Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1921, Page 58

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 19, 1921—PART 4. A ‘Manassas, Va., First Came Into Public Notice During Civil War ANASSAS is a town of his- toric moment, and sixty years ago all men talked of it. It filled & larger place in men's minds and speech and in public prints than any other town had flllmli before, and today the name “Manas-| as” shares prominence and renown, with the names “Gettysburg” and| “Appomattox.” Manussas was the scene of the first clash of magnitude between the armies of the north and south. Get- tysburg was the crisis of the civil war or the point at which the tide of fortune turned and Appomattox was the fleld on which the Confederate states acknowledged to the federal suthorities that its government and its armies were defeated, or. as Rob- ert E. Lee expressed it In his farewell 1o the Army of Northern Virginia: “After four years' arduous service. marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Vir- ginia has been compelled to vield to overwhelming numbers and resources. 1 need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remalned steadfast {o the last. that 1 have consented to this result through no distrust of them, but feeling that valor and devotion ‘could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would attend a con tinuation of the contest, I have de- termined to avoid the uscless crifice of those whose past services have en- dedred them to their countrymen. | The fiftieth anniversary of the bat-; tel which made Man s known around the world was celebrated with dramatic effect on the memorable field and the following Inscription on a little monument in the courthouse grounds at Manassas tells of that event: “In_commemoration of the Manas- sas National Jubilee of Peace: The firat instance in history where sur- vivors of a great battle met fifty years after, and exchanged friendly greetings at the place of actual com- bat and here on July 21, 1911, the closing_scene was enacted: The tab- leau of the Re-United States. The President, the Governor ‘vi Virginia and forty-eight maidens «n white| took part, with 1,000 veterans of the Blue and the Gray, and 10,000 citl- zens of the New America.” * % x°% I 1915 om April 9, there was a jubi- lee reunion of federal and Confed- erate soldiers at Appomattox. It was the fittieth anniversary of the sur- render by Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen U. S. Grant and the Army of the P tomac. The hopes of the Confedera which blazed splendidly at Manas: were darkened at Gettysburg A 3 nd Ypractically extinguished in the nul\-l @ paign of Petersburg and the fall of 0! 1 Richmond. but it was at Appomattox | that the red cross flag of the South was furled, even though a few Con- federate commands in other parts of the south were not compelled to sur- render until the summer of 1865. His- tory, everybody who fought in the civil war, and everybody who reads its bloody, desperate records, counts Appomattox as the close of the four- year war. There is no unity of opinion as to where and when the civil war broke out. There had been marching and counter-marching and maneuver- ing. skirmishes and small actioas or “affairs,” but it was near Manassas that armies of the north and south first came to grips. The names Manassas and Bull Run are often used®one for the other or interchangeably, and are so related in one's mind that when one speaks of Bull Run the thought “Manassas” comes up and a reference to Manassas instantly calls up the thought “Bull Run.” Bull Run is a stream with per- haps about the same volume of water as Rock creek. It rises in the Bull Run mountains, one of the eastern | bridge in the ) outposts, or outridges of the Blue Ridge. Ten miles below a red stone battle ground of Bull Run. but twenty miles if you should follow the crooks and bends of the creek, the stream of tragic fame unites with a stre n called Broad run. From this junction the united streams are called Occoquan _creek. From the creeks' junction to Old Oc- coquan village is six miles. That is the head of navigation of the stream which, with its broadened part, called Occoguan bay, iz a tidal estuary of the Potomac. Bull Run figured in the strategy of