Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1921, Page 71

- 2 - -~ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C , MAY 22, 1921—PART 4 Celebrates Its 250th Anniversary Next Wednesday h) Fredericksburg, Va 9 S Washington is the capital of | ericksburg it may be as an important| T 5 = — — —= = ——— 7| tdential as well as business sections | ¥ ricks in 1789, 7 * the Potomac country—and | SitY, dUring the American revolution . ll . G 3 The fire chiel is Robert I | there for fifty years. idisn e some other parts of the United |in the battle lines on Dorchester nteresting to (o} ne ot the ation s est Lities ere Lived the | «piunt o 5 hixhops i the United States, and who States—so Fredericksburg is| Heights, under command of Wash- | |schools for white and volunteered for work in tae colonies ington, at Long Island, Harlem, White dren. a junior and senior hizh school |in 1771 died on March 1516, on the capital of the Rappahannock val- | piains’ Trenton, Princeton, Brandy- ley and certain other sections of Vir- | wine, Valley Forge, Saratoga and all ginia. And when you read the story | the rest until Yorktown. You will of Fredericksburg, a brief sketch of | think of the Fredericksburg foun- dries, mills and factories running at which is to be set down here, You | what people call full blast to turn will wonder why New York, London | out munitions to keep patriot armies and Paris hold such eminence in the | !B the fleld. news and why railroad trains stop at | ting socks and mittens for the sol- Fredericksburg women were knit- such stations as Baltimore and Rich-|diers of ithe republic from 1775 to for white children and a high school !y coueh farm. in 3 Mother of George Washington. Gen. Hugh Mercer. Gen. George Weedon.f James Monroe and Many Other Historic Figures—Great Battles of Civil War | T.‘“'lp"“hn“d‘l’?‘:;1“““‘ “. DEdnds Fought in Vicinity of Fredericksburg—The City From an Industrial and Business i gt o st L MR o b S‘tandpoint—CitY Manager Form of Government and What It Has Accomplished. potsy hix tours on horseh: Wright The schooboard consists of [gospel and making converts, wh 1 death 3 Timberlake, president; Hugh D. | called him. . H. L. Melton, . Embrey., A.| The Raptist congregation in Freder- wering, clerk. and C. It. Howard. | jcksbu dates from 1804, though instructors in the high school are [ Rapt preaching in Spotsyi- Hlond Wlhen s miar wio s Jitiing | I just as in the late grand war Pl f h B. C 1 l) . f 1_1 P Birckhead, principal: Mrs 176N, fo 1 down these lines, went to Fredericks- | Sowin shirts for Soltiers. Prome ans for the Big Celebration—Improvements of the Past Few Years. | peth Courtnes, Mee. C 1 Wil-(0F them wars pai in | sewing shirts for soldiers. Promi- Suliss, 5 burg, the other day, Dr. J. Garnett nent Fredericksburg men were gal- | Ay . E e = oy IR 12 — il Mrs Link. 3 anice | (he gospel contrary to ouldman. Miss| church was bu pastor in 18t L 2. A mission ca The Daptists ha ation in the St Mary present pr ther Thomas n Church was or- ericksburg in 18 Motley is the pas- veled of | on. Mis Carolyn Ithe P. Link and ( bert S. Swem. | Tn the clem, children the graded and office was in the row of low brick|icksburz was passed in 1727, and re- |have be buildings, formerly known as the|cites that: fifty-six squa modore ~Matthew Fontaine Maury, |quantitics of tobaceo and oth e Soater puran e |t Deies better known as the “Pathfinder of |Are every vear 1 has been built, in which two electric- [ M Olar & « upon the I the Seas.” but distinguished in many | {152 W0R K walt river to be shipied of driven pumps have been placed: a | Lucille number of improvem s and addi- . Eleanor Pende ¥ ways. He was born in Spotsylvania |t is necessary that the r part of county, ten miles from Fredericks-!innabitants should be supplied from th to the water ibution svs- | Bro dith Childr burg, his mother being a Miss Minor, | with goods and merchandise in return + been made; two chlorinators Honey. s the I the 1 iss hel ) Hateher, < Carrie Dalton, Mildred Chandly e bort d tiver to be shipped oft lnndd he married a Frederickshurg Ul(‘l,f':;"""'l’!l‘(':lil‘:"“. Ivull li‘rN“ Bt /ot whine ot sterilizing tic ater ience ady, Miss Ann Herndon. It you want | [0 o, 0inolis 1o, snch suppiies are not to | Innsanled, e municingl Nk the record of this