The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 10, 1902, Page 6

is TOMBS OF THE PRESIDENTS. A Proposition Before Congress to Remove Their Dust to Arlington. Simple Epitaphs Mark the Places of Re- pese of Most of Them, Elaborate Moouments Commemorate Others and Two Sleep in Unmarked Graves. From the Washington star Twenty men have in turn been elected President of the United States. Fivemen who were elected Vice Presi- dent have come jnto the highest of- fice through the Beat of the heac of the nation, Of these twenty-five men so honored twenty-three have re- sponded to the final summong. A billis now before Congress looking to the gathering into Arlington ceme- tery of the dust of these dead Presi- deuts of the United States, Not ev- erybody can name the twenty-three or tell where the honored dead men lie sleeping. Most of them are inter- redat their old homes, among the friends of their youth, The tomb of Washington has been the Mecea of the patriot for many years, The last resting places of Lincoln, of Grant and of Harrison and MeKinley are probably known to all, but the world “little notes nor long remembers” the going of its ereat men, The resolution before Congress, in its provisions for the removal to the national capital of the remains of those who once presided over the destinies of the country, except the name of Washington, who, it is well known, sleeps in the spot of his own selection, at Mt. Vernon. Even if Washington had not expressly and explicitly directed where his body should lie in death, it is not at all likely that Virginia would ever con- sent to give up the sacred dust of her distinguished son, Nor is it any more probable that Illinois would yield to the request for the dust of Lincoln, Ohio of Garfield or McKin- ley, or Indiana her Harrison. So it is with the other states. They feel a proprietary right in their honored ‘dead, and would not. yield theseup to other keeping. Many attempts have been made to have the remains of Washington placed in the gloomy mausoleum un der the dome of the Capitol, but these have always failed, and probably the matter will never again be breached. Mount Vernon, which Washington loved, is one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. In a great marble sarcophagus, bearing the coat-of-arms of the United States and festooned tags in exquisite sculp- ture, is the dust of the first President of the United States. Inaugurated April 30, 1789, Washington served two terms, dying two years later, Necember 14, 1799, at Mt. Vernon. This great marble coffin bears the single deeply cut word, ‘“Washing- ton.” By its side is another marble cottin, where “Martha Washington” also sleeps. A single block of Pennsylvania marble, eight feet in length and two feet in height, is hollowed out for each sarcophagus. They were made from a design by William Strickland, the sculptor being John Struthers, of Philadelphia, and were presented to the relatives of Washington by Mr. Strickland. As ordered by Washington in his will, his body was taken from the old vault at Mount Vernon and plac- ed in the new one upon its comple- tion. This occurred October 7, 1837. On the archway is a plain marble slab, on which is inscribed: **Within thisinclosure rest the remains of Gen- eral George Washington,” and that is all, except a line or two of Seript- ure on a tablet within. In remarkable contrast to this simple epitaph is that of Jobu Adams, the second President of the United States, and that of his son, John Quincy Adams. In Quincy, Mass., under the portico of the “Stone Temple,” or Unitarian church, arethe tombs of the Adames, father and son, the second and the sixth Presidents of the United States. The tomb is in the cellar under the portico, which forms the entrance to the church, and is an apartment walled up with huge blocks of rough- ly hewed granite. Over it is agranite slab, which has great iron hinges of rust eaten wrought iron, and a huge padlock in its clasp. Within the rock ribbed homeethe body of John Adanis lies in a lead casket incased in a single block of hewn out granite. Over this tomb an odd Gothic strue- ture has been built. It has a tower brief inseription saya that “General| OCUST PEST IS DUE. Andrew Jackson was born March 15, | and a peaked r pillars. In the church a big memo- rial tablet, at the right of the pulpit, |recites the honors of Adams, his birth and death, and above it isa | fine bust executed by Greenough. The epitaph on this tablet tells of janera in history that it is met to remember to-day. “Beneath there walls,” it says, “are deposited the | mortal remains of John Adams, son of supported by four Adams, second President of the nit- ed States. Born October 30, 1735 On the 4th of July 1776, he pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor to | the independence of his country. On the 3d day of September, 1783, he affixed his seal to the definite treaty with Great Britain, which acknowl- edged that independence, and con- summated the redemption of his pledge. Onthe Fourth of July, 1826, he was summoned to the indepen- dence of immortality and to the judgy ment of his God, This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificenc history to his patriotism; posterity tothe depth and compass of his mind.” Then follows a long inscription to his wife, Abigail Adams: This memorial was erected by John Quiney Adams, who only a few years later was laid to rest in the same vault, with bis wife at hieside. In turn, his son, the Rev, C, F, Adams, erected a marble tablet in the “Stone Temple.” which occupies a position at the left of the pulpit. It