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The Washington critic., 1886-08-13
South Washington.

Mr.. Alfred Wood, the treasurer of the
inland and SeabOard COasting Company, is
at Washington Grove.
Officers Block aud Howell brought to
the South Washington station about one
O'Clock this morning an old lady named
Bridget McQuude, found wandering about
the streets. She was taken care of till mora
ing when her friends were notified.
John Mansfield, 29i Tin Cup alley
ST uthwest, reports stolen from his house
eirly this morning clothing and bucket, to
Il value OF $3.
Mrs. j. II. Bird is at Washington Grove
The Commissioners have received a
complaint IN regard to n pool of water at
the corner Of Fifth aud VI streets southeast
Mr.. l.. 5. Chapman and Mr.. Wm. f.
Dove are at Washington Grove.
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authorized Guides. Abolished.

The Commissioners, at the request Of
Major Walker Of the Police Department,
have abolished the "authorized guiden
business in this city. Heretofore there were
a number Of persons who were furnished
with badges and commissioned TO act as
guides, but the authorities think they can
best protect the interest OF strangers by
having no authorized guides. Major Walker
states that notices 10 this effect will be
posted In all the hotels and public places
The guide business was nauguratel dur
ing the CENTENNIAL and was quite au In
sutution at that time aud for several years
since. During the Centennial and for some
time afterwaid "Gunco steerers,n under
the Guse OF guides, steeled hundreds of
tourists across the river and various places
in the city ard lleeced them Of thousands of
dollars. OF late years there have been few
complaints OF this kind, but the police say
there are features OF the business that they
intend to suppress by breaking up the guide
business.
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At Washin.t0n GrOye.

The Rev. McKendree Riley will to-day
formally open the camp-meeting at Wash
ington Grove. There are about 100 fam-
lies on the grounds, and large number of
visitors are expected to be present each day.
a preliminary prayermeetng was held last
night, at which Rev. Dr. McKendree Riley
presided aud all the clergy on the grounds
were present. The latter were Rev. DR..
Norris, DR.. Job Price, Dr. Naylor, DR., Ed
the German Reformed Church, all of this
city; Rev. Peyton Brown of Baltimore,
Rev. Mr.. Schultz of st. Mary's County and
Mr.. Adams Of Montgomery County.
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lieutenant EckioTs Position

Lieutenant Ecklor, who was legislated
out Of Office in the Police Department when
the old detective force was dispensed with,
has at last succeeded In getting an appoint.
ment under the department The Commis-
sloners have appointed him to the position
OF statlon-koeper at a salary of 500 per
month. He was appointed in the place of
Station-Keepcr j. NJ. Keating of the Eighth
Precinct who Was stationed ut Uniontown
Mr.. Ecklo1 had suit against the District
for his salary since his dismissal. lie got
judgment, but the Court IN General Term
oytIrulyl the lower court,
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GeAncN nonao. New NorI.,

Br00lW0y aud 10Th Street,
Opposite Casino aud
Metropolitan Opera House
Rooms 81 a day aud upwards,
Restaurant Of unsurpassed excellence.
Coolest hotel In the city.
New and elegant,
A home for families.
a resort for business men.
GEN DAN MhCAUIET aud
WALTER b, BOWERS Proprietors,
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~ Feel so syeIl,r

81 want to thank you for telling me of
DR.. Pierces 'Fayorite Prescription, writes
a lady to her friend. "For a long time
was unfit to attend to the work of my house
hold. kept about, but felt thoroughly
miserable, | had terrible bachaches, aud
bearing down sensations acrosss me and
was quite weak aud discouraged. | sent
and got some of the medicine after recciy-
ing your letter, and it has cured me.
hardly know myself, feel 50 well.n
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The Botanical Gardens.

Passing eastward from the Museum, over
the railroad bridge that spans sixth street,
and through the pretty park lynn; between
Maine and Missouri avenues the visitor
comes to the entrance on Third street. Just
south of Pennsylvania avenue, of the Bo-
tanical Gardens These interesting grounds
are open daily from 8 in the morning TO
In the evening. They We're established
20 years ago. The Conservatives are filled
with the choicest and rarest foreign plants.
Around the gardens are extensive colleC-
tionS of trees and shrubs. In the centre of
the lawn facing the centre conservatory Is
the famous Bartholdi Fountain that at
tractcd so much attention at the Philadel-
plln Centennial.
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Marine Burracns-Xa,y- Ward.

