Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1889, Page 8

——— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON = CHURCH OF TE IE COVENANT. THE PRESIDENT’S CHURCH. { A Description of the Beautifal Church of the Covenant. WHERE FORMER PRESIDENTS ATTENDED CHURCH | EPISCOPALIAN AND PRESBYTERIAN DENOMINA-| TIONS CLAIMED THE MAJORITY—ELOQUENT PAS- TOR OF THE NEW CHURCH—LIST OF PEW-HOLDERS Andrew Jackson was the first President con- Bected with the Presbyterian church. President Harrison, like his immediate predecessor, con- tinues the succession of Presbyterian Presi- dents. Following the example of most of the occupants of the White House,President Harri- son thus early in his administration has taken @ pew ima church in this city. He has selected as his place of worship the Church of the Covenant, the new Presbyterian church re- cently erected at the corner of Connecticut avenue and Isth street, The first President to reside in this city was John Adams, a Congre-| gationalist. During the short period of his term of office spent here he does not seem to have regularly attended any church. The first President inaugurated in Washington was Jef- ferson, and he as well as his successor, Madison, attended Christ church, near the navy-yard, which was one of the first rehes organized at the capital. Madison also attended St. John’s church, which was established in 1516. Monroe was an Epis- copahan and an attendant at St. Joha’s, John Quincy Adams, while President, had a pewin the Second Presbyterian church. which was on the site now occupied by the New York Avenue ehureh. Mr. Adams, however.was a Unitarian, and when he became a nt of this city again while a m House, he was in the habit of going to the L arian church, Andrew Jackson, at the beginning of his admin- istration, attended the second Presbyteri ebureh, but the pastor, Rev. Mr. Campbell, ha ing taken a stand against Peggy O became the wife of Secretary of Wa he shared in the wrath which Ol visited upon all who refused to esp cause of Mrs. Eato The result w General Jackson ased to attend second church. He took a pew in the First Presbyterian church on 4°; street, where he attended during his term of office. Van Buren Was an attendant at St. John’s, and his successor, Mr. Harrison, was a Presbyterian, but died in the first month of his administration. St. John’s again became the presidential church when Mr. ‘Tyler succeeded to the presidency. Th of President Polk was a member byterian church, and like Cleveland, was communicant at the First sbyterian chure where the President had a pew. Gen. Taylor, who only lived for a short time after becoming President, was AN ATTENDANT AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. His successor, Mr. Fillmore, was a Unitarian, and attended the church then located at the corner of 6th and D streets, the building now occupied by the Police Court. Franklin Pierce brought back the Presbyterian succession and occupied a pew at the First church, where his wife was acommunicant. It is an interesting feature of the long pastorate of the present pastor, Rev. Dr. Sunderland, that he had been installed as pastor about a month prior to the inauguration of Mr. Pierce, which occurred March 4, 1553. Buchanan was a Presbyterian, and attended the F street church, which occu- pied the building now known as Willard hall. The tate Rev. Dr Gurley was the pastor, and im 1859 a union was effected with the Second church, and the present edifice of the New York avenue church was built. Here Lincoln went to church when his engrossing duties and cares of the anxious war period pe tted, Andrew Jobnson, it seems, was not a church koer, and it is not known that he had a pew in any church. Gen. Grant attended the Met- ropolitan Methodist church at the corner of 4:4 and C streets, and his successor, Mr. Hayes, who was also Methodist, had a pew at the Foundry church, corner lth and G streets. President Garfield continued to attend. as he had done while a member of Congress, the Church of the Disciples, or the Christian church, on Vermont avenue. At that time the congre- gation worshiped ina small frame structure, which has since been replaced by a handsome His successor, Gen. Arthur, and he attended St. John’ @ stained glass window in the ebureb which ‘aused to be placed there as a memorial to bis wife. With Mr. Cleveland the Presbyterian succession was again restored, aud during his term of office he was a regular at- tendant at the First church. Mrs. Cleveland —_ her letter to this church aud was en- as one of the members, € “of the I INTEREST IN THE PRESIDENTS CHURCH. There is always a good deal of interest mani- fested in the church where the President wor- ships. Naturally the stranger who happens to nd Sunday in the city seeks out the Presi-| t's church, while the resident who is enter- taining friends pilots them in the same direc. tion. ‘Those whose conscience happens to be | tender on the subject of Sunday observance | find that this is an excellent plan for combin-| img Sunday sight-seeing with the orthodox ides of keeping the Sabbath. The result 1s that the President's church is always crowded. In order to