Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1894, Page 3

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An international congress will be held at Antwerp from July 27 to August 2 for the purpose of considering questions for the better protection of morally-abandoned children and of released convicts, with a view to the abatement of beggary and va- grancy. The congress will also consider measures for the relief of insane, deaf and dumb and blind persons discharged from private establishments. —_———_-e+____ Information has been received at San Francisco that Assistant Secretary Hamlin is going there to investigate charges of wholesale fraud in the custom house. MARY WASHINGTON (Continued from First Page.) the world will once more become sincere, a believing ‘world with many heroes in it, heroic world. It will then be a victorious world, never till then.’ Fireside lessons and the mother’s love must make it so; sin- cere, believing, heroic, victorious. In scenes like this are tokens of fulfillment of the Prophet's yision. Patriotism, kneeling by this good woman's grave, invokes its in- spiration and prays God's blessing on the land of Washington.” THE BANQUET. Reading of a Poem by George Alfred Townsend. FREDEDICKSBURG, Va., May 10.—After the dedication ceremonies the invited guests repaired to the Opera House to take part in the Masonic banquet and to listen to an ad- dress by Vice President Stevenson and a ES by George Alfred Townsend (Gath.) ir. Townsend's poem was as follows: 2 ‘Tho Rappahannock ran in the reign of good Quean i, All townless from the mount the ¢ Old Jamestown was forlorn at King *Williame- twas the Sear Cf Blephoim's vi ear of le! im" ‘tory, Whose trumpets died away in far Virginia On th, cablw of an old tobacco farm, here @ planter’s little wife to a little girl gave fe And the fire in the chimney made {t warm. It was little Mary Ball, and she had no fa t all, But the world was all the ‘same us if abe, h A For she had the right to breathe and to tottle and to teethe, And to love some other cunning little lad: he proved a widower, it was all the same to her, For he gave ber And the Family was Was the'hope of ttle Widow Washington, ‘The name resounded not tn the time we have forgot, It was nothing ith or Jones or Ball; t, . ~— George's big half brothers had the call on thelr stepmuther’s i Affection, uke the babes of her own I; They paid’ the Fauld the larger taxes and the Ayletts and Recelved them fn their families and lands, While @ie widow thopght upon it, ‘ave rode’ in her sutunbonnet, ‘ dst slay. ~. es Who tilled her gulleys and her @ daughter and a son, und the oldest, little a es sought to take ber George upon the royal re, And give hifi a commission and a crest When her heurt erled out “0, no! Something says must not go; a at toe s a aie to the rest."” oul Im litte schooling, bi rotld fing, lim tte schooling, Lut he did not And he dragged the iountains o'er with chain dnd The, Wine Ridge was bis cover and the Indian his And his Duty was his Sovereign and God. Sul her rival in bis heart was the Military art, nd the Epaulettes she dreaded still were there. There are household’ still wiiere glory Is Uroken- hearted story, Aud the drum is a mockery and snare. From the-far-off Barbadoes, from the yeil of French- men foos, From the ghost of Braddock's unavailing strife, She beheld “her boy return and his bridal ‘candles urn, 3 And a’ widow like herself became bis wife. By Potomac’s pleasant tide he was settled with his Overseeing horses, ‘hounds and cocks and wai And it seewed but secuod mature to go to toe tepte: Aud piay his hand at Three-score-and-ten had Se a “My God! cried, ‘what demon ts at large nite conilict with the King, ‘tis two worlds a nustering, And the call of Duty comes to mother’s George. plague me so! Must my first born Her answer is the bugle apd the gun. Tue town lls Up agaite with the Loree of Mercer's politics and cards. come when the widow beard men, And the name they call aloud {s Washington. In ae distracting years none may count the widow’ She is bani: ‘er the mountains from her farm; ed She is old and lives with strangers, while ride wide King’s red rangers, And tbe ouly word is “Arm!” and “Arm!” and “arm! ee See and see your son, the immortal Wash- on. rt faa ten beat the King ond mighty Cornwallis!"* They crowd ber little and she-sees her boy once more, But there ts no glory in bin lke his kiss. Marquises and Dukes, in their orders and pe- rakes, ‘The Auds-de-camp, the Generals and all, Stand by to see and Haten bow her aged eyes will ten To hear from him the tale of Yorktown’s fall, Upon that ber lips are dumb to the trumpet and the rum; All their pageantry is vanity and stuff. So be leans upon her breast she cares nothing for the rest— It ts be und that is victory enough! ‘In the jife that mothers give ts their thirst that And the abicsap nevés' Song the leases, Je apecten neve? <7 To sate again on earth aid repeat the wondrous rth — ‘That 1s glory—that ts immortality. Unto Fredericksburg at last, when her four-score ‘years wre past, Now gray himself, he rides all night to say: laduime—mother—ere I went to become the Presi- dent I bave come to kiss you till another day." “No, George; the siglt of thee, which I can hardly fee, Is ail for afl—good-by; I can be brave. Fulfill your" great career as 1 have fulfilled my sphere; is My station can be nothing but the grave.’ ‘The mother's Jove sank down, and its sunset on his crown Shone lke the dying beams of perfect day. pe bes bow Vike norte taax is tos draugnt of polt- tics The balm that softens injury away. his mother’s son till Lis weary race was done; , Her gravity, her peace, her golden mean Shed on the state the good of ber sterling woman- And like her own was George's closing scene. setae, HOSPITABLE FREDERICKSBURG. Preparations to Entertain V the Ceremont Spéctal Correspondence of The Evening Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 10, 1894. Vice President and Mrs. Stevenson ar- rived at 5 a’clock last evening, and are the guests of Dr. Geo. H. and Mrs. Chewning. A reception was tendered them from 8 to 10, and the spacious. mansion was filled with guests all evening. The decorations on the outside, consisting of bunting and flags, were no less elaborate than the floral display inside. Mrs. Stevenson shook sev- eral hundred hands and made just as many new friends. She has just as thoroughly charmed and captured Fredericksburg peo- ple as she has those of every city she has honored with her presence. As president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution she has been the center of at- traction today. The citizens of Fredericksburg have spared no pains to make the ceremonies of the day interesting and memorable. Al- most every house in the city 1s decorated— some elaborately, while a few have only a flag or two. Pictures of Washington are placed evarywhere. Everybody wears a badge. Some of them are quite pretty and have a picture of Mary Washington on a button, The Masonic badges, which are very handsome, are copies of those worn in Washington's day. The © The committees things to their sion are as follo General Masonic committee—Jas. B. Se- ner, Robt. B. Berry, S. J. Quinn, Geo. H. mittees, engaged in bringi gent successful conclu- | Chewning, Chas. Herndon, Jas. T. Lowery, c. E. Hunter, R. B. Merchant, Geo. F. Wheeler, A. P. Rowe, jr., Jos. Hable, Geo. W. Wroten, Wm. E. Bradley, R. B. Lewis and J. Ek. Mason. Ladies’ auxiliary to Masonic committee— Mesdames Chewning, Corbin, J. A. Stone, Dr. Martin, J. E. Mascn, Jos. Hable, M. M. Lewis and Misses Nannie Herndon, Lettie Staasbury, Minnie Wroten, Jennette Brad- ley, May’ Brent, Mary Quinn and May Braxton, - ‘These constitute the general’ reception committee on the part of the Masons. Subcommittees: Invitation—A. P. Rowe, chairman; Jno. L. Marye, W. Seymour White, R. B. Merehant. Arrangements and order of procession— W. A. Little, jr., J. S. Knox, M. G. Willis, H. R. Gouldman, Jno. T. Knight, Jos. Ha- ble, Geo. W. Shepherd, E. D. Cole, St. Geo. R. Fitzhugh. c Preparing stand—Geo, W. Wroten, E. D. Cole, M. G. Wiilits. Transportation—Jno. M. Griffin, E. E. Hunter, L. O. Magrath, W. B. Tyler, H. F. Crismond. am Military—T. McCracken, H. F. Crismond, W. A. Little, jr. Press—J, 8. Potter, chairman; R. B. Mer- chant, W. S. White. A. P. Rowe, jr., R. B. Berry, W. 8, Embrey, W. L. Burruss, J. H. Myer, 8. W. Carmichael. General committee of council and citizens —A. P. Rowe, chairman; St. Geo. R. Fitz- hugh, Judge A. W. Wallace, Wm. A. Little, jr., J. S. Potter, H. F. Crismond, Dr. 8. W. Carmichael, G. W. Shepherd, W. S. White, V. M. Fleming, E. D. Cole, W. B. Tyler, L. O, Magrath, Judge M. Slaughter, Rev. Dr. T. 8. Dunaway, Rev. Wm. Clarke, Rev. A. P. Sanders, Rev. S. G. Ferguson, Rev. J. C. Gray, Father T. J. Wilson, Jas. 8. Knox, Geo. W. Wroten, Jno. M. Griffin, W. S. Embrey, H. R. Gouldman, M. G. Willis, pwAt the colonial ball tonight there will be Jno. T. Knight, T. McCracken, J. H. Myer, C. E. Hunter, Jos. Hable, W, L. Bu The Banquet This Bvening. The splendid banquet which is to be served this evening is given by the Masonic orders of the city, and following that will come the grand colonial ball. The first memcrable event in the history of the city ‘was the famous “‘peace ball’ given to Wash- ington and his.officers on their return from the surrender at Yorktown. The old Union House, as it was then call- ed, was the scene of the ball. It was beau- tifully decorated with bunting, and all the windows of the ball room. were hung with perfectly fresh white dimity curtains. The most conspicuous part of the decora- tion was the American fiag. It was then in its infancy, and had only thirteen stars! The ball was opened by Gen. Washington, who is sdid-to have been not ungraceful in treading the measures of the stately minuet. It is also recorded that he danced here, and at that ball, the last time in his life. The peace ball is also famous for having been the only time noted at which Mary Wash- ington