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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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people from allparts of the North and the West. During this final march of thelargest army of volunteers ever organized in the history of the world,the city was full of patriotic enthusiasm. As the various generalswith their divisions, all wearing the actual accoutrements of the war— the boys in blue stained with the soil of Virginia and of Georgia,and bearing proudly the tattered banners which had waved on manyhard-fought battle-fields —passed up Pennsylvania Avenue, they werethe recipients of long-continued and enthusiastic cheers, and wereliterally covered with garlands. For a few years after the war Washington continued to be a veryunattractive city. At this time an English tourist wrote of it: Thewhole place looks run up in a night, like the cardboard cities Potem-kin erected to gratify the eyes of his imperial mistress on her tourthrough Russia ; and it is impossible to remove the impression that,when Congress is over, the place is taken down and packed up tillwanted again.
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■n St o 31 fa0 H 33 o CHAPTER III. GROWTH OF WASHINGTON SINCE 1S70—THE IMPROVEMENTS BY THE BOARD OFPUBLIC WORKS —A WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY THE EXPEN-DITURE OF TWENTY MILLIONS — CHARACTERISTICS OF THE QUEENLY POTO-MAC CITY—ITS GOVERNMENT, POPULATION, AND BUSINESS —THE SPACIOUSSTREETS AND AVENUES, FINE PARKS AND SQUARES—STATUES TO WARHEROES —LONG BRIDGE — THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. IN the year 1870 Washington was suddenly aroused from its leth-argy. After seventy years of existence it had not realized theexpectations of its friends, or greatly lessened the opposition ofits enemies. It was in a critical condition. Its use by the Fed-eral soldiers in the Civil War had made thousands of intelligent North-ern men familiar with its discomforts, its shiftlessness, and its entirelack of the desirable qualities that the seat of government of theAmerican Nation should possess. There was nothing hopeful orpromising about it. Young cities in the West had grown importanta

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