avoid the curious throng as much as possible, it is said that President Harrison has determined pot to attend one church ex- clusively. It is not knowa in what other eburches he will worship, butso far the Church of the Covenant is the ouly place where he has } taken a pew. ‘TRE CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. Although the Church of the Covenant is a! Bew organization, having been in existence but a trifle over three years, it is one of the strong- | est and most influential churches in the city. | ‘The structure itself, a picture of which accom- | panies this article, stands at the head of church | architecture here, not only in point of beauty, | Dut of cost. A complete description of the | Duilding, together with a history of the church | Organization, was printed a few weeks ago in| Tux Stan, The church building, with the ex-| ception of the lantern, is built entirely of stone | of a light color, and its Romanesque design has | all the charm of massive gracefuiness which | marks the most successful examples of that school of architecture. The great squar. tower, which, when completed, will rise to a height of 148 feet. is a beautiful and impres- sive feature of the building. is chaste and elegant, the coloring of the dec- erated walls,which is done in plaster in low re- ef, being subdued and in complete harmony with the tones and tints of ak wood work. As ‘imen of modern poe oo em it is claimed to The chandelier, which is considered one of most beautiful of its kind | bur | to strangers as well as to the furnished through 8, 8. Shedd & Brother, of Washington, THE CHAPEL. In the rear of the church. with an entrance | ¢ on N street, is the chapel, which is built of the | 1e material as that of the main building and 1 was — inthe same style. The ch: ti and here the infant church v the fall of 1885. A call was short extended to the present | and to his organizing abili s his qualities as a pastor aud prea can be attributed in a large measure the rapid growth and the great success of the church. Dr. Hamlin isa young man, although he b tive ministry nearly twenty yt clear. incisive in the pulpit. His sermons are thoroughly thought out, and their logical compactness, a3 well as their spiritual earnestness. possess acharm which the pres- ence of large and cultured congregations at the Various services fully attest. SKETCH OF THE PASTOR. He is a native of Schnectady, N. Y., and is forty-one years of age. Educated at Unioncol- lege and at Union seminary, his first charge was at Troy. N. Y., where he remained thirteen years, Then accepting a call to the church at Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, he had completed & pastorate of two years when the call was made to the church in this city. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by his alma mater a few years ago. He has many distinguished and prominent people in official and social life among the regular attendants of the church, The following is a complete list of THE PEW-HOLDERS: President Harrison, Senator Cullom, Repre- sentative J. J. Belden, Senator Hale, C. A. Munn,W. C. Lobenstine, C. B. Jewell, Dr. F. A. . C. Fe - mour, D. M. Saunders, A, A. Ackern Parker, Mrs. A. R. Young, Mrs. J. P. Pearson, Se a , Reginald Feudall, M. W. Galt, Justice Stanley Matthews, Mrs. 1. F. Macfarland, Judge Nott, Wm. Bal- lantyne, Senator Da G. H. aham, C. W. . Jno. 8. Blair. Ad- Bushnell, Mrs, miral Colthoun, I. B. Hornblower, . T. D. Skilex, Truesdell, H. F. Gen. H. V. Boynton, Chas, Eoynto . J.C. Breckinridge, Repre irs. Li i iner G. Hubbard, Justice’ Wm. Strc Martha M. Read, Mrs.Chas. H. Sherrill, Myers, COL Jno. E Geo. C. May Woodard, Jno. irs. Jd. ck, Admiral 8. P.Carter, Mrs, C. B. Pitki itch, 5 t, Corbe M jampson, Mrs, . Geo. W. Adams, 8. Lincoln. W. J. B. W: White, Mra. A. T. Davis, Davidson, Mrs. Mrs. Nathaniel G, Westcott. R. Dickinson Jewett, G. 8. Fellows, J. F, MacNab, R. P. Cady. Rev. Dr. Scott, Mrs. M. MeCuliough, Rev. M Maclay, W. on, Mrs. M. L. Milmor mon Newcomb, Gen. J. Dean, Rev. J. iP Mrs. E. W. Richardson, Miss E. . B. Greeley, Dr. F. MacLean, gene Byrnes, Mrs. C. 8. Clark, A. B. Bush- I. Mrs. Elizabeth McCook, Miss Ellis, Miss H. Morrison, A. G. Safford, Mrs, nger, T, W. Tyrer, Dr. E. A. nell Mason, Gec M. A. Bal Balloch, Mrs, David Fitzgerald, Mrs, Mar: 8. Gist, Dr. W. H. Hawkes, Major E. Goo fellow, J. Sparks, ‘Montgomery, Commodore Sicard, Geo. W. Brown, Mra. M. Rossiter, Mrs. David W. Mahon, R. H. | nee W., J. Flather, Mrs, joude, Miss H. M. Black, Mise L. &. Bachman, Misses Maclean, D, M. Cridler, A. W. Tyler, Clarence G, Allen, J. W. Hickok, W. E. Curtis, Miss F. J. hards, Miss Dwight, Mrs. M. F. Wilson, Geo. H. Kennedy, Mrs. E. C. McLure, A. W. Lyman, ©. B. Shafer, J. L. Hodge, A. R. Quaiffe, Mra Mary Cruit, Mrs. ¢ Sherman, Major C. W. R L. Barber, H. M. Le Duc, Mra. B y, Mra. K. S.’Foos, Samuel Bryan, egleston, Dr. David McMaster, Mrs, ion, A. Schoonmaker, Edwin Smith, W. J. Khees, R. B. Taylor, F.'8, Pres- brey, 8. 