The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . r, is the signal by day of thesession of the House beneath. Untillate years, except during the sittingsof Congress, no flag floated from thenations Capitol. This oversightwas first pointed out by ColonelRichard J. Bright, Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate, through whose patriotic: efforts the following clause wasinserted in the sundry civil appropriation bill, approved August 18, 1894: To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the centre of«the Capitol,to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol Police board, one hun-dre
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . r, is the signal by day of thesession of the House beneath. Untillate years, except during the sittingsof Congress, no flag floated from thenations Capitol. This oversightwas first pointed out by ColonelRichard J. Bright, Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate, through whose patriotic: efforts the following clause wasinserted in the sundry civil appropriation bill, approved August 18, 1894: To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the centre of«the Capitol,to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol Police board, one hun-dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. bike provision hasbeen made each year since. Out of respect for noted dead, the flags float athalf-mast, and in a very few instances the Capitol has been partially draped inblack. On gala days, flags wave in the breeze from staffs placed near the topof the dome, and a few years since, for a short time, arc lights with reflectorswere there suspended for the purpose of more effectively lighting the 62 The National Capitol Dome-Entrance and View.—The narrow, tortuous stairway whichleads to the dome rises from the circular vestibule before the entrance to theoffice of the Marshal of the Supreme Court. There are 365 steps in the ascen-sion, one for each day in the year. The birds-eye view from either the loweror upper circular balcony which encompass the dome amply repays the is graphically described by Mr. Spofford in his Eminent and Represen-tative Men of Virginia and the District of Columbia : Viewed from thevantage-ground of the capitol dome, or even the western portico, or morewidely from the top of the Washington monument, the environs of Washing-ton present a landscape of rare beauty and varied effect. The near viewincludes the mass of the city, thickly covered with dwellings, stores, andshops, intersected by the two great arteries of Pennsylvania avenue, runningto the treasury, and Maryland avenue, runni
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