Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1921, Page 73

THE ' SUNDAY ' STAR, . WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 4, 1921—PART 4. ~ T 5% 1 1ddiz \ t—By Sewell Ford|THE RAMBLER CONTINUES HIS STORY OF . county, them ladies. He—he say|on. This time, however, there’s no 50 2 = = = she's coming alons. Sometimes | “Them!" says Ines “Tacky. 'Spe-|they're tho raal things: ola fan'lien, | private fashion display. She doesn't FEW stray ends of the Vans-| | : in sudden spurts. Of course, now [ clally that English girl—old gray |Tich. and all that. Anyway, they got|appear in a new hat or sport a new ville and Ammendale stories ALKS With the Oldest Settlers of the | and then, she skids. ;v;"enler. old gray skirt and shoes swell sport clothes. 1 wish—" shirt waist. are to be gathered together ! |buried by the side © & man. No.hat, either; just old, I couldn’t stop to hear the finish of | ;.27 1 asked her. r is it & trous- » Saving 'em up r the holidays. . H For one item, she's annexed a new | b, - a u and a few promises kept be- ; Nei e 0 | |Some church histork fiubon around her hair. Such a strad- | her wish as 1 had to make a dash for | yaau you're collecting fore the Rambler passes into other ter- €& ghborhood No Record of Some Old to tell when the firs admirer—Mr. “Buggs” Bundy, sport|dle, too! That other girl ain't so!Greenwich Village where at $:47 I'm | ®®%! Calt” “You' " ok . . | | g Sriter for an evening mewspaper, |bad. Kinda & nice lookin', but her |due to. KD ot an the stame an The| YOU WAlt.” says Inez. “Toull see | iory” On the top of the hul which| | Names—Visit to Site of an Ancient Church. | |"HL kimbel ML et intorma. is the site of Vansville, twelve miles Il = A8 dress ain’t suchqa-much. Just plain| Flapper. But I could guess. In spite ost likely you've scen the name | brown. But say, them ladies that| of her 180 pounds, her Swedish Barf Sl b e the top of his column, even if YOUirun around after ‘em! Swell | entage and- her Minnesota accent, Inez | Torth oy, east trom Washington. > haven't read his stuff. Great little| “I see,” says I. “The lady golf nuts|would like to mingle with the Van | were told there is a row of storm-| man, Mr. Bundy. He'd bo the last to|in the gallery wore the fancy cos- | Pelis and Kensallacrs and be taken, broken locust trees and that at the g ¥ umes, while the ones who e | for the real thing: just for an hour 2 7 - deny it. Not that he's a self-an-| 2L, NILS (I8, OQRS COi0 0 busic | or so, anyway. She's seen acts 11k x:::u of those trees is a line of graves.| nouncer or any thing like that; but|ness. But I don't quite see how the|that pulled in the movies and she be ree of them are marked by stones. | One is marked by a stone on which is | set down in the rudest carving that W. | g D. Walker departed this life in 1834. you can tell by the way he carries his | spectators could be flossed up so|lieves it can be done. On_another is carved “C. A. Walker” | NEZ may act like a sleep walker, “That's it, eh?” says I. “The lady champs were spiffy dressers, were "} jchurchyard was used for burials fter the removal o » church be- f their fathers. 1 might be able St. Mary's was ‘ Searching for Names of Slaveholders—Free ! [t obiain "5 Yo e ho casy 15 is for an old church site to be forgot. Negroes Who Owned Slaves at One Time in | | Vanseiiis may hom a rinnpanes it 1 hoMd a clue, but no in- formation as to who these Walkers Mary]and_ 8 were Ix to be bad at Vansville. They 'n important people in that region, but now, a few years after, even the mory of them iy gone. Ko it is’ head. and the swing of his shoulders, [much if they had to go galloping 1 was wondering if she hadn't that he seldom thinks harghly of him- * ¥ self. Sort of a friend of Barry Platt's, 4 : On another s carved “c. A Walkér, i . : IRk v - - and other facts, no do e dato N AEving To et trase ot Someuy you know. Anyway, it was Barry . 