8. Shedd, Engineer Inch, U.8. N.; Mra, Dr. Bacon, Admiral Bryson, Gen. Auson G. Me- Cook, J.C, Heald, Henry Beard, Miss Brad- Miss J. H. Scott, Mrs: A. W. Church, B, H. Warner, A. M. MeLachlen, C."A. Maxwell, Miss Emma Scott, Miss Florence Pike, Dr. A.C. Peale, Mark Brodhead, Miss Cracraft, Hon. Wm. Windom. a Requirements of a Sexton. From the Baltimore News, “As one who has considerable experience with sextons, I can say that it requires as much talent, or rather adaptation for the business, to be a good sexton as it does to be a minister,” remarked one of the ministers at the recent ML. E. conference at Grace church to the scribe who was industriously noting down its f, a rO~ ceedings, “When the man is suited for the posi. tion everything moves like clockwork, and. the church has a treasure. But the church is not always so blessed. There is the fidgety sexton. He is always doing something to un necessarily attract attention. When the min- ister is in the middle of his discourse, and all eyes and ears are fixed on up starts the sexton from the other end of church to march up the middle aisle. He distractsevery- body, even the minister himself, and every- body wonders what it is all about, but nol will ever know. He don't know himself, Then there is the lazy sexton. He hangs about the vestibule durin; service, and is never on hand when wanted. People not seated, and they go away complaining — the coapter ye of the chi The good sexton is one of strongest pillars of the church. He bas it in his poner to make the church popular by the attention he shows members. is @ little vain and proud of his position, so much the better. It does not hurt any man to have some pride in his position, Take it all in all, the position of sexton in our modern cburches is much more important than most persons imagine. ———+eo—_____ The Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, who died in England the other day, lacked a week of being a century old, and was ordained and settled as vicar of Ashill, Norfolk, some years before the beeper ones bet ties of whites and colored men at Stony disturbance station, Va. White served 3j}and the COST OF THE ARMY. ‘ fests. The Draia upon the Government to Sapport the Soldiers. ‘WHST THE LAST APPROPRIATION BILL PROVIDES FUS—TME EELATIVE COST OF OFFICERS AND ‘MEN—QUARTERMASTER’S SUPPLIES—NUMEROUS INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, . The army of the United States is composed of a grand total of 23,795 human beings, officers and men. Of these 2174 are officers and the remainder enlisted men. The estab- | lishment thus formed costs the government yearly nearly $23,000,000, taking the last appropriation act as a basis, This |act also provides for the pay of retired officers and men, numbering about 675, the sam of $1,300,000. As theae are properly a to be called on for service, they might be in- cluded in the army itself,” making the | total of men and ofticers 29.770, the suste- nance of whom costs annually the sum of over #24.256,600. The enlisted men of all grades orps $150,000, and &c,, $151,900, "thus f the actual rauk and file of making the cost the army 34,533, LINE AND STAFF. For the officers of the line the sum is $3,172,000, and for officers of the various staff departments the appropriations are as follows: Adjutant- general's department, $66,000; inspector-gen- eral’s department, 500; engineer corps. $511,740; ordnance department, 175,330; quartermaster’s department. 00; subsistence department £2005 al department, ; pay de} nt, eral’s department, ofti $141,500; judge-advoe 4.000, Thus the active counting in the pay etired officers, .000, makes the art of the army system, being liable | of commis- 3,4 sioned officers 5 the pay of active and retired enlisted men. It will be seen that the officers, who form about 7! per cent of the Army, receive over 56 per cent of the pay. OTHER EXPENSES, The pay of the army does not constitute all of its expense by any means, being, indeed, but a little over 46 per cent of the entire cost. The bare subsistence of the army costs 21.745,000. ‘This includes the purchase of supplies for issue a8 rations to troops, the civil employes in cer? tain cases, contract surgeons, hospital matrons, military convicts and prisoners of war. ‘This is estimated on a basis of 9,96 ‘This item also includes a great variety of mis- neous items, such as the issue of ‘hot baked beans and canned beef for troops veling when it is impracticable to cook their | retions;* bake ovens at posts and in the field, | de, QUARTERMASTER'S SUPPLIES, Then the quartermaster’s supplies require an appropriation of $2,678,000. This fund pro- v means for the purchase of stoves and heating apparatus for barracks and quarters, fuei and light, forage for the horses and other stock of ‘the quartermaster's department, ofticers horses and those of the regiments of cavalry, and the | batteries of artillery, straw for the soldiers’ bedding, and stationery,and printing. The sum of 2.000 goes for the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, for Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted. For incidental expenses under the quartermas- ter's departm £675,000 is available, to pay for such things as postage, telegrams, expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or dying at posts, the hire of