Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-28
MAJOR L ENFANT'S
MEMORY H0N0RED
Body Of French Engineer Who
Laid Out City Of Washington to
Be Reinforced at Arlington.
LAY IN STATE IN CAPITOL.
Ambassador Jusscrand Paid a Fitting
Tribute 10 Work and Worth of Ills
Distinguished Compatriot

Washington. April 2S.-Unuslal hon
ors were today paid 60 the memory OF
Mas Pierre Charles L'Enfant the ga
nous French engineer who. under thu
authority OF George Washington laid
out the witty Of Washington.
His body. which was disnterrcd from
it's resting place on Digges farm in
Maryland. near washington, wAere he
was buried in 1925 was taken CD the
Capitol under military escort today.
IA the rotunda. where the body lay
in state. ceremonies were held at which
Vice President sherman aud Am1as-
sador Jusserand OF France paid tribute
20 the noted Freedman.
This afternoon the body win be taken
90 tie Arlington national cemetery u De-
military escort and religious -erN ces
win be held there. Besides the regular
1 troops VINO viii take part ia the pro-
cession there will be various patriotic
organizations as well as civic assOcia-
! lions of Washington
President Taft. Vice President Sher-
man and numerous senators and re-
rrcsentatiVes were among the early
arrivals The president was there as
one of the orators of the day
/ Declaring that no people have grant-
| cd fuller or moro generous reward
] for value service. Vice President Sher-
/ man praised the deeds of Maj. En-
] FAINT who. he said, served America
/ with distinguished bravery IN war and
| with rare ability and masteriul genius
H civil life
NJ. ssERAND's SPEECH
Tho ambassador called attention to
| the primitive condition of the land upol
which the future capital was erected
and TO the great transformation which
had taken place.
washington. he said, quickly made
up his mind as TO the location OF iha
federal city but the question arose as to
what sort OF a city would lt hc--a resi-
dental one Tor statesmen, legislators
and Judges. a commercial one with the
! splendid possibilities afforded by 30.
Potomac river, or a mixture OF both.
MAJ. Pierre TEnfant. said the au'-
bassador had been selected by Wash
lngton because during 10 years OF asso-
citation he had many occasions % APP
preciate his qualities. The French OF
hcor, however. he said, although gifted
Z plucky and encrgetic. was difficult q
I handle. L'Enfant had been one Of th'
earliest enthusiasts OF the America.
| cause. served throughout the war 90
Independence and had been left on %
battlefield severely wounded at s2Van'
nah where he had led the vanguard
OF one Of the columns ot the attack
and lost tWo-thrds Of HIS men. 70
Nal rEncant said the ambassador the
planning Of the city % Washington VA
"a work Of love
A mere glance az The work. he said
showed that that officer had decided no
TO work for a nation of 10 states, nu
for one Of 50. the streets were uneN
! ompled anywhere; gardens,parks. ioun
/ tains. statues Of famous men-all wer
devised In view of great and poWeriu
nation the nation Of today
LEnfant. DE declared, had foresoe
the present greatness 500 an its aspects
'eyeu the last acquired one, the one q
which The American nation De- so 1usu
proud, her navy
The intuition LEnfant had In On
future Of his adopted country wa
! nothing very extraordinary. the amhas
sador continued
IAN Fronch people DE said, ma
q the same From the first Franc
thought that the United states woul
be and should be a great nation. Th
{ nrst diplomat ever sent here came troi
( France. and now Pierre Charles lfr
e | rant will sleep his last sleep iu tina
p Arlington cemetery where 50 many 90
buried who fought as DE ala, and r.
; as he did for the nation. near that Gc'
e sheridan who loft such examples
= berolqIu. he rests on slopes from whiC
e can bc seen the growth of the 'fede7
{ city now called Washington. "A reverb
e. name. wrote another Frenchma
K Chastellux. when visiting in 1872 an
o another earlier town Of the same nan
=. I'm Connecticut 'a revered name who's
e memory win undoubtedly last long
n than the very city called upon 10 pc
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