The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-03-31
GREAT WORK
At CAPITAL
Plans for a New
City Being
Pushed.
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considerable Industrial army will be
called to the Capital City OF the United
States within a brief period. 1t will
be kept here for two or three years to
work out most notable transforma-
ton. the like of which has occurred in
the history of few municipalities
These men are needed because Wash
ington's supply Of labor is far short
of what the demand will be in the rear
ing OF many important and costly pub
lie projects.
For the Federal government and for
the government of the District of
Columbia undertakings have recently
] been authorized which make a total of
over s25, O00, 900. Legislation has just
been completed for the improvements
I OF terminals to the two railroads, the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. which will cost about
s1300O,00O. part of which is to be paid
by the two branches of government
mentioned and part by the railroads
themselves. These improvements in
| clude union depot for these two roads
and for all the railroads entering
Washington, which shall cost 100000
and which is intended to be the most
beautiful and the most comfortable
| railroad depot in the world.
They also include two magnificent
bridges across the historic Potomac,
one highway bridge and one a bridge
| for railroad traffic exclusively in place
of the famous Long Bridge, over which
| the northern armies tramped during the
Civil War when they proceeded to the
South and again when the victorious
but decimated legions returned from
the bloody fighting fields. There is also
to be an enormous tunnel under Capitol
Hill, penetrating that eminence of leg
islation between the Capitol and the
Congressional Library, skirting close to
the latter building which is pronounced
the most magnificent structure in the
Western Hemisphere. The contracts
for part of this work have been already
awarded.
CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES.
But that is only a beginning OF the
vast undertakings in contemplation
The Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Hitchcock, has just begun to denude an
entire square on Capitol Hill, Just
across the street from the Capitol
building. where. at "A cost of So, 100 900,
will be erected a splendid office build
ing in classic style of three stories in
height, for the convenience of the men,
bers of the popular branch of Congress.
1t will have 400 suites of rooms, elabor-
ately furnished and equipped with tele-
phones and every other modern conven-
fence. Every man elected to the House
of Representatives for two years will be |
given one of these rooms, in which to
transact the business of his constituents |
who come to Washington to meet him. !
The building is bound to become a |
great landmark and viii prove II load |
stone to draw to that section a large |
contingent of residents who have hith-
erto resided further to the northwest.
over in the beautiful mall wide
strip + wooded park extending half .
way through the city, a grand new
building as home for the Agricul-
tural Department, is to be erected at n .
cost of $500, 600. and only short dts
lance from 1t, IN another section of
the mall will be erected another build
ing as an addition for the National |
Museum, which will cost 100000. The |
money has been appropriated for both
buildings and win be available after
July next SO that the extensive plans
for both are already under way.
Still further to the northwest and |
not far from the Potomac river another
entire square is to be stripped Of its
houses and prepared as a site for a |
Hall Of Records, the purpose of which
is to relieve all the department build
ings OF vast accumulation of gov
eminent papers which can not safely
be destroyed. That building will cost
over million when it has been COM
pleted. which will be,within about three
years Coming back towards the Capt.
toll again and down Pennsylvania
Avenue, east Of the Treasury Depart
ment. with its substantial looking but
ancient Grecian pillars. splendid new
municipal building for the seat of the
District of Columbia is already under
way. occupying an entire square and to
cost when completed in excess of ST.
100000, A square further east is the |
great postottice building, home OF the |