The Marine Barracks are situated on Eighth
street southeast, between G. and II. Several
squares further south the walls of the Navy
Yard rise before the gaze. This NlvyGard
was In its time the most famous one in the
country, the second largest ship OF the line
In the Navy having been built here, rs well
as the famous cruisers, the Essex. the Wasp
and Others. 10 Is TO he converted into the
great ordnance factory of the country, and
the visitor VIII find hundreds of objects
herein to interest him, especially the making
pf fhs Steel rinp1 cannon
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CITY NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

N. T. MetzgUr ,S Bro, All Seventh
street northwest, have had stolen from their
stable In CoS's alley portion Of new har.
ness valued at So
AT the celebration OF the colored militia
at Frederick. Nd, Yesterday, the party was
composed Of excursionists from Washing
ton. Baltimore and other neighboring cities.
The flags Of the Smithsonian Institution
and National Museum were placed At half
mast yesterday as mark OF respect to the
venerable Rev. DIR. John Mclean of Prince
ton, who for swenty years had been Re
gent Of the Institution.
WIN. Coleman, young Baltimore mer-
chant, met rather good-looking blonde on
the train coming to this city. She took
him to house on & street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets. The police arc now
looking for the blonde, who is charged with
robbing the young man.
"A fight between three bootblncks In
front Of the National Theatre last night re-
suited in the smashing of plate-glass
window IN the Harris House. Isaiah
Brown, who threw his box at one of the
Others and broke the window, was fined
$25 or ninety days by Judge Harper to-day
West Washington.
"A colored man named WIN. Brown was
overcome by the heat at Wheatley's wharf
yesterday afternoon while engaged in un-
loading boat.
"A convention was held at Cumberland,
Nd, last night, to take into consideration
the future of the G. and o. Canal. The
canal board will meet IN Cumberland next
Tuesday to ascertain the cost of the recent
freshets, and to hear the report of the con
vention.
"A colored woman named Georgianna
Ratson was arrested and locked up at the
Seventh Precinct Station for assault last
evening. About l o'clock this morning she
attempted to hang herself to the grating at
the top of the cell door, but was discovered
and cut down by the station-keeper before
any serious damage was done.
Miss Bessie McGowan of N street has
returned from Colonial Beach.
Miss Lydie Hester is at Ashland, Va.
Miss Ella Johnston is at Piney Point
for the month OF August.
William Brown, colored man, was
prostrated by the heat while unloading a
boat at Wheatley's wharf Yesterday after
| noon. lie was taken TO his home in How
ardtOwn.
Mechanics No. IS, |. o. o. F., meet at
Odd-Fellows' Hall tonight.
The Columbia Boat Club gave an en-.
,yable hop at the boath last evening.
| There was no racing.
Two 9-year.old boys named John Small
| and Wm. Wise quarrcIed over a game OF
| baseball this morning, ,aud Wisethrew Small
| 10 the ground, breaking his left arm near the
| elbow.
Temperature and condition Of water at
| a. m: Great Falls, temperature, -; con
| ditiOu, rs; receiving reservoir, tempcra-
| ture, IS, condition at north connection, 20
! condition at south connection, 80; distribu
rn fan nm -ts a
| infuent gate-hOuse, 30; condition ut eilluent
| gAtehOuSe. HG.
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The old soldiers Home lies about milo be
youd Howard University, out seventh
Street extended, and Is reached by the same
conveyunces, namely the Ninth and Seventh
street ear lines. Its main building is Of
marble, 200 feet front with very high
tower. The view from its tower SURPRISES
any similar view in the neghborho1d. \
statue of General Scott adOrns the grounds.
There Is also n National Cemetery with sew
eral thousand Union dead buried there.
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Corcoran Art Gallery.

The Corcorau Art Gallery Is at the corner of
fehhsylVaIia avenue @ a',I seVe1tSentn i u l,
Department. II is open Tuesdays, Thurs
days and saturdays free; on other days lex
ccpt sundays a small admission fee is
compared with the great OId World gal
lcries, Is nevertheless a very credltabe in
stitution for SO new country aS the United
States. It contains among other original
objects Powers great statue Of the Greek
slave ~
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on the reservation which lies Immediately
north of L street southeast and fronts on
the AnaCOstia River /, "A huge quadrangular
pile of red brick known rs the District jail
This building Is especially noticeable for
being the one wherein the assassin OF a
President was hanged, Just south Of II Is
the City Asylum 1t Is reached by cab or
carriage. or on foot from the termination Of
tie rnIlMnN and hnrlin limos.
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Says the Washington correspon lent
of the Cincinnati 1Jmcs.Star; A lady
entered the Office of the Commissioner
of Patents the other day with that air
of independence which showed at once
that she thought the Government had
long owed her position and had been
merely awaiting her call to receive it,
Though the Commissioner was en-.
gagged with two gentlemen concerning
case directly in the line of the Of
fee business, the lady interrupted him,
called his attention to n letter that he
had received and inquired when she
might go TO work. Even the expert
eu,ed Commissioner was dumfoundcd
by this sudden assault. After some
Questioning he discovered that Ger.
Senator had written u letter of indorso,
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The Naval Observatory.

