. 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 . ittle steamer which still plies between Washing-ton and this hallowed spot. Every summers day a motleycrowd composed of the young and old, the refined andvulgar, the grave and gay, fathers and mothers with childrenand lunch baskets, and pretty girls with dignified duennas,boarded the s
. 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 . ittle steamer which still plies between Washing-ton and this hallowed spot. Every summers day a motleycrowd composed of the young and old, the refined andvulgar, the grave and gay, fathers and mothers with childrenand lunch baskets, and pretty girls with dignified duennas,boarded the steamer for a days outing at Mount wharf at which the steamer landed is the one thatWashington built and from which the flour, tobacco, andcorn, the chief productions of the Mount Vernon estate,were shipped in vessels for England or the British WestIndies. But a trolley line now runs from the center of Washing-ton to the north gate at Mount Vernon, reaching the mansionin an hour. The cars cross the famous Long Bridge overthe Potomac, and speed on their way through woods andover fields fraught with memories of the Civil War; throughAlexandria and past Christ Church, where Washington at-tended, and many other scenes once familiar to him whenliving the life of a plain Virginia planter. By and by a. HOW MOUNT VERNON RECEIVED ITS NAME. 517 white fence, with a background of huge trees, comes intoview. It marks the northern boundary line of the oldMount Yernon estate, through a part of which the electriccars now run. The surrounding country has not changedmaterially since Washingtons day, and it does not require avivid imagination to picture his commanding figure on hiscustomary daily round of inspection. The grounds are nowclosed at 4 oclock each day, with the exception of Sunday,when they are not opened to the public at all. Washington came into possession of the Mount Yernonestate by the will of his half-brother, Lawrence Washington,who inherited it from his father. Lawre
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