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About The Rome tribune. (Rome, Ga.) 1887-190? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1894)
SELDOM SEEN. Down In the Lower Regions of the Capitol. • USED FOR FUNERALS ONLY. A Mysterious Apartment—Why Washington is Buried at Mount Vernon. Washington. Jan. I.—During this {holiday season the great white building on the hill—the United States capitol— is crowded with visitors. Congress is not iq session just at this time, but the people do not caro for that. The capitol is itself a never failing attraction for the multitude. The noble architecture, the works of art, the sacred memories cling ing about the building and parts of it, all conduce to the liveliest popular inter est in it. I confess that for one I never get tired of the capitol. While the men and scenes in its legislative halls do be- i i ® '■! IV-' i ‘MR# | U- & ' MODEL OF THE GODDESS. eome dull and irksome, the great struc ture itself appears to possess now charms with every passing day. To the visitor who has never been down in the lower regions of the capitol I would suggest a journey thither at the first opportunity. You will bo surprised at the things yon find there. Yon will not expect to en counter steam boilers and engines big enough for a great factory, nor will you think of coming upon a burial vault un der the very center of the rotunda. v Scores Upon Scsren of Kooms. Suppose you go down first from the senate side. An elevator will show you the way, which you/could never find by yourself. At the bottom you will find a sub-basemenr, Im-gely filled wiUiW»- chinery. Here aro elegant for the use of senators; also filled with tons upon tons of public uments, which aro rotting away. Thß| are steam boißrs and engines, lighting and a part of orate ..P i.i .d^fceat ing vUh senate wing of capitol is Still lower do'® is [’ini- rnoJßi the 1... ble structure wlßch tol, save its ea»c| , n side, and which was erected purelw for architectural effect, are scores upoA scores of rooms, many of them used by Ammitteea or as the indi vidual private looms of senators. Others have various ulss. You will be amazed at the number »f things that have to be done for the r.Wate. There is a carpen ter shop, an npnolsterer’a room, a book binder's outfi ; for repairing books and files without sending them out of the building, a rtiachine shop and several rooms filled with srohivea. One room down there is never opened t® the pub lic, and its contents are guarded with much mysterious secrecy. It is said to contain a large supply of fine «dnas and liquors, the residua of •uner.nl parties of >f tiie ir’*S- ■-.--. i. .-’ly or ever another senator diss and ? WUpH jolly committee is sent across country with his remains. Pumping Fresh Alls Under the terrace there is still another large engine and boiler room. One won ders what need the United States senate has for so much power. But when you consider that it must have heat from steam, power for the elevators, electric lights, and that the luxurious body has a constant stream of fresh air pumped into its chamber, this air being warmed In winter by passing through jeoils of steam pipes and cooled in summer by passing over large masses of ice, it is easy to understand why so many boilers are required that this part of the terrace looks like the hold of a transatlantic steamer. For the convenience of visitors who wish to see just how the fresh air is pumped into the senate a peephole has been cut. As you walk through tho cor ridor of the terrace you perceive a small glass window, and looking through this you observe a huge fan driven at a high speed. It is poised over the top end of a brick tunnel which rum; out into <,’anito> IT'S A SIGN OF DANGFII, . i when pimples, LDANGER [ blotches and crup ihS IT tions appear- on tea JL skin, no matter how UmxJMsSK slight. It warns you W. 4 *** that 7°' ;r blood isn't ■: ' J pure. Heed the warning fe*,-: &;:&■> while there is yet time; clear v '-’7 • U P y° ur system and purify ■Wk K’/'H ™e blood by taking Doctor gjri F7'' ? s Fierce’s Golden Medical Dis- SE KBEja covery. It rouses every organ ■O, B&J into natural action, purities > z" nn d enriches tho Mood and li through it