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Title: The Washington monument illustrated; complete guide and history; authentic facts and figures; pictorial city of Washington
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Emery, Ina Capitola, 1868-1941
Subjects: Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: (Washington) I.C. Emery
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rthwest column, struck the floor plates inrear of the elevator, and exploded; thence into the engine-room on the pipes orwires, where the only damage done was the burning out of the magneto coil of thetelephone, which broke the connection between the engine-room and the boiler-house. It is a coincidence that each time the Monument has been struck by light-ning the fluid has left the columns about the same place. On the afternoon ofMay 3, 1900, a man who was standing on the lower floor of the Monument andleaning against one of the iron columns which support the stairways receivedquite a heavy shock of electricity in his arm and shoulder, and two men who werelooking out of one of the windows at the top at the same time reported that theflash seemed to come in the window over their heads. They were blinded for amoment. No damage was done. The iron columns referred to act as lightningconductors, the lightning rods on the outside of the pyramidion being connectedwith them for that purpose.
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Till- Washington Monumicnt 185 4 INCOMPLETH l878 154 Feet At a Cost oi $300,000 Corners^Stone. The corner-stone was laid July 4, 1848. The topmost stone of the pyramid was set Decembei6, 1884. The monument was dedicated February 21 1885. INSCRIPTION ON COPPER PLATE COVERING DEPOSIT RECESS IN THE CORNER- STONE OF THE MONUMENT. 4th July, 1776.Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. 4th July, 1848. This Corner-stone Laid of a Monument by the People of the United States to the Memory of George Washington. James K. Polk, President of the United States and ex Officio President of the Board of Managers. William Brent, 1st Vice-President. William W. Seaton, Mayor of Washington, 2d Vice-President. Genl A. Henderson, 3d Vice-President. J. B. H. Smith, Treasurer. George Watterston, Secretary. Also gives the Board of Managers, Building Committee, and Committee ofArrangements. The gavel used in the ceremony of laying the corner-stone was the same usedby George Washington in la

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