking- in some small tract of land and exercising exclusive Origin Of\\njurisdiction over it. In 1790 a bill was passed, after many postpone- District\\nments and much hot discussion, accepting from the States of Maryland of Columbia.\\nand Virginia a tract ten miles square on the Potomac, to be called the\\nDistrict of Columbia; but in 1846 Virginia s portion some thirty-six square miles\\nsouth of the river was ceded back to her. Three Commissioners were appointed\\nby the President (Washington) to purchase the land from its owners, and to provide\\nsuitable buildings for the Government. Major Pierre Charles L Enfant, a French\\nengineer who had fought in the Revolution, was appointed to lay out the city, but\\nproved so irreconcilable to discipline that it became necessary to dismiss him, though\\nhis plan was essentially followed by EUicott, his assistant, who succeeded him.\\nThe avenues were named after the States, and in a certain order. By reason of its\\nmidway and influential position, that had already given it the excellent soubriquet\\nKej^stone State, Pennsylvania was entitled to the name of the great\\ncentral avenue. The avenues south of this received the names of the Arrangement\\nSouthern States the avenues which crossed Pennsylvania were named of Streets.\\nafter the Middle States, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York,\\nwhile the New England States were left to designate the avenues then regarded as\\nremote possibilities among the swamps and hills of the northwest. The curious way\\nin which the capital has developed along the lines of the last-named group is typical\\nof the growth and change in the balance of the whole country since L Enfant s day.\\nThe rectilinear streets run exactly north and south and east and west. The streets\\nrunning east and west are known by the letters of the alphabet, so we have North A\\nand South A, North B and South B, and so on at right angles to the alphabetical\\nstreets are the streets bearing numbers, and beginning their house enumeration at\\na line running due north and south through the Capitol. This divides the city into\\nfour quarters. Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, each with its own set\\nof numbers for the houses, arranged upon the decimal system that is, 100 numbers\\nfor each block. This is repeated in a direction away from each of the Capitol streets", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHnrGTOW.\\nall addresses, therefore, should bear the added designation of the quarter by its\\ninitials N. W., N. E., S. E., or S. W. In this book, as nearly everything mentioned\\nis in the Northwest Quarter, these initials are uniformly omitted for that quarter,\\nbut are always supplied elsewhere.\\nIn 1800 the seat of Government was established in Washington City, which was\\nfirst so called, it is said, by the Commissioners in 1791. The General himself, who\\nwas its most active promoter, always spoke of it as the Federal City.\\nEarly The town was all in the woods, and had only 3,000 inhabitants, mostly\\nHistory. living in the northwestern quarter, or on Capitol Hill. Nevertheless\\nit grew until 1814, when, after a weak resistance at Bladensburg, it was\\ncaptured by the British, who set fire to the public buildings and some private resi-\\ndences, intending to destroy the- town altogether. A hurricane of wind and rain\\ncame that night to complete the destruction in some respects, but this extinguished\\nthe conflagration. Next day the British left in a panic of causeless fear, excepting\\na large contingent of deserters, who took this opportunity to stay behind and grow\\nup with the country. The city was immediately rebuilt, and in 1860 it contained\\n61,000 inhabitants. When the Civil War was over the city found itself with an\\nenlarged population and a vastly greater importance.\\nThe population of the District of Columbia, including the city, is now about 300,000,\\nand it is steadily growing. The Federal Government, in lieu of assessed taxes, contributes\\none-half of all the District s expenses, and practically has done much\\nPopulation. more than that in the form of public grounds, boulevards, and reserva-\\ntions free to the public, and maintained at the public expense.\\nThe relations of the District and Federal City to the Unton a,re very peculiar. After\\nseveral experiments in municipal government, Congress created a form of administra-\\ntion of District and city affairs, which consists simply of two civilian\\nDistrict Commissioners appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate,\\nGovernment, and one army engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War, the three\\nconstituting a Board of Commissioners for three years. They are\\nempowered by Congress to make, and change at will, building, health, and police regu-\\nlations. They also appoint all subordinate officials and clerks.\\nThey are required to make and submit to the Secretary of the Treasury annual esti-\\nmates for all the expenditures within the District for the ensuing year. One-half of the\\namount to be raised is assessed upon the District, the other half is appropriated by\\nCongress. The headquarters of District affairs is in the District Building on Louisiana\\nAvenue, near City Hall. The District courts, except the Police Court, are in the City\\nHall, an old building in Judiciary Square, facing Four-and-a-half Street, where the\\nMarshal and certain other functionaries also have oflices. It was in this edifice, built for\\nthe courthouse, that Garfield s assassin, Guiteau. was tried, and other noted cases have\\nbeen heard there. In front of it, upon a marble column, stands a monument of Lincoln\\ncarved by Lot Flannery, who has been described as a self-taught sculptor.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11.\\nA TOUR OF THE CAPITOL\\nTHE CAPITOL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FROM CAPITOL GROUNDS.\\nThe great advantage that Washiugtou enjoys in having been intelligently platted\\nbefore any building of consequence had begun, is signallj^ shown in the choice of this\\ncentral and sightly hilltop as the position of the Capitol. The grounds\\nin front of the building were made perfectly level, but in the rear they CapitOl\\nsloped downward some eighty feet to the Potomac flats, which are over- Grounds.\\nflowed occasionally even yet. The present arrangement of the park dates\\nfrom 1874, when it was enlarged to its present enclosure of forty-six acres, and beautified\\nby the late Frederick Law Olmstead. The splendid marble terraces on the .western side\\nof the building, and their ornamental approaches, together costing .|200, 000, area part\\nof the general scheme of outdoor decoration, which each year becomes more admirable\\nas the trees and shrubberies mature. A pretty feature of the northwestern part of the\\npark is the ivy-covered rest-house, one window of which looks into a grotto. The low\\nstone towers, becoming vine-covered, in the western parts of the park, are the orifices\\nthrough which is drawn the supply of fresh air for the ventilation of the Senate cham-\\nber and hall of Representatives. Immediately in front (east) of the Capitol is the\\n15", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nPlaza, where vast crowds assemble to witness presidential inaugurations, and here,\\nfacing the main entrance, stands Greenough s statue of Washington, sitting in a curule\\nchair as the first great tribune of the American people.\\nA statue of Washington was ordered by Congress in 1832, to signalize the centennial\\nanniversary of his birth. The commission was given to Horatio Greenough, who was\\nthen residing in Florence, Italy, the only restriction upon the execution\\nGreenough s of his plan being that it should not be equestrian, and that the counte\\nStatue of nance should conform to that of the Houdon statue. His price of $20,-\\nWashington. 000 was accepted, and he devoted the principal part of his time for eight\\nyears to its completion. The intention was to place this statue in the\\ncenter of the rotunda, over the jnausoleum provided for Washington in the undercroft\\nbut by the time it was completed and had been brought here in a special ship (1841), the\\nidea of placing the bones of Washington in the Capitol had been abandoned, and it was\\ndecided to leave it out-of-doors. This statue, which is covered from the weather in\\nwinter and invisible, is of Carrara marble, and represents, in heroic size, the Father\\nof his Country in a Roman toga, which has slipped from his shoiilders, lifting a hand of\\nwarning and advice to the nation. As a work of art, it has caused great controversy\\namong people of taste. It is probable that we know too much of Washington as a man\\nhe is too near to us to make an attempt at classic idealization of him seem natural or\\npleasing.\\nThe act of Congress of July 9, 1790, which established the District of Columbia as\\nthe National Capital, provided that prior to the first Monday of December, 1800, the\\nCommissioners should have finished a suitable building for the sessions of Congress.\\nWhen the Commissioners had accepted L Enfant s plan for the city, they found this hill\\nselected by him as the site of the national legislative halls, and as soon as\\nBeginnings the Commissioners could accumulate money enough from their land sales\\nof the to make a respectable showing, they began the erection of the two build-\\nCapitol. ings first needed^ the Executive Mansion and the Congressional halls\\nand offices, which at Jefferson s suggestion, it is said, came to be called\\nthe Capitol. One of the interesting features of early life at the seat of Government is\\nthe degree to which formal classics ruled in taste. The corner-stones were laid with\\nMasonic rites and all possible parade, George Washington officiating. October 13, 1792,\\nwas the date at the President s House but the corner-stone of the Capitol (marked in\\n1895 bj^ a bronze plate) was not laid until September 18, 1793. Materials were slow and\\nuncertain, and had not Virginia and Maryland advanced the money Congress refused,\\nthe work would have stopped altogether. The town was yet only a muddy village in\\nthe woods and the Commissioners had to fight opposition and obstacles at every step.\\nNevertheless an edifice, such as it was, was ready for the Government, which came from\\nPhiladelphia, bag and baggage, in a single sloop, and took possession during Octo-\\nber, 1800.\\nWhose was the plan has excited much controversy, for several minds contributed.\\nThe original sketch came from Doctor Thornton, a native of the West Indies, and then\\nin charge of the Patent Office, and so pleased Washington that it was\\nPlan and adopted. The plans were redrawn by Stephen H. Hallett, who was a\\nArchitects. student of Nash, the most famous house-builder of his time. Hoban,\\nthe architect of the White House, and others made suggestions, so that\\nThornton s plan was much modified still less did it foreshadow the Capitol of to-day.\\nOnly the north wing, or that part of the main building containing the present\\nSupreme Court rooms, was finished in 1800, the opposite wing not being ready until\\n1811. A wooden passageway connected them across the space now occupied by the\\nbasement of the rotunda. The expenditure up to that time had been $787,000. When,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\nE3 Id Id d IS SI n\\n17\\nt- CD i-\\n.3 02\\na\\nu o f^ fl\\no S= r or\\no s M j;\\no o w a;\\na* a d :3 C M\\nO Q o o ,^l\\nOrg fto\\ncu g 02 fl o\\nS c E E^ o S\\n-Q0C2O CJ\\no a\\n.K o-\\n5 B-oO\\n1 m5^-2\\ng^ CD O\\no c;3 S\\ni o p: o^-\\ng S\\nSSgg\\nCi O\\nS P 3 CD\\n3 CO 02 03\\nCO et-H\\n2 a 5\\na o^\\nS5\\na; d e i\\nto- O +J\\nr- c fcrj- o\\nO CD S 5 o\\nE o^;E\\ncoroco-t\\nw^5\\n73 f!\\n-S S D S\\ncj is is 3 o\\n|-H 5~SSg\\no o o oi fn,-^\\nT-^ CO id I- O CT\\no c\\n5 So", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOISr.\\nin 1814, the British captured the city, they entered the legislative halls, held a mock\\nsession of Congress, and soon the building was in flames. In 1815 Congress authorized\\nthe Secretary of the Treasury to borrow $500,000 to begin repairs (for the walls stood),\\nand in 1818 undertook the erection of the central part. B. H. Latrobe took the archi-\\ntectural superintendence of the restoration, while the new central structure was planned\\nand supervised by Charles Bulflnch. The original building was completed in 1827, at a\\ncost, including the grading of the grounds, repairs, etc., of not quite :S3, 500,000. A tire\\nin the library compelled the rebuilding of the western front in 1851, when additions were\\nmade, and the same year the corner-stones of the extensions, now known\\nCost. as the House and Senate wings, were laid but these were not completed\\nuntil 1859 (at a cost of nearly $9,000,000). Meanwhile the low wooden\\ndome which had temporarily covered the rotunda was removed in 1856, and the erection\\nof the present iron dome was begun.\\nAdd to the sums above noted a million dollars for additional space for the grounds\\nand the obtaining of water, two millions for improvements of the grounds and terraces,\\nanother million for repairs and improvements on the building itself, and various other\\nitems, and the cost of the Capitol approaches $15,000,000.\\nThe original and proper front of the Capitol is the eastern, and the city has grown\\nbehind rather than before the statehouse of the nation, as it was expected to do.\\nThis contingency has been met by improvements at the rear of the building to\\nincrease the stateliness of its approaches, so that the Capitol now has two faces, different\\nbut substantially equal in merit. The western front, although on the side from which\\nmost visitors approach, requires a long, toilsome climbing of terraces and steps; whereas\\nthe street cars carry passengers to the level of the basement on the south side, and on\\nthe north side almost to the very entrance. It is therefore easier, as well as more proper,\\nto begin one s survey of the great structure at the architect s original front door.\\nThis eastern front is imposing from every standpoint. One of the most satis-\\nfactory views of it is that obtained from the little car-passengers shelter on the north\\nside of the grounds. The massive and classic proportions of the Senate\\nEast Front, wing are near at hand, and its ornamental front cuts deeply into the\\ndome, whose supports sink away in grand perspective to the Representa-\\ntive wing, while the majestic dome itself rises tier upon tier of columns and circling\\narchitraves to its convergent roof and statue-crowned tholus. There is a wonderful\\nfeeling of breadth and grandeur, yet of buoyancy, in this oblique aspect of the noble\\npile all sunny white, save the color in the folds of the flag.\\nThe Capitol is 751 feet long, 350 feet in greatest width, and covers nearly four acres\\nof ground, with 153,112 square feet of floor space. It is 155 feet high to the cornices of\\nthe main roof, or 288 feet to the crest of the Liberty statue. The dome\\nStyle and is of iron, weighs nearly nine million pounds, and was completed in 1865,\\nDimensions, replacing the earlier wooden dome. The architecture is modified Corin-\\nthian upon a rustic base, plus a dome, and the material of the older\\ncentral part is Virginia (Aquia Creek) sandstone, painted white, but the newer wings\\nare built of Massachusetts marble.\\nIn front of the building stretches a broad paved plaza, and three flights of broad\\nsteps lead up the central entrance and to each wing, lending a very effective appearance\\nof breadth and solidity to the whole mass, whose walls are largely hidden\\nCrawford s by the rows of monolithic, fluted columns of Maryland marble that\\nGroup. sustain the three broad porticos. The porticos of the wings have each\\ntwenty-two columns, and ten more columns on each of their northern\\nand western fronts. The pediment of the southern wing, which contains the House of\\nRepresentatives, has no statuary, but the fa9ade of the northern wing, where the Senate", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n19\\nsits, is doubly adorned. The tympanum is filled Avith an immense group by Thomas\\nCrawford, emblematic of American progress, which has displaced the Indians with the\\narts of agriculture, commerce, and industrial production, supported by the sword. This\\nis considered the chef-d oeuvre of this\\ntalented American sculptor and will repay\\ncareful study. Crawford was paid $17, 000\\nfor the models, and the cutting of the\\nmarble (from Lee, Mass.) by several\\nskilled Italian carvers cost $26,000 more.\\nThe grand central portico, which dates\\nfrom 1825, is 160 feet wide, and has\\ntwenty-four columns carrj ing a pediment\\nof 80 feet span filled with an allegorical\\ngroup cut in sandstone,\\nafter a design by John Central\\nQuiucy Adams when Sec- PortiCO.\\nretary of State. It was\\nexecuted by Luigi Persico, a prominent\\nRoman sculptor, who had many commis-\\nsions here. This group represents the\\nGenius of America. America, armed,\\nis resting her shield upon an altar, while\\nan eagle perches at her feet. She seems\\nlistening to Hope, and points in response\\nto Justice, who holds the Constitution,\\ninscribed September 17, 1787 (the date of\\nits adoption), and her scales. From the\\nlevel of the portico extend two great\\nbuttresses, each adorned with pieces of\\ncolossal statuary in marble. That upon\\nthe south side represents Columbus, and\\nis entitled The Discovery of America.\\nThe sculptor was Persico (1846), who\\nexactly copied the ai-mor from a suit worn by Columbus, yet preserved in Genoa. The\\nopposite group (north) is by Greenough, and represents an incident of frontier life as\\ntypical of Civilization, or the First Settlement of America. Each of these groups\\ncost $24,000.\\nThe inauguration of Presidents of the United States has taken place upon this portico\\nsince the time of Jackson. A draped staging is extended outward to accommodate the\\nhigh officials who form a part of the ceremonial, and here the oath of office is adminis-\\ntered by the Chief Justice in full view of a multitude of citizens.\\nIn the center of this portico is the great Rogers bronze door which opens directly into\\nthe rotunda under the dome, and is among the most interesting objects at the Capitol.\\nIt was designed in Rome in 1858 by Randolph Rogers, who received $8,000 for his\\nplaster models, and was cast in Munich, in 1861. by F. Von Mliller, who was paid\\n$17,000 in gold, then at a high premium. It is nineteen feet high and weighs ten tons.\\nThe leaves or valves of the door, which is double, stand in superbly\\nenriched casing, and when opened fold back into fitting jambs. Each Rogrers\\nleaf is divided into eight panels, in addition to the transom panel under Bronze Door.\\nthe arch. Each panel contains a complete scene in alto-relievo. The\\nscenes portrayed constitute the principal events in the life of Columbus and the\\nGREENOUGH S THE RESCUE,\\nCentral Portico.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlN GTOlSr.\\ndiscovery of America, with an ornate enricliment of emblematic designs. On the key of\\nthe arch of the casing is the head of Columbus, and on the sides of the casing are four\\ntypical statuettes in niches arranged chronologically Asia, Africa, Europe, and America.\\nThe remainder of the casing is embellished with a running border of ancient armor,\\nbanners, and heraldic designs, and at the bottom, on either side, an anchor, all in basso-\\nrelievo, and emblematic of navigation and conquest. On the frame of each leaf of the\\ndoor, set in niches, are sixteen statuettes of the patrons and contemporaries of Colum-\\nbus, given in the order of their association with the announcement and execution of his\\ntheory of geographical exploration. The first eight figures are associated in pairs when\\nthe doors are closed, and divided when opened. All are labeled. The sixteenth is\\nPizarro, conqueror of Peru. The panels illustrate the career of Columbus, the third\\nscene being his audience at the court of\\nFerdinand and Isabella. Between the\\npanels are a series of heads, representing\\nthe historians of the voyages of Colum-\\nbus, prominent among whom are Irving\\nand Prescott.\\nNiches on each side of this imposing\\nentrance hold statues of Mars or War (on\\nthe right a noble figure of a Roman\\nwarrior) and of Ceres or Peace (on the\\nleft a female figure with fiowers and\\nfruits) modeled by Persico and costing\\ntogether $12,000; while above the door is\\na bust of Washington, crowned by Fame\\nand Peace, which was sculptured by\\nA. Capellano in 1827. Capellano is not\\nknown beyond his carvings here.\\nPassing through the bronze doors,\\nwe enter the Rotvmda. It occupies\\nnearly the whole width of the center of\\nthe building, and is unbroken to the\\nsummit of the dome.\\nIt is 96 feet in diameter and 180\\nfeet high to the canopy. Its center is\\nthe center of the Capitol. The pavement\\nTHE ROGERS BRONZE DOOR. jg sandstone, and the walls are plas-\\ntered and broken into panels by engaged pillars, above which there is a broad entabla-\\nture. This is surmounted by a gallery (which has as good a whispering\\nRotunda. echo as that of St. Paul s), formed of Corinthian columns connected by a\\nl)alustrade; and this gallery and the Rotunda are lighted by a belt of large\\nwindows, outside of which is the circular row of columns that form the external visible\\nsupports of the dome. From the entablature carried upon these pillars springs the con-\\ncavity of the dome, arching inward to an opening 50 feet in diameter, at the base of the\\nlantern, called the eye. This opening is encircled by a gallery and canopied by a painted\\nceiUng, consistiug of a circular piece of iron, covered with stucco, 65 feet wide.\\nIn the vast and somewhat obscure space of this immense apartment only a colossus, like\\nthe Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, would seem a fitting ornament. It was pro-\\nposed to cut away the floor in the center and erect Greenough s figure of Washington,\\nnow on the plaza, upon an elevated pedestal approached from the crypt but this was", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n21\\nnot done, and all attempts at decoration have been confined to the walls, except the\\nplacing of a few statues.\\nFour doors open out of the Rotunda, and over each is a marble panel carved in high\\nrelief. That over the eastern, or main, entrance and exit is by Enrico Causici of Verona, a\\npupil of Canova, and represents the Landing of the Pilgrims that over\\nthe northern door is by N. Gevelot, a Frenchman, and pictures William RotUnda\\nPenn making a treaty with the Delaware Indians over the southern door Doors.\\nis another group by Causici Daniel Boone in Conflict with the Indians\\nin which Boone s face was copied from a porti ait by Hardinge, and over the western door\\nTHE LANDING OF COLUMBUS AT SAN SALVADOR.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Painting by John Vanderlyn, Rotunda.\\nis Capellano s Pocahontas Saving the Life of John Smith. These sculptors were all\\nmen who worked here about 1827, and each was paid $3,500.\\nEach of the lower wall spaces carries one of the big historical paintings (18 by 13 feet),\\nfamiliar to everybody through innumerable reproductions even upon the paper cur-\\nrency and Columbian postage stamps of the Government. All are by\\nAmerican artists. Each has attached to it a label and key-picture, RotUnda\\ngiving the names and positions of all the persons represented by carefully Wall\\ndrawn portraits-in its groups. They fall into two classes Early Paintinacs.\\nhistorical and Revolutionary. The former are to a great degree\\nimaginative, particularly the De Soto but the latter are accurately true to the times and\\nscenes they purport to represent. In the first class is the Landing of Columbus at San\\nSalvador, in 1492, painted in 1839 by Vanderlyn, who was paid $10,000 for it in 1842.\\nThe Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, in 1541, was painted by Wm. H.\\nPowell in 1850, and the price was $12,000. The Baptism of Pocahontas at James-\\ntown, in 1613, is nearer the truth, since the artist, J. G. Chapman, did his best to\\nrepresent the portraits and costumes of Rolfe, Sir Thomas Dale, and other Virginian\\ncolonists and Indian chieftains, who may be supposed present at the ceremonj^ Its cost\\nwas $10,000, and its date is 1836. The last of this colonial series, by Professor Weir,", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOIST.\\ndate 1840. price $10,000, is a picture of the farewell service on board the uuseaworthy\\nSpeedwell, before it sailed from Delft Haven (the port of Leyden, Holland) for America,\\nbearing the first colony of Pilgrims, who were finally landed on Plymouth Rock by the\\nMayflower.\\nThe four Revolutionary paintings are by Col. John Trumbull (1756-1843), who was\\nson of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut. For several months the young officer\\nwas aid and military secretary to Washington. After the war he studied in Europe,\\nand conceived an ambition to produce this series of national paintings, in which each\\nface is drawn from life, so far as sittings could be obtained, while others are copied from\\napproved portraits. This faithfulness of detail interferes with the best artistic results,\\ngiving a certain hardness to all parts, but increases the historical value of the composi-\\ntions. They Avere painted between 1817 and 1824, and cost the nation $83,000 a large\\nsum in those daj ^s. Beside each picture is a key, by consulting which the names of\\nmost of the persons may be learned.\\nThe first is Signing the Declaration of Independence in the Old Hall in Phila-\\ndelphia in 1776, the arrangement of the group of figures having been made as Jefferson,\\nFranklin, and others of the fathers described it to him. The presiding officer is John\\nHancock. The Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga to General Gates is from\\nsketches made by Trumbull on the spot, October 17, 1777. The artist was also present\\nat the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. portrayed in the third painting,\\nwhere the British are marching between the lines of the American and French allies.\\nThe fourth of the series is The Resignation of Washington as commander-in-chief\\nof the American armies, which took place, closely as depicted, at Annapolis on Decem-\\nber 33, 1783, where Congress was then in session in the old Maryland State House.\\nThe commission he then surrendered is preserved in the Department of State, and the\\ncoat worn by Washington upon this occasion may be seen at the National Museum.\\nAbove each of the eight paintings are panels with arabesque designs by Causici and\\nCapellano, containing medallion heads of the four great pioneers of American discov-\\nery Columbus, Raleigh, Cabot, and La Salle. They were done in 1827, and cost\\n$9,500.\\nThe frieze, ten feet wide, just beneath the gallery, was left blank for many years,\\nbut in 1878 the talented Brumidi began a series of paintings intended to encircle the\\nroom (300 feet) and to carry out the historical theme to which all the\\nRotunda rotunda decorations conform. They are chiaroscuro drawings in distem-\\nFrieze. per that is, expressed merely in light and shade and painted with a\\nglutinous medium upon the plaster. A procession of somewhat conven-\\ntional figures in strong relief, imitating the alto-relievos whi.ch the architect had\\nintended to place here, beginning over the western door and progressing to the right\\n(north) and so on around, marches through the cardinal scenes in American progress.\\nBrumidi had completed less than half of the circle when he died, in 1880. The work\\nwas then continued by his Italian assistant, Costagini, but is not yet completed. The\\nestimated expense of so decorating this frieze was $10,000 the favorite congressional\\nfigure for art pieces and it has often been spent to worse advantage than here.\\nOn the canopy of the dome is Brumidi s* masterpiece, The Apotheosis of Wash-\\nConstantino Brumidi was born in Rome in 1805, studied art, and became a member of the Acad-\\nemy at thirteen. He painted frescoes in several Roman palaces, and worked in the Vatican for three\\nyears under Gregory XVI. The tradition is that he became involved in the European revolution of\\n1848, and was thrown into prison, whence he was freed, on account of his reputation, by the influence\\nof Pius IX, but was banished from Italy. At any rate, after the French took possession of Rome he\\ncame to America, where he remained until 1854, and then went to Mexico to do frescoes. Returning\\nto Washington, he was employed to take charge of the mural decorations of the Capitol. He began\\nwith the room of the House Committee on Agriculture, and these pictures are said to have been the\\nfirst frescoes in the United States. He also did frescoes for St. Stephen s Church in New York and for", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n23\\nDISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Painting by Wm. H. Powell. Rotunda.\\nSIGNING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Painting by John Trumbull. Rotunda.\\nthe Philadelphia Cathedral. His death, in 18S0, followed an injury received upon the scaffold while\\npainting the frieze of the rotunda. His work is strong in drawing, excellent in idea, and brilliant in\\ncolor, and is in the style of the best Italian methods. Whenever he represented a stated event or included\\na portrait he took great pains that it should be truthful.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOIST.\\nington. Glasses will help one to study it from the floor, but it should be examined\\nfrom the gallery to be appreciated. The artist worked upon it several years, and the\\ncost was nearly $50,000, of which Brumidi received $39,500, and an exceedingly skillful\\nand beautifying result was obtained.\\nThe central figure is Washington, with Freedom and Victory at his right and left,\\nand around them ai e female figures to represent the original States of the Union. The\\nborder of the canopy contains six groups of emblematic figures, repre-\\nBrumidi s senting the Fall of Tyranny, Agriculture, Mechanics, Commerce, the\\nCanopy. Marine, and the Arts and Sciences. The painting is glowing with color,\\nand every portion of it is finished in a very careful manner.\\nThe ascent of the dome may be made by a stairway 376 steps opening from the\\npassage to the Senate wing, and it is possible to climb even to the foot of the statue.\\nVisitors are ordinarily contented, however, to stop at the great galleries, exterior and\\ninterior, which encircle the base of the dome. The view thence is an exceedingly\\nwide and interesting one, but differs little from that obtained from the summit of the\\nWashington Monument, which\\nfew persons, therefore, climb\\nThe huge dome, says\\nbeauty far above the\\ncrown\\nThe Dome. is of\\nnearly\\nsheets of iron, securely\\non iron ribs, and by\\nstructiou the change\\ncontraction and expau-\\nfokling and unfolding of\\nfrom designs of Thom.i-\\nand cost $1,250,000. Eight\\nstruction, so carefully was tb\\nly protected from the\\nof white paint, renewed\\nlast for centuries. Its\\nTHE APOTHEOSIS OF WASHINGTON\\nPainting by Constantino Brunnidi.\\ncan be reached by an elevator\\nthese tedious stairways.\\nEvans, rising in its classic\\nmain building, is a fitting\\nto the noble edifice. It\\ncast iron and weighs\\n4,000 tons. Large\\nbolted together, rest\\nthe plan used in its con-\\nof temperature make its\\n,si()u merely like the\\nthe lily. It was built\\nU. Walter of Philadelphia,\\nyears were required in its con-\\nwork done, and as it is thorough-\\nweather by thick coats\\nyearlj% it is likely to\\nbase consists of a peri-\\nstyle of thirty-six fluted columns surmounted by an entablature and a balustrade. Then\\ncomes an attic story, and above this the dome proper. At the top is a gallery, sur-\\nrounded by a balustrade, from which may be obtained a magnificent view of the city\\nand its environs. Rising from the gallery is the lantern, fifteen feet in diameter and\\nfifty feet high, surrounded by a peristyle. Over the lantern is a globe, and standing on\\nthe globe is the bronze statue of Liberty, designed by Thomas Crawford, and cast at\\nBladensburg, Md. It is nineteen feet six inches high, weighs seven and one-half tons,\\nand cost more than $24,000. It was placed in position December 2, 1863, amid the\\nsalutes from guns in Washington and the surrounding forts, and the cheers of the thou-\\nsands of soldiers.\\nThis statue was lifted to its position in sections, afterward bolted together. The\\noriginal plaster model is in the National Museum.\\nStatues now adorn the rotunda, as follows Vinnie Ream Hoxie s much-\\nRotunda discussed statue of Lincoln, for which Congress paid $15,000 in 1870,\\nStatues. after a long debate, in which Senator Sumner made an illuminating speech\\non the application of art to the Capitol. The statue of Alexander Ham-\\nilton 1756-1804) is by Stone, is dated 1868, and cost $10,000. Another statue by Stone\\nis that of the Oregon Senator and Union soldier, Col. Edward D. Baker, who was", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL. 25\\nkilled at Ball s Bluff in 1861. The statue of Jeflfersoa here has the following history,\\naccording to Ben: Perley Poore A spirited bronze statue of Jefferson by his admirer,\\nthe French sculptor, David d Angers, was presented to Congress by Lieut. Uriah P.\\nLevy, but Congress declined to accept it, and denied it a position in the Capitol. It was\\nthen reverentially taken in charge by two naturalized citizens, stanch Democrats,\\nand placed on a small pedestal in front of the White House. One of these worshipers of\\nJefferson was the public gardener, Jimmy Maher the other was John Foy, keeper of\\nthe restaurant in the basement of the Capitol, and famous for bis witty sayings. The\\nfifth is a statue of Gen. U. S. Grant by Franklin Simmons, the gift of the Grand Army\\nto the United States.\\nThe eastern door of the rotunda opens upon the grand portico of the eastern front.\\nThe carvings above it have been described.\\nThe western door leads to a rear stairway descending a narrow hall to the rear\\nentrance of the Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue; also to a balcony which gives an\\nexceedingly interesting view toward the river, the Treasury, and northwestward.\\nThe northern door leads to the Supreme Court and onward to the Senate Chamber.\\nThe southern door admits to Statuary Hall and the House of Representatives, in the\\nsouthern extension, to which attention may now be directed, as the first step in a general\\nsurvey of the Capitol.\\nPassing through the southern door and a circular vestibule, we emerge into a semi-\\ncircular hall ninety-five feet in greatest width, whose ceiling is a half-dome sixty feet\\nhigh, beneath which is a spacious gallery filled with the Library of the\\nHouse of Representatives. This was the Hall of Representatives of the Original\\noriginal Capitol, and as first built it was an oblong rectangular room. In Hall of\\nrebuilding it, after the fire of 1814, Latrobe converted it into a semicir- Representa-\\ncular room, taking as his model, tradition says, an ancient theater in tiVCS.\\nGreece and doubtless it was an extremely beautiful apartment when\\nfresh in color, lighted at night, and filled with a brilliant assemblage. At the southern\\nend is a grand arch, supported by columns of Potomac variegated marble (breccia),\\nwith white Italian capitals copied from relics in the ruins of Athens. Many other simi-\\nlar pillars form a colonnade about the room and sustain the profusely paneled ceiling.\\nThe cupola, which admits such poor light as the room now gets, was the work of a\\nyoung Italian artist named Bonani, who died soon after, and who took his design from\\nthe Roman Pantheon. The arch is adorned with an eagle sculptured from life by Val-\\nperti, another Italian of high reputation, while a dignified model for a statue of Liberty,\\nwrought in plaster by Causici in 1829, stands beneath the arch over the former position\\nof the Speaker s desk. Opposite it, above the entrance door, remains the\\nfamous old marble clock. It is a notable object, and was executed in this Franzoni s\\ncity by C. Franzoni, an Italian sculptor, who died May 12, 1819, but the ClOCk.\\ndesign is said to have been drawn by Latrobe. The theme is the Flight\\nof Time. The Genius of History is represented as standing gracefully upon the winged\\nchariot of Progress, which is rolling over a globe belted with the signs of the Zodiac.\\nHistory records the incidents of national life as Time overtakes them, and the wheel of\\nher swift chariot forms the dial of the clock, which is marked with gilded figures.\\nThe House of Representatives used this hall from 1808 until 1814, and then from\\n1817 to the end of 1857. Here Clay, Webster, the younger Adams, Calhoun, Randolph,\\nCass, Burges, Wise, Forsyth, Corwiu, Wright, and many others won reputation for\\nstatesmanship, and made the walls ring with their fiery eloquence. Here were many\\nfierce and bitter wrangles over vexed questions turbulent scenes, displays of sectional\\nfeeling; and here also was much legislative action which has gone into history as wise\\nand beneficial. The old hall appeared as follows in the latter years of its use by", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASIII]SrGTO?f.\\nthe House: The Speaker s chair and table stood on a rostrum four feet from the floor,\\nand back of the rostrum were crimson curtains, hanging in folds from the capitals of\\nthe ponderous marble columns which supported the great arch of the hall. The clerk s\\ndesk stood below the rostrum, and between the columns were sofas and tables for the\\nreporters. The Representatives were provided with mahogany desks and wide arm-\\nchairs, which were arranged in concentric circles. The hall could accommodate 250\\nmembers. A bronzed iron railing with curtains enclosed the outer row of desks, and\\nthis constituted the bar of the House. Beyond the railing Avas the members lobby, and\\nabove the lobby were galleries seating about 500 persons. One of the galleries was\\nreserved for ladies, and in two of its panels were paintings of Washington and Lafayette,\\nwhich now hang in the present hall of the House. Under the iXTintini; were larnc\\ncopies of the Declaration\\nof Independence in frames\\nornamented with national\\nemblems. The hall was\\nlighted by a chandelier,\\nwhich hung from the cen-\\nter of the domed ceiling.\\nIt was in this hall that\\nex-President John Quiucy\\nAdams, then a Representa-\\ntive for Massachusetts, was\\nprostrated at his desk, on\\nFebruary 2L 1848, by\\nparalysis, resulting in his\\ndeath two\\nDeath of days later.\\nAdams. A star set\\nin the floor statuary hall.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 old hall of representatives.\\nmarks the position of his desk. The gallery is now filled with the overflow of the House\\nlibrary from the neighboring upper corridor, and the corners beneath, extending back\\nto the rotunda wall, are occupied by the keeper of the House documents, and by the\\nCommittee on Enrolled Bills and its clerks. An inner office behind the latter is\\nthat of the clerk of the House, and is the room, then assigned to the Speaker, in which\\nAdams died.\\nThe present use of this room as a hall of memorial statuary is due to a suggestion\\nfrom the late Senator Justin S. Morrill, when he was a Representative from Vermont,\\nwhich resulted in an invitation by Congress, in 1864, to each State to send marble or\\nbronze statues of two of her most illristrious sons for permanent preservation.\\nAs a beginning certain statues and busts owned by the Federal Government^were\\ncollected here. They include Hubbard s plaster copy of Houdon s statue of Washing-\\nton, the face of which was modeled from a plaster cast taken by Houdon*\\nStatuary himself at Mount Vernon in 1785, and Mrs. Fisher Ames bust of Lincoln,\\nHall. upon a pedestal of Aberdeen granite (a gift), for which |2,000 was paid.\\nHere also will be found a marble bust of Senator J. J. Crittenden\\nof Kentuck3^ author of the Crittenden Compromise measure and Harrison s\\n*Jean Antoine Houdon, who was a cultivated French sculptor (1741-1828), educated in Paris and\\nRome, was employed by the State of Virginia to make a statue of Washington. He came and studied\\nhis subject, resided for several weeks with the family at Mount Vernon, cast Washington s face, and\\nthen made in Italy the original statue, now in the capitol at Richmond, it is the most faithful portrait\\nin existence of the Father of His Country in his later years. This plaster copj^ cost $3,000.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A TOTTK OF TTTE CAPITOL. 27\\nAttorney- General, by Joel T. Hart; and a portrait of Joshua R. Giddiugs, by Miss\\nC. L. Ransom.\\nA few States have sent the cthgies called for, and they stand in the dim light as if\\npetrified with surprise at the miscellaneous company of greatness in which they find\\nthemselves, and the tedium of waiting to be let out. Some are of high merit, but many\\nare not, and none can be fairly estimated or enjoyed when set up in this gloomy and\\nechoing hall, like a lot of gravestones exposed for sale in a dealer s warerooms. Follow-\\ning is a catalogue of these State statues\\n^/^i QaMfnxmn: Gen. James Shields, by Leonard W. Volk.\\nConncclicvt: Gov. Jonathan Trumbull (the original Brother Jonathan, 1710-1785)\\nand Roger Sherman, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1721-1793),\\nboth the work of C. B. Ives, and placed here in 1872.\\nIndiana: Oliver P. Morton, Governor of that State during the Civil War.\\nMaine: Gov. William King (1768-1852), by Franklin W. Simmons, 1877.\\nMassffchusetts: Gov. John Winthrop (1588-1649) by Richard S. Greenough (a brother\\nof Horatio Grenough), dated 1870 and Samuel Adams (1722-1803), by\\nAnne Whitney, 1876. State\\nMicMgan: Lewis Cass (1782-1866), Senator and Secretary of State, Statues.\\nby Daniel Chester French, dated 1887.\\nMimmri: Sen. Frank P. Blair (1821-1876); and Sen. Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858).\\nNew Hampshire: Gen. John Stark (1728-1822); Daniel Webster (1782-1852). Both by\\nCarl Conrad, after the statues in Concord, N. H.\\nNeio Jersey: Richard Stockton (1730-1781), one of the Signers, in marble; and Gen.\\nPhilip Kearney (1815-1862) in bronze. Both are from models by H. K. Brown.\\nNew York: Vice-President George Clinton (1739-1812), by H. K. Brown, and cast by\\nWood in Philadelphia in 1873; Chancellor Robert Livingston (1747-1813), by E. D. Pal-\\nmer, cast in Paris in 1874.\\nOliio: President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) and Senator and Governor William\\nAllen. Both are by Charles H. Niehaus.\\nPennsylvania: Robert Fulton (1765-1815), who was born in this State, but made his\\ncareer elsewhere, by Howard Roberts; and Gen John P. G. Muhlenberg (1746-1807), by\\nHelen Blanche Nevin.\\nRhode Island: Gen. Nathauael Greene (1742-1786), by H. K. Brown, dated 1869; and\\nRoger Williams (1606-1683), by Franklin Simmons, 1870.\\nVermont: Col. Ethan Allen (1737-1789), a colossal marble figure, dated 1875, hj Larkin\\nG. Mead of that State and Senator Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), Taylor s Postmaster-\\nGeneral, by Hiram Powers.\\nWest Virginia: Senator John M. Kenna, by Alexander Doyle.\\nWisconsin: Father James Marquette, missionary-explorer (1637-1675), by\\nTrentanove.\\nStatuary Hall has surprising acoustic properties, which the Capitol guides have learned,\\nand apply to the amusement of sightseers and their own profit. Curious echoes, whisp-\\ners distinct at a distance, and ability to hear what is inaudible to a person\\nat your elbow, are among the curiosities of soimd observable at certain AcOUStic\\npoints. One experiment easUj^ tried is for two persons to place their faces Curiosities.\\nclose in the corners of the room beside the pillars of the arch they may\\nspeak in a low tone and be heard distinctly, each by the other. The Capitol guides, it\\nmaj be remarked, include some very well informed men, who can make themselves of\\ngreat use to a stranger in this immense and storied building; and it is the only place in\\nthe city where a professional guide is of any use whatever. The Capitol guides are per-\\nmitted to charge 50 cents an hour, but are often cheerfully paid much more.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 PICTORIAL GUTIDE TO WASHINGTOlSr.\\nLeaving Statuary Hall by the door under the arch, you quit the limits of the old\\nCapitol, and traverse the corridor to the southern or House wing. The principal doors\\nof the House confront you as you reach the lobby, each guarded, if Con-\\nHouse of gress is in session, by doorkeepers, whose business it is to see that none\\nRepresenta- enter who have not the rights of the floor.\\ntives. The Hall of Representatives (occupied since December 16, 1857) is an\\noblong room 139 feet long by 93 wide and 36 high, the floor being 115\\nby 67 feet. The ceiling is a framework of iron, bronzed and gilded, inlaid with glass,\\nupon which the coats-of-arms of the States are painted, mellowing rather than obscuring\\nthe abundant light. The Speaker s raised desk is against the southern wall, and below\\nhim are the marble desks of the clerks and official reporters, the latter keeping a steno-\\ngraphic I ecord of everything done or said, to be published in llie Congressional Record\\nnext morning. The assistant doorkeeper sits at the Speaker s left, and the sergeant-at-\\narms within easy call. This latter officer is the Speaker s policeman the representative\\nof the physical force which backs up the civil rule; and his symbol of authority is the\\nmace, which reposes on a marble pedestal at the right of the Speaker.\\nThe mace was adopted by the House in the First Congress, and has been in use ever\\nsince. When it is placed on its pedestal, it signifies that the House is in session and\\nunder the Speaker s authority; when it is placed on the floor, that the\\nI^acc. House is in committee of the whole. The mace is a bundle of black rods\\nfastened with transverse bauds of silver, like the Roman /fMces. On its\\ntop is a silver globe surmounted by a silver eagle. Wlien the sergeant-at-arms is execut-\\ning the commands of the Speaker, he is required to bear aloft the mace in his hands.\\nGrouped in concentric semicircles are the desks of the Representatives, all small, uni-\\nform, and handsome, those of the Republican party on the Speaker s left and those of the\\nDemocratic party on the right. When a division of the House takes place, all come down\\nthe side aisles into the space in front of the clerk s desk and pass out up the central aisle\\nbetween counting-tellers. Over the Speaker s head is the press gallery, and doors lead\\nto the lobby and retiring-rooms in the rear. Beneath the galleries, in rear of the Repre-\\nsentatives desks, are cloakrooms small apartments where the Members not only\\nhang up their hats and overcoats, but smo e and talk beyond the hubbub of the House.\\nThe galleries (reached from the next floor) are divided into sections, some of which\\nare devoted to ladies and others reserved for diplomats, friends of Congressmen, etc.\\nThe doorkeepers will give anyone who asks for it a plan of the House\\nHouse showing where the Representatives are seated. Twelve hundred persons\\nGalleries. may be crowded into these galleries.\\nThe Hall of Representatives is a business-like room elegant but not\\nover-ornamented. It is carpeted and draped in warm colors, but the prevailing tone of\\nthe decoration is white and gold. At the right of the chair hangs a full-length portrait\\nof Washington as President, by Vanderlyn, ordered by Congress in 1832, to signalize\\nthe hundredth anniversary of Washington s birth, and delivered in 1834, at the price of\\n$2,500. On the left is Ary Scheffer s portrait of Lafayette, painted in\\nPaintings. 1822, and presented to Congress by that artist in 1824. The panel at the\\nright of the Washington is taken by Bierstadt s painting of the Settle-\\nment of California, while occupying the corresponding panel on the west, adjoining\\nthe Lafayette, is the Discovery of the Hudson by the same artist, who was paid\\n$10,000 for each. Adjoining the last named is a fi esco by Brumidi, representing Wash-\\nington treating with Cornwallis for the surrender of his army at Yorktown a gift to\\nCongress from this painter.\\nCorridors surround the House, paved with Minton tiles, wainscoted with marble,\\nand having decorated ceilings and other adornments. Turning to the right (west) at", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n29\\nthe entrance, you find, just beyond the corner, the Western Grand Staircase, leading to\\nthe attic story or gallery floor.\\nThis staircase is double, with massive balustrades of polished Tennessee marble,\\nand is lighted from the roof through stained glass. At the foot is a bronze bust\\nof a Chippewa Chief, Bee-she-kee or The Buffalo, modeled from life in\\n1855 by Vincenti. The opposite wall is largely covered by the fresco by Western\\nLeutze, representing western emigration under the title Westward, Ho Grand\\nThe action in the figures is the best part of the composition, for which Staircase.\\n$20,000 was paid. Strips of wall beside the picture are highly decorated.\\nThat on the right contains a portrait of Daniel Boone, as a typical explorer, and the\\nTHE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.\\nmotto: The spirit grows with its allotted spaces; the mind is narrowed in a nar-\\nrow sphere. That on the left has a portrait of Col. William Clark, to whose energetic\\naction the United States mainly owes its early possession of the Ohio Valley, with a\\nfamiliar misquotation from Jonathan M. Sewall, which should read\\nNo pent-up Utica contracts your powers,\\nBut the whole boundless continent is yours.\\nBeneath Leutze s fresco is a similarly treated sketch by Bierstadt, of the Golden Gate,\\nor entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, California.\\nThe rooms beyond the staircase are offices of the clerks of the House, and the fourth\\n(in the corner) is the Speaker s room. An elevator is near here.\\nTurning down the corridor, across the southern end of the wing and in rear of\\nthe hall, the handsome retiring-rooms of the Representatives are passed\\nand at the end, opposite the basement stairs, is the House Lobby. Bronzc\\nThis basement stairway is one of the four beautiful, bronze-railed Stair ^ays.\\nprivate stairs leading down to committee-rooms, etc., on the floor below,\\nwhich are found at opposite corners of the halls of both the Senate and the House.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOlSr.\\nTheir balustrades are exquisite worlds of art in metal, were cast in Philadelphia after\\ndesigns by Baudin, and cost something over $500 each. It is worth an effort to\\nsee them.\\nThe House Lobby is richly furnished, and contains many portraits most of which\\nare crayon-drawings of the Speakers of the past, who find themselves in a sort of\\nlegal obscurity delightfully suitable to the mysterious bargains and vague understand-\\nings associated with this apartment, where Congressmen confer with those whom they\\nchoose to admit. This and the adjoining apartments are not open to public inspection\\nafter noon when Congress is in session.\\nPassing another bronze-railed stairway and turning to the left, three committee-rooms\\nof great interest are passed on the eastern front of this wing. In the corner is that of\\nthe Committee on Appropriations next comes that of Ways and Means, which is richly\\nfrescoed and in the farther (northeastern) corner is that of Military Affairs, hung with\\na notable collection of paintings of the principal forts of the United States, gathered\\nby Lieutenant-Colonel Eastman, U. S. A. From this corridor the\\nEastern Eastern Grand Staircase, similar to the western, ascends to the gallery\\nGrand floor. At its foot is Powers statue of Thomas Jefferson, which cost |10,-\\nStairway. 000, but is difficult to see. Over the landing hangs Frank B. Carpen-\\nter s painting of the Signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation,\\nby President Lincoln, in the presence of his Cabinet, September 22, 1862, presented to\\nCongress in 1878 by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, who, it is said, paid $25,000 for the pic-\\nture. Beginning at the left the portraits are Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War\\nSalmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; Abraham Lincoln, President; Gideon\\nWelles, Secretary of the Navy; William H. Seward (seated), Secretary of State; Caleb B.\\nSmith, Secretary of the Interior; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster- General; Edward Bates,\\nAttorney-General. Mr. Carpenter was for a considerable time an inmate of Lincoln s\\nfamily at the White House, and has written many interesting reminiscences of that time.\\nAscending to the attic floor we may again make the circuit of this wing through cor-\\nridors whose inner doors open into the galleries of the House. At the top of the staircase\\nhangs a full-length portrait of Henry Clay, painted by Neagle in 1843 for\\nPortraits. the family, and regarded by Mr. Clay as the best portrait made of him.\\nIt is flanked on one side bj^ a portrait of Charles Carroll of CarroUton, the\\nlast survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, painted by Chester Har-\\nding, a contemporary and rival of Gilbert Stuart, and on the other side by a portrait\\nof Gunning Bedford, a member of the Continental Congress from Delaware, painted by\\nGilbert Stuart and presented by his family.\\nTurning the corner toward the left we walk along the corridor in the rear of the\\nHouse galleries, the distribution of which is indicated by labels over the doors. The\\nmost conspicuous compartment is that devoted to the press, which has a broad space over\\nthe Speaker s head and facing the House; it is fitted with desks, and gov-\\nHOUSC erned by stringent rules made by a committee of correspondents. More\\nGalleries. than half of the gallery, with seats for some 500 persons, is open to the\\npublic, which may come and go at will; portions of this are nominally\\nreserved for ladies; but gentlemen with them may also enter. A private room for ladies,\\nwith a woman attendant, will be found in the south front. Certain rooms on this floor\\nare devoted to House committees and other official purposes, and the second story of\\nthe corridor connecting this gallery with that of Statuary Hall is filled with the House s\\nfile of public documents, bound uniformly in sheepskin, and now numbering nearly\\n150,000 volumes. The early records of Congress are very valuable. The only picture\\nhere is that of Chief Justice Marshall, which hangs opposite the head of the western\\nstaircase, and is an excellent full-length painted by R. N. Brooke in 1880.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n31\\nThe basement of the House, to which an elevator makes a convenient descent, con-\\ntains the House post office (southeast comer); committee and clerks\\nrooms, of which several are elaborately frescoed a public restaurant (at HoUse\\nthe foot of the eastern staircase); elaborate bathrooms for Representa- Basement,\\ntives, and public lavatories for men (at the foot of the western stairway).\\nThe room of the Committee on Agriculture was decorated by Brumidi. as his intro-\\nductory work, with what some critics have pronounced the best frescoes in the building.\\nThey represent Cincinnatus called from his fields to be dictator, and Putnam going\\nfrom his plow to be a general in the Continental army. There are also sketches con-\\ntrasting harvests in ancient and modern times, and medallions of Washington and\\nJefferson. Figures of Flora (spring), Ceres (summer), Bacchus (autumn), and Boreas\\n(winter) accent the decoration of the ceiling. The Committee on Indian Affairs has the\\nbenefit of wall paintings of Indian scenes executed by Lieutenant-Colonel Eastman,\\nU. S. A., whose collection of pictures of forts, largely painted by himself, is preserved\\nin the room of the House Committee on Military Affairs.\\nThe sub-basement beneath this part of the building contains the elaborate machinery\\nfor heating and ventilating the Hall of Representatives and this wing generally. Fresh\\nair is drawn in from a remote part of the grounds, and its temperature,\\ndegree of diyness, etc. are regulated by ingenious machinery, which is Sub-\\nopen to inspection by visitors who wish to descend to the engine-room. basement.\\nA similar apparatus is in the Senate sub-basement for the service of the\\nnorth wing. The central part of the sub-basement is a labyrinth of dark archways used\\nfor storage, when used at all.\\nA basement corridor extends from end to end of the Capitol on this ground floor, and\\nfurnishes a convenient means of reaching the Senate wing without retracing one s steps.\\nThe white marble pillars will at once attract the eye. The connoisseur will remark that\\nthough of Corinthian mold, their floriated capitals represent leaves of American plants,\\nespecially tobacco. This was a pretty notion of Benj. H. Latrobe, and a still finer exam-\\nple exists in the Senate vestibule. Half way down this corridor through the basement\\n(which really is the ground floor, numerous doors opening directly upon\\nthe plaza and terrace), we come to the crypt, an apartment formed of Crypt.\\nthe spaces between the forty Doric columns that support the massive\\nbrick arches upon which is laid the floor of the rotunda; a star in the pavement marks\\nWESTWARD, HO!\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY.- Painting by Emanuel Leutze.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nthe center of the building immediately beneath the dome. A large part of the crypt\\nhas been walled ofE for storage of documents. A passage to the left leads out to the\\nwestern entrance and upstairs into the rotunda; and another leads to the basement doors\\nunder the grand portico of the eastern front.\\nThe Undercroft is the name applied to the vault beneath the crypt, intended by the\\nfounders of the Republic as the mausoleum of Washington and his\\nUndercroft. family but these good people preferred to be buried at Mount Vernon,\\nand the undercroft remains empty.\\nPassing onward, a few steps take one past the light-shaft to the door (on the right) of\\nthe old Supreme Court Chamber, immediately under the present chamber. It was in\\nthis room, now filled with the exceedingly valuable law library of the court, that all the\\ngreat cases were heard previous to 1857. It was injured by fire in 1898. A few steps\\nfarther carry one out of the old main building and into the basement of\\nSenate the Senate wing. Here there is a public restaurant, public lavatories for\\nBasement. both men and women, and many offices and committee-rooms. All the\\ncorridors and vestibules at this end are well lighted, and the walls and\\nceilings are very profusely and elaborately decorated with mural designs in the Italian\\nmanner, daintily drawn and brightly colored. Among them are many portraits of early\\nAmerican men of note, in medallions, and a long series of charming drawings in colors\\nof North American birds, small mammals, and flowers. The vestibule of the Senate\\npost office, in the northwest corner, is particularly picturesque, having over the post-\\noffice door a large painting of Fulton, pointing, as if from a balcony, to his first steam-\\nboat, the Claremont, passing the Palisades of the Hudson. The door of the Committee\\non Post Office Affairs is suitably indicated by a sprightly picture of Franklin, who\\norganized the American Post Office while over the opposite door is a likeness of Fitch,\\nFulton s competitor in developing the idea of steam navigation.\\nOther especially fine frescoes are to be seen in the rooms of the Senate committees on\\nIndian Affairs, Naval Affairs, Military Affairs (where Revolutionary battles are pictured\\nin glorious colors), and Foreign Affairs the doors of the latter and of the\\nFrescoes in Committee on Patents are further distinguished by frescoes by Brumidi\\nCommittee above the lintels in the former case The Signing of the Treaty of\\nRooms. Ghent, and in the latter a full-length picture of Robert Fulton.- The\\nrendering over and over in painting and carving of the same subjects and\\nfaces is one of the peculiarities of the unsystematic and ununiform embellishment of the\\nCapitol. The room of the Senate Committee on Public Lands contains the painting\\nThe Recall of Columbus, by Aug. G. Heatou, which used to hang in the corridor of\\nthe Senate galleries.\\nA stairway or an elevator at either the eastern or western end of the main corridor will\\ntake one up to the main story of the Senate wing. Here, as in the southern wing, corridors\\nextend completely around the Senate Chamber, which occupies the center of this wing.\\nThe Senate Chamber is 113 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 36 feet high, including the\\ngalleries, which extend all around and will accommodate about 1,000 persons. The\\nspace under the galleries on the east, west, and south sides is partitioned into cloak-\\nrooms for the Senators, while on the north side is the Senate lobby. The area of the\\nfloor is diminished by these rooms to 84 feet long by 51 wide.\\nThe flat ceiling of iron girders inclosing broad panels of glass, painted with\\nSenate emblems of the Union, Progress, the Army, the Navy, the Mechanic Arts,\\nChamber. etc., admits a soft light day and night. The marble walls are paneled\\nby pilasters in couples, and the doors are of choice mahogany. The\\ncarpet is usually green, setting off well the mahogany desks of quaint pattern, which,\\nwith the chairs, are now uniform, and the profuse gilding about the walls and ceiling.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n33\\nEach desk bears a silver plate with the occupant s name. A Senator keeps a desk\\nonly during a single Congress, drawing lots at the beginning of the next for a choice of\\nseats the Republicans sitting at tlie left and the Democrats at the riglit of tlie presid-\\nTHE SENATE CHAMBER.\\ning officer. Some desks are old and historic, being the same at which Senators distin-\\nguished in the early history of the Republic sat or delivered their forensic thunders.\\nThe President of the Senate is the Vice-President of the United States. He sits\\nupon a platform within an arched niche and behind a broad desk. His chair is high\\nbacked and a magnificent piece of carved mahogany, a gift to Vice-President Hobart.\\nAt his right is the Sergeant-at-Arms, and at his left the Assistant Doorkeeper. In front\\nof him, a step lower down, is the desk of the Senate clerks, and in front of that, on the\\nfloor of the arena, the tables of the official reporters. The press gallery\\nis behind the President, and facing him are the galleries reserved for the Senate\\nDiplomatic Corps and for Senators families. The end galleries are open Galleries.\\nto the public, the eastern one being set apart for women, who will find a\\nconvenient parlor and retiring-room, with a woman attendant, at its northern extremitj^\\nA plan of the Senators seats may be obtained from the doorkeepers.\\nBusts of all the Vice-Presidents are being placed in niches in the walls, of which\\nthe following is a roster, with the names of the sculptors\\nJohn Adams (Daniel C. French), Thomas Jefferson (M. Ezekiel), Aaron Burr (Jacques\\nJoavenal), George Clinton (Victor A. Crane), Elbridge Gerry (Herbert\\nAdams), Daniel Tompkins (C. H. Niehaus), Martin Van Buren (U. S. J. BustS Of\\nDunbar), George M. Dallas (H. J. Ellicott), Hannibal Hamlin (Franklin Vice-\\nSimmons), Henry Wilson (Daniel C. French), W. A. Wheeler (Edwin Presidents.\\nPotter), Chester A. Arthur (Aug. St. Gaudens), Thomas A. Hendricks\\n(U. S. J. Dunbar), Levi P. Morton (F. Edwin Elwell), Adlai E. Stevenson (Franklin\\nSimmons), John C. Calhoun, and R. M. Johnson.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "84 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nOutside th e Senate Chamber many interesting things are to be seen on the main\\nfloor. Turning to the right from the main or rotunda entrance to the wing (and to the\\nfloor of the chamber), you flnd on the end wall a famous portrait (head),of Washington\\nby Gilbert Stuart, which was bought by Congress in 1876, from ex-Senator Chestnut\\nof South Carolina, for $1,300. Opposite it is a bright portrait of John Adams, copied\\nby Andrews from Gilbert Stuart. Passing through the door between\\nEastern these portraits, and turning to the left, you come to the magnificent east-\\nStaircase. ern staircase of Tennessee marble, illuminated by a rich skylight of\\nstained glass. At its foot stands Powers marble statue of Benjamin\\nFranklin, which cost f 10, 000. The wall of the sta r landing bears Powell s striking\\npainting (an enlarged copy, for which $25,000 was paid by contract in 1873, of an earlier\\npicture, 1863, made by Powell for the State of Ohio) of Com. Oliver P. Perry at the\\nbattle of Lake Erie, in 1810, transferring himself and his flag from his sinking flagship\\nLawrence to the Niagara, in which he won a signal victor3\\\\\\nThis transfer was made under fire. Perry s younger brother, Matthew (who after-\\nward opened Japan to the world), was then a midshipman, and is depicted here as\\nenti eating his brother and commander not to expose himself so recklessly. The faces\\nof the sailors were drawn from once well-known emploj^es about the Capitol.\\nJust beyond the staircase is a noble vestibule, with coupled columns, having Corin-\\nthian capitals, designed by Latrobe, though usually credited to Jefferson, composed\\nof a most graceful arrangement of Indian corn and tobacco leaves in place of the con-\\nventional acanthus. They are of white marble, but the walls are of scagliola. A bust\\nof President John Tyler is the only ornament. This vestibule (where there is an elevator)\\nopens upon the eastern portico through the Senate Bronze Doors designed by Thomas\\nCrawford, cast by J. T. Ames at Chicopee, Mass., and set up here in 1868.