Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1923, Page 38

4 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 Traction Company, 1Both Tlines. All places are otherwise specified. northwest unless THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1923. The Star’s Sightseeing Guide to Washington 1 What to See—Where to Go—How to Get There ¥ The Capitol The Capitel is the impressive public building on earth. It stands on a plateau eighty-eight feet above the level of the Potomac and one and one-fourth from the White House, recognized to be most perfectly ortioned building in the 1d feet 4 inches in length fre greatest width from east to west is 350 feet. The bullding covers 153,112 square feet. The Senate wing of the old Capitol huilt first, then the House, and two were connected by The first dome wood ercd designed burning of the British in 1814. This in 1836 by the present ucture of cast iron. It vears to build it. The he iron is £.009.200 awford's manificent statue [ monunts iches in pounds. The is most miles and s we 1t is the wooden pass was constructed with copper. Tt (@ded. after the 1 hy the remarkable we of pounds. € of Freed v dome, 1s 15 feet and weighs 14955 height dome above the base line is 257 feet 5 inches. The rotunda is 97 feet 6 inches ini dlameter and its height from the floor to the top of the py is 180 feet 3 inches. +The Washington Monu-| a e of cov- was fe height The Wast mittedly the = sonry in the ohelisk of ma 3 in_its memorial in frapos sment IS ad- ce of ma- is a colossal the loftiest d the most wiment that cted to man at that e shaft 4 granite. capped by yramid. 1ts tapering height has been its breadth. A plumb shows less than an inch_deflection personally selected 1d a_more bheautiful one have heen procured. The on which the ument s surrounded b y-one this tract of land having been simplicity, rument insid >-cighths W not fant's plans of the | 15 the site of the tatue to Wash- ed by the Con- ind selected | American datlons of the Lear a weight of S112 tons, ed of solid blue rock. 145 _inches square and nches deep. The base of 5 feet square, the lower thick, while m below the floor inside walls of the from t s all ve the nite the outside for a monu- revolution monument, of the found The bl carr The resist t without ding of gigantic is is evidenced by means of a copper wire 174 feet long | hanging in the center of the struc- ture « a plummet suspended | water. In summer the | feet above v expansion | few hundred thou- | an inch toward the north und stone Bandths of High w of th delicate & plummet and in still weather | rations of the crust of are registered by it struck the monument ectrical storm July 13, The fluid followed the conduct- lumns in the interfor of the down to the fifty-foot landing. | it left the northwest column < the floor plates in the| elevator and exploded, down Into the engine room, only damage done was the { 1+ magneto coll of Each time the monu- | struck by lightning | has left the columns about place. In 1900 @ man who was standing on the lower floor of the monument and leaning against | of the Iron columns received a| shock of electricity, but was| sriously injured. | corner Stone of the wmonument | laid July 4, 1545. When the shaft | ached the height of 150 et the nds ga out. The civil war turned | J tion elsewhere, but dur-| the centennial year. 1876, a_wave of patrioti developed which in- Auced Congzress to undertake to finish | the shaft In 1378 wo mammath colun comber 6, 1584 monument w slzn was A ot hut man thence where th burning « the telephon: n has_been the same was resumed and the n was completed De- The total st of the £1,187.710.31. The de-| by Robert Mills. N0 sten winds its Few people walk up, cend that way. It takes | seven minutes for the | wonderful view floor at the top. o) The vator | makes the first trip at % am. and the| last at 4 pm. daily; Sundays and holi- | days, from 1 to 4 p.m. | | 7The Pension Office | The Pension office, in Judiciary square on F and G streets, between 4th and 5th sty =, is sald to be fire- proof. an as tion that led Gen. Sheri to exclaim “What a pity.” The < on file exceed a million: about number of beneficiaries are carri n the rolls and the out- lay of bureau now about $150,000,000 a year. Opeén from 9 a.m. until ascend m No fees 0 p.m. iBolling Field ‘The pres aviation site known as Bolling Field was named for the late ol. Raynal C. Bolliag, who was| killed In ice during the world war. It cons s of 320 acres of land | ={tuated in southeast part of the! city, in the section known as Anacos- | tia, on reclaimed land along the Ana- | costia river, extending from its mouth ub to the Anacostia bridge. The site is the property of the United States and the exper of reclamation have been paild in equal proportions from the United States Treasury aind from the revenues of the District of Colum- bia. The personnel at the naval alr station comprises fourteen officers and 190 enlisted men. #State, War and Navy Building The State, War and Navy building 4s the largest building in the world I mtructed entirely of ranite. . It Svas desiened by A. B. Mullett. former Fupervising architect of the Treasury Department. It was originally in- tended to be five different huildings. 