New Britain herald., 1929-11-30
CAPITAL ATTRACTS
 TOURIST THRONGS
Dollar Brings Visitor Many
 Thrills in Washington

Washington, Nov. 30.-For q dol lar, you can purchase about the big gest cyeful in Washington that is to be had anywhere.
 Tine holiday tourist season is on again and the sightseeing luses, most of which have their stands down at the foot of Pcnnsylvania avenue under the brow of Capitol Hill, are doing rushing business.
 Lower Pennsylvania avenue isn't one of the cty's beauty spots by any means. so the visitors first inn Pression of the nationals capital city is likely to be misleading. It is lined with dingy little hotels, upstairs rooming houses, cheap restaurants. saudy souvenir shops, dime muse ums shooting galleries and the like It Is the city's Chinatown. too, and slant-eycd Chinese children frolic on the sidewalks.
 And all this at the foot Of Capi- tol Hill.
 lll as the bus threads its way through the traffic up Pennsylvania avenue toward the treasury and the White House, these scenes are soon left behind. The Dull-voiccd barker, now seated beside the driver, points out various points Of interest as the city's business district is entered. Among them. just then, arc the huge post office department building on the left and the Galt jcwelry store. still owned by Woodrow Wilson's widow, who inherited it from her first husband, on the right.
 Turning, the bus swings through the shopping district and the thcatcr district-and Washington has some real department stores and thea ters. As in any other town, the streets arc dense with traffic, but unlike most other towns they are lined with trees at the curb. Wash ington has 10000 of these trees and is proud of them.
 Through the trees that dot the spacious lawn on the other side of q high iron fence. one gets d glimpse of big building with dngy gray walls. 1t is the White House, IL sets far back from the street, the concrete walks and drives curving through the grassy acres to meet at the stately entrance with its tall gray columns, where two policemen always stand guard.
 
 A turn 10 the right and the bus heads out Sixteenth street. toward the exclusive residential section and the foreign embassies and legations. The barker points out each in turn for they arc not so very far apart. Most of them are buildings of inn posing appearance, the interest in which is heightened by the strange flag flying from the roof
 The return trip is usually made via the Lincoln Memorial, one of the most beautiful Of all architcc- tural masterpieces in Washington; the Washington Monument (you don't have to walk up unless you want to, because it is equipped with q hiGh-spced elevator), the depart ment of agriculture buildings. the Smithsonian Institution, the Ma tional Museum (with the Roosevelt African trophicsl and the capitol it. self
 At the capitol, the members of your party pay p cents each 10 be escorted through the building by q uniformed guide, who explains everything in a sing song lecture"
 You see the historic paintings in the great rotunda (you've seen copies in your school books, but the originals are herc), and the marble statues of great statesmen of by gone days in statuary hall. You also sec from the visitors galleries only the senate chamber and the house of representatives chamber where the nations laws are made ana the supreme court chamber where the constitutonality of these self-same laws is often decided.
 Ot course, a visitor 10 Washing ton sees many other interesting places for it would be impossible to list all of them here. For instance there is the old and stately treasury building on one side of the White House and the huge State, War and