\\nThese doors are equally interesting, and the workmanship is as fine as is that of\\nthe Rogers doors. The upper panel of each valve (one of which represents War and the\\nother Peace, as typified in the figures in the foot-panel of each half) con-\\nCrawford tains a star surrounded by oak leaves, and acts as a ventilator. There are\\nBronze Doors, six panels, constituting the body of the door, in which are represented,\\nin alto-relievo, events connected with the Revolution, the foundation of\\nour Government, and the erection of the Capitol, chronologically as follows: The battles\\nof Bunker Hill, Monmouth, and Yorktown; the welcome of Washington in Trenton on\\nhis way to New York in 1789 (the same panel contains portraits of the sculptor, his wife,\\nthree children, and of Rogers, the sculptor of the main door); the inauguration of Wash-\\nington in 1789, and the laying of the corner-stone of the Capitol, September 18, 1793. The\\nprominent figures are all likenesses. In the inauguration scene John Adams stands on\\nWashington s right; Chancellor Livingston administers the oath, and Mr. Otis holds the\\nBible. The remaining figures are Alexander Hamilton, Generals Knox and St. Clair,\\nRoger Sherman, and Baron Steuben. The frame over the door is supported by enriched\\nbrackets. The ornamentation is scroll-work and acanthus, with the cotton boll, stalks\\nand ears of corn, grapes, and entwining vines. Above the door are two sculptured\\nfigures in American marble representing Justice and History by Crawford, whose price\\nwas $3,000. It will be remembered, also, that Crawford designed the figures that fill the\\npediment of this portico. This bronze door was his latest work; he was paid $6,000\\nfor the designs, and William H. Rinehart was given $8,940 for the plaster model, while\\nthe casting (14,000 pounds) cost $50,500.\\nReturning into the vestibule, it is well to turn aside through the first door, at the\\nright, and see Brumidi s excellent frescoes in the room of the Senate Committee on the\\nDistrict of Columbia. This was originally assigned to be the Senate post office, whence\\nthe artist s choice of History, Geography, Physics, and the Telegraph as subjects for his", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n35\\nbrush. The figures in each design are large and striliingly drawn, and the decorative\\naccessories are most pleasing.\\nThis vestibule opens at its inner end on the right into the Senate Reception-room, an\\napartment sixty feet long, but divided by an arch, where Senators receive callers\\nespecially ladies upon business. It is gaudily ornate. The floor is of\\nMinton tiles, and the walls are covered with rococo designs in stucco, in S^eccption-\\nhigh relief, and heavily gilded. The vaulted ceiling has also many room.\\ngilded stucco ornaments, and x;ertain panels are embellished with allegor-\\nical frescoes by Brumidi entitled Liberty, Plenty, Peace, War, Pru-\\ndence, Justice, Temperance, and Strength while an excellently drawn and\\nbrilliantly colored mural painting, under the arch on the south wall, depicts Washington\\nin conference with Jeflierson and Hamilton one of the best things in the Capitol.\\nThis room opens eastwardly into the office of the sergeant-at-arms, where a very large\\nceiling painting is visible, and westwardly it opens into the lobby.\\nIn the Senate Lobby, entering from the public reception-room, as above noted, the\\nfirst door at the right opens into the Vice-President s Room, where Henry Wilson died,\\nNovember 22, 1875, and whose bust by Daniel C. French remains here as a memento.\\nThe next door admits to the Marble Room a large senatorial reception\\nor withdrawing room, popularly so called because every part of its Yice-\\ninterior is formed of variegated and sculptured marbles, all from East President s\\nTennessee except the white Italian capitals and ceilings. Here the grave and IMarble\\nand reverend Senators hold consultations at ease, or receive their I^OOms.\\nmore privileged guests. Luxurious chairs, soft sofas, warm rugs, and\\nlace curtains abound, and the room is dazzling at night when all the lights are aglow,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f) The self-registering thermometers, barometers, wind-indicators, etc. to be seen here,\\nfurnish a branch station of the U. S. Weather Service and the officer in charge records\\nthe phases of the weather all over the country upon the glass face of a\\nmap in a most interesting way. The House enjoys a similar substation. Weather\\nNext west of this splendid saloon is the President s room, another ornate Service.\\napartment where it has been the custom since Andrew Johnson s time\\n(except in Cleveland s case) for Presidents to sit during the last day of a congressional\\nsession, in order to be ready\\nto sign bills requiring an\\nimmediate signature. This\\nroom is brilliantly deco-\\nrated, including medallion\\nportraits of\\nPresident President s\\nWashington Room.\\nand promi-\\nnent members of his first\\nCabinet Thomas Jeffer-\\nson, Secretary of State\\nHenry Knox, Secretary of\\nWar; Alexander Hamilton,\\nSecretary of the Treasury\\nEdmund Randolph, Attor-\\nney-General, and Samuel\\nOsgood, Postmaster-\\nGeneral. The four corner-\\nfrescoes overhead represent\\nPERRY AT THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE.\\nPainting by Powell. Eastern Staircase.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nColumbus (Discovery), Ves-\\npucius (Exploration),\\nFranklin (History), and\\nWilliam Brewster (Reli-\\ngion). Between these are\\nsymbolic figures of Liberty,\\nLegislation, Religion, and\\nExecutive Power. All this\\nwork is by the versatile\\nBrumidi, and in his best\\nvein. The tiling of this\\nand of the adjoining rooms\\nis covered in winter by\\nrich carpeting.\\nThis lobby and the\\nthree rooms last named are\\nnot visible THE GRAND CANON OF THE YELLOWSTONE.\\nWestern during SeS- Painting by Tliomas Moran.\\nStaircase. sions of Congress, except by the courtesy of some Senator. The rooms\\nopening from the corridor west of the Senate Chamber belong to the\\nclerks and certain committees and call for no special remark. The visitor may there-\\nfore pass on at once to the Western Grand Staircase of white American marble and\\nascend to the gallery floor.\\nDr. Horatio Stone s\\nstatue of John Hancock\\nstands at the foot of this\\nstaircase. It was sculptured\\nin 1861, and bought for\\n$5,500. On the wall of the\\nlanding is the large paint-\\ning, by Walker, of the\\nStorming of Chepultepec\\n(captured by Scott s army\\non September 13, 1847, dur-\\ning the Mexican War), for\\nwhich $6,000 was paid.\\nRoose says that it was orig-\\ninally painted for a panel\\nin the Committee-room of\\nMilitary Affairs of the House, and doubtless will eventually be placed there. At the\\nhead of the stairway hangs a full-length portrait of Washington, by Charles Wilson Peale,\\npainted in 1779, the first sittings for which were given at Valley Forge.\\nThis west corridor admits one to the gentlemen s and to one of the reserved\\nSenate galleries of the Senate, and to numerous committee-rooms. The rooms\\nGalleries. in the northern front of the wing, behind the press gallery, are not public.\\nTurning to the right from the elevator, or from the head of the stairs, let\\nus walk around through the south corridor, whose doors admit to the Senate galleries,\\nto the head of the eastern\\ngrand stairway. Beyond the\\nstairway are two of the most\\ninteresting rooms in the\\nbuilding, a hall looking\\nout upon the plaza, and\\nanother, adjoining, having a\\ndelightful prospect north-\\nward. These rooms not only\\ncontain fine tiling and mural\\ndecorations, but some nota-\\nble paintings. In the former\\nare a portrait of John C.\\nCalhoun, and Morau s cele-\\nbrated pictures of the canons\\nof the Colorado and of the\\nYellowstone, which were the CHASIVI of the Colorado.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Painting by Thomas Moran.\\nTHE FIRST FIGHT OF THE IRONCLADS.\\nPainting by W. F. Halsall. Lobby of Senate Gallery.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "A TOUR OF THE CAPITOL.\\n37\\npainted from actual studies, and sold to the Government for $10,000 each. Those famil-\\niar with these marvelous regions of the covuitry know that the coloring is by no means\\ntoo vivid, and that the drawing is highly expressive. This room opens into the gallery\\nfor Senators families, the first and second seats of which are reserved for the President\\nand Vice-President, and their friends.\\nThe adjoining hall (from which opens a ladies retiring-room, with a woman attend-\\nant) has the painting representiui; the encounter between the Monitor and Merrimac,\\npainted by\\nHaisall, and Paintings\\npurchased and\\nin 1877 for Portraits.\\n$15,000, the\\nonly exception to the rule\\nthat no reminder of the\\nCivil War shall be placed\\nin the Capitol, an exception\\ndue to the fact that this\\nwas in reality a drawn\\nbattle, where the courage\\nof the contestants was con-\\nspicuously equal, and\\nwhere the naval methods\\nof the world were revolu-\\ntionized. Its historical\\ninterest is therefore world-\\nwide. Here also are por-\\ntraits of Lincoln and Gar-\\nfield, in Italian mosaic, the\\ngift of Signor Salviati of\\nVenice, Italy a portrait\\nTHE ELECTORAL COMMISSION. Charles Sumner by W.\\nPainting by Mrs. Cornelia A. Fassett. In Lobby of Senate Gallery. Tllfalls dated 1870 and\\none of Gen. John A. Dix, by Imogene Robinson Morrell, dated 1883. It was John A. Dix,\\nafterward a Major-General, Senator, and Governor of New York, who, when Secretary of\\nthe Treasury in 1861, sent to one of his special agents in Louisiana the famous order con-\\ntaining the words If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on\\nthe spot, which so thrilled patriotic hearts. Here also are several busts\\nof high artistic excellence, as well as historic interest. These are of Kos- Btists.\\nciusko, the Hungarian patriot, by H. D. Saunders; of Count Pulaski,\\nPolish soldier of the Revolution, by H. D. Mochowski of Thomas Crawford, the\\nsculptor, by Gogliardi, and a marble head of Bee-Shee-Kee, a Chippewa Indian.\\nA small special elevator makes this room directly accessible from the basement and\\ndescending by it, or by the eastern grand stairway, to the main floor, one walks to the\\nmain corridor, where, upon the wall at the western end, hang beautiful portraits of\\nThomas Jefferson, a copj- from an original by Thomas Sully, and of Patrick Henry, a\\ncopy by Matthews, from an original by Sully, an eminent painter of portraits and his-\\ntorical pictures, who died in Boston in 1872. The portraits on the eastern wall have\\nalready been described. The survey of the Senate wing has now been finished, and the\\nSupreme Court Chamber is next to be inspected. This is reached by the main passage-\\nway leading from the Senate to the rotunda. Here, as soon as the older part of the\\nbuilding is entered, one comes to the door of the Supreme Court, guarded by an\\nattendant who will admit visitors upon all proper occasions.\\nBeginning with the resort of the populace in the rotunda, the visitor has\\nnow inspected in succession the halls of the lower and upper house of Congress,\\nand now concludes with the tribunal which passes upon the validity of the laws they\\npass. To sit at the rear of this old hall when the court is in session, as happens five\\ndays in the week, during the greater part of the year, is an impressive experience.\\nThe Supreme Court of the United States now occupies the chamber\\nin the old Capitol designed for the Senate, and occupied by that body Supreme\\nfrom 1800 until the completion of the new wing in 1859. Previously it Court.\\nsat in the hall, prepared for it, beneath this one.\\nThis chamber was designed by Latrobe, and its general resemblance to the old Hall\\nof Representatives (Statuary Hall) will be noted but it is smaller, measuring 75 by 45\\nfeet wide, and 45 feet high to the zenith of the low half-dome. Beneath the wide arch of", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOlSr.\\nSUPREME COURT CHAMBER.\\nthe rear wall is a row of columns ol variegated gray Potomac marble, with white Ionic capi-\\ntals, in the center of which was placed the chair of the President of the Senate, draped, as\\nnow, by crimson curtains and surmounted by a hovering eagle. On the dais below him\\nwere the desks of the clerks, where now stands the long bench of the most august\\ncourt in the land. At the right of the bench is the clerk of the court, at the left the\\nMarshal and the tables of the Attorney- General, official reporters, stenographers, and\\ncounsel legallv admitted to practice here, occupy the semicircular carpeted bar\\nformerly covered by the desks of Senators. In the rear are public seats but the light\\niron galleries formerly built overhead have been removed, and the walls, with their mar-\\nble pilasters and busts of past Chief Justices, are now wholly visible. The list of busts\\nis as follows At the left of the clock (as you face the Court), (1) John\\nBusts of Jay (1789 to 1795). (2) Oliver Ellsworth (1796 to 1799). (3) Roger B.\\nJustices. Taney (1835 to 1864). (4) Morrissou R. Waite (1874 to 1888). On the\\nright of the clock (1) John Rutledge (an Associate Justice nominated in\\n1795, but never confirmed). (2) John Marshall (1801 to 1835). (3) Salmon P. Chase\\n(1865 to 1873). The Justices, who, upon court days, enter in procession precisely at\\nnoon, wearing the voluminous black silk gowns which alone remain in the United\\nStates of the traditional costume of the English judiciary, sit in a prescribed order of\\nseniority. In the center is the Chief Justice upon his right hand is the Associate Jus-\\ntice longest in service, and beyond him the second, third, and fourth and then, upon\\nthe left of the Chief Justice, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth, or youngest in rank\\nof appointment. The court is at present composed as follows, in order of seniority\\nThe Chief Justice, Melville W. Fuller, appointed in 1888 Associate Justices, John M.\\nHarlan, 1877 Horace Gray, 1881 David J. Brewer. 1889 Henry B. Brown, 1891\\nGeorge Shiras, Jr., 1892; Edward D. White, 1894 Rufus Peckham, 1895 and Joseph\\nMcKenna, 1898.\\nThe robing-room, where the Justices meet informally and don their robes, is a hand-\\nsome parlor, with much antique furniture, west of the corridor, and is adorned with\\nsome notable portraits of the Chief Justices of the past.\\nRobing- The portrait of John Jay, by Gilbert Stuart, represents him arrayed in a\\nroom. black satin robe with broad scarlet facings. It was a gift to the court by\\nhis grandson, John Jay,^ late Minister to Austria. That of Taney, by Healy,\\nwas presented by the Washington Bar Association. The portrait of Chief Justice", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "A TOUE OF THE CAPITOL.\\n39\\nMarshall is by Rembrandt Peale, and was presented to Chief Justice Chase by the Bar\\nof NeAv York, and at his death was bequeathed by him to the Supreme Court.\\nNeighboring rooms are devoted to court officers and clerks. The entrance to the\\nSenate Library, on the tloor above, is nearly opposite to the Supreme Court.\\nA short corridor (from which opens the winding stairway that leads to the top of the\\ndome) conducts you from the door of the Supreme Court into the rotunda, and com-\\npletes the tour of the C apitol.\\nThe western front of the Capitol is directly reached by leaving the rotunda through\\nthe western door and passing downstairs beneath the apartmentformerly occupied by\\nthe Library of Congress, when you will emerge upon the terrace.\\nLooking back, you perceive the pillared and harmonious addition made to the original\\ndesign of the building for the accommodation of the Library of Congress. It was first\\nerected and occupied in 1824, after designs by Latrobe. In 1851 it was\\nburned out, over 30,000 books and some valuable paintings being lost. Western\\nIts restoration was immediately begun by Thomas U. Walter, who added front.\\nthe two side halls, expending $300, (300 in the reconstruction. The library\\nwas moved in 1897 to the magnificent building east of the Capitol grounds described\\nin the next chapter.\\nThe terrace is a broad esplanade, separated from the basement of the building by a\\nkind of moat, which permits light and air to enter the lowest story, and adds\\nlargely to the solidity and architectural grandeur of the Capitol when viewed from below.\\nUnderneath this terrace are a series of casemate-like apartments, which were put to a\\nnovel use during the early days of the Civil War, when this part of the building had\\njust been put into form.\\nThe Capitol in war time was a citadel. Its halls and committee-rooms were used as\\nbarracks for the soldiers, who barricaded the outer doors with barrels of cement between\\nthe pillars its basement galleries were converted into storerooms for army provisions\\nand the vaults under this terrace were converted into bakeries, where 16,000 loaves\\nof bread were baked every day for many\\nmonths. In Harper s excellent Cyclopae-\\ndia of United States History, p., 947, may\\nbe seen a picture of this service, with the\\nsmoke pouring out of improvised chim-\\nneys along the outer edge. The bakeries\\nare now clerks offices and congressional\\ncommittee-rooms.\\nBroad flights of stairs, parting right\\nand left about a fountain, lead down to a\\nlower terrace, in the center of which is the\\nbronze sitting figure of Chief Justice John\\nilarshall. The artist is the\\nrenowned American sculp- Marshall\\ntor, Wm. W. Story, who Statue.\\ndied in Rome in 1895. This\\nstatue, which was executed in Italy, was\\npresented to the United States by members\\nof the bar, while Congress supplied the\\npedestal. It was erected in 1884, and cost\\n))f40,000. The Chief Justice, whose por-\\ntrait is said to be an excellent one, is rep-\\nresented as seated in his accustomed court-\\nroom chair and wearing his ofiicial robe,\\nwhile his open hand appears to be a gesture\\nenforcing some evident truth or benign\\ndecision. Each side of the marble pedestal\\nbears a group in low relief one, Minerva\\nDictating the Constitution to Young Amer-\\nica, and the other, Victory Leading-\\nYoung America to Swear Fidelity on the\\nAltar of the Union.\\nFrom this statue broad walks descend to\\nPennsylvania Avenue and the Naval Moun-\\nSTATUE OF CH,EF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL, ment On the right and to Maryland Avenue\\nBy w. w. Story. and the Garfield Monument on the left.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF CO", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "^sm m^^i^^^^", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nPICTOEIAL GriDE TO WASHIlSTOTOISr,\\nMAfN ENTRANCE\\nFIRST STORY PLAN.\\nTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nFloor Plans Prepared under the Direction of Mr. Bernard R. Green. Superintendent\\nof the Library Building and Grounds.\\nFirst Story.\\nMAIN ENTKAIfCE HALL.\\nraintinss bv John W. Alexander.\\n(The Evolution of the Book.)\\n1. The Cairn.\\n2. Oral Tradition.\\n3. Ksyiilian llierdRlyphics.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I, IMcluic \\\\Vi-iiiiij.(.\\n5. The Manuscript Book.\\n6. The Printing j ress.\\nPaintings hy Charles Sprague\\nPearue.\\n1. The Family.\\n2. Eecreatlon.\\n3. Study.\\n4. Labor.\\n5. Religion.\\nti. Give Instruction Unto\\nThose Who Cannot Pro-\\ncure It-for ThcMisclvcs.\\n7. Best.\\nPaintings by lOliliu Vcdcicr.\\n1. Anarcliy.\\n3. Corrupt Legislation.\\n3. Government.\\n4. Good Administration.\\n5. Peace and Prosperity.\\nMAIN ENTE.\\\\.NCE HALL\\nCo)}tinued.\\nPaintings by H. O. Walker.\\n1. Lyric Poetry.\\n2. Comus.\\n3. Adonis.\\n4. Ganymede.\\nKndyraion.\\nThe Boy of Winandcr.\\nUriel.\\nThe Poets Who on Earth\\nHave Made Us Heirs of\\nTruth and Pure Delight\\nby Heavenly Lays.\\nCOnRinOE LEADIKG SOUTH FEOM\\nMAIN ENTEANCE HALL.\\nPaintings by W. McEwen.\\n1. Paris.\\n2. Jason.\\n3. Bellerophon.\\n4. Orpheus.\\nT). Perseus.\\nK. Prometheus.\\n7. Theseus.\\n8. Achilles.\\n9. Hercules.\\nEEPEESENTATIVES EEADIIfG-\\nEOOM.\\nMosaics by Frederick Dielman.\\nA Law.\\nB History.\\nCeiling Paintings by Carl Gather/.\\n1. Creation of Light.\\nLight of Excellence.\\n3. Light of Poetry.\\n4. Light of State.\\nResearch. The Light of.\\nTruth.\\nScience.\\nCOEEIDOE LEADING NOETII FROM\\nMAIN ENTEANCE HALL.\\nPaintings by Edward Simmons.\\n1. Melpomene.\\n2. Clio.\\n3. Thalia.\\n4. Euterpe.\\nr Terpsichore.\\n0. Erato.\\n7. Polyhymnia.\\n8. Urania.\\n9. Calliope.\\nNOETHWEST P.WILION.\\nPaintings by R. L. Dodge.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0050.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n43\\nSECOND STORY PLAN.\\nSecond Story-\\nMAIK ENTRANCE HALL.\\nPompeilan Panels by G. W. May-\\nnard.\\nPaintiiiRs by Walter Shirlaw.\\nA Fortitude.\\n1. Archeologj\\nB Justice.\\n2. Botany.\\nC Concordia.\\n3. Astronomy.\\nD Industry.\\n4. Chemistry.\\nE Patriotism.\\n5. Geology.\\nF Courage.\\n6. Mathematics.\\nG Temperance.\\n7. Physics.\\nH Prudehce.\\nPaintings by W. B. Van Ingen.\\nPaintings hy George R. Barse, Jr.\\n1. L Allegro.\\n1. Lyrica.\\n2. 11 Penseroso.\\n2. Tragedy.\\nMosaic by Elihu Vedder.\\n3. Comedy.\\n8. Minerva.\\n4. History.\\n5. Erotica.\\nCOETvIDOTl LEADING SOUTH ^051\\n6. Tradition.\\nMAIN ENTRANCE HALL.\\n7. Fancy.\\n8. Romance.\\nPaintings by Kenyon Cox.\\n1. The Sciences,\\nPaintings by William A. Mackay.\\n2. The Arts.\\n9. Atropos.\\n10 I.achesis.\\nSOUTHWEST PAVILION.\\n11. Clotho.\\nPaintings by G. W. Maynard.\\nPaintings by Robert Reid.\\n1. Adventure.\\n1. Taste.\\n2. Discovery.\\n2. Sight.\\n3. Conquest.\\n3. Smell.\\n4. Civilization.\\n4. Hearing.\\n5. Courage Valor \u00e2\u0080\u0094Forti-\\n5. Touch.\\ntude\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Achievement.\\nfi. Wisdom.\\nMedallions by Bela L. Pratt.\\n7. Understanding.\\nA Seed.\\n8. Knowledge.\\nB Bloom.\\n9. Philosophy.\\nC Fruit.\\nPaintings by F. W. Benson.\\nD Decay.\\n1. Spring.\\n2. Summer.\\nSOtTTHEAST PAVILION.\\n3. Autumn.\\nPaintings by R. L. Dodge.\\n4. Winter.\\n1. Earth.\\n5. Aglaia.\\n2. Water\\n6. Thalia.\\n3. Fire.\\n7. Euphrosyne.\\n4. Air.\\nPainting by Elmer E. Garnsey\\n5. Ceiling Disc.\\nMedallions by IJela L. Pratt.\\nA Ver.\\nB Aestas.\\nC Auctumnus.\\nI) Hiems.\\nCORRIDOR LEADING NORTH rRO-M\\nMAIN ENTRANCE HALL.\\nPaintings by Gari Jlclchcrs.\\n1. War.\\n2. Peace.\\nNORTHWEST PAVILION.\\nPaintings by William de L. Dodge.\\n1. Science.\\n2. Art.\\n3. Music.\\n4. Literature.\\n5. Ambition.\\nMedallions by Bela L. Pratt.\\nA Spring.\\nB Summer.\\nC Autumn.\\nD Winter.\\nNORTHEAST PAVILION.\\nPaihtings by W. B. Van Ingen.\\n1. Agriculture and Interior\\nDepartments.\\n2. War and Navy Departments\\n3. Justice and Post Office De-\\npartments.\\n4. Treasury and State Depart-\\nments.\\nPainting by Elmer E. Garnsey.\\n5. Ceiling Disc.\\nMedallions by Bela L. Pratt.\\nA Spring.\\nB Summer.\\nC Autumn.\\nD AVinter.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0051.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "MINERVA. Marble Mosaic by Ellhu Vedder.\\n44", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0052.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "III.\\nTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nBRONZE DOOR TRADITION. Mam Entrance.\\nBy Olin L. Warner.\\nThe Library of Congress,\\nwhich originated with the\\npurchase in\\nLondon in Origin Of\\n1803 of some Library.\\n3,000 books\\nof reference, was used as\\nkindling material by the\\nvandals who gleefully\\nburned the Capitol and its\\nrecords in 1814. A new\\nfoundation was laid by the\\npurchase of Thomas Jeffer-\\nson s private library, and in\\n1851 the collection had in-\\ncreased to 60,000 volumes,\\nwhen half of it, or more,\\nwas again swept away by\\nfire. After this damage\\nwas repaired by the recon-\\nstruction of the western\\nfront of the Capitol, the\\ngrowth was rapid, and the\\nshelf-room speedily over-\\nflowed.\\nThe arrangement by\\nwhich the library received\\nand continues to receive all\\nthe publications acquired\\nby the Smithsonian system\\nof international exchanges,\\nthe Peter Force* and Doc-\\ntor Toner historical collec-\\ntions of rare books, pam-\\nphlets, engravings, etc., and the steady accumulations under the action of the copy-\\nright law have been the principal nuclei. Congress was very liberal to the library in\\nits earlier days, and now makes large annual appropriations for its support. It now\\ncontains over 1,000,000 books and pamphlets alone, and nearly half a million pieces\\nof music, maps, prints, photographs, manuscripts, etc.\\nPeter Force was born in 1790, became a prominent printer in New York, and settled m Wash-\\nington in 1812, where he died in 1868, after a useful life as printer, editor, and publicist. He collected\\nan immense amount of material for a documentary history of the American colonies and Revolution,\\nof which nine volumes were published. His collection of documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, pictures,\\netc., was bought by the Government for $100,000.\\n45", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0053.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nThis collection is very rich in history, political science, jurisprudence, and books,\\npamphlets, and periodicals of American publication, or relating in any way to America.\\nAt the same time the library is a universal one in its range, no depart-\\nTreasures. ment of literature or science being imrepresented. The public are privi-\\nleged to use the books within the library rooms, while members of Con-\\ngress and about thirty officials of the Government only may take them away. The\\nlibrary is open every day (Sundays excepted), from 9 o clock in the morning until 10\\no clock at night, and the evening is an exceedingly favorable time to see it.\\nAs long ago as 1872 efforts were made to provide the library with a separate build-\\ning but it was not until 1897 that this laudable purpose was accomplished. The fact\\nthat the Librarian has charge (since 1870) of the copyright business of the Government,\\nand that this library is given and compelled to receive two copies of every book, picture,\\nor other article copyrighted, makes its growth as rapid and steady as the progress of the\\nAmerican press, and enforces the need for ample space. Innumerable difficulties and\\nchimerical schemes were overcome before Congress at last purchased by condemna-\\ntion, for it was covered with dwelling-houses the present site (ten acres, east of the\\nCapitol grounds) for a new Library of Congress, paying $585,000 for the property.\\nWork was begun in 1886. but not much was accomplished until 1888-9, when the work\\nwas placed in the hands of Gen. T. L. Casey, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., under whose\\ncharge, and the superintendence of Bernard R. Green, C. E., the magnificent edifice was\\nperfected in 1897. The architectural plans, originally by J. J. Smithmeyer and Paul J.\\nPelz, were modified later by E. P. Casey, who completed the building and its decora-\\ntion. As to the interior, Mr. Casey was assisted by Elmer E. Garnsey, in charge of the\\ncolor decorations, and by Albert Weinert as to the stucco work both gentlemen should\\nreceive credit for much beautiful unsigned work.\\nThe style is Italian renaissance modified and the result is one of the noblest edifices\\nexternally, and the most artistic one inside, of all the grand buildings at the Capitol. Its\\nground plan is an oblong square, inclosing four courts and a rotunda.\\nArchitec- Its outside dimensions are 470 by 340 feet, and it covers three and three-\\nture and quarters acres of ground. The material is Concord (N. H.) granite,\\nStyle. exteriorly, and enameled brick within the courts, while the framework is\\nof steel, and the walls interiorly are encased and decorated wholly by\\nstucco and marble. The octagonal rotunda, lighted by the four courts, is built of gray\\nMaryland granite, and crowned by a roof-dome of copper, the dome heavily gilded, and\\nterminating, 195 feet above the ground, in a gilded torch of Learning. The general\\neffect of such a building is of massiveness disproportionate to height, but this is relieved\\nby pavilions at the corners, by elaborate entrances, numerous windows, and the high\\nornamentation of the exterior cornices, window-casings, etc.\\nThe decorations are wholly the work of American architects, painters.\\nDecorations, and sculptors, more than fifty of whom participated in the work so that\\nthe library is an exhibit and memorial of the native art and ability of\\nthe citizens of the United States.\\nApproaches, Entrance, and Vestibule.\\nThe Approaches and Entrance to the library are on the western front, facing\\nthe Capitol, where a grand staircase leads up to doorways of the central pavilion\\nadmitting one upon the main floor.\\nThe basement may be entered by a door beneath this staircase, and an\\nEntrance. elevator win be found by which the visitor may ascend to the top of\\nthe building but the most interesting and proper approach is by\\nascending the grand staircase to the main entrance.. _ _", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0054.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0A\\n..jl\\nv4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a\\n...I\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0W -jfe i -1\\n1\\nROTUNDA OF PUBLIC READING-ROOM,\\n47", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0055.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0056.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0057.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTON.\\nGRAND STAIRCASE.\\nA survey of the f afade should be made before doing so, not only to gain a general idea\\nof the architecture, but especially to note the ethnological heads carved upon\\nthe keystones of the thirty-three arched windows, since these are a novel\\nRacial innovation upon the gorgons, etc., usually employed in such places.\\nHeads. These heads are studied and accurate types of the principal races of man-\\nkind, modeled by H. J. Ellicott and Wm. Boyd, under the criticism of\\nProf. O. T. Mason of the National Museum they are as important as they are novel, and\\nare grouped according to kinship.\\nThe first thing to attract attention, however, is the fountain, on the street front of\\nthe staircase, which was designed by R. H. Perry and is the most elaborate thing of its\\nkind in the country. Its broad semicircular basin contains a dozen bronze\\nPerry figures grouped upon natural rocks half hidden in niches of the terrace,\\nFountain. representing a group of Tritons and creatures of the sea attendant upon\\nNeptune, the presiding genius of the sea-world. From their mouths\\nor from the wreathed horns they are blowing spout jets of water. The central\\nfigure is a colossal image of the kingly old sea-god, and on each side sea-nymphs bestrid-\\ning spirited sea-horses are heralding his glory. Sea serpents, turtles, and other denizens\\nof the deep play about his feet and throw cross-lines of water that catch the sunlight at\\nevery angle.\\nPassing up the flights of broad granite steps, we see that the front of the central\\npavilion consists of three entrance arches, surmounted by a portico, and against its cir-\\ncular upper windows are placed nine portico busts of great literati, as\\nPortico. follows, beginning on the left Demosthenes, Scott, Dante (by Herbert\\nAdams), Goethe, Franklin, Macaulay (by F. W. Ruckstuhl), Emerson,\\nIrving, Hawthorne (by J. Scott Hartley). The balustrades bear splendid bronze candel-", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0058.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 51\\nabra, modeled by Bela L. Pratt, wbicli illuminate tbe stairway at night and the same\\nsculptor modeled the fine carvings over the three entrance arches, in which Literature,\\nScience, and Art (reading, as alwaj^s in this book, from left to right) typified by pairs of\\nlife-size figures leaning against the curve of the arches, and accompanied by appro-\\npriate symbols a writing tablet and a book, the torch of knowledge and a globe, and\\nthe mallet of sculpture and palette and brush of painting, respectively.\\nThe bronze doors within the entrance arches admit us to the main BfOnzC\\nentrance hall of the Library. These doors are worthy of study, and DoOfS.\\ntogether embody the development of recorded knowledge from prehistoric\\noral tradition and bardic tales to the modern preservation of history and science by\\nprinting.\\nThe first door, at the left, means Tradition, and its tympanum was modeled by the\\nlate Olin T. Warner, in a manner suggesting a wise woman of prehistoric times relating\\nthe traditions of her ancestors to an eager child. Among her auditors are an American\\nIndian (whose face is that of Joseph, chief of the Nez Perces), a Norseman, a man of\\nthe stone age, and a shepherd, representative of the pastoral races. Imagination and\\nMemory are depicted in the panels on the left and right valves of the door itself.\\nWith a similar idea Mr. Warner also figured a woman, over his door at the right,\\nteaching children the Art of Writing, while the four peoples of the world Egyptian,\\nJew, Christian, and Greek whose literatures have been most influential, are typified in\\nattentive figures. On the double door are Research at the left, and Truth, with sym-\\nbolic mirror and serpent at the right. This door was unfinished at the time of Mr.\\nWarner s death and was completed by Adams.\\nIn the tympanum of the central door, by Frederick Macmonnies, is typified the Art\\nof Printing. Minerva, goddess of learning, is sending books to the world by her winged\\nmessengers; while Pegasus, the embodiment of poetry, and the filial stork and emblems of\\nthe printer s art {ars typogra-phica) are seen at the left and right. The female figures\\nupon the double door stand for The Humanities and Intellect.\\nThese doors admit the visitor to a corridor stretching along the west front of the\\npavilion, forming a vestibule. This extends between piers of Italian marble support-\\ning arches, against which, on heavy brackets, are repeated pairs of figures,\\nalmost detached from the wail Minerva in AVar, and Minerva in Peace, Vestibule.\\nthe former bearing a sword and torch, the latter a scroll and globe. The\\nelectric lamp standard between them is a Greek altar. These figures were modeled by\\nHerbert Adams, and are justly among the most admired ornaments in the whole edifice.\\nLike the elaborate ceiling, and all other ornam.ents here, they are modeled in stucco,\\nwhich is lavishly touched with gold.\\nMain Entrance HalL\\nPassing on through the screen of arches one enters the Main Entrance Hall. This is a\\nvast square well, occuijying the center of the rectangular pavilion, and containing the mag-\\nnificent stairways that lead to the second floor and to the rotunda gallery.\\nIts floor is a lovely mosaic of colored marbles, surrounding a brass- IMain\\nrayed disk showing the points of the compass and this floor, as else- Entrance\\nwhere, is made to harmonize in design and tint with the remainder of the Hall.\\ndecoration. The farther (eastern) wall is broken by a noble Ionic door-\\nway, forming a sort of triumphal arch, whose entablature is inscribed with the\\nnames of the builders it admits, by a passage described elsewhere, to the Public\\nReading-room, and the carved figures (by Warner) on its arch personify Study on\\nthe left a youth eager to learn, on the right an aged man contemplating the fruits of\\nknowledge.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0059.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlSTGTOlSr.\\nOverhead, the hall is open to the roof, seventy-two feet above, where richly tinted\\nskylights pour a flood of sunshine down upon the shimmering surfaces, giving\\nan ethereal lightness and beauty to the reallj^ massive architecture that is\\nIMartiny peculiarly effective and charming Everything is white Italian marble.\\nSculptures. and lavishly adorned with sculpture, all the work of Philip Martiny, On\\neither side rise the grand staircases, circling about elaborate newel-posts\\nthat support bronze light-bearers (also modeled by Martiny), and sloping upward beside\\npiers whose arches are exquisitely adorned with rose wreaths and leafy branches. Each\\nof the solid balustrades bears a procession of nude figures of infants, or elves, connected\\nby garlands, and each representing by its symbols some art, industry, or idea. On the\\nright (south) from the bottom up, go a Mechanician, a Hunter, Bacchus, a Farmer, a\\nFisherman, Mars, a Chemist, and a Cook on the left, a Gardener, a Naturalist, a\\nStudent, a Printer, a Musician, a Phj^sician, an Electrician, and an Astronomer. Out-\\nside of these, perched upon pilasters of the buttresses (one on each side), are charming\\ngroups illustrating the continents and their inhabitants by globes showing the Old\\nWorld and the New, and their peoples. On the right, or south side of the hall, beside\\nthe map of Africa and America, sit two chubby boys one in the feather headdress\\nand other accouterments of an American Indian, and the other showing the dress and\\narms of an African. Opposite, beside their globe, are similar boys, personifying Asia,\\nin Mongolian robes, and Europe, in classic gown surrounded by types of civilization\\nindicating the pre-eminence of the Caucasian race in Architecture, Literature, and Music.\\nFigures of children are also set in relief upon the balustrade of the top landing on each\\nside, those above the south staircase signifying Comedy, Poetry, and Tragedj^ and\\nthose opposite. Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. All of these little figures are\\naccompanied bj^ symbolic accessories, so that here, as usually elsewhere in this highly\\nthoughtful scheme of decoration, close study is required to gain the full extent of the\\nartist s meaning study that will be rewarded by a perception of artistic harmony.\\nThe ceiling of the Main Entrance Hall is coved and elaborately ornamented\\nCeiling. with carving and stucco work, among which are placed tablets bearing\\nthe names of illustrious authors, and a great number of symbols of the\\narts and sciences.\\nFirst Floor Halls and Coi-ridors.\\nSurrounding the Main Entrance Hall runs a rectangle of corridors or halls forming\\nvaulted and richly adorned passageways around the interior of the first floor of the\\npavilion, and admitting to various rooms. They are paneled in while\\nFirst Floor marble to the height of eleven feet their floors are laid in harmonious\\nHalls, patterns of Italian white, Vermont blue, and Tennessee red-brown\\nmarbles, and their vaulted ceilings are covered with marble mosaics\\nfrom cartoons l)y H. T Schladermundt, after designs by E. P. Casey. Hence these\\nhalls are sometimes called the mosaic vaults. Tablets bearing the names of literati,\\nand various trophies, are also pleasingly introduced and at intervals upon the walls\\nsemicircular spaces or tympanums are utilized for some of the most brilliant and inter-\\nesting paintings in the building. It would be well to make the circuit of these halls\\nbefore going elsewhere.\\nThe West Hall is the Entrance Vestibule already described.\\nThe South Hall lies at the right of the south staircase, and is beautified by paintings\\n(in oil on canvas, glued to the wall by a composition of white lead as is the case with\\nmost of the other mural paintings here) by H. O. Walker, illustrating Lyric Poetry/.\\nThe principal one is upon the large tympanum at the east end, and represents Lyric\\nPoetry standing in a wood striking a lyre, and surrounded by Pathos, Truth (nude of", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0060.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRART OF COJSTGRESS.\\n53\\nAMERICA AND AFRICA. Detail of Grand Staircase. Philip Martiny, Sculptor.\\n1\\nJ\\n;K\\ns\\nf 1\\nEUROPE AND AblA, Detail of Grand StaircabO. Philip Martiny, Sculptor", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0061.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTON.\\ncourse), Devotion, Beauty, and playful Mirth. In the smaller spaces Mr. Walker\\nhas painted flushed Ganymede half buried in the eagle s\\nWalker down, the Endymion of Keats poem, lying on Mt. Patmos, under\\nPaintings. the glance of his lover Diana (the moon); The Boy, of Wordsworth s well-\\nknown poem; Emerson, as typified in his poem Uriel Milton as\\nsuggested by Comus, particularly the lines\\nCan any mortal mixture of earth s mold.\\nBreathe such divine, enchanting ravishment?\\nThe next illustrates the Adonis of Shakspere; and a broad border of figures\\nportraying Wordsworth s lines:\\nThe poets, who on earth have made us heirs\\nOf truth and pure delight by heavenly lays\\nThe names tableted on _\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab^^rsr-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 border are of the\\ngreat lyric poets ^-*i S^^^^^^^^ W^^^^**^,^ Longfellow, Lowell,\\nWhittier, Bry- ..^i^^mMi^ ^^B 39H||^^^^^ ^\u00c2\u00b0t. Whitman,\\nandPoe(Am- ,^^9HHHV^.^^hL -jl^^^HHl^F^^ erican), and\\nBrowning, ^flHBp^j^BF^r^P^^ r^BHn^H^^i^^k.\\nByron, ^^^^Bm V^^^^^F ^^B^Ek Musset,\\nLYRIC POETRY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By H. O. Walker.\\nHugo, Heine, Theocritus, Pindar, Anacreon, Sappho, Catullus, Horace, Petrarch, and\\nRonsard.\\nAt its east end this hall oi^ens at right angles to the south, where a corridor extends\\nalong the interior of the building, looking out upon the southwest court to the\\nreading-rooms reserved for Senators and Representatives, and also to\\niMcEwen the public reading-room or periodical room^ This corridor was given to\\nPaintings. Walter McEwen to decorate, and he chose subjects from Greek\\nmythology.\\nEach painting gives an incident characterizing a myth, as follows, from north to\\nsouth: 1. Paris, who won Helen b_y giving the prize of beautj^ to Venus, sitting at\\nher home and conversing with her father, Menelaus, King of Sparta, preparatory to\\ntaking Helen back with him to Troy.\\n2. Jason recruiting his Argonauts for the voyage to recover the Golden Fleece,\\nbeneath which is inscribed:\\nOne equal temper of heroic hearts made vv eak by time and fate,\\nBut strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.\\n3. BeUero2}hon accepting from Minerva the bridle for his winged horse Pegasus, by\\nwhose aid he is to slay the Chimsera.\\n4. Orpheus slain by the Moenads, or priestesses of Bacchus, in one of their orgies,\\nbecause he would not play upon his marvelous lyre hymns of praise to Bacchus.\\nA glorious company, the flower of men to serve as model\\nFor the mighty world, and be the fair beginning of a time.\\n5 Perseus turning to stone Polydetes and his court, by means of the head of the\\nGorgon Medusa.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0062.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n55\\n6. Prometheus warning his brother Epimetheus against accepting the mischievous\\nPandora from the gods; but the admonition was not heeded, Pandora s box was opened,\\nand all the ills of the world let loose. The inscription is:\\nTo the souls of fire, I, Pallas Athena, give more fire;\\nAnd to those who are manful, a might more than man s.\\n7. Theseus, who had killed the Minotaur and rescued Ariadne from Crete, is here\\nabout to desert her on the island of Naxon at the command of Minerva.\\n8. Achilles discovered by Ulysses at the court of the King of Scyros, where he had\\nbeen sent by his mother to grow up among the women in order to keep him from the\\ndangers of war. Beneath it are the lines from Byron s Childe Harold\\nAncient of days, august Athena, where are thy men of might, thy grand\\nIn soul? Gone glimmering through the dream of things that were.\\n9. Hercules in the guise of a woman spinning for Omphale, Queen of Lydia.\\nThe House Reading-room, opening from this corridor, is exclusively for the use\\nof members of the House of Representatives.\\nNo apartment in the library, remarks Mr. Herbert Small, is more lavishly and\\nsumptuously orna-\\nmented. The floor\\nisd:irk\\nquar- Reprcsent-\\nt e r e d atives\\noak; Reading-\\nt h e room.\\nwalls\\nhave a dado of\\nheavy oak paneling\\nabout eleven feet\\nhigh and the deep\\nwindow arches are\\nfinished entirely in\\nthe same material.\\nAbove the dado the\\nwalls are hung with\\nolive green silk.\\nThe ceiling is\\nbeamed and pan-\\neled, and is finished\\nin gold and colors,\\nwith painted dec-\\norations in the pan-\\nels, and encrusted\\nconventional orna-\\nment in cream white\\nlong the beams.\\nO ver the three doors\\nare carved oak tym-\\npanums, by Mr.\\nCharles H. Niehaus,\\ncomprising two de-\\nMANTEL IN HOUSE READING-ROOM. signs the first of\\nMosaic Panel, History, by Frederick Dielman. a Central CartOUChe", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0063.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlSTOTOlSr.\\nbearing an owl, and supported on either side by tlie figure of a seated youth the\\nother, the American Eagle flanked by two cherubs. At either end of the room is a\\nmagnificent mantel of Siena marble. Over the fireplace is a large mosaic panel by\\nMr. Frederick Dielman, representing at one end of the room, Law, and at the other,\\nHistory. Above is a heavy cornice supported on beautiful columns of Pavanazzo\\nmarble, the general color of which is gray instead of yellow, but with a system of veining\\nwhich agrees very well with that of the Siena. In the center of the cornice is a small\\ncartouche of green\\nonyx in the mantel\\nto the south, and of\\nlabradorite or lab-\\nrador spar in the\\nother, the latter\\nstone being re-\\nmarkable for its ex-\\nquisite gradations\\nof deep peacock\\nblue, continually\\nchanging with the\\nlight and the point\\nfrom which it is\\nseen.\\nThe mosaics\\nabove the fire-\\nplaces, from car-\\ntoons by Dielman,\\nwere made in Ven-\\nice, and are super-\\nior examples of this\\nexquisite and\\npeculiar art whose\\nhome is in northern\\nItaly. They should\\nbe contemplated\\nthoughtfully. The\\nceiling paintings,\\nby Carl Gutherz,\\nfilling seven panels,\\nshould also be close-\\nly studied, begin-\\nning with the cen-\\ntral one. The series idealizes the Spectrum of SnulighJ. In the center is the first, yellow\\nthe Creation of Light second, next north, orange the Light of Intelligence third,\\nred the Light of Poetry; fourth, violet Light of State, the United States being\\nregarded as embodying the highest expression of government, and suitably represented\\nby the violet color, which is formed bj^ a combination of red, white, and blue next in\\norder (south of the center) follow green Research blue Truth and indigo\\nScience. The cherubs in the corner of each panel typify attributes of each subject.\\nThe Senators Reading-room, at the end of the corridor, fills the corner room of the\\nbuilding, or Southwest Pavilion, and is another lavishly decorated and furnished apart-\\npient, as sumptuous as, but somewhat less gaudy than, the reading-room of the House,\\nENATE READING-ROOM.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Panel by Herbeit Adams", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0064.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEAHY OF CONGRESS.\\n57\\nTHE EVOLUTION OF THE BOOK,-\\nEast Corridor.\\nSenators\\nReading-\\nroom.\\nBy J. W Alexander,\\nIt is reserved for Senators. The walls are of oak, inlaid with arabesques,\\nabove which are hangings of red figured silli, while the ornamented\\nceiling is gold, relieved by deep red. A carved panel over the door (by\\nAdams), and a series of figures (by W. A. Mackay), bearing garlands,\\ngracefully enliven the golden ceiling. This room is visible only as a special privilege.\\nThe Periodical or Public Reading-room occupies the great hall along the south side\\nof the building and is entered from this curtain corridor. It is finished in restful sim-\\nplicity, and contains a large scries of newspapers from all parts of the\\nUnion and from many foreign countries, and an unrivaled series of\\nweekly and monthly periodicals. This room and all its periodicals are\\nopen to the public, without any formality, and one may choose what he\\nwill and sit and read as long as he likes.\\nReturning to the Main Entrance Hall, the next part to be examined is the East Hall,*\\nin the rear of the staircases, in which are John W. Alexander s paintings, entitled The\\nEvolution of the Book, a theme treated with great intelligence and force.\\nThe series begins at the south end of the hall with the erection of the\\nCairn the rudest means prehistoric men took to commemorate an event\\nor transmit the knowledge of something. The next picture illustrates\\nOral Tradition an Arab story-teller of the desert. The third represents an Egyptian\\ncarver of hieroglyphics, at work upon a tomb, while a young girl watches him. These\\nthree are the forerunners of the Rook, the later developments of which are depicted oppo-\\nPeriodical\\nReading-\\nroom.\\nAlexander\\nPaintings.\\nTHE EVOLUTION OF THE BOOK.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By J. W. Alexander. East Corridor.\\nA ladies toilet-room w.ll be found at its southern end.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0065.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIN^GTON.\\nsite. Picture-writing, the first step above carved hieroglypliics, is illustrated by an\\nAmerican Indian painting some tribal record upon a skin the next advance is shown by\\nthe figure of a monk, sitting by the window of his cell, laboriously illuminating some\\nsacred book in the days of the Middle Ages and lastly the rise of modern methods\\nappears in a scene in the shop of Gutenberg, the first printer, who stands examining a\\nproof sheet, while an assistant looks on and an apprentice works the lever of a primitive\\nhand press. These are among the most popularly interesting pictures in the librarj and\\nare accompanied by the names of Americans (all born in the United States) distinguished\\nin arts and sciences, the specialty of each two denoted by trophies. On the pendentives\\nof the ceiling are inscribed Latrobe and Walter (architecture) Cooke and Silliman (natural\\nphilosophy) Mason and Gottschalk (music) Stuart and Allston (painting) Powers and\\nCrawford (sculpture) Bond and Rittenhouse (astronomy) Francis and Stevens (engi-\\nneering) Emerson and\\nDana (natural science)\\n(mathematics)\\nvault are writ-\\nof other\\neminent\\nthree\\nHolmes (poetry) Say and\\nPierce and Bowditch\\nthe mosaic of the\\nten the names\\nAmericans\\nin the\\nlearned\\nllNlbTRATiON By Elihu V^dder\\nprofessions: Medicine Cross, Wood, McDowell, Rush, and Warren Theology\\nBrooks. Edwards, Mather. Channing, Beecher Law Curtis, Webster, Hamilton,\\nKent, Pinkney, Shaw, Taney, Marshall, Story, and Gibson.\\nThe entrance to Ihe reading-room in the Rotunda leads from this East\\ni^OtUnda Hall, through a vestibule (where also is the elevator), adorned in its\\nEntrance. five tympanums with an -impressive series of allegorical paintings by\\nElihu Vedder, embodying the idea of government in a manner that has\\naroused the highest admiration of all artists, and conveys food for deep thought.\\nThe central painting over the reading-room door is a conception of republican Gov-\\nernment in its noblest estate. That upon its right exhibits how good administration\\n(the first) leads to peace and prosperity (the second); contrasted with and\\nVedder opposite these are two vivid paintings portraying Corrupt Legislation,\\nPaintings. resulting in Anarchy. Careful study of these pictures will bring out an\\ninstructive comprehension of how wide and subtle was the artist s\\nthought in regard to each. Thus the ideal of government is typified in the figure\\nof a grave-faced woman who sits upon a stable throne beneath the shade of the steadfast\\noak the bridle held by one of the attendant youths signifies the restraint of law, the\\nbooks of the other the requirement of intelligence in the citizen. Corrupt Legidution\\n*lt should be remarked that almost no names of living men are inscribed upon the walls of the\\nlibrary.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0066.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEAEY OF COISTGEESS.\\n59\\nexhibits a woman of careless and corrupt mien, sitting upon a throne whose arms are\\ncornucopias of money. She rejects the appeal of her poverty-stricken subjects for help,\\nand in place of the even balance of justice holds a sliding scale that will easily lend\\nitself to bribery indicated by the bag of gold a rich man is placing in its pan. The\\nvoting urn is overturned, spilling its neglected ballots, and wealth is piled at the foot of\\nthe throne. In the background the factories of the rich are active and prosperous,\\nwhile opposite the industries of the poor are idle. Anarchy is the result of such govern-\\nment, and is represented raving with torch and wine cup upon the ruins of the State.\\nOn the other hand, Good Administration is a benign, yet powerful personage, sitting\\nupon a seat whose solidity is typified by the arch at its back, dispensing even justice.\\nAt her right, a figure winnows grain above a voting urn, selecting carefully the wheat\\n(good men) from the chafE in the filling of public ofiices while at her left, an educated\\ncitizenship confirms such ^^gg^SBBBHHBJ^Sfc*^ choice by the ballot. The\\nbeneficent sequel to .^^^B miMBBlm mKS^^^^^^^ thi\\nperity, is dis-\\nof the series,\\nagriculture\\nder gov-\\nfoster-\\ncare.\\nPeace and Pros-\\nplayed in the last\\nhere arts and\\nflourish un-\\nernment s\\ning\\nGOVERNMENT.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Elihu Vedder.\\nPassing on, now. to the North Hall, the marble stairvvay descending to the basement\\nand the door of the Librarian s room are first encountered. The\\nLibrarian s office is a cozy, luxuriously furnished apartment, forming the Librarian s\\nprivate office of the Librarian of Congress it is finished in oak and Office.\\nexquisitely decorated by Mr. Holslag and Mr. Weinert, the prevailing-\\ntone of color being a delicate green. This room is not open to those who have no\\nparticular business with the Librarian.\\nThe North Hall is opposite the south one, or at the left of the Pearce\\nstaircases as one enters the front door, and contains a series of seven Paintings.\\nwall paintings, by Charles S. Pearce, representing the occupations of the\\ncivilized mind. The most important fills the great panel at the east end, and depicts\\nan idealization of The Family, under such circumstances as the poets imagine exist in\\nArcadia. The father has returned from hunting, and the mother holds out the baby for his\\ngreeting, while other children and the aged parents cease their occupations to join\\nin the welcome. On the south wall is one picture only Rest while opposite, read-\\ning from left to right, are four, entitled Religion, Labor, Study, Recreation. An\\nexquisite border at the end presents artistically an apothegm of Confucius: Give\\ninstruction unto those who can not procure it for themselves. The whole idea is\\nof a quiet, rational, uplifted manner of life, and the names accompanying these\\nscenes are those of the great educators of the world Froebel, Pestalozzi, Rousseau,\\nComenius, Ascham, Howe, Gallaudet, Mann, Arnold, and Spencer.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0067.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nThe corridor extending from the east end of this hall to the Northwest Pavilion\\nis richly decorated by a series of idealizations of the Muses, seated figures painted with\\nsingular brightness of color and interest of composition, by Edward\\nSimmons Simmons. Beginning at the south end, over the entrance door is\\nIMuses. 1. Melpomene, muse of tragedy, enveloped in a swirl of red drapery.\\n2. Clio, muse of history, with a helmet signifying heroic deeds. 3.\\nThalia, muse of comedy and gay pleasure, beside whom dances a little satyr with Pan s\\npipes, and who has Pope s lines\\nDescend, ye Nine, descend and sing\\nWake into voice each silent string.\\n4. Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry, the patroness of the song, as suggested by the\\nflute. 5. Terpsichore, muse of the choral dance, who strikes the rhythmic cymbals.\\nBeneath her is the couplet\\nOil, Heaven-born si.sters, source of art,\\nWho charm the sense or mend the heart.\\n6. Eraio, muse of love poetry, is nude and has a white rose, 7. rolyliymnia, muse\\nof sacred song, holds an open book and beneath is written the third of Pope s coup-\\nlets\\nSay, will you bless the bleak Allantic shore.\\nAnd in the West bid Athens rise once more I\\n8. Urania shows herself muse of astronomy by her instruments. 9. Calliope, muse\\nof epic poetry and eloquence, is symbolized by a scroll and peacock feathers.\\nThe Northwest Pavilion, to which this corridor leads, is finished\\nDodge s Pom- in a prevailing tone of Pompeiian red, decorated in panels by floating\\npeiian Dan- figures of Roman dancing girls drawn by R. L. Dodge. Pompeiian bor-\\nCing Girls. ders, and a series of signs of the zodiac, placed in the six window bays\\nby Mr. Thompson, complete the mural decorations.\\nFrom this pavilion one enters the large hall on the north side of the building, corre-\\nsponding to the Newspaper and Periodical Room, which is devoted to the storage, con-\\nsultation, and exhibition of maps, charts, and geographical things generally.\\nI^Iap-rOOm. The library possesses an enormous collection of these, and is bringing\\nthem together as rapidly as possible, and preparing proper furniture and\\ncases for this extensive and beautiful room, so that the maps and charts may readil}^ be\\nmade use of by students, and so that the most interesting among them may be put\\nujjon public exhibition.\\nSecond Story Rooms and Corridors.\\nSome of the finest parts of the library are in the second story Ascending the stair-\\ncases you find yourself in abroad arcade surrounding the hall. This is all in white\\nmarble of the same Corinthian style. Lofty coupled columns, with elabo.\\nCorinthian rate acanthus capitals, support joint entablatures, whence spring the\\nArcades. groined arches of the ceiling. North and south doorways admit to\\nmagnificent exhibition halls the west windows open upon a balcony\\noverlooking the Capitol grounds and a large part of the city, and on the east a beauti-\\nful stairway leads to the uppermost galleries of the Rotunda.\\nA long time may be spent in admiring study of this superb hall, whose details are\\nelaborate in every particular, varying constantly in small points of ornamentation, yet\\never consonant with the classic model, and keeping an artistic uniformity without\\nmonotony. The ornamentation of the ceilings, composed of stucco in high relief set off\\nwith gold on the eminences and bright color in the recesses, is also admirable, and\\nbecomes very striking when applied to the vaulted canopies of the great side halls. The", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0068.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEAEY OF CONGRESS.\\n61\\n^M\\nTHE FAMILY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Charles Sprague Pearce.\\ndecoration in relief here is all the work of Mr. Martiny, and consists mainly of little\\nfigures (geniuses), exemplifying various conceptions and pursuits indicated by conven-\\ntional symbols, such as the shepherd s crook and pipes for Pastoral Life or Arcady, a block\\nof paper and a compass for Architecture, and so on also many cartouches and tablets\\nbearing the names of illustrious authors.\\nHere the spaces surrounding the Avell of the staircases are spoken of as corridors, of\\nwhich there are four North, South, East, and West each decorated with brush or\\nchisel by some special artist under a harmonious plan. Certain features are continued\\nfrom one to the other, unifying them. The floors of all are mosaics, but the patterns\\nvary. The ceilings are alike, barrel vaults with pendentives, the ornamentation of\\nwhich is similar j^et varied, while to each is assigned a special orna-\\nmentation in paintings. The color scheme was suggested by that of the Corridors.\\ngreatly admired library at Siena, Italy. The colors employed are alike\\nin similar parts throughout, and a uniform arrangement of the minor decorations,\\ntrophies, name-tablets, spaces for mottoes, etc., makes the whole design coherent, while\\nadmitting of constant local diversity. The motive is renaissance.\\nEach corner of the rectangle of corridors is brilliant with two Pompeiian panels,\\nbearing the floating figures painted by George W. Maj-nard to express the\\nvirtues. There are eight in all, and it will suflTice to name and localize Pompeiian\\nthem. Beginning at the left in each case they are: At the northwest Panels.\\ncorner Industry and Concord; at the southwest corner Temperance and\\nPrudence; at the southeast corner Patriotism and Courage; at the northeast corner\\nFortitude and Justice.\\nAnother of the constant similarities is the series of Printers Marks, which run\\naround the whole circle of the scheme, in the penetrations between the pendentives of\\nthe ceiling. They are the engraved devices which the old printers\\nused in the title-page or colophon of their books, partly as a kind of Printers\\ninformal trade-mark guarding against counterfeited editions, and partly iMarkS.\\nas a personal emblem. Similar marks have been adopted by many\\nmodern publishers, and these are represented as well as the old ones. It would require\\na long time to describe each one of the fifty-six here shown, but they are worth careful\\nexamination, and some are artistic and beautiful, while others are highly fanciful or\\nwhimsical, containing a pun on the printer s name, or an indication of some legend.\\nThese marks are drawn in black, and are enclosed in varying ornamental devices.\\nThe North Corridor contains the brilliant paintings of Robert Reid on the north wall\\nand in the vault. For the former purpose he was given four circular panels, which he has", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0069.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nfilled with compositions entitled Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Philosophy, are\\nalso by Mr. Reid, and the subjects are typified by women of rather more\\nReid serious mien, who are distinguished by easilj^ understood symbols, the\\nPaintings. Greek temple in the background of the last picture reminding the ob-\\nserver that philosophy began among the Greeks.\\nThe same artist has taken the Five Senses as his theme for the ceiling pictures,\\noccupying octagonal spaces in the arabesque design of the vault. Taste, Sight, Smell,\\nHearing, and Touch are represented in order from west to east, by delightfully composed\\nfigures of young women that seem to be supported upon cloud banks in the sky. Taste\\nis surrounded by the fohage and fruit of the grape and is drinking from a shell. Sight\\nsmiles at her image in a hand mirror (as well she may) and beside her is a gorgeous pea-\\ncock. Smell is ensconced in flowers and inhales the perfume of a rose. Hearing prettily\\nlistens to the roaring of a seashell held to her ear by graceful hands. Touch, beside\\nwhom sleeps a setter dog, is holding herselffquiet and feeling the tltillation made by the\\nbutterfly that walks along her bare arm.\\nBut these are only the centerpieces of this highlj^ embellished ceiling. Small rec-\\ntangles are filled with sketchy drawings illustrating in a classic style the games and rec-\\nreations of ancient times Throwing the Discus, Wrestling, Running,\\nAncient The Finish, The Wreath of Victory, and The Triumphal Return in\\nGames. order. In addition to these are the Printers Marks, here of American\\nand British publishers, and a long series of trophies of science and\\nindustry contained in medallions. Geometry is marked by a scroll, compass, etc. Meteor-\\nology, by the barometer, thermometer, etc. Forestry, by axe and pruning knife\\nNavigation, by sailors implements Transportation by propeller, piston,\\nTrophies. headlight, etc. Above the west window are the two faces of the Great\\nSeal of the United States, and two of R. H. Perry s Sybils, sculptured in\\nlow relief, these two being Greek and Oriental. The former (the Delphic Oracle) dic-\\ntates her prophecies to an aged scribe the latter (a veiled or occult per-\\nPerry s son) utters them to prostrate adorers.\\nSybils. Mr. Maynard s Pompeiian panels contain, at the east end. Fortitude and\\nJustice at the west end, Industry and Concord.\\nCOURAGE.\\nFORTITUDE JUSTICE.\\nPompeiian Panels, by G. W. Maynard.\\nPATRIOTISM.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0070.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEAEY OF CONGEESS. 63\\nMany inscriptions are written. Tliose in panels over doors and windows are\\nThe chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Dr. Johnson.\\nThere is oue only good, namely, knowledge, and one only evil, namely, ignorance.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ;S oc)-ofes.\\nKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Tennyson.\\nWisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.\\nProverbs iv: 7.\\njr- Ignorance is the curse of God,\\nI Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to Heaven.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 iS /iafcspere 2 Henry V^\\nHow charming is Divine Philosophy. Milton.\\nBooks must follow sciences and not sciences books. Bacon.\\nIn books lies the soul of the whole past time.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Carlyle.\\nWords are also actions and actions are a kind of words. Emerson.\\nReading maketli a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Bacon.\\nTlie ceiling inscriptions are from Adelaide Proctor s Unexpressed\\nDwells within the soul of every Artist No real Poet ever wove in numbers\\nMore than all his effort can express. All his dreams.\\nNo great thinker ever lived and taught you Love and Life united\\nAll the wonder that his soul received. Are twin mysteries, different, yet the same.\\nNo true painter ever set on canvas Love may strive, but vain is the endeavor\\nAll the glorious vision he conceived. All its boundless riches to unfold.\\nNo musician. Art and Love speak; but their words must be\\nBut be sure he heard, and strove to render, Like sighings of illimitable forests.\\nFeeble echoes of celestial strains.\\nIn the border of the arch over the west window\\nOrder is Heaven s first law.\\nMemory is the treasurer and guardian of all things.