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 build- Sng was $10,038,482.42. Only a few of the War and Navy offices are now located In this build- ing, but it does house the State De- partment in its entirety. Open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. *The Navy Yard Navy Yard has little to reward the visitor, outside of the gunshop. the museum and a few trophies. It stands on the bank of the Anacostia river, at Sth street southeast. Open from 8 am. to 12 noon and from 1 to4 p.me The the | n north to south and its| the | noth propertions, ma- | of pure | the | ds cause susceptible motions | [ | sages may be sent and received there gt The corner stone of the original build- } ing was laid on December 18, 1793, by President Washington, with Masonic | ceremontes. The north wing was fin- | ished in 1500 and the government— all of it—came from Philadelphia, | bag and baggage, in a single sloop, | and took possession in October of | that year. The interfor of both wings was ‘destroyed by fire, set by the ‘Brlllsh. August 24, 1814. The two | wings now occupled by the Senate and the House were added to the Capitol building to accommodate the Senate and the House of Representa- | tives. When the House is in session | the ars and Stripes is flung to the breeze over the south wing, and when the Senate I8 sitting the flag files |over the north wing. At night if Congress is sitting there is a light |in the dome. The value of the Capi- to1 building and the grounds is about | £26.000.000. | _ Guides, officially designated for the Capitol, show visitors through this superb bullding for a nominal fee. Visitors should by all means employ one of these. The building 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 be 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 rene. There are many Interesting statis- tics about this memorial—the figures land measurements of 1ts 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- ac 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 is 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 were there at the finish. | There was no strike. The cost of this | memorial was far less than would| have been 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, from the quarrying of twenty-thre ton blocks of stone 10,000 feet up in the Colorado mountains and trans- porting them to the banks of the placid Potomac to the dangerous caissson work fifty feet underground. | no man was killed and none seriously injured. This. too, in a stupendous work that was in progress more than ten years, counting from the date of | 1911, when Congress created the Lin- | coln Memorial commisston, with President Taft as its chairman. This commission worked with the Federal| Commission of Fine Arts throughout | the undertaking, determined to ob- tain a memorial which the American peopla would for all time instinctively | feel to be worthy of bearing the name | of Abraham Lincoln. Henry Bacon, the architect, called | as his associates Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, 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 | another in his marble home of memo- | ries” Henry Bacon determined that/ the great central room should be a, place where the people “could be! alone” with the Lincoln to be created | French. He planned, too, that in | ser space, but not less sacred, of Guerin would tell| the le the paintings | again in allegory the meaning of Lin- coln's immortal utterances. One of the best of the distant views of the memorial 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., a monumental bridge across the Potomac from the | memorial, from the great shrine hous- | ing the speech of “malice toward | none.” to the other shore, whera 5.000 | himself—the promotion of art and dis- | various parts of the country. known soldiers | and the Khaki unknown and_ 25,000 of the Blue, the Gra: sleep together in peace. Open to visitors from 9 am. to 4:30 p.m. daily and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on| Sundays and holidays. The Navy and Munitions Building and Munitions building i= the largest office huilding In the world Tt was erected at a cost of | 0,000. The building is of rein- concrete and has a total of 1.775.000 square feet of floor space. The site in Potomac park. where the | building is located, had to he cleared of twenty-three municipal tennis | courts, and about 5000 trees were taken up and replanted elsewhere. The | buildings are on “made ground,” the site having at one time heen 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 emploved. The sand and gravel used in the ccenstruction w dredged from the Potomac river, 55,000 tons of sand, S%,000 tons of gravel and 188,000 bar- rels of cement being used. To inspect the radiitors of the buflding, of which there are 3,200, requires a trip of 24 miles. There are 143.000 square yards 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. Me: The Navy from all parts of Europe, and through its service the Navy Department is enabled to keep In_constant touch with ships at gea. The building has 153 fire-alarm hoxes and is distinctly unique. Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. | *The Scottish Rite Temple The Scottish Rite temple, at 16th and S streets, cost $1,500,000. Tt Is the national home of the supreme council of the southern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite in America, rep- resenting fourteen Masonic bodles with a membership of £0,000. Tt is modelea aftar the mausoleum of Halls carnasus in Asla Minor, regarded by the ancients 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 lafgest in the | world. The temple is also the home of the Willlam R. Smith collection of editions of Burns, Including many rare prints, 8s well as books and paintings and other articles aseoci- ated with the poet Burns. The late Willlam R. Smith, well known as superintendent of the Botanic Gar- dens, was an thuslastic devotee of “Bobby" Burns and spent years of his life in_making 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- riate resting place in the wonderful 6th street templ The collection 18 open to inspection ¥ : aa_until SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR iThe Treasury Depart- ment The Treasury Department was com- pleted in 1841." It is 466 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 firat step of the long routine of “money making." The composition of this paper is a secret. though it is known to contain silk fiber. The completed notes—ahout a million dollars in value at a time— are brought from the bureau of print- ing each morning, being conveved in a stecl-encased wagon guarded by armed messengers. 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 United States treasurer and the registrar of the Treasury: but the na- tional bank notes are actually signed befora receiving the red seal of the government. Tt seems incredible, but it is a fact, that the average woman counter passes 32.000 notes each working day. The paper currency as it hecomes worn is redeemed by the government and put through macerators, which are glohe-shaped receptacles of steel, to the capacity of a ton of pulp. the lid of which is secured by three differ- ent Yale locks. The Secretary of the Treasury has one key, the treasurer another and the controller of the Treasury the third, h day at 1 o'clack these officials or their representatives with a fourth agent to represent the people and the banks, open the macerators and place within them & million dollars or so of condemned currency or other se- curities. The llds 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 beautiful green vine in a large urn, luxuriant and ever-growing. This is called the money plant Open from 10 am. to 2:30 pm Guldes, 10:30 to 12 and 1 to 2. iThe Public Library of the District of Columbia The Public Library of the District of Columbla {8 primarily a circulating library for the more than 400,000 resi- dents of Washington not entitled to draw books for home use from the Library of Congress. The central building is at §th street and New York avenue and the two branches at 6th and Cedar streets, Tokoma Park. and the southeastern branch at 7th and D streets and South Carolina avenue southeast. The cen- tral building is open from 9 am. to| 9 p.m. 9 on week days. except Wednes- and most holidays (Wednes- days the hours are from 9 am. to 3 p.m.); Sundays, open for reference purposes only, from 3 to 9 p.m. The branches are open from 12 m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday: Thursday and_Friday from 12 m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Branches are notopen on_holidays or Sunday.s Over 1.000,000 volumes were circu- lated during the last fiscal year, nearly one-half of which were loaned to children under high school age. One-half of this number loaned through collections of books sent to the classrooms of the public schools. Over 74.000 plctures were borrowed for home use. The Shriners’ Convention of 1923 (Copyright, 1923, by Hobart Brooks) The site for the White House was selected by President Washington personally in No. 1 of the seventeen reservations mset aside for public bufld- ings upon the plans of Maj. Peter Charles L'Enfant for the laying out of the city of Washington in 1781 James Hoban of Dublin was the arch tect, the plans having been chosen by competition. He won the $500 prize offered for the best plan. The corner stone_was lald October 13, 1792, and Gen. Washington was present. President and Mrs. John Adams were the first occupants, moving in in November, 1800. Mrs. Adams suf- fered many discomforts because of the incomplete condition of the man- sion as to adequate heating and light- ing. 