the first battle. It s the lafgest stream in the battle section and be- c of its importance in the land- scape the fighting which began near its .banks and reached battle-propor- tions and intensity from half a_mile to 4 mile and a half west of the stream. was called the battle of Bull Run. Tae Coniederate base was at the little railroad Jjunction hamlet of Manassas. That was a strategic point from which to ward against » federal attack on Richmond, to hold a Confederate threat against Wash- ington and to maintain communica- tion with Confederate forces in the valley of Virginia. After the sur- nder of Sumter into Beauregard's nds he was called to Richmond and was directed to assume command of a_small force of Confederate troops on what tien called by military men “the Alexandria line.” He took gommand at Manasas Junction, June * o k% [ ET Gen. Beauregard, accomplished < and skillful officer. tell why Manassas Junction was an important position. He said: “Although the po- sition at the t was of command- iz importance to the Confederutes, the mere terrdin was not only with- out natural defe: advantages, but on the contrary was absolutely unfa- vorable. 1ts strategie value was that being close to the federal capital it held in observation the chiei army then being embled near Arling- ton by Gen. McDowell, under the im- mediate eye of the commander-in- chief. Gen. Scott. for an offensive movement against Richmond, and while it had a railway approach in its rear for the easy accumulation of re-inforcements and all the necessary munitions of war from the south- ward, at the same time another rail- way. the Manassas Gap railroad, d verging laterally from the left at mg point. gave rapid communication wi the fertile valley of the Shenandoah. then teeming with live stock and cereal substistence as well as with other resources wssential to the Con- federates. There was this further value In the position to the Confed- erate army: That during the period ot ccumulation, seasoning and trainin it might be fed from the fat pasture fields and garners of Loudoun. Far- quier and lower Shenondoah valley counties which otherwise must have len into ihe hands of the enemy.” As @ matter of fact. it was the E BUILDING OF EASTE Manassas Gap railroad which brought victory to the southern arms at Ma- nassas. It was that road which en- abled most of Johnston's army from the Shenandoah to join Beauregard's the day before the battle. It was the Gap railroad which brought from the valley Kirby Smith's brigade of John- ston’s army, which, leaving the train near what is now Wellington station, came upon the field early in the aft- ernoon during the closest and fiercest of the fighting. It was the arrival of these troops which precipitated the federal rout. The federal as- sumption was that Johnston's army was coming up. The fact was that throughout the morning and the hours before the route the federal army had been fighting the army of Beauregard reinforced the day be- fore by Johnston, and Kirby Smith's brigade was but the tail end of John- ston’s command. But it came on the field, and on an exposed flank of the hard-battling Unlon troops, at what would be today called “the psycho- logical moment.” And this arrival of Smith on the Union right was COLLEGE. }_ NI ANY Famous Battlegmunds Around the Town—Where First Battle Between the North and South Was Fought—The Star Man Visits Locality and Writes | | } Story of Conditions Today—The Town's Industries, Churches, Schools, Business LHous_es, Etc.—Incidents of History—County and To wn Officials. A STREET VIEW IN MA} not in accordance with prearranged plans of the battle; it was an accl- dent of at a ford of Bull run. called Black- |t burne ford. three or four iniles from | men not Manaseas, and on €unday, July 21, an engagement began at that poiat on Bull run_where the Washington- Falrfax - Centervil crosses the Stream on. : old stone bridge. Th was desultory on the part of t erals and too it und picturesque engdgenent o fed- ! | for and given in the books. Army with by politicians at Wa: Over these miles of fields close to|lives on July - | August 25, of the Confederate cause.” I monuments of stone. ithe side of the rvilroad ! Dogan farm. called P i for the known strength of McDow- ell's