\\nBeauty is the creator of the universe.\\nOpening from this north corridor is the great exhibition hall, occupying the whole\\nbreadth of this part of the building and looking out toward the Capitol on oue side\\nand into one of the courts (with a good view of the north book-stack) on the other.\\nThe ceiling is an elliptical barrel vault, twenty-nine feet above the floor, divided by\\ndouble ribs springing from pilasters, and set, as elsewhere, with square coffers of\\nstucco colored red and gold. Red, indeed, is the prevailing color here, emphasizing\\nthe arabesques on the walls and adapting itself to the theme of decoration, as does the\\nblue of the corresponding exhibition hall on the south.\\nThe special decorations consist of two great wall paintings filling the arched ends of\\nthe hall above the doors, where spaces 34 feet long by 9% f^et high form the fields for\\nsingle compositions by Gari Melchers War and Peace. Wa? at the\\nnorth end of the gallery, confronts the spectator as he enters. A triumph- IMcIchers\\nant, laurel-crowned chief of fighting men of some primitive time and War and\\nplace is leading home his victorious band, the dogs of war straining Peace.\\nat the leash in advance. A herald blows a psean of victory, but the\\nhorsemen ride over bodies of the slain, weak men fall by the wayside, and in the very\\nforeground of the scene their own losses are suggested in the dead captain borne home-\\nward. Thus the dread as well as the glory of war is depicted.\\nPeace is the subject of the painting at the opposite (south) end, and it is equally bold in\\nconception, drawing, and color. The time and scene, as before, are carried back to that\\nprehistoric state of society which is regarded by the poets as Arcadian in its simplicity\\nand virtue. With no fear of hostile interruption or anxiety of mind, the inhabitants of\\na village have come in religious procession to a grove wherein resides their tutelary deit3%\\nwhose image they are reverently bearing; and while the priest chants a litany they bring\\nforward the supplicatory gifts or the thank-offerings each means to lay at the feet of the\\ngoddess. The fattened ox may be meant for a sacrifice, but it is also a suggestion of\\nrural prosperity and feasting.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0071.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINCxTOlSr.\\nThe names inscribed here are those of the world s most famous soldiers:\\nWellington, Washington, Charles Martel, C^ rus, Alexander, Hanni-\\nbal, Cfesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Jackson, Sheridan, Grant,\\nSherman, William the Conqueror, Frederick the Great, Eugene,\\nMarlborough, Nelson, Scott, Farragut.\\nThis hall is devoted to an exhibition, in glass table-cases,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of a great number of rare and curious books representing\\nthe beginnings of printing and bookmaking, esi^ecially\\nas relates to North American discovery and history.\\nThe display of early printed Bibles and missals, and\\nspecimens of famous special editions of Bibles, is\\nalso large. A great number of these\\nEarly Books, prints go back to the fifteenth cen-\\ntury, and some of them are of\\ngreat value on account of their extreme rarit}^\\nAll are laid open, usually at the title-page, and\\ncan be examined as closely as is possible with-\\nout taking them in one s hand. This collection\\nis added to and changed from time to time as\\nnew books of curious interest are acquired.\\nThe northern door of this hall\\nNorthwest opens into the Northwest\\nPavilion. Pavilion, occupying the\\nnorthwestern corner of the\\nlibrar} This room is among the most beau-\\ntiful in the building. The ceiling is richly\\ncoffered, colored, and gilded around a central\\ndome occupied by a painting. The walls i\\nare broken by pillars, and are ornamented\\nwith stucco work, including a series of four\\ncarvings, one in each of the\\nPratt s peudeutives, which delicately\\nSeasons. represent the /Seasons, and are\\nfrom models by B. L. Pratt.\\nThese are repeated in the three other corner\\npavilions, as are the general features of decora-\\ntion, while the frescoes are individualized.\\nThe special artist whose work is seen in this\\npavilion is William de L. Dodge, who has made\\nAmbition the suh]ect of his painting in the dome,\\nand has filled the four tympanums of the walls with\\nallegorical scenes, remarkable for the number of\\nfigures they include. The dome picture represents\\nthe summit of a mountain which may be called Success,\\nto which have climbed a series of persons along the\\nvarious paths, noble and ignoble, of human\\nW. de L. Dodge endeavor. The Unattainable Ideal leaps\\nPaintings. away into the air beyond their reach, never-\\ntheless, though trumpeting Fame clutches at tht\\nbridle. The struggling crowd displays types of many forms of Ambi-\\ntion, and a Jester stands one side and laughs at the useless sU ife. Mr,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0072.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 65\\nDodge s wall paintings depict Music (north), Science (east), Art (south), and Literature\\n(west). Each includes a group of figures about the presiding genius of their art, and\\nillustrating clearly by their attitudes, occupations, or implements its characteristics\\nand development. Thus in Music musicians, ancient and modern, are playing before\\nApollo, the god of song and harmony. Science, an ideal winged figure before a\\ntemple, has summoned the representatives of Invention, and the scene is tilled with\\nsuggestions of scientific discovery Franklin s kite that began modern progress in\\nelectricit3^ a teakettle as a reminder of the origin of the idea of the steam engine, etc.\\nArt displays the painter, the sculptor, and the architect at work. In Literature a\\ngraceful group illustrates education, the book, the drama, poetry, the fame that crowns\\nthe successful author, and so forth.\\nSeveral large table-cases are placed in this room, containing manuscripts, autographs,\\nand curious prints relating to the political history of the United States in great variety.\\nMany of these are proclamations, officers commissions, and similar papers\\nsigned by Colonial Governors and early Presidents and statesmen. There Historic\\nare also many letters, diaries, account books, etc., of statesmen and Autoarraphs\\nleaders in tbe time of the Revolution, and of the more recent wars, and IMSS.\\nincluding that with Spain, which resulted in the freeing of the West\\nIndies. Perhaps the most curious relic is a manuscript volume of the drawings of the\\nUnited States lottery of 1779.\\nThe hall along the north side of the building, opening out of this pavilion, occupied\\nby special collections, must be passed through in order to see the Northeast Pavilion.\\nThis pavilion, sometimes called the Pavilion of the Seals, occupies the octagonal\\nnortheast corner of the building. Gilding prevails upon its walls and ceiling, and sets\\noff the illustrative paintings of W. B. Van Ingen personifjing the\\nExecutive Departments. The Treasury and State departments are typi- Northeast\\ntied in the west tympanum the War and Navy in the south; Afiriculture Pavilion.\\nand Interior in the east; and Justice and the Post Office in the north.\\nAll of the details are symbolic and easily understood, except the cy-press trees, which\\nare merely decorative, and stand in jars copied from those made by the Zuiii Indians.\\nThe seals of the departments are cleverly introduced, and in the dome\\nthe great seal of the United States forms the center of an elaborate and Van Ingcn s\\nbeautiful circular painting by Garnsey, framed in an inscription from Seals.\\nLincoln s Gettysburg address: That this nation, under God, shall\\nhave a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for\\nthe people, shall not perish from the earth. Other sentiments inscribed here are\\nTis our true policy to steer clear of p rmanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.\\nWa.shhigton.\\nLet our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Webster.\\nThank God, I also am an American. lVcb.?ter.\\nEqual and excct justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political peace,\\ncommerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliance with none. Jefferson.\\nThe agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and supe-\\nrior in importance to them all Jack.son. InSCriOtionS\\nLet us have peace.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ffranf.\\nThe aggregate happiness of society is, or ought to be, the end of all government. Was7i\u00c2\u00bb)(//ojt.\\nTo be prejjared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. Washington.\\nThe visitor may now return to the Main Entrance Hall and devote attention next to\\nthe West Corridor. This is immediately over the Entrance Vestibule, and has been dec-\\norated in a very interesting manner by Walter Shirlaw, who has found his motive in\\nThe Sciences. Says Mr. Small", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0073.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOlSr.\\nEacli science is represented by a female figure about 7i feet in height. The figures\\nare especially interesting, aside from their artistic merit, for the variety of symbolism\\nby which every science is distinguished from the others, and for the\\nShirlaw subtlety with which much of this symbolism is expressed. Not only is\\nPaintings. each accompanied by various appropriate objects, but the lines of the\\ndi apery, the expression of the face and bodj^, and the color itself, are,\\nwherever practicable, made to subserve the idea of the science represented. Thus the\\npredominant colors used in the figure of Chemistry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 purple, blue, and red are the\\nones which occur most often in chemical experimenting. In the matter of\\nline, again, the visitor will notice a very marked difEerence between the abrupt, broken\\nline used in the drapery of Archaeology, and the moving, flowing line in that of\\nPhysics.\\nThe list of these paintings, beginaing on the west at the left, is as follows Zoology,\\nclad in a pelt, and with the lion of the desert beside her Physics, typifying and\\nexpressing in color and flowing form the reign of fire and electricity; Mathematics is\\nalmost nude the exact truth; Geology has gathered specimens and fossils from the\\nrocks. On the east Archceology, in Roman costume, consults history, and has beside\\nher a vase made by Zuni Indians Botany seems analyzing a water lily Astronomy\\nsuggests her study by globe and planet and the lens of a telescope, and Chemistry is\\naccompanied by symbols of her investigations.\\nAgreeabl}^ to this motive, the names of distinguished men of science are emblazoned\\nupon the wall Cuvier the zoologist, Rumford the physicist, La Grange the mathema-\\ntician, Lyell the geologist, Schliemann the Greek archaeologist, Linnseus the father of\\nbotany, Copernicus the astronomer, and Lavoisier the chemist.\\nThree medallions in the ceiling are filled by W. B. Van Ingen with sketchy draw-\\nings idealizing the Arts Scid pture chisels at a bust of Washington Painting is\\nemployed at her easel and Architecture is busied at the plans of a building.\\nThe Printers Marks here are German.\\nThe inscriptions on the ceiling and over the windows are these\\nThe first creature of God was the light of sense the last was the light of reason.\\nThe light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.\\nAll are but parts of one stupendous whole,\\nWhose body nature is and God the soul.\\nIn nature all is useful, all is beautiful.-\\nArt is long, and Time is fleeting. \u00e2\u0080\u0094iong/eZtow.\\nThe history of the world is the biography of great men.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CarZj/Ze.\\nBooks will speak plain when counsellors blanch. Bacon.\\nGlory is acquired by virtue but preserved by letters. Petrarch.\\nThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Dionysius.\\nThe South Corridor, at the right of the staircase, is especially characterized by Ben-\\nson s bright and dainty paintings. The Four Seasons occupy circular panels upon the\\nwall, and excite universal admiration. Each is represented, says a\\nBenson critic, by a beautiful half-length figure of a young woman, with no\\nPaintings. attempt, however, at any elaborate symbolism to distinguish the season\\nwhich she tjq^ifies. Such distinction as the painter has chosen to indi-\\ncate is to be sought leather in the character of the faces, or in the warmer or colder col-\\noring of the whole panel in a word, in the general artistic treatment.\\nMr. Benson has also found space among the rich arabesques of the ceiling ornament", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0074.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OP CONGRESS.\\n67\\nIModern\\nGames.\\nAGLAIA.\\nBy F. W. Benson.\\nectangular\\ne at foot-\\n-modern\\nthe ancient recreations\\nCorridor. Mr. Perry s\\nued at the west end\\nalso expressing ancient\\nCumsean or Roman\\nwoman who reads from\\nswer to the questions\\nRoma n\\nThe other,\\nse woman\\nMaynard s Pom-\\nshow the Virtues, Patriotism\\nand at the west end Temperance\\nPerry s\\nSibyls.\\nfor three hexagonal paintings, given to the Graces, in which the use of white is most\\nskillfully and pleasingly made prominent. Aglaia is here regarded as\\nthe goddess or patroness of husbandry and pastoral life, and characterized The\\nby the shepherd s crook Thalia stands, of course, for art, and by her Graces.\\nside is seen a Ija-e, suggesting music, and a Greek temple as a symbol of\\narchitecture while Euj hrosyne is the grace of graces Beauty and holds a mirror\\nup to her own features.\\nNear each end of the\\npanels representing a scri\\nball, and a baseball game\\ngames as compared with\\ndepicted in the North\\nbas-reliefs are contin-\\nhere, in two subjects\\nprophecy. One is the\\nsibyl a fearsome old\\na sibylline scroll an an-\\nof her applicants a\\ngeneral and a nude woman\\nin similar pose, represents\\nor vala of the Norsemen,\\npeiian panels in this corridor\\nand Courage at the east end,\\nand Prudence.\\nThe Printers Marks are French and a series of trophy medallions corresponds to\\nthat of the North Corridor, showing the crafts of the Potter, Glassmaker, Carpenter,\\nBlacksmith, and Mason. The inscriptions here read\\nBeholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Milton.\\nThe true University of these days is a Collection or Books. Carlyle.\\nNature is the art of God. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Sir Thomas Broivne.\\nThere is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Lowell.\\nIt is the mind that makes the man, and our vigor is in our immortal soul. Ovid.\\nThey are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney.\\nMan is one world, and hath another to attend \\\\i\\\\va.y- Herbert. U~ cr V^\\nTongues in trees, books in the running brooks,\\nSermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakspere As You Like It.\\nThe true Shekinah is man. Chnjsostom.\\nOnly the actions of the just\\nSmell sweet and blossom in the dust. James Shirley.\\nMan raises but time weighs.\\nBeneath the rule of men entirely great\\nThe pen is mightier than the sword.\\nThe noblest motive is the public good.\\nA little learning is a dangerous thing\\nDrink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.\\nLearning is but an adjunct to ourself Lovers Labor Lost.\\nStudies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Bacon.\\nDreams, books, are each a world books, we know,\\nAre a substantial world, both pure and good. Wordsworth.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0075.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nThe fault is not in our stars,\\nBut in ourselves, that we are undevVm^s. ^Shakspere JnH us Ccesar.\\nThe universal cause\\nActs to one end, but a,cts by various laws. Pojje.\\nCreation s heir, the world, the world is mine .^Goldsmith\\nVain, very vain, the weary search to And\\nThat bliss which only centers in the mind. Goldsmith.\\nCox s\\nArts and\\nSciences.\\nWide doors admit from tliis South Corridor into\\nthe exhibition hall corresponding to that on the\\nnorth in its shape and plan of decoration, except\\nthat the prevailing tone here is blue. The two\\ngreat mural paintings are the work of Kenyon\\nCox, who has taken as his subject for the south\\nend the Sciences and for the north end the Arts.\\nThe composition and grouping of the two are\\nsomewhat alike the central figure iu both\\nbeing seated upon a kind of throne, supported\\nby a classic balustrade extending each way to\\nthe limits of the canvas, along which the sub-\\nordinate figures are displaj^ed.\\nIn The Sciences, which faces\\nthe entrance, the central figure\\nis Astronomy, with Phj^sics\\nand Mathematics, distinguished\\nby conventional symbols, at her right be-\\nyond them geometrical figures seem merely\\nsymbolic accessories until close attention\\nshows that they spell the artist s name\\nKenyon Cox. At the right of the panel\\nBotany and Zoology approach, and behind\\nthem are seen shells, minerals, etc. In The\\nArts, at the north end of the room, Poetry sits\\nenthroned in the center, in an attitude of exalta-\\ntion, which is communicated to two little gen-\\niuses at her feet. At her right are a musician\\nand an architect, while at her left sit Sculpture\\nand Painting all typified by women, graceful\\nand dignified in mien, lovely iu face. The coloring\\nof these paintings is particularlj^ rich and harmon-\\nious with the prevalent blue and gold of the room.\\nThis room is devoted to an extensive series of\\nprints illustrating the processes and development of the\\ngraphic arts etching, photography, and printing of\\nphotogravures and half-tones and the names written upon\\nthe wall tablets are those of men distinguished in science and\\nart Leibnitz, Galileo, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Dalton, Hipparchus,\\nHerschel, Kepler, Lamarck, and Helmholz for the former and\\nWagner, Mozart, Homer, Milton, Raphael, Rubens, Vitruvius, IMau-\\nsard, Phidias, and Michaelangelo for art.\\nSouth of this hall a great door opens into the Southwest Pavilion,\\nwhich", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0076.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEAEY OF CONGRESS. 69\\nhas been styled Pavilion of the Discoverers, from the theme of its decorations. Like\\nthe other corner rooms it is octagonal and its ceiling has a dome, the disk\\nof which is decorated by George W. Maynard with an allegorical design Southvvest\\nembracing four stalwart female figures typifying National Virtues Pavilion.\\nCourage, roughly mail-clad and armed with shield and war-club\\nValor, a warrior of more refined type, with a sword Fortitude, an unarmed figure\\nbearing an architectural column as a symbol of stability^ and Achievement, wearing\\nthe laurel crown.\\nEach of these figures is related in thought to one of the four great tympanum paint-\\nings, also by Maynard, in which are idealized the succession of Adventure, Discovery,\\nConquest, and at last Civilization. The series begins at the east side with\\nAdventure, and each consists of three splendid female figures whose IMaynard\\naction and accompaniments express the artist s conceptions. It will be Paintings.\\nnoticed, too, that it is not adventure and conquest in general which is\\nportrayed, but that which led to the discovery and civilization of America, and conse-\\nquently all the accessories are English and Spanish, and the many names recorded are\\nthose of the adventurers, navigators, soldiers, priests, missionaries, and statesmen who\\nsuccessively figured in the development of North America from Spanish and British\\ncolonies to the independence and prosperity of the United States.\\nIn addition to this very fine series of paintings, the pendent! ves here (as in the other\\npavilions) bear a notable series of circular plaques in low relief, expressing by seated,\\nnearly nude, female figures, the Four Seasons, modeled by Bela L. Pratt.\\nSpring sows seed, her garment blown by the vernal winds Summer, Plaqucs.\\nolder, sits quiet among the poppies Autumn, now mature, nurses a\\nchild and Winter gathers fagots to, warm her aged body. The garlands over each cor-\\nrespond to the season. The orderly manner in which the decorations of this and the\\nother pavilions, both painted and sculptured, have been made to correspond with one\\nanother and with the architectural requirements of the room, and to carry out and\\nenforce by every detail the central idea belonging to each, makes them among the\\nmost remarkable examples of decoration in the world, and merits care-\\nful study. This pavilion is devoted to exhibition cases for the display Book\\nof the growth and development of book illustration from the first rude Illustration.\\nefforts in illumination and in wood-cutting to the finest modern examples.\\nThe eastern door of this pavilion opens into the Exhibition Hall along the south\\nside of the building, which is quietly decorated in plain tints, and devoted to an\\nextensive exhibit of the art of making pictures mechanically. It is known, therefore,\\nas the Print Room. Here one may see a great series of prints, illustrating the devel-\\nopment of lithography and the processes a lithograph goes through, whether printed\\nin monotint or in varied colors. Also early and fine modern examples of every sort of\\nengraving upon wood, copper, and steel. In addition to this the library aims to show\\nan example of the work of every prominent American etcher and engraver. This hall\\nis illuminated by skylights.\\nThe Southeast Pavilion, called Pavilion of the Elements, is at the Southeast\\neastern extremity of this room and is decorated by R. L. Dodge. In Pavilion.\\neach of the four tympanums he has painted a representation of one of\\nthe four Elements to the east. Earth; to the north. Air; to the west. Fire; to the\\nsouth, Water. Each consists of three figures, and the allegory and\\nsymbolism in each case are readily interpreted by the beholder. In the j\\ndome Mr. Dodge, in conjunction with Mr. Garnsey, has exjjressed the t- v- iiwiiia.\\nsame idea in another way, figured by Apollo and the Sun for a centerpiece, surrounded\\nby medallions and cartouches for the elements.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0077.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOIST.\\nThe series of handsome but not especially notable apartments along the eastern\\nfront of the building are at present occupied on the south by Music and on the north\\nby the Smithsonian collections.\\nReturning to the Hall, the East Corridor and Entrance to the Rotunda\\nGalleries remain to be considered.\\nThe East Corridor, crossing the head of the staircases, has peuden-\\ntive figures by Geo. R. Barse, Jr., illustrating the toiDic Literature, and com-\\nprising Lyrica (Lyric poetry), Tragedy, Comedy, and History, on\\nthe east wall and Love, Erotica (poetry), Tradition, Fancy, and\\nRomance, on the west wall. They are simply expressed in the forms\\nof attractive women, each having the well-known conventional\\nThe center of the vault exhibits three more striking medallion paintings\\nMain\\nEntrance.\\nBarse\\nPaintings.\\nsymbols.\\nby Wm. A. Mackay, giving\\nof Man as represented\\nLachesis, and Atro\\nbecomes plainer\\nthe accompan\\ntions. Thus\\nCloth\\nthree stages of the Life\\nby the Fates Clotho,\\npns. The allegory\\nw hen one reads\\nying iuscrip-\\ni\\\\ beneath the\\nwith her\\nCOMUS By H O WaiKer\\ndistaff and the baby upon her knee, spinning the thread of life, are the words\\nFor a web begun God sends thread.\\nfviackav s\\nFates. Lachesis, the weaver, is seen in the second picture, with shuttle and loom.\\nThe child has become a man, the stream a river, the twig a tree of\\nwhich the man is gathering the fruit and we read\\nThe web of hfe is a mingled yarn,\\nGood and ill together.\\nThen comes Atropos, severing with her fateful shears the old man s life thread as he\\npauses beneath the withered tree to gaze at the setting sun and here are written the\\nwords of Milton in Lycidas\\nComes the blind Fury with th abhorred shears.\\nAnd slits the thin-spun life.\\nThe Printers Marks are those of Italian and Spanish houses while the names of\\nAmerican printers, type founders, and press builders are to be read upon the mural\\ntablets Green, Day, Franklin, Thomas, Bradford and Clymer, Adams, Gordon, Hoe,\\nand Bruce.\\nThe Entrance to the Rotunda Galleries is from the middle of this East Corridor by a\\nbranching stairway of marble. In the bays beside it are two charming paintings by\\nW. B. Van Ingen, illustrating Joy and Sadness as suggested by Milton s poems\\nL Allegro and II Penserose. The former is a light-haired, cheerful woman,\\namong flowers and happy in the sunshine, near which is quoted", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0078.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF COKGRESS.\\n71\\nCome, thou goddess fair and free,\\nlu Heaven ycleped Euphrosyne,\\nAnd by men, heart-easing Mirth.\\nHaste thee, nymph, and bring with thee\\nJest and youtlif ul jollity,\\nQuips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.\\nNods and becks, and wreathed smiles,\\nSuch as hang on Hebe s cheek,\\nAnd love to live in dimple sleek.\\nVan ln\u00c2\u00a7:en\\nPaintings.\\nThe other, a dark-visaged woman, expresse,s in her pensive face, mien, and surround-\\nings sadness and introspection\\nHail thou Goddess, sage and holy\\nHail, divinest Melancholy 1\\nCome bat keep thy wonted state,\\nWith even step and musing gait,\\nAnd looks commercing with the skies,\\nThy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes\\nThere, held in holy passion still,\\nForget thyself to marble.\\nAt the head of the stairs, on the wall landing, is Elihu Vedder s colossal mosaic (in\\nglass) of Minerva Goddess of Wisdom perhaps the grandest single object among the\\nlibrary decorations. This mosaic forms an arched panel, ISfj feet high\\nand 9 feet wide, bordered by a desigQ of laurel branches. The figure of The Ycddcr\\nMinerva is that of a magnificent almost masculine woman, a iMosaic.\\nchieftainess whose armor has been partly laid aside, and who now\\naddresses her mind to the arts of peace. The sun of prosperity\\nis bursting through the\\nVictory beside her\\nhand the olive\\nwith the other\\nthe rewards\\nq u e r o r s.\\ning her\\nspeav.\\nwar-clouds, and winged\\nholds forth with one\\nbranch, while\\nshe dispenses\\nto the c o u-\\nStill hold-\\nprotecting\\nshe now\\ncontemplates with attention and benignant gaze an unfolded scroll upon which she\\nreads the names of branches of knowledge Law, Statistics. Sociology, Philosophy,\\nand the Sciences. The whole is grand and stately in conception, bold in drawing, and\\nglowing in color, especially when seen by electric light.\\nPassing up this staircase, and turning either to the left or right (where there are\\nentrances to elevators), the visitor passes through doors admitting him to the public\\ngallery of the Rotunda.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0079.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "73 PICTORIAL GtJlDE TO WASHilSrOTON.\\nThe Kotuiida.\\nThe Rotunda is a grand, octagonal hall, 100 feet in diameter, occupying the whole\\ncenter of the building, and rising unobstructed from the main floor to the canopy within\\nthe dome a height of 125 feet. The walls are outwardly of Maryland\\nThe Rotunda, granite, immensely thickened by courses of brick, and lined with African\\nand Italian marbles.\\nThe dome is carried upon eight massive piers, connected by noble arches, each arch\\nfilled above the capitals of its supporting pillars with semicircular windows of clear\\nglass, thirty-two feet wide. The broad intrados of each arch is filled with sunken\\npanels of color and gilded rosettes, in conformity with the general design of ceiling-\\ntreatment. A heavy entablature of classic ornament (designed by Mr. Casey), in high\\nrelief, with all the prominences gilded, runs all around the rotunda, into every alcove,\\nand out around all the eight piers. Each of the eight bays beneath this\\nDome and entablature is filled with a two-storied loggia of yellow variegated Siena\\nGalleries. marble, the lower story consisting of three arches divided by square\\nengaged pillars with Corinthian capitals, the second story of seven lesser\\narches supported by small pillars of Ionic style, extremely graceful and above all is\\ncarried an open gallery protected by a balustrade. These loggias and the upper galler-\\nies, nearly forty feet from the floor, run all around the rotunda and it is from these,\\nreached from the grand staircase, and overlooking the whole room, that the sight-seeing\\npublic gaze upon the apartment and its busy workers, who are not permitted to be dis-.\\nturbed by the intrusion of casual visitors. These loggias form the eight sides of the\\nhall, the two entrances to which are further distinguished by facades of Siena marble,\\nwhich are perfect examples of the Corinthian style. Between each two adjacent loggias,\\nfilling the corners of the octagon, and forming the inner face of the eight great pro-\\njecting piers, that support the arches and sustain the dome, are splendid columns and\\nfaces of two shades of dark Numidian marble, crowned by golden Corinthian capitals,\\nand standing upon pedestals of the chocolate-tinted marble of East Tennessee.\\nOn the summit of each of these columns stands a colossal emblematic statue, the\\neight representing the principal departments of human thought and development they\\nare of plaster, toned an ivory-white, ten and one-half feet in height, and sixty feet from\\nthe floor, and beginning at the right of the entrance, are as follows Religion, by Th.\\nBauer Commerce, by J. Flanagan History, by D. C. French Art, by Dozzi, of\\nFrance, after sketches by Aug. St. Gaudens Philosophy, by B. L. Pratt; Poetry, by\\nWai d Law, by P. W. Bartlett, and Science, by J. Donoghue. Each is distinguished\\nby some symbol, and above each, on a tablet supported by child-figures modeled by\\nMartiny, are inscriptions, chosen by President Eliot of Harvard University, each appro-\\npriate to its theme, thus\\nAbove the figure of Religion,\\nV\\\\^hat doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly\\nwith thy Qod.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Micah vi: 8.\\nAbove the figure of Commerce,\\nWe taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching .sun which brings them\\nforth. Anonymous.\\nAbove the figure of History,\\nOne God, one law, one element, U-^\\nAnd one far-off divine event.\\nTo which the whole creation moY s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tennyson.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0080.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n73\\nAbove the flffure of Art,\\nAs one lamp lights another, nor grows less,\\nSo nobleness enkindleth nobleness. Loivell.\\nAbove the figure of Philoso2)hy,\\nThe enquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon.\\nAbove the figure of Poetry.\\nHither, as to their fountain, other stars\\nRepairing, in their golden urns draw light.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ilf/Zton.\\nAbove the figure of Law,\\nOf law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Hoolcer.\\nAbove the figure of Science,\\nThe heavens declare the gloiy of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Psalms xix: 1.\\nSixteen portrait statues, personally illustrating the great lines of creative thought\\nabove enumerated, stand along the balustrade of the galler}^ they are of bronze, and in\\npairs, one on each side of and overlooking that one of the eight colossal ideal statues\\nabove described of which its original was a type. The list is as follows\\nTypical of Religion: Moses, an ideal figure, by\\nNiehaus; and St. Paul, an ideal figure, by Donoghue.\\nCommeicc: Columbus, by Paul W. Bartlett and Robert\\nFulton, by Ed C. Potter. Hidory: Her-\\nodotus, modeled after Greek sculptures. Rotunda\\nby D. C. French and Gibbon, by Nie- StatUes.\\nhaiis. Art Michaelangelo, by P. W.\\nBartlett and Beethoven, by Baur. PliilosoplLy: Plato,\\nfrom Greek busts, by J. J. Boyle and Bacon, also by\\nBoyle, Poetry: Homer, after an ideal bust of ancient\\ntimes, by Louis St. Gaudens and Shakspere, by Mac-\\nmonnies, modeled after the Stratford bust and the por-\\ntrait in the first edition of the Plays. Law: Solon,\\nfrom Greek data, by Ruckstuhl and Chancellor Kent,\\nby George Bissell. Science: Newton, by C. E. Dallin\\nand Joseph Henry, by H. Adams. Except the idealiza-\\ntions mentioned above, all are from authentic portraits,\\nincluding details of costume, etc.\\nThe great clock of the rotunda, over the door, was\\nmodeled by J. Flanagan. The clock itself is con-\\nstructed of various brilliantly colored precious marbles,\\nand is S3t against a background of mosaic, on which\\nare displayed, encircling the clock, the signs of the\\nzodiac in bronze The hands, which are also\\ngilded, are jeweled with semi-precious stones.\\nThe spandrels or triangular wall spaces between the arches are adorned by emblem-\\natic figures in relief and brought out by color, and the whole is capped by an encircling\\nentablature of classic beauty, whence springs the superb canopy of the arch, filled with\\nrich ornamentation to its crown, beneath which, in the collar of the dome, is an exceed-\\ningly interesting and beautiful series of figures in fresco, by E. H. Blashfield, symbol-\\nizing the relations of the nations to human progress the Evolution of Civilimtion,\\nPHILOSOPHY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By Bela L. Pratt", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0081.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 PICTOKIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nThis glorious fresco consists of twelve seated figures, men and women, personifying\\nthe great nations of history. All are winged, but this fact is hardly noticeable, yet of\\nmuch importance in uniting into a whole the detached figures. Four of\\nBlashfidd S them are more conspicuous by their lighter colors than the rest, and they\\nDome are not only those of most importance historically Egypt, Rome, Italy,\\nFrescos. and England but they mark the cardinal points of the compass.\\nEgyjjt, standing at the dawn of civilization, is appropriately placed at the\\neast, and is a male figure of an ancient Egyptian, holding a tablet. Judea is a woman in\\nan attitude of prayer, whose parted robe displays the vestment of a Jewish high priest;\\na pillar beside her is inscribed, Leviticus, xix: 18, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as\\nthyself. Greece is personified by a beautiful, diadem-crowned woman. Rome by a\\nwarrior in the armor of a centurion, resting his hands upon the Roman fasces. For\\nIslam is chosen an Arab, representing the learned Moorish race and Moslem power. Next\\nto him is a female figure personifying the Middle Ages, typifying by her sword, casque,\\nand cuirass the great institution of chivalry, while the rule of the medieval Roman\\nCatholic Church is suggested by the papal tiara and keys. By her sits white-robed Italy\\nthe mother of the fine arts, whose symbols she has; and turned toward her is a printer\\nof the early days, standing for Germany, where this art originated. Spain is a cavalier\\nor navigator, eager for war, adventure, and discovery. Next him sits a gracious woman,\\nrepresentative of England, recalling in her costume the literary glories of the Eliza-\\nbethan age and displaying an open folio of Shakspere s plays. France is next Repub-\\nlican France sitting upon a cannon but holding out the Declaration of the Rights of\\nMan. The twelfth figure completes the circle America, typified in an Engineer, con-\\nsulting a scientific book, while in front of him stands an electric dynamo.\\nThis series thus has a double significance each personage standing not only for a\\nnation geographically and historically considered, but for the genius or characteristic\\nidea of each. Thus, remarks Mr. R. Cortissoz, Egypt is the representative of written\\nrecords, Judea typifies religion, Greece is the standard-bearer of philoso-\\nSig^nificance. phy, Rome bears the same relation toward administration, Islam stands for\\nphj sics, the Middle Ages are figured as the fountain-head of modern\\nlanguages, Italy is represented as the source of the fine arts, Germany as sponsor for the\\nart of printing, Spain as the first great power in discovery, England as a mighty bulwark\\nof literature, the France of the eighteenth century as emblematic of emancipation, and\\nAmerica as the nation of scientific genius. Each figure holds the insignia of its place.\\nIn the canopy of the dome, above and within the collar, Mr. Blashfield has also\\npainted, as if floating in the sky, an exquisitely graceful female figure, called Human\\nUnderstanding, who lifts her veil and gazes up, as if seeking more and\\nHuman more guidance from on high. Two cherubs attend her, carrying the\\nUnder- Book of Knowledge.\\nstanding. The practical work of the library concentrates in the rotunda, where (in\\nthe center) stands the circular desk of the superintendent and his assist-\\nants, who can speedily communicate with all parts of the building by a system of tele-\\nphones, and by pneumatic tubes, which carry messages and orders for books to any\\nrequired room or book-stack. The floor is filled with small desks,\\nAdminis- arranged in concentric circles and separated by light screens or curtains,\\ntration. and the intrusion of mere sight-seers is forbidden. Unlimited light and\\nair are assured, and quiet is enforced; while celeritj^ in obtaining and\\ndistributing books is secured by various devices that librarians elsewhere will admire\\nand copy. As there is a constant call for books of reference from the Capitol, where the\\nlegislators often want a volume for instant use, an underground tunnel, four feet wide\\nand six feet high, has been made between the two buildings, containing an endless cable", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0082.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE LIBEARY OF COISTGEESS. 75\\ncarrier, upon which boolis may be sent bacli and forth at great speed. An assistant,\\ncyclopedias, etc., are stationed at the Capitol terminus.\\nThe stack-rooms, or apartments where the books themselves are kept, open out on\\neach side of the rotunda into the lofty wings that divide the interior courts, whose\\nenameled walls reflect a flood of light into their numerous windows.\\nThese repositories contain the most improved arrangement. Cases of Care Of\\niron, rising sixty-five feet to the roof, are filled with adjustable shelves BookS.\\nof coated steel as smooth as glass. The floors of these rooms are mar-\\nble, and the decks, at intervals of every seven feet from top to bottom, by which the\\nattendants reach the shelves, are simply slabs of white marble on steel bars. Cleanliness\\nand ventilation are thus fully assured. Each of these stacks will hold 800,000 books\\nand the present capacity of all those erected is about 2,000,000 volumes, while addi-\\ntional space can be made for 2,500,000 more, or nearly 4,500,000 volumes in all more\\nthan the probable accumulation of the next century and a half. The greatest existing\\nlibrary in the world, that of France, now contains about 2,500,000 volumes. The\\navailable space for all purposes here is largely in excess of that of the British Museum,\\nand amounts to more than two- thirds that of the Capitol itself. To Capt. Bernard\\nGreen belongs the high credit for the invention and perfection of these mechanical\\narrangements for the care of the books, and for many other improvements in library\\nadministration. The stack-rooms are not open to the public, but glimpses of them may\\nbe caught through glass doors in the rotunda gallery.\\nConsultation of the books is open to anyone in the reading-room, though no books\\ncan be taken out. The applicant writes the title of the book he wants and his own\\naddress on a blank ticket, which he hands in at the central desk, where\\nhe presently gets the book. Seats are arranged at circular desks which Reading-\\nwill accommodate about 250 readers. No one may take books out of room.\\nthe library except members of Congress, and about thirty other high\\nofficials.\\nA restaurant is maintained in the attic (reached by elevator) which is open to the\\npublic during the day and evening.\\nThe basement is devoted to the offices of the library (including that of\\nthe Superintendent of the Building and Grounds), and to the Copyright Restaurant.\\nOffice. This is quartered in a large hall on the south side, but contains\\nnothing to interest the sightseer.\\nThis office grants copyrights upon all kinds of literary material, upon the payment\\nof certain small fees and compliance with regulations as to the deposit of two\\ncopies of the publication in this library, and the proper publication of\\nnotice of copyright. The law makes this right apply to author, inventor. Copyright\\ndesigner, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical Office.\\ncomposition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or\\nof a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to\\nbe perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors, administrators, or assigns of\\nany such person shah, upon complying with the provisions of this chapter, have the\\nsole liberty of printing, repirinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finish-\\ning, and vending the same and, in the case of a dramatic composition, of publicly per-\\nforming or representing it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others. This\\nprivilege remains protected for twenty-eight years, and may then be renewed for four-\\nteen years.\\nThe pictures of paintings in the Library, appearing in this chapter, are from copyrighted photo-\\ngraphs by Howard Gray Douglas, supphed by Houghton Delano.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0083.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0084.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "A VESTIBULE VISTA.\\n77", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0085.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "THE NORTH CORRIDOR.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Second Story, Main Entrance Hall,\\n78", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0086.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "IV.\\nON CAPITOL HILL.\\nThe plateau east of the Capitol was considered by the founders of the city the most\\ndesirable region for residence, and truly it was in those days, as compared with the\\nhills and swamps of the northwestern quarter or the lowlands along the\\nriver. The principal owner was Daniel Carroll, and when the alternate Early\\ncity lots were sold for the benefit of the public funds, higher prices were Expectations.\\npaid for them here than elsewhere. Carroll considered himself sure to be\\na millionaire, but died poor at last Robert Morris of Philadelphia, the financier of the\\nRevolution, invested heavily here and lost accordingly and the two lots which\\nWashington himself bought cost him about $1,000.\\nDaniel Carroll built for himself what was then considered a very fine mansion,\\nstyled Duddington Manor and that it really was a spacious, comfortable, and elegant\\nWEST FRONT CAPITOL AT NIGHT, ILLUMINATED WITH SEARCH-LIGHTS.\\nhouse can be seen by anyone who will walk down New Jersey Avenue, three Ijlocks\\nsoutheast of the Capitol, and then a block east on E Street, which will bring him in\\nsight of the old house upon its tree-shaded knoll, surrounded by a high wall, and\\ndesolate amid modern improvements. Upon the personal history of the men who\\nhave dined beneath its roof, and the stories its walls might repeat, Mrs. Lockwood has\\n79", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0087.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nexpatiated pleasantly in her valuable book, Historic Homes in Washington, to which\\neveryone must be indebted who discourses upon the social chronicles of the capital.\\nA more famous building was the old Capitol Prison, as it came to be\\nOld Capitol called during the Civil War, whose walls still stand upon the block\\nPrison. facing the Capitol grounds at the intersection of Maryland Avenue with\\nFirst and A streets, N. E., enclosing the residences called Lanier Place.\\nThis was a spacious brick building hastily erected by the citizens of Washington\\nafter the destruction of the Capitol by the British in 18 L4, to accommodate Congress and\\nhold the national capital here against the renewed assaults of those who wished to move\\nthe seat of government elsewhere. While it was building. Congress held one session in\\nBlodgett s great hotel, which stood on the site of the former General Post Office, and\\nthen sat in this building until the restored Capitol was ready for them, in 1827. It was\\na big, plain, warehouse-like structure, which was turned into a boarding-house after\\nCongress abandoned it, and there Senator John C. Calhoun died in 1850. When the\\nCivil War broke out this building became a military prison for persons suspected or\\nconvicted of aiding and abetting the secession treason to which his influence had so pow-\\nerfully contributed. Washington was full of Southern sympathizers and spies, and\\nmany are the traditions in the old families of days and weeks spent by overzealous\\nmembers in durance vile within its walls, guarded by the law-and-order brigade\\nof the Provost Marshal s office, which formed the police of the capital in those days.\\nHere Wirz, the brutal keeper of Andersonville prison, was executed, as well as several\\nother victims of the war. Several years ago it was remodeled into handsome residences,\\none of which was the home of Mr. Justice Field until his death in 1899.\\nThe tall brick Maltby Building, directly north of the Capitol, originally a hotel, is\\nnow occupied by congressional committees, and is called the Senate Annex.\\nThe Coast and Geodetic Survey, a scientific branch of the Treasury Department\\nto map the coast, chart the waters, and investigate and publish movements of tides,\\ncurrents, etc. for the benefit of navigation, is domiciled in a brick,build-\\nCoast iug on New Jersey Avenue, south of the Capitol, immediately in the rear\\nSurvey. of the great stone house built long ago by Benjamin F Butler as a resi-\\ndence, and which is now principally occupied by the Marine Hospital\\nService. New Jersey Avenue leads in that direction to Garfield Park, which is too new\\nto be of interest, and beyond that to the shore of the Anacostia, near the Navy Yard.\\nJust west of it Delaware Avenue forms a perfectly straight street to Washington\\nBarrack s.\\nCapitol Hill, as the plateau of the Capitol is popularly called, can yet show many\\nfine, old-fashioned homes, though some formerly notable have disappeared. It has its\\nown shady avenues, quiet cross streets, and pretty parks. In Stanton\\nGreene Square (three and one-half acres), half a mile northeast out Maryland\\nStatue. Avenue, is H. K. Brown s bronze statue of Major-General Nathanael\\nGreene, who distinguished himself at Eutaw Spring and elsewhere in the\\nSouth during the Revolution, and to whom a statue was voted by the Continental Con-\\ngress. This statue, which was cast in Philadelphia, and cost, with its pedestal of New\\nEngland granite, $50,000, is one of the most life-like figures in Washington, the model-\\ning of the horse being particularly admirable. The Peabody School confronts this neat\\nsquare. A farther walk of half a mile down Massachusetts Avenue takes one to Lincoln\\nSquare a beautifully shaded tract of six and one-quarter acres, just a mile east of the\\nCapitol. Here Tennessee and Kentucky avenues branch off northward and southward,\\nthe former leading to Graceland and Mount Olivet cemeteries, and the latter to the Con-\\ngressional Cemetery, and to the bridge (over the Anacostia to Twining) at the foot of\\nPennsylvania Avenue.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0088.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "on CAPITOL HILL. 81\\nChrist Church (Protestant Episcopal) on G Street, S. E., between Sixth and Seventh,\\nis the oldest church in the city. It was erected in 1795, and was attended by\\nPresidents Jefferson and Madison. Services are still held there. Christ\\nChurch Cemetery, more popularly known as the Congressional Burial Christ\\nGround, adjoins the grounds of the workhouse on the south, and Church.\\noccupies a spacious tract on the bank of the Anacostia. It contains\\nthe graves and cenotaphs, formerly erected by Congress, of many persons once promi-\\nnent in oflScial life.\\nThis cemetery was the principal, if not the ouly place of interment at the beginning\\nof civilization here and many officials who died at the capital were buried there,\\nand the practice continues. Congress contributing toward the support\\nof the cemetery in consideration of this fact. Among the notable men Congres-\\nburied here are Vice-President George Clinton of New York Signer sional\\nand Vice-President Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, whose name gave Cemetery.\\nus the verb to geriymander William West, born in Bladensburg\\nin 1772, a distinguished essayist and jurist, and finally Attorney-General under Monroe\\nAlexander Macomb, hero of Plattsburg and General of the army preceding Scott, who\\nhas a fine military monument; his predecessor, Gen. Jacob Brown, resting under\\na broken column; Tobias Lear, Washington s private secretary; A. D. Bache, the\\norganizer of the coast survey, and several distinguished officers of the old army and\\nnavy. A public vault, erected by Congress, stands near the center of the grounds.\\nThe nearest street cars are on F Street, S. E.\\nAll this old-settled and no longer fashionable region, near the Anacostia, is spoken\\nof rather contemptuously as the navy yard, and it supplies a fair share of work\\nfor the police courts but it is greatly beloved of soldiers and sailors on leave.\\nIn Lincoln Square, the most beautiful thing is the lofty, symmetrical sycamore tree\\nin the center but the most noted object is the Statue IMonument to the Emancipation\\nof the Slaves. This is a bronze group, erected by contributions from the\\ncolored freedmen of the United States, many of whom were set free by Emancipation\\nthe proclamation which is represented in the hand of the great benefactor IMonument.\\nof American slaves, one of whom is kneeling, unshackeled, at his feet.\\nOne of the inscribed tablets upon the pedestal informs us that the first contribution was\\nthe first free earnings of Charlotte Scott, a freed woman of Virginia, at whose suggestion,\\non the day of Lincoln s death, this monument fund was begun. This statue, twelve\\nfeet high, was cast in Munich at an expense of f 17,000, and was unveiled on April 14,\\n1876, the eleventh anniversary of Lincoln s assassination, Frederick Douglass making\\nthe oration.\\nEast Capitol Street is a wide avenue running straight, one mile, from this park to the\\nCapitol, between rows of elms and poplars, and continuing onward to the Eastern Branch\\nthrough scanty and low-lying suburbs. On the same river bank, at the east-\\nern terminus of Massachusetts Avenue, occupying a reservation called District\\nHospital Square, are the District Almshouse, Workhouse (or Asylum for Institutions.\\nthe Indigent), and the stone jail, costing $40,000, in which several\\nmurderers, including Garfield s assailant, Guiteau, have been confined and executed.\\nSome distance away, on the Bladensburg Road, can be seen the buildings of the Boys\\nReform School. All these institutions are well worth inspection by those especially\\ninterested but the view of them obtained from passing trains of the Pennsylvania\\nRailroad will satisfy most persons.\\nThe Navy Yard is one of the places which visitors to Washington ^avy Yard.\\nare usually most anxious to see, but it usually offers little to reward\\ntheir curiosity outside of the gunshop, museum, and trophies. It stands on the banks", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0089.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlSrGTOlSr.\\nof the broad tidal estviary of the Anacostia River, at the foot of Eighth Street, S. E.,\\nand is the terminus of the cars from Georgetown along Pennsylvania Avenue. The\\nAnacostia line of street cars along M Street, S. E., also passes the gate.\\nThis navy yard was established (1804) as soon as the Government came here, and was\\nan object of destruction by the British, who claim, however, that it was set on fire by\\nthe Americans. It was restored, and for more than half a century many of the largest\\nand finest ships of war possessed by the United States were constructed in this yard.\\nTwo spacious ship houses remain, but the yard is now almost entirely given up to the\\nmanufacture of naval guns and ammunition and the storage of equipments. It often\\nhappens that not a ship of any sort is at the wharves (though a receiving ship is usually\\nmoored there), and the sentry at the gate is almost the only sign of military occupation\\nabout the place.\\nThe first great building on the right, the Gun Shop, at the foot of the stone stairs,\\nis the most interesting place in the yard. It is filled with the most powerful and ap-\\nproved machinery for turning, boring, rifling, jacketing, and otherwise\\nOrdnance finishing ready for work the immense rifles required for modern battle-\\nFactories. ships, as well as the smaller rapid-fire gvins forming the supplementary\\nbatteries of the cruisers and other vessels of war. The great guns are\\nmainly cast at Bethlehem, Pa., and brought here rough. Observing carefully the posted\\nregulations, the visitor may walk where he pleases through these magnificent factories\\nand watch the extremely interesting process, and should it happen that any vessels of\\nwar are in the harbor, permission to go on board of them may usually be obtained.\\nThe oQice of the commandant of the yard is at the foot of the main walk near the\\nwharf, and there application should be made for permission to go anywhere not open\\nto the public. A large number of guns, showing types used in the past,\\nTrophies. are lying near the office, and a series of veiy interesting cannon captured\\nfrom the Tripolitan, British, Mexican, or Confederate enemies whom the\\nnavy has had to fight, are mounted before the office. Among them is the famous 42-\\npounder, Long Tom, cast in 1786 in France, captured from the frigate Noche by the\\nBritish in 1798, and then sold to us. Later it was struck by a shot, condemned, and\\nsold to Haiti, then at war with France. This over, the cannon had various owners until\\n1814, when it formed the main reliance in the battery of the privateer General Arm-\\nstrong, which, by pluckily fighting three British war-ships off Fayal, in the Azores, so\\ncrippled them that the squadron was unable to reach New Orleans, whither it was\\nbound, in time to help the land forces there against the victorious Jackson. The brig\\nwas afterward sunk to prevent her capture by the British, but the Portuguese authori-\\nties had so greatly admired the little ship s action that thej^ saved this gun as a trophy,\\nand sent it as a present to the United States.\\nA museum near the gate is worth visiting, as it contains many pieces of old-fashioned\\nordnance and ammunition, and many relics of historical or legendary interest, of which\\nthe most popular, perhaps, is the stern-post of the original Kearsarge,\\nNavy still containing a shell received during her fight with the Alabama. The\\nIMuseum. door of the museum is shaded by a willow grown from a twig cut above\\nthe grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. The residences of officers on duty\\nat the yard are near the gate, which was built from designs by Latrobe.\\nThe marine barracks, three squares above the Navy Yard, on Eighth Street, S. E.,\\noccupy a square surrounded by brick buildings painted yellow, according to naval cus-\\ntom, and are the home station and headquarters of the Marine Corps\\nIMarine Corps, but, except that here is the residence of the famous Marine Band, they\\ncontain nothing of interest to the visitor, unless he likes to watch guard-\\nmounting every moi ning at 9, or the formal inspection on Mondays at 10 a. m. The", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0090.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "OlSr CAPITOL HILL.\\n83\\nMarine Band is the only military band always stationed in Washington, and available\\nfor all military ceremonials. These advantages have given it great excellence and its\\nmusic at parades, President s receptions, inaugural balls, etc., is highly appreciated.\\nThis band gives outdoor concerts in summer.\\nThe Naval Hospital, for sick and wounded officers and men of the Navy and Marine\\nCorps, is at Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth Street, S. E.; and at Second and D streets,\\nS. E., is Providence Hospital, founded in 1863.\\nAnacostia is a name applied in an indefinite way to the region opposite the Navy\\nYard, and is reached by a bridge at the foot of Eleventh Street, crossed bj^ the street\\ncars of the Anacostia Potomac line. The village at the farther end of\\nthe bridge, now called Anacostia, was formerly Uniontown, and from it Anacostia\\nbranch roads lead up on the Maryland heights in various directions, where Suburbs.\\nelectric railroads and park villages are rapidly extending. Twining, at\\nthe eastern end of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge Lincoln Heights, in the extreme\\neastern corner of the district Garfield and Good Hope, on the fine Marlboro Turnpike,\\nwhich is a favorite run for cyclers and Congress Heights, farther south, are the prin-\\ncipal of these suburban centers. All of these high ridges were crowned and connected\\nby fortifications, some of which remain in fairly good condition, especially Fort Stanton,\\njust south of Garfield. A wide and interesting view of the city and the Potomac Valley\\nis obtained from its ramparts, and also of the great Federal Insane Asylum.\\nMUSEUM, NAVY YARD,", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0091.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "^.^^mmwm^m.,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0092.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "y.\\nFROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE.\\nA Walk Up Pennsylvania Avenue.\\nPeunsylvania Avenue is the backbone of Washington the head of it resting upon\\nthe stoned heights of Georgetown, and the tail lost in the wilderness of shanties east of\\nthe Navy Yard. It is four miles and a half long, but is broken by the\\nCapitol grounds and by the Treasury and White House grounds. Pennsylvania\\nBetween these two breaks it extends as a straight boulevard, one and a Avenuc.\\nhalf miles in length and 160 feet wide, paved with asphalt and expanding\\nat short intervals into spaces or parks caused by the angular intersection of other\\nstreets. It will, by-and-by, be among the grandest streets in the United States.\\nA walk up The Avenue begins at the western gates of the Capitol, where First\\nStreet, N. W., curves across its rounded front. Peunsylvania Avenue strikes north-\\nwest a few paces to the left, Maryland Avenue diverges southwest, straight down past\\nthe National Museum to Long Bridge. The circles at the beginning of these streets are\\nfilled with two conspicuous monuments the Naval or Peace Memorial at Pennsylvania\\nAvenue, and the Garfield at Maryland Avenue.\\nPENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.- Looking East from the Treasury Department.\\n85", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0093.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nThe Naval Monument was erected in 1878 from contributions by officers and men of\\nthat service, in memory of the officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy\\nwho fell in defense of the Union and liberty of their country, 1861-1865.\\nNaval It was designed from a sketch by Admiral David D. Porter, elaborated\\nIMonumcnt. by Franklin Simmons, at Rome, and is of pure Carrara marble, resting\\nupon an elaborate granite foundation designed by Edward Clark, the\\npresent architect of the Capitol. America is sorrowfully narrating the loss of her\\ndefenders, while History records on her tablet They died that their country might\\nlive. Below these figures on the western plinth of the monument is a figure of Victory,\\nwith an infant Neptune and Mai s, holding aloft a laurel wreath, and on the reverse is a\\nfigure of Peace offering the olive branch. The cost was |41,000, half of which was\\ngiven by Congress for the pedestal and its two statues.\\nTHE NAVAL MONUMENT.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pennsylvania Avenue near Western Entrance to Capitol Grounds.\\nThe Garfield Statue is a more recent acquisition, having been erected by his comrades\\nof the Army of the Cumberland, and unveiled in 1887, to commemorate the virtues and\\npopularity of President James A. Garfield, whose assassination, six\\nGarfield years before, had horrified the whole country. The statesman stands\\nIMonument. upon a massive pedestal, in the attitude of an orator nearer the base of\\nthe statue three figures represent three phases of his career student,\\nsoldier, and publicist. This statue was designed by J. Q. A. Ward, and erected at an\\nexpense of $65,000, half of which was appropriated by Congress to pay for the pedestal\\nand its three bronze figures.\\nIn the triangle between these two avenues lies the ten-acre tract of the\\nBotanical Botanical Garden, where Congressmen get their button-hole bouquets.\\nGarden. and their wives cuttings and seeds for pretty house-plants. It long ago\\noutlived its scientific usefulness, and has never attained excellence as a\\npublic pleasure-garden or park, while its cost has been extravagant. In its central", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0094.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE.\\n87\\ngreenhouse may be seen certain tropical plants brought home by the Wilkes and Perry\\nexploring expeditions and the conspicuous illuminated fountain in the center of the\\ngrounds is the one by Bartholdi, so greatly admired at the Centennial Exposition, 1876.\\nIt cost |6,000.\\nThe buildings improve as we proceed, and in the next block, on the right, is the\\nNational Hotel, whose history goes back to the early decades of the century, for in the\\ntime of Clay and Webster it was filled with the leading spirits in the\\nGovernment, who caused many memorable things to happen beneath its Early Hotels.\\nroof. At Sixth Street, just south of the avenue, is the handsome station\\nof the Pennsylvania Railroad, and opposite it is the Metropolitan Hotel, covering the\\nsite of the first important hotel in Washington, the Indian Queen, tvhich was the\\nscene of the greatest festivities at the capital during the first third of the century.\\nThis brings us to Seventh Street, the chief north-and-south artery of traffic. Here\\nLouisiana Avenue extends northeastward to Judiciary Square and its diagonal crossing\\nof Pennsylvania Avenue leaves a triangle, upon which stands the equestrian statue of\\nMaj.-Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, by Henry J. Ellicott, erected in 1896.\\nOn the south side of the avenue here, stretching from Seventh to Ninth Street, is\\nCenter Market, one of the most spacious, convenient, well-furnished, and withal pictur-\\nesque establishments of its kind in the country. No one should consider\\na tour of Washington made until they have spent an early morning hour Center\\nin this market, and in the open-air country market behind it, along the I^arkCt.\\nrailings of the Smithsonian grounds, where the gaunt farmers of the Vir-\\nginia and Maryland hills stand beside their ramshackle wagons, or hover over little\\nfires to keep warm, and quaint old darkies ofl er for sale old-fashioned flowers and\\nyarbs, live chickens, and fresh-laid\\neggs, bunches of salad or fruit from\\ntheir tiny suburban fields, smoking cob\\npipes and crooning wordless melodies\\njust as they used to do iti befo de wa\\ndays. There are four or five great mar-\\nkets in Washington. Between the market\\nand Pen nsj lvania Avenue is a park space,\\nthrough which runs the depression mark-\\ning the old Tiber Canal, now a grassy\\ntrench crossed by a picturesque bridge.\\nHere stands the Statue of Maj.-Gen. John\\nA. Rawlins, Grant s Chief\\nof Stafl and later his Sec- Ra ylins\\nretary of War, who also Statue.\\nhas a small park named\\nafter him in the rear of the War Office,\\nwhere this monument was first erected.\\nThis statue, which is of bronze, after de-\\nsigns by J. Bailey, cast in Philadelphia,\\nfrom rebel cannon captured by Grant s\\narmies, was erected in 1874, and paid for\\n(112,000) by friends of Rawlins, who died\\nhere in 1869.\\nGood modern buildings and fine stores\\nline the avenue from here on to Fifteenth\\nStreet, especially on the northern side. At\\nBRONZE STATUE OF JAMES A. GARFIELD.\\nSouthwestern Entrance to Capitol Grounds.\\nBy J. Q. A. Ward.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0095.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nNinth Street another north-and-south artery of street-car traffic is crossed, and the\\nAcademjf of Music appears at the right.\\nTenth Street, the next, is historic. At the left, past the marljet, is the principal en-\\ntrance to the Smithsonian grounds and on the corner is the office of a lively morning\\nnewspaper, The Times. The open space here is decorated with Plassman s\\nFranklin Statue of Benjamin Franklin, looking shrewdly down upon the trafficking\\nStatue. throng, as that eminent man of affairs was wont to do. It is marble, of\\nheroic size, represents Franklin in his court dress as Minister to the Court\\nof France, and was presented to the city in 1889, by Stilson Hutchins, an editor and\\nwriter of wide reputation. The assassination of President Lincoln occurred in the old\\nFord s Theater on this Tenth Street, in the second block north of Pennsylvania Avenue,\\nand the buildings made sacred by the event are still standing.