Tarry at home travels . ^]uL^T \ hUNuv. The Tomb of Wash-ington. 368 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS the Court-House should be, where the Presidentshome should be, and where the Departments ofState, of War, and of the Treasury should be. Inthose days the Navy Department was a part ofthe War Department. Men did not 3et look for-. The Capitol, about 1830. ward to the Peace Department, as we do now, norhad the Patent Office nor the Post Office nor theAgricultural Department developed , lest they should develop themselves, LEnfantreserved squares or circles for them. Then onlus plan he suppose
Tarry at home travels . ^]uL^T \ hUNuv. The Tomb of Wash-ington. 368 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS the Court-House should be, where the Presidentshome should be, and where the Departments ofState, of War, and of the Treasury should be. Inthose days the Navy Department was a part ofthe War Department. Men did not 3et look for-. The Capitol, about 1830. ward to the Peace Department, as we do now, norhad the Patent Office nor the Post Office nor theAgricultural Department developed , lest they should develop themselves, LEnfantreserved squares or circles for them. Then onlus plan he supposed that the President mightwish to send his veto or his approval with the WASHIXGTOX THEN AXD NOW 369 utmost speed to the Capitol, and so he drew inPennsylvania Avenue from the Presidents houseto the Capitol. He supposed that haste mightbe required from the Capitol to the Xavy-Yard,and so he drew in an avenue there. In like man-ner he supposed that from each of his circles andsquares to another people might wish to go directly,and he cbew in avenues in other places. So is itthat you have a double plan of avenues extend-ing northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest,Uke the legs of a tarantula or other spider, mak-ing one plan; while the gridiron sj^stem, which isa system of so-called streets, makes another. This
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