cleanses an CThvig- • orates the whole system. It attacks all scrof ulous, skin and scalp diseases in tho right way —by purifying- tho blood. Tho diseases that it cures como from a torpid liver, or from impure blood. For everything of this nature, it is the only guar anteed remedy. • In Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Biliousness; all Bronchial, Throat, and Lung Affection’, oven Consumption (or Lung-scrof ula.) in its earlier stages—if it over fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. The worse your Catarrh, the mor# you need Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. «*■. .1 p;;r:c ana mere emerges m tue mnestoue tower which you see in tbe grounds. The fan pumps the fresh air through this tunnel and forces it into the senate cham ber, where it comes up warmed in win ter or cooled in summer from gratings placed under the desks of senators. Things Run on Forever. \ Under the house wing of the capitol is another array of boilers and engines. In a room which is grated off like a bank vault, and wherein there must be about a hundred bushels of dust, are files of the old archives of congress, invaluable, though not very interesting. A gas jet is always kept burning in the vault, but no one ever enters it. Not far away in one of the long, low corridors of the sub baseftient stands a figure which every American takes more or less of a patri otic interest in. It is "Liberty Enlight ening the World.” This is the model which was sent to congress when an ef fort was being made to induce that body to appropriate funds for the erection of the pedestal on Bedloe’s island, New York harbor. When the model was first sent here, an electric light was put in the hand that holds the torch, and it is a cu rious commentary upon the ..•> oi the caretakers of tho capitol that, hav ing once put an electric light, glowing, in the hand of “Liberty.” they can see no reason why they should take it a wav, notwithstanding the fact that the figure is buried in a dark and remote corridor, where perhaps no more than a dozep people in a week, aside from the capitol employees, ever see it. There is a good deal of continuity in things about the capitol. Once start something going here, and it is likely to run on forever. For Washington*!! Remains. An illustration of this is found in tho vault under the rotunda, where it was once proposed to place the remains of George Washington. When the capitol was first built and this vault was set apart for that purpose, some one had the good sense to suggest that guards would be needed at such a sacred spot. So guards were employed, and there they, their successors and assigns remained for three-quarters of a century, though there never was anything for them to guard. The wonder is not that they were permitted to remain so long, but that they were ever taken away at all. This old vault is one of the most in teresting places in the capitol. Not many visitors know -of its existence, nor, for that matter, but few of the senators and representatives. By application to the office of the architect of the capitol, near by, tho key to the vault may be procured. This room has heavy walls of brick and ceiling of iron and masonry. It is 20 feet long and about 16 feet wide, and is lighted by a single gasjet. A gloomy, somber, almost grewsome place it is, suggestive of prison or tomb. Here it was onco supposed the remains of Washington would be placed, and it has never been satisfactorily explained why they were not. Jt is the common belief that Mrs. Washington declined to give i her consent to the removal of the remains Los her husband from Mount Vernon, but Kris is. pot the case. EOT' have looked mp'-the and learned that a few days after the death of General Washington congress adopted a joint resolution in which it was pro vided that “a marble monument be erected by the United States in the cap itol, and that the family of General Washington be requested to permit his body to be deposited under it, and the monument be so designed as to com memorate the great events of his mili tary and political life.” Martha Washington’s Letter. The president was directed to trans mit this resolution to Mrs. Washington with appropriate