To the West of the Washington Monument.
on the highest elevation that borders the
north bank of the river, between 81. Eliza
Eeth's Heights and Georgetown College,
stands the Naval Observatory. The hill on
which It stands Is famous for having been
the camping ground uf Washington Brad
dock, and the latter's army. Wien ON their
march TO the fatal field, where the English
General fell u victim to his self.couccit and
vanity. Tradition also points out this hill
as the decisive battle ground between the
District Indians and the mysterious SusQuu-
hannas. This observatory contains the
largest reiIacting telescope in the wurl l..
next 10 the new equatorial Just built for tn,
DICK observatory. by lts alu thut most IN
tercstlng, Il not greatest, astronomical dis
coyery of the country was made, the moons
of Mars. Tie entrance to the observatory
is at H. and Twenty third streets northwest.
The llerdic cabs 20 to Twenty'sccoud aud
q streets.
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Mnr. NnyN and Ntnte Dennrlmnnts.

This cdifCe. once named hya Washington
Journalist the '"rriuuo budding uoculies
The west side of the Presidents reservation
Immediately west OF the White House. Tho
state Department occupies the south uart,
the Nuyy'is located north Sf the state, while
the War Department occupies the entire
northern half II Is new and very hand
some structure The most beautiful rOom
IN the whole building is conceded 10 bo tho
library of the state Department, with south
front, from whose windows the eye can
sweep unnterruptedly down the Potom9c
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The Arsenal is located at the foot of Four
and ahalf street southwest, the grounds
extending over what used to be the pcni-
Tertiary. 1t Is interesting among other
reasons for being the enclosure In which
Mrs Surratt and the Assassination pris
oucrs we've hanged. The band OF the second
Artillery, which Is stationed here, give fire.
Qucut concerts in tine summer that arc
largely attended, Reached by the Metro
pultan (Fuuraud.a-half street brunchl and
the seventh street line, via the Anlcostia
line of street cars
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CLOTHING.
A Finishing Touch!

wEARE JUST NOW PUTTING A FINISH
ING TOUCH no PRICES OK OUR LIGHT
WEIGHT WOODEN GOODS.
THIS is THE SEASON FOR ODD GAR.
MENTS, WHEN WE WANT A PAIR OF
PANTS TO PIECE OUT THE SUMMER SUIT
OR A COAT AND VEST TO CARRY ONE
THROUGH UNTIL FALL,
TITS THE SEASON ALSO OF "BROKEN
LOTS" IN THE CLOTHING STORES, AND
BROKEN LOTS MEAN BROKEN PRICES.
OUR LINE or CASHMERE PANTS rs TOO
LARGE, THE "FINlsuING TOUCH' HAS
BEEN PCT ON THEN ALSO, AND IT WILL
PAY YOU TO TAKE LITTLE TIME TO
FIT YOURSELF.
NEARLY EVERYTHING tNOT QUITE,
FOR THERE ARE SOME GOODS THAT WE
CAN'T GET ENOUGH oFl HAVE TIE FIN
IsHlNG TOUCH TO THEN, AND NOW Is
TIE TINE TO BUY.
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The Louise Home.