laborers, including the hire of interpreters, guides, or spies for the army, for the expenses of the cap- ture of deserters, hire of veterinary surgeons, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, FOR TRANSPORTATION of the army and its baggage the sum of $2,700,000 is available, This includes the ex- penses of procuring water at such posts as re- uire it to be brought from a distance, the res val of sewage and drainage, the cost of freight, hire of teamsters, and the clearing of roads, rivers and harbors of obstructions, The barracks and quarters for troops and the hire and repair of buildings are estimated to cost 620.000. The construction and repair of hospitals culls for an appropriation of £100,000, The army's annual tailoring bill is about 1,150,000, expended for cloth and the manu- | facture of clothing, and its altering, fitting, washing and cleaning when necessary, ‘Two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars go for the purchase of medical and hospital sup- plies, including disinfectants for general sani- tation, expenses of medical purveying depots, and pay of employes, MUNITIONS OF WAR, Then comes the provision of the real muni- tions of war, under the ordnance department, the elements that go to make an army worth something after the men have been hired, housed, fed. clothed, and doctored, Eighty thousand dollars go for the current expenses of the ordnance service at arsenals; #150,000 is required for the manufacture of metallic am- munition for smali arms and ammunition for reloading cartridzes, including the cost of targets and materials for target practice, and marksmen’s medals and insignia; then for the purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores $100,000 is allowed; for infantry, caval- ry (in the bill this word is spelled calvary), and artillery equipments, including those of the _ horses, 00,000; the sum of $187.500 goes for the purchase of three pneumatic dynamite guns of fifteen-inch caliber, together with the necessary machinery, ammunition and carriages to fire and handle them for use on the Pacific coast; for the purchase of home-made machine guns, $20,000 is set aside; $400,000 goes. for the manufacture, repair and issue of arms at the national armories, $5,000 for targets for target practice, and $20,000 for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, An appropriation of €15,000 is made to enable the Secretary of War to cause examinations and tests to be made in convert- ing the existing cast-iron ordnance of the War department into steel-lined, breech-loading torpedo howitzers for throwing high pro- jectiles, ‘according to plans already sub- mitted to Congress and turned over to the fortifications board, The sum of €40,000 is allowed for the construction of a counter- poise battery to mount a rifled gun, which is to © furnished by the ordnance department of the navy, to be located wherever the fortifica- tious board may direct. RECRUITING SERVICE. In order to keep the army from depletion by discharges or desertions, a recruiting service is necessary; and for this purpose an appropri- ation of $113,000 is made. Mileage is an important item, for which an appropriation is made of $150,000. For com- | pensation of witnesses attending upon courts- | martial and courts of inquiry $7,295.73 is ap- | propriated; for commutation of quarters |to commissioned officers without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, $170,000; and for allowances for travel, re- tained pay and clothing not drawn, payable to enlisted men on discharge, $850,000, ‘These expenses embrace practically all of the cost of the army, although there are numerous other small sums appropriated for various in- cidental and contingent expenses, eae Spring. In the spring when the green gits back in the trees, And the sun comes out and sta; And yer boots pulls on with a good tight squeeze, And you think of yer barefoot days; When you ort to work and you want to not, And you and yer wife agrees It’s time to spade up the garden lot— When the green gits back in the trees— Well, work is the least of my idees When the green, you know, gits back in the trees. When the green gits back in the trees, and bees Is a buzzin’ aroun’ agin, In that kind of a lazy, “go-as-1 lease” ld gait they hum foun’ in, en, the grown: 's all bald where the bayrick And the crick’s and thi Coaxes the Booms ine ota das eoed When the whole tail-feathers o’ winter time Is all pulled out and gone, nag And the sap it thaws and begins to climb, And the sweat it starts out on A feller’s forred, a gittin’ down At the old spring on his knees— I Kind o' like, jes’ a loaferin’ roun’ When the green gits back in the Jes’ a-potterin’ roun’ as I—durn—please— When the green, you know, back in the James Warrcos Riey, ¢ D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 23. 1889-TWELVE PAGES. