Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . eet have beenlaid. Add to this seventy miles of tile-sewer, and eight milesof brick main sewerage through which a buggy can be drivenwith ease, and the obliteration of the old Tiber Creek and canalby one of the largest sewers in the world, in diameter fro
Historic sketches at Washington : containing a full record of the origin and early history of Washington City and its founders, together with a detailed account of its growth, its public buildings, the style and extravagance of living there, and a description of the inside workings of the lobby, and the various departments of the government . eet have beenlaid. Add to this seventy miles of tile-sewer, and eight milesof brick main sewerage through which a buggy can be drivenwith ease, and the obliteration of the old Tiber Creek and canalby one of the largest sewers in the world, in diameter from 20to 30 feet, and you will see that old Washington is no landmarks have perished from the eye. And the namesof the streets are also to be changed,—those running from northto south to be numbered from First to Sixtieth, instead of Firststreet West, Second street East, etc. ; and those running fromeast to west are to be no longer lettered A, B, C, D, etc., butnamed, alphabetically, Adams, Benton, Clay, Douglas, etc., onone side, and Anderson, Bainbridge, Chauncey, Decatur, etc.,on the other. The Board of Public Works claims that, between 1802-72,the Federal Government has spent but $1,321,288 on the streetsof the Capital, while the municipality spent upon the same$13,921,767 j adding Georgetowns expenditure, $2,000, INSIDE SECTION OF THE DOME OF THE CAPITOL,WASHINGTON.
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