: Ten Years in Washington or Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield by Clemmer Mary Shipley J L Contributor - Washington (D.C.) History; W

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ic--He Communicates Some Ideas--Models of Antiquity--Babylon Revived--Difficulty in Satisfying a Frenchman's Soul--The Man Who Planned the Capital--Who Was L'Enfant?--His Troubles--His Dismissal--His Personal Appearance, Old Age, Death, and Burial Place--His Successor--A Magnificent Plan--A Record Which Can Never Perish--An Overpaid Quaker--Jefferson Expresses His Sentiments--A Sable Franklin--The Negro Engineer, Benjamin Bancker--A Chance for a Monument, 38

OLD WASHINGTON.

How the City Was Built--"A Matter of Moonshine"--Calls for Paper--Besieging Congressmen--How They Raised the Money--The Government Requires Sponsors--Birth of the Nation's Capital--Seventy Years Ago in Washington--Graphic Picture of Early Times--A Much-Marrying City--Unwashed Virginian Belles--Stuck in the Mud--Extraordinary Religious Services, 51

THE CAPITAL OF THE NATION.

Expectations Disappointed--Funds Low and People Few--Slow Progress of the City--A Question of Importance Discussed--Generous Proposition of George Washington--Faith Under Difficulties--Transplanting an Entire College--An Old Proposition in a New Shape--What Washington "Society" Lacks--Perils of the Way--A Long Plain of Mud--Egyptian Dreariness--The End of an Expensive Canal--The Water of Tiber Creek--Divided Allegiance of Old--The Stirring of a Nation's Heart--A Personal Interest, 62

THE WASHINGTON OF THE PRESENT DAY.

Hopes Realized--Washington in 1873--Major L'Enfant's Dream--Old and New--"Modern Improvements"--A City of Palaces--The Capital in all its Glory--Traces of the War--Flowers on the Ramparts--Under the Oaks of Arlington--Ten Years Ago--The Birth of a Century--The Reign of Peace, 72

WHAT MADE NEW WASHINGTON.

Municipal Changes--Necessity of Reform--The "Organic Act" Passed--Contest for the Governorship of Columbia District--Mr. Henry D. Cooke Appointed--Board of Public Works Constituted--Great Improvements Made--Opposition--The Board and Its Work, 76

BUILDING THE CAPITOL.

Various Plans for the Building--Jefferson Writes to the Commissioners--"Poor Hallet" and His Plan--Wanton Destruction by the British, A. D. 1814--The Site Chosen by Washington Himself--Imposing Ceremonies at the Foundation--Dedicatory Inscription on the Silver Plate--Interesting Festivities--Extension of the Building--Daniel Webster's Inscription--His Eloquent and Patriotic Speech--Mistaken Calculations--First Session of Representatives Sitting in "the Oven"--Old Capitol Prison--Immense Outlay upon the Wings and Dome--Compared with St. Peter's and St. Paul's--The Goddess of Liberty--The Congressional Library--What Ought to be Done, 83

INSIDE THE CAPITOL.

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