Nation's Capital
Grows Despite
Early Critics
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By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 (-The
two-millionth resident came to
Greater Washington today, prov
ing that a city, like an individual,
can succeed despite tremendous
odds.
For the new capital of the new
nation was a weak and ugly baby.
Many predicted a quick, merciful
death. As late as the Uvii war
Wheeling. W.Va.. was getting
ctes as a much better site for a
promising government.
Foreign visitors almost always
tossed off harsh words, liberally
sprinkled with ridicule, to de
scribe the place. Its marshes were
unhealthy. its climate rotten, its
roads impassable, its architecture
pretentious.
Then, when it began to thrive,
the criticism ran the other way.
For years now any politician
worthy of his ghost writer has
complained that Washington has
overgrown and must be whacked
back.
Gone Ahead Steadily
Yet in spite of hell, high water
and political promises, it's gone
ahead steadily, inching further
and further into the surrounding
Virginia and Maryland hills,
Each month, the Board of Trade
reports, the area grows by more
than 5,000.
In the beginning this was called
the Federal District, but as early
as 1791 the New York Journal had
a name for it. Why not call it
Washingtonople?
President George Washington,
as an old surveyor, took a steady
interest in the place, helping in
its planning and in the sale of its
lots. Presumably he agreed with
Maj. Pierre Charles l'Enfant who.
in designing the city, looked over
all promising spots for the Capi
tol and reported that he could" find
no more advantageous site than
the one "on the west end of Jen
kin's Heights, which stands as a
pedestal waiting for a monu
ment." Cross Sheep Meadow
Well, the pedesuOeTl1m&
ument, but when Sam Houston
arrived here as a young congress
man in 1823 he still could cross a
sheep meadow on his way to
work.
By Lincoln's time Henry Adams
still could complain the place
looked as if it were just begun.
"As in 18O0 and 1850. so in I860."
Adams said, "the same rude col
ony was camped in the. same
forest, with the same unfinished
Greek temples for workrooms,
and sloughs lor roads.
Anthony Trollope looked at
Washington and found it "track
less, unbridged, uninhabited and
desolte. Tucking your trousers up
to your knees, you will 'wade
through the bogs, you will lose
yourself among rude hillocks, you
will be out of the reach of hu
manity. If you are a sportsman,
you will desire to shoot snipe
within tight of the President's
house."
Even then, the town had naugh
ty habits. A British diplomat
claimed it was no place for young
men because of "the pernicious
local habit of swallowing cock
tails." Beyond Dreams
But the world wart came, and
the government and town grew to
sizes our planners never dreamed
of.
It has its drawbacks, of course.
The streets still are impassable
during rush hours. And. as Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore has said,
it has slums "in which 1 would not
keep my cattle."
Yet the chances are the hours
old son of Robert and Elizabeth
Cash, picked by the board of
trade as "No. 2,000.000," will learn
to love the old place the Capitol
dome at night, the majesty of the
Lincoln Memorial, the excitement
of watching Congress in an hour
of decision, these lovely fall days.
The statistics prove it: Wash
ington is a hard place to leave.
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