New Britain herald., 1925-09-12
ALL 4S STATES IN
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James Found on Avenues, M0nu. mentS, and Other Works

Washington. D. C., Sept. 12-Find ing your state in Washington, D. Is a puzzle contest the capital offer free to visitors. Each state repre- scnted in the senate and the hous is represented many more times il the highways and byways of tn District of Columbia
 Somewhere In the federal reser vation a broad avenue honors ever, state except one," says a bulletin from the headquarters of the Ma tional Geographic society.
 Avenues at Angles
 "Only native sons of the State 0 Washington seek vainly for their avenue. There is Washington street, but that does not count, fo in the Capital avenues are the ma eadam patrician and never run or line with the streets. Famous Penn sylvania avenue runs west nor west from the capitol toward the White House and all its 4e brother avenues named for states proclaim their spe cial station by cutting angles among the staid streets which have to hev to nirth-south or east-west lines.
 What secret diplomacy gave Pennsylvania's name to The Ave. nue. as the capital calls 1t? That i. still secret. The map of L'Enfant the French engineer and father ot city planning in America, names the streets but not the avenues. Some say geography gave 1t to Pennsyl. vania. It is the middle avenue ot three great parallel boulevards just as Pennsylvania was the middle state of the original IS. South ot Pennsylvania avenue Is Virginia ave nue and north of 1t is Massachu- setts avenue. While Pennsylvania avenue is more famous, Massachu- setts Is more beautiful, for the lat ter is bordered by handsome build ings and by far more lindens than Cnter den Linden, Berlin's famous boulevard.
 New England States Conspicuous
 Avenues named for southern states usually are southwest of the capital, where the original planners expected the greatest development. However, like all American cities, Washington has moved with glacier SoWness to new axis Now the hHsiest avenues are those northwest the White House, carrying the mes of the New England states;
 nnecticut, Vermont, New Hamp-
 re and Rhode Island. States en-
 ing the Union more recently are
 Tored by avenues on the fringe Of
 district. Florida avenue is an
 option to all these highway rules
 was once Boundary avenue, post
 d to Baltimore, and the limit of
 original city.
 Mathematical sharks can have a
 st on the enigma presented by
 te names on the Lincoln Memo
 1, Two files of state names crown 6 classic temple; the lower lists Ne 3s states of the Union at the 'me of Lincoln's death, the upper 'ists the 43 states of the United states today. In both tabulations the states appear in the order of ad- mittance to the Union. The short list begins at the upper left hand corner of the east facade. At what corner of what side must the long list begin in order that no one name shall appear twice on the same face of the memorial?
 40 States Represented fin Washing
 ton Monument.
 At the end of the Miro Basin, opposite the Lincoln Memorial, the visitor may again find his state memorialized within the shaft of Washington monument. Inscribed stone blocks bearing the names of 40 states, some of which were ter ritories at the time the tablets were placed. can be seen as the elevator climbs to the top. To see them in detail one must undertake the capi- tals supreme test of youthfulness, climb the monuments S9S steps!
 At least once year the big hite inner court of the gray stone ',st Office department building, hout midway on Pennsylvania ave- re between the Capitol and the
 hite house, blazes with color con-
 buted by state flags. Since 1908, az day, June 14, has been cele-
 ated annually there by the dis " of a nearly complete collec-
 of state flags. Governors and
 ,vate citizens, organizations of
 stmasters and postal employees,
 chapter of D. A. R., and numer- IS other societies and individuals ave added to the departments set. f has no flags of Kansas, Nevada, ,nw Mexico. North Dakota and Wyoming.
 State Flag Collection
 The Hawaiian flags arrival at inc Post Office department tied to- sether some loose ends of history. On the field of the territorial em- blem appears the British design Crosses of St. George. St. Andrew and St. Patrick, which was the flag Renjamin Franklin served under as colonial postmaster general. He later became the first postmaster general under the Stars and Stripes. Another English flag in the collec- ton is Maryland's. the brilliant old banner of the Calvert's, which that state adopted.
 Tn the Capitol itself, the origi- nal House chamber, called the 'ovcn,' both for its temperature and shape, has been converted into a Hail of Fame for state heroes. Enough states have filled half or all of their quota of two, to give statusry hall a forest of marble figures.
 If the Lincoln memorial offers mathematical puzzle, Statuary hall affords an information test. One might spend a profitable hour with q group of friends checking how many can tell why the following men were honorei by their states