Chapter I: Front Matter

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
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_Washington_
_ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS_

BY
MRS. HARRIET EARHART MONROE

_Author of “The Art of Conversation,” “The Heroine of the Mining Camp,”
“Historical Lutheranism,” etc._

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY

HARRIET EARHART MONROE

[_Printed in the United States of America_]

Published in April, 1903

CONTENTS

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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

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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

WASHINGTON

_ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS_