COPYRIGHT DEPOSm ) Price, Ten Cents. A-B-C GUIDE Washington The whole thing in a nutshell." Containing a list of notable objects and places in city and vicinity, in order of popular interest ; a cab or foot tour of sights within the town limits; an alphabetical Index to the various objects and places, and a sumnnary of miscellaneous information, WITH DIAGRAMS. De^i^ii^d exprtssly for recreation-tourists wishing to use [ . / their own eyes andjucigjnents. jf^ Copyright, 1885, by CnARLEb F. Benjamin. WASHINGTQiBf^ Bv.C;. • \ «."» .-, . - J NOTABLE OBJFXTS I X ORDER OF IMPORTANCE. The following list attempts .to arrange the pop- ular sights of the city and vicinity, according to th€ comparative importance that a great majority of sight-seers would probably attach to them, after seeing them all. The object of the list is to enable a visitor, whose stay is short or uncertain, to see the most interesting things hrst. Eilsewhere. the visitor is shown how to proceed from one object to another without wasting time or travel. The visitor for a single day would have to forego Mount Vernon, Arlington and everything placed below the latter, and content himself with a walk over and about the Capitol (including the Botan- ical Garden, close by it,) and a visit to the Presi- dent's house, (including Lafayette Square, op- posite,) the Monument, Treasury, State, War and Navy Building, National Museum, Patent Office, Department of Agriculture and Corcoran Art Gal- lery ; and he should take them in this order : (5) h GUIDF. TO WASHINGTON. Capitol, Botanic Garden, Museum, Agricultural Department, Monument (looking in at the adja- cent Bureau of P2ngraving and Printing, if he can spare the time, ) Treasury, President's House, State, War and Navy Building, Art Gallery and Lafayette Square, and thence by street car (if not past 3:15 p. m.) to the Patent Office. Compass-Bearings.— The Capitol is the local meridian. A hne drawn lengthwise through its centre divides the city into East and West sections, and a line crosswise through its centre, into North and South sections, and this division explains the symbols N. E., N. W., S. E. and S. W., appended to the names of streets on lamps and corner build- ings. The 'Capitol faces directly east ; the streets indicated by letters run due east and west; those by figures due north and south, and those called avenues run diagonally in a variety of directions. Of the objects and places named in order of in- terest, twenty-six lie west of the Capitol, seven east of it, and nine beyond the city boundary. The main street is Pennsylvania avenue, from the west gate of the Capitol to the east gate of the Treasury, one mile long. A little northward is F street, running in the same general direction, and these streets are crossed, between the Capitol and Treasury, by 7th, 9th and 15th streets, and these are the streets that the visitor chiefly traverses dur- ing his sojourn. / GUIDE TO WASHINdTOX. 7 Capitol. — Meeting place of Congress and chief building in city, visible from Pennsylvania avenue (the main thoroughfare) and many other points, bv reason of lofty dome. Fronts due east and west. Face the bronze statue of Freedom on dome, hav- ing classical statue of Washington in the plaza to rear, and see, beside the middle steps, Columbus and Indian girl, representing" Discovery of America, and Hunter and Indian brave, representing Settle- ment of America. See above portico, to right of observer, group representing Progress of Civiliza- tion. See, beneath central porch, statues of War and Peace in wall-recesses, and the Rogers' bronze doors, with groups in panels representing (begin with lower panel, left side of observer) Columbus and the Council, Columbus starting for the Court, Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella, Colum- bus leaving Palos, Landing of the Spaniards (this is the top panel, above both doors), Columbus en- tering Barcelona, Degradation of Columbus, Death of Columbus. Enter the doors into Rotunda, to see the paintings on walls, the great fresco in the dome by Brumidi, the historical cartoons above the paintings, and the statuary groups over the four doors. Landing on Plymouth Rock, Penn's Treaty, Pocahontas and Captain Smith, and Daniel Boone and Indians. Face toward bronze doors, and to the right is the way to Statuary Hall and Hall of Rip- 8 GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. resentatives, mid to left the way to Supreme Court and Senate Chamber, all on same floor as Rotunda. In Statuary Hall notice the peculiar clock. Be- yond the Hall of Representatives is the lobby with portraits of the Speakers, and, opening from the lobby, the Speaker's