Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1923, Page 36

36 CAR LINE INDEX. To reach places of public interest use car lines as indicated by mark before name of place: iDark-green cars — Washington Railway and Electric Company. *Light-green cars—Capital T Company 1Both lines. All places are otherwise specified. tion northwest unless 3 i 1 SPECIALLY, PREPARED FOR (Copyright, 4923, b; D. C. MONDAY, y Hobart Brooks) JUNE 4, 1923. BY HOBART BROOKS The ~éapitol The public Capitol is the most building on earth. It stands o plateau rcighty-eight feet above the level of the Potomac and one and one-fourth miles from the White House, and is recogn be the most perfectly proportioned building | tn the world. Tt 51 feet 4 inches n north to south and its width to west is The building covers 153,112 feet. The Senate wing of the built first, then the two were ected | keway first It was designed the burning of the itol by the ritlsh in 1814 This veplaced in 1556 by the present remarkable structure of cast 1t took uin cars to bulld Weight of the iron used is 8. pounds. | Crawford's manificent’ stat of Freedom. which surmounts the dom is 19 t ches in height and weighs 14,285 ‘pounds. The height of the dome above the base Jine is 287 feet 5 Inches, The rotunda a7 feet & inches in diameter and height from the floor to the top the canopy is 180 fect 3 inches. 1The Washington Monu- ment The Washington Monument mittedly the picce of ma- gonry in the world. It is a colossal | ehelisk of mammoth proportions. jestie in its simplicity, the loftiest | memorial in the world and the most imposing and costly monument that Vliad ever heen cted to man at that tim It is a massive shaft of pur white marble and granite. capped by an aluminum pyramid, its tapering desig reaching skyward over 5 feet The entire height has been made ten times its breadth. A plumb Iine suspended from the top of the| nonument inside shows less than three-eighths of an inch deflection. Gan. Washington personally selected this site and a more beautiful one conld not have been procured. The terrace gqon which the monument stands is surrounded by forty-one acres, this tract of land having been designed on L'Enfant's plans of the city of Washington the site of the proposed equestrian statue to Wash- fugton which was ordered by™the Con- tinental Congress 1783 and selected by Washington himself for a monu- ment to the American revolution. The foundations of the monument, whie bear a weight of SL12 to are constructed of solid blue rock. Fach block is 146 inches square and 24 feet S8 inches deep. The base of the shaft i feet square, the lower walls are feet thick, while the [ \f the foundation below the floor is 57 feet The inside walls of the first fifteen feet from the base is all of blue granite; from there to roof the inside walls are of granite enrresponding to that one the outside. The monument, solid as 1t is, cannot resist the thout a gigantic shaft means of a copper wire 174 feet long hanging in the center of the struc- ture carrying a plummet suspended in a vessel of water. In summer the apex of the Monument eet above the ground. is shifted by expansion the stone a few hundred thou- randths of an inch toward the north. High winds cause susceptible motions of the plummet and fn still weather delicate vibrations of the crust of the earth are tered by it Lightning the monument during_an electrical storm July 13, 1899, The fluid followed the conduct- ing columns in the interior of the shaft down to the fifty-foot landing, | where it left the northwest column and struck the floor plates in the rear of the elevator and exploded, thence down into the engine room, where the only damage done was the burning out of the magneto coil of the telephone. F h time the monu- ment has been struck by lightning impressive 1 to in length fre atest from east pitol w: 1 the wooden pa was constru with coppe added afte Adome eved and s was fe i its of is ad- slight bending of the o the fluid has left the columns about the same place. In 1900 a man who wa standing on the lower floor of the monument nd leaning against one of the i‘on columns received a heavy shock of electricity, but was not seriously injured. The corner stone of the monument was laid July 4, 1848, When the shaft reached the height of 130 feet the funds gave out. The il war turned | public attention elsewhere. but dur- ing the centennial vear, 1876, a wave patriotism developed which in- duced Congress to undertake to finlsl\‘ the shaft. | In 1878 work was resumed and the| mammoth column was completed De- ecmber 6, 1884, The total cost of the monument was $1,1 0.31. The de- «lgn was made by Robert Mills. ! A staircase of 900 steps winds (lni way to the top. Few people walk up, Lut many descend that way. It takes| the elevator seven minutes for thé| nscend. There is a wonderful view from the observatory floor at the top. No fees a accepted. The elevator makes the first trip at 9 a.m. and the | last at 4 p.m. daily ndays and holi- davs, from 1 to 4 pm. T'he Pension Office The Pension office. in Judiciary pquare on F and G streets. between 1th and 5th streets, is said to be fire- proof. an assertion that led Gen. Sheridan to exclaim “What a pity.” he cases on file exceed a million: about that number of beneficiaries are carried on the rolls and the out- lay of the bureau 'is now about $150.000,000 a vear. Open from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. iBolling Field | The present aviation site known as Rolling Field was named for the | late Col. Raynal C. Bolling. who was killad in ance during the world| war. It consists of 320 acres of land situated In the southeast part of the Y. i’ the section known as Anacos- ti reclaimed land along the Ana- costia river, extending from its mouth up to the Anacostia bridge. The site 1% the property of the United States and the expenses of reclamation have been paid in equal propertions from the U'nited States Treasury and from the revenues of the Distriet of Colum- bia. The personnel at the naval air =tation comprises fourteen officers and 19@ enlisted men. *State, War and Navy Building The State, War and Navy bullding jx the largest building in the world constructed entirely of granite. It was designed by A. B. Mullett. former supervising architect of the Treasury Department. 