man in the Navy thelc foods to. much sonilies are not you have but 1o look it up. He be- | bo™jiunks are Sreatls *wamted bon ‘e tem has ; came a midshipman in 1825, and. be- | navigable part of said river near the falls, nd improve the street | ferro and Theodo ing lamed by an accident in 1839, he | for the reception and safe keeping of suchi | grades have been established through- | enroliment of pupils is 1,298, and the was put in charge of the depot of |commodities as are brought thither, and 06| cut the city; a_complete ouifit of ma- | number of buildings three, iwo ha SHnts ) s LU sl e the entertainment and sustentnce of ‘Wi | chinery for carrying on all municipalling been erccted within the las on. 2 arringes drawn by horses or oxen. And National Observatory. He is declared | {i" ek s the fnliabitants of the county to have been the founder of the na- | Spotsvivania lave made humble supy tional weather service, and Alexander | fion to this general assembly that a_town may von Humboldt said that he was the|be laid out in some convenient place near founder of two sciences, hydrography | the falls of the said and meteorology. In (he matter of | tion of such a< are minded f0 reside there for the ‘mrent CAtiantic eable venture | the purposes aforesaid, whereby the peoples . o ; ng of that remote part of the country will Cyrus Field said: “Maury furnished |, "ncouraged and trade and navigation be in- the brains, England gave te money, | cresscd, et resoleed: ete, did the work.” Commodore Maury : resigned from the Navy at the break- | So, Fredericksburg was born as al Ing aut of the eivil war and stood |business place, and with the exception with Virginia and the Confederate | of the four years of the civil war it States in that great struggle. His | has always been a business place. Tt home in Fredericksburg, on Charlotte | has a bright social side for many per- between Princess Ann and Prince | sons who are strangers to trade, and Fdward streets, was standing a few | persons who have retired from busi- years ago, and the man who writes | ness make their homes there and in it this believes it is there today. green and hilly environs. Fredericksburg was not only fore- | Fredericksburg will celebrate on most in the revolution—she claims|May 25 the 250th anniversary of its Yo have been first. Chester B. Gool- [ establishment as a recognized town. rick has written: Mighty preparations are being made, rredericksburg claims the homor of present-| Vast crowds are expected, and the peo- !m‘t"‘l‘h-cnru ‘dwlurllmn of independence, | ple of the old city have been working Witich took place twents-one days before the|on the plan for months. All kinds of h con- tion in Fred but_it = not yet a temple of itx own. The Ivation Army hold: rvices in the and there is a Talia ferro. The | 1 n ma Jackson, Carri Ny Tamons Stecklenburz resolutions 1 Norh Cart-| committees have been bisy, and nearly v o — e Or R DERICREnY . 3 E e o re thin & yoas batare the Declara-l Sop Ty gy in th Sloy 15 on some Kind COMMERCE STREET OF FREDERICKSBU RG, FROM THE CORNER OF CAROLINE. Viathnd smore (hasia yer before the Deciochseverynady in heiclty Ision sume Kina | lant in the war. There was Washing- | Lewis to ask what news from her gal- | Feudiness at & moment's warning to reassem-|and grandeur of Fredericksburg. . He was a Fredericksburger. As a | lant husband, Col. Lewis of the Da- |iie, and by force of arms to defend the laws, | Among the features will be the dedi Doy and a big boy he lived just | triot army, and Of her Sons, the libertics and the rights of this or ans sister | cation of a monument to the early the river in Stafford county at |Capt. Fielding Lewis, Maj. Lawrence | colony from unjust and wicked insasion i lers. the wnveiling of tablets markine wer ferry. He could see the|Lewis and Capt. Robert Lewis, all : e points of historie interest, an “tage | closely associated with Washington [, The resolutions and pledges Wore | gepicting the town's historic_develop- of patriots encamped at Fredericks- | ment and a parade led by the ¢ King, the mavor, and L. J. Houston, jr.. the city manager of the Rappa- hannock metropolis. introduced him to the city council and the cl of commerce as “our friend who has come to Fredericksburg from our | people, the ox-tcams, the new and preity