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Show Spring Under Capital 8quarc. Beautiful landscape gardening makes Franklin Square ono of the most attractive at-tractive of the numorous breathing spaces of Washington and Its green sward covers a splendid spring containing an Inexhaustible Inexhausti-ble supply of puro sparkling water, which was used for tho tens of thousands of soldiers who encamped en-camped there and on the contiguous blocks of ground during the civil war; a spring which for moro than half a century supplied ihe WMio Houso with cooking and drinking water, tliroiiRl, wooden piping beneath tlio ground. |