Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-12

Elaborate Festivities Attended by
the President and Many Other
Notable Men.
Governor Shaw. Of Iowa, Delivers
the Principal Address City
in Gala Attire.

Washington. Dec 12.The national
capital is today in gala attire in cele-
bration of the Tooth anniversary OF the
establishment of the seat of the f. deral
government at Washington. Business
public and private, was suspended,
while the president cabinet members
congress, the federal Judiciary, govern
ors of many states and. great con-
course of citizens and visitors Joined in
the elaborate Festivities of the day,
The program began with a l,ceptior
at 10 this morning by the president and
members of the cabinet to the govern
ors al the execu tive mansion. This was
followed by the unveiling OF a mode
of the proposed enlarged executive
lJmansion, which will be lasting me-
mortal Of today's celebration. Other
l.evenls were a parade from the White
house to the capitol. participated in by
the president and other dignitaries Wis
fitting and district militia and joint X
ercises by the senate and house in the
Ihall of the house Tonight a reception
ISwiii be rendered the governors at the
lcorcoran gallery of arts.
Twenty governors and four ex-
governors. with their ladies. attende
the recction given by tn e president this
morning All the executive, mansion. The
Iroonis We're tastefully decorated With
flowers and foliage plants ard the
marine band furnished music. The
|presentations We're made by Col. Bing-
ham.
Col. Theodore A. Bingham. U. S. a.,
superintendent of public buildings and
grounds, gave an in teres sting account of
the plans forthe enlarg ement of the ex
ecutive mansion. A model of the man
sion and its proposed addition occupied
a prominent place in the east room BY
which Col. Bingham was able to Illus
trate the improvements and additions
desired. OF all the records he had been
able to find of extensions, that prepa red
under the supervision of the late Mrs.
Harrison came the nearest. he said. to
fulfilling certain guiding principles con
sidered as necessary to be followed in
any design for the extension. Mrs. I1ar-
rison's plan, he said, consists, in a
word. Of buildings about the size of the
present house. one on the east and one
on the west side of the white house
grounds, connected to the present nlan-
sion by curved wings-the quadrangle
being completed by rebuilding the con
servatorieS at the south end of the
grounds. Careful, but not final, esti-
mates on the extensions proposed, Col.
Bingham said, amount to $1,100000, in
Guiding partial furnishing
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assisneo senator Jonn W. oaniel OF
virginia
'iosethor Leslle NJ. onaw' OF Iowa,
had ior8 ms suplect tne peNeiopment
OF ihe states l1nrang the century OF
loVV-l l9Vc. HE said.
y the late OF the event this day
comr1lernorated the United States of
america was composed Of sixteen states,
kentucky, Vermont and Tennessee hav-
ing been admitted to the union during
the closing decade of the eighteenth
century Since then Virginia has been
divided and sevent teenth state admit
ted without increasing the area Included
IN the sixteen, and there have also been
added twen y-eigh MT other states.
20 better appreciate the growth of
the nati4n a few comparisons may not
seem AZ advised.
Had there been no change In area,
and without taking into account terri
tories then or now owned by the nation.
and supposlng the same development
and Increase within the several states as
has been Witnessed, the United States
would then be larger than Great Britain
plus France and Denmark, Greece, Por-
tugal and Belgium. and would have a
population more numerous than Italy
plus Norway and Denmark: it would
outnumber Austria plus Sweden, Switz-
erland and Greece. The population of
these seventeen states is very nearly
equal to that of Great Britain
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