Photo by Alliert G. Robinson 

 WASHINGTON A CITY OF VISTAS 



That pressure of brick and plaster which is common to most '"big cities" is not felt in 

 Washington. Free in its numerous vistas, light and airy in its spacing, unique in the number 

 of its trees, Washington rests lightly upon its people. In many of the world's larger cities 

 a necessity for "letting in the country upon the citj^" is being felt. Such a necessity does 

 not exist in the National Capital, which has been built around the "country," leaving many 

 delightful strips within, where a mighty forest is growing in the midst of metropolitan life. 



square" of the District of Columbia, was 

 bitter and long drawn out, lasting over 

 seven years and, in the words of one his- 

 torian of the period, "insinuating itself 

 in all great national questions." 



CHOOSING the; SEAT OF GOVERNMENT* 



About the first the world heard of the 

 question was in the fall of 1779, when 

 some of the members of the Continental 

 Congress discussed the advisability of set- 



* See W. B. Bryan's fascinating "History of 

 the National Capital," Vol. I, 1790-1814. Mac- 

 millan Co. 



ting up a capital at Princeton, ISTew Jersey. 

 Four years later Kingston, New York, 

 sent a memorial to the New York Legis- 

 lature praying that it authorize the erec- 

 tion of its "estate" into a separate dis- 

 trict "for the Honorable the Congress of 

 the United States." The Legislature two 

 months later granted the Kingston me- 

 morial. 



Two months later Annapolis submitted 

 its bid for capital honors, stating that 

 it was more centrally located than any 

 other cit}^ or town in the Federal States. 

 JNIaryland backed up her capital city with 



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