Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-04
Points and Places About Washington.

FOlnts and Places About Washington.
All things considered Washington, ID.
{. is the incest city In the world. Not
the greatest-that is London. Not the
oldest-that is Jerusalem. Not the
most diversltied-th is New York
Not the most enterprislng is Chi
cagO. But in the make up of comfort,
interest, and courtesy, the incest. An
American city would be avowedly the
incest in the world; and ashington is
the incest city in America. The streets
are wide; one breathes freely. The
people are friendly; one feels con- ented
The car service is excellent: one goes
about readily. There are no overhead
deadly wires, neither telegraph nor troll
ley. Six tickets for % cents, there is
commonly plenty of company without
CT 'wding, and as you near the desired
street pressed electric button rings a
little bell, and the car stops gently at
the corner. The Capitol building with
its lofty dome is the center of observa.
ton and reckoning. There is an east
front and west front with ample
"dOory ards" The new congressional
library near by is said by extensive
travellers to be the most exquisitely
beautiful building in the word in its
interior construction and decoration.
The White House, executive mansiOn),
a mile and a quarter west by north
from the capitol with the broad Penn
sylvania avenue stretching between Is
the next center of interest. There are
north and south fronts unobstructed
except by beautiful lawns with foliage
and flowers, and parks of unusual at
Effectiveness. To the east is the Treas
ury building, and to the west are the
State, War and Navy departments III
one building. Thus four cabinet Off
Gals are within close call of the presl-
dent. To the south of the White House
is the "white lot" spreading far down
To the Washington monument. The
east room is usually open to visitors and
at some hours the president may be
seen. The department buildings are
accessible to visitors from 9 a. m. till 2
p. III. Printed instructions are conspic-
uous, and instructors are at hand with
words not printed.
a flag on the White House signifies
that the president is at home, as also
flags float on the capitol only when con-
gress is in session. 1t was with peculiar
feelings that we stood in the little mar
row room where Lincoln died, opposite
the FOrd's theater building where he
was shot. We could but remark that
his departure from earth was out of al
most as humble surroundings as was
his entrance into it. The house, owned
by the government is filled with vo-
luminous collection of relics relating to
Lincoln and his time, of private own
ershlp; and the theater is also owned
ard used by the government. We had
special guidance through the Bureau
of printing and engraving" where five
hundred people on one floor are making
all the paper money in use in the coun-
stroying old bills every day to the value
of 100000 and more. We have a
souvenir of piece of the paper made
from that pulp. The stock of old
money is sent down from the Treasury
building, of which the bureau is
branch. Our friend Gridley is engaged
in that service, and he suffered us for
delectsble moment or two to have in
hand package of one hundred $1,000
bills destined next day to be mashed.
| The STANDARD Guide" % cent book
with maps and Illustrations is a great
convenience to Washington visitors,
and would be found of permanent in
struction and interest in any household
in the nation. Widening away from
the wealth of il terest in the city proper,
trolley cars convey one speedily to other
places of great attraction.
The National Soldiers Home, where
the Scott building was erected in 1852,
and the cemetery near by where is the
tomb of Gen. John A. Logan; Airing
ton across the Potamac, the former
home of Gen. Lee, now one of the most
famous cemeteries In the world; Alex
andria, eight miles down the river
where in old Christ church Gen. Wash
ingtons pew is reserved for visitors on
Sundays, and of which II. f. Lee was
sometime a vestryman, and the Alex
andria lodge, No. %, of which Washing
ton was once the "Master;" Mt. Vernon,
sixteen miles down the river. where is
the tomb of Washington and his wife,
and the various buildings preserved in
tact with ancient furniture, the deer
park, lawns and garden; Cabin John
bridge" seven miles from the city up
the Potomac, the longest span of solid
stone arch in the world over which
water pipes convey supplies from the