\\nFord s Theater, which during the CivilWar was the leading theater in the city, has\\nlong been occupied by the Government as offices. Here, on the night of April 14, 1865,\\nPresident Lincoln, with members of his family and staff, went, by special\\nFord s invitation, to witness a play in which the actor J. Wilkes Booth had a\\nTheater. principal part. During an intermission, Booth entered the box in which\\nthe President sat, shot him in the back of the head with a revolver, and\\nthen leaped to the stage. At the same time, other assassins made attempts upon the\\nlife of the cabinet officers that upon Secretary Wm. H. Seward nearly proving suc-\\ncessful. Booth leaped to the stage, and, with the other assassins, made his escape, but\\nall were soon recaptured, brought to Washington (except Booth, who was killed i-n\\nMaryland), and incarcerated in the military penitentiary at the Arsenal, where four\\nof the leaders of the conspiracy were tried and hung. Ford s Theater was at once\\nclosed by order of the Government, which purchased the building in 1866. It was\\nTHE BARTHOLDI FOUNTAIN, Botanical Garden.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0096.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE. 89\\nremodeled and appropriated to the uses of the Record and Pension Division of the War\\nDepartment, and on June 9, 1893, suffered a collapse of the floors, which caused the\\ndeath and maiming of many clerks. During all this time the proscenium pillar, next\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which Mr. Lincoln sat when he was killed, had been preserved in place, properly\\nmarked it survived the disaster of 15^93, and can still be seen.\\nrjfci house to which Lincoln was carried, opposite the theater (No. 516), is\\nmai^ by a tablet, and is open to visitors, who are shown the rear\\nrooi^iPn the ground floor in which the great martyr died. A large and Lincoln\\nmisc. aneous collection of Lincoln relics is now displayed by the ReliCS.\\nowner in the other rooms, and an admission fee of 25 cents is charged.\\nT corner of Eleventh Street is distinguished by the lofty and ornate home of The\\nEcei. Star, opposite which, filling the whole square from Eleventh to Twelfth Street,\\nis the J ost Office, elsewhere described.\\nOn the corner of Twelfth Street stands the lofty Raleigh Hotel. The two pretty\\nlittle parks at Thirteenth Street are confronted by hotels, rectaurauts, etc., and the\\nNational Theater, which is among the foremost places of amusement in\\nthe city. The handsome home of The Post, the leading morning news- Twelfth tO\\npaper, is just beyond. On the south side of the avenue is seen the head- Fifteenth\\nquarters building of the Southern Railway system and at Thirteen- Streets.\\nand-one-half Street, just beyond the ruins of a railway power-house,\\nis the terminus of the Washington, Alexandria Mount Vernon Electric Railway.\\nFourteenth Street is the most important thoroughfare, north and south, in this part\\nof the city, extending from the Long Bridge, at the foot of Maryland Avenue, north-\\nward to Mount Pleasant. The Belt Line cars run southward upon it from Pennsylvania\\nAvenue to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and so on around to the Capitol. At\\nthe right (northward) the street slopes steeply up the hill to F Street, and this block, as\\nfar as the Ebbitt House, is known as Newspaper Row, because filled with the offices of\\ncorrespondents of newspapers all over the country. Opposite them, occupying the\\nnorthwest corner, is Willard s Hotel\\nThe block opposite Willard s is devoted to business houses, and has the Regent\\nHotel. Around the corner to the left, on Fifteenth Street, are the Grand Opera House,\\nthe armory of the Washington Light Infantry, the house of the Capital Bicycle Club, etc.\\nThis brings us to the end of the avenue, against the southern portico of the Treas-\\nury, and in sight of the impressive Sherman memorial. Turning to the right, up the\\nslope of Fifteenth Street, we pass the busy terminus of F Street, and go on to G, where\\n4he Riggs House forms a dignified corner-piece. A few steps farther, the broad avenue\\nin front of the Treasury opens the way northward, and brings us to that goal of patri-\\notic ambition the White House.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0097.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0098.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "YI.\\nAT THE EXECUTIYE MANSION\\nTpe Executive Mansion, more commonly called the White House, has gained for\\nitself a world-wide reputation in a century s existence. George Washington was present\\nat the laying of the corner-stone in 1792, in what then was simply David\\nBur hs old fields stretching down to the Potomac (for this was the first History.\\npublic building to be erected), but John Adams was the first President to\\nlive in the building (1800), which was still so new and damp that his wife was obliged\\nto have a literal house-warming to dry the interior sufficiently for safety to health. Its\\ncost, up to that time, had been about $250,000.\\nThe architect, James Hoban, who had won reputation by building some of the flue\\nhouses on the Battery in Charleston, took his idea of the mansion from the house of the\\nSiiiS\u00e2\u0084\u00a2.,\\niJ\\nt\\nL\\nhm\\nd\\n~li\\n1^^^^\\nwm^\\ni^\\nAV.Xfc4\\n^^^^^s^ll\\nPS:i::::^t^:--\\n3BM\\nTHE WHITE HOUSE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 From Lafayette Square.\\nIrish Duke of Leinster, in Dublin, who had, in turn, copied the Italian style. The\\nmaterial is Virginia sandstone, the length is 170 feet, and the width 86 feet. The house\\nstands squarely north and south, is of two stories and a basement, has a heavy balustrade\\nalong the eaves, a semicircular colonnade on the south side (facing the river and finest\\ngrounds), and a grand portico and porte-cochere on the northern front, added in Jack-\\nson s time. Its cost, to the present, exceeds $1,500,000. In 1814 the British set fire to\\nthe building, but heavy rains extinguished the conflagration before it had greatly injured\\nthe walls. Three years later the house had been restored, and the whole was then painted\\nwhite, to cover the ravages of flre on its freestone walls, a color which has been kept\\never since, and is likely to remain as long as the old house does, not only because of the\\ntradition, but because it is really effective among the green foliage in which the mansion\\nis ensconced. It was reopened for the New Year s Day reception of President Monroe\\nin 1818.\\n91", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0099.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0100.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "At: THE EXECtTTiVE MANSlOi^^.\\n93\\nPresident s\\nGrounds.\\nThe President s Grounds consist of some eighty acres sloping down to the Potomac\\nFlats. The immediate gardens wei e early attended to, as is shown by the age and size\\nof the noble trees; but only lately has the more distant part of the grounds\\nbeen set in order. This part, as also the park nearer the house (locally\\nknown as the White Lot) is open freely to the public, under the eye of\\npolicemen; and here, in warm weather, the Marine Band gives outdoor\\nconcerts in the afternoon, and the people come to enjoy them. At such times fashion\\ngathers in its carriages upon the winding roads south of the mansion, and assumes the\\nformal parade of Rotten Row or the Bois de Boulogne. It is here, too,\\non the sloping terrace just behind the White House, that the children of Eg g -rolling\\nthe city gather on Easter Monday to roll their colored eggs a pretty\\ncustom the origin of which has been quite forgotten. Lafayette Square ought also to\\nbe included as practically a part of the President s Grounds.\\nAdmission to certain parts of the White House is almost as free to everybody as it is\\nto any other of the people s buildings in their capital. Coming from Pennsylvania\\nAvenue by the principal approach, along the semicircular carriage drive that leads up\\nfrom the open gates, the visitor enters the stately vestibule through the front portico,\\nfrom whose middle upper window Lincoln made so many impromptu\\nbut memorable addresses during the war. Here will be found door- Door-\\nkeepers, who direct callers upon the President up the staircase to the keepers.\\noffices, and form visitors, who wish to see the public rooms of the man-\\nsion, into little parties, who are conducted under their guidance. The first public\\napartment visited is that on the left as you enter, occupying the eastern wing of the\\nbuilding and called the East Room.\\nThis, which was originally designed for a banquet hall, and so used until 1827, is now\\nthe state recep-\\ntion room. It is\\n8 feet in length,\\n40 feet wide, and\\n22 feet high, and\\nhas eight beauti-\\nful marble man-\\ntels, surmounted\\nby tall mirrors.\\nI ts embellish-\\nments are renewed\\nevery eight or ten\\nyears, reflecting\\nthe changing\\nfashion in decora-\\ntion; but the crys-\\ntal chandeliers,\\nwhich depend\\nfrom each of the\\nthree great panels\\nof the ceiling\\n(dating, with their\\nsupporting pillars\\nfromGrant stime)\\nare never changed;\\nand whatever the\\nIN LINE ON A RECEPTION DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At tne Wnite House.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0101.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nPORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON. In East Room.\\nstyle, the profusion of gildiDg and mirrors\\ngives a brilliant back-\\nEast Room, ground for the gorgeously\\narrayed assemblages that\\ngather here on state occasions, when the\\nhall is a blaze of light, and a garden of foli-\\nage and flowers from the great conserva-\\ntories. Full-length portraits of George and\\nMartha Washington are conspicuous\\namong the pictures on the walls. The\\nformer used to be thought one painted\\nby Gilbert Stuart, but it is now known\\nto be the work of an obscure English\\nartist who copied Stuart s style a very\\nfeeble imitation Healy pronounced it.\\nEvery visitor is told, remarks Mr.\\nE. V. Smallej who explained these facts\\nin The Century Magazine, that Mrs.\\nMadison cut tliis painting from out of\\nits frame with a pair of shears, to save it\\nfrom the enemy, when she tied from the\\ntown [in 1814] but in her own letters\\ndescribing the hasty flight, she says that\\nMr. Custis, -the nephew of Washington, hastened over from Arlington to save the\\nprecious portrait, and that a servant cut the outer frame with an ax, so that the canvas\\ncould be removed, stretched on the inner frame.\\nThe portrait of Mrs. Martha Washington is a modern composition by E. B. Andrews\\nof Washington. A full-length portrait of Thomas Jefferson, also by Mr. Andrews, and\\none of Lincoln, by Coggeshall, also occupy panels here.\\nThe East Room is open to anyone daily from 10 to 2, but the other oflBcial apart-\\nments are only visible by special request, or when, at intervals, a custodian leads a\\nparty through them.\\nAdjoining the East Room, at its southern end, is the Green Room, so named from\\nthe general color of its decorations and furniture, which are traditional. The tone is\\npale gray greeii. The ceiling is ornamented with an exquisite design of\\nGreen Hoom. musical instruments entwined in a garland with cherubs and flowers, and\\nthere is a grand piano. There are touches of gilt everywhere upon the\\nivory-like woodwork, and the rococo open-work in the tops of the windows, from which\\nthe curtains hang, is noticeable. Here hang several notable portraits. One of these is a\\nfull-length, by Huntington, President of the National Academy, of Mrs. Benjamin\\nHarrison, which was presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution, of whose\\nsociety she was president. Another notable portrait by the same artist is the full-length\\nof Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, presented by the Women s Christian Temperance Union,\\ncommemorating Mrs. Hayes courage in maintaining the cold-water regime at the\\nExecutive Mansion. Three other portraits are hung here by friends. One is of Mrs.\\nJames K.Polk; another, of the second wife of President Tyler, and the third, of the wife\\nof Major Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, known in his time as\\nPrince Harry.\\nBlue Room. Next to this is the somewhat larger (40 by 30 feet) and oval Blue Room,\\nwhich bows outward in the center of the colonnade of the south front\\nof the building, and whose decorations are in pale blue and gold. The ornaments", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0102.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSIOIST.\\n95\\nI^^^H\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0I^^^M\\njmgcB^:^-\\n1\\n3\\nW^^T\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\u00e2\u0084\u00a2*?!?\\nP\\ni:^^^_^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2P^lllll^\\n^^^?f~-~~-\\n2\\n1\\n:=%f\\n2?\\n4\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j\\n1 --rfif, j#\\nit l\\n^P\\nllA\\n1 r^\\nm\\ns^_\\ni\\nTHE EAST ROOM.\\nTHE BLUE ROOM.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0103.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHIN^GTON.\\nare presents from the French. The mantel clock was a present from Napoleon to\\nLafayette, and was given by the latter to the United States; and the fine vases were\\npresented by the President of the French Republic on the occasion of the opening of\\nthe Franco-American cable. It is here that the President stands when holding recep-\\ntions, the ceremonial of which is described elsewhere, and here President and Mrs.\\nCleveland were married in 1886.\\nThe Red Room, west of the Blue Room, a square room of the same size as the\\nGreen Parlor, has a more home-like look than the others, by reason of its piano,\\nmantel ornaments, abundant furniture, and pictures, and the fact that\\nRed Room. it is used ao a reception-room and private parlor by the ladies of the\\nmansion. The prevailing tone is Pompeiian red, and the walls are\\ncovered with portraits, as follows\\nA full-length of President Arthur, by Daniel Huntington, N. A.\\nA full-length of Cleveland, by Eastman Johnson.\\nA full-length of Benjamin Harrison, by Eastman Johnson, 1895.\\nA half-length of James A. Buchanan.\\nA half-length of Martin Van Buren, by Healy.\\nA half-length of Zachary Taylor, by Healy.\\nA half-length of John Adams, by Healy.\\nAll these rooms open upon the corridor running lengthwise the building and sepa-\\nrated from the vestibule by a partition of glass, which President Arthur prevailed\\nupon Congress to order, to replace an old wooden one. The light coming through\\nthe partition of wrinkled stained-glass mosaic makes a marvelously rich and gorgeous\\neffect, falling upon the gilded niches where stand dwarf palmetto trees, the silvery\\nnetwork of the ceiling, and the sumptuous furniture. In this corridor hang several\\nportraits of Presidents, including a full-length of Washington, by an Ecuadorian artist,\\nTHE RED ROOIVi.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0104.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "AT THE EXECUTIVE MAISTSIOIN^. 97\\nCadena of Quito, and presented by him and of Polk, Garfield (by Andrews), Hayes,\\nFillmore, Tyler, Grant (by Le Clair), and Jackson one of Andrews early efforts.\\nMany of the older ones are by Healy, who painted portraits of Presidents J. Q. Adams,\\nTyler, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, and\\nGrant. Each President is supposed to leave his portrait here.\\nThe State Dining-room is at the south end of this corridor, on the\\nleft, in the corner of the house. It measures 40 by 30 feet, and is in Uining:-\\nthe Colonial style, the prevailing colors being a dull yellow, meant rOOm.\\nto light up warmly under gaslight.\\nThe ceiling is surrounded with a frieze of garlands, about 33=^ feet wide, with\\nmedallions at intervals. From these wreaths and vines run to the chandeliers. Beneath\\nthe cornice is a heavy frieze about four feet in width, which blends into the wall,\\nwith garlands of native vines, leaves, and fruits. The general character\\nof the work is known as applique relief, which is produced by blending transparent\\ncolors on a light ground, the effect being greatly increased by the fact\\nthat the various colors and figures are edged up in relief to imitate the corded\\nor raised work in applique. State dinners are usually given once or twice\\na week dm ing the winter, and are brilliant affairs. Lavish use is made of plants and\\nflowers from the conservatories, and the table, laden with a rare display of plate,\\nporcelain, and cut-glass, presents a beautiful appearance, forming an effective setting\\nfor the gay toilets of the ladies and their glittering jewels. The table service is exceed-\\ningly beautiful, and is adorned with various representations of the flora and fauna\\nof America. The new set of cut-glass was made at White Mills, Pa., and is regarded\\nas the finest ever produced in this country. It consists of 520 separate pieces, and\\nwas especially ordered by the Government for the White House. On each piece\\nof the set, from the mammoth centerpiece and punch bowl to the tiny saltcellars,\\nis engraved the coat of arms of the United States. The execution of the order occu-\\npied several months, and cost $6,000. The table can be made to accommodate as many\\nas fifty -four persons, but the usual number of guests is from thirty to forty.\\nThe western door of the corridor leads into the conservatory, which is always in\\nflourishing beauty and opposite the state dining-room is the private or family dining-\\nroom, a cozy apartment looking out upon the avenue. The private stairway is near its\\ndoor. A butler s pantry, a small waiting-room at the right of the vestibule, and an\\nelevator complete the list of rooms on this main floor\\nThe basement is given up entirely to the kitchen, storerooms, and servants\\nquarters.\\nThe business offices of the President and his secretaries are on the second floor, at\\nthe eastern end, and are reached by a stairway at the left of the vestibule. At the head\\nof the stairway sits a messenger who directs persons into the large ante-\\nroom, which is in reality a hallway of the house, and to the door of the President s\\noffice of the Secretary to the President, who occupies the corner room Office.\\nsoutheast.\\nThe President s oflBce is next to that of his private secretary a large, plain, com-\\nfortably furnished room, lined with cases of books of law and reference. His great desk\\nis at the southerrL.end of the room, and the President sits with his back to the window,\\nwhich commands a wide view down the Potomac. The massive oak table here is made\\nfrom timbers of the Resolute, a British ship abandoned in the Arctic ice while searching\\nfor Sir John Frar^klin, in 1854, but recovered by American whalers it is a gift from\\nQueen Victoria.\\nThe Cabinet Boom is next beyond, immediately over the Green Room another\\nplain, handsome, rather dark apartment, with a long table down the center surrounded", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0105.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nby armchairs. The President sits at the southern end of the table, with the Secretary\\nof State on his right, the Secretary of the Treasury on his left, and the\\nCabinet others farther down the table. The more or less valuable portraits of\\nRoom. several past Presidents look down upon them from the walls.\\nThe Executive Mansion is well guarded. A large force of watchmen,\\nincluding police officers, is on duty inside the mansion at all hours, and a continuous\\npatrol is maintained by the local police of the grounds immediately surrounding the\\nmansion. As an additional safeguard, automatic alarm signals are fixed in different\\nparts of the house, and there are telephones and telegraphs to the military posts, so\\nthat a strong force of police and soldiers could be obtained almost at a moment s notice.\\nThe inadequacy of the White House as a residence for the President of the United\\nStates has long been recognized. It is crowded, inconvenient, and whollj^ unadapted\\nto such dignity and occasions of public ceremony as the nation demands\\nA New of its chief. There is not even accommodation for visitors, so that guests\\nWhite House, of the nation must be sent to a hotel. Many suggestions and more or\\nless elaborate plans have been made for a new and proper President s\\nresidence, which should be entirely separate from the Executive offices, for which the\\npresent White House might properly be reserved. Most of these proposals contemplate\\na magnificent edifice on Meridian Hill, 200 feet in elevation, at the head of Sixteenth\\nStreet. One such proposition, designed by Mary Henderson Foote and Paul J. Pelz, is\\nillustrated herewith. It proposes a building in an ornate American adaptation of the\\nRoman classic style of architecture, and constructed of white marble, with grand\\napproaches. The west wing would be devoted to the home of the President s family,\\nand the east wing to suitable accommodation for the nation s guests; while the central\\npart, and the ground floor of the east wing, extended by elaborate conservatories, would\\nbe devoted to a series of state apartments, in which grand ceremonies and entertainments\\nmight be adequately arranged and carried out.\\nPROPOSED EXECUTIVE MANSION. Pau.l J. Pelz. An,hitect,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0106.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "VII.\\nTHE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.\\nThe Executive Departments are those over which the Cabinet officers preside, and in\\nwhich the daily administration of the Government is carried on. There have not\\nalways been so many, nor have they always been known by their present names and it\\nis only recently, under the law of 1886, prescribing the order of succession to the\\nPresidency, that any authoritative sequence could be observed in the list, which is now\\nas follows:\\nThe Department of State, presided over by the Honorable the Secretary of Slate.\\nThe Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury.\\nThe War Department, the Secretary of War. List of\\nThe Department of Justice, the Attorney-General. Departments.\\nThe Post Office Department, the Postmaster-General.\\nThe Navy Department, the Secretary of the Navy.\\nThe Department of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior.\\nThe Department of Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture.\\nAll these are situated in the immediate neighborhood of the Executive Mansion,\\nexcept those of the Post Office, Interior, and Agriculture.\\nThe Departments are the business offices of the Government, and politics has much\\nless to do with their practical conduct than the popular clamor would lead ope to sup-\\npose. The occasional shirk or blatherskite makes himself noticed, but the average\\nemploye, from head to foot of the list, faithfully attends to his business and does\\nhis work. This must be so, or the business of the nation could not be carried on and\\notherwise, men and women would not grow gray in its service, as they are doing,\\nbecause their fidelity and skill can not be spared so long as their strength holds out.\\nYear by year, with the growth of intelligence and the extension of the civil service idea\\nand practice, politics has less and less to do with the practical administration of the\\nbusiness of the nation at its capital and year by year, better and more economical\\nmethods and results are achieved. No civil pensions have yet been established as the\\nfurther reward of long and faithful service.\\nThe Department of State stands first on the list, and occupies the south and noblest\\nfront of the State, War, and Navy Building that towering pile of granite west of the\\nWhite House, which has been so honestly admired by the populace and\\nso of ten condemned by critics. The architect was A. B. Mullet, who had Department\\na great fondness for the Italian renaissance, as is shown by the post of State.\\noffices of New York and Boston, and by other public edifices executed\\nwhile he was supervising architect of the Treasury. This building is 471 feet long by\\n253 feet wide, and surrounds a paved courtyard containing engine-houses, etc. It is\\nbuilt, outwardly, of granite from Virginia and Maine, and the four facades are substan-\\ntially alike, though the south front, where space and slope of the ground favors, has a\\ngrander entrance than the other sides. The building was begun in 1871 and not wholly\\nfinished until 1893, covers four and a half acres, contains two miles of corridors, and\\ncost $10,700,000. It is in charge of a superintendent, responsible to a commission com-\\nposed of the three Secretaries occupying it.\\n99", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0107.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "loo PICTORIAL GtJIDE TO WASHiKaTO: f.\\nAll of the apartments of the foreign office are elegant, and one fancies he sees a\\ngreater formality and dignity, as certainly there is more of studious quiet, here than in\\nany other department. The Secretary and assistant secretaries occupy a\\nForeign line of handsome offices in the second story, looking southward across\\nOffice. the park, among which is the long and stately room assigned to confer-\\nences Avith representatives of foreign governments, or similar meetings,\\nand hence called the Diplomatic Room. An opportunity to inspect this should be\\naccepted, if only to obtain a sight of the likenesses of the past Secretaries of State, with\\nwhich its walls are almost covered. All of these .portraits are hymen of talent, and\\nsome are of superior merit That of Clay, by E. D. Marchant, and those of Fish and\\nFrelinghuysen, by Huntington, are especially praised. Lord Ashburton is here also,\\nbeside Webster his great coadjutor in the adjudication of the boundary between the\\nUnited States and Canada. This room, the furniture, rugs, and hangings of which are\\ndark and elegant, is said to have been arranged by Secretary Hamilton Fish. Near by\\nis another elegant apartment the Diplomatic Ante-room, where foreign dignitaries\\nawait audience with the premier.\\nThe show room of the department, however, is the library, in spite of the fact that\\nseveral curious objects formerly exhibited there are no longer on view.\\nThe precious original drafts of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitu-\\ntion were disintegrating and fading under exposure to the light, and have been shut up\\nin a steel safe, after having been hermetically sealed between plates of\\nState glass, which arrangement, it is hoped, will stop their decay. A precise\\nLibrary facsimile of the Declaration, made about 1820, hangs upon the library\\nand Relics. wall. The Great Seal and certain curious early treaties of oriental and\\nbarbarous states are no longer exhibited. Here may be seen, however,\\nthe war sword of Washington the identical weapon he was accustomed to wear in\\ncamp and campaign and the sword of Jackson, at New Orleans broken, to be sure,\\nbut mended by a skillful armorer, and not by himself at a blacksmith s forge, as the old\\nstory relates. Jefferson s writing-desk (at which, tradition says, the Declaration of\\nIndependence was drafted), Franklin s staff and buttons from his court dress, a lor-\\ngnette given by Washington to Lafayette, a copy of the Pekin Gazette, which has been\\nprinted continuously, as a daily newspaper, since the eighth century, and several other\\npersonal relics and historical curiosities will reward the visitor.\\nThe library itself is a very notable one, equal to those of the governments of Great\\nBritain and France in importance as a collection of books of international law and\\ndiplomacy. Cognate works, such as biographies, histories, and travels of a certain sort,\\nsupplement this central collection, and the whole now includes some 60, 000 volumes.\\nIts purpose is to serve as a reference library for the department. It also includes a\\ngreat quantity of the papers of public men of the past, which have been acquired by\\npurchase or otherwise, and are distinct from the correspondence archives of the depart-\\nment. For the papers of Washington (bound into 336 volumes) $45,000 was paid in\\n1884 and 1849 for the i\\\\[adison papers (75 vols., 1848) $25,000 for the Jefferson MSS.\\n(137 vols., 1848) $20,000; and for the .Monroe papers (22 vols., 1849) $20,000. More\\nrecently have been acquired the papers of Hamilton i 65 vols.), of Benjamin Franklin\\n(32 vols., $35,000), and extensive records of the Revolutionary army.\\nThe War Department has quarters in the same great building, occupying the west-\\nern and part of the northern front, as is indicated by the cannons lying upon the but-\\ntresses of the porches. The Secretary and Assistant Secretary of War,\\nWar Office, the General of the army, and several military bureaus have their offices\\nthere, but none of them are open, of course, to the casual visitor. At\\nthe head of the staircase, near the northwestern corner, are models of certain arms and", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0108.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0109.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nordnance,, and of wagons, ambulances, etc. and also two showcases of life-size lay fig-\\nures exhibiting the uniforms of various ranks in the Revolutionary army. The wall of\\nthe staircase is embellished with portraits of past Secretaries, and in the corridor and\\nante-rooms of the Secretary s oflfice are other paintings, including grand portraits of\\nGrant, Sherman, and Sheridan, by Daniel C. Huntington. The Washington portrait\\nhere is one of Stuart s copies from his original study.\\nThe old Winder building, on the opposite side of Seventeenth Street, erected many\\nyears ago by Gen. Wm. H. Winder, an army officer who distinguished himself in the\\nearly part of the War of 1812, and commanded the troops here in 1814, was intended\\nfor a hotel. It was taken for offices of the War Department, however, and has been so\\noccupied ever since. In it General Halleck had his office and the staff headquarters of\\nthe army during the Civil W^ar, Secretary Stanton s office being in the building demol-\\nished to make room for the present structure.\\nGeneral Grant s Headquarters, when, after the war, he lived in\\nGrant s Washington in command of the army, were in the large house with the\\nHead- high stoop on the opposite or southeast corner of Seventeenth and F\\nquarters. streets. It is now a private residence. McClellan s headquarters during\\nthe early half of the war were at the northeast corner of Lafayette\\nSquare, now the Cosmos clubhouse.\\nThe Navy Department has possession of the remaining third of the building, with an\\nentrance facing the White House, signified by anchors upon the portico. The Secretary\\nand Assistant Secretary preside over ten bureaus, whose chiefs are detailed officers of\\nthe navy. These are\\n1. Bureau of Navigation, having the practical control of the ships and men in actual\\nservice, and including the Hydrographic Office and Naval Academy at Annapolis, but\\nnot the War College at Newport. 2. Bureau of Yards and Docks. 3.\\nBureaus of Bureau of Equipment, which has charge, among other things, of the\\nthe Navy. Naval Observatory, the Nautical Almanac, and the Compass Office.\\n4. Bureau of Ordnance. 5. Bureau of Construction and Repair. 6.\\nBureau of Steam Engineering. 7. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, under whose\\nsupervision is maintained a Museum of Hygiene, in the Old Naval Observatory, which\\nis interesting to specialists. 8. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (but the Navy Pay\\nOffice is at No. 1729 New York Avenue). 9. Office of the Judge Advocate General\\nthe department s law officer. 10. Office of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, who\\nis responsible directly to the Secretary of the Navy. By the time a ship is built,\\nequipped, armed, and manned, she has gone through every one of these bureaus, and\\nmust have had a good pilot if she escaped being dashed to pieces against some of their\\nregulations, or crushed by collision of authority between their chiefs.\\nThe models of ships, on view in the corridor near the entrance and on the next floor\\nabove, form an exhibit of great interest, graphically displaying the difference between\\nthe early wooden frigates and line-of-battle ships and the modern steel\\nIModeiS. cruisers and turreted men-of-war. These models ought not to be over-\\nlooked the library, also, is well worth attention, on account of the por-\\ntraits of departed Secretaries, as well as for the sake of its professional books.\\nThe financial department and the actual treasury of the Government are housed in the\\nimposing but somewhat gloomy building which closes the vista up Pennsylvania Avenue\\nfrom the Capitol, and which nearly adjoins the White House park on the\\nTreasury east. This structure, which, suitably to the alleged American worship\\nBuilding:. of monej^, has been given the form of a pagan temple, is of the Ionic-\\nGreek order of architecture modified to suit local requirements. The\\nmain building, with its long pillared front on Fifteenth Street, was erected of Virginia", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0110.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0111.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIICGTON.\\nsandstone, after plans by Robert Mills, and completed in 1841. Some years later exten-\\nsions were undertaken under the architectural direction of Thomas U. Walter, which\\nenlarged the building greatly, produced the magnificent granite porticos at each end,\\nand resulted in the beautifully designed western facade. The whole buildiog, completed\\nin 1869, is 406 feet long and 264 wide exclusive of the porticos, incloses two courts, and\\nhas cost about |10,000,000.\\nThe Treasury is a place every stranger visits. The building is open from 9 till\\n2 and between 11 and 12 and 1 and 2 o clock, persons who assemble at the ofiice of\\nthe Treasurer are formed into parties, and conducted to the doors of certain rooms, where\\nthe guides volubly explain the work in progress there.\\nThus j ou may see .the girls counting and recounting the sheets of specially made paper\\nupon which all the United States bonds, notes, and revenue stamps are printed this is\\nthe beginning of the long routine of money making, and not one must\\nPaper for go unaccounted for. This paper is made of components and by a com-\\nSecuritiCSt position which is a secret between the Government and the manufac-\\nturers at Dalton, near Pittsfield, Mass. It is especially distinguished by\\nthe silk fibers interwoven with its texture, and, as a part of the monopoly of the manu-\\nfacture of United States money retained by the Federal Government, the possession\\nof any such paper by private persons is prohibited under severe penalties, ?i prima facie\\nevidence of intent to defraud. The packages of 1,000 sheets, each of the proper size for\\nprinting four notes, are deftly counted and carefully examined by young women, whom\\nlong practice has made wonderfully expert. When every imperfect sheet has been picked\\nout and replaced by a good one, the packages are sent to the printer (see Bureau of\\nEngraving and Printing).\\nNext you may be shown the large room to which piles of similar sheets, printed with\\nthe faces and backs of notes of various denominations from $1 to $1,000, have been\\nreturned, to receive here, upon small steam presses, the red seal, which\\nTreasury completes the value of the paper as a promise to pay.\\nNotes. These notes, to the amount of about $1,000,000 in value, on the average,\\nare brought over from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing each morn-\\ning, being conveyed in a steel-encased wagon, guarded by armed messengers. They are\\nfirst counted by three persons in succession, to reduce to the vanishing point the proba-\\nbility of error, and then are sent to the sealing-room mentioned above, where the sheets\\nof four unseparated notes are passed through the small steam presses that place upon\\nthem the red seal of the Treasury of North America, or, as it is written in abbreviated\\nLatin upon the seal itself Thesaur. Amer. Septent. Sigil.\\nUnited States Treasury notes bear the engraved facsimiles of the signatures of the\\nUnited States Treasurer and the Register of the Treasury; but national bank notes are\\nactually signed in ink by the president and cashier of the bank issuing them. The latter\\nare sent to the banks and receive these signatures before receiving the red seal, for\\nwhich purpose they must be returned here, the banks defraying the express charges.\\nIt is in the room adjoining this that the visitor sees that marvelous development of\\nthe human hand and eye which enables the ladies intrusted with the final counting of\\nUncle Sam s paper money to do so with a rapidity that is absolutely\\nCutting the bewildering to the beholder. As soon as the seals have been printed upon\\nSheets. a package of 1,000 sheets of notes, these are taken to another little\\nmachine, which slices them apart, replacing the hand shears, to whose\\nuse, in General Spinner s day, according to tradition, is due the introduction of female\\nassistance in the departmental service. This produces 4,000 notes which are tied up\\ninto a standard package, and laid upon the table of the first clerk to whom they go\\nfor final inspection and covmting. Untying a package and holding it by her left hand.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0112.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE EXECUTIVE DEPAETMEISTTS. 105\\nwith the face of the notes upward, she lifts the right hand end of every one of the 4,000\\nnotes, scans it for imperfections in texture, printing, sealing, or cutting, sees that it is\\nnumbered in due order, and that none is missing.\\nThat all this can be done, and done day after day and month after month, with\\nunwearied vigilance, discernment, and accuracy, is sufficiently extraordinary since\\nhabitual application to routine work is likely to breed not only careless-\\nness, but a sort of mental blindness but when to this is added a speed so Expert\\nextraordinary that a counter passes on the average 32,000 notes each work- Counting\\ning-day, the performance becomes one of the most wonderful in the range\\nof human industry. It would seem that the eye could scarcely form an image in the\\nbrain of any single note as it flies through the fingers, yet so trained and sensitive have\\nthese women become, that the slightest irregularity of form or color is noted, and each\\nimperfect note is rejected, destroyed, and replaced by a perfect one from a reserve\\nsupply.\\nThe rapid counting is facilitated only made possible, in truth by the fact that\\nthe notes, as they fall from the cutting machine, lie in exact rotation of numbers (in the\\nupper right-hand corner), so that the counter need only take cognizance of the final unit,\\nsure that as long as these run continuously there is no mistake. Having observed, for\\nexample, that her package began 87,654,330, that the units were repeated continuouslj^\\nin order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and the package ended 87,658,320, the\\ncounter could be sure it was full and regular. To guard against any possible mistake,\\nhowever, these packages go through the hands of five successive counters before the\\nlast of the fifty-two countings to which the sheets and notes are subjected is concluded,\\nand the notes are ready for issue. Each person to whom the packages are temporarily\\nintrusted is obliged to receipt for them, so that their history may be traced from the\\npaper mills to the cashier s desk.\\nEach package, as it comes from the last counter, contains 4,000 notes but as these may\\nvary from $1 to $1,000 in denomination, the value of the package may be |4.O0O, f 8,000,\\n$20,000, 140.000, $80,000, $400,000, or $4,000,000. Each package is now wrapped in\\nbrown paper, sealed with wax impressed with the Treasury seal, and placed in the\\ncurrency reserve vault of the cashier of the department of issue and the amount\\nreceipted for by the keeper of the vault (averaging $1,000,000 a day) must correspond\\neach evening exactly with the amount received the same morning from the Bureau of\\nEngraving and Printing.\\nThese pretty notes, the representatives of the hard cash stored in the vaults, fgach the\\npublic only through the Cash Room, a large apartment on the main floor, walled with a\\ngreat variety of exquisite native and foreign marbles, and provided with\\na public gallery, whence all its operations may be overlooked but vis- Cash Room.\\nitors ought to keep very quiet. Here tightly bound packages of notes of\\na single denomination, each containing 4,000 bills, are prepared for shipment to the sub-\\ntreasuries and other financial agents of the Government, or, with the loose cash needed,\\nare paid out over the counter. The business is that of an ordinary bank, or, rather, of\\nan extraordinary one, for checks of enormous value are frequently cashed here one\\nreaching as high as $10,000,000.\\nWhen the various legal-tender notes (greenbacks, silver certificates, treasury notes, or\\ngold certificates) are sent in for redemption, they go into the redemption division, where\\nthey are counted and sorted into packages again bj^ the quick fingers\\nof women. These packages are then irretrievably mutilated by punches. Redemption\\nsliced lengthwise, and each half is counted separately by other clerks. Office.\\nIf all proves to be right (an error is quickly traceable), a receipt is given,\\nenabling the cashier to give back new notes in exchange for the old. ones, or reissue to", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0113.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nthe public in coin, an amount equal to what has been presented that day for redemption.\\nSometimes the mere fragments, or soaked or charred remains, of bank notes are sent in,\\nbut if the evidence of good faith satisfies the chief, and the amount can be verified,\\ncrisp, new notes are sent to the owner in return.\\nThis opens a door for fraud, which rascals have tried to enter, but they have rarely\\nsucceeded. In the office of the present United States Treasurer, alongside his little\\nreceipt to his predecessor for $750,000,000, or thereahouts, the amount taken into custody\\nby him, may be seen, framed, what purports to be a |500 bill, made up of sixteen pieces\\ncut from various parts of sixteen other genuine $500 bills which had been sent in and\\nredeemed as mutilated. These reserved fragments, combined, made a seventeenth\\nbill, which perhaps might have been accepted also, had it been less clumsily fabricated.\\nFinally, the old bills, punched and cut in two (see above), are sent to carefully\\nguarded maceraters one in the Treasury Building for the destruction of the old\\nnational bank notes, and another for the destruction of United States notes, at the\\nBureau of Engraving and Printing there they are ground into wet pulp by means of\\nmachines railed maceraters.\\nCURRENCY DESTRUCTION COMIVIITTEE.\\nThe maceraters are globe-shaped receptacles of steel, having the capacity of a ton of\\npulp, the top of which opens by a lid secured by three different Yale locks. The Secre-\\ntary of the Treasury has the key of one lock, the Treasurer that of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Maceration, another, and the Comptroller of the Treasury the third. Each day at\\nIf. m. these officials or their representatives, with a fourth agent to rep-\\nresent the people and banks, open the macerater, and place within it the million dollars\\nor so of condemned currency or other securities which is to be destroyed, together with a\\nsuitable quantity of water. The lid is then locked in the three places, and machinery\\nbegins to whirl around inside of the macerater a series of 150 knives which grind and\\ncut the soaking material until the notes are reduced to shreds and useless pulp. Once", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0114.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE EXECUTIVE DEPAETMENTS. 107\\nin four or five days the committee unlocks a valve and lets the accumulated pulp run\\nout into screening receptacles. It is thence taken to the Bureau of Engraving and\\nPrinting, where it is rolled and dried into thick sheets and sold. Samples of it, now\\nand then, are disposed of to be made into the queer little figures sold as curiosities and\\nsupposed to contain a hundred thousand dollars or so.\\nOn one of the upper floors the Life-saving Service has a series of models and\\nspecimens of the apparatus used in saving the lives of shipwrecked marines, which can\\nusually be seen in the office of the Supervising Architect are many\\nhighly executed drawings of elevations and plans of the public build- Branches of\\nings erected by the United States, interesting to architects and civil the Treasury.\\nengineers; the Department library has 20.000 volumes, and is open\\nto visitors and, lastly, a proper introduction will enable the visitor who is curious in\\ncriminal matters to inspect the rogues gallery and police museum of the Secret Service,\\nwhich deals with counterfeiters, smugglers, moonshiners or illicit distillers.\\nThe Department of Justice and the Court of Claims, which attend to suits against\\nthe Government, and give legal advice to its officers, occupy rented quarters, having\\nno building of their own. The former is on K Street, between Vermont\\nAvenue and Fifteenth Street, where the Attornej^-General has his office. Justice.\\nThe Court of Claims occupies the old Corcoran Gallery at Pennsylvania\\nAvenue and Seventeenth Street.\\nThe General Post Office began in a postal system organized in the American colonies\\nas early as 1692 by patent to Thomas Neale. This expired in 1710, when the English\\npostal system was extended to the colonies, and it slowly grew until, in 1758, Benjamin\\nFranklin was appointed Deputy Postmaster- General for the Colonies. The Revolution\\noverthrew the royal mail, but when peace came the Continental Congress established\\na new system, and put Franklin again in charge of the first United States mails. Postage\\nstamps were not adopted by the Government until 1847, and until lately were printed by\\nprivate contractors, but are now made at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The\\nfirst building for this department was burned in 1836. The next one, occupied for\\nmany years until the end of the century, was the Corinthian structure on Seventh Street,\\nnext the Patent Office, now a part of the Department of the Interior.\\nThe present Post Office is a modern structure on the south side of Pennsylvania\\nAvenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, which contains both the General\\nDepartment and the City Post Office.\\nThis building was authorized by Congress in 1890, and the site was Post Office.\\npurchased in 1891 at a cost of $650,000. The designs were made in the\\noffice of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and executed under its direction to\\nthe completion of the building in 1899. In style it is modified Romanesque, surmounted\\nby a lofty, square clock tower. The principal material is granite from Fox Island,\\nMaine, with steel columns and beams for the interior framework. The finish is in\\nmarble from Tennessee and Vermont, varied by Red African and mottled Italian\\nmarbles, with quartered oak and mahogany for the woodwork. The building measures\\n305 feet long by 200 feet wide, and encloses a court, roofed over by a skylight 180 feet\\nlong by 99 feet wide. An interior skylight covers the court at the height of the first\\nstory, forming an immense room for the accommodation of the City Post Office. The\\ntotal cost of the whole building was $3,325,000.\\nThe nine upper floors are devoted to the business of the Postmaster-General and\\nhis department. These are open to the public from 9 a. m. until 2 p. m., jv\\nbut contain nothing of interest except the museum of the Dead Letter Office\\nOffice, which occupies Room 228 on the first floor above the street\\nTwelfth Street side and is open daily from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. This is the bureau of the", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0115.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHmOTOlsr.\\ndepartment which receives and handles all mail that can not be delivered to its intended\\nrecipients, by reason of lack of superscription, or improper or undecipherable addressing,\\nor because not called for within a reasonable time. Six or seven million pieces of lost\\nmail are thus returned to this office annually, and examined. If any clew to the writer,\\nor owner, or addressee can be found, the letter or package is at once sent to one or the\\nother of these persons. Newspapers are destroyed. Unidentified packages containing\\nany article of value are recorded and laid aside for six months, at the expiration of\\nwhich time they are sold at auction, and the money received is turned into the Treasury.\\nThe Museum of the Dead Letter Office is a collection of the extraordinary objects\\nsent through the mails, and also of objects and papers identified with the postal his-\\ntory of the country. The most striking exhibit, perhaps, is a great\\nIMuseUtn of collection of uncanceled postage stamps of foreign countries, iuclud-\\nDead Letter ing stamped envelopes and post-cards, which have been sent to the\\nOffice. American Post Office Department by foreign postal authorities. They\\nare elegantly arranged in swinging frames, the various sets embellished\\nby artistic borders and other ornaments. There are also complete sets of American\\nstamps, and philatelists will view these collections with extreme interest, and estimate\\nthem at a very high money value. Other swinging frames contain pictures of the\\nfinest post offices in this country and abroad. More curious is a large series of small,\\nlife-like models showing the dress and accouterments of postmen in India, China,\\nPersia, Japan, and other far Eastern countries. A series of the various locks and\\nkeys used for mail bags is shown also the evolution of canceling stamps. Early\\nrecords of the Post Office fill one case, among them a set of accounts kept by Benja-\\nmin Franklin while Colonial Postmaster-General in 1753 also, in his handwriting,\\nthe earliest record of the Dead Letter Office, date 1778. The stuffed skin of Owney,\\nthe nondescript, shaggy dog who for several years spent his time traveling all over\\nthis and other countries in postal cars, or loitering about post offices, is preserved in one\\ncase it was the fashion to give him a medal, in the form of a baggage check or some\\nsimilar ornament, wherever he went, and all these are hung about his body.\\nThe most extraordinary part of the little museum, however, consists of the miscel-\\nlaneous objects that have been lost in the mails, the variety of which is endless,\\nand many of which are so odd as to provoke laughter. All sorts\\nQueer of small animals, stuffed, dried, in alcohol, and otherwise preserved.\\nThings Lost are here a human skull and many bones surgical instruments and\\nin the IMailS. medicines in abundance, besides a great array of pistols, knives, and\\nother death-dealing implements. Boolcs have been gathered by thou-\\nsands, and some of those saved for show here include valuable volumes in many\\nforeign languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and the raised text for the blind. Dolls\\nand toys enough to furnish half a dozen kindergartens might be taken from here,\\nand, in short, it would be hard to find a path of industry or a region of pleasure\\nor profit of which some reminder might not be found among this queer conglomer-\\nation of lost property.\\nThe City Post Office is open to the public at all hours of the day or\\nCity night and its furnishings embody the latest improvements in postal\\nPost Office, methods. An Information Office is open during the day in the north-\\nwest corner of the ground floor.\\nThe Department of the Interior, whose principal building is popularly known as the\\nPatent Office,. manages internal or domestic afliairs the relations of our own people\\nwith the Government. Hence the Secretary of the Interior is charged\\nInterior with the supervision of public business relating to patents for inventions,\\nDepartment, pensions, and bounty lands, the public lands and surveys, the Indians,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0116.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "1_-^\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^vji\\nNEW GENERAL POST OFFICE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pennsylvania Avenue, Eleventh and Twelfth Streets.\\n109", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0117.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\neducation, railroads, ttie geological survey, the census, the national parks, reservations,\\nand various of the public institutions, and Territories.\\nThe Secretary and his assistants have their offices in the great Doric-\\nPatent Greek building, covering the two squares reaching from Seventh to Ninth\\nOffice. streets, between F and G, which everybody calls the Patent Office,\\nbecause designed for and mainly occupied by that bureau.\\nThe Hall of Models is still a spacious room on the main floor, but the removal of the\\nhistorical relics to the National Museum, and the fire of 1877, which destroyed 87,000\\nmodels and some 600,000 drawings, etc., have left little worth looking at. The office\\nhas issued thus far about 600,000 patents, and its earnings have been far in excess of\\nthe cost of buildings and all expenses since its origin.\\nAnother prominent branch of the Interior Department is the Pension Bureau. This\\noccupies an immense red-brick building, 400 bj^ 200 feet in dimensions and four stories\\nhigh, standing in Judiciary Square, on G Street, between Fourth and\\nPension Fifth, and looking like a cotton factory without and a prison within. It\\nOffice. has two gable roofs set crosswise and largely composed of glass, lighting\\nthe vast inteiior court. The structure is said to be fireproof a state-\\nment which caused General Sheridan to exclaim, What a pity A band of terra\\ncotta, forming an ornamental frieze around the exterior of the building, just above the\\nfirst story windows, portrays a procession of spirited marching figures of soldiers of\\nthe late war horse, foot, and dragoons. This is the only artistic thing about the\\nbuilding, and is worthy of a better setting. The offices, however, are more commodi-\\nous and comfortable than many in more ornate edifices, and open upon tiers of galleries\\nthat surround all sides of a great tiled court. This court is broken by two cross-rows\\nof colossal columns and lofty arches sustaining the central part of the roof and painted\\nin imitation of Siena marble, while the lower gallery rests upon a colonnade of iron\\npillars, speckled counterfeits of Tennessee marble. The fioor of the court is well filled\\nwith cases of drawers containing the papers of applicants for pensions, or an increase,\\nso tidily arranged that the file of each man can be referred to without delay. It is very\\nhelpful, however, to know the registry number of the case, which is borne by every\\npaper pertaining to it. The cases on file exceed a million about 1,000,000 beneficiaries\\nare carried on the rolls, and the outlay of the bureau is now about |145,000.000 a year.\\nOver 1,800 persons, one-sixth of whom are women, are employed here, but room is left\\nfor offices for the Railroad Commissioners on the third fioor. The United States Pen-\\nsion Agency, where local pensioners are paid, is at No. 308 F Sti eet.\\nThe spacious covered court of this building has been used on the last three occasions\\nfor the giving of the inaugural ball, which custom decrees shall take place on the even-\\ning of the day each new President is ushered into office. In the early\\nInaugural days, when the minuet, stifl: brocades, and powdered hair were still fash-\\nBalls. ionable, these were affairs as elegant and enjoyable as they were select\\nand stately; but latterly the number of officials and their families\\nproperly entitled to attend such a semi-official function has become so great, and the\\ncrowd who are able to buy tickets is so much greater, that no system of restriction thus\\nfar devised has been successful in keeping this ball down to a manageable size. It is\\nsaid that 17,000 persons were crushed into the court of the Pension Office Building at\\nthe inaugural ball of March 4, 1885, and the crowds since have prevented any dancing\\nor other real enjoyment of the festivities, which resulted only in injury to health, costly\\ntoilets, and the building.\\nCensus Office. The Census Bureau, charged with making the decennial census, was\\nplaced in 1899 in a rented building, erected for its purposes, which\\noccupies half a square on B Street, between First and Second. It is a low,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0118.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.\\nIll\\nTHE PATENT OFFICE.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F Street, N, W Seventh to Ninth Streets\\nTHE PENSION OFFICE Judi ,iaiy Sciuare, Fuu.th, F.txn, m.c G Stiou;:,, N, VV.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0119.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112\\nPICTOBIAL GUIDE TO WASHlT^aTON.\\nbrick structure\\nwithout any arch-\\nitectural preten-\\nsious, and no vis-\\nitors are admitted\\nto its busy offices.\\nThe General\\nLand Office,\\nLand and\\nIndian\\nOffices.\\nwhich is charged\\nwith the survey,\\nmanagement, and THE CENSUS BUREAU.\\n?ale of the public domain, has quarters in the old Post Office building on Seventh Street,\\nwhich in 1899 became an annex of the Interior Department. Here, also, are the offices\\nof the Commissioner of Indian AfEairs. The office of the Commissioner of Education\\nis near by, at the northeast corner of Eighth and G streets, where an extensive library\\nof pedagogy is open to the inspection of teachers. The Geological Survey has fine offices\\nin the Hooe Building, 1330 F Street.\\nCertain other branches of the Government, not undei departmental control but\\nresponsible directly to Congress, may be briefly spoken of here,\\nThe Smithsonian Institution is the most important of these, and is elsewhere described.\\nThe Government Printing Office, whose chief is styled the Public Printer, is the\\nplace where the Congressional Record, or report of the daily proceedings of Congress, is\\nprinted; also all the public and private bills and documents for Congress,\\nGovernment the yearly departmental reports, and the enormous mass of miscellaneous\\nPrinting publications of the Government. It is located on North Capitol and H\\nOffice. streets 2,900 persons are employed during the congressional session and\\nabout 2,700 at other periods, and it is said to be the largest printing\\noffice in the world. Everything connected with the making of books can be done there,\\nand the highest degree of excellence in printing and binding may be I eached. It is run\\nunder very systematic methods.\\nThe Department of Labor, controlled by a commissioner, collects and publishes use-\\nful information on subjects connected with labor, promoting the material, social, intel-\\nlectual, and moral prosperity of men and women who live by their daily earnings. It\\npublishes an annual report, largely statistical. The office is in the National Safe Deposit\\nBuilding at New York Avenue and Fifteenth Street.\\nThe Civil Service Commission makes and supervises all regulations and\\nCivil Service, examinations respecting applicants for employment in the Government\\nservice in those classes under the civil service law. It has offices in the\\nConcordia Building, Eighth and E streets.\\nThe Bureau of American Republics, whose purpose it is to promote trade, intelli-\\ngence, and comity among all the American republics, have offices at No. 2 Jackson Place,\\nat the southwest corner of Lafayette Square.\\nThe Free Public Library has made a beginning at No. 1326 New York Avenue,\\npending the erection of the building in Mount Vernon Square, to be given to the city\\nfor its accommodation by Andrew Carnegie.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0120.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0121.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0122.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "yiii.\\nFROM THE MONUMENT TO THE MLTSEUMS.\\nThe Washington Monument.\\nThe dignity, symmetry, and towering lieiglit of Washington s character, as it now\\npresents itself to the minds of his countrymen, are well exemplified in the majestic\\nsimplicity of his monument in Washington. This pure and glittering shaft, asking no\\naid from inscription or ornament, strikes up into heaven and leads the thought to a\\npatriotism as spotless and a manhood as lofty as any American has attained to. It is the\\nglory and grandeur of this superb monument that it typifies and recalls\\nnot Washington the man, but Washington the character. It is really a Grandeur.\\nmonument to the American people in the name of their foremost repre-\\nsentative. It is in itself a constantly beautiful object, intensified, unconsciously to the\\nbeholder, perhaps, by the symbolism and sentiment it involves. With every varying\\nmood of the changing air and sky, or time of day, it assumes some new phase of\\ninterest to the eye. Now it is clear and firm against the blue hard, sharp-edged, cold,\\nnear at hand anon it withdraws and softens and seems to tremble in a lambent envelope\\nof azure ether, or to swim in a golden mist as its shadow, like that of a mighty dial,\\nmarks the approach of sunset upon the greensward that rolls eastward from its base.\\nThe most picturesque view of it, doubtless, is that from the east, where you may\\ncompose it in the distance of a picture, for which the trees and shrubbery, winding\\nroads and Norman towers, of the Smithsonian park form the most artistic of foregrounds.\\nThis monument is the realization of a popular movement for a national memorial to\\nWashington which began before his death, so that he was enabled to indicate his own\\npreference for this site, and was expressed in a congressional resolution in\\n1799, which contemplated an equestrian statue. The death of Washington History.\\nrevived the matter, and a bill appropriating $150,000 for a mausoleum\\npassed both houses, but was mislaid and not signed at the close of the session. The next\\nCongress was made up of Washington s political opponents, and his monument was no\\nmore heard of until an association was formed, headed by the President of the United States\\nex officio, which undertook to retrieve what it considered a national disgrace, and raised\\na large sum of money for the purpose. This site was obtained, the corner-stone was laid\\nwith impressive ceremonies on the 4th of July, 1848, and the work progressed until the\\nshaft had reached a height of 150 feet, when the funds gave out. The coming of the\\nCivil War turned men s attention elsewhere, but interest was revived by the wave of\\npatriotism developed by the Centennial year, under the influence of which Congress\\nagreed to finish the shaft. To Gen. T. L. Casey, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., was\\nintrusted the task of enlarging and strengthening the foundations a most diflicult piece\\nof engineering which, he accomplished with consummate skill. The foundations are\\ndescribed as constructed of a mass of solid blue rock, 146 feet square. The base of\\nshaft is 55 feet square, and the lower walls are 15 feet thick. At the five-hundred-feet\\nelevation, where the pyramidal top begins, the walls are only 18 inches\\nthick and about 35 feet square. The inside of the walls, as far as they Dimensions.\\nwere constructed before the work was undertaken by the Government in\\n1878 150 feet from the base is of blue granite, not laid in courses. From this point\\n115", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0123.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHUSTGTOlSr.\\nto within a short distance of the beginning of the top or roof, the inside of the walls is\\nof regular courses of granite, corresponding with the courses of marble on the outside.\\nFor the top marble is entirely used. The marble blocks were cut or dressed in the\\nmost careful manner, and laid in courses of two feet by experienced and skillful work-\\nmen. There is no filling or backing between the granite and marble blocks, but\\nthey are all closely joined, the work being declared the best piece of masonry in the\\nworld. By a plumb line suspended from the top of the monument inside, not three-\\neighths of an inch deflection has been noticed. The keystone that binds the interior\\nribs of stone that support the marble facing of the pyramidal cap of the monument,\\nweighs nearly five tons. It is 4 feet 6 inches high, and 3 feet 6 inches square at the top.\\nOn the 6th day of December, 1884, the capstone, which completed the shaft, was\\nset. The capstone is 5 feet 2^ inches in height, and its base is somewhat more than three\\nfeet square. At its cap, or peak, it is five inches in diameter. On the cap was placed a\\ntip or point of aluminum, a composition metal which resembles polished silver, and\\nwhich was selected because of its lightness and freedom from oxidation, and because it\\nwill always remain bright.\\nThe original design, prepared by Robert Mills, contemplated a shaft 600 feet in\\nheight, rising from a colonnaded circular memorial hall, which was to contain statues of\\nthe nation s worthies and paintings of great scenes in its history, while the crypt\\nbeneath would serve as a burial place for those whom the people should especially\\nhonor. This plan has been definitely abandoned.