The age-herald., 1901-12-23
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 In the Senate room on Geological vey the ceiling bears four medallion
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 studying a fossil, and holding sl the ear to catch its murmurs,
 The room for Transportation to the Sea- board contains four oval panels showing a freight train, a cana1boat with grain el- evators in the background, lake steam CT with two barges, and Mississippi River steamboat with levee in the fore ground.
 The ceiling of the Room of Private Land Claims is decorated with female figures representing the Four Elements as anciently conceived-Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
 The room of Railroads is embellished with medallons in which are displayed trophies in the form of agricultural inn plements, mechanics tools, mining instru- ments and winged wheels.
 The rooms of Pensions are adorned with numerous patriotic shields bearing the National eolors. and wall pictures in me- dallions Illustrating the military equip ments in vogue in the time of the Puri- tans, in the Colonial period, in the Mexi- can war. and in the recent war with Spain-those particularly of the Rough Rider.
 The decorations in the rooms of Naval Affairs are especially interesting. In one the ceiling shows medallions bearing sketches of Roman galleys, and a set of wall panels is enriched with pictures of a torpedo boat, felucca, steam launch, and a cutter
 Another is illuminated with pictures of Commodore John Paul Jones' flagship the Bon Homme Richard, of glorious memory, and of the Demoiogos the first steam warship, designed by Robert Full ton, In the adjoining room the ceiling medallions contain representations in color of the traditional galley, the Span ish earayel, the frigate of the last cen tury, and the modern steel battleship while the wall panels containg drawings of the old Constitution. the United States, the Constellation and the Hartford all accurately reproduced from the sail plans and original drawings in the Navy De- partment.
 The wall panels in the room of tho Louisiana Purchase Committee display paintings in miniature of Memorial Hall, Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, of the Peristyle and French colossal gold statue of the Republic, Worlds Col umbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, and the Electrical Tower, Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. The ceiling of the room for Public Buildings and Grounds is adorned with | medallions bearing trophies representing | the attributes of architecture, engineering sculpture and painting. and the walls are brightened with portrait medallions of the most famous architects and sculptors of the Italian renaissance The chimney breast bears a portrait medallion of Thornton, the original architect of tho capitol.
 The two rooms devoted to Coinage Weights, and Measures have noteworthy ceilings. Six medallions bear as many eupids holding in their hands respective | ly steelyards, a vase and a cup, a wine measure, carpenters square and a measuring rod. and one losses coins in the air. In the chamber devoted to the use | Of the House minority are four ceiling | medallions bearing figures of men in cos tume-one woodsman, typifying the North; another a fisherman, representing | the South; one mechanic, standing for the East, and last a hunter, for the West.
 In the room of the Committee on Dis trict of Columbia the ceiling bears me- dallion figures typifying Liberty, Justice, Peace and Prosperity, and the wall sur | face Is enlivened with figures symbolizing the four seasons, heraldic seal of the District Government, and an emblematic figure of Columbia, covered as to her head with the Phrygian liberty cap.
 The renewed decorations of the Speak, CTS reom and the rooms of the House Committees on Ways and Means and Ap. propriations are interesting The ceiling Of the main room of Appropriations is en- riched with designs embracing panels of fruits and flowers, festoons, border orna- ments' and architectural line-accent in gold. The four panels of fruits and flow CTS are surmounted with American eagles. wide-winged, pointing North, East, South and West and all different in color shad- ing.
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 on as they have begun-and there is every reason for confidence that they will-we are sure of at least two years