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Evening Star. (Washington, D.C.). 1937-01-20 [P 11] Everything from honey bees to pioneer planes shown at Smithsonian. Memorials and statues erected to statesmen, Presidents, generals, and unknown decorate city-Zoo is popular. calv The interior is richly furnished and one may view the mosaics, depicting classical and other themes. There are maps and etchings and paintings to intrigue the visitor and one nmy profitably spend many hours in this citadel of information. The Government of the United States itself contributes to this collection, for near Union Station and City Post Offioe rises the Govern- ment Printing Office, where busy linotypes and humming presses tell of the widespread activity of the people's servants. The Bureau of En- graving and Printing, southeastward of the Washington Monument, is particularly Inter- esting to visitors, for there money is printed and stamps made. Not far from this bureau is the Tidal Basin, around the shores of which are the far-famed Japanese cherry trees that bloom in the Springtime and draw visitors galore Lovers of learning will find a kindred inter- est in the National Capital. Georgetown Uni- versity. conducted by the Jesuits, rears its spires skyward on the Palisades of the Potomac In that historic section of the city, for the Insti- tution was established in the early days of the Republic. The Convent of the Visitation, nearby, is another of the city’s oldest halts of learning. George Washington University, a co-educa- tiona! Institution, is located at Twenty-second and G streets, and is a rapidly growing center. Catholic University, at Brookland, in the North- east section, comprises a large number of build- ings, devoted to the interests of various orders In the church. Theology, philosophy, aviation, architecture and chemistry are in the forefront Beauty spot of the National View taken from an airplane over the historic Potomac River, showing of the curricula there. Capital. Trinity College, nearby, the Memorial at the lower the Lincoln Memorial with its center. is an outstanding school for girls. Arlington Bridge right, superb reflecting pod, Beyond is the Washington Monument, and in the distance may be seen the stately Capitol. MEKICAN UNIVERSITY, at Massachu- Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. setts and Nebraska avenues, has a pre- mier location in the less built-up section lower garden in Meridian Hill Park, Sixteenth But native heroes are not forgotten here, es- Ian, Ma]. Gen. James B. McPherson, Gen. John of the city, although It has downtown and W .sheets, and Joan of Arc, with sword up- pecially the Army. There are memorials to the A. Rawlins, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Gen. class rooms, as well. Howard University, for raised, is seen on the heights of that same 1st and 2d Divisions, near the White House. William T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. George H. colored persons, is on Georgia avenue and park. Further south, near the Tidal Basin, is the Dis- Thomas and, at Washington Circle, at Pennsyl- •cross the street is the newly-developed Ban- the is found down trict of Columbia World War Memorial, in which vania avenue, and K the nelcer Recreation Center. John Ericsson, inventor, Twenty-third streets, on the banks of the Potomac in West Potomac band concerts are held in the warmer months. equestrian statue to Gen. George Washington— Washington has its other institutions of Park. Tliaddeus Kosciuszko stands in a comer all these men are honored by seperate Me- learning—of greater and lesser degree—and the Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Lafayette Park just in front of the White Gen. Winfield Scott Winfield morials. thousands of persons that attend night school Hancock, Gen. House, and keeping him are Lafayette Peace, too, th enshrined In stone and bronee here is testimony enough to the intellectual company Scott, Gen. Andrew Jackson—who has special and his compatriots, Baron von Steuben and of Presi- here. But, oddly enough, the Peace Monument, industry of the younger generation. Law, significance this lnaguration because names — at Pennsylvania avenue and First street, right shorthand, art, dancing, accountancy, drafts- Rochambcau—great of. Revolutionary dent Roosevelt’s admiration for him Gen. at the foot of the is also known as manship and countless other subjects attract days. George Gordon Meade, Gen. George B. McClel- Capitol, the Naval Monument. Albert Pike is honored throngs of the studious. at Indiana avenue, Third and D streets, in a Outstanding churches here that have become memorial. William Jennings Bryan has his national shrines. In effect, have a special lure own memorial now on the banks of the Po- for the newcomer. The Cathedral of St. Peter at the foot of Constitution avenue. and St. Paul on Mount Saint Alban is one of tomac, Cardinal