OXli OF Tllli MOST BENEFICENT INSTITUTIONS IN OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL 



The Volta Bureau, for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Relating to the Deaf, 

 is educating the public to the fact that every deaf child can be taught to speak and to under- 

 stand the spoken word by reading the movements of the lips. It contains all procurable 

 literature on the history, causes and alleviation of deafness, and the education of_ the deaf, 

 valuable genealogical material procurable nowhere else, and a card catalog with family history 

 of more than 50,000 deaf children. This unique collection, which never can be duplicated, 

 is of inestimable value in searching for the causes of deafness. The Bureau publishes a 

 monthly magazine, The Volta Review, devoted more especially to advocating the teachingof 

 better speech to children, deaf and hearing, in the home and in the school, and of lip-reading 

 to the adult hard of hearing. The Volta Bureau was founded and endowed in 1888 by 

 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. ^ In 1909 he_^ deeded it, with other 

 property, to The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, of 

 which he is the founder and past president. 



the Potomac and ending in the Lincohi 

 ]\Iemorial on the banks of the Potomac, 

 high above the river, where it will suit- 

 ably crown a memorial bridge uniting the 

 North and the South, and leading to 

 Arlington, the valhalla of the nation's 

 patriotic dead (see panorama of the ulti- 

 mate Washington). 



More than this, the flats of Anacostia. 

 on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, are 

 being reclaimed, while the peninsula that 

 lies between the '\\'ashington harbor and 

 the Potomac River, enlarging Potomac 

 Park for more than a mile, and called 

 East Potomac Park, is gradually assum- 

 ing usable form (see page 222). 



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