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 restored by Mr. Hohan, except for the wings at ach side. ‘which had been used for offices and servants’ quarters The first White House appropri- ation from the United States Treas- ury, made in 1800, called for $15,000 for’ furniture. Since then the man- sion has been enlarged and fmproved in many ways. but the original plans have alwavs heen followed. A thor- ough overhauling. improving, re- modeling and enlarging was done during the regime of President Roose- velt. Congress appropriated $475.455 for the work. Of this sum the archi- tects returned an unexpended balance of 3$7,906.19. Architect Hoban mod- eled the structure after the palace of the Duke of Leinster. The original| cost of the mansion, singularl enough, was not pald out of the United States Treasury, but was de- 1The Arts and Industries) Building This building was completed in 1851, in time for use for the {inaugural ball ‘of President Garfleld, which was | one of the most beautlful scenes in| the history of the country. A band | was placed in each of the four arches | of the bullding. On the first floor to | the west is the interesting collection | of lay figures of the mistresses of the | | White House. from Martha Washing- | ton to the two wives of Woodrow | | Wilson. Every gown shown is one worn in the White House during the adminis- | tration of the wearer’s husband. The | second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Is shown | in the hlack velvet gown in_which she was marrled to President Wilson. There is also a valuable loan col- lection of laces, antique jewelry. clothes, bonnets and other articles representing the fashions in this country A8 far back as they have been obtainable, and many articles have, hean owned and worn by famous men | and_women, including gowns worn | on the platforms of D. A. R. con- gresses by the presidents general of | the society. In another section will | be found relics of George and Martha | Washington, Abraham Lincoin and family. Gen. Grant and family. origi- nal instruments and pieces of appa- ratus of the Morse telegraph, the Bell | telephone, the Henry magnets. Edison | electrical. the Langley alrplane, ex- hibits showing the evolutlon and de- velopment of the healing arts, varn and cloth manufacture, resources of the world's forests and the history and development of photography from the camera obscura to the newest motion-picture machines. { | | | * The White House frayed from funds out of the sale of lands donated by Maryland and Vir- ginla The site is a part of what was then David Burne' farm, its corn- fleld stretching to the waters of the Potomuc, about half a mile to the south. When rebullt after the fire the long wings at the sides were omitted. It fs bullt of white sand- stone. The FExecutive mansion is well guarded, having its own entirely ade- quate force of police officers and secret service men on duty inside the man- sion at 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 are telaphones and telegraphs to the adfacent military posts, where there is a strong force of military police and soldiers that could be summoned without delay. The corridors and the ground floor are filled with historic mementos of past and gone mistresses of the man- ston. Bits of china used on the din- ing tables in former administrations are shown In rooms of the ground fioor, which are used as dressing roomis for the guests ut the state din- ners as well ax for the most distin- guished special guests at the state receptions. Special blue cards are sent to these special guests in their invitations, admitting them through the gates of the eouth grounds and by the small door under the south portico. The south &lde of the house was intended in the original plans to be the front entrance, but the plan was changed before the house was completed. The mansion is open to visitors grom 10 o'clock in the morning to 2 o'clock in the afternoon +The Department of Agri- culture The Department of Agriculture, on the Mall between 12th and 14th streets, cost $2,500,000. The scope of the work Is now very extended, in- cluding a study of diseases of live stock, control of the inspection of fmport and export animals, cattle transportation and meat: the enforce- ment of the pure food and drug laws statistics of crops. live stock. at home and_abroad: aclentific investigation: | in forestry. hotany. fruit culture, tivation of textile plants, and diseases of trees, grains and vegetables studies of the injurious or heneflcial relations to agriculture of insects birds and wild quadrupeds: investiga- tions as to roads and methods of ir gatlonal chemical and microscopical Iaboratories, and & vast number of experiment stations. correspondents and observers in various parts of this and other countries. The museum in the rear contains excellent wax models of frufts. nuts |and natural foods; an interesting dis- play of models showing the damage wrought by Insects to trees and plants, also groups of mounted hirds, squirrels. gophers and other mam- mals. The library and herbarium will interest botanists. The extensive greenhouses are open at all reason- able hours. A tower in the garden is composed of glabs of foot-thick barks taken from one of the giant trees in Califor- nia. It represents the exact size of that huge tree named “General No- ble” from which the pleces were actually cut. Open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m iWhere Lincoln Died The Oldroyd Lincoln memorial col- lection, in the little houss 