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12
THE CAPITAL
CENTURY AGO
CITY OF WASHINGTON IN ITS
PICTURESQUE INFANCY
rirt Congress to Meet in Netf Cap
llal round Little Except Mud and
"Magnificent Distances" Coining
of President Adnirm and the De
partments Public nnd Private
Accommodations Alike Wanting.
Moore's Satire on "Modern Borne."
from tlic UasliliiKlcn ll.
TIip rltAw Hplrlt of hulpppiwlenre
whlt.li p'ompteil the futliotH of the it
public to suver tin- political ties bind
ing thrnr to thr- nmthni' country
prompted them, no doubt, to ki out
Into the wlldetni'xi to build u t.ipltnl,
The deeds which made the cailv liltf
tory oC our nation whip not In Hip pur
suance oC precede lit, but woic piece-dent-innkliiir.
When It wis piopnscd,
tlioroforc, that in a ii;ln city the m-at
of Knveitiment ilmuld be established,
no otic stopped to Iniiulic If tbeie was
jnecedeiit for dolus o. There was op
position to the piolect, It Is ti nc, but
iho opposition Hpiuuir fioin the cities
jibeady established, .luplteil to 1- the
tapltal, and was In no wise due to the
d,u In k nntlite of the piujeil Itself.
When the bands of the It It Mr
tioops man lied out ot Ymktinwi play
jns'"The Woild Turned Upside Down,"
their music tiuthfully poitr.ived the
hphit of tbe times. Tin fiw not
great battles, as our Idea ot battles
KO today, that weie foiiKht by Wash
ington and his raifsed nnd oft-tinus
bunKiy, but tlauntlcsM and p mimic
followers,, but in their ieolutlonaiy
nnd f.rt -reaching tonsequeiues they
were the most stupendous In the his
tory of the world. It was. a time i hen
old customs, old modes of thought,
old Institutions, and old Ideals weie
falling shattered on eeiy .side, and It
was taken as a matter of couie, when
no existing city facemed sttltuble for a
capital, that the young- republic should
build n city to its liking.
I EUROPE JKRRED.
JUiropo was ready with her Jibe and
sulci, and there were carping ones at
home, who whined and grumbled, but
ihe men who had given the world its
'i latest bill of human ilRhts, and
with the sword had made the woild
leccive it, weie not apt to be swayed
lv such petty chiding. They knew that
loiests would gie way to the axe of
ihe forester; that swamps and mor
asses and other obstacles could be
o ct come, nnd they .set themseles to
the task. The Washington or today
is theli enduiing monument. The 72u
lope that Mieeied at the "wilderness
capital" of the "bucolic iepublic" now
limes to admlie and maivel at its
beauty, the cllj, for the lounding ol
which the piimqxal foiests weie In
placis cut awa. has, In a. hundred
jeais, grown In magnlllcenct to he the
7i Ide and boast ol Amei leans eui
w In ic.
The constitution had ;leii coiibimi
cliisic rontiol oei a distiict ten
mlle squaie, such as might be glen
to the nation bv the states for the
si at ot rvdeiul gociinnent The
nei task was to locate this dlsti let.
'Iheie was a squabble in the Hist
ongic'-s among advocates of many
HttCHiii Mte-., notably those along
l lie Del.iw.nt, Susquehanna and Po
inmii' Once both houses actually
otcd lo locate the capital at Un man
town Fi but reconsidered. Xew
Ihihlund mcmbeis denounced Hie Po
lom.'i legion as an unhealthy swamp
'! lie '-oiithein members won out. The
Potomac Kite was solc-ted in 1790 by a
majoiity of tbiee votes in the house
and two in the senate. Pfnnsjlvania
v as humored by a grant of the tem
poi uy capital for ten yems Piesi
dent "Washington was allowed to
i boose anv spot within about 100
miles aboe the junction of the Polo
mac and its eastern bianch. Tbe
lather uf his eountiy arihed In
'.eoigetown Match 2, 1791, and the
net dav, with the three commission
eis he had appointed to gosern the
district, together with two surveyors
selected to lay it out, began to maik
Hip bounds of the new city.