1t was originally in- tended to be five different buildings. A unique feature is’ the cantilever construction of its stairways, and it is difficult to conceive the method of their support. The cost of the bulld- ing wase $10,038,482.42. Only a few of the War and Navy offices are now located in this build- . but it does house the State De- partment in its entirety. Open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. *The Navy Yard The Navy Yard has little to reward the visitor. outside of the gunshop. the museum and a few trophies. 1t stands on the bank of the Anacostia river, at Sth street southeast. Open from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and Zem 1 to 4 p.m. the | heat of the summer sun | This is evidenced by | | another in his {dens. was an enthusiastic devotee of The corner stone of the original t ing was laid on December 18, 17 President Washington, with Masonic ceremonies. The north wing was fin- | ished in 1500 and the government— all of it—came from Philadelphia, ag and bag in a single sioop, and took cto of that y kS was “destroyed by by the| | British, August 24, 1814. The two wings now occupied by the Senate| and the House were added to the | Capitol building to accommodate the | ate and the House of Representa- tives. When the House is in session the Stars and Stripes is flung to the hrecze over the south wing, and when the Senaté is sitting the flag files over the north wing. At night if Congress tting there is a light in the dome. The value of the Capi- tol building and the grounds is about $26,000,00 ides pigol amerh b fire. set officially show visitors designated for the through this ding for a nominal fee. Visitors should by all means employ one of these. The huilding Is open to visitors from 9 o'clock in the morning to 4:30 o'clock in the after- noon. When Congress is in session at night the building is open also to visitors, but guides cannot he pro- cured. During Shrine week Capitol will be open from § a.m. to 6 p.m. The Lincoln Memorial ‘The popular ideal of a memorial to Lincoln could only be satisfied with A design combining grandeur with beauty. Such is the great Lincoln Memo- ria—isolated. majestic and serene. There are many ipteresting statis tics about this memorial—the figures and measurements of ‘its majestic | dimensions and proportions: the fact that it cost quite a bit more than $2.000.000; the consideration which finally determined the site in Poto- mac Park on the same east-and-west axis with the dome of the Capitol and the Washington Monument. But there are even more significant facts which | one does not get from figures. One | that from the first digging to bed- | rock for the foundation to the com- pletion of the memorial there was a Spirit of co-operation and devotion on the part of all concerned, from the members of the commission to the stonecutters and laborers. The same workmen who were there at the he- ginning weré there at the finish. There was no strike. The cost of this memorial was far less than would { have heen the cost of a structure of { the same size for secular and com- mercial uses. And in all the processes of what builders call heavy operation, n the quarrying of twenty-three | s of stone 10.000 feet up In Colorado mountains and trans- porting them to the banks of the| [ placid Potomac to the danxe i 7 work fifty feet underground, | no man was killed and none seriously injured. ‘Bhis, too, In a stupendous | work that was in progress more than ten vears, counting from the date of 1911, when Congress created the Lin- coln’ Memorial commission. with | President Taft as its chairman. This commission worked with the Federal | Commission of Fine Arts throughout | the undertaking. determined to ob- tain & memorial which the American people would for all time instinctively feel to be worthy of bearing the name of Abraham Linc Henry Ba as his assc French. the the architect. called | ates Danlel Chester culptor, and Jules Guerin, the artist, and for the vears of their work together they formed a_virtual brotherhood in the spirit of Lincoln. They read Lincoln and studied Lincoln together. Before one stone was placed upon marble home of memo- Henry Bacon determined that the great central room suould be a ce where the people “could be alone™ with the Lincoln to be created French. He planned, too, that in lesser space, but not less sacred. paintings of Guerin would tell again in allegory the meaning of Lin- coln’s immortal utterances. One of the hest of the distant views of the memorlal is to be had from the heights of Arlington across the Po-| tomac, from the porch of Robert E.| Lee's home, where Lee pondered and | chose the other way. And it is planned—at least hoped to put. some, day. monumental bridge across the Potomac from the memorial, from the great shrine hous- | ing the speech of “malice toward none,” to the other shore, where 5.000 unknown and 25,000 known soldiers of the Blue, the Gray and the Khaki sleep together in peace. Open to visitors frqm 9 a.m. to 4:30 | p.m. daily and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on| Sundays and holidays. - +The Navy and MNunitions| Building The Navv and Manitions building is the largest office bullding in the | world. It was erected at a cost hf1 0.000. The building is of rein- concrete and has a total of 1.775,1 square feet of floor space. The site in Potomac park, where the building is located, had to be cleared of twenty-three municipal tennis | courts, and about 5000 trees were taken up and repianted elsewhere. The ries | buildings-are on “made ground.” the | site having at one time been a part of the Potomac river. This made it | necessary to drive piles for the foun dations as much\as fifty-two feet in | depth. More than 5000 piles were | used. Nine thousand workmen were employed. The sand.and gravel used in the construction was dredged from the Potomac river, 53,000 tons of sand, | 88.000 tons of gravel and 188,000 bar- | rels of cement being used. To inspect the radlators of the building, of which there are 3,200, requires a trip of 24 miles. There are 143,000 square vards of heavy linoleum on the floors, costing $400,000. Five million square | feet of paint was applied by brush to | the interior walls. It cost $20,000 to wash the windows for the first time. The parking space in the rear will accommodate more than 500 autos. The Trans-Atlantic Radio Control is | located in the Navy Building. Mes- sages may be sent and received there | from all parts of Europe, and through | its service the Navy Department .is |'enabled to keep in constant touch | with ships at sea. The building has | 153 fire-alarm boxes and is distinctly unique. Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. *The Scottish Rite Temple The Scottish Rite temple, at 16th and § streets, cost $1.500,000. ' It is the national home of the supreme council of the southern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite in America, rep- resenting fourteen Masonic bodies with a_membership of 80,000. It is modeled after the mausoleum of Hali- carnasus in Asia Minor, regarded by the anclents as one of the seven won- ders of the world. It is one of the most impressive structures in Wash- ington and well worth a visit. The pipe organ is the third largest in the world. The temple is also the home of the William R. Smith collection of editions of Burns. including many rare prints, as well as books and paintings and other articles associ- ated with the poet Burns. The late William R. Smith, well known as | superintendent of ‘the Botanic Gar- | | “Bobby” Burns and spent vears of his life in_makimg this valuable collec- tion. Mr. Smith was aslo a Mason of high degree a member of the Scottish Rite, and his treasures find an appro- priate resting place in the wonderfu! 16th street temple. o - The collection 18 open to mspection by the public from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. | long routine of “money making.” | armed m. | to children | L. Freer of Detroit. to house the ex- | | tensive and rich collections of objects " * The White House The 'Treasury Depart- ment The Treasury Department was com- pleted in 1841." It is 468 feet long and 264 feet wide. Every stranger wants to visit the Treasury. Girls may be seen counting and recounting® sheets of specially 'made paper, from which bonds and United States notes | are made. This is the first step of the The composition of this paper is a secret, though it is known to contaln silk fiber” The completed notes—about a milllon dollars in value at a time— are hrought from the bureau of print- ing each morning, being conveyved in a steel-encased wagon guarded by ssengers. They are counted by three persons in succession and then sent to the sealing room. United States Treasury notes bear the en- graved fac.similes of the signature of the Tnited StAtes treasurer and the strar of the Treasury; but the na- bank notes are actually signed receiving the red seal of the ¥ eems incredible. hut it is a fact, the average woman counter | 32,000 notes each working day. The paper currency as it becomes worn is redeemed by the government and put through macerators, which are globe-shaped receptacles of steel, to the capacity of a ton of pulp. the 1id of which is secured by three differ- ent Yale locks. The Secretary of the Treasury has one key. the treasurer another und the controller of the Treasury the third Each day at 1 o'clock these officials or their representatives, with a fourth agent to represent the people and the banks, open the macerators and place | within them a milllon dollars or so of condemned currency or other se- curities. The lids are locked. after a suitable quantity of water has been added, and the machinery begins to whirl around inside the macerators, where 150 knives grind and cut the soaking material until the notes are reduced to useless pulp. In_front of the north entrance of the Treasury Department there is a Leautiful green vine in a large urn, luxuriant and ever-growing. This i3 called the money plant. Open from 10 am. to 2:30 pm. Guides, 10:30 to 12 and 1 to 2. that passes | The Public Library of the District of Columbia The Public Library of the Distriet of Columbia 18 primarily a circulating library for the more than 100,000 resi- dents of Washington not entitled to draw hooks for home use from the Library of Congress. The central building is at 8th street and New York avenue and the two branches at 5th and Cedar streets, Tokoma Park, and the southeastern branch at 7th and D streets and South Carolina avenue southeast. The cen- tral buil is open from & an. to p.m. week dayvs. except Wednes- ays and_ most holidays (Wednes- days the hours are from % a.m. to p.m.): Sundays. open for reference purposes only, from 3 to 8 pm. The branches are open from m. to p.m. Monday and Tuesday: Thursday and Friday from 12 m. to 3 pm on Wednesday and Saturday from am. to 9 pm. Branches are not open on_holidays or Sunday.s Over 1,000,000 volumes were cireu- lated during the last fiscal year, nearly one-half of which were loaned under high school age. One-half of this number was loaned through collections of books sent to the classrooms of the publie schools Over 74,000 pictures were horrowed for home use. | ation | one White House was| selected President Washington | personally in Wo. 1 of the seventeen | servations set aside for public bufld- | ngs upon the plans of Maj. Deter | Charles I’Enfant for the laying out! of the eity of Washington in 1791 James Hoban of Dublin was the arehi- tect, the plans having been chosen by | competition. He won the $500 prize offered for the best plan. The corner | stone_was laid October 1792, and | Gen. Washington was present. President and Mrs. John Adams were the first oceupants, moving in | in November, 1800. Mrs. Adams suf- fered many dis rts because of | the incomplete condition of the man- | slon as to adequate heating and light- fug. The only use she could put the | great east room to, according to her own word, was for drying the family | wash. The house.was burned by the British in 1814, but was restored by Mr. Hoban, except the wings at each side. which had been used for offices and servants’ quarters The first White Ho