The unexpected. however. happened. War was declared by our Government against the German Empire and subsequently against the Austrian Empire. and the old fort took its position. not as a defense to the great city of Baltimore. which is now built up to its very gates. but as a great hospital for the care of the sick and wounded. The model immigration station constructed within the fort grounds. having a large administration building. receiving station and pier. a hospital. power plant. and all the requisites for an immigration plant. became the nucleus of the various hospital buildings which eventually covered ahnost the entire 48 or more acres of the fort ground. The War Department. having completed its use of the fort and its buildings. is now ready to turn it over as a memorial for the immortal Francis Scott Key. who. on the Minden. anchored in the harbor. wrote the StarSpangled Banner in 1814. and for whom the Government has erected a. nonument costing more than $100.000. facing the harbor of Baltimore. and the scene of tile battle between the British squadron in their attack upon tile fort. This bill provides for the removal and sale of the temporary buildings erected for hospital purposes and all other material of no further use to the Government. and out of the money received for such buildings and material authorization is made for the appropriation of $50.000 to place the old fort in its original condition and to make it a place worthy of its historic and sentimental history.
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