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New.found appetites will then go
park officials explained, have
supplemented each other in giving
visitors a better understanding of
the mobility of the earth's crust.
AS summer waned, establish
ment of Pea Ridge National Mil
itary Park, Arkansas, and Horse
shoe Bend National Park, Ala
bama, awaited donations of land
to the Government. At Horseshoe
Bend, on the Tallapoosa River,
General Andrew Jackson's men de-
feated Creek warriors in 1914,
paving the way for white settle
ment. A Civil War engagement at
Pea Ridge in 1862 thwarted a
Confederate attempt to take
Missouri.
Capital Visited by Overs
Three and Half Millions
The Nations home town is
settling down to normal after a
welcome stint: the care, feeding,
and entertaining of 100000
friends and relatives in the vaca-
ton season of 1856.
Never before have so many Wis
itors trekked into Washington
during a spring and summer. Some
of them, according to the National
Capitals newest guidebook, Doro-
thea Jones's briskly entertaining
Washington Is Wonderful, will
never leave. For Washington is
largely a city of assimilated out
landers, and every American citi-
zen has a vested interest in these
81 square miles on the Potomac
River.
Second Largest Industry
AS evidenced by the 1856 visit
alton, Americans come in droves
to look over their property. While
a third of the employed among the
Washington areas 1,872,OOO resi-
dents work for the Fedseral Gov
eminent, hosting some 100000
visitors year is the second
largest industry, the National
Geographic Society says. Chains
of sightseeing buses around pub
lie buildings and monuments are
as much a part of the scene as
the quadrennial rash of president
ial aspirations.
Some $50 airplanes land and
take off from National Airport
every day. About $50 trains thun-
der in and out of Union Station.
At rush. hour, Washington drivers
share the overwhelming impress
sion that each resident and visitor
is trying to get to. the same place
at the same time in separate
car.
Despite the hustle and a gilt
tering cosmopolitan veneer, Wash
ington at heart remains small
town that has never lost it's coun-
try accents. Not too many years
ago, only ~ centuries in fact,
the capital area was a rolling
wilderness of individual holdings,
among them Widows Mite, Poor
Toms Last Shift, BealPs Levels,
and Duddington Pasture.
The Nations parade ground
Pennsylvania Avenue, the broad,
tree-lined link between the White
House and Capitol-was bit late
in opening because farmer David
Burnes had planted corn on the
route. It is presumed that the corn
was left to ripen, but city planner
Pierre L'Enfant promptly tore
down house that prominent
banker was building on another
avenue. The City Com
reprimanded L'Enfant,
noting that their opinions should
have been solicited on Subject
so delicate and so interesting"
Before Cars, Cows and Pigs
AS Mrs. Jones relates in her
book, more livestock seemed to
roam Washington than any COM
parable metropolis. One Senator,
who took dim view of the care
free pigs uprooting his lawn, de-
clared publicly and petulantly, 81
am going to introduce a bill to
have the Capitol removed!"
The Capitol rose SO slowly that
member Of Congress COM
planned to the House Speaker in