. Bill Nye's history of the United States. ent in New York was a sim-ple but beautiful ovation. Everybody tried to make it pleasant for was asked at all the towns to build there, andmost everybody wanted him to come and maketheir house his home. When he got to the ferryhe was not pushed off into the water by com-muters, but lived to reach the Old Federal Hall,where he was sworn in. In 1791 the seat of government was removedto Philadelphia, where it remained for ten years,after which the United States took advantage ofthe Homestead Act and located on a tract of land 191 192 HISTORY OF TH
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. ent in New York was a sim-ple but beautiful ovation. Everybody tried to make it pleasant for was asked at all the towns to build there, andmost everybody wanted him to come and maketheir house his home. When he got to the ferryhe was not pushed off into the water by com-muters, but lived to reach the Old Federal Hall,where he was sworn in. In 1791 the seat of government was removedto Philadelphia, where it remained for ten years,after which the United States took advantage ofthe Homestead Act and located on a tract of land 191 192 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. ten miles square, known as the District of Co-lumbia. In 1846 that part of the District lyingon the Virginia side of the Potomac was cededback to the State. President Washington did not have to escape from the capital to avoid office-seekers. He could get on a horse athis door and infive minutes beout of sight. Hecould remain inthe forest back ofhis house untilMartha blew thehorn signifyingthat the man whowanted the post-. MAKTHA BLEW THE HORN. and then he could office at Pigback had gone,return. How times have changed with the growth ofthe republic ! Now Pigback has grown so thatthe name has been changed to Hogback, and thePresident avails himself of every funeral thathe can possibly feel an interest in, to leave theswarm of jobless applicants who come to pesterhim to death for appointments. THE FIRST PRESIDENT. 193 The historian begs leave to say here that theusefulness of the President for the good of hiscountry and the consideration of greater questionswill some day be reduced to very little unless hemay be able to avoid this effort to please voterswho overestimate their greatness. It is said that Washington had no library, whichaccounted for his originality. He was a vestry-man in the Episcopal Church ; and to see his talland graceful form as he moved about from pew topew collecting pence for Home Missions, was alovely sight. As a boy he was well behaved a
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