James Gibbons is recalled in a tire glories of the Episcopal Church. In one memorial the churchman t of its dispels, named for Bethlehem, are buried showing great seated, at Park Pine and Sixteenth streets. the World War President, Woodrow Wilson, road. Samuel the eminent labor notable ecclesiastics and others of renown. This Oompers, leader, son was associated with Labor sacred edifice has been under construction for whose long the lives in a memorial st Tenth a great many years and is considered an archi- Department, again and Massachusetts far from tectural gem. It is still unfinished. street avenue, not the headquarters of the American Federation of The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Labor, where he labored so long. Prof. Joseph on ttie grounds of the Catholic University, is Henry, whose learning added to the triumphs of another attraction for the churchgoer and other peace, has a statue in front of the Smithsonian visitors. Rare one from the mosaics. Including Institution. Pope, are among the items of Interest it has to offer. Ttie Franciscan Monastery In Brookland, not ENRY W. LONGFELLOW, whose verses far from Catholic University, has special sig- have written his name imperishabljr In American found in a nificance to the visitor. It possesses many at- literature, la statue and tractive chapels and altars and, in more auspi- at Connecticut avenue, Eighteenth cious weather, has delightful gardens. M streets. In the triangle at the intersection The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day of Rhode Island avenue and M street there la Saints lias recently erected a church at Six- a memorial to the Nuns of the Battlefield, re- teenth and Columbia road, which is considered calling the services these good women rendered inviting. Other denominations have churches during the strenuous Civil War. Daniel Web- of special import to their adherents here and ster, orator extraordinary, is remembered in a are well worth a visit. memorial west of Scott Circle, at Massachusetts and Rhole Island avenues and N street. John Washington possesses an imposing array of Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of In- statues and memorials, ranging from the eques- has a memorial at Connecticut trian creation honoring Francis Asbury at Six- dependence, and N streets. teenth and Mount Pleasant streets to the avenue, Eighteenth Conceded to be two of the most beautiful Women's Titanic Memorial, on the banks of in are the Me- ttie Potomac River at New Hampshire avenue buildings Washington Folger morial dedicated to the Bard of and E street, recalling one of the world's great- Library, Avon, near the of est maritime tragedies. History is preserved Library Congress, and the Pan- American at Seventeenth street and In bronze and granite here and some of ttie Union, Constitution avenue. The structures are cameos outstanding men of the Republic are fashioned in enduring memorials. in architecture and their grounds are lovely. An Elizabethan theater be seen in the Jolui Barry and John Paul Jones are repre- may which contains me- sented among the dominant naval heroes. Folger building, many mentoes of Christopher Columbus, although not a citizen Shakespeare. Art nas its where Cor- of the United States, has premier position in a temples Here, too, the statue and fountain in the Union Station coran Gallery of Art, at New York avenue and Seventeenth is of Mot plaza, for he had not a little to do in laying the street, special Interest. alone does it attractions un- groundwork for the upbuliding of a new nation possess for the but here. One of Washington’s newest memorials tutored, students of art attend classes there, and in the is to a foreigner, for it honors the late French Springtime one may see the easel and brush Ambassador, Jules Jusserand, and is located In out under the trees, recording bud- Bock Creek Park. ding Nature. The Freer Gallery of Art, next to the Smithsonian, is known for Its beauties, and there, particularly, one may see deft de- South American hero, San Martin, to signs from Oriental hands. remembered in an equestrian statue in Abraham Lincoln is well remembered here, Judiciary Park. Edmund Burke, the for not only is the Imposing memorial in West THEIrishman who spoke out for the Colonies Potomac Park a testimonial to the Great Eman- In the halls of Westminster, is extolled in a cipator, but there is a standing statue of him statue at Massachusetts Eleventh and I* avenue, A view of the Washington Monument made from within at the south front of the United States court streets. There is a monumental urn, betokening majestic house in Judiciary Park. The Lincoln Museum Cuban the colonnade the Memorial Constitution Hall. friendship, in the rose garden in West of and the house in which he died, on Tenth Potomac Park. A statue of Dante stands in tlie —Photo by H. H. 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