\\nA staircase of 900 steps winds its way to the top, around an interior shaft of iron\\npillars, in which the elevator runs few people walk up, but many descend that way, in\\norder to examine more carefully the inscribed memorial blocks which are\\nInterior. set into the interior wall at various places. Within the shaft formed by\\nthe interior iron framework runs an elevator, making a trip every half\\nhour, and carrying, if need be, thirty persons. As this elevator and its ropes are of\\nunusual strength, and were severely tested by use in elevating the stone required for\\nthe upper courses as the structure progressed, its safety need not be suspected. The\\nelevator is lighted by electricity and carries a telephone. Seven minutes are required\\nfor the ascent of 500 feet and one can see, as it passes, all the inscriptions and carvings\\nsufficiently well to satisfy the curiosity of most persons, as none of those memorials\\nhave any artistic excellence. Several not embedded in the walls are shown in the\\nNational Museum. An officer in charge of the floor marshals visitors into the elevator,\\nand another cares for the observatory floor at the top but no fees are expected. The\\nsurrounding grounds form Washington Park.\\nThe view from the eight small windows, which open through the pyramidon, or\\nsloping summit of the obelisk, 517 feet above the ground, includes a circle of level\\ncountry having a radius of from fifteen to twenty miles, and southwest\\nView from extends still farther, for in clear weather the Blue Ridge is well defined\\nthe Top. in that direction. The Potomac is in sight from up near Chain Bridge\\ndown to far below Mount Vernon and the whole district lies unrolled\\nbeneath you like a map. To climb the Washington Monument is, therefore, an excel-\\nlent method of beginning an intelligent survey of the capital, and of getting one s\\nbearings.\\nLooking first toward the north, the most compact part of the city is surveyed.\\nAt the very foot of the monument are the artificial Carp Ponds, so called because,\\nyears ago, the Fisheries Commission propagated European carp for distribution there.\\nBeyond, in the center-foreground, are the grounds of the Executive Mansion, rising\\nin a gentle slope to the White House. On its left stands the State, War, and Navj^\\nBuilding; and to the left of that (and nearer) is the marble front of the Corcoran", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0124.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Height, 555I3 Feet.\\n117", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0125.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nArt Gallery, on Seventeenth Street, and beyond that is seen the old Octagon House,\\non a straight line with the Naval Observatory, conspicuous in white paint and yellow\\ndomes, three miles away amid the green hills beyond Georgetown. Nearer the water\\nthan any of these is a large yellow house among the trees the Van Ness mansion, one\\nof the first costly residences built in Washington.\\nConnecticut Avenue is the street leading from the White House straight northwest\\nto the boundary, where it breaks into the fashionable suburban parks on Meridian Hill,\\nat the left of which are the wooded vales of Rock Creek, near which\\nNorthwestern the noble Anglican Cathedral is to arise. At the right of the White\\nOutlook. House is the Treasury, here seen to inclose two great courts. The\\nlines of Seventeenth, Sixteenth, Fifteenth streets, and of Vermont\\nAvenue, lead the eye across the most solid and fashionable northwest quarter of the\\ncity to the more thinly settled hill-districts, where are conspicuous the square tower\\nof the Soldiers Home (4^^ miles), the lofty buildings of Howard University, and,\\nfarther to the right and more distant, the halls of the Catholic University.\\nThe eastern outlook carries the picture around to the right, and embraces the valley\\nof the Anacostia River, or eastern branch of the Potomac. Here the conspicuous object\\nis the Capitol (l^^ miles distant), whose true proportions and supreme\\nScene size can now be well understood. Over its right wing appears the\\nToward the Congressional Library, its gilt dome flashing back the rays of the\\nCapitol. sun, and setting it out sharply against the Maryland hills. Between\\nthe Monument and the Capitol stretches the green Mall, with the grounds\\nand buildings of the Agricultural Department nearest the observer then the castellated\\ntowers of the Smithsonian, the low breadth of the National Museum, the red, shape-\\nless pile of the Army Medical Museum, and the small Fisheries Building, leading the\\neye as far as Sixth Street, beyond which are open parks. Somewhat to the right,\\nthe course of the Pennsylvania Railroad, out Virginia Avenue, is seen as far as\\nGarfield Park, where it disappears within a tunnel. This leads the eye to the\\nbroad current of the Anacostia, which can be overlooked as far up as the Navy\\nYard, and downward past the bridge to Anacostia, to where it joins the Potomac\\nat Greenleaf s Point. The military barracks there can be seen; and this side of it,\\nalong the harbor branch of the Potomac, are the steamboat wharves.\\nThe view southward is straight down the Potomac, far beyond the spires of Alex-\\nandria, six miles in an air line, to where it bends out of view around Cedar Point. Long\\nBridge, which has been built sixty years or more, is in the immediate\\nDown the foreground, and the railways leading to it can be traced. To the right,\\nPotomac. the eye sweeps over a wide area of the red Virginia hills, thickly crowned\\nduring the Civil War with fortifications, the sites of some of which may\\nbe discovered by the knowing, and covers the disastrous fields of Manassas off to the\\nright on the level blue horizon.\\nThe western view continues this landscape of Virginia, and includes about three\\nmiles of the Potomac above Long Bridge. Close beneath the eye are the old and scat-\\ntered houses of the southwest quarter, with the Van Ness homestead.\\nUp the and the hill crowned by the old Naval Observatory on ground where\\nPotomac. Washington meant to place his national university. Above that the cur-\\nrent of the river is broken by Analostan, or Mason s Island, opposite the\\nmouth of Rock Creek, beyond which are the crowded, hilly streets of Georgetown, and\\nthe Aqueduct bridge, leading to Roslyn, on the southern bank. Then come the high\\nbanks which confine and hide the river, and bear upon their crest the flashing basin of\\nthe distributing reservoir. Beyond it, over the city of Georgetown, are the beautiful\\nwooded heights about Woodley, where President Cleveland had his summer home, and", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0126.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "FROM THE MONUMENT TO THE MUSEUMS.\\n119\\nthousands of charming suburban houses are building. On the Virginia side of the river,\\nthe Arlington mansion appears, somewhat at the left, and three miles distant more in\\nfront, and nearer, the National Cemetery embowered in trees and behind it, the clus-\\ntered quarters of Fort Meyer. The distance is a rolling, semi-wooded country, thickly\\nsown with farms, hamlets, and villages, among which Fall s Chiu ch is alone conspicuous,\\nand fading away to a high level horizon; but when the air is clear, the eye can see and\\nrejoice in the faint but distinct outlines of the turquoise-tinted Blue Ridge, far away in\\nthe southwest.\\nSome Scientific Departments.\\nThe public institutions along the south side of The Mall, dealing in a large part of\\nthe scientific work of the nation, contain more to interest the stranger in Washington\\nthan any other, except the Capitol itself. They include the Washington Monument, and\\nthere are good reasons for advising that the ascent of this should be the very first thing-\\ndone by the visitor the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Department of Agri-\\nculture, the National and Army Medical museums in the Smithsonian grounds, and the\\nFisheries Commission. It is a long day s task to make a satisfactory tour of these build-\\nings and the National Museum alone has material for almost unlimited study in\\nmany paths of knowledge. Let us begin with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,\\nthe name given to the Government s factory for designing, engraving,\\nand printing its bonds, certificates, checks, notes, revenue and postage Bureau Of\\nstamps, and many other official papers. It is under control of the Treas- Engraving\\nury Department, and occupies a handsome brick building on Fourteenth and Printing.\\nStreet, S. W. within five minutes walk of the Washington Monument.\\nIt is three stories high. 220 feet long by 135 feet wide, and was built in 1878 at a cost\\nof $300,000. Visitors are received from 10 to 2 o clock, and wait in the reception-\\nroom until an attendant (several women are assigned to this duty) is ready to conduct a\\nTHE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Northeast Corner B and Fourteenth Streets. S. W.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0127.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO AVASIIINGTON.\\nNUMBERING CURRENCY NOTES.\\nparty over the buildiug, which is simply a crowded factory of high-class technical work,\\nthe products of which have received tbe highest encomiums at several world s fairs in\\nEurope as well as in America.\\nJust east of this bureau, occupying large grounds between Fourteenth and Twelfth\\nstreets, S. W., and reached from Pennsylvania Avenue by streetcars on both those\\nstreets, and from the Capitol by the Belt Line along Maryland Avenue and B Street,\\nS. W., is the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture. This popular Depart-\\nment grew out of the special interest which early patent commissioners took in agri-\\ncultural machinery, improvements, and the collection and distribution of seeds a\\nfunction that formed a large part of its work until 1895. It was gradually separated\\nfrom the Patent Office work, erected into a commissionership, and finally\\nDepartment (1889) was given the rank of an executive department, the Seci etary of\\nof Agriculture being the last-added Cabinet officer. His office is in the brick\\nAgriculture, building west of the Smithsonian grounds, and he has the help of an\\nassistant secretary, to whom has been assigned the direction of the great\\namount of scientific work done, including the experiment stations, and the studies\\nof fibers, irrigation, and the department museum.\\nThe scope of the work is now very extended, including the study of diseases of\\nlive stock, and the control of the inspection of import and export animals, cattle trans-\\nportation, and meat a bureau of statistics of crops, live stock, etc., at home and abroad\\nscientific investigations in forestry, botany, fruit culture, cultivation of textile plants,\\nand diseases of trees, grains, vegetables, and plants studies of the injurious or beneficial\\nrelations to agriculture of insects, birds, and wild quadrupeds investigations as to roads\\nand methods of irrigation chemical and microscopical laboratories, and a great number\\nof experiment stations, correspondents, and observers in various parts of this and other", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0128.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "FROM THE MOJSrtJMElsrT TO THE MtTSEUMS. 121\\ncountries. The results of all these investigations and experiments are liberally pub-\\nlished, and in spite of a sneer now and then the people are satisfied that the $3,300,000\\nor so expended annually by this department is a wise and profitable outlay.\\nThere is a museum in a separate building in the rear of the main one, exhibiting\\nexcellent wax models of fruits, nuts, and natural foods of various kinds; and an\\nespecially full and interesting display of models showing the damage\\nwrought by many kinds of insects injurious to trees and plants, also an Agricultural\\nattractive and instructive exhibit, comprising a number of groups of IMuseum.\\nmounted birds, ground-squirrels, gophers, and other mammals, in natviral\\nsurroundings, each representing a chapter in the life history of the animal and showing\\nits relation to agriculture. These were exhibited at the World s Columbian Exposition,\\nat Chicago, in 1893, and excited admiration. The library and herbarium will interest\\nbotanists. The ordinary visitor, however, will prefer to remain out of doors, where\\nyears ago care made these grounds the best cultivated part of The Mall, and a practical\\nexample of ornamental gardening. The extensive greenhouses must also be visited all\\nare open at all reasonable hours, and the palmhouse is a particularly delightful place in\\na stormy winter s day. A tower in the garden, composed of slabs with their foot-thick\\nbark from one of the giant trees (sequoia) of California, should not be neglected, for it\\nrepresents the exact size of the huge tree, General Noble, from which the pieces\\nwere cut.\\nOne important branch of the department namely, the Weather Bureau is domi-\\nciled at the corner of M and Twenty-fourth streets. There may be seen the delicate\\ninstruments by which the changes of meteorological conditions are\\nrecorded, and the method of forecasting the weather for the ensuing Weather\\nforty-eight hours, which is based upon reports of local conditions tele- Service.\\ngraphed each night and morning from the observers in all parts of North\\nAmerica, whereupon orders to display appropriate signals are telegraphed to each office.\\nThe system grew up from the experiments of Gen. A. G. Myer, Chief Signal\\nOfficer, U. S. A., who invented the present system and conducted it under the authority\\nof Congress (1870) as a part of the signal service of the army. Generals\\nHazen and A. W. Greely, of Arctic fame, succeeded him and perfected Forecasting.\\nthe service, but in 1891 it was transferred to the Department of Agricul-\\nture and placed in charge of a civilian chief appointed by the President. In addition\\nto the forecasting of storms, etc., the bureau has in hand the gauging and reporting of\\nrivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines, and the collection and\\ntransmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation; the\\nreporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests, and a large\\namount of scientific study in respect to meteorology.\\nThe Smithsonian Institution and National Museum are reached by crossing Twelfth\\nStreet, S. W., and entering the spacious park. Near the gate stands a lifelike statue of\\nJoseph HenrJ^ the first secretary of the Institution. It is of bronze, after a model by\\nW. W. Story, and was erected by the regents in 1884.\\nThe Smithsonian Institution was constituted by an act Of Congress to administer the\\nbequest of his fortune made to the United States by James Smithson, a younger son of\\nthe English Duke of Northumberland, and a man of science, who died\\nin 1829. In 1838 the legacy became available and was brought over in Smithsonian\\ngold sovereigns, which were recoined into American money, yielding Institution.\\n$508,318.46. The language of this bequest was\\nI bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America to found at Washington,\\nunder the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of\\nknowledge among men.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0129.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nThe acceptance of this trust is the only action of the kind ever taken by the nation,\\nand the Institution stands in a peculiar relation to the Government. It is composed of\\nthe President of the United States and the members of his Cabinet, ex officio, a chancellor,\\nwho is elected, and a secretary, who is the active administrator of its affairs. The busi-\\nness of the institution is managed by a board of regents, composed of the Vice-President\\nand the Chief Justice of the United States, three Senators, three members of the House\\nof Representatives, and six other eminent persons nominated by a joint resolution of the\\nSenate and the House of Representatives. The immediate and primary object of the\\nboard, as above constituted, is to administer the fund, which has now increased to about\\n$1,000,000, and in doing so it promotes the object of its founder thus\\n(1) In the increase of knowledge by original investigation and study, either in science\\nor literature. (2) In the diffusion of this knowledge by publication everywhere, and\\nespecially by promoting an interchange of thought among those promi-\\nPlan and nent in learning among all nations, through its correspondents. These\\nScope. embrace institutions or societies conspicuous in art, science, or literature\\nthroughout the world. Its publications are in three principal issues,\\nnamely The Contributions to Knowledge, the Miscellaneous Collections, and the\\nAnnual Report. Numerous works are published annually hj it, under one of these\\nforms, and distributed to its principal correspondents.\\nThere was early begun a system of international exchanges of correspondence and\\npublications, which forms a sort of clearing-house for the scientific world in its dealings\\nwith Americans; and there is no civilized country or people on the globe where the\\nInstitution is not represented by its correspondents, who now number about 24,000.\\nThe immediate benefit to the Institution itself has been in enabling it to build up a great\\nscientific library of over 300,000 titles and mainly deposited in the Library of Congress.\\nThe Smithsonian Building, of Seneca brownstoue, was planned by James Renwick,\\nthe architect whose best known work, perhaps, is St. Patrick s Cathedral in New York.\\nTHE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. The Mall, near B and Tenth Streets, S. W.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0130.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "FROM THE MONUMENT TO THE MUSEUMS.\\n123\\nIt was completed in 1855. Features selected from the Gothic and Romanesque styles\\nare combined in its architecture, but its exterior, owing chiefly to the irregular sky line,\\nis very picturesque and pleasing. For the purposes of exhibition of specimens and\\nlaboratory work, however, the building is badly lighted, wasteful of space, and other-\\nwise unsuitable. The eastern wing was for many years the home of Prof. Joseph Henry,\\nthe first secretary, but is now devoted to the offices of administration.\\nThe Smithsonian Institution has under its charge, but not at the expense of its own\\nfunds, certain bureaus which are sustained by annual appropriations. These are: The\\nUnited States National Museum, the Bureau of International Exchanges,\\nthe Bureau of Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- Smithsonian\\nphysical Observatory. Of the National Museum and the Zoological Park Bureaus.\\nmore extended notice will be found elsewhere. The Bureau of Ethnology\\nis a branch of the work which studies the ethnology, history, languages, and customs of\\nthe American Indians, and publishes the results in annual reports and occasional bulle-\\ntins. It has been the means of collecting a vast amount of important and interesting-\\nmaterial illustrative of the primitive natives of this continent; and all this is deposited in\\nthe National Museum. The offices of this bureau are at 1330 F Street.\\nNATIONAL MUSEUM B Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets.\\nIn no single respect, perhaps, has the progress of the American capital been more\\nstriking than in the history of the National Museum. Originating in a quantity of\\ncuriosities which had been given to the United States by foreign\\npowers, or sent home by consuls and naval officers, old visitors to Wash- National\\nington remember it as a heterogeneous cabinet in the Patent Office. In IMuseum.\\n1846 a step was taken toward something coherent and creditable, by an\\nact of Congress establishing a National Museum, following the precedent of a dozen or\\nmore other nations but this intention took effect verj slowly, though various explor-\\ning expeditions and embassies largely increased the bulk of the collections, which, by\\nand by, were trundled, over to the Srnithsonian building.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0131.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO W ASHITSTGTOlSr.\\nThe main entrance is in the north front, and is surmounted by an allegorical\\ngroup of statuary, by C. Buberl of New York, representing Columbia as the Patron of\\nScience and Industry. Entering, you find yourself at once in the North Hall, with\\nthe statuary, plants, and .fountain of the rotunda making a pleasing picture in the dis-\\ntance. This hall is crowded with cases containing personal relics of great men, and\\nother historical objects.\\nThe relics include a large quantity of furniture, apparel, instruments, table-\\nware, documents, etc., which belonged to Washington; many of them were taken\\nfrom Arlington, while many others were purchased, in 1878, from the\\nPersonal heirs of his favorite (adopted) daughter, Nellie Custis, who became Mrs.\\nRelics. Lewis and lived until 1832. Articles that once belonged to Jefferson,\\nJackson, Franklin (especially his own hand printing press), and several\\nother statesmen or commanders of note presents, medals, etc., given to naval officers,\\nenvoys, and other representatives of the Government, by foreign rulers, are shown in\\ngreat numbers but all are well labeled and need here neither cataloging nor descrip-\\ntion. A most brilliant and valuable cabinet is the collection of swords, presents, and\\ntestimonials of various kinds given to General Grant during the war and in the course\\nof his trip around the world. A large display of pottery and porcelain, illustrating its\\nmanufacture and characteristics, in China, Japan, France (Sevres), England, North\\nAmerica, and elsewhere occupies many cases also a valuable series of lacquers.\\nAt the right of this hall is the Lecture-room, beyond which, in the northwest\\ncorner of the building, are the offices of the Director, of the Mnseum, and the Library.\\nThe lectui e-room is surrounded by models representing the home life of\\nLectures. the American Indians, and upon its walls are hung the Catlin Gallery of\\nIndian paintings, made by George Catlin on the Upper Missouri plains\\nbetween 1832 and 1840. It is devoted to scientific conferences.\\nOn the left of the entrance hall is a room devoted to the various implements used in\\nthe fisheries, and beyond that an apartment where a great number and variety of\\nmodels of boats and vessels, especially those used in the fisheries of all parts of the\\nworld, may be examined. These were largely collected dui ing the tenth census.\\nPassing on into the Rotunda, the plaster model of Crawford s Liberty, surmount-\\ning the dome of the Capitol, towers above the fountain-basin, and is surrounded by\\nseveral other models of statues, the bronze or marble copies of which\\nRotunda. ornament the parks and buildings of New York, Boston, etc. -All these\\nare fully labeled. The two great Haviland memorial vases here, whose\\nvalue is estimated at $16,000, were presented by the great pottery firm of Haviland, in\\nLimoges, France, and are the work of the artists Bracquemond and Delaplanche. One\\nis entitled 1776, and the other 1876, and they are designed to be illustrative of the\\nstruggles through which this Republic has passed into pi osperity.\\nBeyond the rotunda are halls devoted to mammals, mounted by scientific taxider-\\nmists in a remarkably lifelike manner; to skeletons of existing and extinct animals;\\nand to geological specimens, minerals, ores, the building stones of the Union, and repre-\\nsentative fossils a department in which the museum is extremely rich, as it is the\\ndepository of the United States Geological Survey.\\nIn the middle halls of the building are an extraordinary number of articles with\\nthousands more hidden away in storerooms for lack of space to exhibit them of the\\nindustrial arts of the world, and the life of its inhabitants in every\\nCostumes. climate, state of civilization, and condition of advancement. One hall is\\ndevoted wholly, for example, to costumes and textile fabrics of every\\nsort. The lay figures wearing Hindoo, Persian, Japanese, American Indian, and other\\ncostumes, were largely made for exhibition at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0132.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "FROM THE MONUMENT TO THE MUSEUMS. 125\\nWhere actual costumes are not available, figurines wearing a miniature of the native\\ndress, casts of statuettes, and pictures are used to increase the range of illustration. The\\nexamples of the home life and arts of the Eskimo, among American savages, and of the\\nJapanese, among foreign peoples, are particularly numerous and complete. Particular\\nattention is called here to the series of fabrics, especially baskets, made from rushes,\\ngrass, split roots, and the like, which is exceedingly instructive and beautiful. In\\nanother hall the arts, architecture, machinery, weapons, navigation, agricultural imple-\\nments, tools, musical instruments, etc. of the world are illustrated. Pottery forms a\\nlarge and richly furnished department, ranging from rude wares taken\\nfrom prehistoric graves to the finest product of Japan, China, India, Pottery.\\nEngland, and France. No other museum in the world has so large and\\ncomplete a series illustrating the native American pottery, and those interested in the\\nceramic arts will pause a long time over the work of the Pueblo Indians of the South-\\nwest. It would be quite impossible to mention in detail one in a hundred of the objects\\nof artistic, historic, and scientific value in this overflowing museum and equally useless\\nto attempt to guide the visitor to their place, since the cases are continually being\\nmoved about to make room for important accessions.\\nA considerable portion of the collections, indeed, remain in the old Smithsonian\\nbuilding, and should not be neglected; they are open to the public from 9 to 4.30\\no clock. The halls on the ground floor there contain a splendid series of\\nbirds, the ornithological collections here being among the most extended Old\\nand useful in the world. At the west end is an extensive and attractive Building\\ndisplay (highly instructive to artists as well as naturalists) of the inverte-\\nbrate marine life of both the fresh waters and of the seas adjacent to the United States\\nspoDges, corals, starfishes, and other echinoderms, mollusks in wide and beautiful\\nvariety, crabs and their kin, and many other preservable representatives of the humbler\\ninhabitants of the rivers and ocean.\\nThe upper floor is a single lofty hall filled to overflowing with collections in anthro-\\npology, the handiwork of primitive and savage races of mankind, illustrating the develop-\\nment, art, and social economy of uncivilized mankind, especially during the prehistoric\\nstone age. The models and paintings of Arizona cliff-dwellings ought especially to be\\nnoticed. In the vestibule below are full-sized plaster models of the great circular calen-\\ndar-stone of the Mexicans, etc.\\nThe Army Medical Museum occupies the handsome brick building in the southeast\\ncorner of the Smithsonian grounds, next to Seventh Street. This institution grew up\\nafter the war, out of the work of the Surgeon-General s oifice, and con-\\ntains a great museum illustrating not only all the means and methods of Army\\nmilitary surgery, but all the diseases and casualties of war, making a iMcdical\\ngrewsome ari ay of preserved flesh and bones, afCected by wounds or iMuseum.\\ndisease or wax or plaster models of the efl ects of wounds or disease,\\nwhich the average visitor could contemplate only with horror and dismay.\\nThis museum, nevertheless, is of the greatest interest and value to the medical\\nand surgical profession, and comprises some 25,000 specimens. In the anatomical\\nsection there is a very large collection of human crania, and about 1,500 skeletons\\nof American mammals. In the miscellaneous sections are the latest appliances\\nfor the treatment of diseases, all sorts of surgical instruments, and models of ambu-\\nlances, hospitals, etc. The library is the most complete collection of medical and\\nsurgical literature? in the world, surpassing that of the British Museum.\\nThe statue of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, in front of this museum, appro- Statues.\\npriately commemorates one of the greatest of American surgeons (born\\n1805, died 1884), and an author and teacher of renown. It was erected from professional", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0133.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON\\nsubscriptions, and presented to the Government in 1897. It is of bronze, modeled\\nby Calder.\\nA beautiful monument to Daguerre. the originator of photography, stands near by\\nthis. It was designed by Hartley of New York.\\nThe United States Fish Commission is the last place to be visited on this side of The\\nMall. It occupies the old ante-bellum arsenal on Sixth Street, from which that part of\\nthe park between Sixth and Seventh streets derives its name, Armory\\nFish Square. Here, on the basement floor, can be seen vai ious aquaria\\nCoinmission. filled with growing plants and inhabited by fishes, rare and common, and\\nby quaint and pretty swimming and creeping things that dwell in the\\nrivers and sea. The apparatus involved in various forms of fish -hatching can be exam-\\nined, and perhaps the process may be watched in a series of tanks which is often so em-\\nployed. If it should happen that one of the railway cars, in which young fish are carried\\nabout the country for planting in inland waters, is standing in the yard, it would be\\nworth the trouble to look at its arrangements. The upper floor of this building is de-\\nvoted to the offices of the Fish Commissioner and his assistants.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0134.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0135.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0136.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "IX.\\nTHE CORCORAN AND OTHER ART GALLERIES.\\nThe Art Galleries of the city, properly speaking, are two in uiimher but those\\ninterested in statuary, pictures, and ceramics will find a great quantity of all these dis-\\nplayed at the Capitol, in various department buildings, on the walls of the new Library\\nof Congress, and at the National Museum. Of first importance is the Corcoran col-\\nlection:\\nThe Corcoran Art Gallery has no connection with the Government, although its\\ntrustees are given a place in the Congressional Directory. It is wholly the result of the\\nphilanthropy of a wealthy citizen, William Wilson Corcoran, who died\\nin 1893. He early decided, it has been well said, that at least one- W, W.\\nhalf of his money accumulations should be held for the welfare of men, Corcoran.\\nand he kept his self-imposed obligation so liberally that his charities,\\nprivate and public, exceed the amount of ,f 5,000,000, and that he left no aspect of human\\nlife untouched by his ben-\\neficence. The Corcoran\\nGallery was opened in 1869,\\nin the noble building oppo-\\nsite the War Department.\\nThis has now been super-\\nseded by the splendid gal-\\nlery on Seventeenth Street,\\nat New York Avenue, fac-\\ning the Executive grounds.\\nThe Corcoran donations,\\nincluding the old lot and\\nbuilding, have been $1,600.-\\n000; and about $350,000\\nhas been paid by the\\ntrustees for paintings, be-\\nsides what has been given.\\nA large number of casts of\\nclassic statues, famous bas-\\nreliefs, and smaller carvings\\nin this gallery, are not only beautiful in themselves, but of great value to students.\\nThis building has a length of 265 feet in Seventeenth Street, 140 feet in New York\\nAvenue, and 120 feet in E Street. In architecture it is Neo-Greek, after the plans of\\nErnest Flagg of New York, and the external walls, above the granite\\nbasement, are of Georgia marble, white, pure, and brilliant. There are Description\\nno windows on the second or gallery fioor of the fa9ade, all the light for of Building\\nthe exhibition of the pictures coming from the skylight in the roof. The\\nonly ornaments of this front are about the doorway, which is elaborately carved, and\\nunder the eaves of the roof, where the names of the world s famous artists are inscribed\\nin severely simple letters. Entering the front door, the visitor is confronted by a grand\\nstaircase, on the farther side of the great Statuary Hall, 170 feet long, which occupies the\\n129\\nTHE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ARTS.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0137.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\nCHARLOTTE CORDAY IN PRISON,\\nPainting by Charles Louis Mulier.\\nground floor. This is so lighted by open-\\nings through the gallery floor that for the\\nexhibition of casts in delicate lights, it can\\nnot be surpassed in any other gallerj^ of the\\nworld. The second or gallery floor, where\\nthe principal pictures are hung, under the\\ngreat glass roof, is supported by Doric\\ncolumns of Indiana limestone, above which\\nare Ionic columns supporting the roof.\\nOn this floor are also four gallerj rooms,\\nsixty-one feet by twenty-eight, and numer-\\nous small rooms for the exhibition of\\nwater-colors and objects of art. On the\\nNew York Avenue side is a semi-circu-\\nlar lecture hall, with a platform and rising\\nfloor to the side walls, which, with a good\\nskylight, make this room an excellent one\\nfor private exhibitions. Attached to the\\ngallery is an art school, using two well-\\nlighted rooms fronting to the north,\\nwith accommodations for a large number\\nof pupils. It is the intention to give\\nhere annual art exhibitions of the work\\nof local and other American artists and students.\\nAmong the older and more prominent paintings in the Corcoran collection are\\nthe following: The Tornado by Thomas Cole, The Watering-Place by Adolphe\\nSchreyer, Nedjma-Odalisque by Gaston Casimir Saint Pierre, Edge\\nPaintingrs. of the Forest by Asher Brown Durand, The Vestal Tuccia by\\nHector Le Roux, Mercy s Dream by Daniel Huntington, Niagara\\nFalls by Frederick Edwin Church. Caesar Dead by Jean Leon Gerome, On\\nthe Coast of New England by William T. Richards, The Helping Hand by\\nEmile Renouf, The Death of Moses by Alexander Cabanel, Chai lotte Corday\\nin Prison by C harles Louis M tiller, The Passing Regiment by Edward Detaille,\\nWood Gatherers by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, The Forester at Home by\\nLudwig Knaus, Virgin and Child by Murillo, Christ Bound by Van D3^ck,\\nLandscape by George Inness, The Schism by Jean George Vibert, The\\nPond of the Great Oak by Jules Dupr6, A Hamlet of the Seine near Vernon by\\nCharles Frangols Daubigny, Landscape, with Cattle, by Emile Van Marcke,\\nJoan of Arc in Infancy by Jean Jacques Henner, The Banks of the Adige\\nby Martin Rico, Twilight by Thomas Alexander Harrison, The Wedding\\nFestival by Eugene Louis Gabriel Isabey. The Approaching Storm by Narcisse\\nVirgile Diaz de la Pena, Moonlight in Holland by Jean Charles Cazin, Approach-\\ning Night by Max Wey, Sunset in the Woods by George Inness, El Bravo\\nToro by Aime Nicholas Morot. Some noteworthy late additions are: The Land-\\nscape of Historical Bladensburg (in 1887), the First Railway in New York by\\nE. L. Henry, and Charles Gutherz (Paris, 1894) great canvas of the Bering Sea\\nArbitration Court, which is accompanied by an explanation and key to the portraits.\\nRecently added are J. G. Brown s large and greatly admired canvas The Longshore-\\nman s Noon Hour, which has the Honorable Mention of the Paris Saloii; The\\nRoad to Concarneau by W. L. Picknell, Eventide by Robert C. Minor, a landscape\\nby H. W. Ranger, and The Adoration of the Shepherds by Mengo.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0138.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE CORCORAN AKD OTHER ART GALLERIES.\\n131\\nLAST DAYS OF NAPOLEON\\nMarble Figure by Vincenzo Velos.\\nOne room is devoted to\\nportraits, iii which is prom-\\ninently hung a portrait of\\nMr. Corcoran, by Elliott.\\nAround him are grouped\\na great num-\\nber of the Portraits.\\nPresidents\\nof the United States and\\nmany famous Americans,\\nmaking the collection not\\nonly interesting histori-\\ncally, but particularly val-\\nuable as illustrating the\\nstyles of most of the\\nearlier American portrait\\npainters.\\nOf the marbles, Hiram\\nPovpers Greek Slave is\\nperhaps the\\nmost cele- Marbles.\\nbrated. To\\nVincenzo Velas seated fig-\\nure of the Last Days of\\nNapoleon is given special\\nprominence by its central\\nposition in the upper hall.\\nThe exquisite little statue\\nof the vs^eeping child, en-\\ntitled The Forced\\nPrayer, by Guarnario, always brings a smile to the face of visitors.\\nThe Barye Bronzes are especially notable as the largest collection extant of the fine\\nanimal figures and other works of this talented French modeler they\\nnumber about 100. The small model of the statue to Frederick the BronzCS and\\nGreat, and the numerous electrotypic reproductions of unique metallic Replicas.\\nobjects of art preserved in European museums, are other things that\\nthe intelligent visitor will dwell upon among the wealth of beautiful things presented\\nto his view in this art museum.\\nThe Tayloe Collection is a bequest from the family of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, whose\\nrichly furnished home is still standing on Lafayette Square. It consists of some two\\nhundred or more objects of art, ornament, and curious interest, includ-\\ning marbles by Powers, Thorwaldsen, Greenough, and Canova portraits TaylOC\\nby Gilbert Stuart, Huntington, and foreign artists, and many other paint- Collection.\\nings a large number of bronze objects and pieces of furniture, including\\nWashington s card table and other pieces that belonged to eminent men, and a large\\nseries of porcelain, glass, ivory, and other objects, which are both historically and artis-\\ntically interesting. A special catalogue for this collection is sold at 5 cents.\\nThe Waggaman Gallery ought surely to be examined by all culti- Waggaman\\nvated travelers. It is at No. 3300 O Street, Georgetown, and is easily Gallery.\\nreached by either the F Street or Pennsylvania Avenue street cars.\\nThis gallery is the private acquisition of Mr. E. Waggaman, and contains a large", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0139.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132\\nPICTORIAL GTJIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nnumber of fine paintings, the specialty being Dutch water-colors, where the Holland\\nish style and choice of subjects are well exhibited. The most striking and valu-\\nable part of the collection, however, is undoubtedly that representing Japanese work\\nin pottery, stone, and metal. The series of tea jars, antique porcelains, and modern\\nwares, showing rare glazes and the most highly prized colors, is extensive and well\\nchosen and a wonderful array of bronzes and artistic work in other metals in the\\nform of swords, sword-guards, bells, utensils of various forms and capacities, and\\ndecorative compositions, excites the enthusiasm of connoisseurs in this department.\\nThe gems of this su- ,^_^^^^,^_^^^^^^^^^^^_____ Perb cabinet, how-\\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H|H| of jade, in which this\\nHH^^^^H^^^^^H^^Hj^^H superiors; among\\n^^^^^^^^B ^^^^l^^^^^l plaques\\ncarved jade, ^^^^^^^^^K jH^^^bI^^I ui^i l^^^ United\\nStates, are certainly iHH^^^^r^ .^V^^^^^^^^^H unsurpassed. A\\nnumber lo^^^^B i^^mK^K^^^ i^^^^T carvings, teak-\\nwood stands of ex- ^l^^^^^^l\\nother of ^^^^^^^^Htf ^I^H^IHil\\nworkmanship, make ^^^^B^^^g ^^^/^^^^^M gallery notable.\\nVisitors are ad- ^^^^^^^V l^^^^^^^^l mitted on Thursdays\\nof each week during W^K^^^^m .^^^^^^^^1 Ja,nuary, February,\\nMarch, and April, ^|^^^^L I^^^^^^^l between and 4\\no clock, by paying ^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^1 cents for each\\nadmission toward B^^^^^^^k A^^^^^^H charitable fund.\\nThe Halls of the ^^^^^^^^K t^^^^^^^H Ancients is the title\\na perm a- ^^^^^^HB| is^lBJ^^^I exhibition of\\nancient architecture ^^^^^^^^B. ^^^I^I^HI\\nto 1318 New York ^^^^^^^^B ^^^^^^1 Avenue. Open\\nH^^^^I^^K ^^^^^^^H admis-\\nHalls of the H^l^^^^^ ^^H^H cents. The pro-\\nAncients. ^^^^^^H ^^^^^1 isMr.F.W. Smith of\\nBos- H^IHHHI ,,^.s^^ JB^^^I ton, who has in view\\nthe promotion of venus of MELOS.-Cast National Galleries\\nof History and Art. Leasing, by the financial cooperation of Mr. S. Walker Woodward\\nof AVashington, a large plot of ground, he has reared upon it a building for the con-\\ncrete exhibition of the life and art of ancient peoples.\\nThe trouble with most museums, Mr. Smith asserts, is that they deal with dead\\nthings exclusively when they deal with antiquities at all. A room full of mummies is,\\ndoubtless, interesting in its way, but I do not believe the student of ancient history gets\\nso good a background for his studies from such an exhibition as from one in which he\\nis actually introduced into the midst of the domestic, social, and religious life of the\\npeople of whom he has read their surroundings, in other words, before they became\\nmummies. We gather in museums an endless variety of fragmentary relics, and we call\\nthat a contribution to popular education. But how much more can we do toward edu-\\ncating the people if we can show them, through their eyes, just what use was made of\\neach of these relics while it was still in touch with the life of its period, the part it\\nplayed in the daily activities of its owner, and the influence it presumptively had on\\nhis career.\\nThe ancient nationalities illustrated are Egyptian, Assyrian, Grseco- Roman, and\\nSaracenic peoples.\\nThe Egyptian Portal is a reproduction of the section of the Hypostyle Hall of\\nKarnak in exact size of the original columns 70 feet hisrh and 12 feet in diameter. It is", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0140.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE CORCORAlSr AINTD OTHER ART GALLERIES.\\n133\\nthe entrance to the Hall of Gods and Kings, more grand in dimensions and beautiful\\nin color than- that (the Saulenhof) built by Lepsius in the museum at Berlin, and\\ncontains twelve decorated columns in three styles the Lotus Bud, the Palm, and\\nHathor capitals with wall decorations and the throne pavilion reproduced by Lepsius.\\nThe Upper Egyptian Hall contains the beautiful interior of an Egyptian house and\\ncourt designed by Racinet. The larger section, 33 feet by 42 feet, is for illustration of the\\narts and crafts of the Egyptians. A dado 72 feet in length displays a facsimile in color of\\nthe Papyrus of Ani, or Book of the Dead, from the British Museum. On the staircase\\nwall is a copy, 10 feet by 7 feet, of Richter s Building of the Pyramids, and adjacent,\\none of like size of Long s Egyptian Feast also a cast of the Rosetta Stone.\\nThe Assyrian Throne Room is gorgeous in blue and gold. A section is walled with\\ncasts from the Nineveh and Nimroud slabs in the British Museum, and paintings of\\nothers. The portal is between the four colossal human-headed bulls found in the Palace\\nof Sennacherib. The Throne of Xerxes from Persepolis is set up, modeled from the\\noriginal in the Louvre.\\nThe Roman House upon the ground floor, with entrance from the Hall of Columns,\\ncovers 10,000 square feet. Its decorations, which cover more than 15,000 square feet of\\nsurface, are copied in part from the beautiful House of Vettius. This exceeds in size\\nand completeness Mr. Smith s well-known House of Panza in Saratoga.\\nThe Taberna (shop) occupies the lower floor of the Roman House, and contains\\nsuperb illustrations of Greek vases, full size. Replica copies thereof will be made for\\nsupplying schools and individuals with models of form and beauty in decoration.\\nThe Lecture Hall, in Persian style of ornamentation, contains the painting of the\\nGrandeur of Rome in the time of Constantine, covering more than 500 square feet, after\\nthe original by Buhlmann and Wagner of Munich.\\nTHE PERISTYLIUM IN ROMAN HOUSE, HALLS OF THE ANCIENTS.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0141.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nASSYRIAN THRONE ROOWI, HALLS OF THE ANCIENTS.\\nThe Saracenic Halls are a precise counterpart of the beautiful interior of the House\\nof Benzaquin in Tangiers, and a hall with gallery plated with casts of traceries from the\\nAlhambra.\\nThe Art Gallery is devoted to illustrations of Roman histoiy. The walls are sur-\\nrounded by 102 plates from Pinelli s Istoria Romana engravings in historical order\\nfrom the foundation of Rome.\\nVisitors will be attended in the halls by expositors upon the most interesting objects\\nand illustrations. Mr. Smith will speak in explanation, at intervals, to audiences in\\nthe different halls. A descriptive hand-book, with fifty illustrations, is issued for loan\\nto visitors, and is also for sale.\\nThe ultimate object of the construction of the Hall is to illustrate Mr. Smith s design\\nfor National Galleries of History and Art according to view annexed. The plan is\\nelaborately set forth in Senate Document No. 209 over 300 pages, octavo, with more\\nthan 200 illustrations. It has been published by unanimous consent of the Senate, and\\ncan probably be obtained upon request to members of Congress.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0142.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "X.\\nCHURCHES, CLUBS, THEATERS, ETC.\\nWashington has a great number of churches of every denomination and in all\\nparts of the city. Only a few of the most conspicuous of these need be mentioned.\\nThe oldest are Rock Creek Church, near the Soldiers Home Christ\\nChurch, near the Navy Yard, and St. John s, on Lafayette Square. All Episcopal.\\nthese are Episcopal, and have been elsewhere described. Other prom-\\ninent Episcoi^al churches are Epiphany (G Street, near Fourteenth), which, like\\nseveral other chui-ch societies in the city, has a suburban chapel; the Church of the\\nlAscension, at Massachusetts Avenue and Twelfth Street old St. John s, prominent\\nin Georgetown; and St. James at Massachusetts Avenue and Eighth Street, N. E.,\\non Capitol Hill, very highly ritualistic. The Roman Catholics have many fine\\nchurches and a large influence in Washington, fostered by their universities. Their\\noldest church is St. Aloysius, at North Capitol and S streets and St. Matthew s,\\nRhode Island Avenue near Connecticut Avenue, is probably the most fashionable.\\nCongregationalism is represented most prominently by the First Church, at G and\\nTenth streets, which has always been a leader in religious philanthropy, especially\\ntoward the Freedmen. The Presbyterian churches are among the oldest\\nand largest. The leading one, perhaps, is the First, which remains in Presbyterian.\\nFour-and-ahalf Street, and became famous under the care of Dr. Byron\\nSunderland, when it was attended by President Cleveland. An offshoot from it\\nwas the New York Avenue Church, whose big house is so conspicuous in the angle\\nbetween that avenue and PI Street at Twelfth. Out of this has sprung the Gurley\\nMemorial, near Seventh Street and the Boundary and the Church of the Covenant,\\nwhose great square tower is a conspicuous ornament on Connecticut Avenue. Well-\\nknown Methodist churches\\nare the Metropolitan Mem-\\norial, down in Four-and-\\na-half Street the Foundry\\nChurch, at G and Four-\\nteenth streets, which Pres-\\nident Playes attended and\\nthe Ilamline, at Ninth and\\nP streets. A leading Bap-\\ntist chui-ch is Calvary, at\\nEighth and H streets.\\nT h e Sweden borgians\\nhave a Avhite stone build-\\ning at Cor-\\ncoran and Other De-\\nSixteenth nominations.\\nstreets and\\nthe Unitarians, the well-\\nknown Church of All Souls,\\n135\\nST. JOHN S CHURCH.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0143.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOTST.\\nat Fourteenth and L streets. The Universalist meeting-house is at L and Thir-\\nteenth streets. The Christiaii Society, of which President Garfield was a mem-\\nber, worships in its Memorial Church on Vermont Avenue, between N and\\nstreets. The Lutheran Memorial Church, on Thomas Circle, is foremost in that\\ndenomination, and the service is in English. Colored churches are numerous,\\nchiefly Methodist and Baptist in the former the strongest is Asbury, at Eleventh\\nand K streets, and in the latter the Abyssinian, at Vermont Avenue and R Street.\\nThe theatere in Washington attract the finest traveling companies, including occa-\\nsional grand opera. The newest and most ornate house is the Lafayette Square Opera\\nHouse, occupying a historic site on Madison Place, Lafayette Square.\\nTheaters Another large tlieater is the Grand Opera House, on Fifteenth Street,\\nand the at the corner of E Street, one block south of Pennsylvania Avenue, now\\nOpera. devoted to vaudeville. The new National Theater, on Pennsylvania\\nAvenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, is of great capacity\\nand comfort, and holds the popularity it gained long ago. The Academy of Music is\\nanother well-known\\nhouse, at Ninth and\\nD streets. The Col-\\numbia is the newest\\naddition to the com-\\nmendable theaters.\\nIt is at 1112 F Street,\\noccupying what for-\\nmerly was Metzerutt\\nHall. Kernan s Ly-\\nceum, at 1014 Penn-\\nsylvania Avenue,\\nand Butler s Bijou,\\ngive variety shows.\\nCertain churches\\nare the principal\\nplaces for lectures\\nand the like, but\\nscientific lectures are\\nusually heard in the\\nhall at the National\\nMuseum, or in the\\nlecture-room of the\\nCosmos Club.\\nConvention Hall\\nis an immense arched\\napartment over a\\nmarket where New\\nYork Avenue crosses\\nL and Fifth streets,\\nand is intended for\\nthe use of conven-\\ntions.\\nThe clubs of the\\ncapital are not among\\nits sights, but\\nTHE CHURCH OF THE COVENANT.\\nSoutheast Corner Eighteenth and N Streets, N. W,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0144.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CHLTECHES, CLUBS, THEATERS, ETC. 137\\nshould receive a few words. Most prominent among them is the Metropolitan,\\ncharacterized elsewhere. Next in social importance, probably, is the Army and\\nNavy, which has a handsome six-story building opposite the south-\\neastern corner of Farragut Square. Its triangular lot has enabled Army and\\nthe architect to make a series of very charming principal rooms, in Navy Club.\\nthe northwestern front, where the sunshine streams in nearly all\\nday. These and the many connecting apartments are luxuriously furnished and\\nadorned with pictures, including original portraits of a dozen or more of the\\nprincipal commanders of the army and navy, from Paul Jones to W. T. Sherman.\\nOnly those identified with some military organization are eligible to membership,\\nbut the club is very liberal in extending a welcome to visiting militiamen, foreign\\nmilitary men, and others suitably introduced. One feature of this club is the\\ninformal professional lectui e given to the members once a month by some expert.\\nThe Cosmos Club has been referred to elsewhere the Columbia Atliletic Club is a\\nhirge association of young men, partly social and partly athletic, which has a field in\\ntlie gardens of the old Van Ness mansion. The Country Club, near\\nTenallytown, and the Chevy Chase Club, have already been mentioned. IMinor Clubs.\\nAllied to them, within the city, are several clubs of amateur photog-\\nlaphers, golf players, bicycle riders, tennis and ball players, and boatmen, Washing-\\nton being a place famous for oarsmen. The two women s clubs must not be for-\\ngotten: One is the fashionable Washington Club, on H Street, opposite the French\\nEmbassy, and the other the Working Women s Club, a purely social organization,\\nat 606 Eleventh Street, composed of women who earn their living phj-sicians,\\njournalists, stenographers, etc. Both these clubs give teas, musicales, and other\\nfeminine entertainments. The Alibi is a coterie of well-fed gentlemen who give\\ncharming feasts, largely of their own cooking, and cultivate a refined Bohemianism\\nwhile the Gridiron is a dining-club of newspaper men, who have a jolly dinner\\namong themselves once a month, and an annual spread to which all the great men\\navailable are invited, and where most of them are good-naturedly guyed.\\nThe Young Men s Christian Association flourishes here and in 1898 took posses-\\nsion of the fine house and gymnasium built by the Columbia Athletic Club on G\\nStreet near Nineteenth.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0145.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "Jr", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0146.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "XI.\\nOFFICIAL ETIQUETTE AT THE CAPITAL.\\nWashington society is distinguished from that of other cities mainly by its semi-\\nofRcial character, and in a manner that is not reproduced in any other capital the world\\nover. The official etiquette which surrounds its social observances is\\nsimple, and, although new conditions have tended to make some part Local\\nof the code complex to those who would wish to see its rules as clearly Society\\ndefined as constitutional amendments, the most important of its cus- Features.\\ntoms have become laws which are generally accepted. The ever-\\nchanging personality of the heads of the executive branches of the Government, and\\nof the law-makers themselves, together with that innate hatred for anything partak-\\ning too much of court ceremonial, precedence, etc., which is strong in the average\\nAmerican, were good enough reasons for the last generation in leaving these questions\\nunsettled, and -will in all probability even better answer the bustling spirit of the\\npresent actors upon the social stage. To the stranger who wishes to meet persons of\\nnational prominence at official gatherings, and to catch, besides, a glimpse of that\\nplant of slower and more substantial growth residential society the path can be\\nmade very easy and the Avay clear.\\nThe President, as the head of the nation, is entitled to first place whenever he\\nmingles in social life. Whether the second place belongs to the Vice-President or to\\nthe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has not been defined any\\nclearer than wliether the Speaker of the House is entitled to precedence Formalities\\nover members of the Cabinet. In the popular mind, the second place is at the White\\naccorded the Vice-President by virtue of his right of succession to the HoUse.\\nhighest office in the gift of the people, by the death, resignation, or dis-\\nability of the President. Since the passage of the Presidential Succession bill (Janu-\\nary 19, 1886), the Cabinet is given precedence over the Speaker by the same process\\nof reasoning.\\nThe official social season extends from New Year to Ash Wednesday, the first day\\nof Lent. All the formal hospitalities at the Executive Mansion occur\\nwithin this period. On New Year s the President holds a reception, Official\\nwhich begins at 11 o clock and closes at 2 p.m. The Vice-President and Season.\\nthe Cabinet are first received and then the Diplomatic Corps after that\\nbody, the Supreme Court, Senators and Members of Congress, officers of the army\\nand navy, department chiefs, etc. The last hour is given to the public.\\nDuring the season three or more card receptions (known in the early days of\\nWhite House entertaining as levees are held evenings 9 to 11.\\nThe first is in honor of the Diplomatic Corps and the others for the Card\\nJudiciary, the Congress, and the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Invi- Reception.\\ntations are sent to those named, to other officials of the executive and\\nlegislative departments, and to acquaintances of the President and family among\\nresidents of the capital and other cities. Diplomats wear either court or military\\nuniforms and officers of the three branches of the service also appear in uniforms.\\nGuests unknown to the doorkeepers should be prepared to show invitations. The\\n139", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0147.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nlast reception of the series is for the public. Advance notice is given in the daily\\npapers of the date.\\nThe President is assisted on these occasions by his wife, the wife of the Vice-\\nPresident, and the Cabinet ladies. The state dining-room, at the west end of the\\nhouse, is used as a cloakroom. Having laid aside their wraps, several\\nReception hundred persons are usually assembled in the main corridor when\\nCeremony, the President and wi e and the receiving party descend to the Blue\\nEoom, where these receptions are held. Guests approach the Blue\\nRoom through the Red Room. Each person announces his or her name to the usher,\\nwho stands at tlie thresliold of the Blue Room. He repeats it to the army officer\\nwho stands next to the President and who presents each person to him. The\\nPresident always shakes hands. Another army officer standing in fi ont of the Presi-\\ndent s wife repeats each name to her. The ladies assisting shake hands with each\\nperson who offers a hand to them. A knowledge of this fact on the part of stran-\\ngers will avoid mutual embarrassment. Some ladies in the ultra-fashionable set make\\ndeep courtesies to each person instead of shaking hands, when going down the line at\\nthese receptions, but the custom has not grown in favor. If not invited to join those\\nback of the line, guests pass through the Green to the East Room. In this stately\\napartment the gathering assumes its most brilliant aspect.\\nIn the case of a public reception, persons approach the White House by the\\nwest gate and a line is formed, which frequently extends as far west as Seventeenth\\nStreet, those coming last taking their places at the end. After the\\nPublic threshold of the White House is crossed, the line is a single file through\\nReceptions, the vestibule, the corridor, and the Red Room to the Blue Room. As\\nin the case of a guest at a card reception, each person announces his or\\nher name to the ushei-, by whom it is repeated to the army officer who makes the pre-\\nsentations to the President. These rules are also observed when the wife of the\\nPresident holds a public reception.\\nThe state dinners alternate with the levees. The first dinner is given in honor of\\nthe Cabinet, the second in honor of the Diplomatic Corps, and the third in honor of the\\nJudiciary. The President and his wife receive their guests in the East\\nDinner Room, an army officer making the presentations. When the butler\\nFormalities, announces dinner, the President gives his arm to the lady whose hus-\\nband s official position entitles her to precedence and leads the way to\\nthe state dining-room. If a dinner of more than forty covers is given, the table is\\nlaid in the corridor.\\nAn invitation to dine with the President may not be declined, excepting where\\nserious reasons can be stated in the note of regret. A prior engagement is not con-\\nsidered a sufficient reason, and, in fact, nothing less than personal ill-health, or seri-\\nous illness, or a death in one s family would excuse one from obedience to a summons\\nto the ta le of the President.\\nIn conversation, the Chief Executive is addressed as Mr. President. In writing\\nas The President of the United States.\\nThe wife of the President enj-^ys the same privileges as her husband. She receives\\nfirst cal s from all and returns no visits. Persons desiring an interview with her\\nexprej-s their wish by lettei-.\\nAs the President and wife may or may not make calls, so it is entirely at\\ntheir option whether or not they accept invitations. For the last ten years the\\nCabinet circle has been the limit, but previous to that the Presidents accepted\\nhospitalities generally. Under no circumstances, however, will either the President", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0148.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL ETIQUETTE AT THE CAPITAL. 141\\nor his wife cross the threshold of any foreign embassy or legation, although mem-\\nbers of their family may do so.\\nThe hours for the reception of visitors at the Executive Mansion President s\\nchange with each administration. The house rules are always posted Hours.\\nconspicuously at the entrance. Those having business with the Presi-\\ndent arrange for interviews with his private secretary, whose proper title is Secretary\\nto the President.\\nThe Vice President and w^ife make only first calls on the President and wife.\\nThey enjoy the same immunity from returning calls. The same courtesy which\\nrecognizes the members of the Cabinet as in the official family of the\\nPresident, includes the Senatoi ial circle in the ofhcial family of the Yice-\\nVice-President. The Vice-President and wife, therefore, return Sena- President.\\ntorial calls. They receive on New Year s at their own residence, first\\nofficial callers and then the public. Throughout the season, the wife of the Vice-\\nPresident receives callers on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 5. In conversation, the\\nVice-President is addressed as Mr. Vice-President.\\nThe wife of tiie Speaker of the House of Representatives receives on Wednesday,\\nat the same hours as the Cabinet ladies. The Speaker is addressed as Mr. Speaker.\\nThe relative precedence of Cabinet officers has been established by the wording\\nof the Presidential Succession bill. It is as follows: The Secretary of State, the\\nSecretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Attorney-General,\\nthe Postmaster-General, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Cabinet\\nInterior, and the Secretary of Agriculture. The official designation, Precedence,\\npreceded by the phrase, The Honorable is the correct form in\\nwriting to any one of them. In conversation, a Cabinet officer is addressed as\\nMr. Secretary.\\nThe Cabinet ladies receive the public on stated AVednesday afternoons, during the\\nseason, from 3 to 5. The name of each guest is announced by the butlei- as the hostess\\nis approached. Each hostess is usually assisted, in these formal hospitalities, bj^ a\\nnumber of ladies young girls predominating. They are expected to addi ess visitors\\nand to make their stay pleasant. Callers, except under exceptional cir-\\ncumstances, do not extend their stay over ten or fifteen minutes, and it Cabinet\\nis not necessary that any good-bys should be exchanged with the lust- Receptions.\\ness when leaving. As these receptions are frequently attended by fi om\\nfour to eight hundred people, who for the most part are strangers, the reason for the\\nslight disregard of the usual polite form is obvious. No refreshments are now offered,\\nwhich is also a change from the custom which prevailed several years ago. Visitors\\nleave cards.\\nCallers wear ordinary visiting dress. The hostess and assistants wear high-necked\\ngowns, however elaborate their material and make. This fact is mentioned because\\na few years ago the reverse was the case, and low-necked evening dresses were gen-\\nerally worn by the receiving party at afternoon receptions. At that period also, men\\nfrequently appeared on such occasions in full-dress evening suits, swallow-tail coats,\\netc. In fact, full-dress on both men and women was not unusual at the President s\\nNew Year reception, a dozen years ago, under the impression then\\ncurrent that street clothes w ere not in keeping with a function second to Rules for\\nnone in point of ceremony from our standpoint, and which was attended Dress.\\nby the Diplomatic Corps in court dress or in dazzling military or naval\\nuniforms. Customs in these matters have changed so entirely that a violation of the\\naccepted fa^nion makes of the offender a subject for ridicule. The proper costume\\nfor a woruan to wear to the President s New Year reception is her best visiting dress", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0149.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nwith bonnet, or hat, the same that she would wear at an afternoon reception. A man\\nwill dress for the President s New Year reception as he will for any other ceremoni-\\nous daylight event. Neither low-necked gowns nor dress suits are permissible until\\nafter 6 o clock.\\nThe same proprieties of modern custom in dress should be observed when attend-\\ning evening receptions at the White House or elsewhere. Evening dress is impera-\\ntive, which, in the case of women, may mean as elaborate or as simple a toilet as the\\nwearer may select, but it implies an uncovered head. Bonnets or hats must not be\\nworn.\\nBy a rule adopted during the first Cleveland administration, the Cabinet ladies do\\nnot return calls generally, but do send their cards once or twice each season as an\\nacknowledgment. The Cabinet ladies make the first call upon the ladies of the Su-\\npreme Court circle, the families of Senators, and the families of foreign ambassadors.\\nCertain days of the week are set apart by custom for making calls upon particular\\ngroups, and no mistake should be made in this respect. The ladies of the Supreme\\nCourt families receive callers on Monday afternoons. Congressional\\nCalling families on Tuesdays, the Cabinet families on Wednesdays, and the\\nDays. Senatoiial families on Thursdays, with the exception of those residing\\non Capitol Hill, who observe the day of that section, which is Monday.\\nBy virtue of another old custom, Tuesday is K Street day Thursday calling day for\\nupper H and I streets Friday for residents of upper F and G streets, and Saturday for\\nConnecticut Avenue and vicinity. Calling hours are from 3 to 6.\\nThe discussion which has been going on for years, and is now as far from settle-\\nment as ever, as to whether Supreme Court Justices and families pay the first call to\\nSenators and families, or vice versa, is only of interest to the stranger as a phase of\\nWashington life showing the grave imp)ortance given to these points by some official\\nhouseholds and of the absolute indifference with which they are viewed by others.\\nThe Diplomatic Corps consists of six ambassadors, representing Great Britain,\\nFrance, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Mexico, and twenty -five ministers plenipotentiary,\\nof which a circumstantial list will be found at the end of this book. They are ranked\\nin the order of their seniority. Each embassy and legation has a corps\\nSocial of secretaries and attaches. The British Ambassador, Lord Pauncefote,\\nRules in is the dean of the corps, having been the first ambassador appointed.