appeared in public with her son. Ske entered the ball room leaning on his arm, and retired at 10 o'clock. The old Union House still stands, not much. the Worse for wear, but the inside has been anged, and it is now the public school ‘building. several colonial heirlocms. Some ball dress- es that have been preserved in silk paper and camphor for a matter of a century or more, pieces of rich old thread lace, jewels and medallions galore. Sixty years ago, when the cornerstone of the Burrovghs monument was laid, the cere- monies were concluded by the reading of a poem by Lydia Huatley Sigourney, then the most popular writer of Verse in America. It seems quite fitting to quote the opening ines at this time, when, after sixty years, they are at last made true: “Long hast thou slept unnoticed. Nature stole In her soft ministry around thy bed, And spread her vernal coverings, violet gemmed, And pearled with dews, She sweet summer ri Gitts of frankincense with sweet song of birds, And autumn cast his yellow -coronet Down at _ feet; and stor winter speak Hoarsely of aan’ lect. But now we come ‘To do thee bom fother of our Chief! Fit homage, such as bonoreth him wbo pays.’* —— IN AND ABOUT FREDERICKSBURG. Some of the Historic Places on the Rappahanwock. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. FREDERICKSBURG, May 10, 1804. Fredericksburg is entertaining the Pres- ident and his cabinet today for the second time in her history, and ts proud accord- ingly. Fredericksburg was once the mctrop- olis of Virginia and noted the world over for her shipping business. Vessels were loaded here with cotton and wool and to- bacco for English ports in Washington's time, and the boats lay so close in the river that you could cross from one shore to another by stepping on them and never wet your feet. There are old men here who can remember doing this, so it is nefther a fish nor ahatchet story. The commeretal glory of the city has departed, but Fredericks- burg is a pretty town—very pretty, indeed, at this season of the year—nestling in a hill environed valley, and her long, narrow streets almost overarched by century old trees. But the municipal indebtedness of the city has not been increased since the death of Washington, if absence of pdve- ments and sidewalks is any indication. There were cobble stone crossings when Washington used to roll through the streets in his gorgeous coach and four, and they are there yet, like the es of old teeth, an- noying unexpectl; ind for that very rea- gon adding poignancy to the pain of the meeting. Because the town was old when Wash- ington was born—it was founded early in 1700, and named for Frederic, Prince of Wales, father of George Il.—and because the people cling to the colonial style of architecture, caring more for “roomy” rooms, wi halls and big verandus than styl id ginger-bread trimmings, the world large imagines that Fredericksburg peo- ple are asleep. A grave mistake. They don't do much hustling, but they seem to get there. There is a great deul of wealth for a city of 5,000 people, and the money was made right here, since the war. That period of civil strife played a game of batticdore and shuttlecock with this de- voted city, and hardly a house among those that were built before the war—and not many have been built since till the last year or two—but has its weather boarding full of bullet holes and the bricks patched where cannon balls ploughed through. There was hardly enough left to eat, drink or wear to supply @ poor house when the tide of battle receded; but with desperate resolve those whom the war beggared set to work to retrieve what they had lost. Now the people will tell you with pride that there has not been a business fallure in the town in thirty years, yet there are here large shoe, agricultural implement, wagon, bone, spoke, canning, woolen, car- riage, pickle, ice and excelsior factories, employing thousands of people, and besides railroad connections, there a line of steamers to Baltimore and to Norfolk. Fredericksburg’s annals of great days is not a voluminous document, in fact, leav- ing out the war period, three fingers of one hand suffice to number her gala occasions, and the incidents connected with these she has handed down from sire to son, from mother to maid, so that there is always a story ready for you if you happen to ask a question about any of the dilapidated old shells which line some of the streets, be- cause in some mysterious way the great people who were here on those three great occasions managed to hallow about half the houses in the city. Washington's Lodge Room. Half way down one of her Rome-like hills is a curious square English brick colonial- built structure, plain as a tight board fence and not half as pretty. It 1s so covered up with pictures of the immortal patriot, flags, bunting, banners and Masonic emblems that you have to lift a fold to find the ma terial of the structure. It is the Masonic ‘Temple and the lodge room once frequented by Washington, who was a way-up