ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| President Taft | [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] | |
| The Mace | [41] | |
| The Speaker's Room | [42] | |
| Group I | [Between 48 and 49] | |
| Statuary Hall | ||
| "Westward Ho!" | ||
| Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis | ||
| The Senate Chamber | ||
| Some Prominent Senators | ||
| The House of Representatives in Session | ||
| Some Prominent Representatives | ||
| New House Office Building | ||
| 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 | ||
| New Municipal Building | ||
| Government Printing Office | ||
| New Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Union Station | ||
| The Smithsonian Institution | ||
| The New 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 New 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 William H. Taft | [166] | |
| Group IV | [Between 176 and 177] | |
| The President and Cabinet | ||
| Entrance to the White House | ||
| New Wing of the White House | ||
| South Front of the White House | ||
| North Front of the White House | ||
| Grand Corridor—White House | ||
| 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] | |
WASHINGTON
ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS
I
THE CITY OF WASHINGTON
The City of Washington is the central point of interest of that stage on which is being performed the second century act in the great drama of self-government.
The actors here are the representatives of 85,000,000 of people. The spectators are all the peoples of the world, to be succeeded by those of all future ages.
If this experiment in self-government should fail, all other republics will surely perish; but we believe that the Republic of the United States of America has taken its place as a fixed star in the galaxy of great nations, and that the stars on its flag will not be dimmed till dimmed in the blaze of humanity's millennium. Therefore, the actors and the buildings of this great city, which are parts of the dramatis personæ and the furniture of the stage, can not fail to be interesting to any child of the republic.