Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — At the End of a Century. [ARTICLE]

At the End of a Century.

On the centenary of Washington’s birth in 1832, Congress proposed to remove his body to the crypt prepared for it under the domq of the Capitol, but John A. Washington, then the owner of Mount Vernon, refused to allow it to be done, and the government was obliged to content Itself with the

purchase of tho portraits by Peale and Yanderlyn and the commission for the well-known statue of Greenough, intended for the rotunda. This was also the occasion for the fortunate selection of the design for the Washington monument. Divine service was hefd in the Capitol, there was a dinner at the famous Brown’s Hotel, where Daniel Webster spoke for an hour, a ball “for the gentry” at Carusi's saloon and “another for mechanics and tradesmen” at the Masonic Temple