. Book of the Royal blue . les from Chesa-peake Bay, afforded an opportunity to op-pose a hostile fleet ascending the a proclamation issued March 30, 1791,the President announced that the FederalDistrict had been located. This was ten IN AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. miles square, lying on both sites of theriver, about two-thirds being in Maryland,the remainder in Virginia, the cities ofAlexandria, \a., and Georgetown, Md.,being included. The chosen district was partly wood-land, marsh and hills, partly under culti-vation, most of the farm land being theproperty of four men, one of
. Book of the Royal blue . les from Chesa-peake Bay, afforded an opportunity to op-pose a hostile fleet ascending the a proclamation issued March 30, 1791,the President announced that the FederalDistrict had been located. This was ten IN AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. miles square, lying on both sites of theriver, about two-thirds being in Maryland,the remainder in Virginia, the cities ofAlexandria, \a., and Georgetown, Md.,being included. The chosen district was partly wood-land, marsh and hills, partly under culti-vation, most of the farm land being theproperty of four men, one of them, of whomWashington spoke as the obstinate Mr. would you have been worth if you had notmarried the widow Custis ? Georgetown, two miles west of the WhiteHouse, was separated from the new cityby what a Connecticut member describedas a deep morass covered with alderbushes, but has long since been first meeting of Congress was heldhere in November, 1800, the archives ofthe Government and all the employes, the. THK HOlSE OF REPHESENTATIVES- Burns, a surly Scotchman, owned theground where the White House, Treasuryand State, War and Navy buildings nowstand, and many a warm debate did Wash-ington have with Burns in endeavoring tohave him donate land for streets or build-ings. It is said that Washington lost his temperonce and asked what would your landhave been worth if we had not put theCapital here? and Burns replied, Yankeelike, with another question, and what latter numbering fifty-four, having beenbrought from Philadelphia on a couple ofsloops. The little village in the woods,with swamps and muddy roads, bore littleresemblance to the magnificent city of to-day, with stately mansions, marble andgranite office buildings, and hundreds ofmiles of wide streets and avenues borderedwith trees, paved with concrete, and pro-vided with numerous parks, many of themadorned with fountains or statues. Onecan imagine the disgust of the statesmen IN AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL CAPITA
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