The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-17
HOUSE IN WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED.

HOUSE IN WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED.
much inferior in size. East Of tho homo
OF the first citizen Of the Republic is thu
massive Treasury building, and west Of Il
the magnificent building for the State
Navy and War Departments, which cos,
$1,000 600 to erect. The rotunda, $50 feet
in height, / the chief fcatureof the
the Ionic colombo, OF the White House,
Ionic porticos characterize tho Treasury
Building. and that noble pile on the Other
side OF the White House appropriated to
the three departments above named ia in
the Roman Doric style. The Department
Of the Interior occupies 4 poric building,
the simplicity OF which contrasts with the
pure Corlnthinn elahoratenpss of the
P0stottce structure. One OF the leading
adonments Of the city Is the Smithsonian
Institute, n stately group OF connected ed.
itices %surmounted with artistic towers.
To mention other principal buildings in a
newspaper sketch is unnecessary. The
list would BIO long, and in itself uninter.
esting. 1t may safely be affirmed that no
city in the world containing the same o
ulatlon rs Washington Is equally eml,cnt
for the number Of its vast and beautiful
public edilices.
THE WEATHER EcRIAu.
One OF the pretty and accurate cuts &C.
companying this article shows the Signal
Office, or the Weather Bureau. 1t stands
on 9 street, northwest, and Is a brick
building, the purpose OF which is indicated
BY the remarkable appearance Of its roof.
On this are always to be seen instruments
by which are measured the velocity of the
winds, the rainfall exactly ascertained
and other observations made, constituting
It centre OF meteorological inquiry and
information. But it is more than this,
AS by means photographic Accommodation
reports OF the same nature are received
from all parts Of the country, then collated
and presented, enabling Tie experienced
officer. in charge 10 form what proves to be
Il generally just Judgment asto the weather
probabilities everywhere throughout the
Union.
GARFIELD MEMORIAL.
a tender interest Is excited by the Gar.
field Memorial Tablet, showing the exact
spot i'll the Baltimore l. Potomac Depot
whore, or July 2, 1881, the miserable
Guiteau shot down the eminent states.
man, scholar and orator, whom the sui
frages OF his fellow-Gllisens had called to
Tho chief place in the nation.
THE PETERSON HOUSE.
The house in Which Abraham Lincoln
died on the morning Of April II, lS01, is
Known as the reterson house. ii stands
nearly opposite what was Mt that time
Ford's Theatre, in which Wilkes Booth
carried out his murderous intention
against the man who preserved the Union.
This building was bought by the United
States Government in 1866, and is used
for the Army Medical museum and the
record and pension division Of the Sur
geon Generals Department. The Peterson
house still remains private property, and
the only evidence OF its melancholy his.
toric interest which it bears is a marble
tablet let into its exterior and lettered
with the sad story of the wise and gentle
Observation-Disclosures. Few, ifany, Der.
IONS reading the inscription but wonder
whyitis that the death-place Of Lincoln has