Excerpt from Greeters' Guide to Washington, 1922 Washington has grown from population in 1800 to nearly a half million in 1922. From a straggling village it has grown into a great metropolitan city, with beautiful homes, magnificent public buildings, wide avenues, Splendid drives and parks. This is the Nation's city! In this city we receive the official representatives of every civilized nation upon the earth; men in high standing in the political and social life of the nations they represent. To meet these representatives and see the Capital City, the most distinguished people from every land are almost daily visitors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.