\\nDiplomatic Official etiquette as regards the corps has changed since the coming of\\nCorps. ambassadors. Ambassadors are given precedence by ministers. By\\nvirtue of long-established custom, to quote Thomas Jefferson, foreign\\nministers, from the necessity of making themselves known, pay the first visit to the\\nministers of the nation, which is returned. Ambassadors claim that they only call\\non the President because that is the habit of European countries. It is generally\\nunderstood that all persons, official or otherwise, pay the first call to the embassies.\\nThe ladies of the Diplomatic Corps have no special day on which to receive callers,\\neach household making its own rules in this respect.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0150.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "XII.\\nSTREETS, SQITARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\nThe only residence of the President of the United States, in Washington, is the\\nExecutive Mansion but that is rather more uncomfortable than the average Wash-\\nington house in midsummer, and all the later Presidents have been\\naccustomed to seek a country home during hot weather. President President.\\nLincoln used to live in a cottage at the Soldiers Home President\\nGrant spent one summer in the same house, and President Hayes occupied it every\\nsummer during his term.\\nThe Secretary of State lives in his own house, Sixteenth and H streets the Secre-\\ntary of the Treasury at No. 1715 Massachusetts Avenue; and the Secretary of War at\\nNo. 1626 Rhode Island Avenue. The Attorney-General and the Post-\\nmaster-General are on the same block, at Nos. 1707 and 1774 respec- Cabinet.\\ntively the Secretary of the Navy lives at The Portland the Secretary\\nof the Interior at The Arlington and the Secretary of Agriculture at 1022 Vermont\\nAvenue.\\nMr. Chief Justice Fuller resides in his own house. No. 1801 F Street; Mr. Justice\\nHarlan on Meridian Hill; Mr. Justice Gray at No. 1601 I Street; Mr.\\nJustice Brewer at No. 1412 Massachusetts Avenue Mr. Justice Brown Justices.\\nat No. 1720 Sixteeu h Street Mr. Justice Shiras at No. 1515 Massachu-\\nsetts Avenue; Mr. Justice White at No. 1717 Rhode Island Avenue; and Mr. Justice\\nPeckham at No. 1217 Connecticut Avenue.\\nLafayette Square was the name selected by Washington himself for the square in\\nfront of the Executive Mansion, for which he foresaw great possibilities but it\\nremained a bare parade ground, with an oval race course at its west\\nend, until after the disastrous days of 1814. Then, when the White Lafayette\\nHouse had been rehabilitated, a beginning was made by President Square.\\nJefferson, who cut otf the ends down to the present limits (Madison\\nPlace and Jackson Place), and caused the trees to be })lanted. No doubt he had a\\nvoice in placing there, in 1816, St. John s the quaint Ejoiscopal church on the\\nnorthern side the first building on the square. Madison, certainly, was greatly\\ninterested in it, and it became a sort of court church, for all the Presidents attended\\nworship there, as a matter of course, down to Lincoln s time, and President Arthur\\nsince. Its interior is very interesting.\\nLafayette Square is now, perhaps, the pleasantest place to sit on a summer morn-\\ning or evening among all the outdoor loitering places in this pleasant city. The\\ntrees have grown large, the shrubbery is handsome particularly that pyramid of\\nevergreens on the south side and great care is taken with the flower Ijeds; and\\nfinalljr, you may see all the world pass by, for this park is surrounded more or less\\nremotely by the homes of the most distinguished persons in Washington.\\nTwo noteworthy statues belong to this park. One is the familiar equestiian statue\\nof GeneralandPresident Andrew Jackson, which is the work of Clark Mills, and prob-\\nably pleases the populace more than any other statue in Washington, but is ridiculed\\nby the critics, who liken it to a tin soldier balancing himself on a rocking-horse.\\n143", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0151.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHUSTOTON.\\nIt was cast at Bla-\\ndensburg by Mills\\nhimself\\nJackson who was\\nStatue. given\\ncannon\\ncaptured in Jackson s\\ncampaigns for mate-\\nrial, set up a furnace,\\nand made the first suc-\\ncessful large bronze\\n;asting in America.\\nAnother interesting\\nfact about this statue\\nis that the center of\\ngravity is so disposed,\\nby throwing the\\nweight into the hind\\nquarters, that the\\nhorse stands poised\\nupon its hind legs\\nwithout any su^oport\\nor the aid of any\\nrivets fastening it to\\nthe pedestal. This\\nstatue was erected in\\n1853, and unveiled on\\nthe thirty-eighth an-\\nniversary of the bat-\\ntle of New Orleans.\\nIts cost was $50,000,\\npart of which was\\npaid by the Jackson\\nMonument Associa-\\ntion. THE LAFAYETTE MEMORIAL IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE.\\nThe Memorial to Lafayette, in the southeast corner of the park, is a very different\\naffair, and more in the nature of a monument erected by Congress to the services of\\nthe noble Fjenchmen who lent us their assistance in the Revolutionary\\nLafayette War. Upon a lofty and handsome pedestal stands a heroic bronze\\nIMlemoriai. figure of the Manjuis de Lafayette, in the uniform of a Continental\\ngeneral while nearer the base, at tlie sides, are statues of Rochambeau\\nand Duportail, of the French army, and D Estaing and De Grasse of the navy. In\\nfront is America holding up a sword to Lafayette. This work is exceedingly\\nvigorous and is after models by two eminent French sculptors, Falguiere and Mercie.\\nTotal cost, 150,000.\\nSite of Starting at Pennsylvania Avenue and walking north on Madison Place\\nLafayette (Fifteen-and-one-half Street), the new Lafayette Square Opera House\\nSquare is immediately encountered, standing upon a famous site. The tall.\\nOpera House, brick house which it displaced was originally built by Commodore\\nRogers, but soon became the elite boarding-house of Washington, and\\nnumbered among its guests John Adams John C. Calhoun, the fiery South Carolin-", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0152.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUAEES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n145\\nian, while Monroe s Secretary of War and Jackson s Vice-President; and Henry Clay,\\nwhen he was Adams Secretary of State. Then it became the property of the\\nWasliington Club, and there assembled the rich and influential young men of the\\ncapital Sickles and Key were both members, and the tragedy which associates their\\nnames took place in front of its door later it became the residence of Secretary\\nSeward, and there the deadly assault was made upon him by the assassin, Payne,\\nat the time of the assassination of Lincoln in 1865. Its next distinguished occu-\\npant was James G. Blaine, Secretary of State in the Harrison administration, and\\nthere he died.\\nThe fine yellow Colonial house next beyond, now occupied by Senator Hanna of\\nOhio, was formerly owned and occupied by Ogle Tayloe, son of John Tayloe, of the\\nOctagon House and Mount Airy, Virguiia, who was in the early diplo-\\nmatic service, and one of the most accomplished Americans of his day. Tayloe\\nAll of his rare and costly pictures, ornaments, and curios, including House.\\nmuch that had belong d to Commodore Decatur, passed into possession\\nof the Corcoran Art Gallery. A later occupant was Admiral Paulding, a son of John\\nPaulding, one of the captors of Andre, who suppressed Walker s filibusters in Nica-\\nragua. Lily Hammersley, now dowager Duchess of Marlborough, was born then\\nand some of the most brilliant entertainments ever given in Washington have been\\nunder its roof. One of its latest occupants was Vice-President Hobart. In the next\\ntwo houses have lived Secretary Windom, Senator Fenton, and Robert G. IngersoU.\\nThe gray, mastic-stuccoed hcuse on the corner of H Street, now the\\nCosmos Clubhouse, has also known many celebrated characters. It IMadison\\nwas built about 1825, by Richard Cutts, the brother-in-law of the HOUSC.\\nbrilliant and versatile Dolly Madison, the wife of President Madi-\\nson. It came into Mr. Madison s possession just before his death, some twenty years\\nlater, and thither his wife, no longer\\nyoung, but still beautiful and witty, held\\ncourt during her declining years. After\\nMrs. Madison s death this house was\\noccupied by such tenants as Attornty-\\nGeneral Crittenden Senator William\\nC. Preston, afterward a Confederate\\nBrigadier and Commodore Wilkes,\\ncommander of the celebrated exploring\\nexpedition, who, in 1861, was required\\nto take his quondanr near neighbor,\\nSlidell, from the British steamer Trent.\\nHe gave it up when the Civil War broke\\nout, and was followed by Gen. George\\nB. McClellan, who establislied here the\\nheadquarters of the Army of the Poto-\\nmac. A sight of frequent occurrence\\nin those days, remarks Mrs. Lock wood,\\nwas the General with his chief of staff,\\nGeneral Marcy, his aids. Count de Char-\\ntres and Comte de Paris, with Prince de\\nJoinville at their side, in full military\\ncostume, mounted, ready to gallop off\\nover the Potomac hills. Now its halls,\\nremodeled and extended, are trodden ^tue of presid^e^nt^andrew jackson.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0153.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nby the feet of men the most famous in the country as the investigators and devel-\\nopers of scientific truth.\\nDiagonally opposite tie Cosmos Club, on H Street, is the square brick Sumner\\nHouse, now a part of the Arlington. Where the main body of the Arlington Hotel\\nnow stands, there were three stately residences. One was occupied\\nSumner by William L. Marcy, Secretary of War under Pi esident Polk, and Sec-\\nHouse. retary of State under President Pierce and when he retired, he was\\nsucceeded in this and the adjoining house by the Secretary of State,\\nunder Buchanan, Lewis Cass, who, like Marcy, had previously held the war portfolio.\\nIn the third mansion dwelt Reverdy Johnson, minister to England and there\\nPresidents Buchanan and Harrison were entertained prior to their inauguration\\nand there Patti, Henry Irving, President Diaz of Mexico, King Kalakaua, Dom\\nPedro, and Boulanger found seclusion.\\nThe great double mansion adjoining the Sumner and Pomeroy residence (united as\\nthe H-street front of the hotel) was built by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, long clerk of the\\nHouse of Representatives, and afterward became the British Legation. Here lived Sir\\nBulwer Lytton, and his not less famous son and secretary, Owen Meredith, now Lord\\nLytton,who is supposed to have written here his most celebrated poem, Lucile. In later\\nyears the house was occupied by Lord Ashburton, who, with Daniel Webster, drafted\\nthe Ashburton treaty, which defined our Canadian boundary. A still later occu-\\npant was John Nelson, Attorney-General in Tyler s Cabinet; and it is now the home\\nof Mrs. Margaret Freeman. On the corner of Sixteenth Street is St. John s Episcopal\\nChurch and, jjassing for the present other newer residences, another old landmark\\ncalls for special attention. This is the Decatur Hou ^e, facing the square\\nDecatur on Seventeenth Street, at the corner of H, and easily recognized by its\\nHouse. pyramidal slate roof. This, which Avas the first private residence on the\\nsquare, was constructed at the close of the War of 1812, by Commander\\nStephen Decatur, the hero of Tripoli, and one of the most popular men of the time.\\nHe was the author of the maxim more patriotic than righteous uttered as a toast:\\nMy country may she always be right; but my country, right or wrong! His\\nhouse was adorned with a multitude of trophies, gifts from foreign rulers, and rare\\nknickknacks picked up in all parts of the world and here he was brought to die after\\nhis duel with Commodore Barron in Bladensburg, in 1820. Afterward it was occupied\\nby the Russian minister, and then by Henry Clay, when he was Secretary of State\\nunder John Quincy Adams. When Martin Van Buren succeeded him, he took this\\nhouse and cut the window in the south wall, in order that he might see the signals\\ndisplayed from the White House by Old Hickory, whom he worshiped. He in\\ntui-n gave up the house to his successor, Edward Livingston, a bi other of Chancellor\\nRobert Livingston of New York, whose wife was that Madame Moreau whose wed-\\nding in New Orleans was so romantic, and whose daughter Cora was the reigning belle\\nof Jackson s administration, as this house was its social center. Two or three foreign\\nministers and several eminent citizens filled it in succession, and gave brilliant parties\\nat which Presidents were guests, the most recent of whom was Gen. E. F. Beale,\\nunder whose grandfather Decatur had served as midshiiDman. General Beale died in\\n1894, and his widow now dwells in this storied old mansion.\\nA few rods south, next the alley, is another house famous in the past. It is one of\\nthe navy traditions that it was built by Doctor E well of that service,\\nEwell and occupied by three Secretaries of the Navy, one of whom was the\\nHouse. talented Levi Woodbury; then it was the home of Senator Rives of Vir-\\nginia, grandfather of the novelist, Amelie Rives (Chandler), and after-\\nward of Gen. Daniel Sickles, whose tragedy is indelibly associated with this beautiful", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0154.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n147\\nEQUESTRIAN STATUE OF\\nMAJ.-GEN, GEORGE H. THOMAS.\\nThomas Circle. J. Q. A. Ward.\\nlocality. Vice-President Colfax was a\\nstill later tenant, and then the house\\npassed into possession of the late Wash-\\nington McLean, editor of the Cincinnati\\nEnquirer, whose daughter, wife of Ad-\\nmiral Ludlow, now resides there.\\nIn this same row, No. 22, the former\\nresidence of William M. Marcy, Secre-\\ntary of War, and afterward Secretary of\\nState (1853-57), is now the home of Mrs.\\nR. H. Townsend, daughter of the late\\nWilliam L. Scott of Erie, Pa. Gen. J.\\nG. Parke, who commanded the Fifth\\nArmy Corps, and was Chief-of-staff to\\nBurnside, resides in No. 16 and No. 6 is\\nthe residence of Mrs. Martha Reed, sister\\nof the late Admiral Dahlgren. Lovers\\nof trees will take notice of\\nthe row of Chinese gingko Gingko\\ntrees, which shade the Trees.\\nsidewalk opposite this\\nrow of houses, on the western margin\\nof the square.\\nFourteenth Street will make a good\\nstarting-point for a ramble in search of\\nthe historic, picturesque, and personal\\nIt is the great north-and-south line of\\nfeatures of Washington s streets and squares\\ntravel, extending far out into the high northern suburb of Mount\\nPleasant. Franklin Square, between Fourteenth and Thirteenth, and Franklin\\nI and K streets, comprises about four acres, densely shaded, and is a Square.\\nfavorite place of resort in summer evenings. In its center is the spring\\nof excellent water from which the White House is supplied, and where there is\\na public drinking fountain. The Franklin schoolhouse overlooks the square on\\nthe east, and the Hamilton and Cochran hotels are just above it on Fourteenth\\nStreet. The church on the next corner (L Street) is All Souls (Unitarian), diagonally\\nopposite which is the Portland. This brings you to Thomas Circle, in the center\\nof which is J. Q. A. Ward s bronze statue of Gen. George H. Thomas, the Rock\\nof Chickamauga and hero of Nashville, which was erected, with great ceremony,\\nin 1879, by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, which paid $40,000 for\\nthe design and the casting. The pedestal, which bears the bronze in-\\nsignia of the Army of the Cumberland, and its ornamental lamps were Thomas.\\nfurnished by Congress, at an expense of 125,000. The statue is itself\\nnineteen feet in height, and is finely modeled but many admirers of this sturdy,\\nunassuming commander regret that in his representation there is not more man and\\nless horse.\\nNorthwest of Thomas Circle, in front of Lutheran Memorial Church, stands one of\\nthe most artistic statues in the city, erected by the Lutheran Church\\nof America to Martin Luther. It was cast in Germany from the same Luther.\\nmolds as Rietschel s centerpiece of the celebrated memorial at urms,\\nand expresses the indomitable attitude of the great reformer on all questions of con-\\nscience. This statue is eleven feet in height and cost $10,000.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0155.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHITs^GTOlSr.\\nFourteenth Street above this point has nothing of special interest, but is a hand-\\nsome an busy highway; and its extension on the elevated ground of Meridian Hill,\\nnorth of the city boundary, is rapidly being settled upon by important people. The\\ngray stone castle, surrounded by large grounds, at the foot of the hill on the right, is\\ncalled Belmont, and belongs to A. L. Barber, owner of the Trinidad asphalt mines.\\nMrs. General Logan lives at Calumet Place, two blocks east, on the street north of\\nBelmont, where she has a cabinet of relics of her famous husband which is fre-\\nquently visited by veterans of the war. Mr. Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court\\nresides on the opposite side of the street, two blocks north, at Euclid Place.\\nFollowing H Street from Fourteenth westward, No. 1404, now known as the Els-\\nmere Hotel, was for many years the residence of the late Zachariah Chandler. The\\nShoreham Hotel, the Colonial Hotel, and the Columbian University occupy the other\\ncorners, the new Law School of the latter conspicuous on H Street.\\nThe Columbian University is one of the oldest and best-eciuipped schools of higher\\nlearning v.t the capital. It has a preparatory school and departments of undergi ad-\\nuate and postgraduate academic studies; special courses in science\\nColumbian (Corcoran Scientific School), of medicine and dentistry, and of law. Its\\nUniversity. endowments now amount to about $1,000,000, and its faculty and list of\\nlecturers include a large number of men in public life, from certain\\njustices of the Supreme Court down. This is particularlj^ true of the Corcoran Scien-\\ntific School, where the lecturers are all men identified with special investigations at\\nthe Smithsonian, Geological Survey, or in some of the technical l)ranchesof the Army\\nor Navy. This university, which was aided at the beginning by the Government,\\nhas always had access to and made great use of the libraries and nmseums which\\nabound here and are of so great ediicational value.\\nContinuing our notes westward along H Street Gen. Chauncey McKeever, U. S. A.,\\nlives at No. 1508, and on the left-hand corner, at Madison Place, is the Cosmos Club.\\nThe Cosmos Club is a social club of men interested in science, of whom Washing-\\nton now contains a greater number, and, on the average, a higher grade, than any\\nother city. This is due to the employment and encouragement given\\nCosmos Club, by the Smithsonian Institution, Agricultural Department, Geological\\nand Coast Surveys, Fish Commission, Naval Observatory, technical\\ndepartments of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments, and two or three univer-\\nsities. This club may therefore be considered the intellectual center of the non-\\npolitical life of the capital, and at any one of its delightful Monday evenings, half\\na hundred men of high attainments and wide reputation may be seen, and the\\nconversation heard is, in its way, as interesting and inspiring as anything to be\\nlistened to in the land. The historic old house has been somewhat modified, chiefly\\nby the addition of a large hall, which may be shut off from the remaining rooms\\nand used as a meeting-room and thei-e the Philosophical, Biological, Geographic, and\\niindred societies hold their meetings on stated evenings.\\nThe Arlington Hotel, including the former residences of Senators Sumner and\\nPomeroy, is diagonally opposite the Cosmos; and next beyond is the Bulwer\\nHouse, and then St. John s Episcopal Church. All these face Lafayette Square and\\nhave been elsewhere described. On the farther corner of Sixteenth Street, opposite\\nSt. John s, is the beautiful home of Col. John Hay, President McKinley s Secretary\\nof State, the author of Little Breeches, and, with Mr. Nicolay, of the principal\\nbiography of Lincoln. The yellow house. No. 1607, next beyond, was built and for\\nmany years occupied by Cora. Richard Stockton, who added to a glorious naval record\\nin the Mediterranean and West Indies the establishment of American rule in Cali-\\nfornia in 1845. Later it was tenanted by Slidell, who, with Mason, was sent by the", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0156.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n149\\nConfederate government to England as a C mmissioner, but was captured on the Trent\\nby his quondam neighbor, Commodore Wilkes, who then lived in the\\npresent home of the Cosmos Club it was the residence of Mr. Lamont Stockton\\nwhen Secretary of War. The adjoining house on the corner of Seven- HoUse.\\nteenth Street which was for many years the residence of the late\\nW. W. Corcoran, the philanthropic banker, to whom the city owes the Corcoran\\nGallery, the Louise Home, and other enterprises and benefactions is another of\\nthe famous homes of old Washington, and has been the residence of several men of\\nnote, including Daniel Webster. It was occupied by Senator Calvin S. Brice during\\nthe later years of his life, and is now the home of Senator Depew of New York.\\nCrossing Connecticut Avenue, the corner house is that of the late Admiral Shu-\\nbrick, opposite which (on Seventeenth), facing the square, is the ancient Decatur\\nHouse. Next beyond, No. 1621 H Street, is the residence of Judge J. C. Bancr .ft\\nDavis, the diplomat, now reporter of the Supreme Court. In the old-fashioned square\\nhouse adjoining it, to the west, George Bancroft spent the last twenty\\nyears of his life, and completed his History of the United States. Bancroft\\nThe Rich- HoUSe.\\nm o n d on\\nthe corner of Seventeenth\\nStreet, is a popular family\\nhotel. The Albany, on the\\nother side, is an apartment\\nhouse for gentlemen and\\non the southwest corner is\\nthe Metropolitan Club, the\\nlargest, wealthiest, and\\nmost fashionable club in\\nWashington, one rule of\\nwhich is that members of\\nthe foreign diplomatic ser-\\nvice, resident in Washing-\\nton, are ex officio members\\nof the club, and need only pay stipulated dues in order to take advantage of its privi-\\nleges. Tliis block on H Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets is familiarly\\nknown as the INIidway Plaisance. Adjoining the Metropolitan Club are\\nclub chambers for gentlemen, and the large yellow house, next west- Clubs.\\nward, was the home of Admiral Porter, of the United States Navy. It\\nis now the French Embassy. The Milton and Everett are family apartment houses;\\nand No. 1739 was the residence of the late William A. Richardson, formerly Secretary\\nof the Treasury, and afterward Chief Justice of the Court of Claims.\\nIn this neighborhood dwelt many old Washington families and some modern\\nnotaljilities. The Everett House, on the southeast corner of Eighteenth and G, is\\nhistoric. It was built and occupied by Edward Everett of Massachu-\\nsetts, when Secretary of State under Fillmire. Afterward it was the Everett\\nhome of JetFerson Davis, when Secretary of War, after his marriage HoUse*\\nwith his second wife. He continued thei e during his term as Secretary\\nof State, but not after he returned to the Senate. His successor in the house was\\nanother traitor in high place, Jacob Thompson, Buchanan s Secretary of the Interior,\\nwho became a member of the Confederate Cabinet in 1861. Then followed Capt.\\nHenry A. Wise, a well-known otRcer of the navy, after whom the medical department\\nof the navy used the house for many years.\\nRESIDENCE OF SENATOR CHAUNCEY M, DEPEW.\\nCorner Sixteenth and I Streets, N. W.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0157.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150\\nPICTOP.IAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTGTOK.\\nEXICAN EMBASSY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1413 I Street, N.W.\\nThe Wirt House is a few rods to tlie\\neast of the Edward Everett liouse, on\\nG, between Seventeentli and Eighteentli,\\non the south side. It is so called because\\nthat eminent jurist Uved\\nWirt House, here twelve years, during\\nthe administrations o f\\nMonroe and J. Q. Adams. Mrs. Lock-\\nwood tells us that it is not known who\\nbuilt the house, but that it was occupied\\nat the beginning of the century by Wash-\\nington s private secretary. Col. Tobias\\nLear, a Revolutionary olficer, who was\\nthe commis ioner that concluded the\\npeace with Tripoli. Wirt was United\\nStates Attorney-General from 1817 to\\n1829. His gardens were large and beauti-\\nful, for his wife was exceedingly fond of\\nflowers and was the author of Flora s\\nDictionary. The most brilliant enter-\\ntainments of that day were given here,\\nuntil Jackson s time, when it was sold\\nand occupied later by a succession of\\nCabinet officers and high functionaries, one of whom gave a dinner to the Prince\\nof Wales under its roof. During or after the war it became the office of the Army\\nSignal Corps and there the present weather service was developed. The present\\nchief signal officer and arctic explorer, Gen. A. W. Greely, resides near, at No.\\n1914 G Street.\\nGoing westward on I Street from Fourteenth Street, the first house on the right is\\nowned and occupied by John W. Foster, the diplomat, who was Secretary of State\\nunder Harrison and, later, advisory counsel to China in her settlement\\nI Street. with Japan. The large brick house adjoining is the Mexican Legation.\\nChief Justice Waite lived in the house beyond the alley, now occupied\\nby the widow of ex-Governor Swann. The brownstone mansion at No. 1419 is the\\nresidence of John W. Thompson, president of the National Metropolitan Bank.\\nSenator Chandler of New Hampshire lives in No. 1421, once the residence of Caleb\\nGushing. The southeast corner of Fifteenth and I streets is the Cliamberlin Hotel,\\nwhich occupies three houses that formerly belonged to Fernando Wood, ex-Governor\\nSwann of Maryland (who placed in one of them two Thorwaldsen mantels from the\\nVan Ness mansion), and James G. Blaine, who lived there when Speaker of the\\nHouse of Representatives. Opposite Chamberlin s, on the southwest corner (No. 1500\\nI Street), Hamilton Fish lived when he was Secretary of State, and it is now the resi-\\ndence of John McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer. These houses face upon\\nMcPherson Square, one of the most finished of the city s smaller parks.\\nThe noble equestrian statue that graces this square was erected by the Army of\\nthe Tennessee toils commander, James B. McPherson, who was killed at Atlanta;\\nand it was his successor, Gen. John A. Logan, who made the\\nMcPherson dedicatory oration, when, amid a great military display, this statue\\nStatue. was unveiled in 1876. The sculptor was Louis T. Robisso, and\\nthe statue was composed of cannon captured in Georgia. The\\ncost was about $50,000.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0158.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n151\\nMany fine residences and hotels face this square, and Vermont Avenue passes\\nthrough it toward the northeast.\\nContinuing westward, No. 1535 I Street is the residence of James G. Berret, wlio\\nwas mayor of Washington during the Civil War. Mr. Justice Gray lives in No. 1601\\nNo. 1600 is the home of Mrs. Tuckerman, the widow of a New York\\nbanker; No. 1617 was the residence of the late George W. Riggs, and Storied\\nis now occupied by his daughters 1710 is the Women s Club 1707 is HouSCS.\\nthe residence of Mrs. Stanley Matthews Paymaster-General Watmough\\nof the navy lives in No. 1711, and John A. Kasson in No. 1726. No. 1731 is a famous\\nhouse, having been occupied by Mr. Frelinghuysen when he was Secretary of State,\\nWilliam C. Whitney, Cleveland s first Secretary of the Navy, and John Wanamaker,\\nwhen he was Postmaster-General; it is now owned and occupied by S. S. Rowland, a\\nson-in-law of the late August Belmont. In No. 1739, at the corner of Eighteenth\\nStreet, resides Harriet Lane Johnson, who presided at the White House during the\\nBuchanan administration. Gen. T. H. Rucker, U.S.A., a prominent officer in the\\nCivil War, and father of the widow of General Sheridan, lives at No. 2005; Admiral\\nSelfridge dwells at No. 2013; Gen. Robert Macfeely, U.S.A at No. 2015; and Prof.\\nCleveland Abbe, the meteorologist, at No. 2018.\\nFollowing K Street westward from Twelfth Street, the first house on the southwest\\ncorner is the parsonage of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, occupied by\\nthe Rev. Mr. Radclitfe. In No. 1205 resides A. S. Soloman, the almoner of Baron\\nHirsch, the Jewish philanthropist. Number 1301 was once the residence of Roscoe\\nConkling; No. 1311 was built by Ben Holiday, who operated the pony express across\\nTHE NEW CHINESE LEGATION. Corner Eighteenth and Q Streets, N. W,", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0159.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nRESIDENCE OF SENATOR J. B. FORAKER,\\n1500 Sixteenth Street, N. W.\\nthe continent for many years before the\\nconstruction of the Union Pacific Eail-\\nway No. 1313 was formerly the home\\nof Robert G. Ingersoll; ex-Secretary\\nJ hn Sherman lives at No. 1321; and\\n1325 was, during the war, tlie residence\\nof Secretary Edwin M. Stanton J(Jin\\nG. Carlisle lived at No. 1426; Admiral\\nWorden, the commander of the Monitor\\nduring her fight with the Merrimac,\\nlived at No. 1428, and Senator Gorman\\nat No. 1432. The large house at the\\ncorner of Vermont Avenue and K Street\\nis leased by Jefferson Lev}% the He rew\\nmember of Congress fr. m New York,\\nand the brownstone front adjoining is\\nthe temp rary headquarters of the At-\\ntorney-General. Representative Hitt of\\nIllinois lives at No. 1507 Mrs. B. H.\\nWarder at No. 1515 and the new yellow\\nhouse near the corner of Sixteenth Street is the home of the widow of George\\nW. Childs of Philadelphia. The house at the southeast corner of\\nOn K Street. K and Sixteenth streets, another of Richardson s productions, is\\noccupied by the widow of Nicholas Anderson of Cincinnati. Mr.\\nHitchc:ck, Secretary of the Interior, lived in No. 1601; Senator Wetmore of Rhode\\nIsland in No. 1609; the Rev. Dr. McKim, rector of Epiphany Church, at No. 1621\\nSenator Matthew Quay in No. 1620 Jerome B maparte, the great-grandnephew of\\nNapoleon, in No. 1627 ex-Senator Murphy of New York in No. 1701, and Titian J.\\nCoffey, an ex-Secretary of the Navy, lived in No. 1713. Little Lord Fauntleroy\\nwas written in the house at No. 1730, which was then the residence of Dr. Swan\\nM. and Mrs. Frances Hodgson-Burnett the former a distinguished oculist,\\nand the latter the well-known novelist.\\nSixteenth Street, which\\nstarts from Lafayette\\nSquare, opposite the White\\nHouse, is\\nExecutive sometimes\\nAvenue. known as\\nExecutive\\nAvenue. St. John s Church\\nis on the right, at the cor-\\nner of H Street, and the\\nresidence of Secretary John\\nHay on the left. At the\\nnorthwest corner of I\\nStreet Mr. Justice Gray\\nof the Supreme Court re-\\nsides, and back of him is\\nThe Gordon, a family\\nhotel No. 930 is the home\\nofMaj. George M. Wheeler,\\nRESIDENCE OF SENATOR EUGENE HALE.\\n1001 Sixteenth Street, N, W.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0160.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDEISTCES.\\n153\\nU. S. A., who conducted the surveys west of the 100th meridian with which\\nhis name is identified. Senator Hale of Maine lives at No. 1001 Surgeon-General\\nSternberg of the army, at No. 1019 Senator Proctor of Vermont at the northeast\\ncorner of L Street, and E. F. Andrews, the artist, at No. 1232. Passing Scott Circle,\\nex -Representative Huff of Pennsylvania resides at No. 1323 the Rev. Alexander\\nMacksy-Smith, rector of St. John s Church, at No. 1325 Senator Foraker of Ohio,\\nat lf %i W. G. Gurley, a Washington banker, at No. 1401; Mr. Justice Brown of\\nthe -jjreme Court, at No. 1720 Gen. Rufus Saxton, U. S. A., at No. 1821, and other\\nequaiij famous people on both sides. The conspicuous brownstone castle on\\nhigh ground at the end of Sixteenth Street, on the left, is the home of ex-Senator\\nHenderson, of Missouri.\\nMassachusetts Avenue is one of the finest streets in the city, and a great promenade.\\nIt stretches parallel with Pennsylvania Avenue from Hospital Square, on the Anacostia\\nRiver, northwestward through Lincoln Square, Stanton Square, Mount\\nVernon Square a pretty little park where New York Avenue crosses IMassachU-\\nEighth and K streets, three blocks north of the Patent Office Thomas setts AvenUC.\\nCircle, Scott Circle, Dupont Circle, and Decatur Circle, where it bends\\nslightly and is extended through the elegant suburb on the banks of Rock Creek, and\\nso out to the hilly region north of Georgetown. An excellent view of this stately\\nboulevard can be obtained at its junction with Twelfth Street, which is one of the\\nhighest points in Washington. Ascension Episcopal Church fills the northwest\\ncorner at this crossing. Robert Hinkley, the artist, lives in No. 1310 Mr. Justice\\nMorris of the District Supreme Court, in No. 1314; J. Stan ley -Brown, private secre-\\ntary of the late President Garfield, and Molly Garfield, his wife, in No. 1318. Mr.\\nE. Francis Riggs resides at No. 1311, and the widow of Admiral Dahlgren in No. 1325\\nNo. 1330 is the Legation of Chile, and the large square house at the junction of M\\nStreet and Vermont Avenue, facing\\nThomas Circle, is the home of ex- Justice\\nWiley, ofthe District Supreme Court. Mr.\\nJustice Brewer lives at No. 1412, Senator\\nCullom at No. 1413, S. H. Kauffman, pro-\\nprietor of the Evening Star, at No. 1421.\\nThe large red-brick house, No. 1435, is\\nthe German Embassy. The brownstone\\nbuilding surrounded by large grounds,\\non the south side of Massachusetts Avenue\\nbetween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets,\\nis the Louise Home. It was\\nfounded by the late W. W. Louise Home.\\nCorcoran, and nearly all its\\ninmates are widows of ex-Confederate\\nofficers belonging to the aristocracy of the\\nSouth, who lost their fortunes during the\\nwar. Nearly opposite it was the home of\\nthe late Prof. Spencer F. Baird, long\\nUnited States Fish Commissioner and Sec-\\nretary of the Smithsonian Institution.\\nThe familiar name for Scott Circle, the\\nlocality around the statue of General Scott,\\nat the junction of Massachusetts and\\nSTATUE OF GEN. WINFIELD s. SCOTT. Rhode Island avenues, Sixteenth and N", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0161.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSrGTOJS\\nstreets, is Calamity Circle, because every person who built a house there died\\nshortly afterward, or met with misfortune.\\nThis equestrian statue of Gen. Winfield Scott, the victor in the Mexican War, was\\nerected in 1874. It was modeled by H. K. Brown, and cast in Philadelphia from\\ncannon captured iu Mexico. Its total height is fifteen feet, and its cost\\nScott Statue, was $20,000. The pedestal is of granite from Cape Ann quarries, and\\nis c ;)mposed of tive huge blocks, said to be the largest ever quarried in\\nthe United States. Tiie cost of the pedestal was about $25,000. General Scott is rep-\\nresented in the uniform of his rank as Lieutenant-General.\\nThe large house at the junction of N Street and Massachusetts Avenue is the resi-\\ndence of Supreme Justice Shii-as. The mansion to the northward, between N Street\\nand Ehode Island Avenue, was erected by Prof. Alex. Graham Bell, inventor of the\\ntelephone, and after several years was sold to Levi P. Morton, who occupied it while\\nhe was Vice-President. The square brick house at the northeast corner of Sixteenth\\nStreet was built by Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania, and sold to Mr. D. P. Morgan,\\na New York banker, whose widow and family still reside there. On the opposite\\nside of Sixteenth Street the late William Windom lived while he was a Senator\\nfrom Minnes ta and Secretary of the Treasury it is now owned and occupied by\\nCharles A. Munn, formerly of Chicago. The house adjoining belongs to Stilson\\nHutchins. E. Kurtz Johnson, a banker, built and died in the house at the western\\ncorner of N Street. Continuing westward on Massachusetts Avenue,\\nFine Mr. Spofford, of the Library of Congress, lives at No. 1621 No. 1627 is\\nResidences, the residence of the widow of the late Senator Vance of North Caro-\\nlina. The Attorney-General at No. 1707 the Secretary of the Treasury\\nat No. 1715; Beriah Wilkins, of the Washington Post, in No. 1709; Senator Lodge of\\nMassachusetts, in No. 1765. The castellated house opposite belongs to the widow of\\nthe late Belden Noble, and is occupied by the Spanish Legation. Gen. Nelson A.\\nMiles lives near by at No. 1736 N Street; the Postmaster-General lives at No. 1774;\\nSenator Fairbanks of Indiana lives at No. 1800 Mrs. Wadsworth of Geneseo, New\\nYork, owns the large house on the tri-\\nangle opi^osite. The large mansion of fire-\\nbrick on P Street, back of it, is occupied\\nby William J. Board man of Cleveland,\\nOhio. Passing beyond Dupont Circle, No.\\n1915, adjoining the Stewart Castle, is\\nthe residence of Paymaster Michler, of\\nthe navy, and on the corner opposite lived\\nfor many years the late Mrs. Craig Wads-\\nworth, who was a leader of Washington\\nsociety No. 2013 is the residence of\\nCharles M. Ffoulke, and the hall which\\nadjoins it on the east was built to exhibit\\nhis collection of tapestries, which is one\\nof the finest in the world. On the oppo-\\nsite side of the street, in the\\nBlaine rear of the Blaine house,\\nHouse. Miss Grace Denio Litch-\\nfield, the novelist, resides.\\nNumber 2100 is the residence of B. H.\\nWarner, a Washington banker, and the residence of mrs. u.\\nlarge mansion at No. 2122 was erected by 2111 Massachusetts Avenue", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0162.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n155\\nthe late Mrs. Patton, who inlierited a\\nfortune gained by her husband in the\\nmines of Nevada it is now occupied by\\nher four daugliters. No. 2111, on the\\nopposite side of tlie street, was erected\\nby ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont,\\nand was sold by him in 1895 to the\\nwidow of General Grant, who now\\nresides there with her daughter, Mrs.\\nNellie Sartoris. The large stone chateau,\\nin French style, is the residence of Mrs.\\nRichard Townsend.\\nConnecticut Avenue, from H Street\\nto the boundary, is the Sunday afternoon\\npromenade. Starting northward upon\\nour survey at Lafayette Square, where\\nthe gardens of the old Webster house fill\\nthe corner at the right, No. 814 was the\\nresidence, after the Civil War, of Admiral\\nWilkes, and is still occupied by his\\nfamily. Just beyond is Farragut Square,\\na small, prettily planted park, in the\\ncenter of which is a statue to the hero\\nof Mobile Bay and the Mississippi forts.\\nThis statue of Farragut represents\\nhim as standing upon the deck of his\\nflagship Hartford, from whose propeller the metal of which the statue is com-\\nposed was taken, and was cast in 1880, after models by Mrs. Lieu-\\ntenant Hoxie, then Miss Vinnie Ream. It cost |25,000, and was Farragut\\ndedicated in April, 1881, many of Farragut s old shipmates taking Statue.\\npart in the ceremonies.\\nThe large gray house on the next corner (numbered 1705 K Street) was originally\\nthe residence of Alexander R. Shepherd, the rebuilder of Washington. It was for\\nmany years the Russian Legation, and is now owned and occupied by Mrs. McLean.\\nThe houses back of it are usually occupied by attaches of the different legations. The\\nlarge brick building at the corner of L Street, on the right, is a Catholic school for\\ngirls and the yellow house on the opposite corner of De Sales Street is the Grafton\\nHotel. Col. John IM. Wilson, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds,\\nresides at No. 1141; Senator Wolcott of Colorado, at No. 1221, and Prof. Thomas\\nWilson, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, at No. 1218. The handsome\\nstone church, with the large squai e tower, is the Presbyterian Church\\nof the Covenant. On the opposite corner, to the north, is the British British\\nEmbassy. This is one of the few legations in Washington that are Embassy.\\nowned, and not rented, by their governments, the others being those of\\nAustria, Brazil, Germany, Jajmn, and Korea. It occupies the site, curiously enough,\\nof the iirst and only cricket club at the capital, which ceased to play many years\\nago. On the point between Connecticut Avenue and Eighteenth Street stands the\\nresidence of Commander William H. Emory, U. S. N., now occupied by ex-\\nRepresentative Reyburn of Philadelphia. The Austrian Government occupies No.\\n1307 as the residence for its Legation. Inspector-General Breckenridge, U. S. A.,\\ndwells at No. 1314; Admiral Carter at No. 1316; the family of the late Gar-\\nBRONZE STATUE ADMIRAL DAVID G. FARRAGUT.\\nFarragut Square, Intersection Connecticut Avenue and\\nI Street, N. W. By Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0163.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nTHE BRITISH LEGATION. Northwest Corner Connecticut Avenue and N Street, N. W.\\ndiner G. Hubbard at No. 1328, and Prof. A. Graham Bell at No. 1321. These\\nhouses are upon Dupont Circle.\\nTins i^retty circular park occupies the interior of the space made by the intersec-\\ntion here of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire avenues, and P and\\nNineteentli streets. In its center stands the bronze statue of Admiral\\nDupont Samuel F. Dupont, a popular officer of the navy during the Civil War,\\nCircle. which was designed by Launt Thompson, cost $10,000, and was unveiled\\nin 1884. Passing beyond Dupont Circle, the large red-brick house to\\nthe westward, on the point between P Street and Massachusetts Avenue, was erected\\nby the late James G. Blaine when he was Secretary of State in Garfield s Cabinet; it\\nstill belongs to his estate, but is occupied by Mrs. Westinghouse of Pittsburg. The\\ngray house. No. 8, is known as Castle Stewart. It was for many years the Chinese\\nLegation, and there was given the famous ball, in 1886, when Washington was scan-\\ndalized by scenes of social riot. It is now the residence of its owner, Senator Stewart\\nof Nevada. The big cream-colored house, with the lofty pillared portico, at No. 1400\\nNew Hampshire Avenue, opposite, is the home of the wealthy merchant, L. Z. Leiter,\\nformerly of Chicago, whose daughter married Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India. No.\\n1611 Connecticut Avenue is the home of Mrs. Colton, whose husband was formerly\\ntreasurer of the Central Pacific Railroad. Francis B. Colton lives in\\nMeridian the English basement house, a little farther north. The large brownstone\\nHill. residence at the point between Connecticut Avenue and Twentieth\\nStreet is the winter home of Mr. Perkins, of Boston the brick house,\\nNo. 1705, is the home of Lyman Tiffany the Belgian Legation is at 1716, and William", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0164.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "STREETS, SQUARES, AND RESIDENCES.\\n157\\nNew\\nHampshire\\nAvenue.\\nE. Curtis, the newspaper writer and author of many books of travel, Hves at No. 1801,\\nat tlie corner of S Street. The little chapel on the hill above is St. Margaret s (Epis-\\ncopal). The Chinese Legation is at the corner of Eighteenth and Q streets.\\nConnecticut Avenue Extended is the name applied to this street where, beyond\\nRock Creek, it resumes its straight course. It leads directly to Chevy Chase, and bids\\nfair to become the highway of one of the best of the future suburban districts.\\nOn Rhode Island Avenue. Tiie widow of Chief Justice Waite lived at No. 1616,\\njust west of Scott Circle; and the widow of General Sheridan at No. 1617, across the\\nway; No. 1626 is the home of EUhu Root, Secretary of War, and at No. 1610, Mr.\\nOlney, formerly the Secretary of State resided. No. 1741 is the historic house pre-\\nsented to Admiral Dewey and transferred by him to his wife. The small circle,\\nat Vermont Avenue and P Street, is named Iowa, and is ornamented by a statue of\\nGen. John A. Logan, surmounting a bronze pedestal.\\nNew Hampshire Avenue is a long street nearly parallel with Vermont Avenue,\\nreaching from the Potomac northeast to the boundary at the head of Fifteenth Street,\\nand then extended through the distant suburb of Brightwood. There\\nis a pretty triangle where it crosses Virginia Avenue; and where it\\ncrosses Pennsylvania, Iv, and Twenty-third streets is a park named\\nWashington Circle. An equestrian bronze statue of Washington,\\nmodeled and cast by Clark Mills, was erected here long ago, at a cost of\\n$50,000. The artist is said to have intended to represent him as he appeared at the\\nbattle of Princeton.\\nSome distance above this, the triangle, at the junction of the Avenue N and\\nTwentieth Street, is covered by the residence of Dr. Guy Fairfax Whiting. Christian\\nHeurich, who owns the brewery a block below, lives at No. 1307. Paymaster-General\\nStewart, United States Navy, resides at No. 1315 Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow of the\\nlate Senator from California, and famous for her charities, at No. 1400; and the\\nwidow of the late Sunset Cox at No. 1408. North of Dupont Circle the Leiter\\nmansion is conspicuous, and that of W. C. Whittemore, another retired Chicago\\nmerchant, is on the next corner, at No. 1526. The large, white house opposite this is\\nthe home of Lieut. Richardson Clover, United States Navy. Tlie Rev. P. Van Wyck,\\na retired chaplain of the navy, lives at No. 1601 Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl-\\nvania, at No. 1605; and Thomas Nelson Page, the novehst, on the corner of R Street.\\nSome notable residences, away from the district surveyed above, should be men-\\ntioned. The officers attached to the\\nNavy Yard, to the Washington Bar-\\nracks and to the cavalry post at Fort\\nMeyer, dwell at these stations in the\\nmore or less cozy quarters provided by\\nthe Government for them. Senator\\nMorgan of Alabama lives in a brown-\\nstone house oi^posite the First Pi-es-\\nbyterian Church, at No. 315 Four-and-\\na-half Street.\\nMgr. Martinelli, the Apostle Legate\\nof the Pope of Rome to the United\\nStates, resides at No. 201\\nI Stn et. This house was\\npresented to General\\nRESIDENCE OF L. z. LEITER, ESQ. Grant by the citizens of\\nNew Hampshire Avenue and P Street, N. W. Washington at the cloSO Of the War,\\nGrant Gift\\nHouse.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0165.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nand occupied by him until he was inaugurated as President. It was afterward the\\nresidence of Justice Bradley of the Supreme Court. The adjoining house. No.\\n203, was presented to Gen. W. T. Sherman, who lived there for several years,\\nand afterward on Fifteenth Street. Mrs. Jean Lander, once a famous actress,\\nresides at No. 45 B Strc et, S. E., facing Capitol Park and John G. Nicolay, private\\nsecretary to President Lincoln, and his co-biographer with Mr. Hay, is at No. 212, on\\nthe opposite side of the same street.\\nADMIRAL DEWEY S RESIDENCE.\\n1741 Rhode Island Avenue.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0166.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "XIII.\\nEXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHINGTON.\\n1. To Mount Vernon.\\nThe pilgrimage to the home and tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon is\\nregarded by most Americans as a duty as well as a pleasure, and foreigners look upon\\nit as a compliment due to the nation. It forms, moreover, a delightful excursion.\\nEither of two routes may be taken to Mount Vernon by steamboat on the\\nPotomac or by electric cars.\\nThe electric trains of the Washington, Alexandria Mount Vernon\\nBail way leave their station, at Pennsylvania Avenue and Thirteen-and- Electric\\none-half Street, at intervals of about forty-five minutes from 10 a. m. to Railway\\n4 p. M., and reach Mount Vernon in an hour. The last train returniug RoutC.\\nto the city leaves Mount Vernon at 5 p. m. The fare is 50 cents for the\\nround trip, to which must be added 25 cents for admission to the grounds. The route\\nlies down Fourteenth Street to Long Bridge, by which the river is crossed into\\nVirginia. This is the bridge which became so famous during the Civil\\nWar as the military route into the seceding States, and which was so Long Bridge.\\nincessantly shaken by the tread of troops. It gives a fine view of the\\nPotomac, and crosses the fiats which will some day become an island park a glimpse\\nof the grounds of Washington Barracks is obtained. At its further end there still\\nstands, plainly seen at the left of the track as soon as the first high ground is reached,\\nFort Runyon, a strong earthwork erected in 1861 to guard the head of the bridge\\nfrom raiders. A mile farther is the junction where the electric line to Arlington\\nbranches off. A little beyond it the train passes St. Asaph and then skirts the base\\nof Braddock Heights the low hills upon which Braddock s army was encamped in\\n1755 before undertaking that disastrous march against the French and Indians at\\nFort Duqnesne (now Pittsburg), where Braddock was killed and his army saved\\nfrom annihilation only by the genius of his young Colonial aid, George Washington.\\nThe city of Alexandria is then entered.\\nAlexandria began, under the name of Bellhaven, in 17-18, and had\\na promising early career. It rapidly became an important port, and Alexandria.\\ndeveloped an extensive foreign trade. It was well known in the great\\nEnglish commercial cities. General Washington, Governor Lee, and other prominent\\nVirginians interested themselves in its development, and at one time it was thought\\nit would become a greater city than Baltimore. Warehouses crowded with tobacco\\nand flour and c rn lined its docks, and fleets of merchant vessels filled its harbor.\\nThe founding and advancement of Washington and the building of railroads, which\\ndiverted traffic to inland channels, destroyed its importance, and the coming of the\\nCivil War ruined it socially. Here the Union troops began their invasion of Vir-\\nginia soil, and here fell Ellsworth the first notable victim c f the conflict. The old\\nred-brick hotel where he pulled down the Confederate flag is now pointed out to\\nstrangers at the corner of the first street beyond the railway station on Washington\\nStreet. It was called the Marshall House.\\n159", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0167.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nINTERIOR CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA\\nThe old town contains many quaint and interesting relics of the past, of which\\nthe most interesting is Christ Church (near the Washington Street\\nChrist station), in which Washington s family and all the respectable persons\\nChurch. of his neighborhood used to worship. It has been kept as near as may\\nbe as it was in those days and the old square pew in Avhich His\\nExcellency, the General, used to sit, gazing up at the high pulpit during the long\\nand strong sermons, is still pointed out. Other things of interest for their associations\\nare the Masonic lodgeroom, where Washington and other prominent men of that day\\nwere wont to meet the house in which Braddock had his home and military head-\\nquarters the local monument to Confederate soldiers (seen from the train at\\nWashington Street), and other houses and objects.\\nSoon after leaving Alexandria by way of King Street (with a station at Eoyal\\nStreet) the Potomac comes into view, and the train crosses upon a bridge the broad\\nestuary of Big Hunting Creek, at the head of which was built, during\\nBelow the Civil War, Fort Lyon, one of the principal defenses of Washington.\\nAlexandria. The red-brick building seen some distance up the stream is the old\\nEpiscopal Theological Seminary, founded in colonial times. More\\nplainly visible at the left is Jones Point, marked by a lighthouse. This was the\\nsouthern corner of the original District of Columbia. Near the lighthouse is buried\\na marked corner-stone placed there with much ceremony by Washington and other\\nfounders of the Government and it was proposed to erect there a magnificent monu-\\nment. A mile farther on the position of Fort Foote on the other side of the river is\\nseen and presently the track rises to higher ground where, looking back, the Capitol\\nis visible a dozen miles away. Here, among peach orchards, begins the Mount\\nVernon estate, which in George Washington s time contained about 8,000 acres and", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0168.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHIJSTGTON.\\n161\\njust beyond Hunter s Station is seen, some distance at the left, the white house in\\nwliich dwelt Col. Tobias Lear, Washington s secretary. The half-ruined barn some-\\nwhat removed from the house goes back to the early history of the property. The\\nremainder of the run is through beautiful fields, with pleasant outlooks all around,\\nfrequent views of the river, and a sight of the flags flying over Fort Washington.\\nThe terminus is at the garden gate of the Mount Vernon grounds, within three\\nminutes walk of the mansion.\\nThe river route to Mount Vernon is by the comfortable steamer Charles\\nMacalester, built for the Association, which leaves the wharves at the foot of\\nSeventh Sti eet daily except Sunday, at 10 a. m., and returns at 2.30\\np. M.; in summer the hour is 9 o clock, and there is an afternoon trip, I^ivcr RoutC.\\nreturning late in the evening. Only round-trip tickets are sold (75\\ncents), including admission (25 cents) to the grounds. This steamer also goes on to\\nNotley Hall and Marshall Hall.\\nThe Potomac River trip is one of great enjoyment on a fine day. As the steamer\\nmoves out into the stream, it rides in a broad tidal channel dredged for harbor pur-\\nposes by the Government and kept full by a tidal reservoir above. The long artificial\\nisland which separates this harbor from the river itself will hereafter become a park.\\nOn the city shore, immediately below the wharves, appears the pleasant parade of\\nWashington Barracks, or The Arsenal, as it is still more commonly called a\\nCHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0169.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "162 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOJSr.\\nmilitarj post on the peninsula between the Potomac and its eastern branch. Its land\\nentrance is at the foot of Four-and-one-half Street, and is reached by electric cars\\nfrom Pennsylvania Avenue via Seventh Street. A trifling settlement styled Carrolls-\\nburg, with an earthen breast-high battery, existed on the extremity\\nWashing ton of this point, Avhich was called Turkey Buzzard or Greenleaf s Point\\nBarracks. when the city was laid out and in 1803 the peninsula was reserved\\nfor military purposes as far as T Street, S. W. What few buildings were\\nthere in 1814 were destroyed by the British, who lost a large number of men by drop-\\nping a port-fire into a dry well where a great quantity of navy powder had been\\nhidden, thus producing an impromptu volcano. In 1826 the northern end of the\\nreservation, as far back as U Street, denoted by the jog in the river wall on the Poto-\\nmac side, was walled off as a site for a district penitentiary. A building was erected\\nhaving a yard with a high inclosing wall, and here, in 186), were confined the con-\\nspirators in the assassination of Lincoln. Four of them were hung and buried there.\\nExactly where this execution and the interments were made is not accurately\\nknown, but it is believed that the gallows was planted near the circular flower bed\\nnow in front of the commandant s door, and that the bodies were buried near its\\nfoot. All were soon afterward removed, the penitentiaiy was swejat away, the limits\\nof the reservation were advanced to P Street, and, in 1881, the arsenal was abolished.\\nThe verdant parade, with its flag and guns, and avenue of big trees, its former\\nstorehouses, wliich during the war contained enormous quantities of arms and\\nammunition, and are now used as barracks, and its quadrangle of officers quarters\\nat the extreme point, make a pretty picture as we float past. As it is the head-\\nquarters of a regiment of artillery it has the band, and during the pleasant half of the\\nyear, guard-mounting at 9 a. m. and dress parade at 5 p, m. are conducted with much\\nceremony, while battery drills can be seen almost any morning at 10 or 11 o clock.\\nThe Anacostia River next opens broadly at the left, and the navy yard and\\nsouthern front of the city are exposed to view. On the further bank looms up the\\ngreat Government Hospital for the Insane, which cost $1,000,000, and\\nHospital is one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world. It is\\nfor Insane, primarily intended for demented men of the army and navy and\\nthere Lieutenant Gushing, of torpedo-boat fame, and Captain McGiffin,\\nthe hero of the naval flght of the Yalu, in China-Japan war, ended their blighted\\ndays.\\nThe low, level grounds of Giesboro Pomt, hordering the river below the asylum,\\nwere occupied during the war as cavalry camps and drilling stations. Opposite it is\\nthe broad estuary of Four-Mile Run. Alexandria now comes into view.\\n(A ferry also runs at hourly intervals between the Seventh Street wharf and\\nAlexandria. The Macalesier also stops at Alexandria both going and coming.)\\nJust below Alexandria the lighthouse and opening of Hunting Creek, already\\ndescribed, are passed. This creek gave its name to the Washington plantation before\\nLawrence AVashington named it Mount Vernon, in compliment to an admiral with\\nwhom he had served. Near here is a little stopping-place called Gunston Landing,\\nwhere some of the river boats stop to take on milk and vegetables for the city\\nmarket. It is the ancient landing for the estate of the eminent Mason family, whose\\ncolonial seat, Gunston Hall, is still standing a short distance inland, though no longer\\nin possession of the Masons. It was a familiar calling-place for Washington, his\\nnearest neighbor in fact.\\nOn the hilly Maryland side of the Potomac, toward which the boat now heads,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was another commanding earthwork. Fort Foote, once of military importance.\\nThis fort was kept in repair for years after the Civil War, and the United States", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0170.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "EXCtJEStONS ABOtJT WASHINGTOIS^. 163\\nstill owns its site. The next stop is made, about twelve miles below the city, at\\nFort Washington, a historic fort on a point of the Maryland shore, within sight of\\nMomit Vernon and commanding the channel. Tradition says that the early\\nexplorers of the Potomac found an Indian castle here, and that\\nWashington advised the building of a fort on this headland, as soon as Fort\\nthe District of Columbia was created. L Enfant drew its plans as his Washington.\\nlast public work, and a strong fortress was begun, but was blown up by\\nthe Americans in 1812, when they heard that the British were coming. It was\\nrebuilt in 1898, under the threat of war with Europe, and made the principal defense\\nof the capital against sea attack. The ]3rincipal battery consists of five 8-ineh rifles,\\nmounted on disappearing carriages, behind enormous embankments of earth and con-\\ncrete, 200 feet above the river level. These guns command the river for a distance of\\ntwenty miles, and have an extremely accurate range of over six miles. Fort Sheridan\\nis being constructed, nearly opposite, where will be mounted two huge 12-inch rifles,\\nhaving an even longer range and more destructive fire, besides several 8-inch guns.\\nArrangements are making for the placing of sub-aquatic mines in the river whenever\\nneeded, controlled from these forts. It is believed that it would be impossible for an\\nenemy to reach the capital by sailing up the river. The only hope of reduction of the\\nforts would be from the land side, and here elaborate defenses, to be defended by\\nmortar batteries, fixed and field artillery, and large bodies of infantry, are now in\\nprocess of construction. Extensive barracks are building at Fort Washington,\\nwhich is destined soon to become, probably, the most important garrison station\\nnear the capital.\\nThe United States Fish Commission maintains a fish-hatching station near Fort\\nWashington.\\nMount Vernon is on the right bank of the Potomac, sixteen miles below Wash-\\nington. The lands about it were a part of an extensive grant to John Washington,\\nthe first of the family who came to America in 1656, and they descended\\nrather fortuitously, in 1752, to George, then hardly more than a lad. IMount\\nHe married in 1759, and continued to develop and beautify the estate Vernon.\\nuntil the breaking out of the Revolution, when the ability he had\\nshown in the Virginia militia called him to the service of the United Colonies. He\\nreturned to Mount Vernon at the close of the war, but, to his grief, was obliged soon\\nto quit its beloved acres for the cares of the first Presidency of the Republic. Dur-\\ning this interval of five years an almost continuous stream of visitors had been enter-\\ntained there, and among them were manj foreigners of note as well as representative\\nAmericans of the time. Finally, in 1797, the great commander was released from the\\ncares of government, and enabled to retire, to pass, as he hoped, many quiet and\\nenjoyable years upon his plantation. Only two years were vouchsafed him, however,\\nfor on December 14, 1799, he died of membranous croup (or barbarous medical treat-\\nment) following exx)osure in a storm. He was buried upon his own estate, and the\\nfamily declined to accept the subsequent invitation of Congress to transfer the body\\nto the undercroft of the Capitol.\\nFor sixteen years Washington cultivated his great farm and lived the usual life of\\na Virginia planter. He raised large quantities of tobacco, which he shipped to Lon-\\ndon direct from his own wharf at Mount Vernon. He had no ambition\\nfor public life after his term of service in the Virginia Legislature had The Estate.\\nexpired, and was content with the pursuit of agriculture and the social\\npleasures of a country gentleman. He had some of the best society in Virginia\\nthe polite, wealthy and fashionable was a profuse and liberal host, was fond\\nof fox hunting, fishing, fowling, and athletic sports, and was happy in his home and", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0171.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164\\nPiCTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASltilSTaTON.\\ndomestic relations. His wife was thoroughly domestic in her tastes and habits, and\\na careful housekeeper.\\nWashington s property, estimated as worth $530,000, descended, at the death of\\nMrs. Washington, here, in 1802, to Bushrod Washington, then a Justice of the\\nSupreme Court, who died in 1829, leaving the estate to his nephew, John Augustine\\nWashington, from whom it passed by legacy, in 1832, to his widow, and from her, in\\n1855, to her son. He j)roposed to sell it, when a Southern lady, Miss Ann Pamela\\nCunningham, secured the refusal of it, and, after failing to interest Congress in her\\nproposal that the Government should buy and preserve it as a memorial, succeeded in\\narousing the women of the country. An association of these women, named Mount\\nVernon Ladies Association of the Union, with representatives from every State, was\\nincorporated by Virginia in 1856, and in 1858 it paid $200,000 for the central part of\\nthe property (some 200 acres), covenanting to hold it in perpetuity. The admission\\nfee of 25 cents goes to the payment of current expenses.\\nThe approach to Mount Vernon, by the river, impresses one with the sightliness\\nof the situation and the dignity of the mansion, which shines among the trees from\\nan elevation 150 feet above the landing wharf.\\nIn the summer. Mount Vernon is a mass of foliage to the river s edge. It has a\\ngreat growth of ancient trees and luxuriant undergrowth. Like all the region in which\\nit is located, it is thickly wooded, and from the river has an exceedingly picturesque\\nappearance. The mansion is very nearly concealed by the trees surrounding it.\\nThere is only one place as\\nyou approach it from the\\nnorth where it can be seen\\nat all. Approaching it from\\nthe south nothing of it can\\nbe seen save a small part of\\nthe roof. From the south\\nthe river curves directly to\\nthe estate. Until you get\\nwithin a short distance of it\\na high, jutting bank hides\\nit from view. When the\\nbank is passed the estate\\ncomes boldly in sight and\\npresents a most beautiful\\nappearance. It is located\\non an elevation the high-\\nest point on the Vii-ginia side of the Potomac and from the grounds delightful views\\nof river and shore can be obtained through openings in the groves of trees.\\nTHE OLD TOMB.\\nGrounds and Buildings.\\nTlie Tomb of Washington is the first object of attention, and stands immediately\\nat the head of the path from the landing. Its position, small dimensions, and plain\\nform of brick were dictated by Washington in his will. The back part\\nTomb of of it, extending into the bank, and closed by iron doors, entombs the\\nWashing^ton. bodies of about forty members and relatives of the family. The front\\npart, closed by plain iron gates, through which anyone may look, con-\\ntains two plain sarcophagi, each excavated from a single block of marble, which were\\nmade and presented by John Struthers of Philadelphia, in 1837. That one in the", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0172.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0173.