WALKS ABOUT
WASHINGTON
BY
FRANCIS E. LEUPP
WITH DRAWINGS BY
LESTER G. HORNBY
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1915
Copyright, 1915,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
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All rights reserved
Published, September, 1915
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
To
ADA, HAROLD, ETHEL,
CONSTANCE, KATHLEEN
AND THE
MEMORY OF GRAHAM
Preface
THIS is not a history. It is not a guide-book. It is not an encyclopedia. It is nothing more ambitious than the title would indicate: a stroll about Washington with my arm through my reader’s, and a bit of friendly chat by the way. Mr. Hornby, sketch-book in hand, will accompany us, to give permanence to our impressions here and there.
First, we will take a general look at the city and recall some of the more interesting incidents connected with its century and a quarter of growth. Next, we will walk at our leisure through its public places and try to people them in imagination with the figures which once were so much in evidence there.