The Government Printing Office is at North Capitol and G streets. Here all the Government publications are printed, including the bills of Congress, the daily Congressional Record of the proceedings of Congress, Department reports and others. It is reputed to be the largest printing office in the world. Visitors are escorted from 10 to 12 A.M., and 1 to 2 P.M. The tour takes from one to two hours. The building is closed to visitors at 3 P.M.

Statues and Monuments.-The District of Columbia World War Memorial is a marble band-stand in Potomac Park near the reflecting pool. The Cardinal Gibbons Memorial is at 16th Street and Park Road. The sculptor was Leo Lentelli. The Memorial was given by the Knights of Columbus. The statue of General John A. Rawlins (by B. J. Bailey) is in Rawlins Square, 18th Street and New York Avenue. The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is to be developed on Analostan Island in the Potomac.

The Aquarium of the Fisheries Bureau in the Commerce Building contains a collection of the fishes of the United States.

The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and the engrossed original of the CONSTITUTION have been transferred from the Library of the State Department to the Library of Congress, and are there on exhibition. Between two pillars on the west wall of the second floor gallery a niche has been cut in which the Declaration is enshrined. It is protected by a glass which has been chemically treated so as to exclude all injurious light, and in front of the frame is a colored light by which the document may be seen. A case standing on the floor in front of the Declaration contains the Constitution; and protecting the whole is a heavy marble balustrade. Thus these, the two most treasured State documents in our national possession, have been brought into the light, where all may have the privilege of seeing them. The sword of Washington, the staff of Franklin, the Hull relics and other articles formerly in the State Library have been removed to the National Museum.

THE SHRINE OF THE DECLARATION.

Lafayette Square is beautiful with trees and flowers, and rich in historical associations. At the southeast entrance is the bronze and marble memorial erected by Congress to commemorate the distinguished services of Lafayette and other French officers in the cause of the Colonies. On the northeast is the Rochambeau monument. In the centre of the square is Clark Mills' equestrian statue of Gen. Jackson, as the hero of the Battle of New Orleans. In the northwest is the statue of Baron Steuben, and in the northeast that of Kosciuszko.

St. John's Church, north of Lafayette square, was built in 1816, and next to Christ Church (1795), near the Navy Yard, is the oldest in the city. One of its pews is set apart for the President of the United States. The George Washington Memorial Building and Victory Memorial (under construction at 6th and 7th and Constitution Avenue) is designed to carry out Washington's wish for an educational institution here, and to provide a memorial for all Americans who fought in the great war. The Army Medical Museum in the Mall, corner 7th and B streets, reached by Pennsylvania avenue cars and transfer to 7th street line.

Washington, the Nation's Capital

Ford's Theatre, in which occured the assassination of President Lincoln, April 14, 1865, is on 10th Street, No. 513, between E and F. It is opposite the house (No. 516) in which Lincoln died (now open to the public). The theatre building has been converted into a museum in which are preserved and exhibited the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial collection brought together by O. H. Oldroyd. This comprises thousands of objects connected with or relating to the martyred President. The museum is open to the public daily from 9 to 4:30 (Sundays and holidays 12:30 to 4:30). Among the exhibits are the family Bible in which Lincoln wrote his name in boyhood; log from the old Lincoln home; rail split by Lincoln and John Hawks.

FORD'S THEATRE

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THE WHITE HOUSE is on Pennsylvania avenue, at 16th street, and is reached by Pennsylvania avenue cars. For hours to visit, see the Time Table on another page.

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HE prevailing characteristic of the White House is a stately simplicity. Whether from Pennsylvania avenue one sees the columns of the portico but partially revealed through the foliage of noble trees, or from the lawns in the rear catches a glimpse of the southern balcony with colonnade and winding stairways embowered in vines, the air is one of dignity and repose. In situation, in character and in surroundings, one reflects, the White House is becoming as the home of the President.

The White House is constructed of Virginia freestone; it is 170-ft. in length, 86-ft. in depth, and consists of a rustic basement, two stories and an attic, the whole surmounted by an ornamental balustrade. The north front has a portico of lofty Ionic columns, forming a porte-cochere, and the south a colonnaded balcony.

It was the first public building erected at the new seat of government. The architect was James Hoban, who drew his plans closely after those of the seat of the Dukes of Leinster, near Dublin. Washington himself selected the site, laid the cornerstone (Oct. 13, 1792), and lived to see the building completed; it is told that in company with his wife he walked through the rooms but a few days before his death, in 1799. John