recites that John Quincy Adams was the son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adame; that he was the sixth Presi- dent of the United States, born July 11, 1767, and that on the 24th of December, 1814, he signed the aecond treaty with Great Britain whieh re- stored peace within her borders. It relates, in conclusion, that ‘on the 23d of February, 1848, be closed six- teen years of eloquent defense of the post in her great national council,” This last has reference to his being stricken with death while in his seat in the old House of Representatives. A brass plate, bearing his name, marks the spot where he fell. Thomas Jefferson, the third Presi- dent of the United States, sleeps un- der the trees at Monticello, bis old home, near Charlottesville, Va. Allens own the old place, but rever- ence the honored dead, The family cemetery in which the Jeffersons sleep is surrounded by a brick wall about ten feet high. On the north side, in a shaded, secluded spot, Jefferson’s body servant, Warmely, dug the grave of his old master, according to instructions left by Jefferson. The monument that was placed above the grave was of coarse granite. It was designed by Jefferson himeelf, as was also the inscription: “Here lies buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence; of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the Univer- sityof Virginia. Born April 2,1743: died July 4, 1826.” The fourth President, James Madi- son, is buried on the place which he ownedat Montpelier, Orangecounty, Va. His mouument is a tall granite shaft, bearing the simple inscription, “James Madison, born Mareh 16, 1741; died June 28, 1836.” Beside him rests beautiful Dolly Madison. Madison’s grave lay neglected in the center of a big field for nearly twenty years. It was with difficulty that the leveled mound was at last located and the monument; reared by pri- vate subscription, placed above it. The body of James Monroe, the fifth President, was first inteerred in theSecond Avenue cemetery, between Second an:i Third streets, New York city, where it rested for twenty-seven years, July 2. 1858, the body was taken with high honors aboard the steamer Jamestown, the members of the New York senute acting as es- cort, and carried to Richmond. Here, July 5, the body was placed in the President’s plot in Hollywood ceme- tery in a brick vault covered by a block of polished warble, on which rests the sarcophagus. The itfserip- tion recites the date of his: birth, April 28, 1758, and his death in New York e:ty, July 4, 1831; also the fact that he was governor of Virginia from 1799 to 1802, and President from 1817 to 1825. Inclosing the whole, to keep vandals from marring it, is a beautiful gothie cage of wrought iron. Mra. Monrve’s body lies unmarked in Loudoun county, Virginia. Andrew Jackson, seventh Presi- dent, lies under a dorie colonadé domerit the Hermitage, his old home on the €umberland fiver, almost within sight of Nashville, Tenn. The of John and Susanna (Boylston) 1767; died June 8, 1845.” lies beside him. “Martin Van Buren, eighth Pfesi- dent of the United States; born Dec. 5, 1782; died July 24, 1862;" is the , Short inscription on the plain monu- |ment marking a low mound in the Reformed cemetery at Kinderhook, |X. Y. The tall granite glab also | marks the grave of Mrs. Van Buren. William Henry Harrison, ninth President, was laid to rest in Con- gressional cemetery April 27, 1841. In July, 1841, his remains were tak- en to North Bend, O., and placed in the family vault. This vault is ona |hillin the middle of a big pasture sloping to the Ohio river, and is near the old Harrison homestead. It was, a few years ago, surrounded by an old board fence, and vault and fence vied with each other in tumble- down appearance. No inscription of any kind is visible. The land was deeded to the state by John Scott Horrison, father of the late Benjamin Harrison, with the understanding, it is said, that the tomb should be kept in repair. The state seems to hive forgotten this trust. The tenth President, John Tyler, sleeps beside Monroe in the Presi- dent’s plot in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond. Neither monument nor stone marks his grave, unless very recently’ constructed. The state obligated itself to erect a monument about thirty years ago, Tyler was born March 29, 1790, and died Jan- uary 17, 1862. James K. Polk, eleventh Presikent, is buried in the homestead yard in Nashville, Tenn., under @ limestone monument of square design in Grecian Doric style. The inscription recites that he was born November 2, 1795. and died June 15, 1849. General Zachary Taylor, twelfth President, who died June 13, 1850, was first buried in Congressional cemetery, Washington, D. C., but was His wife . 9 sy id his grave in the Tyler cemetery is marked by a tall shaft, surmounted by a life sized figure of himself ina full uniform. He was born Novem- ber 24, 1784. Millard Filmore, thirteenth Presi- dent, is buried in a beautiful spot in Forest Lawn cemetery, near Buffalo, N.Y. A plain monument of polished ted granjte bears the name, “Fill- more,” and the simple inscription: “Millard Fillmore, born January 7, 1800; died March 9, 1874.” Franklin Pierce sleeps in his native state (New Hampshire), in Minot cemetery, Concord, Although the fourteenth President, the modest in- scription on the cross crowned monu ment of Italian marble only tells that Franklin Pierce was born November 23, 1804, and died October 8, 1869. In Woodward Hill cemetery, Lan- caster, Pa., rests the dust of James Buchanan. The Romanesque mon- ment of Italian marble bears the