4 death and the age or date of birth, but! i Vg 10 get ‘race of ‘somebodl; towed him around to the apartment - % time has so marred the figures or let- by the name of Van or W. D. for one of our rinktumiddy Sunday : : ; | ters that the Tumbler could not make | Walker or C. A. Walker in Prince them out. East of the line of trees Georges county the F mbler turned night suppers. . EPY, ¢ ] ¢ ' ks i 2 and gravestones is a large plot of | | SroTare the best:thing il{!";:f',f:;t":: p ) £ A1 B H level ground covered with old thick | ¥l to the first census. that of 1790. In T oA o 4 - A i & i v % sod on’ which a cow was grazing an % 2 1777 4! scarching that list an idea came frisky as it sounds. You start it by i o ; 3 I o o vers 1l aly musy icowe Ay Rl soarching thac 1 idea came to frying onions, but then you put in ; J{ Bk horses ‘have grazed. It is not unrea- ! i ch may be helpful to those cheese and canned tomatoes, and the it ¥ sonable to assume that many graves z | Persons whe are looking for ances- rest is a Wels ;;bbn_ ""1" u;)lsl _ =5 5 3 1 were dug and filled in that land,] . i o . . j tors. He began 1o jot down the names Ee&rfi ':,‘:;:rr\"o;" tr;:fixé::. o S P though there is no surface trace of I iy ¥ 4 i 1 | of all those persons who were slave Sty o & - . 3 them. b 1 BODE ere = whpn'lnez. iumns u; b“fl]? it, ilnet::nslf X % ! 8 ! I The oldest two settlers in the vil- i s % ‘h'fldfl'x at that time. It was not that all-over - blue and . white, checka k g lage of Vansville, or at least those 3 A . y | be thought the slaveholders were apron, with her sleeves rolled up and i R " itwo who have lived at Vansville longer ! L ¥ g { more deserving of mention in these the rose leaf pink playing tag around . ety onger f : her cheek dimples and the candle f 3 IR habitente . Sand Mre Deiny FA. | iy | chronicies than those who were not HEht tonchin D e it gloes s = 3 4/ 3 Vail—told _the Rambler that g 3 slaveholders, but it was not practi- hair, she's not at all diicu Episcopal church stond on that spot 4 i - : [ cable to reprint in the ries the 2 long, long time ago. It m ve " { names of all the heads of family in P | been many years ago as we measure i 2 L T Prine [time in w section where white settie- | S8 3 ¥ A X e Georges in 1790, ie though! \I]L “BUG * BUNDY secemed to = 11 for her without a struggle. 4 |m:;u gue;a I‘nlu.-k :nlfi' about 25 a - PR i 7 . Y it mxgmrn.-I practicable to reprint the o: -pop eyes of : - ; 3 3 Mr. and Mrs. Vail came to iive at !} - : - names of the slaveholders. But even Those near pop ayes;obhils never Jete STt {Vansville in 1875 and they had k gt / x i this list grew 10 be {00 Jong because her during the entire performance, i I story from some folk who at thati k2 : : [ Of the large number of persons who and it was only when a well filled time were old dwellers in the hamict. | MR Lo : g [ | 110 one. (wo. three. four or five ate was pus! i t here is no other information of that ; v 3 sluves, 50 he Concludéd fo copy the Dlate was prshed batora himi ekl vanisned and’ apparently forgotten : ! ¥ s names of those Wwho heldsen or more RARE decp-chested 2 = 13 urch te be had in the neighborhood. : 5 slaves. This list grew to such & party, with. @ sesen el - e C 4 and no information concerning that 2 a8 g length that the Rambler copied only band. rather curly front hair that's | 5 - ~ \ j church has come to the Rambler from | 7 4 i he names beginuing with the letters beginning to get thin, and al ® ettt 3 8 any source. | i p A, B and C. with the thought