appropri from the E s Treas- ury, made in r $15.000 | for' furniture. Since then the man sion has been enlarged and improved | in many wayvs, but the original plans have always been followed. A thor- ough overhauling. improving, re- modeling and enlarging was_ done during the regime of President Roose velt. Congress appropriated $475.45 for the work. Of this sum the archi- tects returned an unexpended balance of $7.906.19. Architect Hoban mod eled the structure after the palace of the Duke of Leinster. The original <t of the mansion, singularly ugh, was id out of the United States ury, but was de The IArts and Industries Building The site for by the 1800, Tre pieted i inangura which was This building 1881, in time for u; ball of President G of the most b scenes in the history of the A band was placed in each of the four arches of the building. On the first fiohr to the west is the interesting coilection of lay figures of the mistreszes of the White House from Martha \ ton to the two wives Wilson ery gown showr the White House during t tration of the rer's hust second Mrs. Woodrow Wil in the b velvet g she was married to Pres There is val lection o autiful country is or obtai heen owhed and we and_women. includ on the platforms of gresses by the presidents g the soclety. In another be found relics o Washington, Abr family. Gen. Grant and family nal fnstruments And e ratus of the Morse telegraph. the telephone, the Henry magnets, Edi electr the Langley airplane, ex- hibita showing the evolution and de- velopment of the healing varn ard cloth manufacture, resources of 's forests and the history ura 5 ori, f ap pm mera obs picture m frayed from funds out of the sale of | lands donated by Maryland and Vir- | ginia. The site is a part of what was then David Burns' farm, its corn field stretehing to the waters of th Potomac, about half a mile to the| south. When rebuilt after the fire| the long wings at the sides were| omitted. It is buflt of white sand- mansfon i well ed, having its own entirely ade- | force of police officers and secret service men on duty inside the man- sion all hours, while there is a continuous patrol of the grounds sur- rounding the mansion. * Automatic alarm signals are in different parts| of the house and grounds, and there | arce telephones and telegraphs to the adjacent military posts, where there strong force of military pollea and soldiers that could be summoned without delay The corrid Executive e and the ound floor filied with historic mementos of st and gone mistresses of the man- Bits of clhina used on the din- | tables in former administrations | shown in rooms of the ground | which are used as dressing | s for the guests at the state din- | s well as for the most distin guished special guests at the state receptions. Speefal blue cards are ment to th e speclal guests in their itations, admitting them through tes of the south grounds and small door under the south The south side’of the house nded in the original plans to the front entrance, but the plan changed before the house was completed “The mansion s open to from 10 o'clock in the morning ck in the afternoon. The Department of Agri- culture tment of Agriculture, on 12th and 14th The =cepe of very extended, in- of diseages of live the Inspection of animals, cattle tran tation and meat: the enforce- ment of the pure food and drug laws, | statisties live stock, at home ana an Investizations forestr fruit culture, cul- ation nts, and diseases ains and vegetables: njurious or beneficial to agriculture insects, 4 wild quadrupeds; investiga- as to roads and methods of | chemical 1 mileroscopleal and a vast number of tions, correspondents in varfous parts of tries ners by portico. s in visitors to Dépar Mall betw cost $2 i en &, 00,000, the cluding wo now sty control of fmport and export xtile gr of the a other c museum in the rear contains t wax models of fruits. nut and natural foods: an interesting d me wing the damage by insects to trees and | 150 groups of mounted birds, gophers and other mas ie library and herbarium will hotanists. The extensive open at all reason- A r squt mals interes greenhouses are able hours A tower in the garden is composed of slabs of foot-thick barks taken from one of the glant trees in Califor- It represents the exact size of tree named “General No- which the pieces were from 10 a.m. until 2 pm |ing |of all iWhere Lincoln Died The Oldroyd Lincoln memorial col- lection, in the little house 516 10th street, shows perhaps the most inti- mate touch with the last hours and death of the martyred President, Abra- ham Lincoln. It was into this house, across the street from Ford's Theater, the President was carried after the fatal shot of Booth on Good Friday night, April 14, 1865, and in house he died next day without hav- recovered consciousness. The house was owned by William Peter- son, a tallor. The room fn which Lincoln was placed and in which he died was occupled at_the time by William T. Clark of Massachusetts, a soldler in Company D, Massachu- setts Infantry, detailed for duty with the quartermaster's department in Washington. The memorial collection within the house was made by O. H. Oldroyd. who has lived many years in the house with his family, and who has bullt up the collection and had charge of it. It is open during the day and evening and a small fee is charged to visitors. A bill has been introduced in Congress each vear for the pur- chase of the house and collection by the government, and each vear it has been defeated. ‘It is the lfe work of Mr. Oldroyd, who. only this past few weeks, refused the offer of $50,000 made by Henry Ford of Detroit for the ~collection, because Mr. Ford wished -to move it to Detroit. Mr. Oldroyd 1s patriotic enough to wisk it to remain in the nation’s capital and will give Congress another chance to purchase it for the govern- ment. Open day and evening. *The Botanical Garden The Botanlc Garden has specimens of vegetation from all-parts of the world. It occuples the block on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue at the foot of the Capitol This stately and beautiful will one day become a part national boulevard, in line as it