. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . uilding Additions to the Capitol — Hoodwinking Congress — Howthe Money Was Appropriated to Build the Great Dome —A SuccessfulRuse — Laying of the Second Corner-Stone by Daniel Webster —Completion of the Building — Its Dimensions and Cost—CuriousConstruction of the Great Dome — Its Weig
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . uilding Additions to the Capitol — Hoodwinking Congress — Howthe Money Was Appropriated to Build the Great Dome —A SuccessfulRuse — Laying of the Second Corner-Stone by Daniel Webster —Completion of the Building — Its Dimensions and Cost—CuriousConstruction of the Great Dome — Its Weight and Cost. NE of the first essentials of the Capital city was aCapitol building. The plans for such a struc-ture had occupied the minds of the founders ofthe young government long before LEnfanthad surveyed the ground and designated the browof the eastern plateau as the site for the a vision of the future metropolis with a fervorand clearness hardly equaled since the apocalyptic visionof the aged apostle at Patmos, the earnest patriots ofthose days may have pictured the spacious plateau extendingeastward to the Anacostia, two miles or more, as occupiedby the mansions of the cultured and the wealthy, whilethe lower lands to the west fell to the humbler classes and (68). GROWTH OF THE INFANT CITY. 69 the commercial interests. This has been assumed to be thecase, because an exorbitant price was placed upon some ofthis land to the eastward. One of the largest of the original proprietors, and theone whose acres included most of this high plateau, wasDaniel Carroll, a man of culture and of high standing inMaryland. He was a man in whom Washington placed thegreatest confidence, and was chosen one of the Commission-ers for the laying out of the city. Naturally he anticipatedthat his land would command enormous prices. Specu-lators were at once eager for it and bought several acres,largely with promises to pay. Stephen Girard, then thewealthiest man
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