Washington, its sights and insights [1903]

by Harriet Earhart Monroe

NEW YORK AND LONDON

1903

Copyright, 1903, by

HARRIET EARHART MONROE

[Printed in the United States of America]

Published in April, 1903

CONTENTS

		PAGE
I.	The City of Washington	[1]
II.	A Genius from France	[4]
III.	The Capitol Building	[12]
IV.	Interior of the Capitol	[17]
V.	The Rotunda	[21]
VI.	Concerning Some of the Art at the Capitol	[26]
VII.	The Senate Chamber	[33]
VIII.	The House of Representatives	[40]
IX.	Concerning Representatives	[46]
X.	The Supreme Court Room	[53]
XI.	Incidents Concerning Members of the Supreme Court of the United States	[58]
XII.	Teaching Patriotism in the Capitol	[67]
XIII.	People in the Departments	[73]
XIV.	Incidents In and Out of the Departments	[80]
XV.	Treasury Department	[84]
XVI.	Secret Service Department of the Treasury of the United States	[92]
XVII.	Post-Office Department	[100]
XVIII.	Department of Agriculture	[105]
XIX.	Department of Chemistry on Pure Foods	[109]
XX.	Department of the Interior	[114]
XXI.	Branches of the Department of the Interior	[121]
XXII.	Bureau of Indian Affairs	[126]
XXIII.	The Library of Congress	[131]
XXIV.	The Pension Office	[138]
XXV.	State, War, and Navy Departments	[146]
XXVI.	State, War, and Navy Departments (Cont’d)	[155]
XXVII.	Department of Commerce	[161]
XXVIII.	The Executive Mansion	[166]
XXIX.	Interests in Washington Which Can Not Here be Fully Described	[179]

ILLUSTRATIONS

		PAGE
President Roosevelt		[Frontispiece]
Bird’s-eye View of Washington, Looking East from the Monument		Between [4] and [5]
Bird’s-eye View of Washington, Looking Down the Potomac from the Monument		Between [8] and [9]
The Capitol		Between [12] and [13]
Plan of the Principal Floor of the Capitol		[15]
Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda		[22]
Brumidi Frieze in Rotunda		[23]
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation		[27]
Group I		Between [32] and [33]
	Statuary Hall
	“Westward Ho!”
	Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis
	The Senate Chamber
	Some Prominent Senators
	The House of Representatives
	Some Prominent Representatives
	The Rotunda Bronze Door
The Mace		[41]
The Speaker’s Room		[42]
Seating Plan of the Supreme Court Chamber		[54]
Group II		Between [80] and [81]
	Justices of the Supreme Court
	The Supreme Court Room
	The Treasury Building
	The Old Bureau of Engraving and Printing
	The New Bureau of Engraving and Printing
	Gallaudet College for the Deaf
	The Smithsonian Institution
	The National Museum
Macerating $10,000,000 of Money		[88]
The Patent Office		[114]
Group III		Between [128] and [129]
	The Bureau of Indian Affairs
	The Congressional Library
	Grand Stairway of the Congressional Library
	The Rotunda (Reading-room) of the Congressional Library
	The Pension Office
	The State, War, and Navy Departments
	The German Embassy
	The British Embassy
	The French Embassy
	The Russian Embassy
One of the Bronze Doors of the Congressional Library		[133]
The Declaration of Independence		[148]
Fish Commission Building		[163]
Mrs. Roosevelt		[166]
Group IV		Between [176] and [177]
	The President and Cabinet
	New Entrance to the White House
	New Wing of the White House
	South Front of the White House
	North Front of the White House
	New Grand Corridor—White House
	New State Dining-room—White House
	Mount Vernon—From South Lawn
	Tomb of Washington—Mount Vernon
	Home of General Lee
	Monument to the Unknown Dead, Arlington National Cemetery
	The Washington Monument
Charlotte Corday		[181]