with the Capitol, the Smithsor Agricultural. Washington Monun and Lincoln Memorial and _their grounds. which will in turn be in line with the proposed memortal bridge which will join Arlington with these other memorials. The Botanic Garden will, by, that time, b established in its new home, the ‘tract of land which was once the James Creek canal, which runs eastward from about the line of the War College to a point south of th Capitol. The present Botanic Garden is the site of the beautiful Bartholdi fountain. which stands in the middle of the grounds on the north side, and the Grant Memorial, occupying the center of the east side of the grounds. These are two of the most beautiful such works in the National Capital. Open during sun hours. Hot houses, S to 4:30. Adjacent Battlefields Washington is girdled by battie- fields, each with its history. Army are represented in the posts syrrounding Washington. During the world war these posts contributed to the work of organizing the armed forces. One of the first officers’ train- ing schools was located at Fort Myer. Bolling Field has contributed air- plane development since the armis tice. These posts bridge the gap be- tween today and the civil war “de- fenses of Washington.” In almost a continuous circle they were flung around Washington Every American Has Two Home Towns and Washington Is One of Them *Carnegie Institution of Washington The Carnegie Institution of Wash- iThe Smithsonian Institu- tion The Smithsonian Institutlon is unique establishment for the further. ance of knowledge by carrying on or | alding general researches in all branches of science, whether astro- physical, geological, biological or an- | thropological—the study of celestial | bodies, the earth, its life, and man himself—the promotion of art and dis- semination of the results of its in- vestigations by the distribution of its publications throughout the world. The Smithsonian buildings are on the Mall about midway between the ! Capitol_and the Washington Monu- ment. They comprise the Smithsonian | building. completed in 1855, with the | institution’s administrative offices; bureau of American ethnology, libra- ries. the national herbarium, the ex- hibits of graphic arts, and the offices | of the International Catalogue of| Scientific Literature; the Arts and In-| dustries building erected in 1881; the Natural History building compieted | in 1911, and the building for the Freer | art collection—erection begun in 1916 | —which was donated by Mr. Charles | a of art presented by him to the Ins tution. The Smithsonian _Institution has| branches: the National Museum, | including the National Gallery of | Art; the internationai exchange serv- | ice; the bureau of American eth- nology: the National Zoological Park: the astrophysical observatory. and the new United States regional bureau of the International Catalogue of Sclentific Literature. Vistors are admitted dally from 9 oclock in the morning until 4:30 g'clofic in the atternoon, except Sun- ay. . | | | | +The National Bureau of| Standards | This bureau of the Department of | Commerce was created in 1901 and its| work covers almost the whole fleld | of standardization. In order to carry out the exfremely varied work with which the bureau| deals. its laboratory equipment is un- | usually complete. The various in-| struments and machines installed in the fourteen permanent buildings in- clude balances sufficiently sensitive to determine a difference in weight of 1 part in 100,000,000 and a testing achine capable of pressing down- ard on a full-sized building column J¥ith a force of 5,000 tons. Open 3 to| iThe Naval Observatory The Naval Observatory, on con - &in avenue, is open to visitors when the skies are clear, on Thursday even- ings from 8 to 10 o'clock, for a. view of the heavens through the twelve- inch telescope. Applications should be made to the superintendent. $0I1d General Land Office| This bullding, occupying the square bounded by E and F, 7th and Sth streets, was designed by Robert Mills. It was built of marble from New York state in 1830. In it Samuel B. Morse worked over his original tele- graph instruments. It was buflt at a cost of $2,000,000 and was used for many years as the Post Office De- partment, after the land office was moved into the patent-office building. It was usedsduring the late WAr by various offices of the War Depart- ment and is now eccupied by minor government offices. Open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ' | geophysica | Washington are as follows ington, at 16th and P streeis, is an organization of national scope. which was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 902 for the advancement of rescarch and knowledge. Its labagatories and departments of rescarch Cover many fields of study and are located in various parts of the country. It now has an endowment ¢ Three of the institution’s establish- ed departments of re ch are also located in Washington. The depart- ment of historical research, with ac- | commodations in the Woodward bulld- at 5th and H stree the laboratory, 2801 Upton street, especially adapted for a study of the constituents of the earth's crust under conditions *of high tem-y} perature and high pressure; and the department of terrestrial magnetism, with laboratory and office building | located at 36th street and Branch road, under the auspices of which a magnetic survey of the sea and land areas of the world has been under- taken. Other Bepartments of research of the institution located outside of Depart- ment of botanical research, Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz.; department of embryology, Johns Hopkins Me cal School. Baltimore, Md.; depar ment of genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, | Long Island, Y.; department of meridian astrometry, Dudley Observa- tory, Albany, Y.; Mount Wilson | Observatory, ' Pasadena, Calif., and| Nutrition Laboratory, Vila street, | Boston, Mass. {The Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art was| given to the city of Washington by | the late W. W. Corcoran, who built the original building at the corner of | 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue. | now