expressions of condo lence, and entreating her to accede to the request. This was done by President Adams, and Mrs, Washington replied as follows: Mount Vbrnon, Dec. 81,1799. Sir—While I feel with keenest anguish the lata dispensation of divine Providence, I can not be insensible to the mournful tributes of tajypect and veneration which are paid to the gMnory of my dear deceased husband, and as services and most anxious wishes were m»ys devoted fio the wei 'ara happiness of his country to know that they were truly appreciated and gratefully remembered af fords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes te the public will, I must consent to the re quest mads by congress, which you have had tbs goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this I need not, I cannot, say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of pub lic duty. Martha Washington. No National Tomb. It does not appear in the records that Mrs. Washington ever formally with drew this permission or changed her de cision as to the burial of the remains of the first president. But in sending her letter to congress President Adams deli cately called attention to her expressions, and said, “There can be no doubt that the nation at large, as well as all branches of the government, will be highly gratified by any arrangement which may diminish the sacrifices she makes of her individual feeling.” It ap pears that the congress as well as the country accepted this as the best solu- tion of the matter, and the movement to remove the remains of Washington from Mount Vernon was nevermore heard of. Recently a proposition has been made to remove the remains of both Washing ton and Lincoln from the tombs in which they now repose to this vault un der the great dome and to make this na tional tomb some such mecca for the pil grimage of the patriotic as the tomb of Napoleon now is in the Church of the Invalides, Paris. But it is safe to say this will never be done. It should not be done, for the reason that a befitting tomb could not be constructed here, if for no other. There is neither the space nor the opportunity for architectural embellishment. It would always be dingy, ugly, stuffy arid unpleasant, and anything but a worthy imitation of that most magnificent of all tombs—the one in which rests Napoleon. Walter Wellman. No other saieapanlia hue equaled Hood's In tho relief it gives in severest cases of dyspepsia, sick headache, biliousness, etc. Advertise now and make business. THE JIOMEU’RIBON®, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 2. 1884, EVERYDAY ROMANCES. The Novels of Mrs. Mary J. Holme. Reach the Popular Heart. While it may be doubtful if the worka of Mrs. Mary J. Holmes will ever be ranked among tho classical productions of literature, it cannot be denied that she is among the most popular of living American authors. Her books appeal to the people, probably because of their perfect naturalness—because they pre- W" l!lli MRS. MARY J. HOLMES. sent everyday characters from an every day point of view. There is never any thing offensive in them. Their obvious aim is to teach a good lesson, and they reach an enormous number of readers. Her first book, “Tempest and Sunshine,” was published in 1854, and since then her publishers’ figures show that over 2,000,000 copies of her books have been sold. She has written 27 different stories and is now engaged on the twenty-eighth. From childhood Mrs. Holmes says she was a dreamer, and her world was filled with shadowy people ■who seemed more real toher and far less queer than her ac tual companions and schoolmates. When she told the girls at school that some day she woul d write books and they would read them, she was laughed at for her am bition, but always felt the innate convic tion that what she said would come true. She was ISorn at 'BrOGkSeld r lila^s u and her maiden name was Hawes. Judge Kirk Hawes of Chicago is her brother. Miss Hawes began to write verses, stories and sketches at the age of 13, when she taught a neighboring district school for a term and “boarded round,” and at 15 she had the gratification of seeing her first effusion in print. It was not till after she was married, however, that she seriously contemplated