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A project is well under way for building a great new marble bridge across the Potomac at Washington. The plans are made, the project has been authorized by Congress. It remains for Congress to appropriate the $15,000,000 necessary for its construction.

The proposed bridge would cross the Potomac from the west end of the Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, via Columbia Island, to Arlington. Several kinds of sentimental attachments are in the project. It would reunite the North and South. It would connect the Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert...

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