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[Illustration:

  Photo by Pach Bros., New York

  PRESIDENT TAFT
]




                              _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._

                       _NEW AND REVISED EDITION_

[Illustration]

                        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




                                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     58
           United States

    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      92
           States

   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         179
           Described




                             ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                    PAGE

 President Taft                                           _Frontispiece_

 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

 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                                27
   Proclamation

 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                        133
   Library