Show bb V D BUT THERE ed CITY OF washington agton Wha whatever tover loyalty an all kmer amerlean ican may feel sot for his horn he lie regards a washington as its alo also big hi own hoew are the to 0 a and girl girls t aau odor folk folks too win vito do not tot have hoim adf if indeed they do hot not have definite alaris i lane to visit thor capital city they expect some day days with their oa nye to we see the great dumel u building on the hill where vie c law lawn re dmd an a I 1 interpret d anil anti to bave i 1 ilose los up tip view of the veite house at tho other end ot of thy avenue rid d of the lite ot vr r famed spots which will I 1 ftp orp fro to make Iii etory real to them it U i itale to ray may that ill III who fondly re ga I 1 A ae as their conatty look up on u washington his i their representative tit and 1 when the of ther coun arlt I 1 thIn krof abl i few toul coultry try 1 especially capeci ally in lr it international relation relations they attak aak of c A oll often up icmat in the inanda of european tur fur dip komats ii Is A what hat will A think of thin this meas or allow will this 13 neasure be deu in JU WA agreements ato ar made be jt 1 tween londin or of cratit or rome or ta or vienna aad M ashington A 1111 ait il 1 tn in higton hIg tOA that the diplo ii astle e note notes are prepared elating stating un V t c batte joins Bt tte olha in international 41 t t falt mid tid it 1 Is to Vail hington thai that the MU 2 v nw nye es as ent sent brunt frunt rum ruthc moreover Alere Nore over over it was wim to washington that delegates from froin all the world came to attend the armament limitation Lixi tation cod farence fi rence washington not abw yorks y ork or boston or I 1 hil adolphin or chicago 7 tanda stands to the outside world as a the or the symbol ot of the united states A and great statesmen have ha a recognized the e character eha rafter of wah wash fagton no mar mair ot an all american ever understood stood babert or loved america more than jimes itryce former am bas cassador from 1 aglan arst 1 whose book on i the Arne american rican commonwealth cognion wealth is aup of the beet best and mst authoritative works on the an Aia rican government when in 1013 mr bryco wits addres ling sing the committee of one If hundred undred for or I 1 ft future at of washington he said in bliesa the iiii icem may at not the city ct of wahington feel that its mission ID to life ie Is to be the ment of the and the stateliness att f if 1 e whole notion nations to be lie ae as well a ajla ild by vy tho drevlou loti sl eaker a capital of capital als a capital for tho the whole nation the capital capitals of the several nevera id states as much as a the nation overta over tc s 1 other t t bat ent all that la s 0 finest i in t A eg ebe 1 rieng eption all th IA Is largest a id d lutill notts in american 4 thought embodying the tile I 1 batione ta aci 11 idea 1 of wl WI at the cai cal ital of BJ a naton t n be 10 washington I 1 Is on one ity city that la is peculiarly untie sam fiame it ftp rep in a way that no ether ather doe does the great government and lor for it stands and yd yet while white it it au hia his city hie his how allow cit i it is oque u aik 11 X ie in the groa great teet tte city tt t la 14 fie I 1 ark rity it it Is the only elt etti planned roro rom ite its foun found datti n it I 1 ie is the only city bi bt longing to thu the entire notion nation it is in the only elty where ln la ie to sum li Is the heaviest lest tux tax payer it is I 1 the theoroy orly city whose ta do net act have a oice in their aln lr onn ou bov av 1110 site lifsen for the cit was wa the result of n compromise states annl citie cities north and louth mouth had offered in u du cement for the privilege of 0 hai ing lug the proposed capital in their but io 10 state or existing exl ting cit elt wae as givel the tile coveted honora honor location as final ly cl 1 I own orsen a be en the north an ani I 1 mouth a district dietri pt 10 mites sluane situated ou oil I 1 loll 1011 oth side sides of the potomac 1 the portion north and fast east of thi the river rivers coiled to the th government ly the state of maryland Muty lund is in now the deetie Di etie of columbia for the tile portion scout bouth ad I 1 went of the Poto inac inae once a part of pf the ciN triet wai was afterward ceded back to I 1 the te ota of NIr birginia gInIA the present ills i brict of 3 61 ml nil 64 la in arcag area lying between maryland aril an virginia on the potomac ac river ie Is ad shir ably situated for the development of a superb city uncle sam abing the fact that the city on the po PG Is i his reception room has taken pride in embellishing it for thu pur put pose in developing and anti improving its it lie lins has ben been following very largely a plan which wa was s devised away back in the infant dayd hy of the republic who when the bite P we the he future capital was as ay ap yet a and in iru lils lil planning nil ho he his inis had tto important advant ax es in thi first place places there BI as nothing in the way 0 01 costly building buildings sewers end and other works ou on or under the ground that baht prevent an ideal treatment sit enl I 1 seconds eee onil he lit had the 4 vantage of a uter tater mind to plan for the future city a man who 1 planned so nobly that