The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1907-01-23


:. washington two apartment houses
-stcb will be the most magnificent
..,,c+lres of the kind in this coun-
.nr These apartment houses will
- for the exclusive use of congress
Ion and senator's, and they will be
rractically detached wings of the
soni+oI although separated from the
,o++or bv several hundred feet. In
effect both of these apartments will
! no hugh hotels, and they will be de-
ro+ed wholly to the personal conven-
;oncp of their legislative occupants,
ubo will be surrounded by every
,noginable luxury. The dining
rooms will be on great scale and
worry handsome, although the legis-
,ators will be at liberty to have their
meals served in their roms, by mes
sengers on the government pay roll.
The only hotel feature lacking will
he bedrooms, all of the apartments
being intended for daytime use only
"A fact which, nevertheless, will not
bar occupants from utilizing their
cuarters for sleeping purposes if
they wish.
Of White Marble.
The two buildings, which will be
Of white marble, will be almost alike.
Fanking the capitol at either end
thew will form with the latter an
harmonious architectural whole, the
great dome dominating the group
as a central feature. In the south
prn fats. allotted to the lower house,
there will be 410 rooms, one for each
representative. On the other hand,
in the northern flats the same
amount of space, comprising the
whole three floors, will be occupied
bv 80 apartments. At the present
time there are in congress 391 mem
bers and delegates, so that 10 rooms
will be left over for future margin.
In the senate there are 80, so that
quarters for nine additional senators
from possible future states will be
available.
In earlier days, when more sim
pie manners prevailed among our
statesmen, congressman were content
to rub along with fewer comforts and
conyeniences. Though the capitol
then was much smaller building
than it is today, the space it afforded
1 was made to serve for committee
rooms and all other legislative pur-
poses. But congress, of course, has
grown numerically, and though the
capitol has likewise been greatly eX-
banded the wants of members OF
both houses have been multiplied.
For a good many years past every
senator has insisted upon having his
private suite, and the committee
rooms in the seante were all too few
to go around, and rooms in another
building were secured.
To Cost $5,OOO,OOO.
After while it occurred to the
congressman that their colleagues IN
the upper house were getting alto
gether the better of it. They, there
fore, organized a movement for the
erection of building outside OF the
capitol which should contain suita-
bic quarters for themselves. Thus II
was that eventually $5,00O,OOO was
appropriated to put up the two great
apartment houses, the senate natur-
ally insisting that the upper house
should not be left out. When COM
pleted the twin palaces will provide
every representative and every sena-
tor with private quarters of his own
outside of the capitol.
A pretty fair notion of the mag
nitude of the structures is conveyed
by the statement that each OF them
occupies an entire block, and on us
four sides has total frontage Oh
l'i47 feet, or about one-third Oh
mile. Each of the structures is DulIC
IN such manner as to incloSe
great quadrangular court Waileu
with Indiana limestone. This court
Will be 800 feet square and from II
access will be had to a tunnel leau-
ing to the capitol. Both of the great
mats are to be connected with the
easement of the capitol by subterra-
mean passageways, lined with Vltrl-
ned brick and brilliantly lighted ny
electricity, so that representatives
and senators can pass to ana ITO
without going out into the open an
There will be in each building tour
FEATURES especially elaborated IN al
architectural sense-namely the ro-
'uhda, the main staircase, a great
room for caucus meetings and tne
ulhlng-room. The rotundas will eA-
RI l.