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\ncenter of the little inclosure holds the mortal remains of the Father of his Country,\\nwithin the mahogany coffin in which they were originally placed. At his left is the\\nbody of his consort, Martha Washington. Both the sarcophagi ai^e sealed and are\\nintended never to be opened nor are the vaults at the rear. Four times a year,\\nhowever, the iron gates are opened by the authorities, and it is on these occasions\\nthat the wreaths and other offerings of flowers are deposited.\\nThis w^as not the first burial-place of Washington. At the time of his death his\\nbody was placed in the older and smaller family tomb a few steps farther north and\\nnearer the river, which is now overgrown with ivy and shaded by\\nOld Tomb. immense oaks. Here Mrs. Washington was laid beside him, and there\\nthey remained until 1837, when they were removed to tlieir present\\nresting-place. Judge Bushrod Washington and several other relatives of the family\\nTHE TOMB OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.\\nare buried near by, beneath monuments that bear their names, and between the\\nTomb and the river-bluff used to be buried all the slaves who died upon the estate\\nhow many is unknown but the only one marked is that of the old nurse of Mrs..\\nJane Washington, one of the latest occupants of the estate, and the last person to be\\nentombed within the vault.\\nThe Mansion itself stands upon an eminence overlooking broad reaches of the\\nPotomac, and 125 feet above it. It is built of wood, the framework being of oak, is\\n96 feet long by 30 feet wdde, and has two stories and an attic. The\\nThe eastern or river-facing front is shaded by a portico, as high as the eaves,\\nl^ansion. supported by eight square posts of wood, and paved at the level of the\\nground with tiles imported from England in 1786 this pavement is 14^\\nfeet wide. The roof of the portico is crowned by an ornamental balustrade half con-\\ncealing the four dormer windows by which that side of the attic is lighted and the\\nceiling and posts of the portico are neatly paneled.\\nThis river-facing side, though no more conspicuous, is less interesting architec-\\nturally, than the western or landward front of the house, which was the one most", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0174.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHINGTON. 167\\noften approached by visitors in the old coach-traveling days. This has no\\nporch, but presents an extended plain front, with an ornamental\\ncentral and two side doors, symmetrically disposed, while the Western\\nroof is pleasingly broken by a low gable and two dormers, and by Front.\\nthe little central cupola and two large chimneys.\\nFrom each end of the mansion, on this side, curving colonnades connected with\\nit the kitchen on the left and the office of the estate on the right and a generous\\nlawn stretched before the house, shaded along the sides and at a distance by numer.\\nous great trees which still survive, and containing a sun-dial. This was called the\\nBowling Green, and terminated at the gate on the highway by which carriages\\nentered the home grounds.\\nThe Kitchen was a spacious house nearly all of one end of which was devoted to a\\nhuge fireplace, whose andirons and turnspit are still in place, and a fire still burns\\nupon the hearth. Here a light lunch is served and souvenirs are sold\\nby the Ladies Association. Next the house stands the original ivell, Outbuildings.\\nfrom which one may still pump a drink of water and just beyond it is\\nthe great Smokehouse, always so important an adjunct to every self-supporting Southern\\nestablishment. Beyond the smokehouse, on the road which leads southward toward\\nthe Tomb and steamboat landing, is the old Laundry, and then the Coachhouse in\\nwhich may be seen an old-time chaise, said to have been one of the Washington car-\\nriages in the General s time this house was the shelter for his great white chariotof-\\nstate. Then comes the Barn, the oldest building on the estate, which was constructed\\nby Washington s father, in 1733, from bricks said to have been imported from Eng-\\nland. Its roof, of course, is new, and the building is still serviceable.\\nThe outer buildings at the right (or north) of the house, include the building in\\nwhich the manager of the estate resided, and where was the Business Office; it is now\\nthe office of the Superintendent. Just beyond was the Carpenter Shop and in the\\nrear of this a larger building called the Spinning -House where, in old times, the slave\\nwomen gathered to spin and weave the cotton, wool, and flax for the clothes of the\\nservants and ti make garments and rag carpets the room is now filled with looms\\nand spinning wheels. Still farther away in this direction is seen the row of restored\\nbuildings originally the quarters of the colored servants required about the house,\\nstables, and gardens. The field hands lived in cabins scattered about the estate. Near\\nthem are the greenhouses.\\nThe Gardens are perhaps the most interesting places in the whole grounds. They\\nwere laid out in a f rmal style of walks and beds, as was then the fashion, defined by\\nhedges of box, which still grow luxuriantly and are kept well trimmed\\nas of yore. In the early summer they are a marvel of flowers and beau- Gardens.\\ntiful foliage. That enclosure on the north side, between the lawn and\\nthe negro quarters, was the rose garden. It contains specimens of that rose named\\nby Washington for his mother, and others bearing his own name and that of Nellie\\nCustis. It is no wonder, as we are told, that it was one of the regular afternoon\\npleasures of Madame Washiiigton to gather rose leaves here to make rose water and\\na certain perfumed unguent for which she was famous among her friends. It was a\\nhabit of the family to ask distinguished guests to plant something as a keepsake, and\\nseveral of these mementos still flourish. The little structure at the end of the long\\nwalk in the garden is reputed to have been the schoolroom of the Custis children.\\nThe Vineyard Enclosure, as Washington designated it, in the rear of the kitchen,\\nwas devoted more to fruit and vegetables, yet was a charming garden, too.\\nThe Summer House, on the brow of the river bluff, stands upon the site of an\\n.original one, and has beneath it a deep cellar suitable for storing ice. The slope of", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0175.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nthe bluff was devoted by Washington to the purposes of a deer park, and deer have\\nbeen replaced there since 1887.\\nThe Mansion and Its Relics.\\nThe mansion is divided interiorly by a broad hall running from side to side, and\\nhaving the main stairway, and here one may well begin the survey of the interior.\\nWhen Mount Vernon was acquired by the Ladies Association it was not only out\\nof repair but the furniture had been distributed to various heirs or sold and scattered.\\nAn effort was at once made to recover as much as possible, in order to\\nInterior. restore as closely as might be the original home-like appearance of\\nthe house. As it has been impossible to do this thoroughly a great\\nmany other articles of furniture, adornment, and historical interest have been added.\\nIn order to do this the various State branches of the Association were invited to\\nundertake to refurnish one room each, and many have done so, and the names of\\nthese States are identified with the apartments they have taken charge of. A con-\\nsiderable quantity of furniture as well as personal relics of George and Martha\\nWasliington are here, however, especially in the bedrooms where they died. These\\nare mostly distinctly labeled, so that the visitor can distinguish between what\\nbelonged to the Father of his Country and what is simply illustrative of the domestic\\nlife of his day.\\nThe Central Hall contains three of Washington s dress swords, the most interesting\\nof which is the one bequeathed to his nephew Lewis, since it is the one he wore\\nwhen he resigned his commission at Annapolis, when he was inaugu-\\nCentral Hall, rated President at New York, and elsewhere on ceremonious occasions.\\nAnother was worn by him in the Braddock campaign. Here, also,\\nhangs the main key of the Bastile that prison in Paris which was so justly hated\\nTHE CENTRAL HALL.\\nby the people, and which was demolished by the mob in 1789. Lafayette sent it to\\nWashington with a characteristic letter; and also the model of the Bastile in the\\nBanquet Hall. Lafayette s Agreement to serve as Major-General in the American\\narmy hangs near by. The hall appears as it was redecorated by Washington in", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0176.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIOlSrS ABOUT WASHINGTON. 169\\n1775, and the engravings are reprints of pictures he owned. The tall clock on the\\nstairs was presented by New Jerse} the table belonged to W. A. Washington.\\nThe Music-room or East Parlor opens from this hall by the first door at the right,\\nand is under the care of the Vice-Regent of the Association from Ohio. It is crowded\\nwith objects, of which the most conspicuous is the harpsichord that\\nwas given to Nellie Custis by Washington, together with his grand i^usic-room,\\nmihtary plume, when she married Laurance Lewis in 1798. When\\nthe hour came the tall, majestic figure emerged from his bedroom clad ia the old,\\nworn continental buff and blue and at the appointed moment gave the\\npretty, blushing creature, with her wild-rose cheeks and dark and liquid eyes, into\\nthe keeping of his trusted nephew, Laurance. It is such gracious, homely pictures\\nas these that rise to the imagination as one loiters about the st ried homestead of\\nthe Father of his C )untry. Here also are the stool belonging to the piano, and\\nMiss Custis embroidery frame Washington s flute of rosewood, silver-mounted\\nhis card-table, the guitar and music-book of a relative, and in the cabinet many small\\narticles of tableware, his spectacles, a steel camp-fork, etc., which belonged to the\\nGeneral or his family. The upholstering of the reproduced furniture and the form\\nof the Venetian mirror are like that originally here.\\nThe West Parlor, entered by the second hall door on the right, looks, in its walls,\\nceiling, and handsome corner fireplace, as it did when AVashington left it. Above the\\nmantel are carved the coat-of-arms of the family, and his crest and\\ninitials appear cast in relief on the iron fireback the mantel painting West Parlor.\\nof ships is said to portray a part of the fleet at Carthagena of that\\nAdmiral Vernon after whom the estate was named. The carpet is a large rug\\npresented by Louis XVI to Washington. It was woven to order, is dark green with\\norange stars its centerpiece is the seal of the United States, and the border is a\\nfloriated design with swans. The globe and several chairs here also belonged to\\nthe furniture of the house. A spinet and two fine old candlesticks will be noticed,\\nthe latter standing upon a beautiful pier table. This room was refurnished by\\nIllinois.\\nThe first door on the left opens into Mrs. Washington s Sitting-room, refurnished\\nby Georgia in the manner of the period. The mahogany secretary once stood in\\nWashington s military headquarters at Cambridge, Mass.; and the\\ntables and mirror are historic. Some elaborate candlesticks and a Sitting-room.\\nsconce for candles are noteworthy, and the latter belonged in the\\nfamily while there is here preserved a candle molded for the illumination at York-\\ntown in celebration of Cornwallis surrender. The engravings representing the siege\\nof Gibraltar hung in this same house when its master was alive.\\nThe Dining-room is next beyond, and still has the appearance and much of the\\nfurniture of the time of its illustrious owner. The Italian mantel and stucco orna-\\nments of the walls, cornice, and ceiling are admirable and the orna-\\nmented fireback came from Belvoir, the country seat of Lord Fairfax, Dining-room.\\nWashington s early friend and patron, while the andirons and fender\\nbelong to the Eutledge house. The sideboard was Washington s, and the cut-glass\\ndecanter and table cutlery and cases; while the china in the corner cupboard is a\\ncopy of the set given to Mrs. Washington by the officers of the French fleet in 1792.\\nThe rug, tables, and chairs belong to that period and among the portraits of\\nRevolutionary generals on the walls is one of Miss Cunningham, who originated\\nthe Mount Vernon Association.\\nThe southern end of the house is occupied by a second stairway and by a large\\napartment known as the Library in which are gathered an original mahogany", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0177.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHHSTOTOlSr.\\nTHE BANQUET HALL.\\nbookcase, and a few of the volumes which belonged to Washington, most of the remain-\\nder of which are now in the Athengeum Library of Boston. The shelves\\nLibrary. of the bookcases are now filled mainly with duplicates of those Wash-\\nington possessed and with litei ature about Washington and upon the\\nwalls hang reprints of documents connected with his public life, one of which is a\\nprinted proof of the Farewell Address, corrected by AVashington s own hand. A silver\\ninkstand, some chairs, a painting of the Great Falls of the Potomac, made at his\\nrequest, and a few small articles are personal relics.\\nThe Banquet Hall is an addition made to the northern end of the house after\\nGeorge received it from his father. Its length is the whole breadth of the mansion,\\nand its richly ornamented ceiling is two stories in height, while it is\\nBanquet lighted by a broad, arched and mullioned window. Opposite the win-\\nHall, dow is a highly ornate fireplace and mantel of Italian marble and\\nworkmanship, which once occupied a place in the home at AVanstead,\\nEngland, of Samuel Vaughn, who brought it to America as a gift to Washington in\\n1785. The center of the hall is occupied by a great table, similar to the original one,\\nupon which lies Washington s plateau of silver and mirror-glass, intended as an\\nornament for the center of the table on ceremonious occasions. His punch bowl is\\nalso to be seen among many other small articles of use or ornament that were in the\\nhouse, and which are now safely locked in a cabinet. The model of the Bastile, a\\nFrench clock that still keeps good time, two porcelain vases, silver bracket lamps, a\\nmirror, rosewood stands for flower vases, a surveyor s tripod, and lesser objects are\\nidentified with the house and its owners; while a lock of the General s hair and\\nMartha s ivory fan are peculiarly personal and precious. The old silk standard is\\nreputed to have been captured by Washington and visitors should examine closely\\nthe portrait woven upon silk, in French Jacquard looms, which cost $15,000, so elab-\\norate a process was required. A great painting by Rembrandt Peale fills the west-\\nern end of the room, which has been fitted up by New York.\\nOf the bedrooms on the second floor the most interesting to all is that of the\\nGeneral himself the Room in tohich Washington died. It is at the south end of the\\nhouse, over the library, and the ladies of Virginia have been able to restore it more\\nnearly to its original appearance than any otlur part of the house. The bed is in", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0178.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHIJSTOTON.\\n171\\nROOM IN WHICH GENERAL WASHINGTON DIED,\\nthe same place and the same one upon which Washington died, and the chairs, small\\ntables, and mirror were a part of the scene. The hangings of the win-\\ndows and bedstead copy those of the time two cushions were worked Death\\nby Martha Washington and a dimity chair cover shows the needlework Chamber.\\nof her granddaughter; while parts of Washington s traveling chest and\\ncamp equipage remind the beholder of his stormy life. There is little else in the\\nroom than what properly belongs there, and the simplicity is impressive.\\nMartha Washington died, three years after her husband, in the room in the attic\\nimmediately above this a bedroom she had chosen because his room\\nhad been closed (as was the custom), and from this south attic window Wlartha s\\nshe could see his grave. Wisconsin has refitted her room as nearly as Room.\\npossible as it was when Martha slept there, but only the corner wash-\\nstand really belonged to her. Other rooms on the second floor are known by special names.\\nROOM IN WHICH MARTHA WASHINGTON DIED.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0179.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nThe Lafayette Room is so called because the Marquis occupied it when at Mount Vernon\\nit was refitted by New Jersey. The River Room, by Pennsylvania, con-\\nBedrooms. tains furniture identified with Franklin and other of Washington s\\nfriends and relatives. The Guest Chamber is due to Delaware; the Green\\nRoom to West Virginia and that in which Nellie Custis slept to Maryland^ where the\\nbedstead and other furniture all belonged to old Southern families who lived in a\\nstyle very similar to that at Mount Vernon. The Upper Hull, communicating with\\nthese bedrooms, has a cabinet in which are to be seen several of the Mount Vernon\\nfire-buckets, a brown suit of clothes, with velvet waistcoat and silk stockings worn\\nby Washington, and a compass and reading glass that were used by him, as well as\\nseveral relics of members of his family and descendants. The musket was brought\\nto America by Lafayette.\\nAttic. In the AUic a series of small bedrooms have been furnished by the\\nvice-regents of various States, with articles of colonial manu-\\nfacture and interest.\\n2. To Arlington JS^ational Cemetery and Fort Meyer.\\nArlington, an estate identified in a peculiarly intimate manner with the history of\\nthe founding and preservation of the Union, and singularly beautiful withal, would\\nbe one of the most attractive places at the National Capital apart frum\\nBeauty of the sacred interest imparted to it by its soldier dead. For several gen-\\nthe Estate. erations before the Civil War the home of the Custis and Lee families,\\nit has been devoted since that time to the purposes of the foremost of\\nthe national military cemeteries. Here, behind the inscribed arches of the great\\ngates, made from the marble pillars of the old War Department building, and under\\nARLINGTON HOUSE. Formerly the Home of General Robert E Lee.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0180.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHHSTGTOlSr.\\n178\\nthe oaks that belonged to the greatest of their enemy, sleep almost a score of\\nthousands of Union soldiers, and every year sees the eternal enlistment in their ranks\\nof many more among them officers of rank and distinction famous for deeds that\\nshall make their names immortal.\\nTwo routes may be takeri to Arlington, and the best way is to patronize both,\\ngoing by one way and returning by the other. This prevents retracing one s steps,\\nand makes the course of w^alking down hill. In jnirsuance of this\\nmethod take the Pennsylvania Avenue cars (if the F Street cars are RoUtCS.\\ntaken, descend the stone steps from Prospect Street to Pennsylvania\\nAvenue at the Union station) to the extremity of the line (Union station, Thirty-sixth\\nStreet) in Georgetown, and walk across Aqueduct Bridge to Eoslyn, Virginia, where,\\nat the western extremity of the bridge, electric cars may be taken to Fort Meyer and\\nthe northern gate of Arlington Cemetery. This is a ride of hardly ten minutes, and\\nthe whole trip from the Treasury onsumes only thirty-five minutes\\nwhen close connection is made; fare from Roslyn, 10 cents; r und Public\\ntrip, 15 cents. Public carriages start from the terminal station at the Carriages.\\nFort Meyer gate, in which passengers are given a tour of the cemetery\\nfor 25 cents a stop of five minutes is made at the mansion, whe ^e a lay-over ticket\\nis also given if asked.\\nThe distance from the Fort Meyer gate to the Mansion, following the main road\\nand flagstone walk, is about a third of a mile, and shows nearly all of the older and\\nmore cultivated part of the Cemetery. Southward of the path the\\ngraves of thousands and thousands of soldiers of the Civil War spread Soldiers\\naway through the woods, as far as can be seen, each marked by a small Graves.\\nmarble headstone, Avith here and there a more prominent mark. At\\nintervals are placed, in front of this fatal and impressive array, iron tablets bearing\\nlines or stanzas selected from Col. Theodore O Hara s eloquent poem,\\nTHE BIVOUAC OP THE DEAD.\\nThe muffled drum s sad roll has beat\\nThe soldier s last tattoo\\nNo more on life s parade shall meet\\nThat brave and fallen few.\\nSons of the dark and bloody ground,\\nYe must not slumber there,\\nWhere stranger steps and tongues resound\\nAlong the heedless air\\nOn Fame s eternal camping-ground\\nTheir silent tents are spread,\\nAnd Glory guards, with solemn round,\\nThe bivouac of the dead.\\nYour own proud land s heroic soil\\nShall be your fitter grave\\nShe claims from war its richest spoil\\nThe ashes of her brave.\\nNo rumor of the foe s advance\\nNow swells upon the wind\\nNo troubled thought at midnight haunts\\nOf loved ones left behind.\\nRest on, embalmed and sainted dead\\nDear as the blood ye gave\\nNo impious footsteps here shall tread\\nThe herbage of your grave;\\nNo vision of the morrow s strife\\nThe warrior s dream alarms.\\nNo braying horn nor screaming fife\\nAt dawn shall call to arms.\\nNor shall your glory be forgot\\nWhile Fame her record keeps.\\nOr Honor points the hallowed spot\\nWhere Valor proudly sleeps.\\nThe neighing troop, the flashing blad\\nThe bugle s stirring blast\\nThe charge, the dreadful cannonade,\\nThe din and shout are past.\\nNor wreck, nor change, nor winter s blight,\\nNor time s remorseless doom,\\nShall dim one ray of holy light\\nThat gilds your glorious tomb.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0181.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOIST.\\nOn the left, or north, of the path the hillock is more irregularly dotted with mon-\\numents to commissioned officers of the army, many of whom were distinguished in\\nthe Mexican or Indian wars previous to that of 1861-65. Beside many\\nGraves of of them rest their wives, in accordance with the privilege given by the\\nOfficers. Government. Here, among many of less note, rest such famous com-\\nmanders as Belknap, Burns, Gleason, Gregg, Harvey, Hazen, Ingalls,\\nKing, Kirk, Lyford, Meyer (whose idea it was that these grounds should be set apart\\nfor this i)urpose), McKibbin, Paul, Plummer, Steadman, Turtellotte, and many\\nothers and the monuments are often exceedingly appropriate. The interest\\nincreases as the Mansion is approached. This noble house, whose pillared portico\\nis so well seen from the city, stands upon the brow of a magnificent\\nSite and hill overlooking the valley of the Potomac and the Federal city a\\nView. broad and beautiful view. On the brow of this bluff are buried officers\\nof special distinction and popularity, and here may be seen the graves\\nand monuments of some of the Union s latest and most distinguished defenders.\\nHere lie Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, beneath a grand memorial stone; Admiral David\\nD. Porter, Maj -Gen. George H. Crook, whose monument bears a bronze bas-relief of\\nthe surrender of the Apache Geronimo; Maj.-Gen. Abner Doubleday, the historian of\\nGettysburg; Generals Meigs, Ricketts, Benet and Watkins; Colonel Berdan,\\nof sharpshooter fame, and others. In the rear of the mansion is a\\nTemple of miniature temple upon whose columns are engraved the names of\\nFame. great American soldiers and a lovely amphitheater of columns, vine-\\nembowered, where Decoration Day ceremonies and open-air burial\\nservices may be conducted. Near it is a great granite mausoleum in which repose the\\nbones of 2, 1 11 unknown soldiers gathered after the war from the battle field of Bull\\nRun, and thence to the Rappahannock. It is surrounded by cannon and bears a\\nmemorial inscription. Near by, in a lovely glade, is buried Gen. Henry W. Lawton,\\nkilled fighting in the Philippines in the autumn of 1899.\\nThe victims of the destruction of the battleship Maine, in Havana, and several\\nhundred soldiers Avho lost their lives in Cuba and Porto Rico, during the war with\\nSpain, in 1898, are buried together in the southern part of the cemetery.\\nSoldiers and reached by a pleasant road, winding through the peopled woods and\\nSailors of their monument is a battery of great naval guns.\\nthe Cuban The Arlington mansion is a fine example of the architecture of its\\nWar. era, and resembles Jefferson s mansion at Monticello. Its upper floor\\nis occupied by the ofiicial in charge, but the lower rooms are mainly\\nempty, and visitors are content with a glance at them, preferring the open air and\\nlight of the lawns and gardens about the house, and the groves that now cover the\\nadjacent fields. This old home of the Colonial aristocracy is not only\\nThe I^ansion. closely identified with the annals of early Virginia, but with the polit-\\nical development of the country. It was bought as a tract of 1,160 acres,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a311,000, by John Custis, who, early in the eighteenth century, came from the\\nEastern shore to live on his new property. His was one of the first families of\\nVirginia in every sense of the word, and possessed great wealth; but he had various\\ndomestic troubles, one of which was, that his high-spirited son, Daniel Parke Custis,\\ninsisted upon neglecting a high-born heiress, prepared by his parents for his future\\nconsort, and marrying, instead, pretty Martha Dandridge, the belle of\\nCflStis Williamsburg, the Colonial capital. The old gentleman was very angry.\\nFamily. until one day, we are told, Martha Dandridge met him at a social gath-\\nering, and fairly captivated him. The marriage was made and prospered,\\nand, when old Custis died, his son and his wife came into possession and residence", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0182.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0183.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHIJSTGTON.\\nTHE TEMPLE OF FAME.\\nhere at Arlington, where Daniel soon died, leaving Martha a 5 oung widow with two\\nchildren, John Parke and Eleanor Custis. His will entailed this estate to his son, and\\ndivided his other property, the wife receiving, as her share, lands and securities worth,\\nperhaps, |100,000. In due tinae this rich and blooming widow re-entered society,\\nwhere she presently became acquainted with a Colonial colonel, who had recently\\nachieved military fame in Braddock s expedition against Fort Duquesne. He lived\\nwith his mother at Mount Vernon, only fifteen miles below, and his name was George\\nWashington. It was not long before he had wooed and won the charming and opulent\\nwidow, who laid aside her weeds and went with her two children to live at her hus-\\nband s home. Together they managed and cared for the Ar,ington estate, until its\\nyoung owner should come of age, and both were often there. The daughter died, but\\nthe son grew to manhood, received his noble property, married a Calvert, and served\\nupon his stepfather s staff during the latter part of the Revolution. Then he, too,\\ndied (1781), and his two infant children were adopted by Washington and deeply\\nloved. They kept their own names, however, and Nelly, who seemed to have\\ninherited the beauty of her grandmother, married Major Lewis, a Virginian. Her\\nbrother, George Washington Parke Custis, upon reaching his majority, inherited and\\ntook possession of Arlington, at the beginning of the present century and immedi-\\nately began the erection of the present mansion, which, therefore, Washington himself\\nnever saw, since he died December 13, 1799, while this house was not completed until\\n1803. A few months afterward, Mr. Custis married Mary Lee Fitzhugh, one of the\\nRandolphs, and four children were born to them, but only one survived, a daughter,", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0184.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "EXCUESIOlSrS ABOUT WASHINGTOlSr.\\n177\\nTOMB OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD.\\nTOMB OF GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0185.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlSTOTOlSr.\\nTHE bHERlDAN GATE\\nMary. The Custis family\\nlived at Arlington, improv-\\ning and beautifying the\\nestate, winning the good\\nopinion of all who knew\\nthem, and entertaining\\nhandsomely until the\\ndeath of Mrs. Custis, in\\n1853, and C f her husband,\\nthe last male of his family,\\nin 1857. The estate then\\nfell to the daughter, who,\\nmeanwhile, had married\\na young army ofBcer, Rob-\\nert E. Lee,\\nThe Lees. son of\\nLighthorse\\nHarry Lee, the dashing\\ncavalryman of the Revo-\\nlution, entwining into the story of the estate another strand of the best fabric of Vir-\\nginian society. Arlington immediately became the home of this officer, and whtn\\nthe Civil War came, and Colonel Lee went out of the Union with his State, his great-\\nest personal sacrifice, no doubt, M as the tliought of leaving Arlington. Indeed, so\\nlittle did he foresee that he was going to be the leader of a four-years struggle, that he\\ntook away none of the furniture, and very few even of the great number of relics of\\nWashington, many of intrinsic as well as historic value, which the house contained.\\nFederal troops at once took possession of the estate, and everything of historical value\\nwas seized by the Government, so that most of the collection, with other relics, is now\\nto be seen at the National Museum. Arlington could not be confiscated, because\\nentailed but the non-payment of taxes made a pretext for its sale, when it was\\nbought in for $23,000, by the United States Government, which established the\\nmilitary cemetery here in 1864. When, several years after the war, G. W. Custis Lee\\ninherited the estate, he successfully disputed, in the SuiDreme Court, the legality of\\nthe tax-sale, but at once transferred his restored rights to the Government for\\n1150,000, which was paid him in 1884.\\nThe return from Arlington is easily and pleasantly made by walking down to\\none of the gates and taking the cars of the Washington, Alexandria Mount Vernon\\nRailway for Washington, by way of the Long Bridge. Three hours will suffice to\\nmake this trip satisfactorily. The grounds remain oj)en until sunset.\\nA visit to Fort Meyer may well be combined with this excursion.\\nFort Meyer occupies a large area of the old estate adjoming the cemetery on the\\nnorth, but separated from it by a ravine up which the tramway makes its way\\nfrom the aqueduct bridge. This is a cavalry post of the army, capable\\nFort IMeyer. of accommodating a whole regiment. The officers quarters are on the\\nbluff overlooking the Potomac and the city behind them are various\\noffices, the post hospital, etc., and farther back the commodious brick barracks,\\nlarge stables, and great drill shed. The evening parades, in fine weather, and the\\nweekly band concerts are picturesque and delightful and it is highly interesting\\nto sit in the public gallery of the drill hall and watch the feats of horsemanship to\\nwhich the cavalrymen are trained. The great rolling field, west of the cemetery\\nand south of the post parade ground, is devoted to troop, squadron, and regimental", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0186.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHINGTON,\\n179\\ndrilling, and is a favorite place for polo. This fine military post occupies the site of\\nFort Whij^ple, one of the strongest defenses of Washington during the Civil War.\\nAfter the disaster at Bull Run a system of defenses was projected and partly\\ncompleted to cover every approach to the city. Every prominent point, wrote\\nGeneral CuUom, at intervals of 800 or 1,000 yards, was occupied by an\\ninclosed field-fort every important approach or depression of ground, Defenses of\\nunseen from the forts, was swept by a battery of field guns, and the Washington.\\nwhole connected by rifle-trenches, which were, in fixct, lines of infantry\\nparapet, furnishing emplacement for two ranks of men, and afi ording covered com-\\nmunication along the line while roads were opened wherever necessarjr, so that troops\\nand artillery could be moved rapidly from one point of the immense periphery to\\nanother, or under cover from j)oint to point.\\nIn this circle cf defenses Fort Whipple held a very important position, and was a\\nstar-shaped earthw ork, scientifically built and heavily armed and garrisoned. It has\\nbeen completely swept away, but south of tlie drill plain, at the eastern corner of the\\ncemetery. Fort Tillinghast is still standing and looks, at a distance, as if time had\\nspared it as complete-\\nly as did the ravages\\nof war. It is well\\nworth a visit. The\\nruins of Fort Cass,\\nand other outworks\\nnear by, are also\\ntraceable.\\nFort Whipple was\\nassigned to the use of\\nthe Signal Corps as\\ntraining school and\\nheadquarters, a n d\\nwas renamed Meyer\\nafter the death of its\\ncommandant, the\\nChief Signal Oflicer.\\nOne line of the\\nWashington, Arling-\\nton Falls Church\\nElectric Railway\\nextends southward\\nfrom Fort Meyer\\nsome five miles,\\nthrough tlie subur-\\nban villages of Pen-\\nrose and Columbia to\\nNauek, on the Round\\nHill branch of the\\nSouthern Railway.\\nFalls Church.\\nFalls Church, Vir-\\nTHE McCLELLAN GATE. ginia, is the terminus", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0187.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WA SHINGTOlSr,\\nof the main line of this road, some eight miles east of Georgetown. The road thither\\npasses through a hilly region, rapidly undergoing suburban improvement, and Falls\\nChurch itself is a pleasant old-time village, which was the scene of one of the first\\nfights of the Civil War.\\n3. To the Soldiers Home, Rock Creek Church, Fort Stevens,\\nBattle and National Cemeteries, the Catholic\\nUniversity, and Brookland.\\nThe Soldiers Home stands in the midst of a noble park, with a wide outlook from\\nhigh grounds directly north of the Capitol, from which it is distant four miles in a\\nstraight line. It is a favorite terminus for driving and bicycling, beautiful roads lead-\\ning thither from the head of Connecticut Avenue or Fourteenth Street, and less\\ndesirable ones returning through the northeastern quarter of the city. Two lines of\\nstreet cars approach the Soldiers Home, giving the tourist an alternate\\nRoute. route going and coming and he should devote the better part of a\\nday to this excursion. The direct route out is by the cars north on\\nSeventh Street, connecting with the Brightwood line from the boundary to the Eagle\\nor western gate of the Soldiers Home grounds. A short distance beyond the\\nboundary, at the right of the road, are seen the tall brick buildings\\nHoward of Howard University a collegiate institution founded soon after\\nUniversity. the war, as an outgrowth of the Freedmen s Bureau, for the education\\nof colored j ouths of both sexes. Its first president was Maj.-Gen. O.\\n0. Howard (who had resigned from the army temporarily to undertake this work),\\nand it has maintained itself as a flourishing institution, having some three hundred\\nstudents annually.\\nTHE SOLDIERS HOME.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0188.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "EXCUESIOlSrS ABOUT WASHINGTON. 181\\nThe new Distributing Reservoir, to which the famous and incomplete Lydecker\\nTunnel was intended to carry water from the Potomac conduit, occupies the high\\nground north of the university.\\nThe ride out to the end of this road, at the District limits, is a very pleasant one\\nall the way and if one is fond of walking, he can do well by going on through the\\nsuburban villages of Pot worth and Briglitwood to Silver Sj)rings and\\nTakoma the latter a station on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad almost Countrv\\nat the extreme northern corner of the District. It is then a very RoadS.\\nplea?ant walk back to the Soldiers Home, along the Blair and Rock\\nCreek Church roads, near the railroad, which are bordered by luxuriant hedges of\\nosage orange. This is a fair country road for bicycles. Extensions of electric lines\\nare progressing, one line now reaching to Forest Glen, Maryland.\\nNear Bi ightwood, in plain view off at the left as you go out upon the cars, are the\\ncrumbling parapets of Fort Stevens, which was one of the agencies in protecting the\\ncity against Confederate attack in 1864, when fighting occurred all through these\\nwoods and fields.\\nEarly s Raid, in July, 1864, was the only serious war scare Washington had, but\\nit was enough. Panic-stricken people from the Maryland villages came flocking in\\nalong this road, bringing such of their household goods as tliey could\\ncarry. For two or three days the city was cut off from communication Early s Raid.\\nwith the outside world, except by way of the Potomac River. The dis-\\ntrict militia was reinforced by every able-bodied man who could be swept up.\\nDepartment clerks were mustered into companies and sent to the trenches, witli any\\nodds and ends of fighting material that could be gathered. There was an immense\\ncommotion, but the capital w as never so demoralized as was alleged of it at the\\ntime. Within forty-eight hours, from one source and another, 60,000 men had\\nbeen gathered. Meanwhile the stubborn resistance made some miles up the river, by\\nGen. Lew^ Wallace, whose wide reputation as the author. of Ben Hur, The Fair\\nGod, etc., was still to come, who delayed the invading host against frightful odds\\nuntil the fortifications were Avell manned, had saved the city from being sacked and\\nthe President from capture. It is not too much to say that Wallace s prompt and\\ncourageous action did this thing. Wallace was forced back, of course, but when\\nEarly got him out of the way and reached the defenses north of the city, he found\\nthe old Sixth Corps there, and, contenting himself with a brisk skirmish in the fields\\nin front of Fort Stevens, he fled, carrying away the plunder of hundreds of desolated\\nMaryland farmhouses. The President was not only intensely anxious but eagerly\\ninterested. Noah Brooks, in his Washington in Lincoln s Time, says of him:\\nHe went out to Fort Stevens during the skirmish on July 12, and repeat-\\nedly exposed himself in the coolest manner to the fire of the rebel sharpshooters.\\nHe had once said to me that he lacked physical courage, although he had a fair\\nshare of the moral quality of that virtue but his calm unconsciousness of danger,\\nwhile the bullets were flying thick and fast about him, was ample proof that he\\nwould not have dropped his musket and run, as he believed he cer-\\ntainly would, at the first sign of physical danger. Battle\\nThose killed in this affair were buried in the little cemetery by Cemetery.\\nthe Methodist Church, now called Battle Cemetery.\\nThe Soldiers Home is the forerunner and type of those which were erected in\\nvarious parts of the country after the Civil AVar, but it is not in the same class. It is\\nan institution established in 1851 by the efforts of Gen. Winfield Scott, and out of cer-\\ntain funds received from Mexico, as a retreat for veterans of the Mexican War, and\\nfor men of the regular army who have been disabled or who, by twenty years of", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0189.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nhonorable service and a payment of 12 cents a month, have acquired the right of\\nresidence there the remainder of tlieir Hves. Tliis gives the veterans a pleasing sense\\nof self-support, in addition to which many are able to earn money by working about\\nthe buildings and grounds and in various ways. There are ordinarily\\nHistory of about five hundred men there, who live under a mild form of military\\nSoldiers discipline and routine, wear the uniform of the army, and are governed\\nHome. by veteran officers. The affairs of the Home, which has now a fund of\\nover $1,000,000 and a considerable independent income, are adminis-\\ntered by a board composed of the general of the army and his principal assistants at\\nthe War Department.\\nThe main building is of white marble, three stories in height, and is fashioned\\nafter the Norman order of architecture. On the grounds are several elegant marble\\ncottages occupied by the officials, a pretty church of Seneca stone, a capacious hospi-\\ntal building with wide piazzas, from which charming views of Washington and the\\nPotomac can be had, a fine library building, well stocked with books and periodicals,\\nand numei-ous other structures. On the brow of one of the hills stands a bronze\\nstatue of General Scott, by Launt Thompson, erected by the Home in 1874, at a cost\\nof $18,000. The entire estate is inclosed\\nby a stone wall, surmounted by a small\\niron fence of handsome design. Fifty\\nacres are under cultivation, and tine\\ncrops of fruits and vegetables are\\nraised.\\nNear the main building is a large\\ncottage often used by the Presidents of\\nthe United States as a summer residence.\\nIt is surrounded by noble trees, and has\\na very attractive appearance. Pierce was\\nthe first President to pass the summer\\nhere, and Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson,\\nHayes, and Arthur have preferred its\\nquiet comfort to the statelier life in the\\nWhite House.\\nIn the rear of the Home, on the\\nwooded slope beyond Harew ood Road,\\nlies one of the national military ceme-\\nteries, entered by an arch upon whose\\npillars are inscribed the\\nCemetery. names of great Union\\ncommanders in the Civil\\nWar. Here rest the remains of about\\n5,500 Federal and 271 Confederate sol-\\ndiers, less than 30O of whom are un-\\nknown. The grounds contain a pretty\\nstone chapel, in which lies the body of\\nGen. John A. Logan.\\nRock Creek Church and its beautiful\\ncemetery, northeast of the Soldiers\\nHome, and separated from it by the fine\\nRock Creek Church Road, are worth statue of general winfield scott.\\nexamination. Soldiers Home. By Launt Thompson.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0190.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION S ABOUT WASHII^GTON.\\n183\\nMEMORY. \u00e2\u0080\u0094By Partridge. Rock Creek Cemetery.\\nThis is the oldest Iiouse of worship\\nin the District of Cohimbia, or near it,\\nand was erected in 1719, by the planters\\nof the neighborhood, of bricks imported\\nfrom England as ballast in empty tobacco\\nships. It was remodeled, however, in\\n1868, and now appears as a small steeple-\\nless structnre nearly hidden among great\\ntrees and surronnded by ancient graves\\nand vaults, whose tablets bear the names\\nof the foremost of the old Maryland\\nfamilies and early Washingtonians. The\\noldest graves are nearest the church; and\\none headstone is pitted with marks of\\nminie balls, showing that some soldiers\\nhave used it as a convenient target.\\nThe cemetery is still used, and contains\\ntwo. splendid bronze mortuary statues,\\none of which, by St. Gaudens, at the\\ngrave of Mrs. Adams, is\\nthat mysterious veiled Memorial\\nsitting figure entitled, Statues.\\nPeace of God, which\\nis famous throughout the\\nart world.\\nThe monument ab^^ve the grave of Peter Force is also of much interest. In Mrs.\\nLockwood s Historic Homes will be found a long incidental account of the history\\nof this sacred spot and the relics still used in the service of the old church.\\nA delightful homeward way is to walk\\nacross, a mile or so, through the paths\\nof the Soldiers Home park to the termi-\\nnus of the Eckington electric railroad;\\nbut many will be interested, instead,\\nto go around the Military Cemetery, and\\nup the hill to the right, where, in tlic\\nwoods, may still be seen the star-shape( 1\\nembankments of Fort Totten, Avith\\nnumerous rifle-pits and outworks. This\\nis one of the best preserved and most\\naccessible of the old forts, and its parapets\\ncommand a wide and beautiful landscape.\\nFrom Fort Totten the Harewood Road\\nmay easily be reached and followed\\ns uthward along the eastern side of the\\npark until it emerges upon the campus\\nof tlie Catholic University.\\nThis is the national institution of\\nhigher learning established by all the\\nCatholic bishops of the United States in\\nthe Third Plenary Council of Baltimore,\\nand is regarded by Pope Leo XIII sis one grief. By Augustus St. Gaudens.\\nof the chief honors of his pontificate. Rock Creek Cemetery,", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0191.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nThe grounds comprise seventy acres, and the visitor is at once struck by the stately\\nappearance of the structures ah-eady erected. Divinity Hall was\\nCatholic erected in 1889. It is a solid stone structure of 266 feet front\\nUniversity. and five stories in height the lower floor is given up to classrooms,\\nmuseums, and the library; the upper floors are occupied with the lodg-\\nings of the professors and students of the department of divinity; the top story is a\\nwell-equipped gymnasium. The Divinity Chapel is admired by all visitors. The build-\\ning to the right is known as the McMahon Hall of Philosophy, and was dedicated in\\n1895. It is built of granite throughout, is 250 feet front, and five stories high. It\\nconsists entirely of lecture-rooms, classrooms, laboratories, and museums. It accom-\\nmodates two great schools or faculties, each comprising several departments of study.\\nThe School of Philosophy comprises departments of philosophy proper, letters,\\nmathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and has attached to it a department of\\ntechnology giving full instruction in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering. The\\nSchool of the Social Sciences comprises\\ndepartments of ethics and sociology,\\neconomics, political science, and law.\\nThe former faculty leads up to the\\ndegree of Ph. D., the latter to all degrees\\nin law. Immediately adjoining the\\nuniversity are three affiliated colleges,\\ncalled St. Thomas College, the Marist\\nCollege, and the Holy Cross College.\\nEach of these contains from fifteen to\\ntwenty students of j)hilosophy and the-\\nology, and their professors. They attend\\ncourses in the university. The divinity\\ncourses are attended only by ecclesias-\\ntics of the Catholic Church. To the\\nlegal, philosophical, and scientific\\ncourses lay students are admitted, with-\\nout regard to their religious creed.\\nThe old country village and present\\nsuburb of Brookland lies just beyond,\\nand farther on are Hyattsville and other\\nsuburban residence centers, reached by\\nthe Eckington line of electric railway,\\nwhich extends northeast as far as Ber-\\nwyn, Maryland. The time of return-\\ning from the University and Soldiers Home Station by this\\nSuburban line is about twenty-five miniites. Just south of the station, west\\nTowns. of the suburban district of Edgewood, through which the line passes,\\nare the Glenwood, Prospect Hill, and St. Mary s (Roman Catholic)\\ncemeteries, which contain the graves of many famous persons and some tall monu-\\nments. Nearer the city line is the fine suburb, Eckington, in the midst of which,\\nupon a beautifully wooded hill, is the Colonial building of the Eckington Hotel, open\\nin summer. This line enters the city along New York Avenue, and terminates at\\nthe Treasury.\\nJOHN HOWARD PAYNE MONUMENT.\\nRock Creek Cemetery.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0192.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIONS ABOUT WASHINGTON. 185\\n4. To tlie Zoo, Rock Creek National Park, aucl Chevy Chase.\\nThis is an excursion into the northern and most beautiful corner of the District,\\nreached by taking the cars out Fourteenth Street to the boundary, and tlren (by\\ntransfer) the Chevy Chase Hne. The latter extends from Sixth Street\\n(connecting with the Seventh Street line) along U Street West, through Routes.\\nHancock Circle (where New Hampshire Avenue crosses Sixteenth\\nStreet), and thence turns up the hill at Eighteenth Street, and goes across Rock Creek,\\nand out into the country, along Connecticut Avenue Extended, passing on its way\\nhalf way around the Zoological Park.\\nA zoological garden is among the xnost recent additions to the sights of the capital.\\nIt is open all day, including Sunday, and no admittance fee is charged.\\nPrevious to its organization and the purchase of this site of about 167 acres, in\\n1890, the National Museum had accumulated by gift many live animals, but had no\\nmeans of caring for them these at once became the nucleus of the\\nnew collection, which was placed under the general charge of the ZooiOg^ical\\nSmithsonian Institution, with Frank Baker, M.D., as superintendent. Park,\\nTwo definite objects have been in view here. The original idea was\\nnot a park for public exhibition purposes a popular Zoo but a reservation in\\nwhich there might be bred and maintained representatives of manj American ani-\\nmals threatened with extinction. Congress, however, enlarged and modified this\\nnotion by adding the exhibition features, making the place a pleasure-ground as well\\nas an experiment station, and consequently imposing upon the District of Columbia\\none-half the cost of its purchase and maintenance. Nevertheless, the managers do\\nall they can to carry out the original, more scientific intention.\\nA walk of five minutes from the cars at the gate brings the visitor to the principal\\nAnimal House, which is a commodious stone building, well lighted and well venti-\\nlated, and having on its southern side an annex of very fine outdoor cages, where\\nthe great carnivora and other beasts dwell in warm weather. The collection is not\\nvery large, as the funds do not at present allow of the purchase of animals, which\\nmust be obtained by gift or exchange. Captures in the Yellowstone National Park\\nare permitted for the benefit of this garden, and have supplied many specimens.\\nThe hardier animals (except a few antelopes and kangaroos, which have a stable)\\nare quartered out of doors all the year round in wire enclosures scattered about the\\ngrounds. These are all healthy and happy to a gratifying degree, and\\nas a result they produce young freely. The herds of bison, elk, and Animals.\\ndeer were recruited mainly from the Yellowstone Park. The former\\noccupy adjacent paddocks upon the rising ground north of the animal house, and the\\nlatter enjoy extensive pastures and a picturesque thatched stable somewhat to the\\neast, on a hillside sloping down to Rock Creek. In another quarter are to be seen\\nthe cages of the wolves, foxes, and dogs. The beavers, however, probably constitute\\nthe most singular and interesting of all the features of the garden at present. They\\nconsist of a colony in the wooded ravine of a little branch of Rock Creek, where they\\ncut down trees, burrow in the banks of the stream, and construct dams and houses,\\nprecisely as in a state of nature. The Bear Dens are the best of their kind in the\\ncountry, being rude caves blasted out of the cliff left by an abandoned quarry, which\\nform natui al retreats for their big tenants.\\nAn alternative way out of the garden is to climb the rustic stairway near the Bear\\nDens, and walk a few rods to the street-car station at the Rock Creek bridge.\\nChevy Chase is a charming suburb, just beyond the District line, at the extremity\\nof Connecticut Avenue Extended, which is cut straight across the broken and", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0193.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "186 PICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHIlSTOTOlSr.\\npicturesque region west of Rock Creek. The forested gorge of this romantic stream,\\neast of the avenue, and embracing most of the i-egion between it and\\nChevy Chase, the proposed extension of Sixteenth Street, or Executive Avenue,\\nhas been acquired and reserved by the Government as a public park\\nbut as yet no improvements have been attempted, and it remains a wild rambling-\\nground full of grand possibilities for the landscape artist.\\nChevy Chase consists of a group of handsome country villas, among which an old\\nmansion has been converted into a country-club, with tennis courts, golf links, etc.^\\nattached, and here the young people of the fashionable set meet for outdoor amuse-\\nments, in which fox-hunting with hounds, after the British fashion, is prominent. A\\nlarge hotel was started here, but the building is now occupied as a school. An addi-\\ntional fare is charged for travel beyond the circle at the District line, and there is little\\nto attract the traveler farther northward. Instead of turning back, however, it is a\\ngood plan to walk southwestward eight or ten minutes, passing old Fort Reno, and\\nstriking the Tenallytown electric road at the Glen Echo Junction, where he can return\\ndirect to Georgetown, or can go on to Glen Echo, and then up to Cabin John Bridge\\nor Great Falls, or out to Rockville, or back to Georgetown by the electric line along\\nthe bank of the Potomac.\\n5. Georgetown and Its Vicinity.\\nGeorgetown, now West Washington, was a flourishing village and seaport (the river\\nchannel having been deeper previous to the construction of bridges) before there wa3 a\\nthought of placing the capital here and in its hospitable houses the\\nHistory. early officials found pleasanter homes than the embryo Federal city\\nthen afforded. Its narrow, well-shaded, hilly streets are yet quaint\\nwith reminders of those days, and it has residents Avho still consider their circle of\\nfamilies the only persons true blue. Georgetown is still a port of entry, but its\\nbusiness does little more than pay the expenses of the offi.ce.\\nBefore the era of railroads Georgetown had distinct importance, due to the fact\\nthat it was the tidewater terminus of the Chesapeake Ohio Canal, which was\\nfinished up the river as far as the Great Falls in 1784, and in 1828 was carried\\nthrough to Cumberland, Maryland, at a cost of \u00c2\u00a713,000,000. It never realized the\\nvast expectations of its promoters, but was of great service to Georgetown, and is still\\nused for the transport of coal, grain, and other slow freights.\\nPennsylvania Avenue forms the highway toward Georgetown, but stops at Rock\\nCreek. The cars turn off to K Street, cross the deep ravine over a bridge borne upon\\nthe arched water-mains, and then run east to the end of the street at\\nUnion Aqueduct Bridge. Here a three-story union railway station has\\nStation. been built into its lowest level come the cars of the Pennsylvania\\nAvenue line, and the top story forms the terminus of the electric rail-\\nwav to the Great Falls. Stairways and elevators connect the three floors, and reach\\nto Prospect Avenue above.\\nGeorgetown does not contain much to attract the hasty sight-seer, though\\nmuch for the meditative historian. A large sign, painted upon a brick house near\\nthe Aqueduct Bridge, informs him that that is the Key Mansion\\nKey House, the home for several years of Francis Scott Key, the author of The\\nStar-Spangled Banner, who resided here after the War of 1812,\\nbecame district-attorney, and died in 1843. Similar personal memoranda belong\\nto several other old houses here. On Analostan, for example the low, forested\\nisland below the farther end of Aqueduct Bridge lived the aristocratic Masons\\ndurino- the early years of the Republic, caltivating a model farm and enter-", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0194.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "EXCUESIONS ABOUT WASHINGTOlSr. 187\\ntaining royally. One of the latest of them was John M. Mason, author of the\\nFugitive Slave Law, and an associate of Mr. Slidell in the Confederate mission to\\nEngland, which was interrupted by Wilkes in the Trent affair. The most prominent\\ninstitution in this locality, however, is Georgetown College. This is\\nthe School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University, which is Georgetown\\nunder the direction of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus. This school, Collegre.\\nconsisting of three departments postgraduate, collegiate, and prepara-\\ntory is the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States, hav-\\ning been founded in 1789. The college was chartered as a university by act of\\nCongress in 1815, and in 1833 was empowered by the Holy See to grant degrees in\\nphilosophy and theology. The present main building, begun in 1878, is an excellent\\nspecimen of Rhenish-Romanesque architecture, and its grounds cover seventy-eight\\nacres, including the beautiful woodland walks and a magnificent campus. The\\nRiggs Library, of over 70,000 volumes, contains rare and curious works. The Cole-\\nman Museum has many fine exhibits, among them interesting Colonial I elics and\\nvaluable collections of coins and medals. Not far from the college, on a prominent\\nhill, is the Astronomical Observatory, where many original investigations are made\\nas well as class instruction given. Thirty-nine members of the facultj and 300\\nstudents comprise the present census of this school.\\nThe School of Law, situated in the vicinity of the District courts, is one of the best\\nin America, numbering on its staS several leading jurists the faculty now numbers\\nfifteen, the students over 300. The School of Medicine is fully equipped for thorough\\nmedical training under distinguished specialists the faculty numbers forty-nine, the\\nstudents, 125. The total number of students in the university is about 750.\\nOak Hill Cemetery, on the southern bink of Rock Creek near P Street, is a beautiful\\nburying ground rising in terraces and containing the graves of many dis-\\ntinguished men and women. It is reached by the line of the Metropolitan Oak Hill.\\nstreet cars, more commonly called the F Street line leaving the cars\\nat Thirtieth Street, a walk of two squares north will bring the visitor to the entrance.\\nNear the gateway is the chapel built in the style of architecture of Henry VIII.\\nThis is matted by ivy brought from Melrose Abbey. In front of the chapel is the\\nmonument of John Howard Payne, the author of Home, Sweet Home, who had\\nbeen buried in 1852 in the cemetery near Tunis, Africa, and there remained until, at\\nthe expense of Mr. Corcoran, his bones were brought to this spot, and in 83 were re-\\ninterred with appropriate ceremonies. The statue of William Pinkney is near here\\nalso (he was the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, and nephew of William\\nPinkney, the great Maryland lawyer). It represents that prelate in full canonical\\nrobes, and was dedicated to his memory by Mr. Corcoran, who was the friend of his\\nyouth, the comfort of his declining years. The mausoleum of Mr. Corcoran for his\\nfamily is a beautiful specimen of mortuary architecture this is in the northwestern\\nsection of the cemetery, while in the southeastern is the mausoleum of the Van Ness\\nfamily, whose leader married the heiress, Marcia, daughter of David Burns, one of the\\noriginal proprietors of the site of Washington City. This tomb is a model of the\\nTemple of the Vesta at Rome. The cemetery comprises twenty-five acres, incorpo-\\nrated in 1849, one-half of which, and an endowment of \u00c2\u00a790,000, were the donation of\\nMr. William W. Corcoran. Here were buried Chief Justice Chase, Secretary of War\\nStanton, the great Professor Joseph Henry, and many others illustrious in American\\nannals. Extremely pleasant rambles may be taken to the north and east of this ceme-\\ntery, and it is not far across the hills to the Naval Observatory. This is the astronom-\\nical station of the Government under control of the navy and presided over by an\\nofficer of high rank, whose first, object is the gathering and collection of information", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0195.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOlSr.\\nU. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. Extension of Massachusetts Avenue.\\nof use to mariners, such as precision of knowledge of latitude and longitude, varia-\\ntion of the compass, accuracy of chronometers and other instruments\\nU. S. used in the navigation of ships of war, and similar information more\\nObservatory, or less allied to astronomy. Purely scientific astronomical work is\\nalso carried on, and the equipment of telescopes and other instruments\\nis complete, enabling the staff of learned men naval and civilian attached to the\\ninstitution to accomplish notable results in the advancement of that department of\\nknowledge. The special inquirer will be welcomed by the officers at all suitable\\nhours, and on Thursday nights cards of invitation admit visitors generally to look\\nthrough the great telescope.\\nThis observatory dates from 1892, when it was moved from the wooded elevation,\\ncalled Braddock s Hill, at the Potomac end of New York Avenue, which it had occu-\\npied for nearly a century. That ground was a reservation originally set apart at the\\ninstance of Washington, who wished to see planted there the foundations of the\\nNational University the dream of his last years. It is called University Square to\\nthis day.\\n6. Oeorgetown to Tennallytowii and Glen Echo.\\nFrom Georgetown an electric road runs north out High Street and the Tennallytown\\nEoad to the District line, where it branches into two lines. Leaving the city quickly\\nit makes its way through a pretty suburban district, out into a region of irregular\\nhills and dales, where, about one mile from the starting point, the new United States\\nNaval Observatory is seea about a quarter of a mile to the right. Just beyond its\\nentrance is an industrial school. The general district at the left is Wesley Heights,\\nninety acres of which, and the name, are the property of a Methodist association,\\nwhich proposes to establish there a highly equipped university, to be called the\\nAmerican, modeled upon the plan of German universities, and open\\nWoodley to both sexes. The site of the buildings will be west of Massachusetts\\nHeig:htS. Avenue, where it intersects Forty-fourth Street, forming University\\nCircle. Work is beginning on the buildings, and the endowment is\\ngrowing. The district west of the road is Woodley Heights, Woodley adjoining it", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0196.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIOlSrS ABOUT WASHHS^GTON. 189\\nfurther east along the valley of Kock Creek. Tunlaw Heights is another local\\nsubdivision here; and somewhat farther on is Oak View, where there is a lofty\\nobservatory, open to anyone who cares to climb it and obtain the wider outlook,\\nembracing a large part of the city. A few years ago there was a great boom in\\nsuburban villa sites near here, and many noted persons built the fine houses which\\nare scattered over the ridges in all directions. Among them was Presi-\\ndent Cleveland, whose house, Red Top (from the color of the roof), Red Top.\\nis passed by the cars just beyond Oak View. It was afterward sold by\\nthe President to great advantage, and during his second term he occupied another\\nsummer home not far to the eastward of this site. The cross-road here runs straight\\nto the Zoological Park, a trifle over a mile eastward. Woodley Inn is a summer hotel\\non the left of the road, which keeps northward along a ridge with wide\\nviews, for a mile and a quarter farther to Tennallytown, lately become a\\nsuburb of considerable population, largely increased by families from\\nthe city in summer. A road to the left (west) from here gives a very picturesque walk\\nof a mile and a half over to the Receiving Reservoir, and a mileikrther will take you\\nto Little Falls, or the Chain Bridge. Up at the right, at the highest point of land in\\nthe district (400 feet), the new reservoir is seen, occupying the site of Fort Reno,\\none of the most important of the circle of forts about the capital during the Civil War,\\nA wooded knoll, some distance to the left, shows the crumbling earthworks of a lesser\\nredoubt near the river road, which branches off northwest from the village. Three-\\nquarters of a mile beyond Tenallytown the limit of the District of Columbia is\\nreached, and the Junction of the line to Glen Echo. The main line runs north to\\nRockville, Maryland.\\nThe Glen Echo line runs a car every half-hour (faie 5 cents) along a winding\\nroad through the woods to the Conduit Road and bank of the Potomac, at the Glen\\nEcho grounds.\\n7. Georgetown to Glen Echo, Cabin John, and Great Falls.\\nThe Georgetown and Great Falls Railroad Comj^any operates an electric line to\\nthe Great Falls of the Potomac, which affords one of the most delightful excursions\\nout of Washington. Its large cars leave the Union Station, in Georgetown, and take\\na high course ovei looking the river valley, which becomes much narrower and\\nmore gorge-like above the city, with the Virginia banks very steep, rocky, and broken\\nby quarries. The rails are laid through the woods, and gradually descend to the\\nbank of the canal which skirts the foot of the bluff About three\\nmiles above Georgetown is the Chain Bridge, so called because the Chain\\nearliest bridge here, where the river for some two miles is confined Bridge.\\nwithin a narrow, swift, and deep channel on the Virginia side, was\\nmade of suspended chains. The lofty bank is broken here by the ravine of Pimmit\\nRun, making a convenient place for several roads to meet and cross the river. The\\nbluffs above it were crowned with strong forts, for this was one of the principal\\napproaches to Washington. A mile and a half above the Chain Bridge, having run\\nthrough the picturesque woods behind High, or Sycamore, Island, owned by a\\nsportsmen s club, you emerge to find the river a third of a mile wdde again, and\\ndashing over black rocks and ledges in the series of rapids called the\\nLittle Falls of the Potomac. The wild beauty of the locality makes it Little Falls.\\na favorite one for picnicking parties, and bass fishing is always excel-\\nlent. The Maryland bank becomes higher and more rugged above Little Falls, and\\ntakes the name of Glen Echo Heights. (Also reached by cars from Georgetown via\\nGlen Echo Junction.)", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0197.