the United States Court of| Claims. He left provision in his will| | i ing. 9 for the new building which now adorns the corner of 17th street and New York avenue. A school of draw- ing, painting, sculpture and design is | now established also in the art gal-| lery, which has many beautiful ands famous specimens of painting and| sculptire. There is also a loan ex- | hibit always in progress in the hemi- | cycle, the small hall built for the pur- | pose. | The building is of Georgia whit marble. Thirty pillars of white mar: ble support the enormous skylight. Visitors are admitted free on Tues- days, Thursday, Saturdays and Sun- days ‘and on holidays. Mondays, Wed. nesdays and Fridays an admission fee of 25 cents is charged. Open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sun days, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. | {The American Red Cross| Building | The American Red Cross building, on south 17th street, is a impress-| ive structure of white marble. Con- | gress provided the site and paid lnr: part of the cost, the rest being given | by Capt. James A. Scrymser, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. E. H. Harriman and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Red Cross moved into this new home jJust as America entered the world | war. The interior of the building is in keeping with the dignity and sim- plicity of the exterior. I fTelegraph and Cable *Postal Telegraph and Cable Com- pany. Evans building, 1420*New York avenue. Main 6600. tWestern Union Telegraph Com pahy, 705 1ith street. Franklin 7100. | which washes and sovernment Printing Of fice The government printing office is | the largest and best-equipped print- | establishment in_the world. It | h a floor space of fifteen acres.| There is a splendid cafeteria. em- bly hall, recreation rooms and a roof garden been 1 for ablished pprentices has also | after thirty-five! years abo hment, and now twenty e young men are being given thorough training in various branches of the printing trades. The mechanical equipment of the | government printing office is unsur-} passed. It has the largest battery of typesetting _machines in the world, including 97 linotypes, 100 monotype kevboards and 125 casting machines. | They set enough type in a year to make 675000 columns of ordinary newspaper matter. The office also has 160 printing presses, ranging from small platen presses to the big presses which p t the well-known Congressional Record. The postal- card presses produce 4,000,000 cards a day, or more than a billion and a quarter a Vvear. Other presses turn out money-order blanks, census cards, and_ income-tax forms by the hun- dreds of millions. The office is like- wise well equipped with bindegy and plate-making machinery. The public printer is preparing to add a much- needed photo-engraving plant to com- plete the work of the government | printing office. The public printer has to buy more than 50.000,000 pounds of paper a vear. If laid flat, in sheets, this amount of paper would cover an area three times as large as Pitts- burgh, Pa.. and if made up into oc- tavo books, it would form a pile 400 miles high. The government printing office em- ploys approximately 4,000 persons the vear round and the pay roll for these workers is close to $6,000,000 annu- ally. All appointments in the gov- ernment printing office are made un- fier the civil-service law. The plant produced printing and Dbinding to the value of fully $13.- 000,000 a_vear, for all of which the public printer is reimbursed by Con- gress and thé departments on an actual cost basis. One vear's work includes more than 85,000 separate and_distinct jobs of printing and binding. In_addition to the work incident to the printing and binding of millons of publcations, the govern- ment printing office makes nearly all of its own printing inks, press roilers, glues, carbon paper, tvpe and type metal. It has its own carpenter, lectrical, machine and blacksmith shops and even operates a laundry irons a million towels a_year for the use of its em- ployes. So that, all in all, the gov ernment printing office is the most complete institution of its kind dn all_the world Special hours for Shrine week, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Special guldes provided. *The Department of Jus- tice RBuilding The new Department of Justice building at Vermont avenue and K street, houses the attorney general and his legal staff. Open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. TThe’ Weather Bureau The weather bureau, at 24th and M streets, cointains delicate instru- ments by which changes of meteoro- logical conditions are fecorded. Here one can see the method of forecasting the weather for the next forty-eight hours. Open 10 a.m. to ? P iThe City Post Office When the present post office was completed in 1914 it was confidently believed that it would absorb the normal increase of post-office work for many years to come, but this be- lief did not take iInto account the growth of the parcel post. That ac- tivity, then in its infancy, has in- creased so rapidly and to such an enormous extent. ‘that in about two years the necessity arose of seeking more room, which resulted in the e tablishing ‘of thirty-two .postal sta- tions about the city. During the great war a prodigious river of war correspondence passed | through this buflding, in all, amount- | ing to an average of 150 tons a day of official mail matter. It is difficult to estimate the great damage which would have been done the cause of our country and its allies had the ‘Washington office broken down under the strain, but the mails were kept moving. in the depArtments have returned to about normal, this post office d patches from Washington over sev- enty tons of official mail every day. It was from the Washington post office that the first dispatch of mail by airplane in the United States was | made. The building is of white gran- ite and cost $3,000,000. Open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. iThe Army Medical Museum The Army Medical Museum, 7th and B streets southwest, is of tHe greatest interest and value to the medical and surglical profession and contains some 265,000 specimens. The exhibits illus- trates the means and methods of mili- tary surgery and all the diseases and casualties of war, making a gruesome exhibit of preserved flesh and bones which fill one with horror and dismay. There are 1,500 skeletons of American mammals. Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. *The Fish Commission The United States Fish Commission occupies the old ante-bellum arsenal at 6th and B streets'southwest. It is a place every fisherman and sga food dealer should visit. - Open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. {The Union Station The Union station exceeds the United States Capitol in dimensions, being 760 feet long and 343 feet wide. A special wing in the east end is re- served for the President of the United States and for distinguished guests of the nation. The main walting room has a helght of 120 feet, and the cir- cular window in each end is 75 feet in diameter. The passenger con- course, 760 feet long, is the largest room in the world under one roof. An army of 50,000 persons could stand upon its floor at one time. The station is built of white granite from Bethel, Vt. It was designed by Danfel H. Burnham. and is of monumentar character, like unto the great tri- umphal arches of ancient Rome. All roads lead to the Union station, in- cluding the street railways. The railroads from the south enter the city through twin tunnels under Capitol Hill. $The National Museum The mew National Museum has a library which contains the most com- plete collection of medical and surgi- cal literature in the world, surpas ing even that of the British Museum. Visitors are admitted from 9 a.m, to ¢ pun. daily, excépt Sunday. this | garden | of the! . Today | | virtually all of the activities of the | Even now when conditions | Congress, east of is the larg- ary build- pies three a site of The Library of | the Capitol and facing it est and most elahe 1 ing in the world and _three-fourths nearly ten acres: of 10.725,420 fe ate 1t acres of has cubic conten t; contains 430, sduare feet, or over nine and one- | half acres ‘of floor space, and 10 miles of shelving | " The library was in the Capitol bullding numbering a little over it was destroyed by the the Capitol hy the British. established fn 1815, at a cost of § 950, by the purchase, under an act of Congress, of the private collection of establighed in 1800 In_ 1814, 60 volumes, burning of It was re « | 1The Soldiers’ Home Home, northwest from is in a park of mbellished and diers there nd forest land with re fine surrounding here and prominent point on a rfect vista of the The Soldiers’ the center of the city natural loveliness, beantified by the in its carly davs than 500 acres | gard rav | majestic trees views country there. a high elevation | doma of the Capitol is_worth | 1t was established in 1851 thro | efforts of Gen. Winfield Scott at the close of the Mexican war, and was | founded for the men honorably dis- | charged from the Regular Army after | twenty vears of or disabled through wo upon pay- ment Among viktas secing 1 the those who part of each summer in IChite House were Presidents Plerce, Buchanan. Johnson. Lincoln, and Arthur. A handsome bronze sta- tue of G ott. done by Launt Thompson a_ conspicuous spot nmear the Scott building, In the onal cemetery, adjoining the yunds of the home, is tomb of 1. John A. Logan of 1ilin The home is ¢ nd can he reached oing north on 9th s gate of the home, gate. [*The U. S Post Office De- partment Post Office 1t eat The buildix vani 1 at a cost of § gray granite: is tower of 315 feet feet wide by occupied by the assistant posmasters executive forces. This the entirs postal syster States, numbering. re about 340,000 employes. n t hin the building hangs largest American flag made. it is 70 feet 4 inches 7 feet. The elock in the tower of the building is 15 feet from rim to rim nd the minute and hour hands, which | are made of pine wood. | and 5 feet. respectively | of the numerals is 2 fect Open om 9 am. p.m. Arlington National Ceme- tery ton National cemetery, where heroic dead of the nation— ki—is on the Vir- Potomac opposite hallwed ground ant part of Wash- reached by the ailway and by at with a high bulding is Tong. It ster Geperal eral and the ree s f the United hly speaking. the cou by I to visito to 4:30 gini; busses. ington Washington-\ sight-seeing The Arlington House, generally called the Custis-Lee mansion. was built in 1802 by George Washington Parke Custls, grandson of Martha hington. who, with his sister, Nelly Custis. was adopted by Gen. and Mrs. Washing of Mount Vernon. George Washington Parke Custis in- herited the great estate from hlis father. His only daughter, Mary, married Robert E. Lee, afterward famous as Gen. 1 nd, being the only child of her parents, she inher- ited Arlington. It was upon its wide front porch that the great Confed- erate gen gazing 2 at the then feeble lights of Washing- ton. pondered all through the night and finally reached his decision to cast his lot with the seceding states During the civil war the mans was used as a hospital and afterw Arlington estate was taken over the government for a national ceme- It is a place of great beauty. a fitting _spot for the repose of the natfon's dead. On the monuments and headstones will be found the names repre: g the soldier dead of all our wars, Arlington may be reached by ley from 12th street and Pennsylvania avenue every twenty minutes or by sight-seeing bus. It is open to visit- ors from sunrise to sunset al fe trol- The Pan-American Union The Pan-American buildinz work of art done in marble The building is located at the en- trance of Potomac Park on Seven- teenth street, between B and C. facing upon the Executive grounds. com- monly known as the White Lot The [ structure and grounds represent an investment of $1,100,000, of which the American republics contributed $250.