Tarry at home travels . very othergrand order in the country is apt to meet here,so that, whatever else you lack, you will not lackthe society of agreeable people. About fortythousand New Englanders, as I count it, passthrough Washington every winter southwardbecause it is too cold in New England; whileabout twenty thousand other people of the sameblood and lineage are going northward because itis too hot in Florida and Georgia. These peoplemeet each other at Washington. The result isa little like that of putting cold water over analcohol lamp when you want to make winter has been
Tarry at home travels . very othergrand order in the country is apt to meet here,so that, whatever else you lack, you will not lackthe society of agreeable people. About fortythousand New Englanders, as I count it, passthrough Washington every winter southwardbecause it is too cold in New England; whileabout twenty thousand other people of the sameblood and lineage are going northward because itis too hot in Florida and Georgia. These peoplemeet each other at Washington. The result isa little like that of putting cold water over analcohol lamp when you want to make winter has been especially cold here (thewinter of 1905). They never had to shovel theirsidewalks, I think. They certainly do not knowhow to do it, and in the middle of the winter the 2c 386 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS commissioner bade them put sawdust and asheson the ice of their sidewalks, to the great surpriseof a considerable part of the population. To continue for a moment the comparison ofthe Washington of 1844 and that of 1904, I may. House of Representatives, about 1850. say this, that in square miles or square inchesthe nation of that day was not half as large as isthe nation of to-day, and I may say that half thenation then was pretending and trying to feela certain indifference toward national legislation,and I may say that everything then depended WASHINGTON THEN AND NOW 387 upon mails and nothing on the telegraph; andthat the mail of that day took, on an average, fivetimes as much time for its service as the mail doesnow. I remember seeing a man who had beenriding day and night from New Orleans — lookedas if he had just come out of a states prison,as somebody said. It was in Philadelphia, andhe had been eight days and eight nights doing it happened that whoever came to Washing-ton then felt in fact somewhat as a man feels whonow happens in at Quebec or at Glasgow. Hecame out of America into Washington. Justnow the truth is exactly the other way: you comeinto America when you co
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