that if v " The Rambler finds it hard to believe | FRH i 2 P = there should be u sufficient number f o ers. : N e h i that it was an Episcopal church that | F 3 : & . BB of requests for printing the remai Secording th Burcy & £0ad deal of & - & - | stooa there. Tt is possible that it was | ; G {ing names he would supply them from tightwad. But before the evening p ¢ 2y S N ithe site of a Catholic church. It is i : time to time in the course of Lhe was over he'd forced two cigars on b * . - 3 possible that some church, not Cath- | X A - ambles. Barry and had made a date to take ;3 " e olic, stood there. It smacks of ln-; ¥ % g% And the following are the names Tnez to some sporting event the fol- | H | difference or inefficicncy that a sup- - y wvhich he cop: from the first census lowing Tuesda 1 didn’t quite catch P ! posed historian or chronicler would | i i 2 3 John Cole ddizon, 24 slaves; v 3 Zo through a bit of territory close to | e 7 7 chard Adam Thomas Graftc at sort of sport it was, and I found 4 idea : A Washington and not be able to un-| | Addison, Addison, 68 3 |Jacob Aldridge ton Allen, fold the story of & church, the site of | that Inez hadn’t the vaguest when T asked her for details later on. | £ ; p s |7a but she'd grabbed off the invite like 3’ L B St which is indicated by graves of sol . z 2% | Walter Addison, 20: John Addison, a shortstop gathering in a pop fly. late a date as 1834, but I assure you | [ s % {John Aston. 83: Fielder Bowie, “It it a prize fight or & chess tour- that so far 1 have done my best to | g 4 ; 2 bert Bowie, 12; Priscilla Boone, 1 nament?" I asked her. ) s iat . ; -8 fill_in this historic blank, or rather | : - 3 i Sdward Botler, 12: Allen Bowi dunno.” says Inez. “He's a nice | sty ; g 7 to fill in this blank in history. | ler. “1%: John Smi feller. ¢h? s ibarae 1 : 7 Sy i o & ; : ! 40; Thomas Brooke. 10: Trn e’ didn’t argue the point, and Y ¢ e 2t T | B Booman, 1 It o, wasn't so curious but that I could E “ s s AND FINALLY GETTING CLEAR| (pypRAL years ago the Rambler 3 4 3 ;' Colman Beans, g T wait calmly for a full report of the i OF 'EM ALL AND MAKING THAT | 14 the story of the Episcopul! 3 ¥ Elisha Berry, 25; Mary affair. I got it at dinner Tuesday GRAND RUN THAT FINISHED ONLY |, oF Slersinaivn it ; ; Brooke, lizabeth Prooke (of night, for it seems this was an out 3 AR HE'D SLID OVER THE |C/Wreh at Beltsville—St. John 5 SN g - 4 Len), 11; William Bowie, jr., 43: Mary door,” daylight event. Mr. Bundy 3 & 5 o {was built in 1857, destroyed by fire in | f£0e - - ; | Brooke it b e having called for Inez woon and | HIS FACE {1860 (my ola carbon copy of the story | !Brookes, 17; Dir. John F. Bowie. 30; Sarah Brooke (or Den), 13; William en her along with some friends of | his who had @ car. And I dom't re-|around the way you is faded.and the date seems to be| e | Bowie William Sprigg Bow e, 1860 or 1566) rebuilt in 1563, de- |8 H i pab 3 m Bowie, 10: John L. ay they did.|queered herself with Mr. “Bugs TI've got a lot of patience® about member ever having seen Inez quite|Regular tea party regalias, were|Bundy by getting in the way so con- | things lik at wait it 20 thrilled as when she blew in about | thev>” PR POy Ny ReCE An e e et he | g M i D Aved ont | ey by somman a87¢ and webulit ) o e : e Roberi Baden, 1 clock. o “Clothes | Seems to hold no grudge ag Inez had any new clothes I'd have a |in 1877. These dates in the life- : : 10; Jonathan Burch. Ok e i _“No, no!” protested Inez. “Clothes t u nez had a X h 1 5 n th ’ 4 - : 5 = s Say, Trilby Mav." she announces.