Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-04-28
TRIBUTE TO FRENCMAAd
Who PLANNED CITY
OF WASHINGTON
Body OF Engineer Escorted
From Maryland TO Ma
tlonal Capitol by
Troops.
JUSSERAND PAYS
HIGH COMPLIMENT
EZg,z AS s-
French Ambassador and Vice Pres
ident Take Part in Ceremon-
les Preceding Burial In
Arlington Gem
etery.

Washington. April 2S.-Unusual
honors were paid today to- the MEM
ory of Major Pierre Charles Len
FAINT the famous French engineer,
who under the authority of George
Washington, laid out the city of
Washington. His body was disintered
from its resting place in Maryland
and escorted to the capitol under
military escort. In tho rotunda of the
capitol. where the body lay, cere-
monies were held at which Vice Pres
ident sherman and Ambassador JUS
serand. of France. paid tribute to the
noted Frenchman. The body will be
inferred in Arlington cemetery.
one of the principal speakers at
the exercises held in the rotunda of
the capital in connection with the re-
iEterment of the body of Major Pier
re L'Enfant, who planned the city of
Washington. was Ambassador Jusser-
and, of France.
The ambassador called attention to
the primative condition of the land
upon which the future capital was
erected and to the great transforma-
tion which had taken place.
Washington. ne 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 ii be--a
residential. ono fer. statesmen, legis-
lstors and judges, a commercial one,
with the splendid possibilities afford
ed by the Potomac river or a mix
ture of both
Major Pierre L'Enfant said the
ambassador, had been selected by
Washington because during 13 years
of association he had many occasions
t. appreciate his qualities. The
French officer, however, he said, al
though gifted. plucky and energetic,
was difficult to handle. L'Enfant had
been one of the earliest enthusiasts of
the American cause served through
out the war of independence and had
been left on the battlefield severely
wounded at Savannah where he had
left the vanguard of one of the col
umns of the attack and lost two
thirds of his men. For Major Len
FAINT said the am mOassdaor, the plan
ming of the city of Washington was
the work of love.
A mere glance at that work. he
said. showed that that officer had
died not to work for nation of thir-
teen states but for one Of fifty, the
streets were uneXampled anywhere;
gardens. parks. fountains. statues of
famous men-all were devised in
view of great and powerful nation.
the nation of today.
L'Enfant. he declared, had fore
seen present greatness in all its as
poets even the last acquired one, the
one of which the American nation is
90 justly proud her navy"
The intuition LiEnfant had of the
future of his adopted country was
nothing very extraordinary, the am
bassador continued.
"All French people" he said, had
the same. From the first France
thought that the United States would
be and should be great nation. The
first diplomat ever sent here came
from France and now Pierre Charles
LEnfant 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 revered name
wrote another French man, Chaste-
lux. when visiting in 1882 another
and earlier town of the same name
in Connecticut "a revered name whose
memory will undoubtedly last longer
than the very city called upon 10
perpetuate it,"