AIAJ. IVENFANT'S FIRST WORK.
One of theee suiveyots as Major
Pieire Charles 1Enfant, a jrituch
engineer. He drew a careful plan of
the future city of Washington. This
was nccepted by the immortal Geoigj
in 3 S7C. General Washington was not
hampered by law in his government
.ii' the District of Columbia. He ap
pointed his three commissioners,
Messis. Johnson, Stowait and Car
i oil, without the advice, or consent, of
ibi! senate,
Another squabble had ailsen over
I!'., name to be given the new capital
A TRYING
POMNON
"My position is a
iiiitie one" was the
joking remark
of the cloak
model of a
fashionable
iinil. But
there, is less
jesf'tliuu
earnest in
the state
m'eut. It h
trying to be
n the feet
all day,' to
be reaching and
btooping hour
after hour from
morn until
night. And that
is a very tneaget
outline of a busi
ness woman's day. With niuny such
women the ordinary strum of labor is
intensified and aggravated by u diseased
condition of the delicate organs, and
they become ictiius of that 'terrible
backache, or blinding headache, which
is so common among business women,
11 )ou are bearing thin burden, bear
it no longer, For the backache, head
ache, nervousness mid weakness which
pring from a diseased condition of tut
womanly organs there is a sure cure
in Dr, Pierce's l'aorite Prescription.
Half a million women Iwe been per
fectly and permanently cured by this
wonderful medicine,
"My niece was troubled with female
wcakucai for about four years before I
asked for your advice," writes Mr, J. W,
McGregor, of cd St, and Princeton Ave.,
Chicago; Ills. " You advised her to take
Br. Pierce's Pavonte Prescription which
she did faithfully for nine mantuspatid now
we must acknowledge to you that she it
a nell'ttomon. wr cannot tbaok.you
ciiiiuifli.for the cure:'' ' k l '
Sick women can consult Ir. Pierce by
letter free. Address, Buffalo, N. Y,
'St. i - .
JuwlwflcVuuvff 1
city. &01116 wished to call It "Wash
It'glnnoiilc." The eommlsiloneis ehils
toned It the- "City of Wnshlnglon."
An emjllsh letter wilter theteupon ac
cused Piesldnnt Washlnglon of van
ItV. "As soon as he Is defunct," suld
this irltlc, "the tllv, wbleh Is to be
the bo-wted inonumeiit of his gieitl
ness, will ulso bo defunct."
The Wxth congress adjoin tied III
Philadelphia Mn.V t4, 1800. having di
rected tinit a second lesslon begin In
Washlngtiln November 17, of the utnu
ear. The executive nnd Judicial dc
paitmetits thelellpon began lire pill a
tlons for a general tno Ing,
Piesldent Adams left the executive
mansion at Seventh and High streets,
Philadelphia, May 7, lftOO. within two
weeks) after eongless adjourned, and
made ti tempoiary tilp to the new capi
tal. He twtvcled III Ills pilvate can luge
by way of Lancaster, Pa and Ficd
eilck. Mil. A dally stage, leaving
Philadelphia at 0 a. m., bumped and
splashed over a more dllect load by
wnv of lliiltlmoie and in rived In Wash
ington the next evening at r o'clock
a Jouiney of iwenty-one bouts, which
the "lion hone" now covets In one
seventh that time. Hut Piesldent Ad
ams picfeiitd the mole clieultous tilp,
because promlsid mole ojipoitunltles of
eiituitaliiiiieut on that loute.
PHEsmn.vr ADAJlS' auuival.
lie nl lived In tieoigetown, of which
Washington was then a scattered sub
til b, on June ,1, one week after be had
slatted. At the bouridnty line of the
Dlstilrt of Columbia he was met by "a
laige ciowd ot lespeetable cltlens on
hnispback" "I'd cseotteil into town,
"wheie he wns iccdved with pleasure
and Velieiatlon."
