Tarry at home travels . e American Revolution. Butat that time nobody dared print such it was only in 1S72 that it was printed fromthe original manuscript. I have never seen it inany American Edition. Every one feels the difficulty of rememberingthe mathematical and alphabetical names ofstreets. In 1844 a few of us devised a system ofnames for the streets, which have been waiting forsixty years for confirmation by the various gov-ernments of the city. A, B, C, D streets wereto be Adams Street, Benton Street, CalhounStreet, Derne Street, and so we went on, till, atthe end of the alph
Tarry at home travels . e American Revolution. Butat that time nobody dared print such it was only in 1S72 that it was printed fromthe original manuscript. I have never seen it inany American Edition. Every one feels the difficulty of rememberingthe mathematical and alphabetical names ofstreets. In 1844 a few of us devised a system ofnames for the streets, which have been waiting forsixty years for confirmation by the various gov-ernments of the city. A, B, C, D streets wereto be Adams Street, Benton Street, CalhounStreet, Derne Street, and so we went on, till, atthe end of the alphabet, you had Zebulon Street,in honor of Zebulon Montgomery. First Street,Second Street, Third Street, etc., were to be 376 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Wonder Street, Tudor Street (in honor of the Vir-gin Queen), Trinity Street (for Trinity Church),Ivy Street (IV Street), Vermont Street, VirginiaStreet, Pleiades Street; Eighth Street wasAtlantic Street, and then we had Muses Street,Tennessee Street, and so on. Poor Mr. McFar-. The Presidents HorsK, from the PoTuMAr, LSiJ. land, who, with his commissioners, rules the cityso magnificently, will have to consider thesenames after sixty years, and, as he is apt to putthings through, the calendar of such names willbe well adjusted. Washington is now a very agreeajjle cit}. It WASHINGTON THEN AND NOW 377 is a very beautiful city. People who have noth-ing to do with the government of the nation liketo come here to live. And no wonder. But forthe tens and twenties and thirties of the lastcentury, it is spoken of with great disrespect bythe people who had to live there. To this day,when you go into the East Room at the WhiteHouse with a guide who remembers the traditions,he tells you that Mrs. John Adams dried her clotheson washing day in the East Room. And thenotices by travellers and the scraps which haveescaped from old files of letters speak with greatcontempt of the infant city. The phrase mud-hole seems to have stuck, and certainly as la
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