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 fnto 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, 1866, and in this house he died next day without hav- ing recovered consciousness. The house was owned by Willlam Peter- son, a tallor. The room in which Lincoln was placed and in which he died was occupled at the time by William T. Clark of Massachusetts, a soldier 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 vears in the house with his family, and who has built up the collection and had charge of it. Tt is open during the day and evening and a small fee is charged to visitors. A bill has been introduced in Congress each year for the pur- chase of the house and eollection by the government, and each vear it has been defeated. Tt Is the life work of Mr. Oldrovd, who. only this past few weeks, refused the offer of $50.000 made by Henry Ford of Detroit for the collectfon, because Mr. Ford wished to move it to Detroit. Mr. Oldroyd is patriotic enough to wish it to remafn in the natlon's capital and will give Congress another chance to purchase it for the govern- ment. Open day and evening. *The Botanical Garden The Botanic Garden has specimens of vegetation from all parts of the world. It occuples tha block on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue at the foot of the Capitol. This stately and beautiful garden will one day become & part of the | national boulevard, in line as it is | with the Capitol, ' the Smithsonian, Agricultural, Washington Monument |and Lincoln Memorlal and _their | rounds, which will in turn be In | line with the propostd memorial | bridge which will Join Arlington with | these other memorials. |, The Botanle Garden will. by that time, be established in its new home, the ‘tract of land which was once | the James Creek canal, which runs eastward from ahout the line of the War College to a point south of the Capltol. The present Botanic Garden |1s the mite 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 glda of the grounds. These are two of the most beautiful of all such works in the National Capital. Open during sun hours. Hot houses, 8 to 4:30. Adjacent Battlefields Washington is girdled by batt fields, each with its history. Toda: virtually all of the activities of the Army are represented in | surrounding 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.” continuous circle they around Washington were flung Every American Has Two Home Towns and Washington Is One of Them {The Smithsonian Institu- tion The Smithsonian I[nstitution is a unique establishment for the further- ance of knowledge by carrying on or alding general researches in all branches of sclence, whether astro- | physical, geological, biological gr an- thropological—the Study of celestial hodies, the earth, its ilfe, and man semination of the results of its in- vestigations by the distribution of its publications throughout the world. The Smithsonian bufldings 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 erectad in 1881; the Natural History building completed in 1911, and the building for the Freer art coliection—erection begun in 1916 —which was donated by Mr. Charles L. Freer of Detroit. to house the ex- tensive and rich collections of obfects | of art presented by him to the insti- tution The Smithsonian Institution has six_branches: the National Museum, including the National Gallery of Art; the international exchange serv- ice; the bureau of American hology: the National Zoological Park; the astrophysical observatory. and the new United States regioral burean of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Vistors are admitted daily from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, except Sun- day. iThe National Bureau of Standards This bureau of the Department of Commerce was created in 1901 and ita work covers almost the whole fleld of standardization. In order to carry out the extremely varled 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 machine capable of pressing down- ward on a full-sized building column :vlntah a force of 5,000 tons. Open 9 to {The Naval Observatory The Navai Observatory. on Wiscon- sin avenue, is open to visitors when the skies are clear, on Thursday even- Ings from 8 to 10 o'clock, for & view of the heavens through the twelve- Inch telescope. Applications should be made to the superintendent. 0Old General Land Office This building, gecupying the square bounded by and F, 7th and 8th streets, was doII’n.d by Robert Mills It was bullt of marble from New York state in 1830, B. Morse worked o his original tel greph instruments. It was bullt at a cost of $2,000,000 and was used for many ye: as the Post Office De- partment, after the land. office was moved into the patent-office bullding. It was used during the late war by various offices of the War Depart- ment and is government offices. % 2Dy - In it Samuel h- | oocupled by minor |avenue. Main 6600. oy:n from 10 -.m.I 'w-‘uru Union Teleg: *Carnegie Institution of) fGovernment Printing Of-‘i | Washington ! The Carnegie Institution of Wash- | ington, at 16th and P streets, is an | organization of national scope, which | was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 for the advancement of research | #nd knowledge. Its laboratories and | departments of research cover many | flelds of study | and are located in| Tt now | | has an endowment of $20.000,000. Three of the institution’s establish- ed departments of research are also located {n Washington. The depart-| ment of historical research, with ac- |commodations in the Woodward build- |ing. at 15th and H streets; the | keophysical laboratory, 2801 Upton | street, especially adapted for a study |of the conatituents of the earth's crust under conditions of high tem- | 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 departments of research | | of the institution located outside of | Washington are as follows: Depart- | ment ~of botanical research, Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz.; department of embryology, Johns Hopkins Medi- cal School, Baltimore, Md.: depart- ment of genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, Long lsiand, N. Y.; department of meridian astrometry, Dudley Observa- tory, Albany, N. Y.; Mount Wilson! Observatory, ' Pasadena. Calif.. and Nutrition Laboratory, 29 Vila street, Boston, Mass. {The Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art was glven to the city of Washington by the late W. W. Corcoran, who buiit the original buflding at the corner of 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue, now the United States Court of Claims. He left provision in his will for the new bullding 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 g lery. which has many beautiful and famous specimens of painting and sculpture. There is also a loan ex- hibit always in progress in the hem! cycle, the small hall bullt for the pur- pose. The building Is of Georgia white marble. Thirty plilars of white mar- ble support the enormous skylight. Visitors are admitted free on Tues- days, Thursday, Saturdays and Sun- nd on holidays. Mondays, Wed- vs and Fridays an admission fee of 25 cents Is charged. Open from 9 am. 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, s a impress- ive atructure of white marble. Con- gress Frovldafl the site and paid for art of the cost, the rest being given y Capt. Jam A. Bcrymser, [rs. Russell Sage, Mrs. E. H. Harriman and the Rockefeller Foundation. The Red Cross moved into this new home just as America engered the world war. The interior of the building is in keeping with the dignity and sim- plicity of the exterior. fTelegraph and Cable *Poatal Telegraph and Cable Com- pany. Evans bullding. 1420 New York Com- fice The government printing office is the largest and best-equipped print- ing establishment In the world. It !has a floor space of fifteen acres., There is a splendid cafeteria. assem- bly hall, recreation rooms and a roof garden A school for apprentices has also been re-established after thirty-five years abolishment, and now five young men are belng 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 typeseiting machines In the world, includin kevhoards and 125 casting machines They set_enough tvpe in a year to make 675,000 columns of ordinary newspaper matter. ranging from small platen presses to the big presses which print 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 year. Other presses turn out money-order blanks, census cards, and income-tax forms by the hun- dreds of millions. Tha office in like- wise well equipped with bindery and plate-making machinery. The public printer {s 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 lald 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 yoar round and the pay roll for thesa workers is close to $6,000,000 annu- ally. All appointments in the gov- ernment printing office are made un- der the clvil-service law. The plant produces printing and binding to the value of fully $13.- 000,000 a year, for all of which the public printer is reimbursed by Con- gress and the 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 incidert to the printing and binding of millons of publcations, the govern- ment printing office makes nearly ail of its own printing inks, press roilers, glues, carbon paper, tvpe and type metal. It has its own carpenter, electri machine and blacksmith shops and even operates a laundry which washes and frons 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 in all the world. Special houts for Shrine week, § a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Speclal guldes provided. *The Department of Jus- tice Building The new Department of Justioce building at Vermont avenue and K street, houses the attorney general and his legal staff. Open from 9 am. until 4 p.m. 1The Weather Bureau The weather bureau, at 24th and M streets, contains delicate Instru- ments by which changes of meteoro- logical conditions are recorded. Here one can see the method of forecasti: the weather for the next forty-elght twenty- | 97 linotypes, 100 monotype | The office also | |has 160 printing presses, 1The City Post Office When the present post ofice was | completed in 1914 it was confidently believed that it would absorb the | normal increase of post-office work for many