The mllltuiy ol the city of Wash
ington and the matlnes stationed there
manifested their icspect bv sKteen dis
charges of musketty and aitllleiv,"
says an old cluonlele.
The net day, at I'nlon Tavetn,
Oeoigetown, he wiote a replv to the
committee which had welcomed him.
On June ' he visited the untlnlshed
bouse of lepiesentatlves. On Juno 11
he was given a leception at Alexan
dra, and on June 14 depatted for Mas
Michusetts. It was not until autumn
that the president and Mrs. Adams
came to tbe new White House to live.
They tiaveled very slowly by can luge
from Philadelphia by way of Baltl
moie, and thus into Washington. Mrs.
Abigail Adams, in November, 1800.
made her informal entree as "first lady
of the land." She found the AVhlte
House untlnlshed, although the coiner
stone hud been laid eight yeais befoie
in the presence of Cleotge Washington.
What theie was of it stood on what
was then called "P street lldge." The
rain and snow falling upon this pioml
nence dlv Ided, part running to the
noith, patt to the south. The water
thus dialned foimed a sott of eteek,
pattly siiiroundings the ptesldent's
giounds The latter had no feme The
flist flooi of the mansion was untln
lshed. The piinclpal stabs weie not
up.
WHITH llOfPIl HOUSEWAR.VIXC!
Mis. Adams' first "housevvarming" in
her new home was a piactleal lathei
than ceiemonlous function. Wliat
wood she could get she burned tit dry
tho plaster, vet damp, on the walls.
The hist public leception in the White
House occuiied on New Year's Dav.
1S01, and hud to be held in a room on
the second floor, in which later ptesl
dents leceived their business calleis
The home lite of the Adamses in th
White House weie eIV plain Tlic
piesident's luncheons Invariablv con
sisted of oat-cake and lemonade Tho
family dlnneis weie simple. Adams
was so unassuming in his manners
that Misti ess Abigail occasionally saw
Jit to lemlnd him, when he was fiee
and familiar with the common people,
that his behavior ill-fitted his high
lank and dignified office
The moving of the executive depait
ments fiont Philadelphia began in May.
1S0O The office- furnishings and reeotds
came bv "watci, ihe officials and em
ployes by stage line or piivate ecjulp
uge It is siid that "a single packet
sloop bi ought all tbe office fuinituie of
the depaitments, besides sevvn laige
boxes and five small ones, containing:
the archives " The president's cabinet
then consisted of but five members
Working under these were but 132 em
ployes. Uncle Sam paid all traveling
expenses for these officials and clerks
and thlr families
EARLY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS
These men, comprising the first civil
service leglme organized for the Wash
ington departments, came hither im
bued with the hope that the law author
izing: their removal fiom tho gay and
bustling metiopolis would, a was
rumored, be repealed. They found only
one department building erected. This
was the old treasurj, on the site of the
south fiont of the piesent edifice. It
was a plain, tvvo-stoiy bilek of only
thltty rooms Ollvei Woliott, sue re
tury ot the tteastuy, ai lived June J to
occupy it.
At the .southwest corner of the white
house giounds the "war office" was still
in course- of erection. This was slmllur
to the treasury office In size and ap
pearance, but not being ready for occu
pancy upon the aulval of Societnry of
War Dexter, June 1-', he and his de
puitment went Into tempoiniy lodgings
In a thtee-stoiy house on Pennsylvania
uvenue, above Twenty-tltst street, and
opposite ihe hotel of William O'Neal,
father of Hint Peggy O'Neal who
gained fame In Juekson's administra
tion. Rut the war depai tment officials
had barely settled down lo vvotk in
these tempoiniy headquarters when, In
November, 1S00, a file btoko out and
desttoed a large pail of their leeonls.
The lollowlug January a similar Hie
occuired 111 the tieasiuy depai tment.
"The piesldent was In line," recalled a
citizen wilting of this lutter confiagia
tlon, "and was busy In (tiding to pass
the buckets to and fiom the burning
building."