\iayou aomt see anywhere. Yes|for that | Tnstead of ‘dropping her view of em preity soon. Of course. {gtors_of the church are inserivea on 2 ; . well Broo Ann Blacklock favbe T would it I'd heard any-|m¢ and Annette sce soma once in show | grdl S 'G0 G0 MO P SR a0 | thiar, T ery near missed out, at @he "corner stone or on one of the| John Bea S Aertius Hoone one urging me to go.” says I “What | \indow. and we laff and laff, I must|po.”of chocolates, Saturday special You see we had to beat our regular | hurch walls The Rambler does ot SHRINE AT AMMENDALE CATHOLIC CHURCH. - ¥ Boone, m Botler. Was the nature of tho entertainment | Y€l her T saw e v cohe ! sale, and announces that he has four | daily schedule quite a bit to get|1emember here he Eot thossidatent 1120 Margaret Brook trick —bullfight or what? : M e eats for the big foot ball game down through breakfast and make a 9:30 10Ut hie dogg remember that he copitd i | Beall, 15. William Bes T b 1 —what you think, Trilby May?| 5645 for the big foot b Lrain Gt the Penmsylvania Station that j them from an “inscription on thecopal church on Vansville hill within' hood until 1870. The site of a church | William Bak y. 1 " “When aid | gan-hoht o Uncle Nels won't hear) | “wiow about it. Trilby May™ says| Saturday morning of the ame. At jchurch. The land for this church “"Q}' a mile of the present site of St. Jo may be almost forgotten, or forgotten & i ,““,fl'i‘(';_"i" get to be such an enthusiastic|®onts Jhe. “You and Barry and Inez and | least I did, for I had to rustle my own | Elven in 1836 or 1857 by John Wi ille -ration or so before | in its neizhborhood, L Cont: i £ maniac? I didn’t know you'd| Inez whispers the last word, her|me, eh” {eggs and coffee from the gas stove. | Brown. who in the early part of the < was buill. But it may be so. | recalls what follows . h _ 5 Getrah : Mary eyes bulged. “What?' says I. t]" T sald I'd love it if T could get back | Aunette, it seems, was busy helping | Dineteenth century drove a stag.- Conidtar 1of \St: Tohn'a' ase ichirch b & . Mary's— ; Wil o suys - nickers, without skirts? tin time. he is sure I can. “And | Inez get ready. What all-the squeal- |coach on the Washington and Balti-, s 0] fe | stands in the valley of "Benj Fglicie) e : Uhehu-h!" says I nez. and draws her | there's no doubt ahout Inez.” 1 adds.|ing and tittering that came from her |More turnpike. being then in the em- of some of the old Eple-latands In the Salley, of Benjamin Belt, < Jobm forgetr says she, “Coupla|fingers across. her throat dramatic.|“Her sporting blood is showing late about 1 dian't even try toploy of the stage iine operated bLyicopallans of & that = aeighbortwod) U0 M, L0¢ MBS Seen Brow: N n Rovd, champs. One was English| “Three—four pafr. They don’t look | but it's al Eh, Inez? 2 taken Barry’s hint and | Stockton & Stokes. Brown ran thejfmons thep ave (OS¢ G0 5O, s Traveling on_one of o William Dent B Tobs & |50 bad. Honmest! Nobody notices or] | S| 7 opening her | w ng for an afternoon of | Rossburg Hotel. at which Lafaye .26 Fverling B Be1t. born | from Oxon Hill to Piscataway several! Beall (sheriff). 11; P Bionn “Oh, yes!" says L “I remember|makes fun. Except some boys andjgray Iporching on the breezy ~wooden and his suite stopped over night ; i ied December 15, years ago, the Rambler heard of HIGATOr B aatort. 20 eaiown. now. Miss Leiteh and that Atlanta| they got chased of.. Coats and pants 1stands, " putting * on heavy woolen |their way from Baltimore to Wi ; 504 alian Chapel Hill Why Chavel hill23 out David, oriehial Brovrte e s r—Alexa Something. An exhibi-|and Wool socks, just like the men. s | socks and—well. other things. So|ington in the fall of 1824, and then 1 i port in, 1804 | called Chagel Mtk Why Claps our David. original proprictor of part fion mateh for charity. I read an|You could hardly tell 'em apart.” SO we planned to take an early when Uncle Nels calls in that the|for mun ars condueted the Whi NnEales: It Jane | venerable colored people living At Thonis Bomiin o neton) jtem telling of it. Must have been| “Well. well!” says L “I heard they Jug our luncheon along.!taxi is waiting all T had time for was | House Tavern on the pike about a b o o o hat a church once stood there. F ohin Magrter 3 e I oo | were coming in, but I didn't know e o day of it First off Tnes|to throw on my long coat with the |mile southwest of Beltsville. 