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_Author of "The Art of Conversation," "The Heroine of the Mining Camp," "Historical Lutheranism," etc._
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1909
COPYRIGHT, 1903 AND 1909, BY HARRIET EARHART MONROE [_Printed in the United States of America_] Revised Edition Published September, 1909
VI. Concerning Some of the Art at the Capitol 26
XI. Incidents Concerning Members of the Supreme Court of the 58 United States
XII. Teaching Patriotism in the Capitol 67
XIV. Incidents In and Out of the Departments 80
XVI. Secret Service Department of the Treasury of the United 92 States
XIX. Department of Chemistry on Pure Foods 109
XXI. Branches of the Department of the Interior 121
XXV. State, War, and Navy Departments 146
XXVI. State, War, and Navy Departments (_Cont'd_) 155
XXIX. Interests in Washington Which Can Not Here be Fully 179 Described
Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking East _Between_ 4 _and_ 5 from the Monument
Bird's-eye View of Washington, Looking Down _Between_ 8 _and_ 9 the Potomac from the Monument
Plan of the Principal Floor of the Capitol 15
The First Reading of the Emancipation 27 Proclamation
Washington Declining Overtures from Cornwallis
Seating Plan of the Supreme Court Chamber 54
New Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Union Station
Grand Stairway of the Congressional Library
The Rotunda (Reading-room) of the Congressional Library
One of the Bronze Doors of the Congressional 133 Library
Monument to the Unknown Dead, Arlington National Cemetery
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.