The driving of cattle through Washington Street did not cease until 1888, when cobbles yielded to asphalt.

It was in that same year that Benjamin Harrison was chosen to the seat of the Presidents.

What hallowed niches now enshrine the General's fence, utterly disintegrated and appropriated, during that bannered and vociferous summer, by pious pilgrims! Down the busy meridional avenue that opened before Sylvia as they drove uptown loomed the tall shaft of the soldiers' monument, and they were soon swinging round the encompassing plaza.

Professor Kelton explained that the monument filled a space once called Circle Park, where the Governor's Mansion had stood in old times.

In her hurried glimpses Sylvia was unable to account for the lack of sociability among the distinguished gentlemen posed in bronze around the circular thoroughfare; and she thought it odd that William Henry Harrison wore so much better clothes than George Rogers Clark, who was immortalized for her especial pleasure in the very act of delivering the Wabash from the British yoke.
"I wonder whether Mrs.Owen will like me ?" said Sylvia a little plaintively, the least bit homesick as they turned into Delaware Street.
"Of course she will like you!" laughed Professor Kelton, "though I will say that she doesn't like everybody by any manner of means.