Identifier: bookofroyalblue24balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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able latitude was allowed thecommissioners who were to select the site,practically a range of 100 miles being given.President Washington was largely instrumen- tion, over 100 miles from Chesapeake Bay,afforded an opportunity to oppose a hostilefleet ascending the river. By a proclama-tion issued March 30, 1791, the Presidentannounced that the Federal District hadbeen located. This was ten miles square,lying on both sides of the river, about two-thirds being in Maryland, the remainder in 8 THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON Virginia, the cities of Alexandria, Va., andGeorgetown, Md., being included. The chosen district was partij^ woodland,marsh and hills, partly under cultivation,most of the farm land being the property offour men, one of them, of whom Wash- once and asked, What would your landhave been worth if we had not put thecapital here? and Burns replied, Yankee-like, with another question, And whatwould you have been worth if you had notmarried the widow Custis?
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MAKi;i,K KOO.M AT THE CAPITOL ington spoke as the obstinate Mr. Burns,a surly Scotchman, owned the ground wherethe White House, Treasury and State, Warand Navy buildings now stand, and many awarm debate did Washington have withBurns in endeavoring to have him donateland for streets or buildings. It is said that Washington lost his temper Georgetown, two miles west of the WhiteHouse, was separated from the new city bywhat a Connecticut member described asa deep morass covered with alder bushes,but has long since been absorbed. The firstmeeting of Congress was held here in Nov-ember, 1800, the archives of the Govern-ment and all the employes, the latter num- THE WORLDS SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON 9 bering fifty-four, having been brought fromPhiladelphia on a couple of sloops. Thelittle village in the woods, with swamps andmuddy roads, bore little resemblance to themagnificent city of today, with statelymansions, marble and granite office build-ings, and hundreds of miles of w

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