room. The Supreme Court sits in the old Senate Chamber, famous for the elo- quent speeches of Webster and Clay. Beyond the Senate Chamber is a lobby, from which opens the President's room and the Marble room. Turn to the left from the Marble room, and out of the lobby to the Ladies' Reception room, and, a little fur- ther, the Senate bronze doors, one paneled with representations of Death of Warren, Rebuke of Lee at Monmouth, Hamilton at Siege of Yorktown, and Colonist and Hessian ; the other (beginning at bottom), Washington at Trenton, Inauguration of Washington, Washington Founding the Capitol, and Peace. Go back to Rotunda, face away from the bronze doors, and straight ahead on same floor is the Congressional Library. Return to Rotunda and thence to Hall of Representatives, and face the Speaker's desk — to the right is a marble stair- case, up which see the fresco of an Emigrant Train Crossing the Rocky Mountains. From this stair- case go to floor below and see frescoes in room of Committee on Agriculture, and from here go down stairs to basement to inspect ventilating apparatus. GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. 9 Returning to committee room, turn from it to left, follow the winding passageway some 700 feet to- ivards other end of building, and there see the fres- :oed rooms of Senate committees on Military, Na • ^al, and Indian Affairs. Ascend to floor above by stairs near by, and get back to Ladies' Reception 'oom, and find near there a marble staircase, up ^vhich see Powell's painting of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, and on floor above Moran's paintings of the Yellowstone and the Colorado, Powell's tainting is on the eastern staircase of Senate wing, md on the western staircase is Walker's painting 3f the Storming of Chapultepec. Come down that staircase and back to Rotunda, and face the bronze ioors; then go out of door to left (as if going back Senate), and first door on left is entrance to stair- vay leading to interior and exterior of dome. In he Capitol grounds, to left and rear of Senate wing, s the Grotto, worth a visit. This completes the isual tour of the Capitol. Salaried attendants are Dlentiful about the building, and may be freely questioned for information. President's House.— Pennsylvania avenue, i'/ niles west of Capitol. Hours, 10 to 3. See the j^reat East Room and, if possible, Blue and Green •ooms. '^ Washington Monument.— South from the Pres- dent's House, $55 feet high. Elevator and stairs TO GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. to lookout gallen-. Numerous memorial stones in interior wall. Mount Vernon.— Home and tomb of Washing- ton. Steamer "W. W. Corcoran" from 7th street wharf, 10 a. m., each week-day, passing the old town of Alexandria, and back to city by 3:30 p. m. Fare, one dollar, including admission-fee. Man- sion, tomb and grounds shown to each day's party by superintendent. • Treasury Building.— Pennsylvania avenue, west from Capitol, and near President's House. See marble Cash Room, on main floor; Rogues' Gal- lery and counterfeit plates on third floor, and Re- demption Room in basement. Vaults only shown on special order from Secretary or Treasurer. State, War and Navy Building.— Pennsylvania avenue, west from President's House. Original Declaration of Independence, Treaties, and other exhibits in State Department Library, and see Diplomatic Reception Room ; also Navy Depart- ment Library and Secretary's room, and portraits of Secretaries of War. i Bureau of Engraving and Printing.— On 14th street, south from Treasury. \'isitors are con- ducted over the building and see the machinery and processes used in engraving and printing gov- ernment bonds, notes and stamps. GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. II National Museum.— About five squares from last-named place, towards the Capitol. Accessible from Pennsylvania avenue by 7th, 9th or loth street. Contains many exhibits of foreign govern- ments at the Centennial Exposition and numerous natural histor}% geological and other scientific col- lections. Adjoining it is the Smithsonian Institu- tion, " for the increase and diltusion of knowledge among men," administered by the Government ; the architecture of the building being strikingly peculiar. The park in w^hich these buildings stand was designed by Downing, the famous landscape gardener. Patent Office. — On F street, six squares east of the Treasury and northwest from the Capitol. The model rooms are the points of interest, and see in them Frankhn's press and the model of Lincoln's patent of 1847. Department of Agriculture. — Between the 2\aiional Museum, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. See