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the president of the United States, is a mile and a half from the Capitol. It was first used by President Adams in 1800. The other public buildings are the treasury, state, war, navy, interior and post-office departments, pension building, Smithsonian Institute, observatory, arsenal and the new Congressional Library building, in modified Italian-renaissance style, which has a capacity for 4,500,000 volumes and is one of the finest of all the capital buildings. The National Deaf-Mute College, the only one in the world, Howard University, Columbian University and the Catholic University are among the educational institutions. The government hospital for the insane, naval hospital, soldiers' home and Columbian Institution for the deaf and dumb are a part of its charities. The Corcoran Art Gallery contains one of the finest collections in America. The Washington monument, 555 feet above the foundations, the highest in the world; the Lafayette monument, naval monument, Abraham Lincoln with the proclamation of emancipation, a statue of Jackson, made from the cannon captured at New Orleans, and one of Scott, from cannon taken in the Mexican War; and statues of Washington, Garfield, Greene, Marshall, Dupont, Farra-gut, Franklin, Luther and Marquette are some of the best known of the monuments of the city. The site of Washington was selected by General Washington in 1791, and Congress met there for the first time on Nov. 17, 1800. In 1814 it was occupied by the British and the public buildings burned. Though several times threatened during the Civil War, it was never attacked. Since 1871 the city has been improved at great expense, making it now one of the most beautiful cities in the world Population (1910), 331,069. See District of Columbia and articles under titles as above.
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Washington, Ind., a city, the seat of Daviess County, on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern and Evansville and Terre Haute railroads, 20 miles east of Vincennes and 86 southwest of Indianapolis. It has a fine farming and stock-raising country tributary to it, and produces large quantities of bituminous and cannel coal. It is a shipping-point for grain, cattle, flour, coal, fire-clay, brick and tiling etc. It has a public library, several banks, daily and weekly newspapers, besides schools and churches Population 9,045.
Washington, Pa., a city 30 miles southwest of Pittsburg, is in the center of valuable fields of gas, coal and oil. It has carriage and glass factories, and also makes brick. This city is the seat of Washington and Jefferson College, Trinity Hall Academy and Washington Ladies Seminary. The college was formed in 1865 by the union of Washington College, which as an academy dated back to 1787, and Jefferson College, which grew out of Canonsburg Academy, opened in 1791. Population 18,778.
Washington, Book′er Taliaferro, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., was born in Franklin County, Va., about 1859. Born a slave, he has become prominent as a speaker and writer on racial and on educational topics. Early in life he worked in salt-mines in Maiden, W. Va., but managed to make his way to Hampton Institute, Virginia, where he received an education. In 1881 he was called to Tuskegee Institute, founded by him in the interests of the colored race, which he seeks to elevate by means not only of religious instruction but by an academic training, coupled with courses in manual and industrial work of a useful and practical character. Over 1,000 students annually attend the institute and find their way afterwards into industrial occupations. The institution is non denominational and is for both sexes, the founder's idea being to enable his colored brethren to meet present-day conditions, social and industrial, in the south and to do that by suitable education and moral training in the students he turns out from his college.
Washington, George, is the other American hero whose fame is not wholly accounted for by the record of his life. Like Lincoln the man was infinitely greater than anything he did. A military genius, he wrested liberty from tyranny; a statesman, he helped evolve a stable government from political chaos; a patriot, he refused a crown. Wisdom, patience, tolerance, courage, consecration to the righteous cause animated his every act; ingratitude, injustice and treachery never embittered him, but served to strengthen his character. He grew in dignity and in capacity to the need of his growing responsibility and power, but he never became arrogant; and ambition and opportunity never tempted him from the narrow path of honor. Yet, after we have
