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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h public documents. The government issues yearlynearly three hundred different books — reports of departments andspecial reports on home and foreign matters, mostly bulky volumes,and many of them illustrated in the finest and costliest manner — be-sides a large number of pamphlets. The Government Printing Officeis constantly engaged in many of its departments in printing and bind-ing these publications. A large force is employed in the documentand folding rooms in wrapping and addressing the books and pam-phlets, and nearly every day in the year one hundred large mail-sacksof public documents are sent out over the country. It is estimatedthat the printed matter annually distributed will fill two hundred andfifty mail-cars, and will weigh six millions of pounds. More than amillion bound volumes are distributed, and an immense number ofpamphlets. Each congressman is entitled to a certain number ofcopies of all the works, and he furnishes the list of people to whomthey shall be sent.
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CHAPTER VIII TJIE WHITE HOUSE —HISTORICAL SKETCH —DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDINGAND GROUNDS—THE MAGNIFICENT STATE APARTMENTS — LIFE IN THEPRESIDENTIAL MANSION —THE PRESIDENT AND HIS OFFICIALS — STATEDINNERS, FETES AND RECEPTIONS — FORMER PRESIDENTS AND THEIRWIVES—SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES. FROM the beginning of the century to the present time thePresidents of the United States have resided, during theirofficial life, in the Executive Mansion, popularly known asthe White House, and as one walks through the rooms of theancient mansion recollections of these historic characters throng thememory. Here the men chosen to guide the affairs of the Nationhave lived from day to day, have had their jo3^s and their sorrows,their domestic felicity, the honors of high position, and the cares andburdens which accompany great office. Here have been many bril-liant scenes of festivity— the joyous nuptial ceremony, the pomp andglitter of fetes and receptions ; and here, likewise, have been

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