. Book of the Royal blue . ather and a dustydesert in dry. However, as time passedimprovements were made, and graduallythe inhabitants grew to be interested inthe progress of the city, and at one time arow of poplars was planted on either sideof this road, as it was then. In iSCii thefirst car line in the city was established,running from the Capitol to the creekseparating the city from Georgetown onthe west. Many vigorous protests werefiled against this action by people whothought the appearance of the Avenuewould be injured. The bob-tailed carsof that day, with a single horse (the driveralso
. Book of the Royal blue . ather and a dustydesert in dry. However, as time passedimprovements were made, and graduallythe inhabitants grew to be interested inthe progress of the city, and at one time arow of poplars was planted on either sideof this road, as it was then. In iSCii thefirst car line in the city was established,running from the Capitol to the creekseparating the city from Georgetown onthe west. Many vigorous protests werefiled against this action by people whothought the appearance of the Avenuewould be injured. The bob-tailed carsof that day, with a single horse (the driveralso being expected to see that passengersdropped the proper fare in the box), werenot things of beauty, but were an improve-ment on the stage coaches which theypartially supplanted. About 1870 the im-provement of the city became a burningissue, emphasized by an attempt to removethe Capitol to a more central point, andthe Board of Public Works made a decidedstep forward by paving Pennsylvania Ave- HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA ■THK KALKKIH HOTEL. BETWEEN 12TH AND 13TH STREETS nue with wooden blocks, which were thencoming into general use for city completion of the fourteen blocksbetween the Capitol and Treasury wascelebrated by a carnival extending overtwo days — February 20 and 21, of military and civic societies,floats showing the various industries of thecity, and even trotting races and tourna-ments, were held on the new surface, andballs and merrymakings were numerous. This style of pavement proved to be afailure, and was replaced a few years laterby the present concrete form, whicii is keptclean by sweepers, whose white uniformsand helmets add to the picturesque featuresof this i)ictures(iue street. Nearly everycivilized nation is represented at the capi-tal, and on this thoroughfare the natives ofmany countries — Turks, Chinamen, Rus-sians, Koreans and American Indians—allmay be met, and down this highway driveor stroll the men
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