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO VVASHIJSTGTON.\\nTHE CABIN JOHN BRIDGE. Length of Span, 220 Feet; Height, 57 Feet.\\nGlen Echo is a place where it was proposed to combine educational privileges\\nwith recreation, and form a suburban residence colony and day resort of high\\ncharacter. Extensive buildings of stone and wood, including a very\\nGlen Echo. spacious amphitheater, were erected in the grove upon the steep bank\\nand commanded a most attractive river view in them courses of valu-\\nable lectures, Sunday services, and concerts of a high order were given^ and many\\nmeans of rational enjoyment were provided, but the project failed.\\nThe river has pretty banks to Cabin John Run, where the fln^arch of the cele-\\nbrated bridge gleams through the trees. The remainder of the rua\\nCabin John (five miles) is through a wild, wooded region at the edge of the canal\\nBridge. and river, which is again narrow, deep, and broken by islands flooded\\nat high water, with high, ravine-cut banks. This is a favorite place\\nwith Washingtonians for fishing with rod and fly, from the banks Daniel Webster\\noften came here for this purpose.\\nThe Great Falls of the Potomac are a series of bold cascades forming a drop of\\neighty feet within a few hundred yards of distance, very pretty but hardly deserving\\nthe panegyrics bestowed by some early writers. The place will always\\nGreat Falls, beexceedinglyattractive, however, especially to artists and anglers. The\\nappearance of the falls has been considerably modified, and probably\\nenhanced, by the structures of the City Water-works, for this is the source of Wash-\\nington s public water supply. The water is conveyed to the city through a brick con-\\nduit, which runs along the top of the Maryland bank, and is overlaid by the macadam-\\nized driveway called the Conduit Road. This work of engineering meets its first\\nserious difficulty at Cabin John Run, where a stone arch leaps across the ravine in a\\nsingle span unequaled elsewhere of 220 feet.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0198.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "EXCUESIOlSrS ABOUT WASHIXGTOlSr. 191\\n8. To Bladensbiirg and Kendall Green.\\nBladensburg is a quiet Maryland village, some seven miles northeast, on the Balti-\\nmore Ohio Eailroad. It is a port on the Anaeostia, to which large boats formerly\\nascended with goods and went back laden with farm produce. Through\\nit ran the stage road from the north; and here, August 24, 1814, the Bladens-\\nfeeble American army met the British, under Eoss and Cockburn, who burg.\\nhad marched over from their landing-place on the Patuxent River,\\nintent upon the capture of the Yankee caj)ital. The Americans, partly by blundering\\nand partly by panic (except some sailors under Commodore Barney), ran away after\\nthe first attack, and left the way open for the redcoats to take and burn the town as\\nthey pleased; but they inflicted a remarkably heavy loss upon the invaders.\\nIt is a favorite drive with Washingtonians to-day, remarks Mr. Todd, in his\\nStory of Washington, over the smooth Bladensburg pike to the quaint old village.\\nDipping into the ravine where Barney made his stand, you have on the\\nright the famous dueling ground, enriched with some of the noblest Battle Field.\\nblood of the Union. A mile farther on, you come out upon the banks\\nof the Eastern Branch, here an inconsiderable mill stream, easily forded, though\\nspanned by a bridge some thirty yards in length. On the opposite shore gleam\\nthrough the trees the houses of Bladensburg, very little changed since the battle-day.\\nSome seventy yards before reaching the bridge, the Washington pike is joined by the\\nold Georgetown post-road, which comes down Irom the north to meet it at an angle\\nof forty-five degrees. The gradually rising triangular field between these two roads,\\nits heights now crowned by a clubhouse of modern design, was the battle ground.\\nA string of pleasant suburban villages nearly join one another along the railway\\nand turnpike Highland, Wiley Heights, Rives, Woodbridge, Langdon, Avalon\\nHeights, and Winthrop Heights or Montello. The last is well inside\\nthe district and brings us back to Mount Olivet Cemetery burial ground, Mount\\nlying between the turnpike and the railway near the city boundary. Olivet.\\nwhich has the sad distinction of containing the bodies of Mrs. Surratt,\\none of the conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln, and of Wirz, the cruel keeper\\nof Andersonville prison. Electric roads now reach all these suburbs.\\nThe National Fair Grounds, opposite Mount Olivet and west of the railroad, con-\\ntain the Ivy City race track. The suburban addition, Montello, is north of the fair-\\ngrounds, and south of them is Ivy City, with Trinidad east of the railroad. The\\nsouthern part of Ivy City is occupied by the extensive grounds of the Columbia\\nInstitution for the Deaf and Dumb, popularly known as Kendall Green.\\nThis institution, which is reached by cars on H Street to Seventh Sireet,\\nN. E., was incorporated in 1857, and is for the free education of deaf-mute children\\nof sailors and soldiers of the United States, as also of the children of the District\\nso afflicted. It was indebted in its early years to the benefactions of\\nthe Hon. Amos Kendall, who gave land, money, and buildings toward Kendall\\nits establishment. All students have opportunity to learn to speak, the Green.\\nsystem of instruction including both manual and oral methods. Poor\\nstudents are received on very liberal terms. Visitors are admitted on Thursdays\\nbetween the hours of 9 and 3.\\n9. To Benning and Chesapeake Beach.\\nBenning and Deanewood are suburban villages east of the Anaeostia River, and\\nreached by the Columbia line of eleetrie- cars, out G Street and\\nBenning Road, N. E. At Benning is the principal race track of the Benning\\nDistrict, where spring and fall races are run that attract everybody Races.\\ninterested in such things. Benning is also a connecting point of\\nthe Chesapeake Beach Railway, a line of steam railroad some thirty miles in length,\\nwhich connects the capital with a shore resort upon Chesapeake fhesaoeake\\nBav called Chesapeake Beach. These trains run into the city station Rparh\\nof the Baltimore Ohio Railroad by way of Hyattsville. At the _ \u00c2\u00bbctiwii.\\nbeach are hotels, amusement places, bathing facilities, and much that is naturally as\\nwell as artificially attractive.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0199.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0200.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0201.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "^Kttf L-StrJ tfT^I", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0204.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "r\\nh\\n[\\\\o a;Q\\n^._^..^. __^ [7\\nSi\\ni?^ Street\\nnn^Tfl\\n7 npa\\nan\\nn i;", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0205.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0206.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "DICTIONARY\\nFOR\\nVISITORS TO THE JN^ATION^AL CAPITAL.\\nNAME\\nLOCATION\\nHOURS\\nINTERESTING FEATURES\\nAgriculture Mall, bet. 12th 14th 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.\\n.Department of streets.\\nAlexandria\\nMuseum; palm house; experi-\\nmental greenhouses and orna-\\nmental gardens.\\nReached by Belt Line cars; or by walking from Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street.\\nMarshall House; Christ Church;\\nAlexandria Lodge Room; Brad-\\ndock Headquarters and Camp-\\ning Grounds, and other historic\\nscenes and monuments.\\nSix miles south of\\nthe Treasury.\\nReached by hourly trains on the Washington, Alexandria and JVIt. Vernon (Electric)\\nRailway; by the steamer Charles Macalester, or a ferry-boat, from the Seventh street\\nwharf; or by steam trains of the Southern Railway.\\nAmerican Re-\\npublics\\nBureau of\\n3 Jackson place.\\nAqued uct Crosses the Potomac\\nBridge at Georgetown.\\nArlington\\nNational Cem-\\netery\\nHeights, west of\\nPotomac.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices.\\nSunrise to sunset, Lee Mansion graves of over\\nincluding Sun- 16,000 soldiers and sailors; elab-\\ndays and holi- orate monuments trophies of\\ndays. Cuban war.\\nReached by way of Georgetown, Aqueduct Bridge and electric cars to Fort Meyer and\\nthe Northern Gate or by electric cars from Pennsylvania avenue and 13^^ street, via\\nLong Bridge. Public carriages make frequent trips through the cemetery, fare 25 cents.\\nArmy Medical\\nMuseum\\nArsenal\\nWa sliington\\nBarracks\\nS. E. corner Smith-\\nsonian Grounds,7th 9 a.m. to 4 p.m\\nand B streets, S.W.\\nReached by Seventh street cars,\\nPathological and surgical mu-\\nseum and library.\\nFoot of i]4 street,\\nS. W.\\nAll day.\\nArtillery drills river view.\\nBotanical Gar- Pennsylvania ave.,\\nden 1st to 3d stree ts.\\n8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Greenhouses; Bartholdi fountain.\\nReached by all Pennsylvania avenue cars.\\nPicturesque out-door resort.\\nCabin John 6]4 miles up the\\nBridge Potomac,\\nReached by Metropolitan electric cars from Prospect avenue and 36th street, Georgetown\\n9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Rotunda Senate; House of Retp\\nCapitol Capitol Hill. or until Con- resentatives Supreme Court\\ngress adjourns. paintings, statuary and bronzes.\\nReached on the south and west sides by the Pennsylvania avenue cars, and on the north\\nand east sides by the Metropolitan F street lines. A flag flies over each house while it is\\nin session, and sessions at night are indicated by lights upon the dome.\\nCatholic Univer-\\nsity\\nEckington All day. Buildings and library.\\nReached by Eckington line of electric cars.\\n197", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0207.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "198\\nPICTOEIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON.\\nNAME LOCATION HOURS\\nCensus Building B street, 1st to 2d. No admission\\nINTERESTING FEATURES\\nOffices.\\nCentre Market\\nChrist Church\\nCity Hall\\nPennsylvania avenue\\nand 7th street\\nAll day.\\nSundays.\\nFlower stalls; country wagons,\\netc.\\nG street, between 6th Sundays. Oldest church in the city Con-\\nand 7th, S. E. gressional cemetery.\\nReached by Pennsylvania avenue cars to Navy Yard.\\nJudiciary square.\\n9 a.m. to 5 p.m. District offices.\\nCivil Service Eighth and E streets. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices\\nCommission\\nCoast arid Geo- New Jersey avenue\\ndetic Survey and B street, S. W.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices.\\nColumbian Uni-\\nversity\\nH and 15 streets.\\nC o n g r e s sional G street between 6th All day.\\nBurying Ground and 7th, S. E.\\nAdjacent to Christ Church reached by Navy Yard cars.\\nMonuments and cenotaphs.\\nCongressional Library (See Library of Congress.)\\nCorcoran Gal- New York avenue See below. Painting statuary bronzes and\\nlery of Art and 17th street. a great variety ot objects of art\\nThe Gallery is open every day (the Fourth of July and Christmas day excepted) from\\n9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. from October ist to May ist and from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. iMay ist to\\nOctober ist. On other public holidays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Sundays except in\\nmidsummer, from 1.30 to 5 p.m., when the admission is free. Mondays (open 12 to 4 p.m.),\\nWednesdays and Fridays, admittance 25 cents; other days free. Catalogues for sale.\\nReached by Pennsylvania avenue cars lo 17th street.\\nCourt of Claims Pennsylvania ave- 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices,\\nnue and 17th street.\\nDead I^etter Second Floor. Gen-\\nOfflce eral Post Office.\\nMuseum of postal curiosities and\\nphilately.\\nEducation 8th and G. streets.\\nCommissioner\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pedagogical library.\\nEngraving and Mall, 14tli and B\\nPrinting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 streets, S. W.\\nBureau of\\n9 to 11.45 a.m. and Machinery and processes used in\\n13.30 to 3.30 p.m. printing banknotes, bonds and\\npostage stamps.\\nReached by Belt Line cars. Visitors allowed only in parties conducted by an attendant.\\nEthnology\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1333 F street.\\nBureau of\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices and library.\\nExecutive Mansion (See WTiite House)\\nFish Commis- Armory Building, 6th\\nsion and B streets, S. W.\\n9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aquaria and fish-cultural ppaa-\\nratus.\\nFord s Theatre 10th street between\\nE and F.\\nNot open.\\nBuilding in which Lincoln was\\nassassinated.\\nFort Meyer\\nArlington hills, west\\nof the Potomac.\\nAll day. Cavalry drills.\\nReached by electric cars and stages from west end of Aqueduct bridge.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices and library.\\nGeological Sur- 1330 F. street.\\nvey\\nGeorgetown Col-\\nlege\\nGeorgetown,\\nAll day.\\nLibrary and laboratories.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0208.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "DICTIONAPuY FOR VISITORS TO THE jS^ATIONAL CAPITAL. 199\\nNAME LOCATION HOURS INTERESTING FEATURES\\nHalls of the An- 1313 to 1318 New York 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Reproductions of Ancient civili-\\ncients aveLue. zations.\\nAn admission fee of 50 cents is charged 25 cents to parties of ten or more.\\nHoAvard Univer-\\nsity\\nIndian Affairs-\\nBureau of\\nInterior\\nDepartment of\\nUniversity hill be-\\ntween 43^ and 6th All day.\\nstreets.\\nReached by Seventh street cars transferring to Brightwood line.\\nEducational methods.\\nJustice\\n7th, E and F street.\\nPatent Office, 7th\\nand F street.\\nK street, opposite\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices.\\nPatent office, museum and lib-\\nrary.\\nDepartment of McPherson square.\\nLabor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 New York avenue\\nDepartment of and loth street.\\nArchitecture and ornamentation;\\nliibrary of Coo. mural paintings; sculptures;\\ngress East of the Capitol. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. mosaics; curiosities of early\\nprinting and illustration read-\\ning-rooms.\\nReached by Pennsylvania avenue and F street lines of cars. The building is brilliantly illu-\\nminated in the evening, which is a favorable time in which to see the interior decorations.\\nLi i b r a r y. Free 1336 New York ave-\\nPublic nue.\\n9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Books for general circulation.\\nliincoln Museum\\nMarine Bar-\\nracks\\nMount Vernon\\n516 10th street.\\n8th street, between G\\nand I, S. E.\\nAll day.\\nAll day.\\nSixteen miles down 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.\\nthe Potomac.\\nRelics related to Lincoln.\\nDrilling of Marine Corps.\\nHome and Tomb of Washington.\\nReached by hourly trains of the Washington, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon Electric Rail-\\nway from isVi street and Pennsylvania avenue and morning and afternoon by steamer\\nCharles Macalester from Seventh street wharf by either line round trip, 50 cents\\nadmission to grounds, 23 cents.\\nNational Mu- Mall, opposite 10th 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Zoological, ethnological and in-\\nseum street. dustrial collections.\\nNavy- State, War and Navy 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Models of war ships trophies.\\nDepartment of Building.\\nNavy Yard\\nFoot of 8th street,\\nS. E.\\nAll day. Manufacture of naval cannon;\\ntrophies museum of relics.\\nAll day. Monuments of notable men.\\nOak Hill Ceme- Rock Creek, near P.\\ntery street\\nReached by Metropolitan (F street) cars to Georgetown.\\n7 to 9 Thursday Astronomical apparatus and ob-\\nObservatory, North of Georgetown evenings only. servations through the tele-\\nNaval Cards of admis- scope.\\nsion required.\\nReached by F street and Rockville electric lines from Georgetown.\\nPatent Office 7th and F streets, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Museum of models.\\nPension Office Judiciary square. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central hall and columns.\\nReached by F street and G street lines of cars.\\nPost Office, Gen- Pennsylvania ave- Offices open 9 a.m.\\neral and City nue, 11th and 13th to 3 p.m. See Dead Letter Office.\\nstreets.\\nMoney-order division open from g a.m. to s p.m. Registry division open from 8.30 a.m.\\nto 6 p m. for delivery of registered matter. For the receipt of matter for registration the\\ndivision is always open. General-delivery window never closed. Stamps can be pur-\\nchased at any time day or night. Money-order and registered-letter business transacted\\nat all of the branch post-offices in the city. Reached by Pennsylvania avenue, Ninth\\nstreet and Eleventh street lines of cars.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0209.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "200\\nPICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHIITGTOISr.\\nNAME\\nLOCATION\\nHOURS\\nINTERESTING FEATURES\\nPrinting Office, North Capitol and S Visitors in partiesconducted Machinery and meth-\\nOovernment streets. through the building at ods of printing and\\nbook making.\\nstreets. through the building at\\n10 a.m. and 3 p.m.\\nReached by H street cars from Fifteenth and G street.\\nBock Creek\\nChurch\\nSmithsonian In-\\nstitution\\nSt. John s Epis-\\ncopal Church\\nSoldier s Home\\nState\\nDepartment of\\nRock Creek Road,\\nnortheast of Sol-\\ndier s Home.\\nAll day. Fine monuments in cemetery.\\nReached by Seventh street and Brightwood lines of cars.\\nMall, opposite 10th 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Museum of birds, marine ani-\\nstreet. mals, and American archselogy.\\nReached by Seventh street line of cars.\\nH and 16th street.\\nSundays\\nNear 7th street ex- All day including Fine grounds, with wide view;\\ntended. holidays. monuments and relics.\\nReached by Seventh street and Brightwood cars.\\nState, War and Navy\\nBuilding.\\n9 a m. to 3 p.m.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\\nLibrary and historical relics.\\nTreasury, The Pennsylvania ave- 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Making, distribution, and care of\\nU. S, nue and 15th street. government treasure.\\nVisitors are shown through the building from lo to 12 a.m., in parties of twelve by attend-\\nants who explain everything shown all visitors assemble at the door of the Treasurer s\\noffice, in the northeast corner of the main floor and register their names.\\nWar\u00e2\u0080\u0094 State, War and Navy 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Captured cannon and other\\nDepartment of Building. trophies.\\nTVashlngton Mall, west of 14th 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. View from summit.\\nMonument street.\\nReached by Belt Line cars from the Capitol, or by transfer (2 cents extra), from Penn-\\nsylvania avenue cars. The elevator runs (free) to the top of the monument every half\\nhour from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.; but no one will be taken up in the last trip (4.30), if 30\\npersons (the capacity of the elevator), are already there.\\nWeatherBureau 34th and M streets.\\nExecutive Grounds.\\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Offices.\\nWhite House\\nEast Room open\\ndaily, 10 a.m. to Home of the Presidents.\\n3 p.m.\\nNo general public receptions are held by the President, except on New Year s day, but\\nvisitors having business with the President will be admitted from 12 to i o clock daily,\\nexcepting on Cabinet days, so far as public business will permit.\\nToun g Men s\\nChristian As-\\nsociation\\n1733 G street.\\nZoological Park, Adam s Mill Road,\\nNational N. W.\\nAll day.\\nLiving animals.\\nReached by Seventh or Fourteenth street cars and transfer to U street line, thence to\\nChevy Chase cars, or by Chevy Chase cars direct from the Treasury.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0210.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "LIST OF PRINCIPAL HOTELS.\\nArlington Lafayette Square American plan,\\nCairo Q Street, between Sixteenth and Seveuteeutli streets American plan\\nCochran Fourteenth and K streets American plan,\\nColonial Fifteenth and H streets American plan.\\nCongressional East Capitol and B streets, S. E. American plan,\\nDewey L Street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets American plan\\nEbbitt F and Fourteenth streets American plan,\\nFredonia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H and Twelfth streets American plan,\\nGordon Sixteenth and I streets American and European plan,\\nHamilton Fourteenth and K streets American plan,\\nJohnson Pennsylvania Avenue and Thirteenth Street European plan,\\nLa Fetra s Eleventh and G streets American plan,\\nMetropolitan Pennsylvania Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh streets\\nAmerican plan,\\nNational Pennsylvania Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets American\\nplan,\\nNORMANDIE McPherson Square American plan,\\nOxford New York Avenue and Fourteenth Street American plan,\\nRaleigh Pennsjdvania Avenue and Twelfth Street European plan,\\nRegent Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street American plan,\\nRiGGS Fifteenth and G streets American plan,\\nSt. James Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street European plan,\\nShoreham Fifteenth and I streets American and European plan.\\nVarnum New Jersey Avenue and C Street, S. E. \u00e2\u0080\u0094American plan,\\nVendome Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street American plan,\\nWellington 734 Fifteenth Street American plan,\\nWillard s Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth Street American plan,\\n$5 00\\n3 50\\n3 00\\n3 50\\n2 00\\n3 50\\n3 50\\n2 00\\nSpecial\\n2 50\\n1 00\\n2 00\\n2 50\\n2 50\\n4 00\\n2 50\\n2 50\\n3 00\\n3 00\\n1 00\\n5 00\\n2 00\\n2 50\\n4 00\\n3 00\\n201", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0211.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nHeavy figures indicate illustratious.\\nCabin John Bridge\\nCatliolic University of America 184\\nCapitol, The.\\nApotlieosis of Washington, The\\nBeginning of the _ _ 16\\nBrumidi s Canopy _ 2t\\nCentral Portico 19\\nCost 18\\n17S\\n177\\n176\\n177\\nPAGE\\nAdams, Death of 26\\nAgriculture, Department of 120\\nAgricuiliiral Museum 121\\nAlexandria 159\\nAmerican Kepublics, Bureau of 112\\nAnacostia 83\\nRiver ._ 162\\nSuburbs---- 83\\nArlington 172\\nArlington.\\nArlington House 173\\nBeauty of the Estate.. 173\\nBivouac of the Dead 173\\nCustis Family 174\\nGraves of Officers 174\\nLees, The- 178\\nMansion, The 174\\nPublic Carriages 173\\nRoutes 173\\nSheridan Gate, The\\nSheridan, Tomb of Gen. Philip H... 174\\nSite and View 174\\nSoldiers and Sailors of the Cuban\\nWar 174\\nSoldiers Graves-- 173\\nTemple ofFame. 174\\nTomb of the Unknown Dead 174\\nArmy and Navy Club.- 137\\nMedical Museum 125\\nStatues 125\\nArt Galleries..-- 129\\nBaltimore and Ohio Station 11\\nBancroft House 149\\nBartholdi Fountain, The\\nBattle Cemetery 181\\nBaudin 30\\nBenning Races 191\\nBicycles 12\\nBierstadt, Albert.--- 28\\nBladensburg 191\\nBattlefield 191\\nBlaine House 154\\nBoarding-houses 13\\nBotanical Garden 86\\nBritish Legation, The 155\\nBrumidi. Constantino 22\\nBulwer House, The 148\\nBureaus, etc\\nAmerican Republics 112\\nCoast and Geodetic Survey 80\\nEngraving and Printing\\nEthnology 198\\nGeological Survey 112\\nIndian 112\\nLand Office 112\\nPatent Office---- 110\\nPension 110\\nPrinting Office 119\\nWeather 131\\n84\\n156\\n111\\n111\\n190\\nCapitol. The fcontinued).\\nCrawford s Group 18\\nCrypt 31\\nDiscovery of the Mississippi 21\\nDome, The a4\\nEarly Expectations 79\\nEast Front _ 18\\nFloor Plan of the Principal Story of\\nthe 17\\nFranzoni s CIocIj 25\\nFrom the Capitol Grounds 15\\nGrounds 15\\nHouse of Representatives 2S\\nBronze Stairways 29\\nEastern Grand Stairway 30\\nHall of the 23\\nHouse Basement 31\\nHouse Gallei ies x8, 30\\nMace --.I 28\\nPaintings 28\\nPortraits 30\\nSub-basement 31\\nWestern Grand Staircase 29\\nLanding of Columbus at San Salva-\\ndor, The\\nPlans and Architects 16\\nRepresentatives, Original Hall of... 25\\nRescue, The, Greenough s\\nRoarers Bronze Door 19\\nRotunda 20\\nRotunda Doors 21\\nRotunda Frieze 23\\nRotunda Statues 24\\nRotunda Wall Paintings 2J\\nSenate, Basement 32\\nBusts-- 37\\nChamber 32\\nChasm of the Colorado, The\\nCrawford Bronze Doors 34\\nEastern Staircase 34\\nElectoral Commission, The\\nFirst Fight of the Ironclads, The 37\\nFrescoes in Committee Rooms. 32\\nGalleries 33, 36\\nGrand Canyon of the Yellow-\\nstone, The\\nMarble Room 35\\nPaintings and Portraits 37\\nPerry at the Battle of Lake Erie 34\\nPresident s Room 35\\nReception Room 35\\nVice-Presidents, Busts of 33\\nVice-President s Room 35\\nWeather Service 35\\nWestern Staircase 36\\nSigning the Declaration of Independ-\\nence 22\\nState Statues- 27\\nSlatunrv Mall 26\\nStatuary Hall, Acoustic Curiosities 27\\nStaliiaiy Hall, Old Hall of Repre-\\nscn tat i ves\\nStyle and Dimensions 18\\nSupreme Coiu t, Busts of Judges 38\\nChamber 37\\nKobing-room 38\\nUndercroft 32\\nView Looking \\\\Vest from the\\nWashington, Greenough s Statue of. 16\\nWestern Front 39\\n89\\n19\\n30\\n33\\n36\\n37\\n36\\n202", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0212.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n203\\nCapitol, The (continued).\\nWest Front at Night, Illuminated\\nwith Search-lights 79\\nWestward the Course of Empire\\nTakes Its Way 29 31\\nCemeteries\\nArlington National 172\\nBattle .__ 181\\nCongressional 81\\nMt. Olivet 191\\nOakHill 187\\nEock Creek.... 182\\nRoman Catholic. 184\\nSoldiers Home 182\\nCensus Bureau 110 113\\nCenter Market 87\\nChain Bridge 189\\nChapman, John Gadsby 21\\nChesapeake Beach 191\\nChevy Chase 186\\nChinese Legation, New 151\\n^Christ Church ..81, 160 161\\nChurch of the Covenant...^ 135 136\\nChurches 135\\nCity Hall... 14\\nPost Office 108\\nWater Works 190\\nCivil Service Commission 112\\nClubs 137,149\\nCoast and Geodetic Survey 80\\nColumbia Athletic Club 137\\nColumbian University 148\\nCommissioners of Educaiion 112\\nCommissions\\nCivil Service 112\\nFish 126\\nConduit.Eoad 190\\nCongressional Cemetery. 81\\nConnecticut Avenue 118\\nConvention Hall 136\\nCorcoran Art Gallery 129\\nCorcoran Gallery of Arts, The 129\\nBroAzes and Replicas 131\\nCharlotte Corday in Prison 130\\nDescription of Building 129\\nLast Days of Napoleon! 131\\nMarbles- 131\\nPaintings l.SO\\nPortraits 131\\nStatuary Hall 128\\nTayloe Collection 131\\nW. W. Corcoran 129\\nCosmos Club 148\\nCountry Roads 181\\nCourt of Claims 107\\nCrawford, Thomas 18\\nT^ead Letter Office l()7\\nMuseum of 108\\nDecatur House, The 146\\nDepartments\\nAgriculture 120\\nInterior 108\\nJustice _. 107\\nLabor 112\\nList of 99\\nNavy 102 lOl\\nPost Office 107, 108 109\\nState 99 loi\\nTreasury 102 103\\nWar 100 101\\nDictionary for Visitors 197\\nDiplomatic Corps, The 142\\nRoom. Department of State. 113\\nDistributing Reservoir 181\\nDistrict and ;Miniici^ial Affairs 14\\nof Columbia, Origin of 13\\nInstitutions 81\\nDuddington Manor 79\\nDupont Circle 156\\nStatue of Admiral Samuel F.. 1,56\\nPAGE\\nEarly s Raid 181\\nEckington 184\\nEdgewood 184\\nEducation, Ofliccnf tlie Commissioner of 112\\nEmancipation IMnnuiuent 81\\nEngraving and Printing, Bureau of 119\\nEtiquette^ Official 139\\nEverett House, The 149\\nEwell House 146\\nExcursions About Washington 159\\nExecutive Avenue 152\\nDepartments 99\\nMansion 91\\nProposed 98\\nFalls Church. 179\\nFarragut, Statue of Admiral David G. 155\\nFarragut Square 155\\nFish Commission, The United States... 126\\nForce, Peter 45\\nFord s Theater 88\\nForeign Office 100\\nFort Foote 160\\nLyon 160\\nMonroe, Steamboat to.. 11\\nMeyer 178\\nTotten 183\\nSheridan 163\\nStevens 181\\nWashington 163\\nFourteenth Street 147\\nFranklin Square 147\\nStatue of Benjamin 88\\nFranzom s Clock, Capitol 25\\nFree Public Library 112\\nFrench Embassy 149\\nGarfield, Shooting of President. 14\\nStatue of Pres. James A 86 87\\nGeological Survey. 112\\nGeorgetown 186\\nChrist Church 160 161\\nInterior 160\\nCollege 187\\nHistory of 186\\nKey House 186\\nUnion Station 186\\nGingko Trees 147\\nGlen Echo 190\\nGlen Echo Heights 189\\nGiesboro Point 162\\nGovernment, District 14\\nHospital for Insane 162\\nPrinting Office.. 112\\nGrant Gift House 157\\nGrant s (General) Headquarters 102\\nGreat Falls of the Potomac 190\\nGreene, Statue of Major-General Natha-\\nuael 80\\nGreenough, Horatio 16\\nGridiron Club. 137\\nGross Monument. 125\\nHacks and Cabs 12\\nHalls of the Ancients 132\\nAssyrian Throne Room 133 134\\nPeristylium in Roman House 133\\nHalsall, Wm. F 37\\nHancock, Statue of General 87\\nHealy, George P. A 96\\nHistoric Houses:\\nBancroft House 149\\nBnlwer House... 148\\nDecatur Ibmse 146\\nDud liiigt()U Manor 79\\nEverett House. 149\\nEwell House 146\\nMadison H ouse 145\\nOctagon House. 118\\nSeward House 145\\nStockton House 149\\nSumner House 146\\nTayloe House 145\\nVan Ness Mansion 118\\nWirt House 150", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0213.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "204\\nINDEX.\\nPAGE\\nHistory, Early 14\\nHospital Square.- 81\\nHotels 12\\nEarly 87\\nList of Principal 201\\nHoudon, Jean Antoine 26\\nHoward University 180\\nH Street 148\\nHunting Creek 163\\nTnangnral Balls 110\\n-L Indian Office 112\\nInterior, Department of the 108\\nIowa Circle ._ 157\\nIStreet 150\\nIvy City Race Track 191\\nJackson, Statue of President Andrew.- 144 145\\nJustice, Department of 107\\nKendall Green 191\\nK Street 152\\nLabor, Department of 113\\nLafayette Memorial Statue 1 4 4\\nLafayette Square 143\\nOpera House, Site of 144\\nLand Office, General 113\\nLiUidbc, I!en.i.H 18\\nLeut/.c, Einannel 39\\nLibrary, Free Public 113\\nLibrary of Congress 45 40,41\\nAdministration 74\\nAglaia G7\\nAlexander Paintings 57\\nAmerica and Africa 53 53\\nAncient Games 63\\nArcliiti ctiire and Style 46\\nArts and Sciences Cox s 68\\nAutogniplis and MSS., Historic 65\\nBarsc I liinlings 70\\nBenson Paintings 66\\nBook Illustration 69\\nBronze Door Tradiiion 51 45\\nCare of Books 75\\nCeiling 53\\nComus 54 70\\nCopyright Office 75\\nCorintiiian Arcades 60\\nCorridors 61\\nDecorations 46\\nDodge W. de L. Paintings 64\\nDome and Galleries 73\\nDome Frescoes, Blashfleld s 74\\nHuman Understand-\\ning 74\\nSignificance 74\\nEarly Books _ 64\\nElements _ 69\\nBndymion 54 71\\nEntrance 46\\nEurope and Asia 53 53\\nEwlution of the Book. The 57\\nFamily, The 59 61\\nFates, Mackay s 70\\nFirst Floor Halls 53\\nFloor Plans, First Story 43\\nSecond S tory 43\\nFrom the Capitol 40, 41\\nGood Administration 59 58\\nGovernment.. 58 59\\nGraces, The 67\\nGrand Staircase 50\\nHouse Reading-room 70\\nInscriptions 05\\nLibrarian s Office 59\\nLyric Poetry 53 54\\nMcE wen Paintings 54\\nMain Entrance Hall 51, 70\\nMain Entrance Hall (Second Floor). 49\\nMan t el in 11 o n se Read ing-room 56 55\\nSenate 57 56\\nMap-room 60\\nMartiny Sculptures 53\\nMaynard Paintings 69\\nLibrary of Congress (continued).\\nMinerva 71\\nModern Games 07\\nMuses. Simmons 00\\nNorth i)nidor, Second Story, Main\\nEntrance H all\\nNortheast Pavilion 65\\nNorthwest Pavilion 64\\nOrigin of 45\\nPearce Paintings 59\\nPeriodical Reading-room 57\\nPerry Fountain 50\\nPerry s Sibyls 63, 67\\nPhilosophv 73\\nPlaques.. 69\\nPompeiian Dancing Girls, Dodge s, 60\\nPompeiian Panels 61\\nCourage 61\\nFortitude 61\\nJustice 61\\nPatriotism 61\\nPortico 50\\nPrinters Marks 61\\nRacial Heads 50\\nReading-loom 75\\nReiil Paintings 63\\nRepresentatives Reading-room 55\\nRestaurant 75\\nRotunda Entrance 58\\nof Public Reading-room. _\\nStatues 73\\nThe 73\\nSciences, The\\nSeals, Van Ingen s 65\\nSeasons Pratt s 64\\nSecond Story Rooms and Corridors. 60\\nSenators Reading-room 57\\nShirlaw Paintings 66\\nSoutheast Pavilion 69\\nSouthwest Pavilion 69\\nTreasures 64\\nTrophies. 63\\nVan Ingen s Paintings 71\\nVedder Mosaic, The 71\\nPaintings 5S\\nVestibule 51\\nVista, A..\\nWalker Paintings 54\\nWar 63\\nWi# and Peace, Melcher s 63\\nLincoln Relics 89\\nLniciiln Scjuare 81\\nLittle Kails of the Potomac 189\\nL iaan. Statue of Gen. John A 157\\nLong Bridge 159\\nLouise Home. 153\\nLuther, Martin 147\\nMcClellan Gate, The.\\nMcPherson Square _ 150\\nMcPherson Statue... 150\\nMadison House 145\\nMall, The 137\\nMaltby Building 80\\nMarine ori)S 88\\nahnvhall Hall 159\\nMarshall. Statue of Chief Justice John.\\n:\\\\lass:ielnisetts Avenue 153\\nMeridian Hill 156\\nMemory\\nMetropolitan Club. 149\\nMetropolitan Hotel 87\\nMexii an I- mlmssv\\n:\\\\I(.ran. Tlumias. 36\\nMount Olivet Cemetery 191\\nMount Vernon 163\\nElectric Railway Route to 159\\nEstate, The 163\\nGardens 167\\nMansion, The 166\\n^^y(._ 173\\nBanquet Hali, The\\nBedrooms.. l\\nCentral Hall\\n44\\n63\\n63\\n62\\n63\\n63\\n47\\n68\\n77\\n70\\n64\\n165\\n170\\n168", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0214.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n205\\nPAGE\\nMount Vernon \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Mansion (continued).\\nDeatli Chamber ._. 171\\nDining-room, 169\\nInterior, _ 168\\nLibrary 170\\nMartha s Room 171\\nMusic-room 169\\nOutbuildings 167\\nRoom in which General Wash-\\nington died _ 170 171\\nRoom in which Martha Wash-\\ni ngton die d _ _ 171\\nSitting-room _ 169\\nWestern Front 167\\nWest Parlor 169\\nRiver Route to 161\\nWashington, Old Tomb of 16H 164\\n\\\\Vashington, Tomb of 164 166\\nNational Pah- Grounds __ 191\\nNational Hotel 87\\nNational Militarjf Cemetery 182\\nNational Museum, The 133\\nCostumes 1^\\nLectures 124\\nOld Building.. 125\\nPersonal Relics 124\\nPottery 125\\nRotunda 124\\nNaval Hospital. 83\\nMonument 86\\nObservatory 188\\nNavy Department and Museum 82, 102 1 I\\nYard 81\\nMuseum. 82 83\\nOrdnance Factories 82\\nTrophies 82\\nNew Hampshire Avenue 1 57\\nNorfolk, Steamboat to.. 11\\nNumbering Currency Notes 130\\nOak Hill Cemetery 187\\nOak Hill 187\\nOctagon House, The.. 118\\nOfficial Etiquette at the Capital 139\\nCabinet Precedence 141\\nCabinet Receptions 141\\nCalling Days 142\\nCard Reception 139\\nDinner Formalities 140\\nDiplomatic Corps, Social Rules in.. 142\\nFormalities at the White House 139\\nLocal Society Features 139\\nOfficial Season 139\\nPresident s Hours 141\\nPublic Receptions 140\\nReception C^eremony 140\\nRules for Dress 141\\nVice-President 141\\nOid Capitol Prison 80\\nOrdnance Factories 82\\nPalmer, Erastus Dow 27\\nPatentOffice. 110 111\\nPayne, John Howard 187 184\\nPeale, Charles Wilson 36\\nPennsylvania Avenue 85\\nRailroad Station 11\\nPension Office 110 111\\nPopulation 14\\nPost Office, General 107, 108\\nNew 107 109\\nPotomac River Excursions 161\\nPowell, Wm. H 21\\nPratt, Bela L 72, 73\\nPowers, Hiram 30\\nPresident s Grounds 93\\nPublic Carriages 12\\nPublic Printer 112\\nDailroads and Stations.. 11\\nRawlins, Statue of General 87\\nRedemption Office 105\\nPAGE\\nRed Top, 189\\nResidences, Prominent 149\\nBlaine House 154\\nDepew, Chauncey M 149\\nDewey, Admiral 158\\nForaker, Senator J. B 153\\nGrant, Mrs. U. S 154\\nHale, Senator Eugene 153\\nLeiter, L. Z. Esq 157\\nRestaurants 12\\nRhode Island Avenue 157\\nRock Creek Church 182\\nCemetery 182\\nGrief by St. Gaudens 183\\nMemorial Statues 183\\nMemory by Partridge 183\\nPayne, John Howard,\\nMonument 187 184\\nRogers, Randolph 19\\nScheffer, Ary 28\\nScottCircle 153 ,-,ro\\nScott, Statue of General 154 i oo\\nSeventh Street 87\\nSeward House, The 145\\nShops 13\\nSixteenth Street 1.52\\nSmithsonian Institution 121 138\\nBureaus 123\\nPlan and Scope 122\\nSocial Formalities at Official Houses 142\\nSoldiers Home 180\\nHistory of 182\\nSt. John s Episcopal Church 135\\nStanton Square 80\\nState, Department of 99 101\\nState Library and Relics 100\\nStatues\\nDaguerre 126\\nDupont, Adm. Samuel F 156\\nEmancipation Monument 81\\nFarragut, Adm. David G 155\\nFranklin, Benjamin 88\\nGarfield, President James A. 87\\nGreene, Maj. -Gen. Nathaniel 80\\nGross, Dr. S. D 125\\nHancock, Gen. Winfield S.. 87\\nHenry, Prof. Joseph 121\\nIn the Capitol 27\\nJackson, President Andrew 144 145\\nLafayette Memorial 144\\nLincoln,A 14, 26 81\\nLogan, John A 1.57\\nLuther 147\\nMarshall, Chief Justice John 39\\nMcPherson. Major-Gen. Jas. B 150 i,-,\\nScott, Gen. Winfield 154 HSp\\nRawlms, Major-Gen. John A 87\\nThomas, Gen. George H 147\\nWashington, George 16, 26 11\\nSteamboat Landing 11\\nSteamboats 11\\nStockton House 149\\nStone, Horatio 24\\nStoried Houses 151\\nStreet Cars 11\\nStreets, Arrangement of 13\\nStuart, Gilbert Charles 30\\nSuburban Lines 12\\nSuburban Towns 184\\nSumner House, The 146\\nTayloe House 145\\nTennallytown 189\\nTheaters 136\\nThomas Circle 147\\nThomas, Statue of Gen. Geo. H 147\\nToner, J. M 45\\nTreasm-y, The 102 103\\nBranches of... 107\\nCash Room 105\\nCurrency Destruction Committee... 106\\nCutting the Sheets 104\\nDepartment 102 103", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0215.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "206\\nINDEX.\\nPAGE\\nTreasur.y, The continued).\\nExpert Counting 105\\nMaceration 106\\nPaper for Securities 104\\nRedemption Office 105\\nTreasury Notes 104\\nTunlaw Heights ._-_ 189\\nUniversities.\\nAmerican 188\\nCatliolic 184\\nColumbian 148\\nHoward. 160\\nVander) jrn, John 21\\nVan Ness Mansion, The 118\\nVenus of Melos 133\\nWaggaman Gallery, The 131\\nwallier, James 36\\nWar Department 100 101\\nWasliington Barraclss 1 62\\nWashington\\nBird s-eye View, looliing\\neast from Washington\\nMonument _ 114\\nBird s-eye View, looldng\\nnorth from Washington\\nMonument 138\\nCircle 157\\nDefenses of 179\\n01dTombof._ 166 164\\nStatues of George __ 16,26 11\\nTomb of _ ._ 164 166\\nWashington s Mansion at Mount\\nVernon 165, 166\\nWasliington Monument,- 115 117\\nDimensions 115\\nGrandeur __- 115\\nHistory .__. 115\\nPAGE\\nWashington Monument (continued).\\nInterior 116\\nNorthwestern Outlook 118\\nScene To^vard the Capitol 118\\nView Down the Potomac 118\\nfrom Arlington 175\\nfrom the Top 116\\nUD the Potomac ._- ___ 118\\nWater Works, of the City 190\\nWeather Bureau 121\\nForecasting _ _ 121\\nWeir, Robert W 21\\nWesley Heights 188\\nWhite House, or Executive Mansion 91\\nNew 93\\nWhite House 91\\nBlue Room 94 95\\nCabinet Room _ 98\\nDoorkeepers 93\\nEast Room 94 95\\nEgg-rolling. _. 93\\nGreen Room 94\\nHistory 91\\nIn Line on a Reception Day 93\\nLafayette Square, from 91\\nNorth Front 93\\nPresident s Grounds 93\\nOffice 97\\nRed Room 96\\nSouth Front 90\\nState Dining-room 97\\nWashington, Portrait of 94\\nWhitney, Anne 27\\nWinder Buildmg 102\\nWillard s Hotel 89\\nWirt House, The 150\\nWoodley Heights.... _ 188\\nY M. C. A 137\\nZoological Park. 185\\nAnimals 185", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0216.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "HALLS OF THE ANCIENTS\\nConstructed for the Promotion of\\nNATIONAL GALLERIES OF HISTORY AND ART\\nIN WASHINGTON\\nADMISSIONS TO THE HALLS\\nIT HAS BEEN THE GENERAL\\nexpression from thousands who have\\nentered the Halls that they are aston-\\nished at their extent (more than three-\\nfourths of an acre in floor space), and the\\ngreat variety of material they supply for\\nthoughtful observation.\\nA general view, by one course through\\nthem, absorbs attention, leaving no time\\nfor study of details.\\nTo secure, therefore, the instructive\\nopportunities offered, the following moderate\\nterms of admission are established for the\\nyear 1900.\\nTHE KALLS ARE OPEN DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, FROM 9 AM. TO 6 P.M.\\nAtso Evenings upon arrangement for Conventions,\\nSchools, Excursion Parties, Etc.\\nWeekly Tickets, not transferable, $1.00\\nSingle Admission, .50\\nExcursion rates, 25 cts. for parties of lO and over from beyond Washington.\\nParties of 25 and upwards, of Washington, at excursion rate.\\nHALLS OF THE ANCIENTS\\nNos. 1312, 1314, 1316 and 1318 New York Avenue\\nBetween 13th and 14th Streets, Washington.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0217.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "JAMES L. NORRIS\\nESTABLISHED 1869\\nNorrisNew Office Bldg., erected in 1880\\nLONG DISTANCE PHONE 1483\\nMember of the Patent Law Association. Counselor in\\nPatent Causes\\nSOLICITOR OF AMERICAN\\nAND FOREIGN PATENTS\\nIN ACTIVE PRACTICE THIRTY YEARS\\nr 1 Cl\\\\ 1 O Washington, D. C.\\nInformation as to requirements and costs for securing Letters Patent on Inventions,\\nCaveats, Trade-Marks, etc., sent free in pamphlet on request, it naming some of my\\nclients in every State.\\nLetters Patent procured in the United States and Foreign Countries Trade-Mark.\\nLabel, Caveat and Copyright protection secured.\\nSearches made and opinions given as to the validity and infringement of Letters Patent.\\nSPECIAL REFERENCES\\nHon. Rufus W. Applegrath, Baltimore, Md.\\nRobert Portner Brewing Co., Alexander, Va.\\nBuckelew, Curry Co., Shreveport, La.\\nCaldwell Peterson Mfg. Co., Wheeling, W. Va.\\nColumbia Carriage Co., Hamilton, O.\\nClayton Air Compresser Co., New York City.\\nHon. Samuel G. Dorr, Buffalo, N. Y.\\nWhat Cheer Stove Co., What Cheer, la.\\nGem City Stove Mfg. Co., Quincy, 111.\\nGraber Machinery Co., Dallas, Texas.\\nWm. Hollingsworth, Baltimore, Md.\\nHardsocg Mfg. Co Ottumwa, Iowa.\\nHatch Wilson, Grand Rapids, Mich.\\nHolmes, Booth Hayden, New York City.\\nInternational Mattress Machine Co., Boston, Mass.\\nJ. A. Kelly Bros., Clinton, Iowa.\\nWindsor Co., New York City.\\nPrincess of Wales Co., New York City.\\nChristopher Lipps Soap Mfg. Co., Baltimore, Md.\\nThe Lake Submarine Co., New York City.\\nEdgar H. Farrar, New Orleans, La.\\nThe Monoline Composing Co., Washington, D. C.,\\nand New York City.\\nKeating Implement and Machine Co., Dallas, Tex.\\nS. Hernsheim Bros., New Orleans, La.\\nEdward Miller Co., Meriden Conn.\\nMartin Taylow Co., Mobile, Ala.\\nNorthington-Munger-Pratt Co., Birmingham, Ala.\\nR. G. Marcy Mfg. Co., Bluffton, Ind.\\nArthur McMullen Co., New York City.\\nDr. Matthew Charles McGannon, Nashville, Tenn.\\nWra. Pickhardt Kuttroff, New York City.\\nParis Medicine Co., Ashville, N. Y.\\nP. Hayden Saddlery Hardware Co., Columbus, O.\\nPeyton Cher cal Works, San Francisco, Cal.\\nWarren B. Reed, New Orleans, La.\\nRochester Camera Supply Co Rochester, N. Y.\\nSheflSeld Foundry Machine Works, Sheffield, Ala,\\nEureka Tempered Copper Works, North East, Pa.\\nBuckeye Iron and Brass Worl:3, Dayton, O.\\nThe Arlington Co New York City.\\nThe Cudahy Packing Co., South Omaha, Neb.\\nThe Bronson Inkstand Co. Warren, Pa.\\nThomas Kane Co., Chicago, 111.\\nBodley Wagon Co., Staunton, Va., and New Orleans,\\nLa.\\nThe Knickerbocker Co., J lckson, Mich,, and St.\\nLouis, Mo,\\nThe Carter Mfg. Co., Louisville, Ky.\\nAdvance Thresher Co., Battle Creek, Mich.\\nThe National Bank of Washington, Washington, D.C.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0218.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Chesapeake Beach-on the Bay\\n30 MILES FROM WASHINGTON\\nA NEW AND POPULAR SALT WATER RESORT\\nREACHED ONLY BY THE\\nCHESAPEAKE BEACH RAILWAY\\nDAILY EXCURSION TRAINS\\n50 Cents for Round Trip\\nTAKE COLUMBIA H ST. CAR\\nTO CHESAPEAKE JUNCTION\\nOTTO MEARS J. L. McNEIL A. H. LEWIS\\nPres. and Gen l Mgr. Vice-Pres. and Treas. Gen l Frt. Passg. Agent", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0219.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "Southern Railway\\n4\\nNATIONAL HIGHWAY OF\\nTRAVEL BETWEEN THE\\nNORTH AND SOUTH\\nGreat Trains every day in the year from New York, through\\nPhiladelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with unexcelled\\nDining, Sleeping and Observation Car Service To At-\\nlanta, Montgomery, New Orleans, Asheville, Knoxville,\\nChattanooga, Birmingham, Memphis, Augusta, Savannah,\\nJacksonville and Tampa\\nand all Principal Southern Cities and Winter Resorts\\nTHE SOUTH, SOUTHWEST,\\nFLORIDA, CUBA, MEXICO,\\nAND THE PACIFIC COAST\\nTHE ROUTE TO WESTERN NORTH\\nCAROLINA THE LAND OF THE SKY\\nTicket Offices in Washington, D.C.\\n705 15th St., N.W. and 511 Pennsylvania Ave.\\nFor fall particulars, tickets, and reservation of Pullman space, address the agents named below.\\nNEW YORK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 n85 Broadway, Cor. 28tli St,- Eastern Passenger Agency, Ales. S. Thweatt, E. P. A.\\nNEW YORK- 271 Broadway, Nnt. Shoe Leather Bank Building, VV. A. Johnson, Passenger Agent.\\nBOSTON-At22S Washington Street, G. C. Daniels, New England Passenger Agent.\\nPHILADELPHIA- S28 liestnut Street, under Continental Hotel, C. L. Hopkins, D. P. A.\\nBALTinORB -At 201 K. Baltimore St Cor. Baltimore and Calvert Sts., J. C. Horton, Pass r Agent.\\nWASHINGTON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 705 15th St., N. W., L. S. Brown, General Agent.\\nFRANK S. GANNON, 3d Vice-Pres. and Gen l Mgr., J. M. GULP, Traffic Mgr., W. A. TURK, Gen l Pass r Ag\\nWASHINGTON, O. C.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0220.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "DON^T FAIL TO VISIT THE\\nMODEL\\nTURKISH ..J RUSSIAN BATHS\\nCovering 7,000 Square Feet\\nLafayette Square Opera House\\nFINEST IN THE UNITED STATES\\nOPEN ALL NIGHT\\nLadies* Days: Mondays and Thursdays Gentlemen Received until H a. m.\\n9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sundays\\nMASSAGE, MANICURING, CHIROPODIST\\nAND HAIR DRESSING\\n^^5?^ ?4^!? Open for inspection SLEEPING\\nJ3 -nCKETS $10 ACCOMMODATIONS\\nJ^n KODAKS, CAMERAS, i,\\nSUPPLIES.\\nALL THE LEADING HAKES OF CAMERAS.\\nEastman s, Kodaks and\\nSupplies.\\nVisitors to Washington You are welcome to\\nour Free Dark=Room.\\nBURKE BROS.,\\n712 9th, N. W., NEAR G. ST.\\nM*iL^^ Phone 2488=2\\nORDERS\\nfBSshed.^ WASHINGTON, D. C.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0221.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "KODAKS\\nAND CAMERAS\\nPhotographic Supplies\\nLargest Photographic Stock House\\nSouth of Philadelphia\\nDEVELOPING AND PRINTING PROMPTLY DONE\\nDARK ROOM FREE TO CUSTOMERS\\nHENRY H. BROWN, 1010 F ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nMOUNT VERNON\\nON THE POTOMAC\\nHOMB AND TOMB OF Vv^ASHINGXON\\nTOURIST ROUTE\\nSTEAHER CHARLES HACALESTER. Daily, two trips (Sunday\\nexcepted). Steamer leaves 7th Street Wharf. Washington, D. C.\\nSummer Schedule: 10 A. M. and 2:30 P. M. Fall and Winter\\nSchedviLe 10 A. M. and 1 :45 P. M. (See advertisement in newspapers)\\nFare^ Round Trip, 50 cents.\\nAdmission to Grounds and Mansion, 25 ccnb=.\\n...ARLINGTON TRANSFER WAGONETTES...\\nMAKB CLOSE CONNECTIONS WITH ALL TRAINS TO AND FROn\\nW^ASHINQTON, ALEXANDRIA AND MT. VERNON\\nThe route of the Wagonettes is through the Cemetery, to the Lee Mansion and Fort Myer.\\npassing all principal monuments, the new cemetery where the Maine victims and heroes of\\nthe Spanish war are buried a^d to Fort McPherson. FAKE, 35c ROUND TRIP Passengers\\nmay stop over at any point in the cemetery, and take a later wagon without extra charge.\\nDuring exhibition drills parties will be taken 1o the drill hall at Fort Myer and returned\\nwithout extra charge. Each driver is a good guide and thoroughly acquainted with location\\nof the graves and point of interest. The cemetery is so large that one can see more in a\\nhalf-hour driving than in two hours of walking.\\nARLINGTON TRANSFER CO\\nKODAKS\\nCAMKRAS\\nAND\\nPHOTOGRAPHIC\\nSUPPLIES\\nHOUGHTON DELANO\\nVIEWS OF\\nWASHINGTON 732 FIFTEENTH STREET, WASHINGTON\\nDouglas Prints in Platinotype of the Library of Congress", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0222.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "CLYDE\\nLINE\\nONLY DIRECT WATER ROUTE\\nBetween NEW YORK and\\nFLORIDA\\nExcellent Service, Fast\\nModern Steamships to\\nCHARLESTON and\\nJACKSONVILLE\\nClyde Line\\nCHARLESTON, S. C.\\nJACKSONVILLE, FLA.\\nWITHOUT CHANGE\\nLow Rates to all points South.\\nSailings tri-weekly at 3 p. m.\\nfrom Pier 45, North River\\n(North side of Christopher St.\\nFerry), New York.\\nSTEAMERS ARRIVE\\nJACKSONVILLE\\nIN MORNING\\nConnecting with outgoing trains\\nand\\nCLYDE S\\nST. JOHNS RIVER\\nLINE\\nFor Palatka, Sanford, and all in-\\ntermediate landings on the\\nbeautiful St. Johns.\\nSmoothest Sailing Passenger\\nShips to the South\\nLOW^EST RATES.\\nBEST SERVICE.\\nTickets include meals and state-room berth, thus making the cost\\nabout 40 per cent less than via all rail.\\nCUISINE UNEXCELLED.\\nSuperb Passenger Accommodations.\\nSchedule, rates, and illustrated literature free upon application to\\nPassenger Department.\\nTHEO. G. EGER,\\nTRAFFIC Manager.\\nWM. P. CLYDE CO.,\\nGENERAL AGENTS.\\nGENERAL OFFICES: CHESEBROUGH BLDG., 19 STATE ST.\\n(FACING BATTERY PARK), NEW YORK.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0223.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "FRANK A. BUTTS\\n(Originator and late Chief, Army and\\nNavy Survivors Division, U. S.\\nPension Bureau\\nLate Major 47tli N. Y. Vet. Vols., 2d\\nBrig. 2d Div., loth A. C.\\n1861\\n1865\\nHENRY A. PHILLIPS\\n(Late Chief of Middle Division U. S.\\nPension Bureau).\\nLate Sergt. Co. D, 47th N. Y, Vet. Vols.,\\n2d Brig., 2d Div,, loth A. C.\\nWar with Spain\\nAND THE PHILIPPINES\\nPensions are provided by Section 12, Act of April 22, 1898,\\nfor officers and enlisted men of the military and naval forces in\\nthe Spanish war, disabled in service and line of duty and for\\nthe widows, children under 16, and dependent parents, brothers\\nand sisters under 16, of such as die from causes incurred in\\nservice and line of duty.\\nCLAIMS FOR PRIZE MONEY AND EXTRA PAY UNDER ACT OF\\nMARCH 3, 1899, A SPECIALTY\\nCONSULTATION FREE NO FEE UNLESS SUCCESSFUL\\nBUTTS PHILLIPS\\nSOLICITORS OF CLAIMS\\nARMY AND NAVY WAR VETERANS\\nBUREAU OF INFORMATION\\n1425 New York Ave., Washington, D. C,\\nBranch Office 13 Willoughby Street\\nBrooklyn New York\\nReferences Washington Board of Trade, and\\nTraders National Bank, Washington, D. C.\\nYou can always depend upon your claims\\nbeing given personal and immediate attention\\nFrom the National Tribune, Washington, D. C, Thursday, April 22, 1 897\\nWe adopt a samewhat unusual course in calling attention to the announcement of Messrs. Butts\\nPhillips, which reappears in another column of this issue. Not only have they been successful as\\npractitioners, but their personal war record gives an additional interest to their career. The f -ct that\\nthey are both veterans naturally had a bearing upon the success they have achieved professionally in\\nthe special line of practice to which they have devoted their efforts. Both members of the firm have\\nhad the advantage of long service in responsible positions in the Pension Bureau.\\nMajor Butts organized and managed the Army and Navy Survivors Division, which has been\\nofficially described as having enabled over 60,000 claimants to prove their cases before the Bureau who\\notherwise would have failed for lack of evidence.\\nSend for our special blank for record of\\nmilitary or naval service to be left with\\nyour family for future reference. Address\\nBUTTS PHILLIPS\\n14-25 NEW YORK AVENUE\\nLINUAN BUILDING, WA.HINSTON, 0,C.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0224.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "XTbe IRalelQb,\\nPennsylvania Avenue,\\nCor. i2thSt., N. W.,\\nWASHINGTON, D. C.\\nEuropern Plan\\nAbsolutely Fireproof\\nOpposite New Post Office\\nAccessible to All Points of Interest\\nThe riodern Hotel of the City\\nT. J. TALTY,\\nrianager.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0225.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "HOTEL\\nAND\\nCAFE\\nCORNER ELEVENTH AND G STREETS, N. W.,\\nWashington, D. C.\\nA\\nK\\nM\\nTJ\\nK\\nR\\nR\\nO\\nI\\nP\\nC\\n::^^^fc^\\nK\\nA\\n^B^B^K\\nA\\nIV\\nf\\nIV\\ni M\u00c2\u00abJMm TTT v sigMeJgiiHSgdAMJaM ijf\u00c2\u00abl\\nRooms with Board, $1.50 to $2.50 per day; $8 to $15 per week;\\n$30 to $50 per month. Rooms only, $1 and $1.50 per day for\\neach person. Special Rates to parties or permanent guests.\\nLocation Unsurpassed for Sightseers^\\nHomelike Apartments, Light and Airy.\\nElevator, Steam Heat, and other Comforts.\\nE. S. LaFETRA, Proprietor.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0226.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "GREEN S HOTEL\\nCorner Eighth and Chestnut Sts.,\\nPhiladelphia, Pa.\\nFOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.\\nEUROPEAN PLAN.\\nTwo Hundred and Fifty Rooms\\nat 31.00 and 31.50 Per Day.\\nFinest Restaurant Elevator, Electric Lights, Baths,\\nIN Philadelphia. and All Modern Conveniences,\\nEighth and Chestmit Street Tj^olley Cars pass the Hotel at the\\nRate of Three per Minute to all Parts of the City.\\nThis Hotel is centrally located, and in the very heart of the city, being but\\none square from the Postoffice, and easy of access to all Theaters, Railway\\nStations, Public Buildings, and Points of Interest.\\nHeadquarters for Coinnier cial Travelers.\\nMAHLON W. NEWTON,\\nProprietor.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0227.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "HOTEL EARLINGTON\\nABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF.\\n27th street West, near Broadway, ^EW YORK CITY.\\nCenter of Shopping and Amusement District. European Plan.\\nRemodeled and refurnished at an expenditure of one\\nhundred and fifty thousand dollars.\\nTARIFF OF RATES.\\nSingle rooms, detached bath, fi .50 and $2.00\\nDouble rooms, detached bath, 2.00 and 3.00\\nDouble rooms, private bath, i person, $3.00 2 persons, 4.00\\nSuite of parlor, bedroom, and bath, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00 and S.oo\\nSuite of parlor, 2 bedrooms, and bath, 9.00 and 10 00\\nRESTAURANTS AND PALM ROOM.\\nTABLE D HOTE DINNER SIX TO EIGHT.\\n^5 ^5 ^W ^5\\nRICHFIELD SPRINGS, N. Y.\\nOn Lake Canadarago, 1,750 feet elevation,\\nTHE AMERICAN CURE AND PLEASURE RESORT.\\nHOTEL EARLINGTON,\\nOpposite Bathing Establishment.\\nOPEN JUNE TO OCTOBER. ACCOMMODATES 500 GUESTS.\\nLocated in Earlington Park. (Moderate rates.)\\nTHE GREAT WHITE SULPHUR SPRING BATHING\\nESTABLISHMENT.\\nPor the cure of Gout, Rheumatism, Sciatica, and nervous diseases.\\nWRITE FOR BOOKLET.\\nE. M. EARLE SON.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0228.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "opposite: the treasury,\\nOBfrBLQ^CK FRPJVI. THEJWHITE HOUSE,\\nThe Hotel par excellence of the National Capital.\\nCABLE, ELECTRIC, AND HORSE CARS PASS THE DOOR\\nTO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY.\\nThe most centrally located\\nof any hotel in the city.\\nAMERICAN PLAN\\n$3 per Da}^ and upwards\\nALSO\\nTHOUSAND ISLAND ttOUSE\\nALEXANDRIA BAY, NY.\\nAmerica s most beautiful resort.\\nSend two 2c. stamps for beautiful\\nillustrated guide, to\\nSTAPLES DeWITT, Proprietors.\\nNATIONAL HOTEL,\\nOPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.\\nO. G. STAPLES,\\nProprietor.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0229.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "THE FREDONIA\\nz\\nK\\nJ\\nCL\\nZ\\nK\\nE\\nIII\\nFIRST-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0CLASS FAMILY\\nHOTEL.\\n1\\nIf\\n\u00c2\u00bbr we\\nlii\\n1\\nm\\nc\\ntn\\n2\\nr\\nz\\n1321-1323 H Street, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nthe FREDONIA HOTEL, A MODERN HOTEL HOME.\\nThe man without a home of his own will find this Hotel of loo\\nrooms the next best thing to it. It is centrally located, thoroughly\\nequipped with every modern appliance, both for comfort and safety,\\nnewly furnished throughout from top to bottom, convenient to all lines\\nof cars, and is in the midst of many of the city s most prominent points\\nof interest. It is conducted upon both the American and European\\nPlans and has a cuisine not excelled by any hostelry in the city.\\nRATES.\\nAmerican One person, $2.00 per day, $12 per week, $40 per month\\nand upward. Two persons, $3.50 per day, $20 per week,\\n$75 per month and upward.\\nEuropean Rooms, one person, I per day and upward. Two persons,\\n1 .50 per day and upward.\\nSpecial Excursion Rates will be quoted to parties of twenty or more\\nupon application to\\nWM. W. DANENHOWER, Proprietor.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0230.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "HOTEL EMPIRE\\nAbsolutely Fire Proof.\\nBroadway and 63d Street, NEW YORK CITY.\\nPatronized by travelers and tourists of the best class from all parts of the world.\\nFrom all Jersey City Ferries take the\\nSixth or Ninth Auenue elevated\\ntrains to 59th Street, or Broadway\\nCable, to the Hotel door, 19 to 20\\nminutes\\nEUROPEAN PLAN.\\nTake Boulevard cars at Grand Central\\nDepot and reach Hotel Empire in 7\\nminutes. Within 10 minutes of\\nthe theaters and great department\\nstores,\\nRATES MODERATE.\\nThe only Hotel in New York City having an exten-\\nsive library for the exclusive use of its guests.\\nElectric cars running to all parts of the city pass its doors. 6th and gth Avenue\\nElevated Railroad stations one minute s walk from the hotel.\\nMusic by the Lmpire Orchestra every Evening.\\ni^P^ Send address for our book, The Empire, Illustrated.\\nW. JOHNSON QUINN, Proprietor.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0231.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "OPEN EVENINGS\\nMAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED\\nTHE\\nWASHINGTON\\nSOUVENIR CO.\\n1333 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE\\nOpposite Mt. Vernon Electric Railway Sta.\\nExtends to all a cordial invitation to visit their shop\\n(/VWWWWWWV\\nVVWWWWWf\\nPost Cards, 2 for 5c.\\nMaps, 10c.\\nHEADQUARTERS\\nAlbums, iSc. to $3.00\\nFOR\\nRedeemed Money,\\nSOUVKNIRS\\n15c.\\nSterling Spoons,\\nOF\\n75c. to $5.00\\nEVERY DESCRIPTION\\nColor Photographs,\\n25c. to $3.50\\netc.\\nPHOTOGRAPHS in PLATINUM and PLAIN\\nOF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND WASHINGTON\\nWASHINGTON SOUVENIR CO.\\n1333 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE\\nOpposite nt. Vernon Electric Ry. Station.\\nWithin Two Squares of the Ebbitt, Raleigh, Regent and Willard Hotels.", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0232.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY I, 1900.\\nW. A. F. G. R. R.\\nTO FORT MYER 8c ARLINGTON. TO BALLSTON FALLS CHURCH.\\nLv. Aqueduct Bridge\\nLv, Arlington\\ndi Ft. Myer\\nLv, Aquedu\\nct Bridge Lv. Falls Church\\nA. M.\\nP. W.\\nA. M.\\np. M.\\nA. M.\\nP. M.\\nA. M.\\nP. M.\\n^*6.20\\n3- 5\\n*6.35\\n*3-o5\\n\u00c2\u00a76-25\\n4.00\\nS6.25\\n3-3\u00c2\u00b0\\n\u00c2\u00a7*6.50\\n*3.4o\\n^7-0\\n3-30\\n\u00c2\u00a76.50\\n4-3\u00c2\u00b0\\n\u00c2\u00a76.50\\n4.00\\n\u00c2\u00a7*7-2o\\n4-iS\\n*7-35\\n*4-05\\n7 20\\n5.00\\n^7 20\\n4-30\\n*7-5o\\n*4-4o\\n*8.io\\n4-3\u00c2\u00b0\\n8.30\\n5-30\\n\u00c2\u00a77-5\u00c2\u00b0\\n5.00\\n*8.4o\\n5-15\\n*9-\u00c2\u00b05\\n*5-05\\n9-30\\n6.00\\n8.05\\n5-30\\n9-15\\n*5-4o\\n9 30\\n5-30\\n10.30\\n6.30\\n9.00\\n6 .00\\n*9-4o\\n6.15\\n*io.o5\\n*6.o5\\n11.30\\n7 -CO\\n10 00\\n6. 30\\n10.15\\n*6.4o\\n10.30\\n6.30\\n12 .30\\n8.00\\n1 1 .00\\n7 .00\\n*io.4o\\n715\\n*ii.o5\\n*7-05\\n1.30\\n9.00\\n12 .00\\n7-3\u00c2\u00b0\\nII. i5\\n*7-4o\\nIX. 30\\n7-30\\n2.30\\n10 .OC\\n1 .00\\n8.30\\n*ii .40\\n*8,40\\n*12.05\\n*8.o5\\n3.00\\nII .00\\n2 .00\\n9-3\u00c2\u00b0\\n12.15\\n-*9 40\\n12.30\\n*9-05\\n3-3\u00c2\u00b0\\n12 .00\\n3.00\\n10.30\\n1 2 40\\n*io.4o\\n*i.o5\\n*io.o5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^11. OS\\n12.05\\np. M.\\nP. M.\\np. M.\\n11.30\\n1-15\\n*ii.5o\\n1.30\\n*2.05\\n2.30\\np. w.\\n*i .40\\n2-15\\n*2 .40\\nSat. and S\\n7.30\\nExcept Sunday,\\nan. only a car will leave Rosslyn at\\nP. M., returning leave Falls\\nChurch 8 P. M.\\nP. M.\\nP. M.\\np. M.\\nA. M.\\nCall on I\\nFor B\\nFree trans(\\nI. E. Church, Falls Church, Va.,\\nteal Estate, Houses and Lots\\nExcept Sunday.\\nCars leave Pike\\nThrough tc\\non the even 1\\nNanck.\\nour.\\nFor Sale and Kent.\\nortation across bridge to\\ncommuters.\\nc\\nRAND, MCNAIiliY CO. S\\nScd pocket maps\\nOF STATES AND TERRITORIESo\\nPRICE, 25 CENTS EACH.\\nThese Maps are folded to ordinary pocket size. An indexed book\\nis furnished with each map showing at a glance the location of\\ntowns, their population, and which of them have and which have\\nnot the service of express companies, post office, money-order office,\\ntelegraph, railroad, etc. They are specially valuable as indicating\\nthe post-office address nearest to any point not yet supplied with\\nmail service.\\nNew Vest Pocket Maps\\n15 CENTS\\nTowns and population figures are printed on back of maps, which\\nare folded to vest pocket size and inserted in manilla covers.\\nRAND, McNALLY COMPANY\\nCHICAGO AND NEW YORK.", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0233.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "MOUNT VERNON, %-^^^^lr\\nAriLllNCj 1 UJNt NatiorSTccmctery\\nVirginia s First Capitol, A T p V A M nt? T A\\nthe Quaint Old City of jr\\\\.l^J-: y\\\\./A.i N L^ I\\\\l/\\\\\\nARE ALL QUICKLY AND CONVENrENTLY REACHED ON\\nTHE ELECTRIC TRAINS\\nWashington, Alexandria Mt. Vernon Ry.\\nSTATION 131^ STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE\\nTrains for Mount Vernon every hour from lo A. m. to 2 p. m., from Nov. i to May i, and\\nevery hour from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M., from May i to Nov. i.\\nTrains for Arlington and Alexandria about every forty-five minutes.\\nFor time table see Washington daily papers and folders in hotels.\\nRound Trip to Mount Vernon, 50c.\\nRound Trip to Alexandria, 25c.\\nRound Trip to Arlington, 20c.\\nStop-over privileges allowed at Alexandria", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0234.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "PHOTOGRAPHER\\nAND PUBLISHER\\nOF\\nJ. F. JARVIS\\nIMPORTER AND DEALER IN\\nSouoenirs of Ulasbinston VIEWS\\n135 Pennsylvania Avenue, one biocr from capuoi.\\nESTABLISHED VlSltOrS 10 W3$l)illSt0ll estTblishe\u00c2\u00b0d and extensive whole-\\nsale and retail SOUVENIR EMPORIUM. Here they will find the most\\ncomplete assortment of PHOTOGRAPHS. VIEWS, and SOUVENIRS\\nof all descriptions.\\n1875...\\nllBl^^M: la@nBiipg^iD[i\u00c2\u00bb]nnoO^\\nm.\\n(s)J CAP! rot\\ni^B,\\\\:::]m^\\\\Qua^r^t^^rM\\\\r-\\\\\\\\", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0235.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "JAMES L. NORRIS\\nESTABLISHED 1869\\nLONG DISTANCE PHONE 14S3\\nMember of the Patent Law Association. Counselor t\\nPatent Causes\\nSOLICITOR OF AiVlERICA^\\nAND FOREIGN PATENTS\\nIN ACTIVE PRACTICE THIRTY YEARS\\nNorris New Office Bldg., erected in 1880\\nPATENTS\\nCor. F aid Fifth Sts., N. W|\\nWashingtoD, D. C.\\nInformation as to requirements and costs for securing Letters Patent on Inventions\\nCaveats, Trade-Marks, etc., sent free in pamphlet on request, it naming some of m\\nclients in every State.\\nLetters Patent procured in the United States and Foreign Countries Trade-Mark\\nLabel, Caveat and Copyright protection secured.\\nSearches made and opinions given as to the validity and infringement of Letters Patent\\nSPECIAL REFERENCES\\nNational Bank of Washington, Washington, D. C.\\nThe Monoline Composing Co., Washington, D. C.\\nThe Babcock Willcox Co., New York City.\\nThe CoUiery Engineer Co., Scran ton, Pa.\\nThe Bodley Wagon Co., Staunton, Va., and New\\nOrleans, La.\\nThe Star Incubator and Brooder Co., Bound Brook,\\nN.J.\\nThe Cudahy Packing Co., Sou^h Omaha, Nebraska.\\nThe Knickerbocker Co., Jao ^son, Michigan.\\nThe Tasteless Quinine Co., Asheville, N. Car.\\nThe Howells Mining Drill Co., Plymouth, Pa.\\nThe White Mt. Freezer Co., Nashau, New Hamp.\\nThe Kinnear Manufacturing Co., Warren, Pa.\\nThe Bronson Inkstand Co., Warren, Pa.\\nThe Carter Manufacturing Co., Louisville, La.\\nThe Continental Gin Co., Birmingham, Alabama.\\nThe Turner Machine Co., Danbury, Conn.\\nEdward Miller Co., Meriden, Conn.\\nHardsocg Manufacturing Co Ottumwa. Iowa.\\nWhat Cheer Drill and Miners Tool Co., What Cheer,\\nIowa.\\nAthol Machine Co., Athol, Mass.\\nThe Arlington Co., New York City.\\nL. Boyers Sons, New York City.\\nMetallic Cap Manufacturing Co., New York City.\\nCary Safe Co., Buffalo, N. Y.\\nColumbia Carriage Co., Hamilton, Ohio.\\nBuckeye Iron and Brass Works, Dayton, Ohio.\\nJackson Sharp Co., Wilmington, Delaware.\\nKeating Implement and Machine Co., Dallas, Tei^\\nThe Foster Engineering Company, Newark, N.\\nThe Canadian Composing Co., Montreal, Canada^\\nSeneca Glass Co., Morgantown, W. Va.\\nAmerican Broom and Brush Co., Amsterd\u00c2\u00bbm, N^\\nAmerican Raveller Co., Philmont, N. Y.\\nJames W. Bodley, Staunton, Va.\\nThe Brown-Bierce Co., Dayton, O.\\nBoss Knitting Machine Works, Reading, Pa.\\nClark Manufacturing Company, Buffalo, N. Y.\\nEnclosed Prism Co., Chicago, 111.\\nEssmueller-Heyde Mill Furnishing Co., St. Lo is,\\nEpworth Gas Light and Heating Co., Waterloo, r|\\nFort Grain Co., Waco, Texas.\\nSteele, DeFriese Frothingham, New York City|\\nWm. J. Farrell, New York City.\\nGlobe Ticket Co., Philadelphia, Pa.\\nGlens Falls Lantern Co., Glens Falls, N. Y.\\nGray Dudley Hardware Co., Nashville, Tenn.j\\nHolcomb Hoke Manufacturing Co., Sullivan,\\nDetroit Emery Wheel Co., Detroit, Mich.\\nHowell, Davies Coal Co., Louisville, Ky.\\nHarding Tinder, Seymour, Ind.\\nAdvance Thresher Co Battle Creek, Mich.\\nBurrough Bros. Manufacturing Co., Baltimore, Md.\\nSEE- INSIDE PAGE", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0236.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0237.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0238.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3433", "width": "4512", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0239.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "f", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0240.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "m", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0241.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0242.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3193", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0243.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab9\\nj\\n^v^^-\\n.!^dk.%%\\ne 1.0\\nV\\n^o^^^\\nA^\\nX/ /j\\ni?\u00c2\u00b0vft\\njP-n;..", "height": "3231", "width": "2133", "jp2-path": "randmcnallycospi03chic_0244.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "*k..\\n^v*.\\ny1\\nno\\nfit.\\n\u00c2\u00abV AY\\n.40^\\ns\\n^v^O^\\nc-*^\\n^o\\nHECKMAN\\nBINDERY INC.\\n^Hffl^ N. 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