The Louise Home Is beautiful building at
the corner of Massachusetts avenue and
Fifteenth street, near Scott Circle, IL has
extensive grounds, beautifully embcllShed,
and is u unique establishment. IL Is Il
memorial to the wife and daughter of Mr.
W, ". COrcoran, and Is intended as a home
for ladies OF education, birth and refine
nont, who have been reduced to poverty
nm ~ IIlLLDllnn
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The Government Printing Once Is In north
east direction from the Pension Office, nj
the corner Of u and North Capitol streets.
& S & ,ld r "a" IN Pf,, ~ ~
visitors The cost of running il goes up into
millions annually, and the money is well
sient. II would take columns To merely
uulline the granite cstapllstIheuI WINCH
people II is reacGed by the Columbia line
nf fStp
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The new Pension building cNtends nearIY thc
entire width of Judiciary square from
Fourth TO Fifth streets and from q, nearly
to street. IL IS by far tho largest
building in the world devoted to the exam
nation and settlement of claims for pen
sionS. II is built of red brick, and cost
several hundred thousand dollars. In it
was given President Clevcland's Inaugura-
tiOn Ball. 1t can hc reached by the Metro
nnlitnn nnd the Bolt Line CArs.
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The visitor. after leaving the Centre Market,
will proceed down the Avenue to Four-and
half street ard nu-thward up that street
few yar Is when he viii he in frnEt of u
dinpy block Of damp, dark od bricks
whei Elm the ,crs Of thC'Di,iriCt are com
pellod to sacrifice their temper, health and
guCd looks while attending 10 business.
These bun tiugs are 50 utterly untitled for the
PURPOSES to which ttey are put and 90
thoroughly ahomiuuhlc and Insecure that
they form, perhaps, the greatest curiosity
IN Washington. M visitor should fail to
itsp tbat.
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The Geological Survey is located on f street,
near the Ebbtt House. The Interior DE.
partmcnt building, immense as II Is, is en-.
trcly too small for the accommod alton OF its
bureaus, two of which, besides the Educa-
tiCnal and Geological Bureaus (Agriculture
and Pension are located In other quarters.
These two last bureaus are among the larg'
rsi nndcr tho liNNnrMnNMt.
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Across the An icosta River, duo south from
the Navy-Yard, Is ST. Elizabeth 5 or the Gov
cnment's Hospital for the Insane II lies on
the ton of hill having beautiful view of
the surrounding country. There are over
one thousand patients in this asy lum. II Is
reached by pleasant carriage drive.
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Coming down Fifteenth street from the Louise
Home, al the corner OF Fifteenth and IL
streets, the visitor sees the Columbian Uni
NCrsity which occupies the site of the old
Griswald mansion This university was in
corpuruted as Columbian College in lS9l
and is uudor the special supervision of the
Baptist Church, 1t Is an institution famous
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Returning from Mt, Olivet the visitor will
pass near by and in full sight of the Deaf
Mute College, which is ON the north side of
street northeast IL is reached by cab or
the II street line OF cars. IL Is the most
prominent Deaf Mute College in the world
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COURT RECORD.

Police CoURT-Judge Harper.-Sarah
Williams, Kate Williams and Henrietta
Smith, vagrancy; bonds or 30 days each.
Charles Goodall, dsorderly in the county;
SO or days. Isaiah Brooks, destroying
private property; $25 or 90 days.
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Immediately south of the White House stands
the Washington Monument, the lofticst
posing obelisk ever constructed, tt Is 5jj
feet above It's base, which is 4! feet above
tide.water. Its cornerstone was laid July
4, 1913, and the cap-stOnc, forming the apex,
was placed In position December q, 1884,. In
It are 1sl blocks of inserted stones or cop
per, gifts from various countries and so
cicties. The total cost will be over St.3j1 o.
600. II Is situated In what will ultimately
bp n bpnutiful parL
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The Treasury Department Is east Of the white
House and extends the whole length of the
avenues, It is 5s2 feet long by 300 feet wide
The central east portion rs built of ireostnue,
rebuilt IN 1851, while the other parts We're
commenced In 'S.5 and built Of granite.
uWi apartment in the north wing, the en-.
trance to which is from the north porch
Tho vaults are under the Cash Room ani
can he seen on 4 written permit given by
office is I'm the north east angle on the irst
floor This permit mU.t he shown the cash
Ter Who Will detail guides 10 taEe the ysl.
tor into the great button chests ut the cOuu.
try The Old state Department used tp no
ON the site occupied by the northeast cor
ucg OF the Treasury,
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The Centre Market occupies the squares
south oi the Avenue. bounded bv u street
on the south. seventh street on the east
and Ninth street on the west. II Is u very
handsome nerkct building. eX elled in
beauty aud probably N 2c by none In the
word. II is the clCaucst aud the best,
while also the Chcgpest market In America
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Commissioners.

