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DIME HAND-BOOK
OF THE
Iil]\TioiiiJ\L Capital,
THE MOST COMPLETE aVIDE TO THE
CITY OF WASHINGTON
EVER PUBLISHED. .
WASHINGTON, D. C.
C. W. BROWN & CO.. PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
923 F STREET, N. W.
1884.
2i StatneoCWasTiIngton.
22 5tatne of "Washington.
23 JStatue of Jackson.
24 Corcoran Gallery of Art,
i") Botanical Gardens.
26 Congressional Cemetery.
Naval Hospital. ^
Statue of Emancipation.
29 Statue of Rawfins.
30 Statue of Scott.
SI Government Printing Office
82 Statue of Greene.
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33 Naval Monument.
34 Statue of Thomas.
35 Judiciary Square,
86 btatue of McPherson.
37 Dupont Circle.
38 Iowa Circle.
39 Bureau.Engraving & Print' gv
40 Liberty. Square.
4i IlationaLInsane Asylum.
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REFERENCES.
7 Interior rnrpartment, -1 Stameof Waslilngton.
1 Capitol. o Post Office Department. 22 Sutoe of "Washington.
2 Executive Mansion. •>
Department of Justice. 23
8 State/War, & Navy Dep i
10
Statue of Jackson.
Department orAgricuIture. '-i Corcoran Gailery of Art.
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5
Treasury.Department.
Statue of B'arragut.
U Naval Ob<;ervatorir. ^"'
botanical Gardens.
12 Arsenal. 2t| Congressional Cem'etery.
6 KationaLMuseum. Vj Navy Yard. •^ Naval Hospital.
li Alanne Barracks. '•K Statue of Emancipatiiiii.
16 City Hall. 20 Statue of Rawfln«.
Itf District Jail. SO Statue of Scott.
17 CityAsylum. 31 Government Printing OHicc
18 Markets. 82 Statue of Greene.
i|ODQ'.a[Z]B"^. 19 Smithsonian Institution, 38 Naval Monument.
2(i Washington Monumentt 84 Statue of 1 homas.
85 Judiciary Square.
36 Statue of McPherson.
87 Dupont Circle.
38 Iowa Circle,
Bureau Engr ving & Print'gl
40 Liberty Square.
41. NationaLInsane Asylum,
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ILABTLABD
ILLUSTRATED
DimeHand-Book
OF THE
NATIONAL GAPITAl .
CITY OF WASHINGTON
EVER PUBLISHED.
CONTAINING
AND ALL
Necessary Instructions, and Directions, for the Guidao^
of Persons visiting the Capital of the Nation. /*/v
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-PR 17 1824
WASHINGTON, D. C,
C. W. Brown & Co., Printers and Pi.iblishers,
1884.
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Copyright, 1884.
By J. M. Morrison.
/ COXTEXTS
apitol . 7
'lunches 81
/olleges 28
Congress 9
Jorcoran Art Gallery 21
/ourt of Claims 17
)iagrams of the Capitol 10, 12, 14
>irect()ry of Points of Interest 25
")istrict Iludiciary 5
)istrict of Columbia 5
jxeoiitive Departments. — Agricultural 17
Interior 15
Justice 17
Navy 13
Post Office 17
State la
Treasury 13
War .
"
13
Kxecutive Mansion 11
'government Printing Office 21
'"•ides \ 35
Hotels 33
Insane Asylum 21
liOuise Home 21
i\Iedical Museum 19
Mount Vernon 21
National Museum 19
Newspapers 33
Pian of Washington q
Public Parks .
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99
Public Schools 23
uiilroad Depots ! ! 33
•uthsonian Institution 19
witues and Monuments 27
rreet Passenger Lines
29
:i|>reme Court of United States . . . 17
; tieatresand Amusements 31
''Ite Government 9
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
\
OF THE
\ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
the alphabet, beginning on each side of the central east and west
line with the letter A and followed, extending on the one side
north and on the other side south, by tlie succeeding letters of the
alphabet to which are added the words " north " or " south," a«^
1st Street and radiating east and west, and the words " easfj or
" west" are added to the number to designate their relative posi-
tion to the central line ; thus, 1st Street east or 1st Street west, &c.
The building numbers are also regulated by these central lines
Number 1 being the first number on each side of East Capitol,
North Capitol, and South Capitol Streets upon their respective
transverse streets. As West Capitol Street, A Street north, and A
Street south, west of the Capitol, do not exist, the numbers north
and south on the streets crossing the central line west of the Capi-
tol begin at 200.
Each intersection of a numbered street by a lettered street, (and
vice versa, ) indicates an advance of one hundred numbers; thus
on A Street north, at the intersection of 1st Streot west, the first
number would be 100, at 2d Street 200, at 3d Street 300, and so
on,and on 1st Street, at the intersection of A Street, the first
number would be 100, at B Street 200, at C Street 300, &c.
The avenues are desitriied to facilitate transit diagonally across
their intersection of the other streets does not
affect
.ity, and
liie building numbers. The numbers upon the avenues are gov-
.'rned by the which they cross at an acute angle. Thus
streets
vt Ave., Conn. Ave., &c., are numbered the same as the num-
'>f>red streets, while the numbers on Pa. Ave., N.
