Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-02-04
S. B. TONNES WRITES.
A Trip up Pennsylvania Ave-
nue.. Washington and Bal
timore are Painfully
"Dry."
Dear Advertiser:

tHe Car JhaC MADE Milwaukee blush!
What matters though the hood piece
rattles; what matters though the ra-
diator leaks; what matters though
the brake bands fail to function;
what matters though the inner tubes
be punctured? so long as the wheels
go round.
Climb in and we shall take little
trip up Pennsylvania Avenue begin
ming at Sixteenth Street and taking
in Capitol Hill at the finish.
Look to the south-a four-column-
ed portico of Ionic style with a set
of eight large windows on either side
and a colonnaded balcony above
represent the north side of the White
House. On the west side are the eX-
ecutive Offices, and the public en-
trance is on the east. The building
material is Of Virginia freestone.
President Washington laid the corner
stone but President John Adams was
the first occupant and all the presi-
dents have lived there since.
West of the White House on Penn
sylvania Avenue is the State, War
and Navy Building. 1t is four-story
granite building 342 by 563 feet.
This structure contains 500 rooms
and its halls and papered with mar
BILE. The State Department occupies
the south wing, the War Department
the west wing and the Navy Depart
ment the east.
At Pennsylvania and Fifteenth
Street stands massive, monumental
structure of sandstone and granite.
North, east, south and west sides cf.
this building have colonnade of
Ionic columns, beautifully massive.
This is the Treasury The daily
transsctions Of the treasury run 4ifgn
up in the millions of dollars.
At Fourteenth Street is the Dis
trict Building, headquarters of gov,
ernment of the District of Columbia.
On the north side of the Avenue
are several Of Washington's largest
hotels.
Towering above the buildings
about it, a grey granite structure
rising 800 feet in the air represents
The Post Office Department at Elev-
enth Street.
From Eleventh Street to Capitol
Hill is one of the business sections of
The city. Two trolley lines with un-
lerground feed wires run the entire
ength of the Avenue. The whole
trolley system of the city is fed from
underground wires or rails.
Having arrived at the foot Of Cap
tol Hill, we shall park our seven
and climb out.
Ten feet before you is monu-
nent-
"In memory of the Officers, Sea-
men and marines of the U. S.
Navy who fell in defense of the
Union and Liberty of their
Country, 1s61-1s65."
The figures represent America
weeping.
Fifty-five years ago, in May, 1865
20 be exact, had you stood here you
would have seen the army of the Po-
;omac and the army of the Missis-
'ippi file past the reviewing stand to
ay down their arms and return home.
The parade lasted two days, $780,
700 men in all marching down the
Avenue.
Again in 1915 they held their re-
lnion, and those who saw it say
leart-moving spectacle of 10000 old
soldiers repeated their triumphal
march of '65.
Only last fall Gen. Pershing and
he Famous First followed in the
rail. A band of little girls strewed
lowers in front of Gen. Pershing's
lorse as the victorious army marched
long amidst the blare of trumpets
md a hundred thousand shouting
'oices.
At the head of Pennsylvania Ave-
lue there is rise of gentle slope
long whose sides, all leading to the
op, run intersected roadways of ma
adam and asphalt. In summer green
rasses grow all around and flowers
loom profus.ly. Great sycamores
nd pines and cedars shade the grass
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