. 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 .. . At this time an English tourist wrote of it: Thewhole place looks run up in a night, like the cardboard cities Potem-kin erected to gratify the eyes of his imperial mistress on her tourthrough Russia ; and it is impossible to remove the impression that,when Congress is over, the place is taken down and packed up tillwanted CHAPTER III. GROWTH OF WASHINGTON SINCE 1S70-THE
. 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 .. . At this time an English tourist wrote of it: Thewhole place looks run up in a night, like the cardboard cities Potem-kin erected to gratify the eyes of his imperial mistress on her tourthrough Russia ; and it is impossible to remove the impression that,when Congress is over, the place is taken down and packed up tillwanted CHAPTER III. GROWTH OF WASHINGTON SINCE 1S70-THE IMPROVEMENTS BY THE BOARD OFPUBLIC WORKS —A WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY THE EXPEN-DITURE OF TWENTY MILLIONS —CHARACTERISTICS OF THE QUEENLY POTO-MAC CITY—ITS GOVERNMENT, POPULATION, AND BUSINESS—THE SPACIOUSSTREETS AND AVENUES, FINE PARKS AND SQUARES — STATUES TO WARHEROES—LONG BRIDGE —THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. IN the year 1870 Washington was suddenly aroused from its leth-argy. After seventy years of existence it had not realized theexpectations of its friends, or greatly lessened the opposition ofits enemies. It was in a critical condition. Its use by the Fed-eral soldiers in the Civil War had made thousands of intelligent North-ern men familiar with its discomforts, its shiftlessness, and its entirelack of the desirable qualities that the seat of government of theAmerican Nation should possess. There was nothing hopeful orpromising about it. Young cities in the West had grown importantand prosperous by their own e
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