army. It suggested to Confed- erate high officers a feint. Two corps, or two-thirds of McDowell's force, were crossing the stream two miles above, at Sudley ford. Sudley being a hamlet consisting chiefly of a mill. a church, & dwelling and a hotel and a sulphur spring, well known to old ‘Washingtonians as a ‘watering that being the ancient equiv- for “summer resort.” Dust rising from marching columns and good scouting revealed that the creek had been crossed and that a move- ment to turn the Confecerate left flank was under way. From the camps around Manassas and from the fords further down the creek and from points as far away as Occoquan Con- federate troops were marching to meet the attack. Small bodies of troops nearest to the enemy were pushed forward to fight delaying actions. The Confederate line was formed along rising ground south of the ‘Washington-Warrenton pike westward from Stone bridge. The center of this line was at the crossing of the Wash- ington-Warrenton pike and the Ma-| nassas-Sudley road. On the farm. then owned by Mrs. Judith Henry, in the southeast angle of the road the main action took place, and there it was that panic. caused by the arrival of Kirby Smjth's brigade, came upon the Union army. * Then began the stampede which caused sorrow and humiliation in the north, but strength- ened its resolve to carry on, and caused _exultation throughout the south. The relation of the little rail- road junction town to the fighting caused the people of the south gen- erally to call it the battle of Ma- nassas, while the northern people who had not seen Manassns. but had crossed and recrossed Bull run, gen- erally spoke of it as the battle of Bull | Run. But the terms soon became: crossed and it was indiscriminately | spoken and written of as the battle of Bull Run and the battle of Manassas. | As soon as the guns opened on that; Sunday mofning in July, 1861. Ma- nassas leaped into fame, and before, the moon had risen it was the most famous town in America. L THE renown of Manasses does not rest altogether on the battle of Bull Run. operations around the town and espe- cially northwest and lapping over on the field of the first fighting, which made the first battle of Bull Run a! flerce apd hectic little skirmish in; comparfson. This was the three days| fighting which came to be called. the | second battle of Manassas. By thati time the people of the United States | had become 80 used to great tragedy comparison. This was the three days’ fighting, with two days of about as heavy fighting as the civil war brought fopth, did not attract as much atter a4 south s much exultation Lorth as the first pression in the ting. By the summer of 1862 the ANnY of Northern Virginia had been bro\ght to 2 high state of discipline and' training. It was commanded by a general whose fame gheds luster on American arms. Its corps commanders W al as 2 ’sl s o 3 by the -Warrenton pike a4 just cause. did not hesitating | yexmw | bersom Wa. g | nassax !of brs east of the M many states an W | tragt {twenty ! nake fields of Manas: tund surely such a thing must come to ! pas | pomattox g up to Wi grand review of which vou have aily | passed along the roads through the i field | quarter of a century. become a Mgni In August, 1862, there were! E ASSAS. The Federal Army of the-Potomac hulltory. not rounded out into so great a fight- i have been opened. and, although all A ing machine. A skirmish took place on July 18 |of many reasons, You have your choice| 1t did not lose ‘bat- | le after battle to i so well suse its soldiers were :oux or less manly, or less inspired | conviction that they fouxht in | Tt was not because it plendid officers. < “spotty.” strong in in places 1t lacked; It was heavy and cum-! It lacked the “verve. “elan,” “esprit” and mobility opposing army. Th this situation, given uipped as it. be- aces, rk. the time | that the ! meddled inkton. at is of the Potomac hington's neighbor town of M: fell thousands and thousands ve Americans from cvery ktate | ssippi river and from perhaps all the stu her of Waters. It i ground. year-old plan and the reddest i of the Fa nd here or thirt the blackes: in time. When the peace of Ap- had been signed and the ! Union armies of the east were march shington to pass in that