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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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HON. HENRY IJ. F. MACFARLAND. (Chairmun of tlic Board of Cominissioners. District of Co-lumbia, and of the citizens committee on tlie centen-nial celebration.) as was also the board of health and other sepa-rate boards and commissions. The affairs ofWashington are ably, honestly, and economicallycondu(;ted, and the various branches of publicwork are supervised by men of special trainingand fitness. The centennial celebration begins at 10 oclockon the morning of Wednesday, December 12,with a reception by the President of the UnitedStates to the governors of all the States, atwliich Colonel Bingham will explain briefly theenlargement of tlie Executive Mansion, Mr. Mac-failand will speak of the history.and develop-ment of the District, and ex-Governor Wolcott,of Massachusetts (it is expected), will make anaddress on tlu^ development of the nation. A 686 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IE(V OF REVIEWS.
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•m THE TREASURY BUILDING, OPENED IN 1841 AND EXTENDED TO PRESENT DIMENSIONS IN 1869. (A temporary treasury building of two stories and 30 rooms had been made ready for the public business in 1800.) military and naval procession, with General Milesas marshal, will then escort the President, cab-inet, Supreme Court, governors, Senate andHouse, and the diplomatic corps, from theWhite House to the Capitol. The Presidentwill review the parade from the east front, andwill then, with the other distinguished officials,be present at the commemorative exercises heldjointly by the two houses of Congress in the Hall of Representatives. Five brief addresses are to-be made by—(1) Senator McComas, of Maryland ;(2) Senator Daniel, of Virginia ; (3 and 4) Repre-sentatives Payne, of New York and Richardson,of Tennessee, and (5) Senator Hoar, of Massachu-setts. In the evening, a large reception is to beheld in Corcoran Art Gallery in honor of thegovernors of the States and Territories. Theoccasion a

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