Mason. Up there in the little lodge room, gayly decorated just now, the keeper of the treas- ures will take from the big iron safe an old, old Bible, and tell you that Washington kissed it when he took the Masonic oath. In the old court house, between two pieces of glass framed in oak, they will show you the last will and testament of Mary Washington. It ts worn, but not much faded. It was not pfoperly made of record until fifteen years after her death, though the property was divided at once. Another queer old building stands just as it stood over a century ago, except that it has today a coat of paint, which must have surprised its grayness greatly. This build- ing stands on the main street and the cu- rious story-and-a-half frame house, set on a basement story of stone, was called the “Rising Sun Tavern,” and is called so yet, though it is tenantless. It is reached by a wide flight of steps leading up from the street. It was here that the dignitaries of the town gathered to meet the worthies who were passing through. From its steps Whitfleld, the great Methodist, was led to jail; from it he took his departure when he hook the dust of the town off of his feet and cursed the place. Here George Wash- ington met his convivial friendj and re- corded in his diary: “Come to Fredericks- burg, stopped at Rising Sun Tavern, lost at cards, as usual.” One of the three great incidents in Fred- ericksburg’s existence was when Lafayette was here in 1824 and the city turned itself loose to do him honor. Such eating and such drinking as they will tell you about! And they will point out the odd old house | that the banquet was held in, and then tell you in a whisper that on Such a street is the house that was owned by the governor, and there it was that they carried Lafay- ette hier prercumeay his attempts to sur- round all the liquid refreshments offe hint - sees Just opposite the city on Stafford Heights stands Chatham, a grand old house, built of bricks brought from England, the home of the Fitz-Hughs, Coalters and Lacys, where both Washington and Robert E. Lee courted their wives, and beneath its his- rcric trees John Rardolph f Roanoke roamed. It was in this same house that Burnside had his headquarters, in Decem- ber, 1863, and Lincoln paced, the floors of Chatham when he came down to review the Army of the Potomac, prior to its “on to Richmond” move. On the main street of the city is an an- tiquated story and a half frame building, every window and door cf which framed a pickanniny when I saw it, which was the property of President Monroe, given him by the-eity of Fredericksburg so that he might have a vote there, tkere being a property qualification attached to the franchise. Over on Marye'’s Heights stands the old colenial mansion, the jags in its brick walls | made by cannon balls plugged up and the trenches once filled with dead and dying men overgrown with velvety grass. The big, low-ceilinged rooms are filled with cen- tury-old furniture, and century-old trees shade the historic grounds. On one side lies the national cemetery of Union dead, slop- ing down to the bloody stone wall and sunk- en road, where stands the monument to the confederate general, Cobb, who met death on the spot, and on the other side, low down in the valley, the small white head- stones gleaming through the trees, rest the confederate dead. More than any other spot in Virginia, | told for the Fredericksburg is historic and hallowed ground, but of all her memories those that cluster about Washington and his mother are most hallowed. This was the boyhood home of Washington, or so close here that most of the legen concerning him are mixed up with the legends of the town. It might be as well to say that while some of these legends are true, the most of them are not. The home of Mary Washington, not much the worse for being nearly, if not quite, 125 years old, stands on, quaint and colonial in its appearence, bright. with yel- low paint, and its outbuildings as spick and span as though the mistress, long since re- turned to dust, might have scrubbed the floors but yesterday, and put up the white dimity curtains. “I spent a whole day hunting out enough dimity from put away treasures of an old friend to make these curtain: said Mrs. Fleming, president of the local society of the Daughters of the Revolution, which so- ciety has labored indefatigably in filling the historic mansion with colonial relics. ~Mrs. Fleming is a descendant of Patrick Henry. The people who live in the Mary Washing- ton house proper are evidently animated by some of the colonial dame'’s spirit, though they cannot boast of a drop of her blood. She sometimes welcomed the coming and always speeded the parting guest; the prés- ent inhabitants do not welcome, and order the gvest out. The. Star correspondent visited the his- toric houge early in the morning, and was admitted by a tidy colored woman. 