We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers,
will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana
state Lotteries which may be presented at
our counters.
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Fresh Alderney butter, churned every
morning and delivered in ID. "Ward"
prints, 35c, per tb. Also cottage cheese ;
buttermilk and sweet milk, Sc. per qt.
Cream, l5c. per pit.
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on Tenth street. between u and +, round the
corner westward from Masonic Temple, is
the famous Medical Museum. This hull
ing was uuDca prominent baptist hrrh ~
was converted about the beginning vt the
war into theatre, known the country over
ns Ford's, and IL was IN n private box there
IN April. 1868, that john WILKES Booth
killed President Lincoln. The latter was
carried to n house, just opposite, where he
died. A marble tablet In front pt the house,
No, BIC Tenth street, commentaries ths
fact. The theatre was then scquestr trHtcd by
the Government and turned into the Med.
lcal Museum attached 10 the SurgcOn-G Gen.
erals Office, II Is full Of interesting surgical
relics of the war, and has the latgost mcli-
cal library In the world. Among the curl
ostics within It's walls is the artlcuatcd
skeleton Of GuiteHu, the assassin of Prcai.
dent Garfield. Coming down Tenth street
from the Medical Museum the visitor will
not fail to inspect the massive and bcluti-
full Post Building, in which Is situated the
Office of TiE CHIrIC. This II the largest
newspaper establishment south Of philadel-
phia and east of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. Four Of the leading and most inilu-
entail journals In the country-twO morning,
one evening (THE CETiC) and one indcpcn
dent sunday papcr-haye their home In this
petnllightnpu
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~. Johns e.. H.. Church.

It Johns Z. T.. Cnurcn, which has been often
called the state Church because more pIC>i-
dents have worshippei there than at any
other, stands at the corner of IL AMI Six
tcenth streets. II was built IN 1915 and en-
urged in $50, In Il have wurshippel Pres
idcnts Madison, Monroe, John quincy
Adams (thou-h the latter was Cougrcgl-
tiunuisu Martin Van Burcn, though he he-
lOugCd to the Dutch Reformed church, lIar-
risun, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore (though
the latter was u Unitarian, PIERCE BuCh-
4Na anu ar Hrtur rurt hdy rresGentS hIhaoi H.
vine services here although not steadily, Its
interior rominds one very forcibly Of the
old, dim English country Episcopal ChuI ches.
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The City Hall stands ON the south front OF
judiciary square. one Of ihc finest parks in
the city. The city Jail used TO stand ON the
northeast corner of the square which runs
from Fifth to Fourth and from ID street and
and Louisiana avenue to q street-three
lntlit IIIll
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DIED.

IL, 1886 Grace E., only child of Win, s. and
Julia S, Brock, aged year, months and 3
days,
Funeral Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Relatives and friends invited.
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Across Twelfth street, Immediately cast from
the Agricultural Department, are tho
Smithsonian Institution and the Smithso-
nian Grounds. The former is specimen of
the most graceful architecture In the city,
and the latter form the most beautiful
grounds Of themselves are worth a visit to
Washington to see. They contain the
memorial urn TO the artist who designed
the park, Andrew J. Downing, and tho
bronze statue of Professor Henry, the first
secretary Of the institution. The latter l.
at the northwest corner of the building; the
Downing Urn is In the centre of the grounds,
two hundred yards north of the east wing
The Smithsonian is filled with the most
varied and interesting objects connected
with science. II is reached by the seventh
Street, the Ninth Street and the Belt Line
of street cars
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The NntinnnI Museum.

The National Museum Is in the Smithsonian
grounds, few yards east of the Smithso-
nian building. II contains thousands of the
life customs and history of all nations, II,
as well as the Smithsonian, Is open daily to
the public from 0 a. m. 10 4 p. m.
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The city Hall.

Due north of, ard two squares away from,
the District BUILDINGS, and closing up Four
ana u half street at that pOiut, i, the city
Hall. This j. a large and cOmmodious
building, built for use rather than show,
AMI now occupied by the District courts.
just in front and to the south of the city
Hall is a colun II ol whtc stone surmOunt-
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Tie General rostollcc Department Is on the
square bounded by f. Seventh and
although its proximity to ltS larger ani
what oh,uuTes It's great size and tends to
lessen its beauty. It's different bureaus
posses, great interest to the visitor, hut the
bead Letter Ontcc (, particularly the one 10
taken from tlc mails In transit, as spccl-
mons Of the uses to which the Nations pos
tai conveyance We put. Is both varied au (
unique, Ey'H' uu- unn1tap.u, from AN In.
dian tuHIl lWk IoU -iu'r, klu-uruD, Is ~
be seen W ii.- collections tul 10 is still
grow .rr
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The Ncnthcr s.urcnu.

The signal Service, or Weather Bureau, Is
about one hundred yards west ot the state,
Wan aub Nayy departments, on G. street. II
Is one of the most interesting places In
Washington tu visit The observers in
charge, wh,n ut leisure, always take
pleasure in showing visitors how they
"muuutaplurH Npututr.'
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The Agricultural Department.

ment. II is enclosed by the most beautiful
and glowing flower garden in the country
and the grounds contain the most complete
Arhoretum probably In the United states.
Attached to this Department are the Ex-
pcrimental Gardens, whose offices are i'm
1nediately west of the main building. The