heard, long columns of these armies ull Run fields. Tens of thousands of troops knew these fields. Sof- | »pped there and they built two They set up one on the Henry farm. the focal point of | the first battle. They set another by cut on the ach Tree farm, one mile from Groveton (which is one mile west along the Warrenton | pike from Henry farm) and about a and a quarter or a half north- of the monument on the first * ok ok % THHSE monuments stand today. al- though, so far as the writer of these lines knows, the U'nited States! never taken any step towzard their | preservation. They stand on private land. and the families owning these, descendants of the people who owned them in ‘61 and '62, a retakers. These monuments nre “soldier monu- ments” in that they were built by soldiers to the memory of their fel- lows. When soldiers set up the monu- ments the fields around them were pitted with sunken graves and sunken trenches in which thousands of battle- slnin men had been buried. The town of Managsas has greatly changed. It has not’ grown to be a large city, but it has become a pleas ant town of homes and ample bu; ness. It has civil war memorlal many fine churches, schools that are up to the Virginia standard (which, by the way, though many of you do not know it, has. within the past! standard). a woman's college which is famous, manufactures, banks, newspapers, a public water system, a sewer system and a municipal elec- tric light and power plant, lighting the town and stores and residences and selling light and power to in- dustries. 1Its shipping_facilities are first-class, the town being on the main line of the Southern, thirty three miles from Washington, and Southern and Chesapeake and Ohio trains passing every few minutes, day and night. It is still a junction place_and trains come and go over| the Manassas Gap railroad, which has become part of the Southern ‘sys- | tem. The Bull Run mountains rise | fair and blue about fifteen miles away to the north and west and the chil-| dren of the town go fishing, swim- | ming and wading in Bull Run. The | same roads over which troops marched in the civil war lead to the Henry place, to Blackburn and Mitchell's fords, to Stone bridge, to Stone house, to Sudley, to Groveton, to Gainesville, to Brentsville, Bris- tow. Nokesville, Centerville, Chantilly —all places familiar in civil war his- less coura- | Manassas of the! ment popular reasons | on one of these is this inscription: | the | Builder. There is a | stone is_this: to 182, A. F. A, 1A, D. 1885, a battlefield park, | der and around this monument the bones of hundreds of men gath- ered_from battlefleld graves. are four separately marked graves in the lot. Of course, many mnew roads to be is progresa ure not yet roads. there classed as good in the re- ferior numbers of | making of roads. One of the conspicuous is the Confederate monu- ment. It is built of Manassas sand- stone and is topped b; image of u soldter. stands It in But its | Manassas cemetery and in the center of a large plot incloged by an iron fence on the gate of which are the words, “Confederate cemetery.” is a white marble tablet. and “Dedicuted by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Manassas on August . 1%%9, to the heroes of Virginia and | her sister states, who vielded their 18 and 21, 1861, and 9 and 30, 1562, in defense On a block ot red sandstone bage of the monument is h vV near this “J. R. T. Tillett. Co. H. 1 On another bloc L “Manasseh Lodge. No. . _A. L. 585% June 20, P. Wright, W. M." Un- are G There There I& 3 marble headstone inscribed: “Dr. P. B. Bowen of Co. I 11th Va. Regt, who after being Wounded became a member of the Black Horse Cavalry. Born December 26, 1841. Died June 12, 1902 One headstone is inscribed: “Lieut. D. W. Pitts, 4 Reg. Ala. VolL” A third head- stone Is_marked: “W. T. E. Rawls, $th La. Vols. Died August 17, 186 The fourth is inscribed: “G. A. Der- rick, 1st Tex. Reg. Born April in 8 C. Died August 16, 1861 very now and them, in making a road, digging a wéll, cellar or foun- dation, a_skeleton is come upon, and buttons, belt buckle or some other military accessory usually shows to which army the man belonged. If Confederate, the bones are interred with fitting honors in this little ceme- tery at