Y. Ave., Mass.
vc, &c., are the same as on the lettered streets.
THE CAPITOL.
The Capitol fronts eastward, and stands upon an eminence 90
ct above tide water.
The corner stone of the main building was laid, Sept. 18, 1793,
y President Washington; the north wing being completed in
^00, and the south wing in 1811. The interior of both wings, and
le wooden passage-way connecting them, were burned by
the
THE GOVERNMENT
the United States is divided into three branches, namely : the
islative, which enacts all laws ; the executive, which is charged
:h their enforcement; and the judicial, which interprets the
e meaning and intent of the laws, and their constitutionality.
The Congress constitutes the legislative branch ; the President,
led b;/ his Cabinet advisers and their subordinates, the execu-
THE LEGISLATIVE.
'I'll*' <'o3!!g-ress consists of a Senate and House of Repre-
and holds annual sessions in the Capitol, beginning on
ntatives,
le first Monday
in December.
The term of a Senator is six years, and his salary $5,000 per
mum.
A Congressional term is two years, and the salary $5,000 per
mum. The Speaker of the House of Representatives receives
8,000 per annum.
Each State is represented by two Senators, who are elected by
e respective legislatures.
rhe people are directly represented by the members of the
. use of Representatives, who are apportioned to the States ac-
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ling to population, and are elected bj- the direct votes of the
pie in their several representative districts. The total nuni-
of Kepresentatives is now 325.
athough the Senate is, relatively, the higher body, its legisla-
;power is co-equal with that of the House of Kepresentatives,
he votes of a majority of the members of each body are re-
red to enact a law.
'he Vice President of the United States is, "ex-oflficio," Presi-
"
it of the Senate, and in his absence a President " pro tempore
lected, by the Senate, to preside.
lie presiding officer of the House of Representatives is styled
Speaker, and is elected by a majority vote of the members of
House at the opening of each Congress.
Ml incomplete legislation expires with the CongTess in which it
^dnates and will be new legislation in any subsequent Congress,
lOugh it may have been passed by one house in the preceding
ngress.
rUe President may return to the body in which it originated,
th his objections thereto,any measure which has been passed by
ngress and of which he disapproves, and unless it be then
ssed by the votes of two-thirds of all the members of each house
fails to become a law,
THE EXECUTIVE.
The President of the United States is the executive head
the government and directs all its affairs. His approval is re-
lired to complete all legislative enactments unless they are
ssed, over his veto, by the affirmative votes of two-thirds of all
Mice the nnme^ " The White House." The main building is 170
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feet ill length, 90 feet in depth, and two stones in height. The
East Room, which is open for the inspection of the public from 10
A. M. to 3 P. M., is 80 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 22 feet high.
The other rooms are private, although visitors are sometimes ad-
mitted to the green, blue, and red parlors. The offices and sleep-
ing apartments are on the second floor.
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audit, all accounts ; each auditor haviug assigned, for his exami-
nation, specific classes of accounts.
Here are engraved, and printed, all the United States Treasury
notes, National Bank notes, Internal Revenue starrips. Treasury
warrants, &c.
The Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Sur-
vey is charged with the survey of the coasts, and the navigable
rivers, of the United States, and with the triangulation of the in-
terior of the country.
The Revenue Marine Service ; the Marine Hospital Service ; the
Inspection of Steam Vessels ; the Bureau of the Mint ; the Bureau
of Statistics; the Life Saving Service; and other minor branches
of the public service, are also under the supervision of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
3DXE0UTIVE MANSION.
TKEASUKY DEPARTMENT.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT..
(Patent Offiok.)
;
'I'lie salaries of tlie Chief Justice and his associates is tlie same
$4,000 per annum.
Prof. Joseph Henry, the eminent scientist, and the actual inven-
tor of the electric telegraph, was its first Secretary, and, at his
death, he was succeeded by Prof. Spencer F. Baird, its present
incumbent.
'J'he mineralogical, zoological, and anthropological collections
exhibited in the spacious halls of the building are of great interest.
domicile first in the Patent Office, and, after 1858, in the Smith-
sonian Institution, until the completion, in 1882, of the large and
handsome building which stands to the eastward of the Smith-
sonian building, and for the erection of which Congress, four years
before, appropriated $250,000.
The building is fireproof and is a perfect square, the sides being
327 feet, each, in length. The dome is 90 feet in height.
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LOUISE HOME,
the object of which is to furnish a i)leasant as^dum for indigent
snuthern gentlewomen.
The Art Gallery is open to the public daily (except Sunday)
from 9 A. M. to 4 P. m. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
an admission fee of twenty-five cents is charged. No fee is charged
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
MT. VERNON,
the home of Washington, is 20 miles below the city, on the Vir-
SMITHSONIAjNT IWSTITXJTIOlNr.
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COLLEGES.
Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Kendall Green, M and
Boundary sts, n. e. _
Columbian University, s. e. cor. loth and H sts., u. w.
