Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . Engraving and Printing, on B and 14th streets this building are engraved and printed the greenbacks, bonds, stamps for in-ternal revenue, and the national currency, besides a great amount of other workfor Congress and the Departments. Here one can see on what an enormous scalethis work is carried on ; a late report says there are over 1,200 employes, and thenumber of sheets handled and impressions
Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . Engraving and Printing, on B and 14th streets this building are engraved and printed the greenbacks, bonds, stamps for in-ternal revenue, and the national currency, besides a great amount of other workfor Congress and the Departments. Here one can see on what an enormous scalethis work is carried on ; a late report says there are over 1,200 employes, and thenumber of sheets handled and impressions printed number several millions. Thebuilding is a handsome structure, and cost about $700,000. The National Observatory is under the direction of the Navy Depart-ment, and ranks with the foremost in the world. It has a library of great Great Equatorial Telescope, weighing 130,000 lbs., cost $47,000 wasmounted in 1873. The Naval Hospital, on Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street southeast, is acommodious structure, and is for the benefit of the officers and men of the Navyand Marine Corps ; it cost about $125,000. The Arsenal is at the southern termi- 54 WASHINGTON UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE. nus of Four-and-a-half street southwest. The grounds are beautifully laid out,and visitors will find here many object of interest; the drive along the riverfrontis very popular. The Navy Yard, at theterminus of Eighth streetsoutheast, has many pointsof interest to invite atten-tion. There are two or three Monitors at the wharves,several large workshops andfounderies. The museum isfull of objects of special val-ue, as they are more or lessidentified with the exploitsof our Navy. About theyard are some rare piecesof ordnance, one being acannon used by Cortez inhis conquest of Mexico, also a mortar captured at Yorktown, Va., at the sur-render of Corn wall is. The headquarters of the Marine Corps are near by, andthe Barracks will attract the attention of those interested in this
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