. Philadelphia and its environs . NEW JERSEY BUILDING. 92 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS NEW YORK BUILDING. ground none too much. The building, business-like and capable-looking, was erected in astyle and with a degree of economy creditable to the officers of the board selected from theDepartments of War, Agriculture, the Treasury, Navy, Interior, and Post-Office, and from theSmithsonian Institution. Appended to it are smaller structures for the illustration of hospitaland laboratory work. In the rearof the lordly palace of the Federalgovernment stand the humbler tene-ments of the States. A l

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. Philadelphia and its environs . NEW JERSEY BUILDING. 92 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS NEW YORK BUILDING. ground none too much. The building, business-like and capable-looking, was erected in astyle and with a degree of economy creditable to the officers of the board selected from theDepartments of War, Agriculture, the Treasury, Navy, Interior, and Post-Office, and from theSmithsonian Institution. Appended to it are smaller structures for the illustration of hospitaland laboratory work. In the rearof the lordly palace of the Federalgovernment stand the humbler tene-ments of the States. A line of these,drawn up in close order, shoulderto shoulder, is ranged, hard by,against the tall fence that inclosesthe grounds. In this row are em-braced Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wis-consin, Michigan, New Hampshire,Connecticut, Massachusetts, andDelaware. New Jersey and Kansasstand proudly apart, officer-like, onthe opposite side of the avenue ; theregimental canteen, in the shapeof the Southern Restaurant, jostlingthem rather closely. Ohios pavilionplays the leading grenadier well;but

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