vears to come, but this be- lHef did not take into account the growth of the parcel post. That ac- lll\';l_\. then in its infanc: has in- | creased so rapidly and to such an | enormous extent, that in about two vears the necessity arose of seeking more room, which resulted in the es- tablishing ‘of thirty-two postal sta- tlons about the city. During the great war « prodigious |river of war correspondence passed | through this building, in all. amount- ing to an average of 150 tons a day of official mail matter. It is difficuit 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. Even now when conditions |in the departments have returned to |about normal, this post office dis- patches from Washington over sev {enty tons of oficial mail every day. | It was from the Washington post ‘bydnlrpl_;:p Jn ihe United States was made. e buflding is of white - fte and cost $3.000.500, ARe Open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. +The Army Medical Museum The Army Medical Museum, 7th and B streets southwest. Is of the greatest interest and value to the medical and surglcal profession and contains some 25,000 specimens. The exhibits {llus- trates the means and methods of mill- tary surgery and all the diseases and casualties of war. making a graesome exhibit of preserved flesh and hones 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 sea 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 bullt of white granite from Bethel, Vt. It was designed by Danlel H. Burnham, and {s of monumentai character, 1fke unto the great tri- umphal arches of anclent Rome. All roads lead to the Unlon station, in- cluding the street rallways. The reilroads from the south enter the city through twin tunnels under Capltol Hill. $The National Museum The new National Museum has a library which contains the most com- plete collection of medical and surg cal literature in the world, surpas: ing even that of the British Museum. isitors are admitted from 9 am, to | Eate “of ‘the home. the posts | In almost a | | ginia heights of the Potomac oppos office that the first dispatch of mail | {trance of Potomac {of the BY HOBART BROOKS. * The Library of Congress The Library of Congress, east of the Capitol and facing it, is the larg- est and most elaborate library bulld- ng in the world. It occupies threc and three-fourths aeres of a site of nearly ten acres; has cubic contr of 10,725,920 feet; contains square féet, or over nine half acres of floor space, & miles of shelving. The UHorary was established in 1800 in the Capitol building. In 1514, numbering a little over 3,00 volume it was destroyed by the burning of the Capitol by the British. It was re established in 1816, at a cost of $20,- 950, by the purchase, under an wct « Congress, of the private collecti 1The Soldiers’ Home The Soldiers’ Home, northwr the center of the city, is in i natural loveliness, embell beautified by the soldiers Ii in its early days. It comprises mor than 500 acres of beautiful lawns gardens, ravines and forest land majestic trees. There are views of the city and surron country_and lovely vistas here there. From a prominent jw high elevation a perfect vists dome of the Capitol fs worth It was established in 1851 thr efforts of Gen. Winfield Scott close of the Mexican war, founded for the men honorably charged from the Regular Arm twenty vears of service, or d through wounds or disease, upon pas ment of 12 cents a month Among those who spent all or a part of each summer in the summer White House were Presidents Dicree Buchanan, Johnson, Lincoln. Haye and Arthur. A_handsome bronze sta- tue of Gen. Scott. done by Launt Thompson. occupies a conspicu spot near the Scott building. In National cemetery. adjoining rounds of the home, is the tomb en. John A. Logan of Illinois The home s open from sun to sun and can be reached by street cars golng north on 8th street to the west | known as Eagle t from | us the 1 gate. *The U. S Post Office De- partment The main Post Office Department building, at 1ith street and Pennsyi- vania avenue, was completed in 13%4 at a cost of §2.558.835. It is built of gray granite; {s 127 feet high, with a tower of 315 feet. The bullding is 200 feet wide by 300 feet | occupfed by the Postmaster Geners assista posmasters general and the executive forces. This force directs the entire postal system of the U d States, numbering. roughly speaking about 340,000 empinyes In the court within the bulldir hangs the largest American made. It i& 70 feet 4 inahes by feet. The clock in the tower of the bullding is 15 feet from rir rim | and the minute and hour hands, which are made of pine wood, measure T and 5 feet, respectively. The height | of the numerals is 2 feet. Open to visitors from 8 am, to 4:30 p.m Arlington National Ceme- tery Arlington National cemetery, where | sleap the heroic dead of the nation— Blue, Gray and Khaki—Iis on the Vir- Washington. This hallowed grour is really a significant part of Wash- ington. It can be reached by ths Washington-Virginia railway and } sight-seeing busses. The Arlington House, generally called the Custis-Lee mansion. was buflt in 1802 by Genrge Washington