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. AN IMPOSING EDIFICE. CHATTING ABOUT WASHINGTON. The New Building to be Erected by the Congregation of the Baptist Church, BEGINNING LIFE WITH THE CITY AND GROWING WITH ITS PROSPERITY—THE ADVANTAGES OF ‘THE NEW LOCATION—A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW BUILDING—THE EFFECT OF BRICK. EARLY ninety years Nee the First Baptist church came into istence, Established in the same year that the municipal life of the capital city began, it has kept pace with the growing prosperity than thirty years the congregation has oceu- pied its present build- ing on 13th street, be- tween Gand H streets, and during that period the business portion of the city has gradually / encroached upon the residences in that local- / ity, while the commons : [, and slashes to the north and west have been built up with residences, In all that section of the city which is now | known as the west end, no place of worship of the Baptist denomination had been built. A large number of the members of the congrega- ion now live remote from the present church uilding. It was therefore decided about a year ago to move west. A VERY ELIGIBLE LOCATION was secured at the southwest corner of 16th and O streets, and plans fora handsome church edifice were selected. The corner-stone will be laid on Monday, and the work of building will be pushed forward rapidly. The site selected is just a square north of Scott circle and in the midst of the fashionable residence portion of the city. On all sides are the fine houses which furnish s0 many beautiful examples of modern architecture, As seen from the plans of the architect, W. Bruce Gray, from which the ac- com panying cut is taken, THE NEW CHURCH EDIFICE represents a type of the best school of modern architecture. With an ample frontage of 64 feet on 16th street the building will extend back 125 feet. The pencipel front will be on 16th street, while there will be two entrances on O street. Brick and stone are to be used in the construction of the exterior, although the superstructure will be mainly of brick resting upon a substantail foundation of stone. The main feature of the exterior is a graceful cam- anile, which is to rise to a height of 140 feet, he square brick walls of the campanile will be perfectly plain, At intervals the sides will be pierced with narrow windows to give light to the interior. The upper portion is to be en- riched with a frieze of carved brick, and above this will be the belfry, which will be covered with a hipped roof of' tiles, With the excep- tion of the tower of the Church of the Cove- nant this feature of church architecture is un- known in this city. There will be no stone used in the tower, and the architect will de- pend entirely upon brick to give adequate expression to this characteristic of the Roman style of architecture, USE OF BRICK as the main material in the construction of the campanile is a departure from the usual custom of stone construction, From this fact as well as the important relation which the use of brick bears to architecture in this city, the erection of this tower will be looked upon as a very in- teresting experiment. It will (se seen from the details of the tower, acut of which accompa- nies this article, that some effective features have been introduced. TRE MAIN ENTRANCE of the church will be through a series of three doors from 16th street. Above this entrance will be the — window with its mul- lions and ornamental perforations in the stone work. From the main vestible there is to be an entrance to the lecture room and to the stairs on each side leading to the auditorium. This room will be constructed in the amphi- theater form, with seats radiating from the platform, which will be in the center of the south wall of the building. The ceiling is an innovation in church architecture, as it will be constructed of wood, with an arcade following the line of the amphitheater. The arrange- ments for the baptistry will on an improved plan, as the water receptacle will be built of marble on the platform, and will be screened from the passages to the ing-room by an oaken screen, Above the pee will be the choir gallery. The organ will be divided into two parts, so that the gilded pipes will be shown in arched openings on each side of the platform. There will be galleries on the east and west ends of the building. The seating capacity of the church will be 1,300. The decorations of the walls and the stained-glass windows will be in beige sd with the general design of the inte- ‘THE cost of this building, including that of the ground, will be about $100,000, and it will be one of the Some Personal Gossip About the Father of His Country. A TALK WITH DR, TON WHO IS NOW EDITING THE DIARIES OF THE FIRST PRESIDENT—WasH- INGTON AS A FARMER—HIS HOME LIFE AND PERSONAL HABITS—THE FAIRFAXES, The stretch of Louisiana avenue that leads from the busy Market Space up a hill of gentle incline to the conrt-house was once a place of substantial-looking residences, but fashion for- sook it years ago and took its flight westward. Now it seems to serve as a sort of connecting link between trade and the profession of law, for nearer Market Space stores, banks, and in- surance offices monopolize it, while further along lawyers’ signs begin to appear, and as one approaches the court-house he gets entirely out of the atmosphere of trade into that of sheepskin and briefs, In this thoroughfare, about