the museum, tlie conservator)- and occasional exhibits in the annex. Dead Letter Office. — In Post Office Department on F street, opposite Patent Office. The curiosities are arranged into a museum. See also the ac- count books of Franklin as postmaster-general, in Auditor's offi.ce. 12 GUIDE TO WASHIXCrrOX. Corcoran Art Gallery. — Pennsylvania avenue and 1 7th street, opposite War Department. Free on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; other week days, 25 cents. Large collection of paintings, statuary and casts from anticjue sculptures. Arlington. — Former home of General Robert E. Lee. About one mile beyond Aqueduct bridge at (Georgetown. vSee mansion, soldiers' cemetery and monument to the unknown. Army Medical Museum.— On loth street, near F street, nearly two squares from Patent Office. Building in which President Lincoln was shot, and tablet on house opposite marks where he died. See museum on upper floor. Lafayette Square. — Pennsylvania avenue, op- posite President's House. Planted with choice trees, and see statue of General Jackson, made of guns captured in battle of New Orleans. The horse is balanced on hind feet without supports or stays. Naval Arsenal. — Commonly called the Navy Yard. Southeast of the Capitol, about a mile, at terminus of Washington and Georgetown street railroad. See the museum, and numerous shops, foundries and forges for the making of cannon, shells, anchors, cables, marine machinery, and every kind of metal work for naval purposes. GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. 1 3 Government Printing Office. — Seven squares north from Capitol. Here the visitor sees the arts of printing and book binding exercised in the larg- est establishment in the world. National Observatory. — Seven squares west and three south of State, War and Navy Building, foot of 24th street, overlooking Potomac river. See the telescopes in the two domes, and some of the rare books shown in the library. Soldiers' Home.— Reached by horse car from head of 7th street. An asylum for old regulars, situated in a large beautiful park, much used for carriage drives. There are numerous buildings m the park, including the summer cottage assigned to the President, also a lake with swans. Near the large main building is a national cemetery, which should be visited. Insane Asylum. — Across the Anacostia river from the Naval Arsenal, and reached by horse car passing the gate of the latter. A large establish- ment supported by the Government. Open on Wednesdays only, from 2 to 6 p. m. Botanical Garden. — Pennsylvania avenue, just west of the Capitol. See the collection of tropical plants in the conservatory, inquiring, if necessary, for the bread, india-rubber, tallow, camphor, papy- rus, banana, vanilla and hat-palm plants; also see the fountain in the garden. 14 GUIDE TO w vsinxcrrox. Ordnance Museum. — In large, white, corner building, 17th street, opposite War and Navy Building. See especially the Confederate battle flags, but the room has many other interesting objects. Signal Office. — Less than two squares from the last-named place, on G street, distinguishable by vanes and electric wires above the roof. See the instrument room, where are the appliances used for predicting the state of the weather over the en- tire country. Oak Hill Cemetery. — In Georgetown, accessible by street-cars. See the chapel near entrance, with tomb of John Howard Payne close by it. Chiet Justice Chase, Secretary Stanton, and Professor Henry are also buried here. Georgetown University.— A Jesuit college at the western end of Georgetown, nearly a century old. There are numerous ancient and costly books and manuscripts, and see also the chemical labora- tory. Thomas Statue. — Vermont avenue, near M street, six squares north, and a little east of the President's House. A bronze equestrian group, executed by Ward for the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Congressional Cemetery. -Eleven squares east GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. I 5 of the Naval Arsenal, actually the burial ground of old Christ Church. It was formerly the custom for Congress to erect a memorial to each member dying during his term and about 1 50 of such ceno- taphs are in the grounds. Monuments to George Clinton, William Wirt, Elbridge Gerry, and Gen- eral Macomb also exist. Commodore Chauncey is buried here. See the monument to the young women killed by an explosion at the arsenal dur- ing the civil war. Lincoln Park. — Eleven squares directly east from the Capitol. See the bronze group, "Eman- cipation," erected by Freedmen to the memory of President Lincoln. Potomac Railroad Depot.