Manassas or in a cemetery by the side of the Warrenton pike at objects at! the bronze | 1 On | { each of the four faces of the monu- I 1 | ONE OF THE MANASSA S SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Groveton. ‘Ihere by the roadside Con- federates buried their dead—those who fell In that vicinity—in trenches, and many years after the war the women of Manassas and other parts of Prince William county brought about the erection there of a simple monument. * * % % N the same side of the town where the cemetery lies are the public school buildings of Manassas. One of the buildings ranks arch.tecturally with the best in the state. Attend- ance is large and scholarship good. The teachers in the high school are Miss ¥, H. Osbourne, principal; Misses | Lulu D, Metz, Williette R. Myers, Min-, nie L. Swart, Mary J. Cox and Emi J. Johnson, Mrs. W. L. Sanders and A. 'W. Sanders, agricuitural director. | In the grade schools are Misses Grace B. Moran, Edith Callan, Louise Ma- loney, Elsie Lawson and Grace Metz. There are three vacancies in the| graded school faculty due to the fact | that Miks Marion 1 of Manassas | and Miss Liilic D. E ville have notified the s they will not be abie vear, and Mr: D. nassas has no ment. The comm hoard (o serve Wisgler of Ma 1 for reappoint- ment exercises of the| (4 grade schools were held a day or two | before The Star man straved into the | town, and it is pleasant 1o relate that twenty-vight of the boys @nd girls of | Manassas graduated and will be in| high school next session. They were presented with diplomas by M Donald, and their names foilow: Misses Margaret Cornwell, Ardath Evans, Lula Hixson, Mildred Mills, Elizabeth Coleman, Hazel Saunder Thelmu Ferrell, Mary Lee Arrington, Eva Breeden, Lucy Brawner, Mad line Petitt. Winnie Wenrich, Ma Sweeney, Margaret Rexrode, Jose- phine Hirst. Boulah Baker and Gladys|cers were: Ball; Hawes Davies. Wilmer Jasper.| Raymond Manuel Sabatier, Charles Armistead | super Sinclair, Ashby Lewis. Clyde Muddi- | {iasurer man: Artirur Muddiman, Selwyn King, (.0, Arrington, de Hedrick, Strother Stevens and | Larkin, R. L. Abner Myers. P Meser, 12 3 oon after passing the school bu rison and W ings one comes to the courthou nd | pre-elect the jail It was in th '90s that the | council is court seat was removed from DBrents- n. and tvo tic S are ville to Manassas. Brentsville, which!One ticket proposes the became the county seat when it re-|For mavor. Hurry P Davi moved from DLumfries on Quantico. cilmen, Ib 5 creek in 1X20. ix about six miles south!J. M of Manassas, and the old court bu ik A ing there is used as a schoolho I M r a o The contest over the removal of the!other ticket propose county xeal was such a one as is us-|C. Parrish: for councilme ual in such cases. Sentiment leaned | rington. J. I 1z J toward Brentsville; certain practical } ¢ Cornwell, nner, reasons indicated Manassas. Manas- | 8on, C. J. Meetze, M. Bruce Whitmore sas was a railroad town. and Brents land B. Lynn Robertson six miles off the iron was.| £ % % x Manassas was a growing town and| o L R N Bremtsville had stopped growing.! [JEING the county seat. the corpora But if you want to feel the quiet in-} tion does not need a MUMETOUS Po- spiration of an old town. finely sit-|lice force, and law and order are gen- uated on a hill. with views of @ Vasti )y preserved by the town ser- stretch of county, and with houses | ¥ b g 2 and an atmosphers that tell of other|geant. R. M. Weir. The water sup- times. you should visit Brentsville.|ply of Manassas is pumped from deep While The Star man was setting upiwells into x reservoir and distributed his camera in the courthouse yard|by gravity. Plans are on foot for imn three men came into the picture. They | creasing the supply. The fire depart- were George J. Tyler, clerk of the|lment is volunteer. The department L. Ledman, deputy clerk, and|owns a horse or hand drawn fire en- upt THE PRESBYTERIAN Manassas is governed a mayor and city council. with a s rimtend- ent of public utilities. When The Star members: O 1 animated this ix Writ- in_the field following: D..d M gine, carrying a gas-driven pump, a hose cart and hook and ladder wagon. The town owns its electric plant and furnishes light and power to sub- scribers. Crandall Mackey of Arlington county and Washington, who was trying a case at the Prince William court. The principal officers of the county, other - mayor and| than _those named, are: -Judge, Sam- uel G. Brent of Alexandsia; commol wealth's attorney, Thomas H. Lio; sheriff, Charles A. Barbee: deputy sheriff, John P. Kerlin; treasurer, J. P. Leachman; deputy treasurer, C. C. Leachman: surveyor, F. Norvell Lar-! kin: superintendent of the poor, J. J.