it took 5 care vars of growth for others to appreciate the full worth of the plan upon our firt first pre lent washing ton tov himself a surveyor of ability de do evolved the duty of laying out the city A i r this work he called to his at nil I 1 pierre Clin chirle rles LI L enfant a young army officer and engineer engineers who ud ad come to thi this country from fwee to l lp in the struggle for enato to this brilliant young officer wa was given the talk task of planning the city though Ww wellington hington worked marked with him the plan so well conceit I 1 that tie line fine an ans commission more than years yeats latier after sifter visiting flail gad in eving the lb various european j uro penn capital capitals reported that tile lenfant plan cannot can not be improved improve dr I 1 ilia plan is the bait baid of 0 nil all I 1 int nt la Is nuble noble in the design of wast ington 0 an all I 1 alo aloo the guile for or flutur development hence the paper papers that embody hid his ideal ideals have an significance as the city cf ct washington Washing tun develops dee dei lopa as a one of the treat great capitals of the corll if struggles with landowner landou erm ami aud speculate epe culat ora ors exasperated george it t w aull be expected that the high spirit el french visionary whoa lively ira fm agitation agi nation as ar beyond today would go down don before th tiam m lie ife dil did no great work after 1792 17 et he met hi el till and is fallt tall veil nell proportioned proportion cil figure arrayed in I 1 ell cro ne I 1 halt hat conr lon bont aal an I 1 knee greechie bre echie ts waa was seen ilailo 11 in malting aking ite its way over the sit vil estreet it to of c the oung young espital which lie he devig designed ned but bui f d ach othera were the kredit Is report of the librarian of congress 1920 19 10 regard ing a valuable acquisition of lenfant papers one an do decumen doc cumens umen there va a p of miny m iny oare ears following 10 ae lo cadron on when the LUn lenfant tant plan was was forgotten or worse wor seb by men who probably were too practical jo have any rise for at art haile letie effect effects or harmony of dign and so 0 o a number of government baill ing ings have hae bean been erected in a style not at all in keeping with the tile original plan and other building buildings have been so tie nils mis locate located as a to war very materially the unity of the origin nil d plan this plan for instance eld ld not contemplate the erection 0 building where it would wohld obstruct the view from the white millie to the capitol it was president Jeck beckson son we are told who in 1830 when ali there ere was a dispute regarding the location of the treasur treasury r building thrust his cane into the ground aay saying ing build it here and there it was built with the los loss of the beautiful vieta vista down the avenue doubtless many thou thousand sandi of persons walking riding or mar marching ehing up Itin sylvania avenue have wondered wh why the treasury building bui liling stani out across the avenue like a sore til limb to offset this error or rather to aug ment it the state war and anti nay bull I 1 ing was erected at a inter date lite on the opposite side of the white houses so that in of its hat haling ing a colinan a I 1 ing view in all directions the white house is shut off fam a view down clown the main avenues more afore recently another imi octant i ista was bcd by bull buil I 1 ing the library of con Arest accas as aca nayl vania this is the third library in size in the world and second to none in ning mag ence it was wits built in isdo 1897 at a cost of more than it con balms mort lan ian 60 50 miles of sh eving and in 19 0 held 2 bound vol limes unies besides immense quantities of m apa drewing and other olber alaa bli 1 matter fortunately the fine arts commis sion ia la recent yeara has acne excellent work in preventing the ereL cret tiou of permanent unsightly and in having moat most of the buildings that have hae been erected liar itemize in architecture and und ia in location with the tile general plan this commission was uns created as tho rt suit butt of a growing delro desire in t develop the nty city ar anil worthily ort hily which the commemoration of the looth anniversary sliver sarv of the founding of the city in harmony with tic gru griming ing sentiment entime nt for the in of washington the senate that a plan be prepared and submitted the I 1 ahing r of this plan was entrusted to daniel IT burnham and charles P me vc kjan augustus saint gaud ens sculptor and iredelle lc law olin 1 ste stead a landscape archi architect teci th the e first three of these and the father of the fourth ld lad a few years beare be re directed in the arrangement of the buildings and grounds of the beautiful white city the t chicago exposition of 1803 1893 this pl sn iv ported to the denute 1 by senator james demilla 0 from the committee on the Di district of columbia plan was an all pra of the LIEn lenfant faut plan to make it contemn conform to the growing city there thero was no I initiative action to make the plan author authoritative dative but later the tile aninion co of fine fiat arts was created treated fa a permanent advisory board ard in ginneral th recommendations of this commission shiell is working for