Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1897 — WASHINCTON COSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINCTON COSSIP

The state, war and navy building was begun in 1871 and cost $10,000,000 to complete. The hall of the House of Representatives is the largest assembly room in the world. The Congress of the United States has met annually In Washington since Nov. 17, 1800. The Crawford bronze door of the Senate wing weighs 14,000 pounds and cost nearly $57,000. A marble column surmounted by a statue of Lincoln stands in front of the district courthouse. The new naval observatory at Washington is one of the finest scientific plants in the world. General Winfield Scott fathered the soldiers’ home, which was established by Congress in 1857. Ainsworth R. Spofford has been librarian of Congress since 1864. His salary is $4,000 a year. It costs about SIOO,OOO a year to run the White House exclusive of the President’s salary of $50,000. The columns of the eastern portico of the capital are each solid blocks of sandstone thirty feet high. The Rogers bronze doors at the main entrance of the eapitol tell the history of Columbus and cost $28,000. The treasury building was completed in 1869 at a cost of $8,000,000. , It is the largest government department. The postoffice department building was erected in 1839 and extended in 1855, at a cost of over $2,000,000. The terraces of the eapitol were only completed In 1891, the total cost of the building footing up $14,455,000. The bronze propeller of the famous flagship, the Hartford, was cast into the statutes of Admiral Farragjit,