where the stores leave off and the law- yers’ offices begin, a Sar reporter sought and found a gentleman who knows George Wash- ington, Dr. Joseph M. Toner, distinguished as a generous patron of science, an antiquarian, and the donor to the Congressional library valuable and extensive collection of books. Dr. Toner, indifferent to the changes time has wrought in his neighborhood, resides there contentedly in bachelor quarters he has occu- ied for years, He may be said to know George Washington because he has been engaged for a number of years editing the diaries of the Father of his Country, This is with him a labor of love, and he has given much more cure to it than one could afford to bestow upon a work in- tended for publication for speculative purposes. IN DR. TONER'S OFFICE. The cozy office into which Tue Srar reporter was ushered was crowded with tables, desks, and book-shelves, all strewn with manuscripts, scrap-books, pamphlets, and papers of all Kinde: And the doctor was there himself, his round, unwrinkled, clean-shaven face shedding @ sort of genial glow over all. years been engaged in collecting all kinds of curious and valugble information. But he has devoted much of his time and means to ex- tending his knowledge of Washington. With George Bancroft, the historian; the late W. W. Corcoran, Hon. Horatio King, and others, com= posing the Washington Monument Society, he for many years fostered the patriotic idea that resulted eventually in the completion of the sean shaft that forms the most conspicuous object in the city. He has been in correspond- ence with nearly every person in the United States who “claims kinship with Gen, Washington, and has shelves filled with the information he has gathered about Washington, his neighbors and his times, The diaries of Washington he has succeeded in un- earthing cover fully the period from 1760 to 1775. Then there isa time during the revolu- tionary war when Washington seems to have been too busy to keep a diary. The diaries ob- tained by Dr. Toner take up the thread of Gen. Washington’s daily life again in 1781 and follow him down through the triumphant closing of the war, and through his terms as President to his retirement to Mount Vernon. Dr. Toner has thrown light upon many of the pages by means of copious notes of his own, and the work already covers 3,000 manuscript pages. He told Tae Srar reporter that he had not given thought to the matter of publishing this work; that he would be satisfied to have it when he is dead deposited in its manuscript form in the library of Congress. In securing copies of diaries and other authentic writings of Wash- ington Dr, Toner has Need to much expense and trouble to secure literally exact copies, faithfully re ducing all of the peculiarities of the original “Was ington was not a good speller,” he said, ‘and used capital or small letters without much discrimination.” “I should like,” said Tae Star, ‘to have you who have become so well acquainted with Washington to describe him just as he appears in your mind to-day. Dr. Toner smiled good naturedly, Thenshut his eyes for a moment and mee ‘his hand over the closed lida, ‘Then he began to tell about ashington. WASHINGTON’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE, “He was of tall, regular figure,” said the doctor, “rather spare than fleshy, with large bones, large hands and feet. He had blue eyes, and dark, though not black, hair, a rominent nose, a firm, well-formed chin, and to retire early to bed, except when visitors, de- manded his attention in the discharge of his social duties. He was an early riser, and fre- quently rode over one or more of his planta- tions before breakfast. As a general rule he was rather indifferent to what the world recog- nizes as choice dishes, preferring a regular diet. His breakfast usually consisted of corn cakes, fish, eggs and middling, or what we now call breakfast bacon, is dining hour on the farm was 3 o'clock, and, according to diaries, it wasarare occurrence when there were not several and even as many as a dozen visitors or neighbors at his table.’ “Was he of abstemious habits?” asked Tae Sra reporter. “There is no record from the beginning to the end,” said Dr. Toner, “of his ever having been in the use of wine or alcoholic liquors, There is not a vestige of evidence or a surmise, even among his enemies, of his ever it. The use of wine with thing for Washington sone fox-hunting in the $0 2 Ost court Gowns or slant to = which suffered no tion on He has for | amused themselves indoors by playing cards. Washington was nothing of your speculative man. His mind was not morbid or craving for gains. His amusements were all of the ma nly, athletic order, jumping, leaping, horse back riding and other healthfal exercises, He was none of your dudes in any sense.” ENCOURAGING HOME MANUFACTURES, When the reporter asked about the state- ment that Gen. Washington was arrayed on his inauguration day in clothing every shred of which was of American manufacture, Dr. Toner said: “His diaries say nothing of this; but they say that during his first term as President he made a trip through the New England states, and stopping