WASHINGTON 



WASHINGTON 



Research Questions on 

 Washington 



(An Outline suitable for AVanhiiifr- 

 ton will be found with the nrtirlo 

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How many cities in the United States 

 have a greater population than Wash- 

 ington? How many in Canada? 



How does it compare in number of 

 inhabitants with the capital of Great 

 Britain? of France? of Germany? of 

 Canada? 



Who chose the site of this city as the 

 location for the Federal capital? Where 

 was the capital during his administra- 

 tion? 



On a train running forty miles an 

 hour, how long would it take you to 

 travel from Washington to New 'York? 

 To Atlanta? To Philadelphia? 



How much larger is the District of 

 Columbia than the city of Washington? 



Who designed the city, and who car- 

 ried out the plans? 



What does the address F Street, S. E. 

 mean? 



What is the "backbone" of Washing- 

 ton? Is it a continuous thoroughfare? 



Of what nationality was the sculptor 

 of the statue of Freedom which crowns 

 the dome of the Capitol? 



Who laid the first corner stone of the 

 Capitol building? 



When was the dome completed? 



Describe the portico where the Presi- 

 dents are inaugurated. 



What painting occupies the canopy of 

 the dome? Of what nationality was the 

 artist? 



When was the White House begun? 

 What President first occupied it? 



Why was it necessary at one time to 

 rebuild the White House almost com- 

 pletely? 



Why are not the government build- 

 ings massed in one section of the city? 



What building is considered by a com- 

 petent critic one of the best combina- 

 tions of architectural usefulness and 

 practical usefulness in the world? 



Who paid for the construction of this 

 building? 



What is the tallest structure in the 

 city? Where was it erected? De- 

 scribe it. 



What is the Mall? In what direction 

 does it extend from the Capitol? 



What right has the city to be consid- 

 ered an educational center of the first 

 rank? 



How many libraries in the world have 

 more books than the Library of Con- 

 gress? 



How much larger are these greater 

 libraries? 



How many railways enter the city? 

 Into how many stations do they run? 



In what room are the great public 

 receptions at the White House held? 



In what room are the portraits of 

 the Presidents? 



Where is the home of George Wash- 

 ington? What is it called? 



What privilege is denied to dwellers 

 in the Capitol city which citizens in 

 every other city possess? 



What change in economic conditions 

 took place in the city about six months 

 after America entered the War of the 

 Nat ions T 



How can you tell, by the numbers on 

 the homes, how far you are from the 

 Capitol? 



one good tavern and several other hcnu-i-s aiv 

 finished or being built." In 1814, during the 

 War of 1812, a British army captured the city 

 and burned the Capitol, the White House and 

 other public edifices, but these were rebuilt 

 after the close of the war. During the War of 

 Secession Washington was several times threat- 

 ened by the Confederates, but was never cap- 

 tured. In 1871 extensive improvements were 

 begun, as a result of which Washington devel- 

 oped into a city worthy to be the capital of the 

 great republic. In 1917, when the United States 

 entered the War of the Nations, it became one 

 of the world's great war capitals. In Novem- 

 ber of that year prohibition became effective in 

 the city and District. See DISTRICT OF COLUM- 

 BIA. B.M.W. 



Consult Bryan's History of the National Capi- 

 tal; Taft and Bryce's Washington, the Nation's 

 Capital; Leupp's Walks about Washington. 



WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (about 

 1859-1915), an American negro educator, very 

 much in earnest, intensely devoted to the ele- 

 vation of his race, and a practical, farseeing 

 reformer. He was bora near Hale's Ford, 

 Franklin County, Va., the son of a mulatto 

 slave and a white man. He was himself a 

 slave in his childhood, but after the removal of 

 his parents to Maiden, W. Va., he was put to 

 work in a salt block. While employed there, 

 and later in the coal mines, he managed to ob- 

 tain the rudiments of an education, and be- 

 tween 1872 and 1875 worked his way through 

 the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute 

 (which see), by labor as janitor. 



After teaching for a time and receiving some 

 further instruction at the Wayland Seminary 

 in Washington, D. C., he became an instructor 

 in the Hampton Institute. Here he evinced 

 such ability that he was chosen in 1881 to 

 organize at Tuskegee, Ala., a school for negroes 

 similar to that at Hampton, for which the state 

 made an initial appropriation of $2,000 for sala- 

 ries of teachers. From the little school with 

 its thirty pupils which he opened in an old 

 church, there has developed Tuskegee Normal 

 and Industrial Institute (which see), the growth 

 of which was due largely to the earnestness and 

 practical good sense of the founder. He laid 

 especial emphasis on the industrial education of 

 the negroes, feeling that only as they gain eco- 

 nomic independence can they hope for bet- 

 tered conditions. 



Booker Washington was a public speaker of 

 note, and he oftea addressed audiences in all 

 parts of the United States on his work at Tus- 



