Evening star., 1923-06-08
Capital Of Nation Abounds in Historic and Sacred Spot

and that here was the last home of
the Indian chief Powhatan.
Naval Observatory.
United States Naval Observatory.
north of Georgetown.-Here the as
Economical computations for the
United States Navy are made. 1t was
with the twenty-six inch equatorial
telescope of this observatory that
Asaph Hall made his discovery of the
moons of Mars.
Fort Stevens, at Brightwood-The
only battlefield in the District of CO.
lumbia during the civil war. Here
the advance of the Confederate forces
was stayed and here Lincoln stood
under fire during ethe attack. This
boulder in 1912, and further marked
in 1920 with bronze tablet by the
survivors of the 9Th Army Corps.
Walter Reed Army General Hos
pital, Georgia avenue and Butternut
street, beyond Brightwood.-Estab
lished 1903. and named in honor of
DR.. Walter Reed, U. S. A. who gave
up his life in demonstrating that
yellow fever germs were %communi-
Gated to man through the medium Of
over 100 acres and is the next largest
Army hospital in the United States.
During the world war there were
2,100 patients cared for at one time,
it's capacity being 1850.
Soldiers Home. three miles north of
the Capitol.-Here quarters are pro-
vided for men who have served for
twenty years in the United States
Army or who have been disabled by
wounds or disease. The grounds con-
sist of about 500 acres. The presi-
dents cottage was the summer home
of Lincoln and here is said to have
been written the Emancipation Proc
lamation. Other Presidents who lived
in the grounds were Pierce, Buchanan,
Grant and Hayes. In the home ceme-
terry is the tomb Of Gen. John A.
Logan.
Rock Creek cemetery, near Soldiers
Home.-Celebrated men, as Mayor Peter
Force and Gov. Shepherd, buried
here. 1t contains the beautiful bronze
memeroial to Mrs. Henry Adams, de-
signed by Saint Gaudens. Until re-
Gently here was St. Pauls, founded
in 1913. and destroyed by fire. the
oldest parish church in the District
of Columbia
Homes of Cabinet Officers.
The homes of the various cabinet
ministers are: Charles Evans Hughes,
Secretary of State. 1929 18th street
northwest; Andrew Mellon. Secre-
tary of the Treasury, 1885 Mas
Wingate Weeks. Secretary of War,
POO 18th street northwest: Har-
ry NJ. Daugherty. Attorney General.
1909 III street northwest; Henry G.
Wallace. Secretary of Agriculture,
The Highlands; Herbert Clark Hoover.
northwest; James J. Davis, Secretary
of Labor, Wardman Park Hatel; HUI
bert Work, Secretary Of the Interior,
Wardman Park Hotel, and Harry S.
New, Postmaster General, 1869 Wyo-
ming avenue northwest.
ttons are: Argentina, 1906 Corcoran
street; Belgium. 1880 Massachusetts
avenue; Bolivia. 2400 18th street;
Brazil 1903 II street: Bulgaria, 1921
Jefferson place; Chile. 1o13-1o15
street; Colombia, ia27 18th street:
Costa Rica. 2230 California street;
Cuba, 2630 10th street: Czecho-
slovaHia, 2040 S street: Denmark. 434
Southern building; Dominican Re-
public. 1881 Massachusetts avenue;
Ecuador, 1888 10th street; Finland.
1041-1044 Munsey building: France.
2460 18th street; Great Britain, 1901
18th street; Greece, 1898 Connecticut
avenue; Guatemala, $500 Ontario
road; Haiti, rooms 2s and %, s1s 18th
land: Italy 400 New Hampshire
avenue; Japan. 1000 Massachusetts,
avenue; Luxembourg. the Powhatan;
Mexico, 1929 10th street; Netherlands.
1900 Connecticut avenue; Nicaragua,
Wardman Park Hoted; Norway, the
Wyoming: Panama, 2400 18th street;
Persia. 1913 18th street; Peru. 272S
Connecticut avenue; Poland, 2s40. 18th
street, Portugal. Wardman Park
Hotel; Romania, 400 Continental
Trust building;' Russia, 1925 18th
street: Salvador, Wardman Park
Hotel; Serbs. Croats and Slovenes,
1899 Connecticut avenue; Slam, 2aos
wyoming avenue; Spain, the CAL
verton; Sweden, 1901 18th street:
Switzerland, 2013 Hillyer place;
Uruguay. 312 Southern building:
Venezuela, 1906 Massachusetts avenue.