— Six squares west of Capitol, and just south of Pennsylvania avenue. See, in floor of Ladies' Waiting-room, the silvered star, marking where President Garfield was assas- sinated. Pension Ofiice. — In Judiciary Square, four squares north from Pennsylvania avenue by Four and half street, and in rear of City Hall. A unique departmental building, designed by General Meigs, and ornamented with scenes of army life, in relief, on the exterior walls. The large court-yard was roofed and decorated as the Cleveland Inaugura- tion ball-room. l6 GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. Great Falls of Potomac. — A series of cascades, 1 5 miles beyond Georgetown, up the river. Round- trip fare by steam canal-boat, 50 cents, leaving Georgetown 8 a. m., daily. Alexandria. — An old town, seven miles down the Potomac, and accessible by ferry from 7th street, or train from Potomac depot. See Christ church, and the pews therein of George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Marine Barracks. — A short distance up from the gate of the Naval Arsenal, and headquarters of the Marine Corps. The armory or museum is shown to visitors. Scott Statue. — Seven sc{uares straight out from Pennsylvania avenue front of President's House. Designed by Browne, and cast from Mexican can- non captured by General Scott. Coast Survey Building.— Close to the south boundary of the Capitol grounds, on New Jersey avenue. See the standard weights and measures^ and testing instruments for the same. Deaf and Dumb Asylum and College.— About a mile north, and slightly to the west of Lincoln Park. Carp Ponds. — Close to Washington Monument, a Government establishment for the breeding of carp for free distribution over the United States. GUIDE TO WASHINGTON". 17 Rock Creek Church.— An ancient church and cemetery, the former built of Enghsh bricks ; situ- ated near the Soldiers' Home. See the old Bible and antiquated tombstones. Providence Hospital.— A large infirmary in charge of Sisters of Charity, and liberally aided by Congress. Columbian University.— One square north of Treasury, H and 1 5th streets. Visitors directed to objects of interest. Franklin School.— A short distance northeast of last-named building; the model public school of Washington. Central Market.— Pennsylvania avenue, 7th to 9th streets, halfway between Capitol and Treasury, the largest market house in the United States. Arsenal Barracks.— On river front, foot of Four and Half street, occupied by garrison of Washing- ton. Grounds open from sunrise to sunset. TOUR OF THE SIGHTS BY CAB OR AFOOT. {The_fig-urcs correspond with those of the Map.) The Capitol is always first visited. Leave it by way of the Rotunda and through the bronze doors and turn, right, to Coast Survey, 2 ; thence, by way of Providence Hospital, 3, to Marine Barracks, 4, and Navy Yard, 5 ; thence to Congressional Cem- 15 GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. etery, 6, and backward and northward to Lincoln Park, 7, and so, past statue of General Greene, 8, to Government Printing Office, 9. From here re- turn towards rear of Capitol and past Naval Mon- ume7it, \o, to Botanical Garden, 11 ; thence west- ward, across the long chain of parks, to Natio7ial Museum, 12, Smithso?tian Institution, 13, Depart- ment of Agriculture, 14, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 15, Moiiument, 16, and Carp Ponds, 17 ; thence past Light Infaiitry Armory, 18, to Treasury, 19, President's House, 20, State, War and Navy Building, 21, Ordnance Mttseum, 22, and Signal Office, 23. From here still westward to Observatory, 24 ; thence to Washington Equestrian Statue, 25 ; thence westward to Georgetown Col- lege, 26, and backward and northward to Oak Hill Cemetery, 27, and still eastward, past Dupont Statue, 28, British Legation, 29, to Scott Statue, 30, Louise Home, 31, and Thomas Statue, 32; thence to Fra7iklin Square, 33, Mc Pherson Statue, 34, and Earragut Statue, 35 ; thence to Art Gal- lery, 36, and Lafayette Square, 37 ; thence past Columbian University , 38, and by way of the Treas- ury and F street to Army Medical Aluseum, 39, Pate7it Office, 40, and Post Office Departrnent, 41 ; thence southward to Centre Market, 42, and Poto- m.ac Depot, 43 ; thence past City Hall, 44, to Pen- sion Office, 45. Gl-IDE TO WASHINT.TON. 1 () By using street car from Coast Survey to Navy Yard ; Herdic public phaeton from Pennsylvania avenue and 8th street east (just above Marine Barracks) to Congressional Cemetery, and street cars from Printing Office to Botanical Garden ; Washington Equestrian Statue to Georgetown Col- lege; Georgetown College to Oak Hill; Oak Hill to Lafayette