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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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ry-General, Surgeon-General, and Paymaster-General; the Corps of Engineers, the Ord-nance Department, the Bureau of Military Justice, the Signal Office,the Bureau of War Records, etc. The department, in addition to thecharge of military affairs, has the management and control of numer-ous matters that are not stricdy warlike. Among the number arethe manifold river and harbor improvements throughout the UnitedStates, the government exploradons and geographical surveys, thevarious public works, the gathering and promulgation of the weatherreports, and the national cemeteries and asylums. It is a vast estab-lishment, requiring a host of workers and an enormous yearly ex-penditure to maintain it. In some recent years the disbursementshave amounted to about fifty millions of dollars. Every year thearmy and its adjuncts require the expenditure of nearly $29,000,000,the salaries and expenses of the department amount to $2,400,000,and from ten to twenty millions are expended for public works.
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THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 191 The Secretary of War is a Cabinet minister, and receives $8,000per year. He has a chief clerk with a salary of $2,500, a disburs-ing clerk with $2,000, a stenographer with $1,800, and three chiefsof divisions with $2,000 each. His office is provided with fifty-sixclerks and numerous other employes. The chief clerk has the gen-eral superintendence, is in charge of the correspondence, and actsas a medium between the Secretary and the heads of the sub-depart-ments. The several military bureaus have many employes, and arepart of the army establishment, the chiefs being officers of the regu-lar army. The old War Department building, so familiar to thousands ofsoldiers of the volunteer army during the Rebellion, was demolishedin 1879. ^^ stood where the northern wing of the State, War, andNavy Building now stands, and had a history going back to Presi-dent Monroes time. It was a three-story brick structure with a hugepordco of marble pillars, and in front of it were

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