Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (find matches)
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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portico, were placed in positionin 1825. They were quarried on an island in Acquia Creek, andtransported to Washington in flat-boats, which were brought to thefoot of Capitol Hill by means of the Tiber Creek. Ropes were thenattached to the columns, and they were dragged up the hill by longlines of men, and every day many congressmen were to be seen pull-ing at the ropes, laughing and shouting like school-boys. On the steps of this grand portico the oath of office has been ad-ministered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to all the Pres-idents of the United States, from Andrew Jackson in 1829 to GroverCleveland in 1885. Before the portico, in the eastern park, 100,000people can witness the inauguration ceremony. When the Presidenthas taken the oath, the guns of the Arsenal, the Navy Yard, and theforts around Washington fire the Presidential salute. The famous Rogers bronze door is placed in the main entrance tothe Capitol. On it are designs in high relief representing events in
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THE ROGERS BRONZE DOOR. 8o PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. the life of Columbus, and the discovery of the American continent.The door is nineteen feet high, and nine feet wide, and is folding ordouble. It is within a bronze casing, on which are emblematic fig-ures of conquest and navigation in the lour quarters of the globe. Itis constructed of solid bronze, and weighs 20,000 pounds. Thereare nine panels, in which the scenes are arranged in regular order,beginning with the examination of Columbus before the Council ofSalamanca, and following with his departure from the Convent of LaRabida to visit the Spanish court. Then are shown the Audienceat the court of Ferdinand and Isabella ; the Starting of Columbusfrom Palos on his first voyage ; the First landing of the Spaniardsat San Salvador; the First encounter of the discoverers with theIndians; the Triumphal entry of Columbus into Barcelona;Columbus in chains, and his Death scene. Each scene is veryclearly and effectively delineated. Between t

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