profes sional authorship. Her husband, Daniel Holmes, wjris at that time a young law yer of Richmond, N. Y., and it was after they had settled at Brockport, where they still live, that Mrs. Holmes’ first book was written. In person Mrs. Holmes is tall, slender and graceful; and I■' ■■ ■ i - ■:: ■ < :.s p■ 11 > v <• f y' ■■ n 11;r has si • -n ami 1- >. fill home, with its art, its conservator}' plants and flowers, is an fined and educated character. A Chinese Exodus. Prominent Chinamen on the Pacific coast are predicting a big exodus of their countrymen from this continent and all other lands to the Celestial empire within a year or two. 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You can make the present expensive or inexpensive, just as you choose. We can give you a good piano for a very little money—a more elaborate instrument for more. You ean pay cash for it, or take it on the install ments on your own terms. A nice organ cheap and on easy payments.' Come in and see how cheap you can get one before you make all your Christmas presents I have Prof, M. A. George, a fine piano tuner employed. All work guaranteed first class. E. E. FORBES, ”208 Bread St. Rome, Ga. JACK DAVIS in Charge. Appraisers Appointed, GEORGI \—Floyd county: To all whom it may concern—Notice is hereby given, tlia' the ap t r. iaers appointed to appraise the property of Hiram M. Penn, deceased, have tiled their returns, and unless good and snfil clent cause is shown, the same will be made tbe judgment of the court attb. January term. 1894, of the court of ordinary. Tins December 4th, 1b93 JOHN P. DAV IS, Ordinary. 12-6 w4w PJOEESSIONAL CPWMN I PHYBICUNBAND BUHCKCaa, R. A. HICKS, M . D? ROME, GA. Horucepathic Physician and Surgeon, for merly Resident Pnysician to Hahne mann Hospital, of Chicago. Residence and Office 103 and 1031-2 2nd ave. Office hours, 9 to 11 am, 2 to 4pm, 7 to 8 pm. Sundays, 9to 10 am, 2to 3 pm. HOWARD - rFEffOMiX Physician and. Surgeon. Office over Hammack, Lucas & Co.’s Drug Store. Entrance on broad Street. t®*“At office day and night. Telephone 62. 8-15 DR. L, P.EAMMOND, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence No 403 West First Street, Office CROUCH & WATSONS DRUGSTORI Residence telephone - - - no 48* Office ... ‘ 13. ~ C HAMILTONO7 PHYSICIAN ANC SURGEON Residence No. 115, Maple St. East Rome. Office No. 2201-2, Broad St. Residence Telephone No. 109. Office Telephone No. 123. ATTORWTB-A J-LA W. J. BRABHAM, ATTORNEY-AT -LAW Rome, Georgia. D. o. Richmond <S Danvillk Raidboad. My employment by the above company will not interfere with my general practice, whist will be attended to as heretofore. mch4-dly - Attorney :2, ]' alleiji i 011 gs J6ml attorney-at-laMMB Collections a W, W. Vandiver, ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE IN Postoffice Building, - • Rome, GaJ GATTIS IS ■** Jr-: ;i t<‘’t j r stU> acrea pro t erty of Jesse P. A y eiT, aseiLfortMi purpose of paying debts and distribution anio- g the heirs Terms cash Ibis sth day of December. 1893. C. w, Underwood, Administrator estate of Jesse P. Ayers dec'se'd decslaw4w. Letters of Guardianship. GEORGIA—FIoyd County: To all whom it may concern—Mre. G. W. Har ris, having in proper form applied tome for letters of guardianship ol the versons and prop erty of Grover C. Hanis, Beulah E. Harris, Geo. B. Harris and Jno. M Harris, of said county, this is to cite all and ringular the credi tors and next < f kin of ea d minors to be and appear at o,y office within the time allowed by law. and show cause, it any they can, why let ters of guardianship should not be granted to Mrs. G. W Harris as such guardian for said minors. Witness mv hand and official signa ture ttis 4th day of December 1893. 12-6-w-4w JOHN P DAVIB, Ordinary, Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA, Floyd County. By virtue of an order ot the Court Os Ordi nary of Polk county, Ga., granted at the Decern berteim, 1892, will ou told b"f.jie the cor.rt bouse door ot said county of Floyd, on the first Tuesday in February, 1891,* witbin the legal luurs ot’ sale, the following property of A. G. West, deceased, so wt: A one-third undivided interest in lots o’ land Nos. 610,611, 612,616, 616, 617 618,6«0. 