Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1908-03-20
CONGRESS- ASALANDLOUD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS :


Our Senators and Representatives
in Congress will soon have their
Offices in splendid palaces. Within
a few weeks the two new white mar
BILE palaces which are TO be known
simply as annexes to the House and
the Senate, will be ready for oecu.
patton. Each is a beautiful struc-
ture. costing s2.509.00O. and. occu-
pying an entire block. has a total
frontage on its four sides of 1747
feet. or about a third Of a mile.
These palaces are in effect de-
tached wings OF the Capitol. They
are gigantic Office buildings. each Of
them occupying more ground than
the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
The House Annex, which Is not far
from completion. will contain four
hundred and ten rooms-one for
each Representative In Congress, with
few left over to provide for future
increase in that membership OF the
great legislative body. The Senate
Annex is divided into ninety-nine
suites, each comprising a private
room for the Senator, a room for his
secretary and a bathroom. In both
palaces will be employed a multitude
Of uniformed menials. to wait upon
the luxurious statesmen. and to make
life as easy and comfortable for them
as possible.
Servants wages. rent. fuel. lights
Nd al fra 81 hss h.
Government The apartments are
beautifully furnished and decorated
at Uncle Sans expense Meals will
be served in the rooms II desired.
But in each palace is vast and su-
perbly equipped dining-room. exclu-
sively for legislators and their
guests.
The annexes will be connected by
underground railways with the Capt.
tol. In each palace one will find a
subway station at the base of the
rotunda, the most striking architec-
tural feature of the palatial Annex.
It is seventy-four feet in diameter,
and extends upward clear through
the four stories of the building, ter
minating In superb dome under
the roof. All Of the space under
ground beneath its floor is occupied
by the subway station, likewise cir
cular, into which the trains come
from the Capitol.
The trains on this newest AmerI-
can subway are worth attention.
They are composed of six tiny
steel cars. each of them only sixteen
feet long. under charge of a motor
man and conductor, both Of whom
are in the uniform of the United
States Government.
Senators, Representatives and
those who have business with them
will ride to and fro in the trains.
which seem like toys in comparison
with those that run above ground. All
the cars are open on one side. the
missing side being replaced merely
by safety rail, SO that there is onl,
one bench running lengthwise. Pas
sengers, entering at either end, sea
themselves upon this bench and loo
out through the open side of the ca
The train runs through a tunnt
which connects the Annex with tn
south end OF the Capitol. This sub
way is seven hundred and fifty fee
long. twenty-five feet wide, ant
eleven feet high. 1t has a curved
roof. and along one side of It runs
a walk six and a half feet in width
paved with concrete. Being lined
with white yitrified brick and illumi.
mated by electricity, the tunnel,
though without any skylights, is al.
most as light as day.-Rene Baehe,
in Harper's Weekly.