Louis T. Robisso.

The bronze was obtained from cannon donated

by Congress, and the cost was nearly $25,000. It is fourteen feet

GENERAL M'PHERSON.

high and stands on a massive granite pedestal, costing $25,000. The statue was unveiled October 18, 1876, and the ceremony was accompanied by an imposing military display and delivery of an oration by General John A. Logan.

Franklin Square is between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and I and K Streets, N. W. It comprises about four acres, and is prettily laid out, containing a large fountain in the centre. The spring supplying this fountain is excellent, and pipes convey water from it to the White House. Franklin

Public School, the finest in the city, is opposite the north-east

corner.

In the small triangular space made by the intersection of Tenth and D Streets with Pennsylvania

Avenue, N. W., is a fine marble statue of Benjamin Franklin, presented to the city by Stillson Hutchins, in 1889. The figure is of heroic size, and rests on a granite pedestal eleven feet high. The great patriot and philosopher is represented in the dress he used while Minister to the Court of France during the Revolution.

Judiciary Square lies north of the junction of Louisiana and Indiana Avenues with D Street, N. W., and comprises about twenty

acres.

In the northern portion is

the Pension Building, and in the southern the City Hall or District

Court-House, in which the assassin Guiteau was tried for the murder of President Garfield. In front of the Court-House is a marble column twenty-seven feet high, on the top of which is a statue of Abraham Lincoln, made by Lot Flannery, a self-taught sculptor. The monument was erected by the subscriptions of the citizens of the District.

A bronze statue of General John A. Rawlins, Chief of Staff for General Grant, 1865, and Secretary of War in 1869, stands in a small triangular plot formed by the intersection of Pennsylvania and

Louisiana Avenues and Ninth Street, N. W. The figure is of heroic size, and was cast from cannon captured during the Civil War, which were donated by Congress. It was designed by J. Bailey, and cast in Philadelphia. The pedestal is of granite and is twelve feet high. The cost was $12,000, defrayed by the friends of the General. The statue was unveiled in 1874.

At the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street, N. W., is a pretty drinking-fountain, presented to the city by Dr. Cogswell, of California,

At the corner of Sixth and B Streets, N. W., is the passenger station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. It is connected with the history of the nation, as being the scene of a very tragic event. While walking through the ladies' waiting-room, on the arm of Secretary Blaine, President Garfield was shot by Guiteau, July 2, 1881. A silver star, set into the floor, marks the spot where he fell, and the company has placed a memorial tablet on the wall opposite the spot.

Stanton Place, formerly Greene Square, is at the intersection of Massachusetts and Maryland Avenues and Fifth and C Streets,

GENERAL NATHANIEL GREENE.

N. E. It has an area of about three and one-half acres, and contains a colossal bronze equestrian statue of General Nathaniel Greene, the distinguished Revolutionary soldier and the hero of the battle of Eutaw Springs. It was modelled by H. K. Brown, and cast in Philadelphia. The cost was $50,000. The Continental Congress voted a statue to General Greene on account of his distinguished services, but lack of means and the apathy of succeeding Congresses caused a long delay. Finally an appropriation was se

cured and the statue erected in 1877.

Lincoln Park is on East Capitol Street, a mile east of the Capitol, and has an area of six and one-half acres. It contains the famous

It was designed by

bronze group designated "Emancipation." Thomas Ball, and cast in Munich in 1875. Lincoln is represented standing by a pillar, on which rests his right hand holding the Proclamation of Emancipation. His left hand is extended, as in blessing, over a slave kneeling at his feet. The shackles of the slave are broken, and he is gazing at the President as though giving thanks for his liberty. The group is ten feet high, and rests on a granite pedestal. A bronze tablet in the front of the pedestal is inscribed, Freedom's Memorial. In grateful memory of Abraham Lincoln, this monument was erected by the Western Sanitary Commission of St. Louis, Mo., with funds contributed solely by emancipated citizens of the United States declared free by his proclamation, January 1, A. D. 1863. The first contribution of five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott, a freed woman of Virginia, being her first earnings in freedom, and consecrated by her suggestion and request, on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death, to build a monument to his memory." On the tablet at the back is an extract from the proclamation, "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God."

EMANCIPATION STATUE.

The bronze cost $17,000. The dedication took place April 14, 1876, when Hon. Frederick Douglass delivered the oration.

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

The original design of the Washington Monument contemplated a grand circular hall, two hundred and fifty feet in diameter, and one hundred feet high, surrounded by lofty colonnades. From the centre of the hall there was to rise a marble shaft six hundred feet

high. The rotunda at the base was to be a National Memorial Hall, to contain statues of great Americans and paintings illustrating

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

events in the Nation's history, while the crypt beneath would serve as a burial-place for those whom the people should especially honor. The Monument stands at the western extremity of The Mall, so