. Book of the Royal blue . rpublic men hope to occupy for a the Capitol, this building was fired bythe British in 1814., but while defaced, wasnot destroyed, and being painted white tocover traces of smoke, graduallycame to be called the White House,although the name officially wasthe Executive Mansion until Presi-dent Roosevelt ordered it by is the Ai-lington Hotel,which for years has been the tem-porary home of thousands of ourleading statesmen, and under whoseroof visiting foreigners of rank havebeen entertained. From the staffhas floated the flag of nearly everycivil
. Book of the Royal blue . rpublic men hope to occupy for a the Capitol, this building was fired bythe British in 1814., but while defaced, wasnot destroyed, and being painted white tocover traces of smoke, graduallycame to be called the White House,although the name officially wasthe Executive Mansion until Presi-dent Roosevelt ordered it by is the Ai-lington Hotel,which for years has been the tem-porary home of thousands of ourleading statesmen, and under whoseroof visiting foreigners of rank havebeen entertained. From the staffhas floated the flag of nearly everycivilized nation. The yellow dragonbanner of China, the tri-color ofFrance, the Turkish star and cres-cent, the rising sun of Japan, thewhite elephant of Siam, and theInion .Jack of Great Britain have■ill at times denoted the presenceof distinguished officers or scions ofthe royal families of those famous inn is theNational Hotel on PennsylvaniaAvenue, below (Ith Street. For HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF DECATHR HOUSK. .vears it was the home of the leaders inCongress and under its roof much legisla-tion has been planned. Here Henry Claydied in In the early .>0s it was thescene of an epidemic affecting many of itsguests and causing the death of was at first supposed to be a case ofwholesale poisoning, but investigationshowed that the trouble was caused by astoppage in a sewer pipe by means ofwhich the gas from the sewer was forcedinto the rooms. Not far from the National Hotel is thebuilding (still a hotel) in which PresidentAndrew Jackson, at a dinner towhich he was invited at a timewhen a number of politicians,headed by Calhoun, the Vice Presi-dent, were considering measuresto override some obnoxious legisla-tion, made plain his position onthe question of the nullificationof Federal by State laws. A carefully prepared toast wasframed to elicit his views. Heresponded by a toast which nonedared refuse : The pEnKRAi, Union IT MUST AND SHAI
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