Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-01-26
WASHINGTON SIGHTS
Traveller Writes Letter About
Trip and Visit There
Editor Eagle:

Editor Eagle:
We left Enid, Okla, October 10
1921, after an uneventful trip we ar
rived in the national capitol at 2:30
D. M, October IL, 1921, it was very
pleasant trip. We found ideal wealth
err in the District of Columbia for
sight seeing, after resting a little we
began hunting for the places of in
trust in and around Washington.
We started with the franciscan
Monestry, an order of priests which
was driven out Of France a few years
ago. They have a magnificent build
| ing here, and from the great number
of people who visit the place makes it
a veritable mint within itself in the
way of gathering money. 1T is very
wealthy concern, these monks wear
brown blankets around them and caps
to match. They wear red shoes, on
ly barefooted sandals containing toe
stran and soles. The inside of this
building is wonderful in construction.
We found all kinds of images and
statuary here, peopl kneeling and do
ing homage to the images and statues.
This reminded US of the Ten Com
mandments "Thou shalt make no
craven images. Thou shalt have no
other Gods before me" etc.
Next we went to the National Sol
diers' Home, home for retired re-
gular army men, which contains a
great many magnificent buildings,
and one among the finest equipped
hospitals in the District Of Columbia.
The grounds contain $40 acres, also
has prize herd of dairy cows, the
finest in the United States, about 800
in number.
October Is we explored the Pan
American building and stood in the
room where the great disarmament
conference will be held.
Next we visited the memorial to
the Father of his Country, namely the
Washington monument We went up
in the monster shaft and were permit
ted to see most of the District Of Co.
lumia from the top Of the monument.
When the great Civil War came on it
was only $50 feet high, and they stop
ped the work for several years, finally
they completed this great work, you
can reach the top floor by elevator
or by stairs which wind around the
great shaft The elevator has safety
appliances in case cable should
break.
Then we went to the famous old
National Museuem, where we saw
much interesting matter. You can
see an individual dress here worn by
each fthe Presidents wives from
aunt Martha down to the second Mrs.
Wilson.
Then we visited the U. S. fish com
mission which is one of the most in
teresting places in Washington, es-
pecially so when the hatcheries are in
operation. Next we went to the Ma
| tional Capitol, first we went to the
| galleries on the senate and from there
to the house of representatives and
then to the supreme court room and
saw the court in session, then we con-
tinued to explore the dome. We view
ed city again at height of about 240
feet from the ground. Next we Wis
tied the congressional library which
is pointed to with a great deal of
pride as the finest building in the
world, the dome is covered with gold
leaf valued at $350,000 in gold No
one visiting Washington can afford
to miss visiting tbs wonderful build
ing, you can not help admiring the
grandeur of this building
October 20 we made a flying trip
to the Botanical garden where we saw
many tropical plants of interest, these
plants are grown under glass in tor
rid zone temperature all the year.
October % we visited the new Ma
tional Museum where, we found many
collections of different animals, re-
ptiles, fishes, towels, also a collection
of the reputed ancestors of man, the
monkey, if this is true why are
not all the monkeys family men and
women? This wonderful construct
to put on great historical Bible fact,
"That God made man in His own inn
age and likeness and breathed in his
nostrils the breath of life and he be-
came living SOUL" If you have
never thought on this question stop
and think few minutes land see how
foolish this doctrine seems, not only
seems but is in reality foolish.
We also saw the Roosevelt collect
ion from his wonderful hunt in the
wilds of central Africa. 1t is great
collection.
Neft we visited the city market
which covers four city blocks. Here