. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . a rotunda to the height of 600 feet—designed to bethe highest structure ever reared by man, excepting the Towerof Babel. The corner-stone was laid July 4, 1848. Ex-President JohnQuincy Adams was to have delivered the address, but, hisdeath occurring a few months previous, Robert C. Winthrop,of Massachusetts, Speaker of the House of Representatives,was selected to perform that duty. The amount collected was$230,000. The funds were exhausted and work suspended before thelate civil war culminated ; but Congress having made appro-priations
. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . a rotunda to the height of 600 feet—designed to bethe highest structure ever reared by man, excepting the Towerof Babel. The corner-stone was laid July 4, 1848. Ex-President JohnQuincy Adams was to have delivered the address, but, hisdeath occurring a few months previous, Robert C. Winthrop,of Massachusetts, Speaker of the House of Representatives,was selected to perform that duty. The amount collected was$230,000. The funds were exhausted and work suspended before thelate civil war culminated ; but Congress having made appro-priations for the purpose, work was recommenced, and theshaft completed at a height of 555 feet on Dec. 6, 1884. Thecapstone is a cuniforni keystone, its height from base to topbeing 5 feet 2| inches. It is 4 feet 5| inches high on the outerface, with a 7-inch shoulder to bind on each side, extending10| inches below. It is 3 feet and a fraction square at the bot-tom, and 5 inches in diameter at the top where the aluminiumtip fits on. Its weight is 3,300 The Washington Monument. 113 The aluminium apex of the monument is engraved with in-scriptions, as follows: On one face, Chief Engineer andArchitect, Thomas Lincoln Casey, Colonel Corps of Engineers ;Assistants, George W. Davis, Fourteenth United States Infan-try ; Bernard R. Green, Civil Engineer; Master Mechanic, McLaughlin. On another, Corner-stone laid on bed offoundation July 4th, 1848. First stone at height of 152 feetlaid August 7, 1880. Capstone set December 6, 1884. On athird, Joint Commission at setting of capstone—Chester , W. W. Corcoran, (chairman,) M. E. Bell, EdwardClark, John Newton. Act of August 2, 1876. And on thefourth face, the words Laus Deo—Praise to God. DedicatedFebruary 21st, 1885. Cost to date, $1,130,000, of which amountCongress appropriated $900,000. The original design of the Washington National Monument embraced the idea of a grand circular colonnaded building, two hundred and fi
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