| Carter; superintendent of school. Charles R. McDonald; electoral boar H. Thornton Davies, Hezekiah Rei and R. B. Gossom; commissioners of revenue, W. S. Runaldue and Cornwell; board of supervisors, J. L. Dawson, ‘chairman; B. Lynn Robert- son, William Crow, McDuff Green. O. C. 'Hutchinson and T. M. Jailer, Robert Jarmon. a flour mill, 2 wood paving block mill, MANAS "HURCH OF . Merchant and Dr. W The dentists are Dr. la | F. Hough and Dr. V. V. Gillum and the veterinary Dr._ George Locke. The druggists are Drs. W. Fred Dowells C. R C. Johnson and George B. Cncke. The principal merchants of the town are Hibbs & Gidains, clothiers: Hyn- son's department store, H. D. Wenrich Co., Jewel Vash & Fisher, hardware . & Co.. grocers: J. L. Bushongz. . Steele. general J. Arringten. grocer: | grocer; Byrd Clothing hley, confecticner . butcher. There are i ages and restaurants 1 {Iden, Dr. W | A. Newman. Erocer : chandise D, | PR \WHEX Tle Star man struck Ma- nassas ihe townspeople were ot talking of the approaching town but of the coming visit of an esman from Georgia and 1 most of the telephone only election, eminent st Washington. © a Dill reading: “Tie Georgia with “John and His Hat Breeziest Lecture. Wil Congressman from Fifth Georgia Town Ha Tonight sion, Adults 50 | cents. | congressman’s picture is bill, and he is shown with his ] hand raised and the first finger pointing to the ceiling. Under the picture is this indorsement. or recommendation, or eujogy: “He is a halo of sunshine, a |dynamo of energy, an avalanche of natural _eloguence”—Dr. Clarence J. Owens, Mg. Director, Southern Com- mercial Congress.” One of the features of Manassas is Eastern College Conservatory —an:i Academy, “with special advantaget in music, art, expression, home ecc nomics and commercial branches; a & institution of high grade and stanc - ing for girls and young women; 1 school of the cultural and practical * It is chartered by Virginia to confcr degrees. The large. fine buildines are set in an extensive park. Tre catalogue of the college emphasizes certain advantages of Washington city in this way: Some one lins said_that it is a liberal edu- cation to live in Washington. While thi may be truc. it 8 also expensive. The students of Bastern hase the advantage of that beautifal city withont the expense of living i there. Thw great libraries, the art gall | the museums aud otier publ {scenes of historic interest in | Capital city offer their students. The great cpera paiiex of tie world come to Washington powsible 1o attend an evening entertainmes hie city and return to the college the same in ev TUnder direction 0f a member of the faculty. inexpensive excursions are made to Mount ¥ . Alexandria, Arimgton. the naval observs navy yard und the Smithsonian I oulings are exten nd may include & id Eaitimore, ‘hesapeake Lay. The catalogue says that “Eastern College is unique among the insti- tutions south of the Polomac as to its courses of study and its govern ment. In its government it is inde- pendent of church and state. but thoroughly Christian and patriotic in its teachings and influence. The college is thus free to do its work without political or ecclesiastical dictation. All denominational faiths and creeds are welcome within its walls. At least eight evangelical de- inominations are represented in the faculty. No one is employed as a teacher who is not a person of up- right Christian character and a liv- ing example of what a Christian citizen should be.” The faculty are: R. H. Holliday. Among the industries are|n " A, president, Furnam Universit of South Carolina. U University ice and ice cream works. a lumber | arsity of Tennessee, University of mill and a stock feed plant. Missour!, education: P. H. Hogan, The names of the important streets|, ‘g Jdean, mathematics; Alsie Crum- are: Center, Main and