Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-23


are many tropical trees, as well as
old oaks and elms. In the centre the
bronze statue OF Andrew Jackson
stands upon his horses heels, and the
horses facing the park are mostly
old and full OF history. Don. Cam
eron now lives in the old Taylo man
sion, and the millionaire Corcoran oc-
cupies the big house which some Bos.
ton capitalists presented to Daniel
| Webster when he was secretary OF
state. On another side of the park
| Is the house where Decatur died,
now owned by John Nc Leans father
in-law, Gen. Beale, and little further
down is the housen which Blaine was
living when he began to write his po-
lital book which has paid so we'll.
The Sickles mansion further on Is
now owned by Washington Nc Lean,
and on another side of the park
is Charles Summers old house and
the new mansion in which Col. john
Hay lives.
Standing on the corner OF Lafayette
park one could almost throw stone
into Fafragut square, and by turning
his body it would be easier still to
strike the reservation in which the
statue of Gen. Mcpherson stands on
| horseback among the trees. A mile
beyond the capitol lies Lincoln square,
with its statue of Emancipation. 1t
contains six acres, and not far OIL
from it is Stanton place of three acres
and Green square of a like size.
The circles of the capital are reserya-
tions made by the intersection OF
the important avenues. They general
ly consist of round mound OF green
OF the size OF an acre, more or less,
and in the centre of many OF them
stand the statues of noted generals IN
bronze. Scott circle has a statue oil
Gen. Scott cast from cannon which
the general took in Mexico, and
Thomas circle has an eques-
TRAN statue of Gen. Thomas which
cost, all told, $4,000. In Iowa circle
there is fine place for statue
of Gen. Grant just opposite the
house in which Re lived, and in
Dupont circle, with his back facing the
castle of the Chinese legation, and up
on a granite pedestal, stands a bronze
figure OF Admiral Dupont. And so it
is all over the city. Statues and trees
and beautiful houses, wide lawns and
good breathing spaces. The parks OF
a city have been called its lungs, and
If SO Washington is less in danger OF
consumption than any other city IN
the world.
We can accommodate q great pop
ulation here in the smallest space,
and the city is so arranged that 1t can
never be crowded. There is tenden-
cy now, however, among the citizens to
desire more room to build upon, and
they are fast moving out into the
suburbs. There are half q dozen bills
now before congress for extending the
limits of the city, and doubt not ten
years from now much of what is farm
lands and garden spots will be covered
with beautiful houses, and will be
part of the Washington city OF the
near future.
The main business street of the capi-
tai is Pennsylvania avenue, which be-
gins at Georgetown and extends out
beyond the capitol to the east branch
of the Potomac beyond the navy
yard. 1t passes the White House
alter leaving Washington circle, and
then switches down around the treas
ury and for mile until it reaches the
capitol grounds, when it winds around
them and on by the capitol out to the
river. 1t is about four and one-half
miles long, and it's width in it's business
portion is one hundred and sixty feet,
or as wide as two average city streets
of eighty feet each. 1t is filled with
vehicles of all descriptions at nearly
all hours of the day, but it is SO wide
that it is little crowded, and the
coachman in livery and the herdic
driver in homespun have little trouble.
Georgetown is now a part of Wash
ington, and the old town which was
born years before the capital, is grow
ing now, since 1t has been adopted by
Washington. The heights of George
town are becoming fashionable for
residents, and see that Bell, the tele-
phone millionaire, has laid out a large
estate and is selling 1T of in lots.
Washington at night and by moon
light is wonderfully beautiful. The
moon tints to Elellowness therare old
marble of the public buildings. 1t takes
away the rustiness of the tomb-like
treasury and puts life into the stat
ues. The White House looks like a
fairy palace under the rays of the
moon, back in among those old forest
trees. And the estate department grows
bigger and more wonderful with its
hundreds of columns when the electric
light or the moon takes off its new
ness. One of the prettiest buildings at
night is the old Smithsonian and it
does not take a bright imagination,
while looking at it TO transport ones
self to the medieval days of chivalry,
and to wonder whether after all he is
looking at a structure made by new
America, or at one of the well-preserv-
ed ruins of middle France or on the
hills along the Rhine or Danube. No
matter what your mood or your
thought, you can find buildings here
to suit it in your moonlight walks.
II you are fond of tine classics and
daylight in old Anthems, let me take
you to the front of the patent Office
and can show you an exact repro
duction of the noted Parthenon there.
II you want the old colonial days,
stroll over to the Van Ness mansion,
where Marcia Burns used to entertain
Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson;
and If you prefer a rural ruin j can
show you the cottage where Tom
Moore slept when he came to visit
Washington city and made poetry
about Americans. II you love Dame
Nature more than ruins, moonlight
drive will take you into the most ro-
mantle OF natures scenery, and there
are views all about the district of
Columbia which would be considered
great sights if they were located in
Europe and which people in Switzer-