5 The house is as bare a barn door of inward or outward ornament, family occupies only a few rooms of It, so there is no furniture, except the colonial stuff, borrowed for the occasion in the big front parlor, which just is 19x19 feet square, with a big open fireplace, wide paneled doors, and four high-up old-fashioned-paned windows. It was in this room, coming in through the kitchen, that Mary Washing: ton entertained Lafayette, in her short gown and sunbonnet, treating him to a famous mint julep and ginger cakes. Back of the house are the gardens and the box- wood walks, just as she was hoeing in them when the French general came upon her. In this room the luncheon of the Daughters of the Revolution is being given to invited guests, who are received by President Cleveland. Historic Kenmore. Across the street, back of the Mary Washington home, is almost as historic “Kenmore,” the home of Betty Washing- ton-Lewis, where it is supposed that Mary Washington died. The house is in a splen- did state of preservation, and, though quaint in architecture, might have been built in the last twenty years, It is now the property of Mr. William Key-~Howard, a descendant of Francis Scott Key. He takes immerse pride in it, and has care- fully restored it in every feature. The in- terior has never been changed in the least, and is exquisitely rich in wood carving and stucco work, which it is said Washington | himself designed for hi: In the wide old-fashioned hall stan the older fash. toned clock, which, in her hall, once ad- monished Mary Washington of the flying phe hours, and taught her punctuality. It still ope perfect time. Oh, if it could only talk! Some two hundred yards northwest from “Kenmore” is the spot where Mary Wash- ington chose to be buried. It is said that this was a favorite place of resort for the mother of hington, that she went there to read her Bible and pray. Possibly she did, but it is hard to believe that a woman so thoroughly domestic, not sen’ mental and energetic, would walk so far— nearly a quarter of a mile—from her own home to read he- Bible. If she did, we must believe that she had in her a love for the beautiful in ure which did not show in her dally walks and talks. It is said that she loved to sit on the rocks, but to do so she must have let her feet and legs hang off into space in a most undignified “se, tic spot, a huge cleft grant t is a romantic spot, a huge clei nite boulder jutting out of the hillside, inaking a sheer precipice of fifteen o> twenty feet, and overshadowed by three or four elms of perhaps fifty years’ growth. There may have been other trees there in her time, pines or cedars pe-haps, but those. there row have grown since her day. This spot commands a view of a scope of country twenty miles in any direction. The &p- proach is a gradual rise from the Rappa- hannock and the city of Fredericksburg, while on the west the boulders jut out into Space. On the south the ascent is more abrupt, and half way down is the well- formed outline of intrenchments thrown up by Captain Quinn, now of this city, when guarding Fredericksburg from the ap- proach of Burnside and the bluecoats in December, 1863. On the mit of this knoll Mary Washington was buried in August, 1789. It was a desolate field in her day, with no houses between Kenmore and it, and its selection shadowed forth her peculiarities to the end. She had nothing in common with the world o- its Vanities, and sought to be as far apart from them as possible. Although Fredericksburg suspended busi- ness and wore crape on its doors for the occasion and Congress swathed itself in black for thirty days, her lonely grave was unmarked for forty years. Some futile effort wes made to stir up public sentiment, but not till in 1833 did it meet with any success. And here is the true story of the failure of that noble plan, first time to The Star corres- pondent by an old lady, whose mind is clear as a bell, Mrs. Catherine Nossett. Mr. Bur- Troughs of New York designed the first mon- ument. It was of the purest white Carrara marble. From a square pedestal rose eight Grecian columns set in embrasures, and over these were perched four eagles. On one side was the inscription, “Mary, the Mother of Washington.” The crowning obelisk tapered to a height of fifty feet and was crowned by @ bust of Washington, above whose lofty brow perched a fifth ea- Ble, poised for flight. ‘The laying of the cornerstone of this monument was the oc- casion of the third great episode in the life of Fredericksburg people. It occurred with hational pomp on May &, 1833, President Andrew Jackson and his cabinet and private secretary were there, the Presi- dent “slightly disfigured, but still in the ring,” for it while on the boat on his way here that Lieut. Beverly Randolph of the United States navy pulled Old Hickory’s nose. A Fredericksburg gentleman who remembers the cornerstone laying well says that the President's proboscis was a “sight.” The military and civic display was great,'and the Marine Band made the music. It was a proud day for Virginia, and especially for Fredericksburg, but their pride was faid