Some remarks on the history and uses of Potomac Park

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Image 7 of Copy 1 raiaBMaia^Mac^fiiBMaMSMfiMeMSiaiacyMareya^^ SOME REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND USES OF POTOMAC PARK BY ALEXANDER B. HAGNER, A.M.. LL.D. aajaMSM^i

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Image 9 of Copy 1 SOME REMARKS ON THE History and Uses of Potomac Park BY ALEXANDER B. HAGNER, A.M.. LL.D. Associate Justice (retired) Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 1^ WASHINGTON. D. C. PRESS OF...

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Image 11 of Copy 1 Washington, D. C, July i6, 1914. The Honorable Alexander B. Hagner, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Justice Hagner: We desire the opportunity of having printed in permanent form for the benefit of...

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Image 12 of Copy 1 guished career can give you more pleasure than the service which you rendered in the Morris case to the Capital and the country, whose results shall endure for all time to come....

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Image 13 of Copy 1 Gentlemen of the Cosmos Club: In performance of a somewhat belated promise to submit some remarks to my fellow members on a mat- ter that might interest them, I shall say something...

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Image 14 of Copy 1 The States of Maryland and Virginia were the par- ticular States that ceded to the Government of the United States all the territory thereafter constituting the ten miles square; the portion ceded...

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Image 15 of Copy 1 the river at high- water mark on the southern or further bank. The only question that could be made as to the cor- rectness of this construction arose out of the apparent...

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Image 16 of Copy 1 a variety of grounds; and were represented by nu- merous counsel, many of distinction. The litigation assumed very large dimensions; and the seven printed volumes, and the accompanying maps and charts, with...

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Image 17 of Copy 1 right and title of the United States (except as aforesaid) to all of the land and water included within the limits of the said improvement of the Potomac River and its Flats,...

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Image 18 of Copy 1 For it had clearly appeared in the progress of the cause that the manifest purpose of numbers of the claimants to the properties involved was to wrest them from the hands of...

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Image 19 of Copy 1 venient to lay any obstructions to the most free exer- cise of its powers over it. The city was designed to last in perpetuity Capitoli immobile saxum. The Supreme Court of the...

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Image 20 of Copy 1 way available as a source of pecuniary advantage to the United States. In this spirit Congress passed the Act of 3d June, 1897, entitled An Act declaring the Potomac Flats a public...

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Image 21 of Copy 1 for the recreation and pleasure of the people, as well of the citizens of the neighboring cities as of the multi- tudes of people from elsewhere visiting the city. There is nowhere...

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Image 22 of Copy 1 The project, as I have heard it described, is to con- vert the eastern part of the Park into a great football and baseball ground, where vast multitudes are to as- semble,...

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Image 23 of Copy 1 I have heard that General Banks, whqn a lad, was ac- customed to walk several miles at nights after his labor in the mill was ended, to learn the lessons that enabled...

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Image 24 of Copy 1 call public attention, without further delay, to this ra- pacious project and to beg all who hear me to enter their protests against so dangerous an intrusion upon the rights of the...

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Image 25 of Copy 1 ate Romans had spread: The people sit down to eat and drink, and rise up to play. I am glad to be informed that our excellent Secretary of War has refused his...