The Washington herald., 1917-03-05

william W. Corcoran. Edwin M STAN
ton; James q. Blaine, Spencer F. Baird.
Lorenzo Dow, Bishop William Pinkney.
Joseph Henry, George Brown Goode. Ar
thur P. German. and other distinguished
Americans
| No. 6-Bureau of Standards. Pierce
Mill road. on the Chevy Chase car line.
In this building are the standards adopt
ed or recognized by the Government
and employed to verify those used in SCI
entihc investigations. manufacturing.
commerce, and in educational institu-
tions.
| No. 26-Argyle Place. west of Piney
Branch road. Site Of stone quarry work.
ed by the aboriginal Indians Remains
of their work are still to be found in
this vicinity.
No. Effort Stevens, beyond Bright
wood. The only battlefield in the Dis
trict Of Columbia during the civil war.
Here the advance OF the Confederate
forces was stayed and here Lincoln stood
under fire during the attack This site
was marked by q memorial boulder in
1872.
No. 2S-Battleground Cemetery. beyond
Brightwood. Here are buried the re-
|
the defense OF Washington. when Early
made his attack on the Capital on July
| II and Il. 1854.
No. 2s-walter Reed Army General Hos
pital, Georgia avenue and Butternut
street, beyond Brightwood. Named in
honor of DR.. Walter Reed. U. 8. A.,
| who risked his life In demonstrating
that yellow fever germs were comuni
Gated to man through the medium of
f,N ~
shooters Tree" used as a signal station
by Confederate soldiers during General
Early's attack ON Washington in 1864.
also occupied by sharpshooters.
No. 3o-silver Spring. beyond Bright
wood. Here was the home Of Francis
Preston Blair. who was editor of the
Globe. the official organ during the ad
ministration of jackson and Van Buren,.
No 31-Soldiers' Home. on the hills 8
miles north OF the Capitol. Here COM
Portable quarters are provided for men
who have served twenty years in tho
U. 8. army or who have been disabled
by wounds or disease. The Presidents s
cottage was the summer home of Lin
coin ard other Presidents In the Home
cemetery SIS the tomb of Gen. John A.
Logan.
| No. 32-Rock Creek Cemetery. northeast
Of the Soldiers Home. Celebrated men, as
Mayor Pete Force and Gov. Shepherd,
are buried here. 1t contains the beauti-
full bronze memorial to Mrs. Henry
I Adams, designed by ST. Gaudens. Here
also is st. PauPs, founded in 1719, the
oldest parish church in the District of
Columbia.
| No. 3S-The Catholic University. Michi-
gan avenue and Harewood road, near
Brookland. This institution, founded in
1889. has for its purpose the higher edu-
cation Of college graduates and is espe-
cially strong in its divinity faculty. Here
| Is a chapel said TO be one of the finest in
| America.
| No. 34-Trinity College. Michigan ave-
nue. and near the Soldiers Home north
east. A Catholic institution for the high
er education of women.
| No. 35-Franciscan Monastery. Brook
land northeast (about a mile beyond the
| Catholic University. Here is the church
of Mount Saint Sepulcher and the Monas-
terry, beneath which are reproductions Of
sacred places such as those of Jerusa-
lem, Bethlehem, and Catocombs Of Rome.
| No. 36-Howard University. Sixth street,
between College and Lincoln streets.
Named after Gen. o. o. Howard, one of
learning chartered in 1867 for the educa-
ton of the young without regard to
sect or color" but patronized almost ex-
clusively by the colored race.
| No. 37-Eckington. Third and T streets
northeast Here was the home Of Joseph
Gales, the famous editor Of the National
Intelligencer. 1t is now Washington Col
lege.
| No. ss-Columbia institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, Florida avenue and M
street northeast. This college, said to be
the only one in the world for deaf mutes,
| is located in a park called Kendall Green,
| in which is French's bronze group show
Iire the elder Gallaudet teaching deaf
child.
Statues and Memorials.
misunderstanding circle, Penn
sylvania avenue and Twenty-third street,
| (Clark Mills.)
Gen. Jackson-Lafayette Square: oppo-
site the White House. (Clark Mills)
| Lafayette-Lafayette Square, southeast
corner. On the pedestal are Rochambeau
and Duportail, Of the army. and De-
Gasse and D'Estaing, of the navy. "a.
Falduier and A. Mercie.)
| Rochambeau-Lafayett Square, south
west corner. (M. Hamar)
| Gen. Thaddeus Observation-Disclosures
Square, northeast corner. (Antonio Pop
iel)
Gen. Sherman-Sherman plaza. south of
the Treasury. (Carl Rohl SMITH.
Gen. Scott-Soldiers' Home Grounds.
Gaunt Thompson)
Gen. scott-Scott Circle, Massachusetts
avenue and Sixteenth street. Oh. X.
Brown)
Daniel Webster-Scott Circle, west side.
(G. Trentanovi)
Hahnemann-Scott Circle, east side. &C.
H. Nieuhaus)
Gen. McPherson-McPherso Square,
Vermont avenue and Fifteenth street.
IL. L. Rebisso.)