suburb on tne Foto. s and the family chariots inlin the service. e . mae which bears the wagic name of | the streets of the town. e people | Another man of note was Dr. Hugh D : ; ment of Marin, ne event of inte e B on, T T e o | ot St Geopie's Chuteh and the Cupbla | Mercor—— Iate. Gen. Hugh Mercer. [ ute. and unanimously adopted. Thel . ii| be the participation of membe when a boy, threw stones across our | on the market house were in the pic- | Everybody in the town knew Rim. | )ihertjes of the American people” ‘m ! of the tribe of Rappahannock Indi river, chopped down a cherry tree ture that he saw day after day. year |He was a Scotch physician who had| o q70¢ the ysual formula “God save | descendants of the men with w whose blossoms we could sec, whoafter year. He went to school to old |served with Braddock and who set- . Mr. Quinn has written | Capt. John Smith concluded a tr was made a Mason here and whose | Mr. Hobby, who was also the sexton |tled in Fredericksburg in 1763. He| e oindiio those in attendance at the [ mMaking possible the unresisted settle mother's ashes rest in this ancient|ef the parish, and who had no|was the family physician of many, | o0 BEO0R LR o™ ngependence [ ment of the land by whites. The pro- city.” ruples about calling on the Demon fand kept an apothecary shop at the| oo ,iions were adopted were George | 8ram will be concluded by receptions. Fredericksburg is about to celebrate. | Rum to warm his spirit. Young |corner of Caroline and Amelia streets, | o g, O cdons Dr. Tugh | dances, including a colonial ball, and She counts her age as 230 years, and | Washington knew and was known |where he filled his own prescriptions. farorcor "jater Gen. Mercer, and G fireworks on May 25—next Wednesday—there | by all the other boys in the town. He |He rose to the rank of a major gen- |, ;" wallace, later Gen. Wallace, | President Harding received will be great doings—doings that will | was made & Mason therc. His mother, {eral in the line, was mortally wound-| 5o panq \then You old fellows who [ mittee on May 2 e be solemn, gay and merry. Monu-| ed at Princeton in 1777. survived & |,.¢ following this story see the word | to come to Frederic ments are to be dedicated, floats with| r Week, was buried on the field. and |2Ee TPLOWINE this SOTy o hat you | dicated his probable attendanee, thouzh groups illustrating history from the! his body later removed and reinterred Ipcar the guns of Lee and Burnside |at the time he could give node redskin past to the moving-picture at Philadelphia. One of the beautiful Ae8F (Re BURS BF S8 L o 0f the | answer. Gen. Pershing is expect work has been provided; a central|twelve years. The elementary school [ which is non-denominational. all the present will roll through the streets: bronze statues of America is that)SR0 the TOAE D8 o are thinking of I n. March, whose mother orn | stores and shop has been established; | building cost $45,000 and the elemen- | Protestant churches participating by colonial balls will be danced: soldiers, which the American —gOVernmentipe little skirmish between Capt. Ul-| in Fredericksbure. W entmonctond | & new ‘e “atation erected, in which | tary school is also the training school | sending laymen to. conduct. services marines. _citizens, Confederate and erected to his memory and Which yic Dahigren's cavalry and that of Col. | Davis and staff and most of the Vir-lwas installed an electric fire alarm and of the state normal school, and hence | There are three large colored churches T nE was unveiled in 1906. It stands nol|jonn Crifcher on Sunday morning. No- ! Einia delegation in Congress will at- a motor-driven truck; a farm was pur- | the city children have the benefit of | Mount Zion and Shiloh (old site) and v Virginia Indians will march. Music far from the west end of that fine|vemper 19, 1862 Then you think of | tend. Herbert L. Bridgeman, author, | chased which furnishes gravel for the | the traincd supervisors of the normal. | Shiloh (new site). that ;‘l’lrred the troops of Lee, Jack- parklike way called Was}unf1 D"t“\ the fast oncoming of the divisions of | journalist and scientist, and member . feed for the city's teams and a | The city high school has a modern * % % & ;}"" . ngstreet, the Hills, Ewell, Jeb nue, and is within a few zodajot :l‘e