United States Government building

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United States Government Building facing Louisiana way

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The largest exhibit building ever erected by the Government, and containing its largest display.

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On the right is the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, with Palace of Liberal Arts on the left.

Vista towards Government Hill

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING

It has been the custom of the United States Government to participate generously in all important Expositions. The Government building at the World’s Fair of 1904 is the largest exhibit structure ever erected by Federal authority and every department of the Government is represented with elaborate displays. The building is situated upon a broad terrace considerably above the general level of the exhibit palaces in the extreme eastern part of the grounds. It is nearly SOO feet long and 250 feet wide. One of the striking exhibit features, as the visitor enters the central portal, is the half of a battleship with full armament and equipment. The Post Office Department occupies the extreme northeastern corner and the Smithsonian Institution the northwestern corner. The War Department has a large display of modern arms. A separate building, constructed in the form of a Pompeiian house, is occupied by the Fish Commission, which has 35 large tanks stocked with living specimens. Near the Government building are sea-coast defense guns which are operated during certain hours each day. A large building in the western part of the grounds is devoted to an exhibit of the Indian schools, showing the progress which the Indian has made in the arts of civilization. The Bureau of Plant Industry has a six-acre map and school gardens, also in the western part of the grounds.

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Looking towards government building

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"OWNEY" THE POSTAL CLERKS’ DOG

Probably no other dog was ever so well known as Owney. Certainly no other dog ever traveled so widely or so intelligently. For this dog was not carried around by his master. He had no master. He was a tramp, free to come and go. He always rode in comfort, and was welcomed by every mail clerk in the United States. A bed in a mail car was all he wished. On top of a pile of mail sacks he was at home, and thus he traveled almost incessantly, accumulating medals, tags and badges, until even the harness made to supplement his collar could no longer hold his decorations. Now that he is dead, and mounted and exhibited by the Government of the United States, he is more famous than ever before. The pedestal on which he stands is covered with testimonials of attachment from all over the country. He was only a one-eyed tramp dog, but he found a home and friends wherever he chose to go. and he traveled in comfort on any train he might select. The remarkable point is that he made his way about the country with an intelligent selection of routes, traveling with the apparent method of one determined to see everything on the line of the railroads.