The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-28
I R RlBU 7 E
IS PAID
HIM
French Engineer Who
Laid Out City of Wash
ington Is EuIogized

Nashlngton,A April 2S-Unusual hon.
ors were today paid to the memory Of
MAJOR Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the
famous French engineer. who under
the authority of George Washington
laid out the city of Washington
His body. which was dislnterred
from its resting place on Digges farm
In Maryland, near Washington. where
he was buried in 1925, was taken 10
the capitol under military escort to-
day.
In the rotunda, where the body Law
IN state, ceremonies were held at
which Vice President Sherman and
Ambassador JusSerand of France paid
tribute to the noted Frenchman.
This afternoon the body will be tax
en- 10 the Arlington national cemetery
under mllitasy escort and religious
services will be held there. Besides
the regular troops. who will take part
in the procession. there will be var
ious patriotic organizations as we'll
as civic associations of Washington.
One of the principal speakers TO.
day at the exercises held in the ro-
tunda of the capitol In connection with
the re-interment of the body OF Major
Pierre TEnfant, who planned the City
of Washington. was Ambassador JUS
serand of France.
The ambassador called attention TO
the primitive condition of the land,
upon which the future capitol was
erected, and to the great transforma-
ton which had taken place.
Washington. he said, quickly made
up his mind as to the location of the
federal city. but the question arose as
TO what sort OF a city would it be-a
residential one for statesmen, legis
lators and judges. commercial one
with the splendid possibilities AFFORD
ed by the Potomac river, or mix
ture OF both.
Major Pierre l'Enfant, said the am
bassador, had been selected by WSsh-
ington, because, during thirteen years
of association, he had many occas-
ions to appreciate his qualities. The
French officer, however he said. al
though gifted, plucky and energetic
was dihlcu1u To handle. J'En1ant
had been one of the earliest enthus-
lasts OF the American cause. served
luIOu6uOul luC Neli vi
and had been left on the battlefield
severely wounded at Savannah where
he had led the vanguard of one of the
columns of the attack and lost two
thirds of his men. For Major TEn-
fant. said the ambassador, the plan
ming OF the City of Washington was
a work Of love.
A mere glance at that work. he
said showed that that officer had de
cided not to work for a nation OF thlr-
teen states, but for one of fifty. The
streets we're uneXampled anywhere;
gardens. parks, fountains. statues OF
famous men-all were devised in view
of great and powerful nation, the
nation of today.
I,Enfant he declared, had foreseen
present greatness In all its aspects,
even the last acquired one. the one
OF which the American nation is so
justly proud, her navy"
The intuition L'Enfant had in tho
future OF his adopted country was
nothing very extraordinary, the am
bassador continued.
"An French people," he said. had
the same From the first France
thought the United States would be
and should be a great nation. The
first diplomat ever sent here came
from France, and now Pierre Charles
IIEnfant will sleep his last sleep in
that Arlington cemetery where so
many are buried who fought as he did
and fell as he did for the nation: near
that General Sheridan. who left such
examples of heroism. he rests on
slopes from which can be seen the
growth of the federal city now call
ed Washington; a revcred name.
wrote another Frenchman, ChastelluX.
when visiting in 1882 another earlier
town OF the same name in Connect
cut, "a revered name whose memory
will undoubtedly last longer than the
very city called upon TO perpetuate
it