Ulvul politicians then, as now, were
Kinsplng at evety straw. Adams' ad
ministration vvus uccused of stalling
Ihe two flies to destroy lecoids of
the alleged iiiulmlnilnlstiatlou,
The flist postofneu derailment iwas
opened In "Mi, Crnekei's house,"
tteai Rlodget's hotel, at what is now
Seventh and K When Abraham
nradluy acting for Postmaster Gen.
cral Habei sham opened his ofllce
theie, only four rooms weie plastered,
The owner allowed Uncle Sam to ex
pend half of the J60O unnuul tental
to makd the bulldtim tenantuble. At
torney OnttHl t'hatles Lee, who left
Philadelphia, May J, then had no
organised department of Justice, He
took lodging somewhere near the
White House, as did also Secretuty of
Stale John Marshall with only eight
clerks and Secretary ol the Navy
Stoddart with sixteen clerks. Roth
of these latter cabinet membeis had
arrived in June. T)ils moving; cost
Uncle Sam, all told, less than ?i0,'000.
CAPITOL IN NOVEMBER, 1800.
When congress began its sessions In
Washington, .November 17.1800. It
found the capltol building anything
but an inspiring spectacle, Only the
northernmost of tho old wings was
llnlshed, and that vu badly con
structed. The tsenate chamber was
mostly of wood and plaster. The ro
tunda had not been built, though Its
foundations had been previously laid.
The representatives wote at first
crowded Into a room Intended ifor the
senale officials, but a temporal y apart
ment, known us the "oven," was soon
arranged for It (n the pouth wing.
The hottsn In 1808 took possession of
the chamber now known as "Statuary
Hall." The senate hold Its first de
llbeinllons In Its originally designed
until teis, now occupied by the Su
pieme court of the United States. The
complete) plans for the then tipvv
capltol did not, of course, anticipate
the groat Iron dome and the two Im
posing marble wings which giaco tha
cjreat capltol of today.
Congt ess' first deliberations In Wash
ington weie quite as uninspiring ub tha
unfinished edifice in which they were
held. When called together, Nov. 17,
the senate and house had to adjourn
until the next day for want of 11 quor
um, and the senate continued to ad
journ from day to day until the 21st,
when the necessary number appealed.
Ratutduy, Nov. L'J, Piesldent Adams
visited the cnpltol and addiessed the
members of both houses gathetcd to
gether In the senate chainboi. Kop
lescntutlves In those days woie their
hats dining sessions. Ladles weie ex
cluded frotrr the galleiles.
PERQUISITES OF EARLY LEGIS
LATORS. Uius filled with Scotch snulV. weie
placed In each house, and etnploes
weie charged with the duty of keeping
them filled. In the senate and hou'e
weie employed ofllclul "pen-mnkets,"
who mended the goose quills then In
common use. Theie weie also official
ealeis, lnti listed with the sealing of
letteis and packages with red wax.
The "stutioneiy" furnished in both
houses Included "pen-knives, sdssois,
razors, pocket-books, kid gloves, pei
fumeiy, beats' giease, and an "Inno
cent beverage called swichell," among
whose Ingiedlents were good French
brandy and Jamaica turn. This was
always charged to the "statloneiy" ap
propriation bb "syiup"
The members of congiess weie any
thing but pleased with tlteii new abid
ing place. "The comparison they drew
between this place and Philadelphia,"
wiote a pioneer, "was bv no means
complimentary to us. At this time
theie weie bur few places in the city
suitable for membeis to board at.
Some of them went to Georgetown and
boarded at the Union Tavern, some
stopped at the Six and Seven build
ings, and otheis in part of the city
wheie they could find accommodations
The discontent which pi ev ailed among
them was so gieat that it was feared
that the seat of government would be
lemoved fiom Washington In fact, I
believe the attempt was made, but for
lunatelv fulled "
SAURIES LOW AND LIVING
cm: VI'.