Battle streets, Grant avenue, Fairview avenue, avenue, Stuart avenue, Brentsville road, Centerville road, Sudley road, Stonewall road and Quarry road. Lee| Nelson,, A. B.. B. O. modern English; Hazel lan guages and classics; Margaret K Gardener, B. S. science; Paul Ver- st, advanced French; P. H. Hogan, A M, rine Hogan, The postmaster is W. W. Davies and | 5" History; Grace Butler. Spanish conducted by Mrs. E. V. Vaughan. Manassas, with a population of about 1,500, has nine churches—Baptist, Rev: T. D. D. Clark. pastor; Church of the Brethren, Rev. E. E. Blough, pastor, and Rev. J. M. Kline, assistant:. Catholic, Rev. Father William Winston; Episco- pal, Rev. A. Stuart Gibson, rector: Lu theran, Re dgar Pence, pastor; Methodist Episcopal South, Rev. Wil liam Stevens; Presbyterian, Rev. A. Jamison, pastor: Primit der T. S. T Brethren, Rev. S. 1. n. Dowrn at the railroad station you will meet some of the busy people of Ma- nassas. The workers there are . H. Clark, station agent; Eweil Evans, ticket agent: A. McMillan, express agent: G. W. Merchant, Ed Hixson and Herbert L. Wetherall, operators; Claud Hixson and Mrs. Louisa Teats, freight clerk: When you take down your telephone recelver in Manassas the girl who says, “Number, please,” will be either Miss Minnie Connor or Mrs. Fleta Simpson. directors of the National of Manassds The National Bank of Manassas and the Peoples’ National. The officers and directors of the National of Manasas are Charles R. McDonald, president; Westwood Hutchison, vice president, and Harry P. Davis, cashier: directors, R. H. Davis, C. E. Nash, E. R. Conno R. A. Hutchison, H. W. Herring, O. C Hutchison, T. H. Lion, B. Lynn Robert- son, Charles R McDonald, George H. Smith, R. S.. Hynson. W. Hutchison, T. O. Latham and O. E. Newman; C. C. Cushing is teller, Mrs. O. J. Davis is bookkeeper and John T. Broaddus is assistant bookkeeper. The resources of this bank on June 30, 1920, were $662,- 407.63. Officers and _directors of the Peoples’ National are William H. Brown, : G. M. Ratcliffe, vice presi- M. M. Ellis, assistant cashier; direc- tors, William H. Brown, G. Raymond Ratcliffe, E, H. Hibbs, A. A. Hooff, Ira E. Cannon, G. M. Ratclifte, C. A. Sinclair, George D. Baker and J. J. Connor. The resources of this bank, February 21, 1921, were $647,328.67. ‘The_health of tho people of Manassas is looked after by the following phy- Dr. 8. 8. Simpson, Dr. B. F. and United ¢|the hotel, the New Prince William, is|{fary’ “Alice. Ramsey. ! In o - | Estelle I- | \isor. social etiquette; Mary Culbert- bookkeeping . 0., shorthand, Verpoest, violin Posthumus, voic Johnson. A. B of music; M Mrs. R. H. Holliday, typewriting: Paul Mme. Germaine culture; Evelyn A. harmony and histo: Arwin Deweese. A. B. piano and ac- companiment; Edna Plonk, expres Margaret S. Gardener. Edna Fort, A. B.. ph Alleyne M. Hamilton, art: Jinkins, dormitory super- economic: culturs son, nurge; William C. Ewing, M. A philosophy and’ education; Clarence W. Power, Ph.D. secretal science: Mary Smith, dietitian; Mary Hatfield, home science, and Louise Thompson. history. * ® ® % BOUT a mile from the town 1e the Manassas | Industrial School for Colored Youth, founded in 1834 by Jennie Dean, a plous and patriotic negro woman, inteiligent and having certain of the elements of greatness. The institution provides graded school, industrial, agricultural and high school classes for negro boys and girls, ang the aims of the school are explained as follo To trair. for girls, who from necessity or enter as carly ag possible into ing_occupation: P Whatever coures, the atm is pot alone » make young men and women eraftsmen. but to make craftsmen better men and womes. Net 10 shine, but rather to excel. A pamphlet issued by the school ys that the founding of the Manas- as Industrial School is_really the life story of Jennie Dean. Her parents W slaves, but of the most intelli- gent class of negroes, her father hav- ing been taught to read and write early in life. He was ambitious, after the war, to own his own farm. but died before he had finished paving for it. Jennie Dean, thén a younk irl, left home and went into service in Waéhington, her wages going to pay the balance on the farm, as well as to pay her younger sister's tuition at college. \ . E N