Square, and Lafayette Square to Medical Museum, the tour can be made afoot, in two days, with reasonable time for inspection — the second day's tour beginning, of course, where the first was ended. A cab, coupe or carriage might be engaged for the two days at a reduction from the regular rate per hour, and if such be used, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and Mount Olivet Cemetery (Roman Catholic) might be visited from Lincoln Park ; Arlmgtoji, on the way to Georgetown College, and the Soldiers Home after the Patent and Post Offices. The latter can be reached by street car passing the Patent Office, and the Insane Asylum can be visited any Wednesday afternoon, by street car from 7th street wharf or Navy Yard. GENERAL INFORMATION. In 1790, Congress enacted that the Federal Capital should be permanently estabhshed near the head of navigation on the Potomac, and Presi- 20 GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. dent Washington selected the site and gave much personal attention to the details of laying it out. Andrew Ellicott, an American, was the chief engineer ; but his assistant, Major L' Enfant, a French engineer, had magnificent ideas, derived from the royal town and park of Versailles, and these are perpetuated in the wide rectangular streets, broad intersecting avenues and numerous squares, circles and triangular spaces of the modern city. Congress and the Executive removed to the Fed- eral City in 1800, and after a short period of fev- erish and ruinous speculation in town lots by single capitalists and syndicates from the North and P2urope, (the chief result of which was to build up the lower priced sites in rear of the Capitol, while inflation made a desert of the choice ground in front,) the city settled down to a slow and quiet growth, which lasted till after the civil war. In 1870 began that gigantic and extravagant era of street improvement and embellishment, which has carried Washington to the front rank of beautiful cities. Broad, smooth, clean pavements ; lawns and shade trees, and handsome parks abound, and the landscape is dotted with public buildings of extraordinary size and grandeur. Business and residential structures are still mostly small and plain, but a new West-End has grown up since GlIDE TO WASHINGTON. 21 1870, that rivals the fashionable quarters of the opulent commercial cities. Down to 1 87 1 the city was governed by a mayor and council elected by popular vote ; but municipal corruption and inefficiency so imperilled the Fed- eral interests centered in the capital, that Congress substituted for the electoral system an appointed board of commissioners, and provided a revenue made up one-half from private taxation, and the other half by a yearly grant from the Federal treas- ury. The jurisdiction of the com.missioners extends over the entire Federal territory, called the District of Columbia, and consisting of the cities of Wash- ington and Georgetown, three or four hamlets, and a considerable number of larms, amounting in all to some 64 square miles, with a population in 1885 of fully 200,000, of whom about i8o,oco are in the practically united cities of Washington and George- town. The city sits above a broad and picturesque river, and is enchained by a range of wooded hills. The climate is healthy and agreeable, and the concen- tration here of the high officials engaged in na- tional legislation and administration forms an active and interesting social life ; the result of these causes being that Washington is becoming dis- tinctively the social as well as the political capital of the country. -- GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. Washington is excellently supplied with hotels restaurants, churches, theatres, street-cars, cabs and carriages, and newspapers, and its railw-iy and steamboat connections are abundant. Local and railroad time are the same, being that of the east- ern meridian. The principal hotels are the Arhngton, Belve- dere (European), Ebbitt, Harris, Metropolitan, Na- tional. Riggs, St. James (European), St.