The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-07

Of the Department Of Justice. The
Attorney Generals Office, which has
nothing to interest the ordinary visi-
tor, is in a rented building several
blocks to the northeast
| Walking over in front of the White
House one comes to the Treasury De-
partment, which is just to the east of
it, and after seeing the secis. service
museum of countereeits and counter
feitcrs, and the cash room, finished in
fine marble, where the cash business
of the Treasury is done, he may 60
to the Office Of the United States
Treasurer between the hours Of eleven
and twelve, or between one and two,
and be included in party escorted by
a well-informcd messenger, who will
show him the bond and silver and
gold vaults, aud other money divisions
of the Treasurer Office, including the
place where the Cancelled notes are de-
stroyed. The yisitc. may see, in this
round, where the Treasury keeps be-
tween eight and nine hundred millions
Of dollars worth Of gold and silver,
currency and bonds.
It is we'll to 60 directly from the
Treasury Department to its Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, which is
in large brick building in the park
south Of il, and near the Washington
monument. There one may see the
processes Of printing the notes and
stamps and bonds Of the Government.
1t will be convenient to go from
this bureau to the Department of Ag-
riculture, which is just east Of it,
where there is an interesting museum
Of agricultural products, illustrating
also their industrial and commercial
usc3.
The two remaining departments, the
Post Office and the Interior, are in two
classic buildings facing one another at
Seventh and F Streets, half q mile
away from the nearest similar build
ing, the Post Office building being
just half the size Of the other It was
long ago outgrown, and the Postmas-
ter General and his four Assistant
Postmasters General have long had to
do business in absurdly small quarters,
but are now about to have large and
fine Offices in the city post office build
ing. There is little to see in the
Post Office Department: except the
"dead letter Office" with its interest
ing processes Of handling the eighteen
thousand letters a day that come to
it, and its pathetic and humorous
museum Of undelivered articles, in
cluding many soldiers and sailors
photographs mailed in war days.
The building across F Street, where
the Secretary Of the Interior has his
Offices, is popularity known as the
"Patent Office" and quite appropri-
ately, because it was built with money
received by the Patent Office from
fees oe inventors, and the Patent Office
occupies the larger portion Of it. The
Land Office is the only other part of
the Interior Department. except the
Offices Of the secretaries and the
assistant secretaries, which now re.
mains in this building. The museum
Of models Of patented articles, which
fills four halls on the second floor
eighty thousand more are displayed in
rented building near by-is mag
nifcent exhibition Of what American
inventors have done, and greatly in
terests mos. visitors. The Pension
Office, the Indian Office, the Bureau
Of Education, the Geological Survey,
and the Census Office, all under the
Department Of the Interior, are housed
in buildings within q radius of half
mile from the Seoretary's Office.
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