low. Mr. Burroughs almost immediately took his departure for China, first. paying a stonemason, Rufus Hill by name, his contract price ‘for putting the monument in shape and finishing up the good work begun. Mr. Burroughs died soon after. The stonemason, Mr. Hill, who was doing the carving himself, while working on the monument in the hot sun, had sun- stroke, then brain fever, and died. There Was no one to carry on the work and it lapsed into ruin, though Mr. Hill had been paid in full for its completion. And that is the true story why the monument was left unfinished, told by a woman who knew Mr. Hill and can show you where he worked at the monument, where he lived and where he is buried. When the civil war ravaged the vicinity shot and shell busied themselves with the crumbling marble, which lay upon the ground, and in 1889 the climax of dishonor was reached when the ground containing the dust of Mary~Washington was offered at auction for sale to the highest bidder. Only one other country ever tried to do as atrocious a thing. Spain wanted to sell the body of Columbus to the world’s fair man- agers. ° Judge James B. Sener, when a member of Congress from this district, tried to get ap- Propriations to restore the monument, and once got a committee down here to investi- gate the matter, but nothing came of it. He did not give up urging it, however, and when the last outrage was perpetrated the women took the thing in hand. The Memorial Association. The National Mary Washington Memorial Association was formed, with Mrs. Amelia C. Waite as president, and- the ‘tmedrpor- ators with her were Mrs, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Matilda W. Emory, Margaret Hetzel and Maud Lee Davidge. The trustees were the President of the United States, chief justice of the Supreme Court and governor of Virginia. The various states are repre- sented by a vice prestient each. Life mem- berships cost $25, yearly memberships $1 a year. The spot upon which the grave rested was then given to the association by Mr. George Washington Shepard, a wealthy resident of Fredericksburg, whose offer to sell the spot brought such a storm of indignation from all over the country, and a lawsuit from the man who bought the grave, as he thought, but found that the goods could not be de- livered. The title to the bit of property is now vested in the government. The new monument, which to the present time, has cost $11,000, is an obelisk of Ver- mont a ai ee eg oer proportioned, an 101 ly in keeping with the cl and personality of the woman who sle2ps beneath. The base is eleven feet square and 3 the simple in- scription, “Mary the mother of Washing- ton;” and on the reverse side, “Erected by her country’ women. ment in the world erected by woman to a woman, The plot of land upon which the monu- = pong gan of a 37 over two eres, closed except a barbed wire fence. Inside the plot the Point of Rocks stands out in bold relief, but be- tween it and the monument stands an old brick wall, tightly built, and with fron gates, inside of which are eleven graves of the Gordon family, owners of the Retty Lewis property after her death. The first grave was made in 1817; the ‘ast one in 1886. The grass and vines are inextricably tangled and matted over the burial urns, and the plot looks to be given over to deso- lation and decay. Almost against this brick wall is the plain ircn railing which incloses the Mary W ington monument. The ladies of the Mary Washington Asso- ciation have a right to feel proud of their labors, but they are by no means ended. The association will now push its efforts to beautify the little two-acre park, erect a |} custodian’s house and secure an endowment fund for the future care and protection of their property. They have need of $10,000 in additon to what they now have to render their plans complete. 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Due to state hauks and é Individual deposits subject to chi Certified checas., less “expenses “aud Total = $1,431,713 97 District of Columbia, city of Washington, ss: I, A. B. RUPE, ‘Casaler of the avove named bauk, do solemay swear that the above statemeut is true to the best of my Knowledge and beief. A.W. BUFF, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before we ils vin day of May, Isva. * EKNEST G. THOMPSON, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: It is the first monu- |‘ Fract! house Notes of otber national banks ‘tonal © per REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE WEST EXD NATIONAL BANK, ton, in the District of Columbia, at the business, May 4, 1894. paper currency, nickels and ae ereaes ar aT — 000 OO 97,500 25 fon fund with U. 8. treasurer cent of circulation), test : i. & CUM ita Directors, JOHN H. MAGKUDER, | REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE OHIO NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, atw jon, in the District of Columbia, at ‘the of business, May 4, 1806. ce Total ....... 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