Gen. Lafayette McLaws and Gen. Rob- of the board of rezents of the state ‘s alms dependents; | course of study, offering work which Stuart and the old-time fighting hosts granite shaft which stands above 1€ |ert Ransom of Longstrect's Corps, and | of New York, will deliyer one of the burg has erected | leads to diplomas in the college pre- | T"HE body Is nearly as well eared n gray will be played, and bands will G grave of Mary, mother of Washing-|pji;pugh Lee's cavalry. You ' are | addresse - hoe factory and a |paratory, commercial and household for as the soul in Fredericksbure, make the old town ring with the ton. thinking that on Monday the 18th the | iking metal egg crates; | art departments. : tunes that enthused or consoled the Anofher famousiman, about whom [ SIERE S8 AAEEENRY e koS | . : e ot sl e s and the following physicians are at leglons ' of “Burnside, Hooker and the people talked in the churches. iy “puppahannock and a Federal | THE pageant will represent the|g, oliments; adopted ubudget [ i Bempithiere: S Iis ¥ (- Fiait, G By Grant Everybody ' Virginia has taverns, market house and knitting | corpe cared on Stafford Heights | coming of Capt. John Smith in|iysiem and initiated a system of |(QNE ©f the features of Fredericks- | yrarricon R J. Payne, C. M. Smith, | booa lnx ted to attend. and the in circles of Fredericksburg during the . oppogite old town. You know of |1608, the Knights di the Golden|financing which is gradually reducing burg is the State Normal School ? " Sobm B . NN T eatendon ool e e classic age of the mapublic was Gen.|Gin ™ Sumner's demand on Mayor : the bonded debt. - for Wom tabli i s G Sen B e Washington. Just what Fredericks- George Weedon, who before the rev- |\l o (00N g1 Ve “for the sur- Horseshoe, whose route passed | HI¢ 2 cn. established by legislative| 5 u parney, F. T. Cassidy, H. M. Jar- burg will do on her 230th birthday is olution kept the Rising Sun Hotel, on | S RO0ET PUGE, nder threat of |through the eity, and Fredericks- e e act in 1905. Its purpose is €0 Drepare |neirq ang P. C. Dabney. old farther along in this little nar- | x %4 | Caroline street above Fauquier. and |pChin 5 W50 "0 ve thinking of the | purg's connection with colonial. rev- SHILE uccomplishing all these | young women forJositions of leader- el £ rative. { ~ a later proprietor of that old inn. joiricd march of Lee from Culpeper | o b 5 AY e e oo et ke iy e Which s still standing, was Gen: |uirise Warch Ol (€ G0, o De. |olutionary and civil war history. things the bonded debt has been ‘“‘“: as “’t‘c“‘e" in the public 8chool | go,p “1hisned 1n the afternoon, and A d e e The Fredericksburg Band will have | reduced approximately $32,000, but in | system of ho:‘i“:.:x:; ::;“':.‘";’l‘l’ the Free Lance, issued tri-weekly, both ) published by the Free Lance-Star Company, Absalom Prescott Rowe, {manager, and Charles O'Conor Goolrick, MEDITATION ROCK, WHERE THE MOTHER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON SAT IN SUMMER TO READ THE BIBLE AND KNIT. THE ROCK IS ONLY A FEW FEET FROM HER GRAVE. home for the city the city of Frederic a shirt factory, a factory for n * k ok X Griatav [hplf."v‘:"‘al‘;":-" ‘:‘rm‘hf‘“rv‘.’:;'\‘,fcembrr 11, Burnside opened fire and ' Fredericksburg spirit probably | [ izens. The situation is on Marye thinks of Fi redericksburg only as a Heights, famed in history, and sixty- and for much of the time commanded a brigade. Gen. Weedon served on historie city.wHe thinks of it as a L ea™ divinton st Yorktown. *The town which dreams of its glorious | past. Perhaps he thinks of it as a Place where American frontiersmen Just come from Jamestown mingle with the wild tribes of the upper Rappahannock; of troops going gayly oft to the French and Indian war; of groups of quaint-clad folk dis- cussing news. weeks old. that has come from Abercrombie and Mont- calm at Ticonderoga, of Baron® Dies- ! kau, Gen. Johnson and Gen. Amherst | and Crown Point: of Fort Edward, far up the Hudson; of Fort /il | Henry, on Lake George. and of bat- tles between French and Indians und English and Colonials in the Cham- plain country. M- thinks he hears men _gossiping of Venango. Fort! Duquesne. Great Meadows and of Fort Necessity: of Gen. Braddock, Gov. Dinwiddie, the English king. the French monarch and of the conspicu- ous part