The Republican journal., 1896-05-21
hands with the chief magistrate of our

| After the crowd of guests had departed,
our party through the influence of Mr..
Winship, was allowed to visit all the
rooms on the lower floor except the din
ming room, this privilege being denied us
as the President was at lunch. The red
room is occupied by the President S family
as a sitting room. Ny preference is the
! blue room, in which President Cleveland
was married. After taking a view from
the top of the Washington monument,
800 feet high, We drove to Woodley, the
summer home of the Clevelands. 1t
is very retired spot three miles out
of the city, and | wondered while looking
at the old brick mansion if Mrs. Cleve-
land did not feel much more at home
there than amid all the grandeur of the
White House. On Tuesday we visited
Mt Vernon, sail of 16 miles down the
Potomac. minutes walk brought us to
the tomb of Washington, and with feelings
of reverence we looked in upon the
marble sarcophagus containing all that
the left lies the body of Martha Washing
ton. We next visited the old tomb where
Lafayette paid his memorable visit in
1924, and which was abandoned for
more secure resting place.
The remainder of our stay was given TO
the home of Washington. The estate is
very large and typical of the old Virginia
plantation. The rooms have been restol-
ed as nearly as possible to the original Of
Washington's time by the Ladies' Assoc
| ton Of Mt. Vernon.
Among the objects of interest are the
key of the Bastile, sent to Washington by
Lafayette; WashingtoI's coach, the lost
{ coach" and the lockwood hedge 80 years
: old The hedge had just been clipped
and we relic hunters secured some of the
pieces as mementoes. The income for the
2 support of the place is from the admission
fee of % cts, the sale of plants from the
conservatory, and of mementoes and milk
in the old kitchen. We returned to Wash
ington in time for hasty survey of the
-VlCoidH <ilI NdilelS. dHd Nileil lOuI
o clocl-closing time-came we felt we
} We're leaving much pleasure Tor a future
: visit An electric car ride to the Navy
ard ended the day.
Wednesday, our last day in Washing
ton, we awoke with determination to
make it full day. Our first move was to
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Here we were divided into groups of six
and each group put in charge of a guide
; who conducted us through the buildings,
t showing us bills of all kinds in process of
: printing. There are IA departments in
the Bureau and 400 employees. Each
piece of work passes through the hands
, of 30 different people and 80 days are
consumed in the successive processes to
! which each is subjected. The bills are then
taken to the Treasury Building-which
5 We next visited-in steel wagon, under
} force of guards, where the red seal is
added, and the sheets cut into bills.
Many of our party exchanged their old
bills for new ones while there. We were
, shown the money vaults, containing $780,
O00 900, the macerater, in which the
worn out bills are destroyed, and the
) rogues gallery of counterfeiters From
the Treasury Building we went again to
the Calstol to witness the opening of the
House OF Representatives.. fear shall
never have the feeling of respect for these
, bodies that | have had since seeing them
in session, for disorder regned supreme.
: All talk at once and how they follow the
} business of the moment l fail to see.
The Representative who got mad and
threw an ink we'll at another was pointed
out to us. Speaker Reed called them to
) order occasionally, but they resumed their
: disorderly ways in short time
After lunch we went to the National
l Museum and saw a very beautiful col
t lection of minerals and historical col
lections and relics, and we left it reluc-
family for the Smithsonian Institution
| with its collection of birds fishes.
reptiles, sponges and corals From the
. Smithsonian we took cars for the Soldiers
Home, and were courteously shown
around the buildings by one of the
soldiers. 1t is for the benefit of men who
have been honorably discharged after
; twenty years service, or who have been
disabled by sickness. 1t seems like lit
tie city, with its many buildings They
have everything to make them comfort
able and pretty little theatre is in pro-
cess of erection. In the museum of war
relics are buttons, knives, pictures. of
mothers and sweethearts, each telling it's
own story. We next took cars for Chew
Chase, a new residential portion of Mary
land. 1t is a long ride and rapid transit,
part of the way by underground and part
by overhead trolley. Our last evening
was spent socially in the parlor of the
hotel, many of.the number securing auto
graphs of the pleasant party so soon to
separate. Thursday morning we started
for home. Our only stop was in New York
and we improved the hour by riding up
9TH Avenue by coach, and returning by