. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. was thenreverently taken in chargeby two naturalized citi-zens, stanch Democrats,and placed on a smallpedestal in front of the white House. One ofthese worshipers of Jefferson was the public gar-dener, Jimmy Maher; the other was John Foy,keeper of the restaurant in the basement of theCapitol, and famous for his witty sayings. Gen. U. S. Grant (marble statue) byFranklin Simmons, the gift of the GrandArmy to the United States. Washington(bronze bust) by David dAngers;Lafayette (marble bust) by DaviddAngers; Abraham Lincoln (marlDle head)
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. was thenreverently taken in chargeby two naturalized citi-zens, stanch Democrats,and placed on a smallpedestal in front of the white House. One ofthese worshipers of Jefferson was the public gar-dener, Jimmy Maher; the other was John Foy,keeper of the restaurant in the basement of theCapitol, and famous for his witty sayings. Gen. U. S. Grant (marble statue) byFranklin Simmons, the gift of the GrandArmy to the United States. Washington(bronze bust) by David dAngers;Lafayette (marble bust) by DaviddAngers; Abraham Lincoln (marlDle head)by Gutzon Borglum; Washington (plastercast) by W. J. Hubbard. The eastern door of the rotunda opensupon the grand portico of the eastern front. The western door leads to the rearstairway descending a narrow hall to therear entrance of the Capitol and Pennsyl-vania Ave.; also to a balcony which givesan exceedingly interesting view toward the washin ton river, the Treasury, and northwestward. Rotunda of Capitoi Chas. Carroll Statuary Hall, Capitol Page 161. RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE 159 The northern door leads to the Supreme Court and onwardto the Senate Chamber. The southern door admits to Statuary Hall and the House of Representatives. Passing through the southern door and a circular vestibule,we emerge into a semi-circular hall 95 feet in greatest width,whose ceiling is a half dome 60 feet high, beneath which is aspacious gallery filled with the Library of the House of Rep-resentatives. The cupola, which admits such poor light asthe room now gets, was the work of a young Italian artistnamed Bonani, who died soon after, and who took his designfrom the Roman Pantheon. The arch is adorned with aneagle sculptured from life by Valperti, another Italian of highreputation, while a dignified model for a statue of Liberty,wrought in plaster by Causici in 1829, stands beneath thearch over the former position of the Speakers desk. Franzoni Clock. Above the entrance door, remains thef
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