which their fellow towns- | man, Maj. George Washington, was taking in the big affairs going on. Perhaps there is a group of Fred- ericksburgers sitting in front of the Indian Queen Hotel (for an Indian 3‘ n Hotel stood at the corner of | roline and Charlotte streets nearly a hundred years before an Indian Queen Hotel was opened on the north | side of Pennsylvania avenue be- tween 6th and 7th streets), and d cussing portentous matters toddies. “I tell you.” said one man, ! “that young fellow Washington is a likely lad and helll be mayor of i and some | Fredericksburg or governor of this|{he woman of gr colony some day, if he lives long' enough.” [ And another Fredericksburger \\'hoi was a little less hopeful of the fu- ture sal “Shucks' | was in school' with George right head in this town, | as you know. George did not learn | enoygh Latin to say nux vomica or aqua pura, he was pretty dull in his lessons and you know he comes from rather a plain family and his mother, old Lady Mary, and h sister. Miss Betty, have not yet broken into the | most exclusive set in Fredericksburg. Of course, George may do pretty well as & farmer, but he’ll never be a big enough man for the governor's man- sion at Williamsburg.” Also when you think of Fred- came ie and Col. ¥ an in the city rounded by subdivided into cit new bungalows are being set A. B. BOWERING, WHO LED THE MILITARY BAND AT STONEWALL| JACKSON'S FUNERAL, AND WHO | ALSO WILL LEAD A BAND AT THE | { FREDERICKSBURG ANNIVERSARY | | CELEBRATION NEXT WEDNESDAY. | mous, was note in town, came the wife rominent Lewis, finest h recently lots, and rows of * ¥ * % d of St. 1 after service, the home- | {1t folk would erowd around Mrs. Wash- | ington to ask if shi letters by last wee They crowded around Mrs. had received any s post from the |in'1 |Jane Blanton an acre-and-a-half lot iat the corner of Caroline (the main manded a division at Yorktown. The people of Fredericksburg talked proudly of the exploits of John Paul Jones and almost claimed him as a Tellow townsman because his brother, William Paul, kept a grocery store there, died in the historic city in 1774, and you can stand by his old and ‘weather-stained tombstone in St. Georges_churchyard and read: Paul. 1 William was a man. who came to Fredericksburg and bought from Thomas and | Prus: progress o the great war had its| sur- | finest park in town. Kenmore, standing today, has been street) and north-and-south business 2 during the street, Which chan: 1 to Lafa tle street. jam Paul 1eft a_will, witnessed by John Atkinson. Thomas Holmes and B. Johnston, naming his friends. William Templeman and Isaac Heslop executors. FOr 80me Treason not ex- plained. the serve, and in 1 his_brother. John Paul, came to Fredericksburg to con- clude the affairs of Willlam, who had willed that his estate be sold and the proceeds delivered to his sis- ter, Mary Young. and her oldest two hildren in Abigland [nfll’ll? of Kirk- bean in Stewarty of Gallofvay. Britain. Why John P: not a part of this story. * * * % AMES MONROE, who followed Mr. Madison as President, lived and rracticed law In Fredericksburg and was a member of the common coun- cil of the town. [e was a candi- date for the legislature, and the law required that a man to be eligible | must be a property owner in his dis- trict. To fulfill this requirement, an uncle gave him a deed to a small| | frame "house and lot. |ago that house was moved to the | site it occupies today, on the east | 8ide of Princess Anne st George's, | Prussia (Lafayette) street and Wolfe, | within a block of the railroad sta- et, hetween . J. Quinn, writing in 1908, said r. Monroe's boarding place was lo- cated on the same lot on which now stands the handsome residence of Mrs. James I. Bradley. His law executors declined to north came to take the name John Paul Jones is Many years) and gun war. stood before the old people of Fred- ericksburg for years, people see it today. they see that name in print. [ Church, ness,”Spotsylvania Court House— stretch of country around Fredericks- burg covering milés where corpses strewn_thick and the land dripped men’s blood. reading this have a thought that these battles were small matters when meas- ured by the lat. s not the area closely—-occ slain and m: gethe: aches in this L knew before do not urde of those