Parke Custls. grandson of Martha Washington, whe, with his sister. Nelly Custis. was adopted by Gen. and Mrs. Washington of Mount Vernon George Washington Parke Custis In- herited the great estate from his father. His only daughter. Mary. married Robert E. Lee. afterward famous as Gen. Lee, and, being the only child of her parents, she inher- ited Arlington. It was upon its wide front porch that the great Confed- erate general, xazing across the river 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 state During the civil war the mansion was used as a hospital and afterward Arlington estate was taken over the government for a national ceme- tery. It Is a place of great beauty a fitting spot for the repose of the nation’s dead. On the monuments and headstones will be found the names representing the soldier dead of all our wars. Arlington may be reached by ley from 12th street and Pen avenue evers twenty minutes or sight-seeing bus. It is open to visit- ors from sunrise to sunset. trol- #The Pan-American Union The Pan-American building work of art done {n marhle The bullding is located at the en- Park on Seven- teenth street. between B and . facing 1 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 orgenization main- tained by the twenty-one American republics, as follows: Argentina, B livia, Bragil, Chile, Colombia, Cos Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecu dor, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mex- ico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay. Peru, Salvador, United States, Urugua and Venezuela. The Secretary of State United States presides the meetings of the governing board of the unfon, the latter being supported by quotas contributed by each coun- try, based upon their population. The director 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 9 am. to 4 p.m. a 1Bureau of Engraving and| Printing The bureau of engraving and print- ing, at 14th and B streets southwest, is considered one of the finest manu- B e ais on ihe weri T cost $2,869,000 and here is where all your money is made, and the process 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| 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 haa with Mare lIsland, Cal.; Key West, Fla. Cblon, 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 Eiftel Tower in Paris, { *Alexander R. Sh T comprising_ 6,760 d fire in 1825 only the library, but in and more disastrous fire 5000 volumes which it thirds of the as included in ing was com- sts b is in the library is, primarily to the national States. For tely and formality s Teader o age in the morning the evening on from 2 to 10 p.m, Mount Vernon shrine of the stand, bar until the estate ife of t Vernon com- from the rica ssession nearly half- most conveniently . Washington-Vir- ¢ hoat at foot rs leav of ck in the the thir ornit afternoc iThe Patent Office ¢ office is one x;r'ih:": 00 pate. n o fa ex- ngs and ex- and 118 carnings Lounded by h and to 4:30 prm. Memorial Continen- tal Hall Revolu $500,000. ward Pears white mar! 1 v Statues and Memorials ptor after location of monument.) b Pennsylvania ave. and e Sq. 15th at. ave. Clark h st. and Falquiers Lafavette § sylvania ave. Pennsyl- Circle, 116th isetts avenue. C H. M and Pherson S 15th st q. Ver- T ver. Rietchel rcticut ave. and weridan and Circle, 23d st rrag : 1K st. Vinnie ave. and M . Withersp. 1N st nnecticut Cooper. th st. and mmons. Pennsylvania ave, and ry Ellientt nd Army Memorial, and 7th st. J. Mas- 1 ave. W . Jowa ¢ Island ave e Hancock t. He *Gen Ith s eStepher nsylvania ave. and . Pennsylvania Jacques Jou- *Benjfamin ve. and *Count Pulaski. Pennsylvania ave. and 13th cimir Chodzinskl, Pennsylvania a 14th S. J. Dunbar. $Washington, Smithsonian Institu- tion, south side of Mall at Tth & Greenough {Downing, Smithsonian south side of Mall Calver Vaux 1 tJoseph Henry, Smithsonian Institu- ¢ tion, south ‘side of Mall at Tth st. W. W. Story Samucl Gross. Sm tution. south sid st. A/S. Calder {Louls J. M. Daguerre. Smithsonian Institution, south side of Mall at h st I.'S. Hartley *John Faul Jones, foot of 17th st. C. H. Niehaus. *John Barry. Franklin 14th st John J. Boyle. njamin Rush, Riene, 23d ar 10th st. ave. a Institution at th st hsonian Tnsti- of Mall at 7th tDr sq Naval Museum E sts. R. H. *Dr. iChristopher Columbus, Union Station » plaza. Lorado Taft *John Marshall. west front of Capftol. WwW. Story *Peace Monument, Pennsylvania ave. and 1st st F. Simmona. *President Garfield, Maryland ave. and 1st &t. J. Q. A. Ward. *Gen. GGrant, Botanic Garden, 1st st. svlvanla ave. Henry M. East : Capitol riheast. 2 Thomas G. Tren- * and 4th K. Brown. land ave H. tGen. Greene, Mar: heast Gerome Conner. Memorial, _Potomac Park, foot of 24th st. Henry Beacon. tBaron Von Steuben,” Lafavette Square, 17th and H sts. Albert Jaegers., *Butt-Millct Fountain, south White Houge grounds. Daniel C. French tJames McMillan Fountain, Mce) ist and Bryant Adams Florida ave. and fth st northeast. Daniel C. French Location northwest unless other- wige designated Street car_lines—*Capital Traction Washington Rallway and Company; fboth lines. v