06 mnd ied i 1867 | 18K S e Nrc e e fise atls & |omD AlasTuderTE i ssiehiz s W 5 | they'd quite arrived. But how about B day | fur collar and beat it after Inez. |"'The Rossburg Hotel is still stand- Charles =86, -8, N, boro | IR ghe glace. which fies auite & rry, 4%: Hu A dunno, = fol | the others?” seems to have rather a sketchy idea| She had on her real fur coaf, you |ing being part of the plant mber Cand disd Ociober 3. | distance back from any public roud. | Nicholus Blackiock. S Lt e | ez ot such a vivid describer,| Of WhAt iUs all about. “Just some Wight Know; 4 birthday present’trom | Maryland Agricuitural Collcge Join Esersifld, bory Augst13] | and in a BIL of woods were many tomb gese, 23 William Herry, 13 u s and s 3 i st e Uncle ut ins = <, and the Guse Tav- | 1740, and dicd Devember 18 s n s Burges el Bra "t %now the nal result? What | but she dld her best. I got the iea|fcllers Kickin' a foot bal around™ | LRUI Reln U thaiead Of the furo i lewe Park. aut (o WEUS (00, relict of John Eversfield, born | members of old - 12 Noble Baynes, 85; Lloyd Belt, i ‘The Rambler | Ma 1796, January 21, southern Maryland. i S Bowling,” 17; Jokeph Boarn was it like, anywa; {that some of the mew. sport skirts|she asks after Mr. Bundy hasgone.iwith it she haf t R ) ¥ ha e had topped her mop of | career as a road house. 3 rote Inez_shrugs her shoulders. “Oh.|were of such hectic color schemesi - if you want to put it that|light hair with a zippy tam of Huffy | patieves that it is still being run as a i e files, the Rambler find he wrote Dr. David ¢ kinda foolish,” says she. “Them twolthat they'd have & patch-work quilt|way” ‘says 1. “But incideutally ‘polo eloth. It has a jade buckle on|road house, but he is not sure. not 68: | what follows about the site of thatjzg; S 3; gets up and hits out little white | looking like a nun's work dress. there’ll be fifty or sixty thousand|one side and is quite rakish. ihaving passed that way for some || 4, - 23, | chureh: : Mary Cranfor balls and then we all runs to see 'em; “Pinks and blues and yellow people mathered around to watch.| “Some speed to that lid, I'll Titime and only having seen the old and died Sept 2 3 .| If the wayf: Richard Alexander Con- do it again. When they hit 'em out|says Inez. “and some with all colors.| Didn't yon ever read about those col 4 i 4 AP Mtavus Eversfield, born.N )t Washitgton and o the . 23; Sarah Coverton. 50: Thomes fong ways evorybody 5ays ‘AR-hh® | Sueh short ones, 100 And a lot With | lage. foot bt Eamens “Mands i tte.” she i ays | NI (o e bursing ground| v mber 4. 1830, i d1ed Jumuary 20 e will crosx Hensons bra “onte. Walter Brooke: Con 13 And when one ball goes in sand hole lonly fringe below the knee. One!cheering sections shouting themselv - “You don't like?" < close by the track of the electric 190x: Mary A. Armiger, born August itk A ;i Thomus Clagett (merchant), 4 everybody says ‘Too bad! Then onelike it had been made of a horse hoarse, and about the classiest crowd Sure T do.” says 1 “It's a knock- |15, 105e BY T G mile east of the |11, 1530, and died December 16, 1806: | 1 famlat g - | Clarkson, rland Callis =irl whacks it out of sand and every- | blanket, another like old shawl. you ever ¢ collected anywhere. |out. What Jou got on with it—the | \op e ‘House Tavern Among the ! Jo 2 born April 1804, and | ward for about two miles in the direct! | Casey. 