The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-07-10
WORTHY OF NATION
CAPITAL SOON TO BE FINEST
CITY IN THE WORLD.
movements on Foot TO Enlarge and
eeauthy Washington Already
Are in Evidence-New Depot
Mark Of Progress.


Though not entirely completed, the
new Union station In Washington Is
ssuch vast Improvement over the
rprevious railroad terminal equipment
sof the capital that the inaugural Wis
dtors who have made trips there on
<other occasions must have been deep
1ly impressed. They came through a
gateway of great artistic attractive
ness. They found themselves landed
in q station which possesses every
possible convenience for the comfort
-aof the traveller Everything is on a
generous scale. A crowd OF 10000 peo-
pie can be handled with less friction
now than was occasioned four years
ago In the arrival of thousand Ten
trains can discharge their loads stimuli
faneously without causing more than
"A neighborly touching of elbows,
whereas in the old days two trainloads
pouring into one of the stations at
the same time would block every pas
sage and cause infinite confusion.
This change is the token of the new
Washington. the national capital as
at Is soon to be, In all Its equipment.
FF'or the day Is now at hand when the
people of this country are demanding
that their national center be made a
! credit to the republic. The federal
legislators have felt the quickening
impulse Of this sentiment and stand
ready now in more generous measure
than ever before to proceed with the
evolution of the ideal capital upon
broad lines. The program is moving
Forward appreciably. though perhaps
at times the eager citizens may be
impatient at the slowness of congress
-sional action.
Just outside OF the station the new
conner sees wide expanse of territory
flanked by the capitol and the senate
ONCE building. 1t Is now an unloyely
stretch in some respects, raw and
rough along the outer edges, and OBJ
viously In a transition state. A screen
of evergreen trees has been put in DO
sition around the outer curves Of the
street car lines. barely hiding the IN.
even spaces where the work Of filing
ugly huddIe of half-buried buildings
ieft in their awkward plight by the
chance Of grade. perhaps eventually to
be taken into the plaza area or, fail
Ing that. to be replaced by attractive
business buildings The government
contemplates-how leisurely the pro
ceedings will be is not to be predicted
f>f Al,
ken land lying directly between the
station and the Capitol park. It has
been proposed to place somewhere on
that space a noble memorial to Abra-
nam Lincoln, where, as an earnest ad-
Vocate of the plan declares. 1t can be
seen and appreciated by the American
people every time the train comes in"
This now untrimmed. undecorated
station plaza will some day be one of
the most famous places in the United
States. Tardily but effectively the
truth has been appreciated at the cap.
itol that this city of Washington
stands before the world as the seat
of great government, world lead
er; that 1t Is the center OF American
thought, an ever increasing power for
the uplift OF humanity. The obliga-
tion resting upon congress to make
this city attractive in its garb, to give
At no less than the best in all details
OF ofiicial Quitting and to place ii on
the highest possible plane of municipal
efficiency is impressing itself annually
more deeply upon the legislators, and
Ihis artistically attractive, practically
useful terminal, model of convent
ence and credit to the public spirit
OF the railway corporations, is one Of
the results.
When another inauguration day ar
Tives Washington expects to welcome
Its host of friends with the plaza COM
plete in all respects. so that the incom-
1ng visitor will step forth to behold a
scene that cannot be equaled in anv
other city in the world