The salaiv of a niemhei of con
giess was then but TO a dav Of the
hou-.es it was wtitten in l&oo ' The
few th it have been let nic at ic-nts
none undoi tJ"i0 and r,on Piowslons
are plenty, gc od enough, and cheaper
than lu Philadelphia. Vou can buv a
peel, of field stiawbei 1 ics lot a llve
peniiv bit; garden at II cents a ciuaii "
The Supieine court uf the United
States, seeing that no ptep nation hit
been made foi ii in Washington, con
tinued lo meet In its comfortable
Philadelphia quaitns until Febtuaty
2 101. Its mcmbeis, like thoo nf
(tmgicis. weie louth to begin theli
dutlo1-. Tvo adjoin riiiient1- bid to lo
t:.l;en bctoie theie appealed, on IVb
1'iniy 4, a sufficient numbei to do
btislue-."- The Hist meeting was hM
in the basement of ibc old c ipltul,
in looms pi ov Ided tot one of the sen
ate committees
The 1 aster the population of Wash
ington giew dining 1I1I-, Hist eventful
oai, the mom bittd and caustic I e
enme the invectives tu' her . It tc
"CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DIS
TANCES "
ISeoioetowu was tailed a cil or
houses without stieets " Washington,
"a citv of stteeis without bousts." The
Abbe Correa de Sena, Portuguese min
ister, was speaking In satcasm when he
called the new capital "a city of mag
nificent distances," now proudlv ap
plied "Strangers, after visiting the
offices of state, are apt to inciulie lor
tire citv wlille In its ver.v center," wrote
C. W. Janson, an English Alsltor.
"Quail and other birds," said he, "ate
constantly shot within a hundred ards
of the capltol during the sitting of the
houses of c ongies" " New York, Phila
delphia, New England, and, Indeed,
even foielgn newspapers, waxed face
tious In their desciiptions of the new
seat of government. In tact, poor
Washington was the laughing stock of
the woild. Tom Mooie, Just enteiln?
poetic fame, -visited the t lt In 1804. Its
spectacle provoked this satire from his
pen:
In faint now beneath tlif twilight Bloom,
Come, lei me lend tlice oVr this inoitcni Itciuc,
VMuie Uiburua lulc, wluri' ilusV. Davids how,
Vml nlmt won Goct CuhK ii TIIki ncwi.
Tills fam'il metiopolis, wliuc fjiuj ccai
siiiiicu in nioriiMf., oIkIW- In tit e;
WI1UI1 traullnir fools and uftticiu jtlorn
With sltiines uiibiillt ami In iocs jet unborn
HUMOUS OF A CAMPAIGN.
The Song Which Senator Carter Com
posed on Roosevelt's Tour.
1'icm die Islington Ist,
henatoi Cailei, of Montana, wus
talking with a mini her uf his friends In
his committee 100m esteiday, when
they suddenly aiosc and In gleeful
tones sung these woids;
'I lie Iriili ami the P11UI1
llii don't amount to iiiuili
I lie 1 tiuiruli foi I lie scjndiiuviun,
Senator Curter and his fi lends thfn
laughtd In choius, Tho music und the
woids tecalled tha campaign trip of
Thtodoie Roosevelt through the
Nuilhweat, Senator Cutter was lu the
liu't, and so was Senator Nelson, of
Minnesota, who Is a Noiweglan by
blith. He Is a delightful companion,
full of good stories, thoughtful and
1 0111 1 trims, and became, withal, such a
fa vol lt on the trip that Senator Car
ter was inspired lo compose the x
pcHlve, If not elegant, verse.
Caiter's ancestors were Iilsh and
Rnu&ovelt, of course, gloiies In his
P.llch descent; but according to the
vvrte
'Ilia JiUU uu.l (he Dutch-
'llny don't amount to much.
And so, all through the Northwestern
lour, the Roosevelt party hurrahed for
the Scandinavian, with the accent on
tint "an." Sometimes the jolly states
nun would say "Scandlhoovlan," but
that was when they felt partlculaily
,cod ufter a bard day's work.
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