17: John Contec body claps their hands. After while | Funny hats, too. Just ¢loth wobbed Why that little bunch you got|uew tailored sui betonea is one inscribed “In Mem 1887; Sarah, his | | the seitiement of Piscataway. his way will | Calvert, Overton Carr, 2 they push it into little hole in the|around and maybe a feather or a|so ex 1 over at the golf mateh| “That ain't for sports,” says Inez. ;lOMPRIQuCs 15 born April 22 < - T2, 1812, and died J lend Tim past & hit of undersrowtl and taller | Richard Cates, 25; Margaret [ THow toolish! 799; died June 28, 1862 Brown wa : : Simme, born in | LAt known to the dwellers thereabout st} ford, 12; Alexander Crauford, 10; Da We might have continued the de- | 4 e IS ks ; el Clarke, 12: . D DN 1 not the proprietor of the Rossburg i died in 13877 dtoh Chapel Hill, In an acre where the junder iiel Clarke, 12; Ann Clarke, 19: Joseph A our, (elld taxlo dHlveryhadhit lifote] fat The me of Lafayette's visit, | born in 1824 and died in 1903; Jam here pine trees are row White Clagett, 26; Capt. Joseph Crogs, e e R st 921 {but at an earlier time. The name of | Simms, born in 1835 und died in 1593; ! frame ‘meet Srulivd e 9; John Cro; hard Crampher, e ate or s Iatar wa'Yile Bt | the proprietor at the time Lafayette| Rev. H. I Guapel, in whic, % - pumber of ey X aniel Carr, of 1 {at the station, are met by Barry and |came was Ross. Brown kept the White | 1820, und d e “oider ones sunken and | G parles Clagett, 20; Nathaniel Cr: Bugs” Bundy., and make a dash for | House Tavern from JAZ0 until his|beth N. King. bern S smbe I neglacted.stiie new ford, Thomas Clarkson, 1 the foot ball special. ldeath in 1862, and his widow con-!and died January ; s B, | pratel and Tellow o 3 ‘e, 13; Thoimas Clarke, 25: Freder- { Moutly after that it was dash and | tinued the management of the place!Beall. born Nove and | Withered, shronten fio ick Clarke, 11; Henry Trueman Cump frush. About all 1 saw of Princeton |until several years after the close of ! died August E ife of the place ;lo‘«-‘n- A h ton. 12; Richard Clagett, 18, and i Was a row of fakirs selling the win- |the civil war. Brown owned 1.750] Thumas B. Be 23, | hectuse of this « 2| Hanah Clagett. 10. | ning "colors, with here and there a |acres of land around the tavern. and | 181 ard died Febr : Lvely new, as phern Marsiand churches £ | * One of the many interesting things | sandwich peddler or a hot dog mer- {scores of the pretty villas, the homes | Rued, 1524-1857: Ro 520- | hrorpect. resches far back fh tim {which the Rambler ran against in chant. You know how those foot ball|of Washington commuters, have been 1890: John Colga Paws hrough the newer churchyard and | the old census lists was of nexro { { who owned slaves. Of course, this {crowds are. We had our luncheon s . jon the steps of one of the college " , T 3 = < B no discovery. It is pretty well known buildings and by 1:30 we were oL ar vl 2 5 g f 4 jthat negroes were siave owners, jammed into a long procession that . = - A ' i J P | though such a situation was by no S 5 : S ] : lmvnns common. But in the censuxs was pouring through the gates at the 3 c foot ball field. But they're great on| st of Charles county he jotted down | system, those college boys. Hnrdlyi this: ding, free negro, | took us five minutes to find our sec- urtis, free negro, tion and zet settled in the broper | gtie ‘alave: . Wheatley, free spaces. Then we watched the negro. three ves.” | stands fill up. .. 