The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-10-19

States, and the door is shut and locked
and the great knives set in motion before
he leaves, which is done once or twice a
week.
In passing through the various rooms
we noticed that all the departments
where money is handled the employees
are Gagged in as it were, large iron gratings
separate them from the outside world and
we were informed that they can neither
come out or any one go in except at
regular hours. At the top of the treas
uary buildingiis the secret service rooms,
where the rogues gallery may be found
| The walls are decorated with photo
graphs and weapons of many notorious
criminals. This is very interesting
J place and one can here study the charac-
ter of this class to his hearts content.
The Smithsonian Institute. National
Museum, Department of Agriculture and
the fish department. are all places that
afford the greatest interest, and a visit
to any one of them would well be worth
a trip to Washington.
Our visit to the capitol was so late in
the day that it was hurried, but as we
passed up the steps we could not help
taking look around for Tom Watson's
hobby, viz: the national bar room, and
true enough it was there, but that is all
we did, was to peep in. To try and des-
cribe the capitol building and it's contents
would only be taking time and space rn-
necessarily, for volumns could not con-
tain'all that may be seen there, suffice it
to say, however, as matter of compare
son, that this immense building could
| readily contain comfortably, six buildings
the size of our Georgia capitol, leaving
| off the dome in each instance save one
Every American citizen should see the
capitol of the United States and be
| proud.
Our visit to New York was more hasty
and aside from ride on the elevated
cars and one in carriage on 9Th Avenue
and seeing many of the handsome stores
Especially Tiffany's on Union Square, we
have but little of interest to write from
New York. One noticeable feature was
the large number of idlers seen sitting
around on the benches in the parks; this
especially attracted our attention Just
now when there is so much said in the
| papers about the poverty in that city.
The New York Herald publishes the
number of loaves of bread distributed
through charity to the poor of New
York, showing rapid increase in de-
mand daily. What are these poor people
going to do this winter when the snow
and the sleet and the ice comes. Suffer
ing and misery will be beyond descrip-
ton.
Boston is indeed mixed up place, but
they tell us its streets are straight now
to what they were before the big fire,
but if they are straight now what were
they before the fire. The legion goes
that Boston's streets are on the original
|
to and from the meadow, which is now
the heart of the city. The facts are such
that one is more inclined to believe the
story than discredit it. There are many
handsome buildings in Boston and it is
probably the greatest wool market in
the world. 1t gets wool from every
direction. One of the marked features
of this city is the scrupulous neatness of
its streets and alleys. There are many
interesting sights to be seen in Boston
and Cambridge, among which are some
old colonial buildings in the heart of the
city that look rather odd among so many
modern buildings towering above them
Harvard College at Cambridge is perhaps
the wealthiest institution of the kind in
the United States. The grounds and
buildings are beautifully located amid
parks and greens and groves. The Pea
body musinm is especially attractive
1t contains curiosities of every descrip-
ton obtained from all over the world.
Boston ranks second in the union in
the pork packing industry. One of these
establishments which we visited covers
several acres of ground-4OOO hogs are
killed daily-this is done chiefly by ma
chinery and so quickly that before hog
hardlyhas time to think what is coming
he is jerked up by his hind leg and goes
rolling along by means of trolly over
head, and he is killed, cleaned, and finds
himself quite divided up and cooling off
in the ice house after'h hot bath. Just
think of gazing on whole acre of pork
at one time. They tell us that but a
small per cent of this is used in the North
and East, that it goes South and to for
eign countries. The New Englanders
live on smoked cod fish and irish pota-
| toes.
Some of the large manufactures at
| Lowell were very interesting to visit