at some factory in Connecticut ordered a piece of goods, When he arrived home he had a suit made from it, and he may have had others, It was doubtless his purpose, ashe was a man of large views, to encourage manufactures. He was familiar with the whole detail of spinning, weaving and dressing cloth. On his estate at Mount Vernon a regular busi- ness was made of spinning, weaving and fuil- ing of cloth, not for sale, but for use among his servants and employes.” You must remember | that he was engaged in farming operations on a | large scale. His estates at Mount Vernon at one time embraced nearly 10,000 acres of land. and included several plantations, He had there over a hundred milch cows and a greater num- ber of horses. Besides, he had three planta- tions in the valley of Virginia, two in Nanse- mond county, and four plantations in New Kent and King William counties. ‘whe latter four he called dower lands. They came to him through his wife, and were managed for the benefit of her children. The servants employed upon these and other estates required much | attention, and his spinners and weavers were employed in providing them with clothing. Mrs. Washington was a considerate, active and industrious mistress of Mount Vernon, a faith- ful ana devoted wife, humane and solicitous | for the comfort of her servants, Washington | speaks of his servants as “servants,” as ‘negroes,’ | ‘people,’ and ‘employes.’ He uses all these terms, but I have never came across the word slave as written by his own hand. HIS LOVE FOR MOUNT VERNON, “It is amazing,” said Dr. Toner, hat a man | who was so good a judge of land as Washington was remained there, as the region was not good for farming purposes, It was not the character of the soil, but a sentimental attachment to an estate he inherited from a brother whom he | loved that kept him th Like most success- ful men, he wanted to buy everything adjoining | him. The estate comprised between 800 end 1,009 acres when he re ¢ left neariy 10.000 acres. It is said, slurringly, that he got his means by marriage. This is hardly true, His father left him a farm near Fredericks- burg. He had made money by surveying and by buying and seliing land, and was a success ful and well-to-do farmer before his marriage. “One of his peculiarities,” the doctor went on, ‘was that he never shut himself up or iso- lated himself in any way in the community in which he happened’ to be. At Mount Vernon he admitted his neighbors to his house, grounds, and table every day, and with the greatest pos- sible freedom. He took part in every measure for advancing the interests of the community in which he resided. There was scarcely an enterprise of any account started at Alexandria | that he did not take an interest in, and usually | a leading part. Although never permitting fa | miharities that would lower his own or the dig | nity of those about him, he engaged in sports, such as fishing, hunting, and horse-racin was fond of attending the theater, concerts, and like entertainments. Ido not find that he pt horses that were entered in races, though » attended nearly all the races at Bi Alexandria, at 4 olis, and other point “How about attending church?” asked Tur Srar. “His diaries show that he was a very regular | attendant of church, and took an interest in building and repairing churches. He was a vestryman both in Truro parish, old Pobick church, Alexandria, HIS RELATIONS WITH THE FAIRFAX FAMILY. “There isa little impression,” said Dr. Toner, “that Washington was in some way a dependent | for social favor, clinging to the Fairfaxes and | seeking their patronage; but this is a mistake. At the age of fifteen he came to live with his half brother, who was married to one of the | | Fairfaxes. He was brought into daily relations | | with members of that family, Lord Fairfax | | was then makiug his home with his cousin, | | Hon, William Fairfax, at Belvoir. Washington as a henever he could get any body to carry in tor him—and he busied himself | making plans for surveys and resurveys. He | was probably not much concerned about social | connections, But as he grew into manhood his | | relations with Lord Fairfax and William Fair- | \fax and William Fairfax’s children were | NE GREA ichmond, | eburch, and Fairfax parish, known as Christ | RAILROADS. 2 B Fb: 11-00 p.m.” Sui », 9:00, 8-05, 19 5.00, 6:30, 8:30 a.m. Fain, 25-08, 10pm, he m0. Leave Ane 4:10 p.m. Bundays, wn Branch, +625 ncipal stations’ Guy * yw Pointe, 19.008, 2. tious, t7-00 p. m., 444 ball Yu's and iatormediate stat >. 2. leaves Washington on Sunday at 1-15 ; Stopping at alistations on Metrop Brai Frevenck, 10:10 mi, 14:35 and t mati and st Louis dai from Pittsbune °S Sivepang For Phi in te points bet Philadely . Trains leave New +11-00 am. *1.30, puch r Washington, 4:45 pm and for Washington, "4-1 my “4:15, "5:15, and Except Sunday. Baxiaxe called for dences ou orders leit at tick mn. AVE, W. M. CLEMENTS, Gen, Manager, aa CHAS, 0. SCTLL, Gen. Pass, Ast. mh22 YEVANIA ROUTY. WEST. AND SOUTHWEST, SPLENDID SCENERY MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT, ' Ne ec M STATION, WASHINGTON “PRO! IXTH AND B sThiais, 43 Pol. eae LA .o TO THE Nc DOUBLE TRACK. SULEL RAILS, hel in bes TRAINS LEAVE CORNER Si the West. Chi "1 ry Bt. Louis: daily re and the burg, end Picts re 3 ate 10-0 r. att 11-40, atu . 