1 have overstayed my time on these © Ign't this a sleht worth seeing? Pages and must close. T intended in asked Inez. n't 1 tell you this{ nble” to spend some time ;wuull.x be a ‘regulu;i crowd? And look £ < i 5 v i 1::‘,!!;: ;f"("'g}"' f’rm 1»1“.\,':.’“ ndale at that color! Ever see so many i x 3 . ¢ /. 3 E e grounds of the Christiax gorgeous fur wraps or such a dis | 5 . Brothers at Ammendale, and then to play of high-class milinery anywhere i move on the_historic Muirkirk iron I hefore? Say, youd think all the : 4 furnace and the iron mines and char- pretty girls in the country had been : e . 3 v . . . coal kilns appurtenant to that in- collected. Haven't forgoften to put : L e R b 3 ieresting place. but with your in- th est frocks, either, ve! dulgence—t is, if you don't weary ot ek * —1 will write of those places in du time. AN e Py “ * %k %k * i E {RUT Inez hasn't a word to say. z SRR \ She's taking everything in, even C\lflo“! Staxrcase. i stretching her neck anxious to watch {the newcomers, but she has lapsed linto one of her dumb moods. So T !let her lapse. Later T heard ‘Bugs"™ fl‘»uml)' pointing out celebrities to her jwithout getting a response. Next he /ERY unique is the spiral conerete staircase in the tower of | Southwest Museum, at Los Angeles, Cal. Similar staircases are to be found elsewhere, as in the tower of ketched out rather cleverly how the St. Paul's and the tower of the cathe- game was plaved, abgul h: k:‘ck;]ollfr,l dral in the City of Mexico, but they and the quarters, and what the dif- 5 : e aan = A ferent plavers were called. Still Inez “ 3 : M 2 e : el foefors ”“’I D oL Convern, had no questions to ask, no com- v 2 . 2 : . i hen viewed from above, it bears a ments to make. All she seemed to 3 close resemblance to the shell of a want to do was to rubber eager about W i £ S 3 3 ¢ £ R | P the stands. Appéhred to be sizing up s g s 4 \ s e A & " 0 the female spectators. And some-| B : 1] It is, for its purpose, an improy how she kept getting glummer and § 1 ment over Sir Christopher Wren s’l%r)l:mel;-l I e B el " Y i g 3 | { masterpiece—the spiral stairway a X from the cheering sections as one of i W | cending the interfor wall in the tower the teams came trotting on for prac- H 5 of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The AYS 1. “YOU FOLLOW-|tice. After that I didn't bother Ebodt , : Southwest Museum helical staircass pe s £ " | seeing how Inez was getting on. This ; e . bullt insid 1l in t - ING AROUND WITH A SPORTING | (o0." JOR P, 90 e "ana T was ? 1s bullt insids a well in_the center WRITER AND DON'T KNOW THI . pRELSInbhpt only Wresary b ) S E | getting_a lot of dope on it from 2 - e ing for shelves or mounted objects FINAL RESULT? WHAT WAS IT |Barry Platt. He was pointing out SITE OF THE VANSVILLE CHURCH. | e a0 i R pace ot AN LIKE, ANYWAY ;‘Y:;:d tnmol;s qu;;tlir.:a‘n::s.ab;xfl 1}2: | Xowre but .}:nud-aulnulymx on its own coaches, e : 1 " ¢ fras, brambles, | exterior wall additional space which Diays ‘and forward passes and off-|set on this land. Brown also bought|Annic Elizabeth Curtis, wife of John |plunse fate & Jupele of sawafis branbics | L0000 W, 00ea for museam pur- could be dropped into. that mob with- | 8ide penalties, and telling how hot{an ancient mill and millseat at Belts- Colgate Parker, 18 H | Glent "road, partly upgrown. whic will help | poses. out being noticed any more tha e Boairy was between the twoville, previously known as Van Horn's | daughter of Joseph and Flizabeth L., "ot hav "Look sarmis iz, ahe shudes | "“THE tower containing the stairway pinch of salt in a pail of an 2| tewms. o when_ ons banch lined up {yaili; but which for nearly a century [Jones, 1826-1884; Joseph L Jones. borm | of'the deep fhicket and you will see & row of | 15 even storics In height, with thres i 1 et 8 | nd the others formed for the first|nas been called Brown's mill. The | February, 1778, and died March 31.