Excerpt from Geographic Nomenclature of the District of Columbia We have here provision for three alphabetic series Of street names, viz., letters, American cities, and American lakes and rivers, suffi cient to furnish names for possible streets as far out to the north as a line drawn west from Takoma Park station, leaving about ten or twelve possible streets beyond unprovided for. The lettered streets as now existing end with W, at Florida avenue, omitting J, which is discarded on account of its resemblance in manuscript to I. The letter series, however, although of long standing, has many enemies on account of its baldness. One writer, in a letter to. The Com missioners on this subject, refers to it as utilitarianism run mad. As far back as 1886 a bill had been introduced into the Senate proposing to substitute for letters two alphabetic series Of names of distinguished Americans, taking for the north the names of states men and for the south the names of commanders in the army or navy. Thus, for A, B, C, and D streets it was proposed to substitute Adams, Benton, Clay, and Douglas streets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.