in- scription: “James Buchanan, fif- teenth President of the United States. Born in Franklin county, Pa., April 23,1791. Died at Wheatland, June 1, 1868” Springtield, Ill, holds the shrine of Lincoln. The monument lately re- built is an imposing pile. The beav- tiful marble sarcophagus has uponit the word “Lincoln,” and the single sentence, ‘With malice toward none, with eharity for all.” Andrew Jolinston’s grave is in Greenville, Green county, Tenn., and a magnificent monument marks the last resting place of the “Seventeenth President of the United States, born December 29, 1808; died July 31, 1875.” This monument was erected by his children. General Grant sleeps under an im- posing monument in New York city. The nineteenth President was Ruth- erford B. Hayes, born October 4, 1822; died at Fremont, O., January 17, 1893. His dust reste under a beautiful monument at Fremont. In Cleveland, O., under a magnifi- cent monument, General Jumes Abram Gartield sleeps the sleep that knows no waking. He was born November 19, 1881, and was assas- sinated while Presideut, dying Sep- tembér 19, 1881. Chester Alan Arthur, the twenty- first President, is buried in Rural Cemetery, at Abbany, N. Y., under a beautiful memorial stone. He was horn October 5, 1880, and died No- vember 18, 1886. - 2 Benjniniu- Hurrison, twenty-third President, was Lora.at.the old home-| atead at North Bend, O.. Augnet 30, 1833. He died , 1901, and is buried in India William McKinley, President, was ted Septem er 7, bens and ie 3 e sleeps in a b cemetery at Can one sone ment as yet only’ je memory of hie gen! ) of Me Knaly desdes” i = | Seventeen Year Variety Expected to | Appear About June 1. | ee 2 | Predicted Th sects Will Swarm Over Different i Portions ef the Country and Destroy Vegetation, There may be no such thing as an entomological probability, but there is one entomoiogical certainty and that is that the 17-year locust is due this year. Once euch 17 years, with as much certainty as the sea serpent or the failure of the Delaware crop, What is known to science as the periodical cicada, or li-year locust. appears. lt descended upon many parts of the United States in Iss, devastating the fields, devouring the crops and leav- ing the sections visited quite bare of peach vegetation, many thousands of per- sons suffering for want of food and much live stock being lost fo of sustenance, After that not age until 1885 did the locusts make their appearance with the same disastrous results, The appearance of the cicada has recorded sine@ 1715 and it is due been regularly every seventeenth y again this summer ¢ it June 1, says the New York Sun, The locusts du great damage to forest trees, especial- ly oaks and hickories, to fruit trees, to berry and other bushes and to wheat and corn, It is predicted for the summer of 1902 that myriads of these insects wil swarm over southern New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, part of Ohio and the whole of Indiana and make trouble for all the owners of young trees. The locusts make their first attack on young trees, ‘The ten- der shoots are split and the cavities filled with eggs. The insects that are expected have been developing from these eggs for 17 years, It is not re- assuring to know that the cicada of this year will have wings and will be well equipped foe the work of destrue- tion, According to the bulletins of the de- partment of agriculture, Richmond county (Staten Island) is to Qave its swarm of locusts, but Westchester county fs not. Brooklyn will have, so to speak, locusts to burn, but the servation in Sawyer county, Wis., is to have its cicadas, but the whole rest of that state and Minnesota is to be ex- empt. The District of Columbia will ‘ave plenty, but so far as Kansas is concerned there will be this summer “nothing doing” in locusts. GIVEN A VALUABLE Doc President Receives Thousand Do Hunting Dow from an Indiana Friend, President Roosevelt received his $1,000 hunting dog the other day, and the handsome addition to the house- hold pets has already won his way to the hearts of the family, The dog is named Sailor Boy, wred Che apeake spani sented to TP hunter friend in Indiana. The presi- dent was asked to dictate the train- ing of the animal, which was put in the kennels of Frederick Erb at Lafa- vette, tnd. one of te noted dog trainers in the west. Not only was Sailor Boy given the best kennel train- ing hut } already made a record as a lunter, having gone on several fowling expeditions with the trainer. The dog has not only made friends with the president, his future master. who caressed him fondly, but also with Jack, the president's black dog, who reigned supreme in the domestic irele for years past. Both dogs will be carried to Oyster yr. when the family leaves the white house, and Sailor Boy will he given some practical work with the president this summer and fall. Me is a prodigious swimmer. and in his field work has never lost a single bird. TAKING RIDING LESSONS. a thoren@h- ind way pre- sident Roosevelt) by a ‘ Miss Allee Rooxevelt Practicing in Order to Be Able to Ride to Hoands, Miss Roosevelt has been seen leav- ing the white house many times of late, dressed for a ride, and carrying in her hand a little grip. The explana- tion of this just revealed to her friends, She is taking a course of jumping lessons, with a view to fel- lowing the hopnds. She has already learned to sit her horse with the great- est ease and grace while going over a four-foot hurdle, and is able to hold him straight over jump after jump in quick succession. 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