. 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 . Mosaic —How theMosaic Ceilings Were Constructed — The Mural Paintings and WallDecorations — A Fairy Scene by Night — Countless Electric Lights —Famous Mosaic of Minerva — A Marvelous Achievement—The Lan-tern at the Top of the Dome — Architectural Splendors — IngeniousApparatus for Carr
. 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 . Mosaic —How theMosaic Ceilings Were Constructed — The Mural Paintings and WallDecorations — A Fairy Scene by Night — Countless Electric Lights —Famous Mosaic of Minerva — A Marvelous Achievement—The Lan-tern at the Top of the Dome — Architectural Splendors — IngeniousApparatus for Carrying Books — How the Library Is Connected Withthe Capitol — An Underground Tunnel — The Alcoves — Forty-fiveMiles of Strips of Steel. T the threshold of one century rose the Capitol,slowly unfolding in its majesty and grandeur,growing as the nation grew, out of weakness,often painfully, into strength, till at last itsmighty dome was lifted against the sky, the sym-bol of a great and a united people. At the thresh-old of another century rose another building, unfoldingquickly, easily, and in beauty, like a lily — — blossoming in stone —A vision, a delight, and a desire —The builders perfect and centennial flower. The new Library of Congress is a monument of a nation (417). 418 MONUMENTS OF A NATIONS GREATNESS. which has emerged from the darkness of doubts and dangersinto the full glory of conscious power. Every stone in theCapitol was the promise of a nation yet to be ; every stonein the Library of Congress is the symbol of fulfillment. Itis peculiarly fitting that the two great structures shouldstand near each other; that in the sunlight, from the timeit breaks over the eastern hills till it lingers faintly in thewest, the gleam of the great white dome and the glisteningof the gilded one should mingle in a single setting of they are emblematic of the people. They belongto the people. It is the peoples Capitol, and it is the peo
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