The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-17

lngt0n began 70 be a beautiful city.
In ten years $25000.00O had been
spent to make Washington clean aud
beautiful.
ia the city proper, not counting sub
urban extensions. there are I07
streets. aggregatlng 270 miles in
length, and twenty-one avenues named
after different States. The suburban
extensions. now being rapidly popu-
lated. contain more than 800 miles 81
roadway.
North, East and South Capitol streets
and the Mali divide the city into four
sections, known as northeast south
east, northwest and southwest. House
numbers are given accordingly. There
are four hoHses Ia Washington which
may bear the same street and number
address. but the distinguishing N.
w. or whatever section is indicated.
completes the address.
In Washington the numbered streets
run north and south, tie Iettered
streets east and west and the system
Of house numbering is the simplest
and most complete Of any ia the coun-
try.
General Lafayette visited Washing
ton in 1924. and was entertained for
two weeks
Browns Indian Queen Hotel. now
the Metropolitan was one Of the most
noted hostelries In early Washington.
In the early days the President re-
ceived a salary of s25.O0O The Vice
President received $1,000 Now tie
President gets $4,000, and the Vice
President SS0OO
1t costs about 100000 i year 10 run
the White House, exclusive Of the
Presidents salary
On August 25. 1885. the Washington
branch Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was opened
Stage coaches continued TO run west
ward from Washington as late as 1851.
The National Intelligencer was the
first newspaper Of Importance to Be
established in Washington.
The battle of Bladensburg. August
p. 1914, was the first fought in de-
fence Of Washington, and The only one
In vain
When the Civil War began WASH
lngton Nas without defenses Two
years later it was surrounded by
chain Of seyenty-two forts.
The close Of the war was celebrated
on the night OF April u, 1865 by
grand illumination OF Washington
which exceeded any demonstration
Witnessed in the capital previously. s.
On Friday night, April II, 1861
President Lincoln was assassinated at
Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
The building stands on Tenth street.
between e and +. and nearly opposite
2 the house IN which Lincoln died. =
General Early came within q few
miles Of Washington IN 1864. but was
driven back by the Sixth Army Corps.
which engagement was witnessed by.
President Lincoln at Fort Stevens on
the Seventh street road, five miles
north Of the capital.
The northwest quarter OF Washing
ton, though built upon what was once
swamp pasture, is the most popular
part Of the city to-day. Z
It is 116 miles from Washington 10
the mouth Of the Potomac, IN Chesa-
peake Bay. and 1S4 miles by water to
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Bureau OF Engraving and Print.
ing was legun In 1880 and completed
at cost Of S397.OO0. II costs about
million a year to run II. =
The State War and Navy Depars-
ments are consolidated in one immense
building. which was begun In 1871. IL
cost S10.OO0O00.
The Treasury Building was com
pleted In 1869 az cost OF S6O00.O00
It is The largest department building
devoted to one branch Of the Govern
ment &
The Pension Ofice. Awhere lie inau-
guration balls are held" was cons
pleted in 1883. It Is entirely Of brick
and terra Gotta. and Is the only de-
partment building SO constructed.
The Postoface Department building
was erected In 1880 and extended Ia
1855 Il cost SI.OO00O0.
John Quincy Adams designed the a..
legorical group THE Genius OF Amer
lea" on the eastern portico cf the Cap
itol
The reclaimed Potomac fats VIII
add about 1000 acre to the public
parks. The area WIN be made into a
national park along the Ever from
Mexican cannon furnished ghn matte
rial for the bronze statu. cf General
Winfield Scott in the eirc.e whica
bears bis name
The Society Of the army of ih, Icn-
nessee erected the SJ0.OO0 statue of
General James 3. McPherson ia fhe
square which bears his namc.
The bronze propeller Of his famous
flagship, the Hartford. was cast into
the statue of Admiral Fauagur
Manila is 1880 miles from the capital
Honolulu is 4513 miles westof Wash