Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . enry-Bonnard Bronze Co.,N. Y., and erected byCong, under A. of1882-4. Weight ofStatue, 1,400 lbs.,height, 98; cost,$14,000; cost ofPedestal, MarylandGranite, lo high,$3,200, total, $17,-200. It representsthe Admiral with hisleft foot forward, andearnestly gazing at an object in the dis- ^ tance, having alreadysurveyed it with hismarine glasses whichhe holds in his hand and which he is in the act of dropping. Theerection of this Statue grew out of a pe
Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . enry-Bonnard Bronze Co.,N. Y., and erected byCong, under A. of1882-4. Weight ofStatue, 1,400 lbs.,height, 98; cost,$14,000; cost ofPedestal, MarylandGranite, lo high,$3,200, total, $17,-200. It representsthe Admiral with hisleft foot forward, andearnestly gazing at an object in the dis- ^ tance, having alreadysurveyed it with hismarine glasses whichhe holds in his hand and which he is in the act of dropping. Theerection of this Statue grew out of a petition prepared by Commo-dore Clark H. Wells, signed by Admirals Porter and Rowan,Secretary of the Navy, Thompson, Gen. Sherman, and others, andsubmitted to the Senate. Admiral Dupont distinguished himselfin the War with Mexico, i846-8., and in the Rebellion, unveiling exercises, Dec. 20, 1884, consisted of Prayer byRev. W. A. Leonard, St. Johns P £. Church. The unveiling ofthe Statue. Address by Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Del. A RearAdmirals salute of 13 guns. Office Engineer.—Congress annually appropriates, for salaries,. THOMPSONS DUPONT. BOTANICAL GARDEN. 41 the improvement and care of the public grounds not otherwise specially assigned ;repairs and refurnishing the Presidents House, green-houses, and for fuel; light-ing the Capitol, Presidents House, and public^grounds; and construction and re-pairs of all bridges on the Potomac and Anacostia, and repairing and extension ofGovernment water-pipes. Propagating Garden.—The Government Propagating Gar-den, originally on Missouri av., between 3d and 4^ sts. W.,is beautifully situated on the banlvs of the Potomac, S. of theWashington Monument. The garden covers 8 a. The forc-ing houses are supplied with apparatus for the propagationand growth of plants of the rarest species and varieties. In1872, from the old garden, upwards of 20,000 papers of flowerseeds were collected and cured. These, with surplus plants,som
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