red znd b and 1861; taks the ald il }in 1674, and there | | that @ settlement axisted near the falls | LODGE BUILDING OF FREDERICKSBURG, iTON WAS MADE A MASON threw pontoon bridges across the riv- a prominent place in the marching er. The rest comes dreadfully be- fore you. shell-smashed houses of Fredericks- burg. miles of landscapes marked and marred by intrenchments, rifle pits | dead men strewn over the fields and sprawled ! in grissly attitudes, dead horses, can- non with smashed wheels and fields littered with coats, hats. haversacks. guns, bayonets, belts—the debris of the picture which' You see the shot-breached, emplacements, That was and many old * k * % LD men and women will not think merely of Fredericksburg when Salem Chancellorsville, the Wilder- ch a You younglinus who are ndard. They had rs engaged e for acre of <loseiy-~more troops, ind the nd th -, Hut were not 8o 1 And or £0 down into that country. Perhaps you will be able to visualize that period, and then you will understand! Fredericksburg is a_gay, business and {ndustrial city. Chance and for- tune have given it a great place in sican history, and ther: 35 5w b torieal atmosphira about s zond el city which gives it a dignity beyond hat of most other tow) history and busine edericksbury was Lorn 1e A fort t the fa But history s 15 business. 3 a business zed to be of the Rappahannock suilicient evidenc: that time. That settlement became Fredericksburg. — Warehouses, stores and mills were there before the name Fredericksburg came into ui The 1920 it was found necessary to issue 0,000 in bonds to help defray the ex- |column and the leader of this Land !is an especially interesting man. e | pense of erecting the high school build- | composed the march and 1ed the Con- fing. During this period the tax rate federate military band which played |has been kept below the rate prevailing at the funeral of Stonewall kson, [ prior to the adoption of the city man- Who was mortally wounded in the |zzer plan, and several of the officers Cha orsville fighting, _ about|of the city told The Star man that twelve miles west of Fredericksburg. | were it not for the very unusual con- and died at Guinea station, about ten [ ditions incident to the late world war miles south of the town. This vet-|the present tax rate would be ma- eran bandsman, A. B. Bowering, is|terizlly lower than under the former seventy-nine years old, and is said by | svstem of government. In round fig- ‘his townsmen to be the oldest band [ures the city manager administration leader in the United State: has added $292,000 additional assets to th the physical properties of the city dur- ing past eight years, has increased the bonded debt only $18,000 and has not increased the tax burden. You will understand from this that Fredericksburg has paved streets, the main busjness streets being paved with rite blocks, stretches of the sphalt, and the being extended town operates its s or sells the by- Cehve. It has rented ho and runs a “poor * where it raises hogs and chickens. grain and fodder for the city , including the garbage collection the product of which helps to hogs. 'The falls of the Rappa- hannock have been “harnassed” and ty | they light the streets of the town and commissioner W legated all the | turn the wheals of industrial plants. One duties snd functions of those commit- | of the companies making power from the tees. Later the title was changed to| Rappahannock just above Fredericks- city manager. : burg—about two miles—is the Spotsyl- The y manager is appointed by | yapja Power Company. Another com- the council, to which body he is re- turning the flow of water into light spongible. He has full control of motive powar 18 the Rappahannock 21l city departments except the TLight and Power Company. The schools, which are under the control | U0, 9800 S INEE LEIPETT the of the school hoard; the health and Ak ; vhich! a upper Rappahannock, where danger of police departments, ‘which are still [ pOBOR CEPPATEIANGS, WICT Cved to a under jurisdiction of the mayor, and > . the court and finance departments,|pumping station, thence into a set- which report direct to the council.