The Newtown bee., 1908-01-03

ed on the Virginia hills beyond the Po- tomac. In these grounds sleep 16,000 soldiers who died in the war for the Union. We also saw the former home of Colonel Robert E. Lee located in the cemetery. We then returned back to the Ebbitt House and after dinner had dancing and singing in the parlors of the hotel. Sunday morning few went to church, others wrote letters and post cards home, and to our friends
 who so kindly helped us to win. In the evening after dinner we assembled and walked in columns with MT Hills, and
 Miss Turney as captains to the Con- gressional library to view by electric
 light. On entering the dome at the entrance we noticed busts of different prominent men of olden times. We next viewed some of the cases of old writings in 1776 especially the writ ings of the Declaration of the thirteen states, writings of John Paul Jones, the bloody acts of General Jackson and pictures made by him of the enemy during the Civil War, writing of the war of 1872 and the plan in which it was laid: this attracted our attention to see the old fashioned way of spell ing and the different mems handwrit- ings. We passed on from this to cases of the old books that were used in the first library of Congress when it only
 contained about 300 books. The libra ry of to-day contains between 50 and 50 millions of books of various sizes and are laid in shelves nine stories high as far as you could see. We then went into the balcony of the reading room and looking upwards we saw one of the prettiest sights in the world where thousands of electric lights off set the colors in the walls. We also saw Washintgon's diaries, the oldest being 17S9, he always commenced the day stating the temperature of the weather, the way the wind was blow ing and then the doings of the day until bed time. After viewing few other things of interest we returned to the hotel and held sacred concert. All retired rather early to be ready for Monday morning as a great deal was ahead of us to see and visit.
 Early in the morning we started out to visit the U. S. Treasury building. After all registering one guide was set aside for our party and went through the building. We were first shown the bond vault where the U. $. Bonds were kept. This vault contains over six million five hundred thousand dollars in bonds. The largest is for $50, Next we were shown the finishing of the money and press process, the bills being run through these presses with four bills on sheet and S6,000 sheets, which every girl has to do to complete days work. Each bill is counted 53 times, this operation being the 52d count. We were then shown the 53d and last time of the count, where the bills are cut and trimmed, and sealed ready to be put in the vault for keeping until used. Next we were shown the bad and defaced money where it is looked over and prepared for the destroying machine. We were then taken down stairs and shown the machine:which destroys over 55 million dollars a day, grinding it into pulp, after which it is sold to a Philadel- phia concern for the manufacture of souvenirs. We next visited the vaults, one being S9 feet long, 51 feet wide and 12 feet high, there being 105, ,0OO,- = 900 silver dollars stored there. The money contained in all the vaults is ST. 240, ,S14,S30. From here we visited the White House, first viewing the china ware of the earlier presidents. We next visited the dining room, this be- ing decorated with I suppose some of the results of President Roosevelt's hunting trips, which were heads of deer and elk; did not notice any Teddy