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Show LINCOLN MONUMENT SITE. If ha been decider! by the hoard of control that the $2,000,000 Lincoln monument which con-greKg'hftft con-greKg'hftft ordered to he erected in Waffliington i to be located in Potomac park, south of the Washington Wash-ington monument. The windom of that decision cannot he considered until we know the nature of the memorial that it to be upraised If it is to be broad and flat, then that is the, worst possible pos-sible site; hut if it is to be high and majestic, in some respects like the Washington monument, it is well enough. Still, we Wlieve that s better site would have been the other way from the Washington monument, up on the high lands, for the planting of a great monument in low lands is liable to have a squatty look when jt ia finished. fin-ished. The location of the monument on the site which; ie -marked -wt.-on- -ft- face tanks' like twdne interest on the part of some Washington real estate es-tate dealers. The reason Washington was planted dowi. in that flat, was because of the shrewdness of old George himself. It was he who obtained the site, for congress one evening voted that the capital should be at Annapolis. Old (veorge was a little busy that night, and the next day congress voted to reverse the previous day's work and locate the site on Washington's land on the Potomac. Then the price of realty was so cheap in the valley and so exorbitant on the high land that the city was built where it is. That accounts for the fact that. Washington died worth a million of dollars, but the city waa an unsightly mud hole for yeara until one shrewd man got control and paved the city. He was roundly cursed at the time, but almost all Washington people now will testify to hia far sightedness. |