[tling reservoir and thence into a dis- While this limited city manager form | tributing reservoir. There is a pri- of government has been successful te water company—the Freder- many of the sterling business citizens sburg Aqueduct Company, pres of the town hava expressed them-!dent, A. W. Wallace, which pipes selves ¢3 favoring a complete city|drinking water from Poplar spring snager form of government. on Maryes Heights. Poplar spring the administration of the|has been noted for the flow and purity gement much has been ac-[of its water since Indian dayvs. The \ed in improving the physical |fire department is motorized and the ncial conditions of the city. |gravily pressure of the water is so More than 60,000 feet of concrete|high that a pumping engine is not curb and gutter have been construct- | nceded. Thus, Fredericksburg has its | eit he governmont of Fredericksburg is by ficers, a city counci ag The city 1 in operation been s of land were ity man- s been The in s were cil. present in tu bu iyor and coun- continued to the the council now consisting ve memb Formerly the s affairs of the city corpori- were conducted by the i council committees, this found to be unsi y 1912 a city comum pointed by the counci five acres of land, including a beauti- ful grove, surround the buildings. The health record of the state normal is remarkable-and there has never been a death there among the students. For that matter, the health record of Fredericksburg is high. The con- trol of the school is by the Virginia Normal School board, as follows: V. R. Shackleford, Orange, president; R. S. Chamberlayne, Phenix; E. 0. Lar- rick, Middletown; George L. Taylor, Big Stone G: Alfred G. Preston, Am- sterdam; Dr. H. M. De Jarnette, Fred- ericksburg; S. James Turlington, Ac- comac; Miss Belle Webb, Prince George; D. D. Hull, jr, Roanoke: Merritt T. Cooke, Norfolk; W. C. Lock- er, Richmond; George Bristol: Gov. Westmors superintendent, Harris Rich- mond; secretary-auditor, Robert T. Brock, Farmville, The officers and faculity of the State Hart, Normal are: A. B. Chandler, jr, B.A., M.A., president: B. Y. Tyner. BA. M.A., head of the department of edu- cation; W. N. Howlett. C.E.. head of deparfment of _mathematics and science; Walter J. Young A.B, A.M, Ph.D., head of the department of geog- gnhy and blology; Roy 8. Cooke. . M.S., assistant in science and mathematics; J. L. Chiles, assistant in mathematics; Ethel I. Summy. A.B. editor. The Free Lance was establish- ed by Col. John W. Wolz and William E Bradley in 18! The Virginia Star was begun in 1869 by Rufus B. Mer- ichant, and in 1895 he changed it into & dally us the Daily Evening Star. There are four banks in Frederickss burg—the Commercial State Bank, George W. Shepherd, cashier; Gran- ville R. Smith, Edgar M. Young and W. Mayo Smith, directors; had depos- its gn May 6 of $971,800, and resources of $1,103,196; the Farmers and Mer- chants’ State Bank, John F. Gouldman, jr., cashier; B. P. Willis, William S. Shesley and E. €. Ninde, directors; on its last statement of financial condi- tion had resources of $1,699,087; the Planters’ National Bank, W J. Ford, cashier: R. Conroy Vance, M. B. Howe and Frank C. Baldwin, directors; had assets of $5 09: and the National Bank of Fredericksburg. Hugh D, Scott, cashier: A. H. Wallace, Geor, A. Scott and H. Lewis Wallace, direc- ters; had resources of $1,104,369. James R. Rallings is the postmas. ter and . 8. Hunter assistant post- master, and thers are three street de- liveries a day. The agent of the Rich- mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad is C$C. Cox. The Potomac, Fredericksburg and Piedmont runs from Fredericksburg and connects M.A., supervisor of the practice ofiWwith the Southern at Orange Court teaching; Carol Marie Davis, B j House. George W. Richards is presi- M.A., head of the home economics de- | dent and Gilbert W. Shelton manager. partment; Grace K. Tanner, A.B.. as-| sistant in_home economics; Eula D.; Atkinson, head of the department of rural arts: Charlotte R. Peoples, A.B. head of the department of Rnglish; Gertrude W. White, assistant in the department of English and writing: Ethel A. Belden, B.S, head commercial teacher, training department; Mar- garet E. Mathias, B.S., head of the normal arts department; Lena Irene Hardy, assistant manual arts depart- Carrie Belle Vaughan BA., head of history department; Pearl M. Hicks director of physical edu- cation; Elizabeth N. Williams, direc- tor