Jeorgetown College, Georgetown Heights.
"Toward University, 7th st. w., north of Boundary.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
White SciiooiiS.
i-2(iand I sts., n. w.
2(;th and R sts., n w.
i ;th and N sts., n. w.
.\nalostan Building, G st. bet.
21st and 22d sts., n. w,
Seaton Building, and 3d sts., n. w.
I st. bet. 2d
.A.bbott Building, N. Y. Ave. and 6th St., n. w.
P St. bet. 9th and Columbia sts,
th and I sts., n. e.
A''ebster Building, 10th and H sts., n. w.
Gale's Building, 1st st. and Mass. Ave., n. w.
VIorse Building, R st. bet. N, J. Ave. and 5th st., n. w
Jwining Building, 3d St. bet. N and O sts., n w.
vallack Building, Pa. Ave. bet. 7th and 8th sts., s. e. •
LOUIoE HOME.
Department of .Justice Huildins:.
-•art of Olriims,
^
and Dauib Asylum, 7th and M sts., n. e.
)eaf
Department of Justice, Pa. Ave. bet. loth and lo\i st«! p w. ,
ntiK- of Thomas, Circle, llth st. and Vt. Ave., ii. ^\^
Washington, Circle, 24th st. and Penn. Ave u,
' Washington, Capitol Grounds, P::ast Front,
ashington Monument, Mall, west of l4th St., w.
PUBLIC PARKS.
iirieultural Grounds, Mall bet. 12th and llth sts., w.
fsenal Grounds, Foot of i}/^ St., s. vv.
Braneli Line. From North Boundary vm 11th st. w., main line
from P St. n. to E st. n., to 9th st. w., to La. Ave., to 12th st. w., via
main line to 11th st.. s. w., to river front.
Free transfers to and from main line at either junction.
Foni'teeutli Street BraiicBi. From Pa. Ave. 8. on 11th st. w-
to Bureau Engraviiig and Printing. Fare 2 cents.
i'OIiUMBIA KAIILWAY.
From I5th st. w. via N. Y. Ave., Mass. Ave., and H^t. n., to city
line.
With the two exceptions specially named above, the fare on all
LEADING CHURCHES.
Bapti.st.— First ; i:>th st. w. bet. G and Hsts. n.
C'i'.lvary ; Cor. Sth and II sts,, n. w.
TSJEMO?.T mOTKI.. lUir. 2«J St ami I.a. Ave.
Ratk, ^'2.50 VKU HAY. Specinl Weeklv Rates.
E. W. I>i:M*»«>?f, Proi>ri€t<>r
ST. .IA.»a&-.» M4»g'Jh.E. (*'.i&ro|M,ii26 Pi<tii,) 9*a. a v. A' iith St. ii.w
First-class Restaurant and Cafe connected with the Hotel.
.
I.EVS W4>01>IJI Iiy, S»roi»rietor.
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NEWSPAPERS.
National Republican, (Rep.), dailj^ except Sunday.
AVashington Post, (Dem.), daily.
Evening Star, (Ind. Dem.), every afternoon, except Suiulay.
The Critic, (Dem.), every afternoon, except Sundaj-.
The Republic, (Rep.) every Saturday.
The Capital, (Dem.), every Sunday.
The Gazette, (Rep.), every Sunday.
The Chronicle, (Rep.), every Sunday.
The Herald, (Dem.), every Sunday.
RAILROAD DEPOTS.
Alexandria and Fredericksburg Ry., 6th and B sts., n. w.
Baltimore and Potomac R. R., (Penna.) 6th and B sts.. n. w.
Baltimore and Ohio R. R., N. J. Ave. and C St., n. w.
Virginia Midland Ry., 6th and B sts., n. w.
Washington and Alexandria R. R., 6th and B sts., n. w.
PRINCIPAL HOTELS.
Arlington Hotel, Vt. Ave. bet. H and I sts., n. w.
METROPOI.ITAX HOTEIi, Pa. Av., bet. 6th * 7th Sts. a. n
Rates, and 5^4.00 per day.
S3. 00, S^s.SO,
NI:L.1>E?V al ROBBl?fS, Proprietors.
GUIDES.
Authorized guides, wearing badges, will be found in the rotunda
>fthe Capitol who, for a fee of .50 cents an hour, will exhibit, and
ixplain, everything of interest in the building.
At the Treasury Department, and the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, guides are furnished, free of charge, upon application to
the officers of the guard in the respective buildings.
Guides cannot be had at any other of the public buildings.
Visitors should be very cautious in employing so-called guides in
various parts of the city, especially in the Capitol Grounds. Some
of these men are honest, and only desire reasonable compensation,
while others are mere tools for three-card monte, and bunco games,
and rob many a stranger of all his spare change, sometimes securing
large sums of money by various devices.
Beware of "guides" who wish to show you "Arlington," or to ))e
-iTTir^' ,n about the city. If employed they should be dis-
"".
iCy have described the points of interest at the
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building where tliey are found. Do not go into any park, or into
any building not named in the " Directory" as a public building,
with any of these pretended "guides."