Marine Band is the only military band always stationed in Washington, and available for all military ceremonials. These advantages have given it great excellence; and its music at parades, President's receptions, inaugural balls, etc., is highly appreciated. This band gives outdoor concerts in summer.

The Naval Hospital, for sick and wounded officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps, is at Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth Street, S. E.; and at Second and D streets, S. E., is Providence Hospital, founded in 1862.

Anacostia
Suburbs.

Anacostia is a name applied in an indefinite way to the region opposite the Navy Yard, and is reached by a bridge at the foot of Eleventh Street, crossed by the street cars of the Anacostia & Potomac line. The village at the farther end of . the bridge, now called Anacostia, was formerly Uniontown, and from it branch roads lead up on the Maryland heights in various directions, where electric railroads and park villages are rapidly extending. Twining, at the eastern end of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge; Lincoln Heights, in the extreme eastern corner of the district; Garfield and Good Hope, on the fine Marlboro Turnpike, which is a favorite run for cyclers; and Congress Heights, farther south, are the principal of these suburban centers. All of these high ridges were crowned and connected by fortifications, some of which remain in fairly good condition, especially Fort Stanton, just south of Garfield. A wide and interesting view of the city and the Potomac Valley is obtained from its ramparts, and also of the great Federal Insane Asylum.

V.

FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

A Walk Up Pennsylvania Avenue.

the head of it resting upon

Pennsylvania Avenue is the backbone of Washington the storied heights of Georgetown, and the tail lost in the wilderness of shanties east of the Navy Yard. It is four miles and a half long, but is broken by the Capitol grounds and by the Treasury and White House grounds. Pennsylvania Between these two breaks it extends as a straight boulevard, one and a half miles in length and 160 feet wide, paved with asphalt and expanding at short intervals into spaces or parks caused by the angular intersection of other streets. It will, by-and-by, be among the grandest streets in the United States.

Avenue.

A walk up "The Avenue" begins at the western gates of the Capitol, where First Street, N. W., curves across its rounded front. Pennsylvania Avenue strikes northwest; a few paces to the left, Maryland Avenue diverges southwest, straight down past the National Museum to Long Bridge. The circles at the beginning of these streets are filled with two conspicuous monuments the Naval or Peace Memorial at Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Garfield at Maryland Avenue.

The Naval Monument was erected in 1878 from contributions by officers and men of that service, "in memory of the officers, seamen, and marines of the United States Navy who fell in defense of the Union and liberty of their country, 1861-1865." Naval It was designed from a sketch by Admiral David D. Porter, elaborated Monument. by Franklin Simmons, at Rome, and is of pure Carrara marble, resting upon an elaborate granite foundation designed by Edward Clark, the present architect of the Capitol. America is sorrowfully narrating the loss of her defenders, while History records on her tablet : They died that their country might live." Below these figures on the western plinth of the monument is a figure of Victory, with an infant Neptune and Mars, holding aloft a laurel wreath, and on the reverse is a figure of Peace offering the olive branch. The cost was $41,000, half of which was given by Congress for the pedestal and its two statues.

Garfield
Monument.

THE NAVAL MONUMENT. - Pennsylvania Avenue near Western Entrance to Capitol Grounds. The Garfield Statue is a more recent acquisition, having been erected by his comrades of the Army of the Cumberland, and unveiled in 1887, to commemorate the virtues and popularity of President James A. Garfield, whose assassination, six years before, had horrified the whole country. The statesman stands upon a massive pedestal, in the attitude of an orator; nearer the base of the statue three figures represent three phases of his career-student, soldier, and publicist. This statue was designed by J. Q. A. Ward, and erected at an expense of $65,000, half of which was appropriated by Congress to pay for the pedestal and its three bronze figures.

Botanical
Garden.

In the triangle between these two avenues lies the ten-acre tract of the Botanical Garden, where Congressmen get their button-hole bouquets, and their wives cuttings and seeds for pretty house-plants. It long ago outlived its scientific usefulness, and has never attained excellence as a public pleasure-garden or park, while its cost has been extravagant. In its central

greenhouse may be seen certain tropical plants brought home by the Wilkes and Perry exploring expeditions; and the conspicuous illuminated fountain in the center of the grounds is the one by Bartholdi, so greatly admired at the Centennial Exposition, 1876. It cost $6,000.

The buildings improve as we proceed, and in the next block, on the right, is the National Hotel, whose history goes back to the early decades of the century, for in the time of Clay and Webster it was filled with the leading spirits in the Government, who caused many memorable things to happen beneath its Early Hotels. roof. At Sixth Street, just south of the avenue, is the handsome station

of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and opposite it is the Metropolitan Hotel, covering the site of the first important hotel in Washington, the "Indian Queen," which was the scene of the greatest festivities at the capital during the first third of the century. This brings us to Seventh Street, the chief north-and-south artery of traffic. Here Louisiana Avenue extends northeastward to Judiciary Square; and its diagonal crossing of Pennsylvania Avenue leaves a triangle, upon which stands the equestrian statue of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, by Henry J. Ellicott, erected in 1896.

Center Market.

On the south side of the avenue here, stretching from Seventh to Ninth Street, is Center Market, one of the most spacious, convenient, well-furnished, and withal picturesque establishments of its kind in the country. No one should consider a tour of Washington made until they have spent an early morning hour in this market, and in the open-air country market behind it, along the railings of the Smithsonian grounds, where the gaunt farmers of the Virginia and Maryland hills stand beside their ramshackle wagons, or hover over little fires to keep warm, and quaint old darkies offer for sale old-fashioned flowers and

"yarbs," live chickens, and fresh-laid
eggs, bunches of salad or fruit from
their tiny suburban fields, smoking cob
pipes and crooning wordless melodies
just as they used to do in "befo' de wa'"
days. There are four or five great mar-
kets in Washington. Between the market
and Pennsylvania Avenue is a park space,
through which runs the depression mark-
ing the old Tiber Canal, now a grassy
trench crossed by a picturesque bridge.
Here stands the Statue of Maj.-Gen. John
A. Rawlins, Grant's Chief
of Staff, and later his Sec-
retary of War, who also
has a small park named

Rawlins
Statue.

after him in the rear of the War Office, where this monument was first erected. This statue, which is of bronze, after designs by J. Bailey, cast in Philadelphia, from rebel cannon captured by Grant's armies, was erected in 1874, and paid for ($12,000) by friends of Rawlins, who died here in 1869.

Good modern buildings and fine stores line the avenue from here on to Fifteenth Street, especially on the northern side. At