of public school music; Ida E. Schnirel B.A., head of modern langu. age department; Frederick A. Frank- lin, piano, violin, harmony; Nora C. Willis, plano; Mary V. Burney libra- rian, Anna P. Starke, Litt.D., social director; Dalia L. Ruff, assistant so- cial director and assistant registrar; Mary M. Myers, dietitian; Elizabeth F. Cherley, treasurer and secretary to the president; Mrs. John C. Fer- neyhough, bookkeeper, Annie G. Clarke, postmistress and superintend- ent of laundry: C. Mason Smith, M.D., school physician; Mary Minor Rich- ardson and Mary James, critic tench- ers in rural practice school; Ethel Nash, Ashton Hatcher, Mary E. Col- gan, Sallle M. Brooks, Fannie B. Wright and Bettie H. Short, critic teachers in city schools. It is a great institution doing a great work. Fredericksburg has a large church- going population, and you can argue from this, if you will, that it is a city of Christian ideals. The oldest church is St. George's Episcopal, gstab- lished in 1732, and the present struc- ture was built in 1794. The rector is the Rev. John J. Lanier. There is another Episcopal church, Trinity, of which the Rev. J. F. W. Feild rector. The Presby constituted in 1806, building erected {n 1833. The present pastor is the Rev. R. C. Gilmore. Close to this churck is a fine memorial chapel erected by Scth Barton Freach, a Fredericksburg and New York man, as a memorial to his daughter Mar- garet, who died in Fredericksburg, and there is a rich and beautiful win- dow in the chapel, l’( there by Mr. French in memory of his wife, who was a daughter of Judge John M. Herndon of Fredericksburg. The present pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is the Rev. Harry Lee Hout. The Methodist con- gregation in Fredericksburg dates from 1756 and ,the first church build- ign was erected in 1822. The Rev. | of ‘police. and Ww. Many fast trains between the north and south on the R., F. & P., the Sea- board Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line stop at Fredericksburg, and three boats of the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia railway connect Fredericks- burg with the lower Rappahannock, the bay and Baltimore. The city officers of Fredericksburg are Dr. J. Garnett King, mayor: L. J. Houston, jr.. city manager; John T. Goolrick, judge of the corporation court: J. 'W. Adams clerk of the court: A. G. Billingsley, city ecol- lector: . R. Howard. city treasure A. B. Bowering. commissioner of re enue: F. M. Chichester, common- wealth's attorney; St Fitzhugh. city attorney: A. T. Em brey, assistant city attorney; J. Chichester, city sergeant; Dr. C. M. Smith, city health officer; W. H. Em- brey, police justice; S. B. Perry, chief N. ‘Tansill, J. A. Stone and Catlett Jenkins, poiice of- ficers. The city council consists of W. J. Ford. president; W. S. Embrev, vice president; R. 1. Biscoe, W. L W. &, Chesley, J. ¥. Gould- man. fr.: . Secott, A. R. Youne, George Freeman, jr.: G. W. Heflin, T. I. McGee and Dr. R. J. Payne and A._G. Billingsley clerk of counc “The population of Fredericksburs § is 9.000. It is fifty-six miles south of Washington, on the Rappahannock, at the head of tidewater and 150 miles_from the mouth of the river and Chesapeake bay. The Washing- ton-Richmond automobile road passes through Fredericksburg. and many good roads and some that are not 80 good radiate from it. A good automobile road leads down tbe Northern Neck. passing close to Wakefleld, the birthplace of Washin ton, and also close to Stratford, & ancestral home of the Lees and the birthélace of Gen. Robert E._ Lee. Another good road leads to Yorke town, & ferry crossing the York river from Gloucester Point to Yorktown. There & good road leads to Newport. News, while Williamsburg and James- town Island may be reached by good roads. Roads that are all right in fair weather lead from Fredericks- burg through the great battle regions of Balem Church. Chanceliorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania. A full page of Fredericks- burg photographs in the Rotogravure Section of to- day’s Star. John Kobler, one of the pioneers in Metbodism, bygan e pm BUSLAENT AT FHE GHAVE OF MRS, WASHINGTONeMOTHER-OF SXORGEs ... s ainla ' 8ct of assembly, establis ©d.~S50VONtY~S0NeR. AQUATeA-OL, Streots owh high-pressure mervice-Zak resl-