Tarry at home travels . essities of the case to makefrequent changes of detail. While, therefore,it is strictly true that the present city follows thelines laid down in the engraved plan of AndrewEllicott, it is equally true that those lines werelaid down in the wish to execute the general planas it had been approved or used by George Wash-ington and Major LEnfant. Major Ellicott soonhad a controversy with the commissioners asLEnfant had done already. In an interesting biography, published sincethis paper was originally written, Latrobe, ayoung Englishman, whose subsequent achieve-ments like t
Tarry at home travels . essities of the case to makefrequent changes of detail. While, therefore,it is strictly true that the present city follows thelines laid down in the engraved plan of AndrewEllicott, it is equally true that those lines werelaid down in the wish to execute the general planas it had been approved or used by George Wash-ington and Major LEnfant. Major Ellicott soonhad a controversy with the commissioners asLEnfant had done already. In an interesting biography, published sincethis paper was originally written, Latrobe, ayoung Englishman, whose subsequent achieve-ments like those of the rest of his family werethose of Titans, comes in for a share of thecredit in the original surveys of the city. WASHINGTON THEN AND NOW 436o The LEnfant plan is now well known to halfthe people of America, a very wise modificationof what people call the gridiron plan, which,as I suppose, William Penn invented when heintroduced it into Pennsylvania. By that planone body of parallel streets run north and south,. Back View of the Capitol, Washington (about 1810). one body run east and west. The Philadelphiapeople and most Western people like this plan,which is undoubtedly convenient for people and people trained under the tra-ditions of other centuries dislike it. The disad-vantage is that you have little or no power of 366 TAERY AT HOME TRAVELS expressing your own wish when you go from one*place to another, and that you may be in a verybad fix if, on a hot day in August, you are inPhiladelphia and you have to walk two miles tothe northward between quarter of twelve andquarter past twelve. You have no alternative:you must go with the sun shining on your back,and no emperor, pope, king, burgomaster, mayor,or chief of the police can help you. If you die ofsunstroke before you arrive, your body will bedecently carried to the morgue. But they cannothelp you, they cannot prevent the , in a city laid out like Boston, where thestreets follow the s
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