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Show FAMOUS CAPITAL THEATER BURNED (Chi. .mo Tribune S;e !at Service.) W-XMIV'JTOX. H.---U midnight a fire' broie nut In the old byrcum the-n-cr and ib-strovcl tbe famous structure, wiiirh was bnilt s.iortly after ln. IV-fore IV-fore tb- civil war it whs .me o, tne ,etid-Inc ,etid-Inc thcut.-rs of WashliiKtnn and ..foe Jer-fc-ou w.x a ni'nd)cr of its stock com-.,,-iv Within the smir v alls of thn ho.'i was located in the old days Carusi a s.ilonn, a ball made famous by the events which took place there. The balls re,e-brarins re,e-brarins th irnuimiraUon ol I lesuient Monioo IS-'t: John Quincy Adams, ; ndrew Jackson. 1 Martin Van Hurnn, 1:,7 and William H-jiiiv Harrison, lsll. wJre all held at farusi's. in tiie case of Polk and Taylor. ( anisi s had t divide honors with tiie old National theater. , ,. Harvev's restaurant was als'o practically destroyed bv the. fire. Tni. in the days of the "elder Harvey, was perhaps the most noted restaurant in Washington. |