10.00, wil 20.a.m. and 4:40 p.m. daily, 12:05 and 4:40 Sundays, B00 aia, CKSRURG RATL- D WASHINGION hh tor Quantico, od 3:40 iy. exe leave Alexandria tor \ ¢ Hotes i “be leit te tion frou Loteis aud 1 rs cal ‘AS. continued on a basis of appreciative equality. A nephew of the generai’s, Warner | Washington, married for his second wife a! daughter of the Hon, Wm. Fairfax. The inter- | course, too, between George William Fairfax, son of the Honorable William, was intimate down to the eve of the Revolution. The fum- | ilies were constantly exchanging visits, and no | hour seemed inopportune for either to call | upon the other. ‘The evidences are ample that the calls were more frequent at Mount Vernon than at Belvoir. I say this because, through misinformation or a tendency to depreciate Washington, the reverse view has been held. | It was of ordinary occurrence for Washington to ride over to Belvoir in the morning and take breakfast, and it was quite as common for George W. Fairfax to come to Mount Vernon | in the discharge of business early in the morn- | ing, and, having breakfasted with Washington, | return to his own home, WASHINGTON'S ENERGY AS A FARMER. “In a study of the life of Washington asa planter,” said Dr. Toner, “one thing that as- | tonishes me is the amount of energy the man was constantly expending, up early in the morning, writing letters, planning improve- | ments for or visiting his plantations, and en- couraging and instructing his overseers both at seed time and harvest, directing nters, millwrights and men at almost every kind of work that he carried on to develop and im- rove his plantations. He had three fishing landings on his estate, a ferry and two mills. | These were all created by his own energy, fore- | sight and management, He was in the habit of contracting with merchants in Alexandria or Norfolk to take all his four for the season and all his catch of fish, both herring and shad, other than what he reserved for use on his plantations, The fish were owned and stored at hisown fish-house, but at the risk of the merchant contracting. He. was a thorough business man, neglecting nothing that prom- ised a revenue and return for labor. He sup- ervised all his farm arrangements. He made with his own mechanics, plows and harrows, re- paired the farm machineries at his own shops, and made substantial improvements upon the plow in use in his day, After the Revolution, when he enlarged his mansion at Mount Ver- non and laid out the land at the west of the house in an ornamental manner, he endeay- ored to transplant to it specimens of nearly every native tree that could at all add to its beauty or novelty, and his diary says that while riding through the woods or surveying where- ever he saw a handsome specimen of some tree not already planted he would take note of its locality and at a proper season would have it removed and planted in the western lawn at Mount Vernon.”’ eb + Innocent Man. ODD QUESTIONS WHICH HE ASKS OF WIVES AND SISTERS, From the Philadelphia Times. Occasionally men ask questions, And two very funny ones were heard the other day. On Chestnut street there is a shop window where the most alluring, the most dainty, the most altogether fascinating of lingerie is sold. The prices are not so fascinating, but if one must suffer to be beautiful it is fair to con- clude that the suffering must sometimes be in the neighborhood of the pocket-book. There were four ple looking in this win- dow. Two of the four had just been married a 3 ig Hill [ SE. PUGH. General Manager, DIEDMONT Ali LINE wedule in eect Februnry 1¢ M.—East Tenn, Mail Daily £ ie, Chariottesys 151 1 ot counect tor ays. pt Sunday, for Manasass, clint stations Xpress Daily, via Lynchbune Vestubule Sicepers mce to Arkalsus 8:30 P. MW prea Daily aud Solid Trai ester Exp Charlotte lie, Cincin: Washingtom for Lynch- # on Washinton and Ohio divi 3 pisuuda ‘Phreugis | villeaud Ly and 7:13 PM; nunemmer, Bris synch: burg at 11:13 A.M. aud 9:40 P.M; via Chesapeake and Obio route ana Charlottesville ato 40 2. M. and 9:40 P.M; Strasbune SA Ticket ing car reser: furnish rare checl ) Peun- Sylvania avenue, and at Passenger Station, Pennsyive: nis jth aud 1 sts, JAS. L. TAYLOR, General sassenger Agent. ‘POTOMAC. RIVER BOATS ‘TOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. For Baltimore and River Landings, Steamer Sue, Capt, Geoshegan, leaves Stephenson's Whart every Sunday at do'clock p.m For further information apply to STEPHENSON & BRO, _mh6-6m Tub st. wharf. MT. VERNON! MER WW. CORCORAN art daily (except Sunday) for Mt, Laudings as far down as Glymout, urniug, reaches Washingtoa 1. L. BLAKE. Captain AC RIVER LAN M& veexos: JOR POTOM NEW IRON STEAMER: Leaves 7th-street wharf on MO? and SATURDAYS: ain, FRIDAYS and SUNDAYS p, ma, touching st. River Landings as far as Nomini Creck, Va, St. Clements Bay rdtown, Md. Counects with Band OK. Rat See schedule. JUN B. PADGETT, agt. i. Manager. 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