- 000 and the late Andrew Carnegie $850,000. The Pan American Union is the international organization main- tained by the twenty-ome American republics, as follows: Argentina.. Bo- livia, Brazil, Chile, Colombla, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecu- | dor, Guatemala, Haltl. Honduras, Mex- ico, Nicaragua. Panama, Paraguay. Peru, Salvador, United States, Uruguay | and Venezuela. The Secretary of State of the United States presides at the meetings of the governing board -of | the union, the latter being supported by quotas contributed hy each coun- | try. based upon their population. The direétor general—of which there has | been but one other—is Dr. L. S. Rowe. | Dr. Francisco J. Yanes is assistant | director, and Franklin Adams, coun- selor. | Open to visitors from 8 i +Bureau of Engraving and Printing The bureau of engraving and print- ing. at 14th and B streets southwest, is considered one of the finest manu- facturing plants in the world. Tt cost §2.869,000 and here is where all am. to 4 is such that it is well worth a visit Open from 9 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 2:30 p.m. ' The naval radio station, over on the Virginia hills at Arlington, is the best equipped wireless station - in the world. The three towers are plainly visible from the city. Communica- tion is hag with Mare Island, Cal; Key West, Fla., Colon, Guantanamo, San Juan and other government sta- tions. The sea range with ships of the Navy is 3,000 miles. Arlington has even had communication with the Eiffel Tower in Paris, is | ross the river your money is made, and the process | The Naval Radio Station| . 'What to See—Where to Go—How to Get There The Shriners’ Convention of 1923 Tho volumes slght] 1851 & 1) destroyed then cor Jefferson the loss pleted in While ita i 1h referenee Withour f over sixt Open fr ntil 19 week day * The Librafy of Co;gress Jeftarson, rising 6.750 A secor « fn 1825 onl daraxed library, but i ird wnd more disastrous fire 1 25.0 whirh tained. Ty of the eetion Juded fn was com- thir 1d \ lbrary imartly te national States. Fo isolutely a mality free to any reade vears of age ock in the morning in the evening on Sundays from 2 to 10 p.m. the ame, suggests, it Is in_ effect t United it om 9 o' o'clock Mount Vernon Mount Wasl nati headed ssed, It wae ton lived planter There Haves | brother, was man Mount | reached ginin rai Tth street and Penn minutes f to 3 d tr ernt Tt has is and dts ¢ penses s The pa Open £ home of Ger the of passing they glide it is 1 George ne of the vessels 10 by 1 a estate go Was of a Virg at fars the usual life Halaultivatadiiic e re Wy in the What is now ser t Vernon con 00 acres. whic nal farr ot the vlew of Wash friends from the saat toward the river ient ones and the and heavy sinails wag a p2 land frov ngton, the ~ to America Iway The sylva rom & 0'¢lo k in S0 cents. o'eld the he Patent Office tivities thay makes mone d 00,000 patents £s have been far in ex t buildings and ex ag e igin is tent bounded by vom 9 am. to 4:30 pm. The Memorial Continen- The Mem. | 17tn stre Daughter: tion, was des Casey a An offic tal Hall rial Continental Hall, on which was erected by the of the American’ Revolu approximately $500,000. Tt igned by Edward Pearce @ is built of white marbla al & will take visitors b through the building Open f rom 9 am. to 4 p.m. Statues and Memorials (Name o | | iLa Penn: tRochan and F 1Gen. T I esaz | *Gen vania Gen Geor, Thom iDani, ta iHahne tGen. Me mont Rel *Gen. T mont and Gen. Mc Columbia rd Sheridan iGen. Mas; 1 Conn Ream tLongfel st. sJohn W and N st Logan. Towa Circle, *Gen i thod Ha th *Stephen Louisiana ave sey T n. Ra ith s *Benjami ave vena *Count P\ 13th *Alexand, tion, « uth shington ol W W st £ sculptor after location of monument.) Pennsylvania ave. Clark Mills, Lafayette sylvania and 15th st Clark a 15th st. and . Lafayette Sq Falquiere sylvania ave Mercie. au, Lafayette Sq. Pennsylvania ave. M. Hamar ideus Kosclusko, Lafayette h st. and Pennsylvania ave. A Antonio Popiel Sherman, 15th’st. and Pennsyl- rl Rohl Smith. rs’ and Upshur st. ave. C itt, Sold gia ave )ster, Scott Circle, 16th st Massachusetts ave. G cott Circle, setts avenue. 116th e McPherson Sq., Ver and 15th st. J Pherson avenue cirel st s, Thomas e.'and 1ith A Ward an, Connecticut ave. ar F. McMonnies. Sheridan Cirele achu ave. and 23d st on Borglum. ¥ ecticut ave. and K st. H low. Connecticut ave. and M liam Cooper. itherspe Connectieut ave. William Cooper. 3th st. an tmmons g an Memoria J. Mas s Farragut ylvania av Henry icott. rd Army and Tth st. e 1sland ave. neock. Pen ¥ son G Pennsylvania ave. an Bailey anklin 10th st Rhind wlins, ¢ 1 n Pennsylvanis e Jacques Jou 1 ulaski, Pennsylvania ave. an st. Cacimir Chodzinsk er R. Sheppard. Pennsylv: and 1ith st. U. S J. Dun ston. Smithsonian Instit south side of -Mall at Tth s reenoush tDowning, Institution at Tth Smithsonian i side of Mall Calver Vaux tJoseph | tion, Dr. Sam tutlo st tLouis | *John 1 John *Dr. Ben | of Hygiene Perry. 5 ristopher Columbys, Union Statior | | 1Ch plaza. | and 1 *Gen. Gri 35 Ball, tanov | st sts. *Lincoln foot ¢ | #Baron | Squar | Jaege Hous tJames M Park bert wise desi Street Company Electric ¢ Jarry, *President and 1st st. and Pennsylvania ave. Shrady. mancipation Statue, | and 11th s tAlbert Pike, 3d and D sts. | tGen. Greene. northeas $Archbishop John Carroll, 36th and M | *Butt-Millet *Gallaudet, northeast. Location smithsonian Instit: h st Henry, south side of Mall at W. W. Story. uel Gross, Smithsonian Tnst! m, south side of Mall at 7t} A. S. Calder. M. Daguerre. Smithsonia south side of Mall a S. Hartley. ones. foot of 17th st. ¢ Frankiin Sq., 14th 3. Boyle. jamin Rush, 23d and E sts. Naval Museun, R. Lorado Taft. *John Marshall, west front of Capito! W. W. Peace Monument, Pennsylvania ave Story. st st. F. Simmons. Garfield, Maryland ave J. Q. A. Ward. Botanic Garden, 1st s Henry M ant, northeast. Thomas G. Tren i Maryland ave. and 4th H. K. Brown Gerome Conner. Memorial, Potomac Park of 24th st. Henry. Beacon. Von _ Steuben, Lafayetts e, 17th and H sfs. Albert re, Fountain. south White e grounds. gDaniel C. French fcMillan Fountain, McMillan . 1st and Bryant st Her- ‘Adams. Florida ave. and Sth Daniel C. French. northwest unless other; gnated, car_lines—*Capital Traction tWashington Railway and mpany; both lines._ st is one of the govs 15th a, Home grounds. Launt Tren- H. Vinnie . Fast Capitc'/