The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-16
THE SIGHTS OF WASHINGION.
Described in Letter
 From George l.. Hyde

| tfOW SeOrsS h' HyUe.
 The following interesting letter was
 received a few days ago by a gentle man of this city from Patrolman George
 l.. Hyde, who, with his wife, is visiting
 in Washington, D. C.:
 Washington, D. C., Oct. 13.
 Dear Friend:-I thought I would
 write you few lines and let you | know that myself and wife are enjoy
 ing our trip very much. We left New
 Haven September 18th for New York.
 While crossing to Jersey City on the
 ferryboat to take the train to Phila-
 delphia we saw the naval parade. The
 boat lay to so as to give the passen- gers chance to see the whole parade.
 While on the ferryboat l caught fel-
 low trying to pick my pocket of my
 watch. You bet I gave him q calling down, and warned the passengers in his presence. l did not have him ar rested, as l did not want to be detained.
 We arrived in Philadelphia that night, The next morning, the 30th, we took the Ericsson line boat to Baltimore. | This line sails down the Delaware river, the Delaware and Chesapeake canal for fourteen miles, and then the Chesa peake bay. It is d beautiful sail. An accident happened to the boiler and we had to lay to for five hours. We were nineteen hours making the trip We reached Baltimore at 2:30 a. m. We visited friends in Baltimore and we rode all around Druid Hill park--a most beautiful place, high up like East Rock park, and you have view all over Baltimore. We reached Wash ington just in time to see the night parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, which was fine. The next day we saw the day parade Strange to say, Dewey stopped at Mrs. McLean's on K street N. w., and we are stopping at another Mrs. McLeans also on K street. only few blocks away. We saw Dewey presented with the sword and we stood directly in front and had a good view of all. We stood close to the carriages when the parade passed and saw President Mckinley, Dewey, Schley, Sigsbee and Miles. We have visited Oak Hill cemetery at George town and saw James G. Blaine's grave; also John Howard Paynes grave. You will remember he wrote the beautiful song, Home Sweet Home.' The fol- lowing is on his tombstone:
 Sure when thy gentle spirit fled
 To realms beyond the azure dome, With arms outstretched Gods angels
 said
 Welcome to heaven, Home Sweet
 Home.
 We then went to Alexandria, Va, and visited the house where Colonel Ellsworth was shot for tearing down the rebel flag. Then to Christ church, where George Washington and the rebel general, Robert E. Lee, at tended church. We also sat in their pews Washington's pew number is sixty, and Lees forty-six We then visited Arlington Heights cemetery, where we placed flowers and flags on my wifes fathers grave. He was Sergeant Joseph Kegelmeyer, Company c, Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers He was also the father of Fire Com missioner Joseph Kegelmeyer of New Haven.
 While at Georgetown we saw the residence of the late Mrs. E. D. N. Southworth, the authoress: also that of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the star Spangled Banner"
 We have visited the capitol, pension bureau, patent office, Corcoran Art gal lery United States engraving and printing bureau, where we saw them print one, two, five, ten and twenty dollar bills and postage stamps. We have been to the top of Washington which is 555 feet high Visited the old Ford theater, where Booth shot Abraham Lincoln; also the house where Lincoln died. Have seen the house where Colfax, Sherman, Garfield and Blaine have lived; also Senator Hawleys house and where Jeff" Davis lived when he was secre- tary of war before the war of '61. To-day we saw the church from which James c, Blaine was buried' also the resi- dence of Westinghouse and the house | where Chauncey DepeW will reside. | W. W. Corcoran, who gave the Cor l coran Art gallery building to the city, l lived there, and Senator Brice also re- sided there previous to Corcoran. We also visited at the White house. The East room is open to visitors and is Then we went to the treas ury building and were shown through the vaults, where there are millions of dollars. We then visited the war and navy departments. We saw Admiral Dewey's sword, which is on exhibition in the office of the secretary of the navy The initial ID" is on the handle studded with diamonds. This afternoon we took trolley ride of seven miles to place called Cabin John Bridge. This bridge is of stone, built by the United States government over what is called Cabin John creek, and is one # the most noted structures ever cared by the hand of man. A bridge ,f national renoWn, which has the dis nction of being the largest single arch ,pan of masonry in the world, and is , marvel of engineering skill. It was built by the United States government or the purpose of conveying the water supply to the city of Washington. length Of bridge, 4oO feet; height, lOo eet: length of span, 220 feet; rise of
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