681, 633, 689, 613 . 619, 678, 695, and tue west half of lot No 694. All in the 3rd district and 4th section of said county of Floyd. Also lot No. 12 in the 22ad district and 3rd section of said county of Floyd. Mold for rhe purpose of the paymeiit of debts and distribution. Terms cash. This 27th of Decern be’, 1893. Ivr F. Thompson, 12-29-law4t Adm’r A. G- West, deceased. Road Citation. GEORGIA, Floyd County. Whereas, R 8. Montgomery, et al., have pe titioned the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, ot said county, for a public road commencing in front of ri. J. Davis’ house on the Floyd Springs and John’s Creek road, run ning the old road by M J. Caldwell’s horse lot, crossing the slough at the low point of the Haw thicket; thence along the old road bed by R. 8. Monteomery’e house, and intersecting with the Floyd Sorinrrs and Pocket Mills road in front of J. L. Touchstone’s house. Now, this is to cite all persons having objections thereto, or claims for damages arising therefrom, to make the same known to the Board of Commissioners at their meeting to be held on the first Monday in February, 1894. Witness, the Hon. John C. Foster, chairman of the Board, this 20th day of December, 1893. 12-22 30d Max Mxybrhabdt, Clerk < !■ R Southern Jellico Coal Co., Comprising Following ZUClxi.es.- WOOLDRIDGE JELLICO COAL CO. FALLS BRANCH JELLICO COAL CO. AST TENNESSEE COAL CO. JELLICO COAL MINING CO. PROCTER COAL CO. { R STE STANDARD COAL CO. MAIN JELLICO COAL CO. CENTRAL JELLICO COAL CO. INDIAN MOUNTAIN COAL CO. ROB’T. "■.GRAVES & CO. 12-23-3 m TEXjEFIIONTE 96. OFFER EXTRAORDINARY A Magazine Free With The Daily Tribune. We have made arrangements to furnish McClure's Magazine free to subscribers of The Daily Tribune wh® pay $6 in advance for a year’s subscription. * Here is a prospectus of the magazine for the coming year. Where will you find a better R TVtt**'9 A and WEEKLY TRIBLJW Both for $2.00 a Year! THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED MONTHLIES have in the past sold for $4.00 a year. It was a wonder to printers how the Cosmopolitan, with its yearly 1,536 pages of reading matter by the greatest writers of the world, and its 1,200 illustrations by clever artists, could be furnished for $3.00 a year. In January last it put in the most per feet magazine printing plant in the world, and now comes what is really a wonder: We will cut the price of the Magazine in half for yon Application For Letters of Dis mission, \ GEORGIA, Floyd County. Whereas Chas M. Iluipor, .Trim T. Dowell, represents to .jji his petition, duly filed, that he has Jno. T. Dowell’s estate. This is to cite eons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can. why said administrator should not. be discharged troni his administra tion and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in February, 1894 This Novem ber 6, 1893 JOHN P. DaVIS, Ordinary. H-9-law9od f- Application for Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—FIoyd County: Whereas, Samuel Funkhouser administrator debonis non, with will annexed of G. W. F. Lumain’s estate, represents to the court in his petition, duly ft'(fit. that he has administered G. W.F. Lamkin’s Sr. estate. This into cite all persons concerned, kindred and cr. ditore, to show cause, if any they can, why said admin istrator should not be discharged from bis ad ministration and receive letters of dismission on tee first Monday in March 1894 This Decem ber 4. 1893. JOHN P. DAVIS, 12-6w3m , Ordinary. ■ Application for Letters of Dis- mission. Floyd County: Mra Rap White, cmrdi-1 of j £&J&gMj^eai<on. reagent,, th" -/t ml ; ■ I' '■ JtpSJ 11 an .F said ) uurlnWß be from her gimdia' hi ■ red > letters of dismission on the ’> Mumny iJM . March, 1894. This Dec Sth. V M JOHN ' DAVIS. 12-1090 d • Ordinary! Application For Letters of DM mission. M • GEORGIA, FLOVd CoiMY. Whereas W. H Edmundson, AdU’i'- the estate of Eliza 11. n ■■ court in ins petrion duly ti ! » U. i » administered Eliza H. I’.ee.vs’ . tn cite all persons con .1 nod. hi:;' 1 ' •»! ■ irots, to show cause. ifnnyuit' ? ■ ' administrator should nut uni; 1 bis u'lrniidstranou unu r.-c*‘ivf ' mission on the hist.‘‘’of" >• • '■ This oveiuber U, JO' ( oaw9od