^ Marc (Eu- ropean), Welcker's, Willard's, and Wormley's. The principal churches are St. Matthew's (Ro- man Catholic), Epiphany (Episcopal), New York Avenue (Presbyterian), Metropolitan (Methodist) Calvary (Baptist), Congregational (Independent),' All Souls (Unitarian), Memorial (Lutheran), Chris- tian (Campbellite), and Washington Hebrew (Is- raelite), and there are two sects of Quakers. The leading theatres are Albaugh's Ooera House National, Ford's Opera House, Theatre Comique (Variety), Herzog's Museum, Dime Museum, and Abner's Music Garden. The railroads are the Baltimore & Ohio, to east and west, and Baltimore & Potomac, to east, west and south. There are five street railroads, with numerous branches, intersecting and traversing the entire city, but the visitor had better rely upon inquiries made whenever he wishes to ride, or to make quicker time than by walking. GUIDE TO WASHT^XITO^^ 23 By taking the street cars to the river front, steam- boats maybe found for Alexandria, Mount Vernon, Fort Monroe, Norfolk, and other points; but for particulars see the newspaper aunouncements. Cab and hack fares are 75 cents per hour, or 25 cents per mile, for the two-wheeled cabs, one dol- lar per hour for the one-horse four-wheelers, and 31.50 per hour, or one dollar from railroad depot or steamboat wharf, for two-horse carriages ; hotel busses, 25 and 50 cents per trip. Guides are frequently employed by tourists, at 50 cents per hour, but are of httle service to an active sight-seer, accustomed to use his own eyes, ears and tongue, and should invariably be identi- fied in some way before being engaged, as decoys for gamblers, card-sharpers and other swindlers often pretend to be guides, in order to procure victims. Even a genuine guide is apt to annoy his patrons by his stereotyped talk and manner. There are two morning and two evening news- papers, which should always be examined for local news and information. INDEX TO SIGHTS AlND INFORMATION. PAGE Agricultural Department 1 1 Alexandria i6 Arlington 12 Army Medical Museum , 12 Arsenal Barracks 17 Art Gallery 12 Avenues 20 Battle Flags 14 Botanical Garden 13 British Legation iS Bronze Doors . 7 Brumidi's Frescoes 7 Cab Fares 23 Capitol 7 Carp Ponds 16 Cash Room 10 Centre Market 17 Churches 22 City Hall iS Climate 21 Coast Survey 16 Columbus 7 (24) INDEX. 25 PAGE Compass Points Confederate Flags • ^^ Congress ' Congressional Cemetery : 4 Library ^ Corcoran Art Gallery ^^ Counterfeiting Exhibit Dead Letter Office " Deaf and Dumb Asylum ^ Declaration of Independence ^^ Diplomatic Reception Room ^° District of Columbia ^^ Dome of Capitol 9 18 Doors of Capitol ^ Dupont Statue Emancipation Statue 5 Engraving and Printing Bureau 1° Executive Mansion 9 Farragut Statue Fish Ponds ^ Franklin's Account Books ^^ Franklin's Press Franklin School ^^ Franklin Square Freedom Statue ' Frescoes of Capitol ^ Garfield Assassination Memorial ^5 Geological Exhibits 1 1 Georgetown University • '+ 26 IMDEX. I'AGE Government Printing Office i ^ Great Falls of Potomac . ib Greene Statue i8 Grotto 9 Guides 23 Hack Fares 23 Historical Information 19 Hotels 22 Insane Asylum 13 Jackson Statue 12 Lafayette Square 12 Liberty Statue 7 Lincoln Park 15 Lincoln's Patent 1 1 Louise Home 18 McPherson Statue 18 Marble Room 8 Marine Barracks 16 Medical Museum 12 Meridian Point 6 Model Rooms 11 Monument 9 Mount Olivet Cemetery 19 Mount Vernon 10 Museum 11 National Museum 11 Naval Monument 18 Navy Department lo " Yard 12 INDKX. 27 PAGE Newspapers 23 Note Printing 10 Oak Hili Cemetery 14 C)bservatory 13 Opera House 22 Ordnance Museuin 14 Paintings at Art Gallery 12 " " Capitol 7 Palm Trees 13 Patent Office 11 Payne, John Howard 14 Pennsylvania Avenue 6 Pension Office 15 Perambulation of Sights 17 Population 21 Post Office Department 1 1 Potomac Great Falls 16 " Railroad Depot 15 President's House 9 Printing and Engraving Bureau 10 Printing Office 13 Providence Hospital 17 Railroads 22 Redemption Bureau 10 Representative's Hall S Rogers' Bronze Door 7 Rogues' Gallery 10 Rotunda 7 Scenery at Washington 21 28 INDEX. VAIiT. Scott Statue i6 Sculptures at Art Gallery 12 " " Cajiitol 7 Senate Chamber 8 " Doors 8 Signal Office 14 Smithsonian Institution 11 Society at Washington 21 Soldiers' Home 13 Speaker's Room 8 Standard Time 22 State Department 10 Statuary at Art Gallery 12 " Capitol 7 Hall 8 Steamboats 23 Street System ... 6 Supreme Court 8 Telescope at Observatory 13 Theatres 22 Thomas Statue 14 Time Standard . 22 Treasury Department 10 Treaties 10 Unknown Dead at Arlington 1 2 Vaults at Treasury 10 War Department 10 Washington Classical Statue 7 " Equestrian Statue 19 29 Washington Mansion lo " Monument 9 " Pew 16 '' Tomb 10 Weather Report Service 14 Weights and Measures 16 White House 9 Price, Ten Cents. A-B-C GUIDE TO WASHINGTON The whole thing in a nutshell.' Containing a list of notable objects and places in city and vicinity, in order of popular interest ; a cab or foot tour of sights within the town limits; an alphabetical index to the various objects and places, and a summary of miscellaneous information. WITH DIAGRAMS. Designed expressly for recreation-tourists wishing to use their o%vn eyes and judgments . Copyright, 1885, by Charles F. Benjamin. WASHINGTON, D. C. 18S5. /■ /■ /" LIBRARY CONGRESS