the d ey of the lenfant LEn faut mcmillan Ilan plan plans have been put into execution floine buildings but not erected iu it accord will wit the plan arc are now centrally gen trally con ceded to have been a mistake washington ashington IN is unique among ameri cau call cities la that it Is the borne home of I 1 the federal government it la Is a cap ital of capitals ot it has no other ex euse cuse for it wa was located and built for a capitian capit lal ial take taki the govern ment away and washington could ni ali support itself without a complete e construction it Is unique among the cities of thu the world in that from the first it wan was a planned city it ie Is true that paris parts wae was partially torn down to make a more beautiful city and it is true that oth er Furo Fur pein orein and american clelis arv ar beautiful in la spots but buts i ii the wod of a writer in a awls paper papers washington Is I 1 a jewel to get the fall full force of this expression one should asetta gome some eminence eminences na as the wash inton monument or the capitol dac dime when the tree art in n leaf and drink in the kurpat sur ning loveliness of the bowl jowl largely target haium 3 in by thi th hills and so 0 o interspersed with mith trees and park parks as oil to appear like a garden city it if Is unique in that it is 11 the tile only american city in which the inhabitant inhabitants are completely disfranchised and yet it is probably the best gover governed led city in the united states for there is no opportunity for the petty politics and graft that mar the tile government of so many other cities the city is go arned by three dommi commissioners ed by the presidents president the laws are made by congress con greas each house of which has a committee on an the district Dietr lct of col embla the people of wi wellington lington are asking that at least they be given rep menta tives in cong congress Tess for the he pop of the Dir district triet of columbia is larger than that of some states la in diew few of the fact that the eity city has no vote it has been divided into districts each p h has its citizens assoria cla tion bere there the needs and the slices once of the community are discussed there Is also a central federation made up of ives from all the tile local which brings before the ern committee matters in which the people of the district if nf col embla arc are interested in this wa desirable legislation Is procured washington is to also allo unique f has been in ilia that it lias has aso io official fal recognition as it city cinq 1871 ali the federal government has recognized no city of washington pt congress ap points one lot each houst commit tees on the district of columbia A all laws are made for the district of col lot ambia tir sibia the police force keeps order in the district of Co colombia lambla the courts have jurisdiction oer the dis dig triet of columbia the commissioners administer tue the government of the tile dis dig tritt triet of columbia Columb ta this ho however weer is only a matter of name for washing ton and the district oc of cel embla arc are the tile samo it may hare have teen a e source of consolation that the post office was still aliel c wahington that trains all came into washington and that hc outside world knew it as washington another pot rot ree of satisfaction is the act ehst president II It arding ardin has recently issued oters oil rs that all depart menta ments and bu bureaus reatis and agencies of the federal government goern go ment revert to the old name national cai ital city of washington this order however ably will not affect congress and the tile courts which presumably ably will still dil with the tile district of columbia washington is alao also unique in is the fact that uncle sim sam is in the larrest taxpayer ta payer lor I 1 or many years the federal government paid one half of all the taxes of the city or in other words made an rp p atlon covering one onelia half lf the expenditure pend iture of the city and he had the largest eay say as to what those expend lutes ures should be at the present time the government pys pays 40 per tent cent an and pral bolders li 60 per cent tent ai of th taxes an another other unique feature Is 19 that tha t the federal government gove own owns all the park parks and public arounds of which there are many in the city and sad place places their ad ministration under chief of en St sars rs united state army elc pt where otherwise provided by yawp law and by fly his orde they are under the im in mediate supervision of the officer officers in charge of public buiM build laga ligi and grounds the tile original thought in having broad diagonal avenues uve with open spaces at their intersections was wu to have place places of vantage that might be ald by b troops in t e of insurrection is the artistic artl treat treatment mont of these squares and circles give an added charm to toe the city the area vest west of the tile capitol ground grounds w w carlil oa tho tl rasp all au all pen opa 1 plana affording anH Bg art ad approach to mat 11 IT similar Bini ilai tp fi kl lue ue one end bit the fratt east the flaa ilan of 1001 aims aiila tu to restore thie area tracks which formerly fon neily romacil crossed roa 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