Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ave, before many years, a population ofhalf a million people. Sagacious men are of the opinion that event-ually the vast and unequaled water-power of the upper Potomac willbe utilized for manufacturing purposes, and that the city will thenbecome the centre of a great industrial district, producing goods forthe southern and southwestern markets. From a city of malaria andlarge deat
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ave, before many years, a population ofhalf a million people. Sagacious men are of the opinion that event-ually the vast and unequaled water-power of the upper Potomac willbe utilized for manufacturing purposes, and that the city will thenbecome the centre of a great industrial district, producing goods forthe southern and southwestern markets. From a city of malaria andlarge death rate, it has become, by wise sanitary measures, a salubri-ous place of residence, and its death rate, despite a large floating pop- HEALTH OF THE CITY. 67 ulation, is very low, averaging about 17-48 per 1,000. Its climate inwinter is usually mild and genial, the spring months are delightful,and the heat in summer rarely exceeds that in the cities several hun-dred miles to the northward. There is no reason to believe that itwill not always remain the national capital, and as the country in-creases in greatness and opulence, this city, the seat of government,is likely to fully share in the general A FEW MOMENTS OF LEISURE.
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