Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-20

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after seeing how the money of the United
States Is made, redeemed and cared for.
Here Connecticut visitors also meet Hon.
Daniel N. Morgan Of Bridgeport, the
present treasurer of the United States, who
is 80 ably filing the high position.
Leaving the treasury department., which
1t takes about q half-hour to inspect, the
visitor naturally goes to the White House,
next door, and after walking through the
beautiful grounds, If betwesn the hours of |
10 and 2, he may visit the mansion, where
he is received by courteous messengers,
who show him the east room, which Is the
only room open for inspection. If the day
bs a Monday, Wednesday, or Saturday and
the hour O'Clock, the visitor Is afforded
chance to shake hands with the president,
who receives on those days.
To properly see the White House and
grounds take about an hour, and If the
time be still between the hours of 9 and
the victor may step across the way to the
west of the executive mansion and enter
the building of the state, war and navy
department, which Is the largest, IS well
as handsomest, of the department build
ings. Here In the library of the state de-
partment may be seen the original decla-
ration of Independence.
A half hour spent there and the visitor
may croes the avenue and become lost in
the study of art, as set forth in the Corco-
ran art gallery, which Is open from 10 to
of the beautiful In art, as the gallery con-
tains many beautiful paintings.
By this time the feeling Of the inner man
demands attention and 1t is we'll to lunch
before proceeding elsewhere.
A trip to the monument which stands in
solitary granduer On the wall back of the
White lot is the next move. Here the ele-
vator may be taken to the top. distance
of Ave hundred feet, which takes eight
minutes to 60 up and five minutes to come
down. From the windows at the top of
rounding country can be seen for miles
around, with Arlington heights on the
west and the hills of Maryland on the east.
After short quarter of an hour
spent in viewing the surrounding
| country, the visitor deseende, and 1t being
after 2 O'Clock, 1t taking from 8 until after
to have visited the places mentioned
above, it is but natural to stroll slowly
| across the mall, rich at this time of the
year with a variety of foliage, until the
| Smithsonian institute is reached. This
walk takes about ten minutes, and Is de-
| cidedly interesting The Smithsonian being
| open until 4:30, it is we'll for the visitor to
| stay until that hour, as the curiosities of
all kinds and from all parts of the world
cannot be seen in less time, while 1t will
take weeks to properly inspect them.
From here, If the stranger be not tired,
/ it is we'll to take the green cable car on
| Pennsylvania avenue, within q moments
walk of the institute, aud after pleasant
| ride of ten minutes up past the house side
of the capitol and along through the south
east section of the city, you find yourself
at the navy yard, which is we'll worth in
epeotipg. Taking the car again You have
q pretty ride back past the capitol and
| down Pennsylvania avenue to the treasury,
| getting grand sight of this wide and IA
nous tnoroughfare, and return to your no.
| tel, we'll Satisfied with your first days out
| ing. ready for dinner and good nights
| rest.
| THE SECOND DAY.
It is useless to rise before s, NO one does,
and after light breakfast o'clock gees
you at the bureau of printing and engrav-
ing after n-minute walk from the con-
ter of hotel life. Here can very probably
be spent at least an hour, In which the
bright new bills as they are rapidly put
through the process before being sent to
the treasury, where the little red zeal is
put on and the bills issued.
Next cross the mall to the agricultural
department, where Secretary Norton holds
l IOIC0, anu Wu6Io guo many GuOu94Qu ES6u6
| are put up for distribution all over the
country. half hour here and another
five minutes walk takes you to the govern
ment botanical gardens, filed with rare
plants and flowers. You look at your
watch and wonder that 1t is after II, and
You take cut ACROSS town to the corner
of Seventh and e streets to the postofice
department, and here the dead letter office,
with its thousands of curios, is the attrsc-
| ton until after noon.
Again you begin to feel the psngs of
Office building you are fairly startled by the
| number of dairy lunch signs which stare
you in the face on all sides, and In a half
| hour your hunger is satisfied and you
| CROSS the street to the pate It Office, that
huge and massive structure which occupies
| an entire block, and slide in just before
the doors close, at 3 o'clock, after which
| time visitors are not admitted.
After paying your respects to Patent
Commissioner John 8. Seymour, another
Connecticut man, he may proceed to the
| model ball in the upper part of the build
ing, where all of the worlds fair exhibits
can be seen, and an hour spent here is by
no means thrown away.
It now being after and the visitor nat
urslly tiled of inspecting buildings, he may
on coming out of the G street door of the
| patent office. take q car, which half hour
| later will land him at the Soldiers home
and the Catholic university. The rest of
the afternoon may proatably be spent wan
| surrounding the home and university, AMI
in visiting the buildings. From the home
Is also to be had the beet views Of Wash
ington to be found. Returning BY the
same cars to the hotel center, the visitor
sits down to dinner, with two days gone
and decided feeling of not having seen II
yet.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
By O'Clock next morning 1t is we'll for
the visitor to once more be on the move,
and taking an F street car, Eve minutes
ride and he is at Pension office square,
where the pension Office Is situated, and q
ten minutes inspection finishes this. From
here 1t In but step across to the court
house now made famous by the Pollard
Breckenridge case, where more flth has
been expounded in the past month than
ever before. A few moments sufic-
o. to see the court room, and once
quarter of an hour, and BY tan
O'clock the visitor finds hinsslf ct the
capitol. He should ct once proceed to the
csnter door of the building and at once
procure the best guide to be had, gladly
give him dollar, ~ this Is the only place |
where . fee ID necessary, and under his |
guidance properly see the building, ~ you
might alone spend days and then not see
the important things which the guide
points out in couple of hours. At noon
both the house and senate, a. we'll O. the |
supreme court, generally convene, II II be |
any day but Saturday, and obtaining
luncheon in the building, the visitor may
spend the afternoon In seeing how the |
country's money Is spent In flibustering
and CAB. Both houses adjourn about 8,
when trip can be made to either Arling- |
ton or the EGO gardens before dinner.
TO MOUNT VERNON.
The ne1t and fourth day the cable cars |