|brown gravetoues, originalls set wertically, o storlss o hetght: s a Teal sporting event, Inez, a o e ] T %t 1s one of | 1854, and Luther D. Jones, born July |and fwo or three of them still retaining thai | Mezzanine balconics in the three up- classic. kiok-off I was fairly ‘Well posted. 'And | walls are standing. an 7 [mmm, Tven these sre cracked and some | per stories, giving the equivalent of ime died June 25, 1888. Inez indulges in a sudden smile and | I was all primed to root for the side|the landmarks of Beltsville. 11, 1810, and § parts of them have fallen away. ten stories. The tower is thirty-five “I'm Wi v everal years Descendants of many of these good A d brightens up amazingly. glad | Barry was betting on. In a Beltsville story of several y onle are living In Prince Georges| Among the names on these stones :eew:“:qgg;:;"n:"q n:; ‘;1:,:::{&‘:“:,],! y . “Annette! I must| Nothing much seemed to happen, ago, the Rambler wrote: n 2 < b tell Annett, though, in the first quarter. There| Betore the building of the Episcopal Church | COUNty and some of therm in the Belts: {were Aun Marls Humphres, who died | (8™ hicic, reinforced with T aidn't guite get the connection.|was & lot of action down there In the | s Sejwerillc 1a 1657 the Episcopsiians of that| ville nelghborhood, but they seem not | August 28, 1805; Mary b, Humphrey, | sieel. 1t rests on’ a solid concrete Of course, Inez and our near-French | fleld, and mow and then a roar of | neighborhood worshipped at Paint Branch|to have heard that an WBPICOPEl)who =died dune 1% L8300 JHCRATG | slab or raft three feet six inches maid from Montreal are more or less | cheers, but the ball didn’t get very |Chapel, a-liftle frame structure with which|church stood on the Vansville Humphrey, who died October 25, 1811; | 50, T 1ett Shrel SAOH S, nOtes = chummy, but why she had o be told | near éither goal, and I understood | the mames of seversl distinguished SerEyues | 1834 or earlier. If there was 2 chureh | Maria’ Humphrey. his wife, who died | ung the weight. fs 1000 tons. The lawn and you must clap some mormlbuckle. And them stocki Plaids | S0 promptly that we were going to a | there was no scoring. fi':thl: IS0 o0 bout two. miles northwest | 2 Vunm;:)l]le at t;m('i tsi:,nne“ lrg:o!rd Dg é;fl{ :& '“9‘181?‘.';% Humpgreéaev;;ho construction was carried on continu- They do that over and over, and we | and checkerboards. Thick wool!” {.fir}’g‘fifih“fi'&'f"“etrfm"i. lne; 'The second period opened different. | 11 beicaric and the woods which grew around :fim';')f:cofi. A I e D AT O ously, a story being poured at & time. all run around through fields, over| “Rather a change from the cobweb e kitchen, though, and | Somebody muffed a pass, according ¢o |t iiffle piace of worskip are stil called Paint | othar account of M., 0 | oy riottan | Wies. died: Februaey Ti 151, and 4| jphe Staircase weil i nine fest two h 2|1 could hear them chatting lively, uad of players went | Chapel woods. ] Rilis, past woods. I get lost from Mr. |silk hose you'see on bith avenue: |l (0W T OO0 O, Qatizd Urew Barry, a fving sanal of B oy ail Ninds | 1875, when 1t was tora down and rebuilt at| Brothers' Novitiate and Normal School, | number of others. eI ey S e ) e 1 Bundy, and sit down on rock, and ' says I.. “A bit more sensible, I should iriand, in Mon! county, on the Co- i those grounds about &| The Rambler assumed that thi Oy u K I L e L R |4 e R T L Ty R e ol ok ite g v t of the lik L e o L R L e T was bullt in the 70' It|miles further south, and which dates | s oaalt snels mocsented by & verth: golf course?” or leas myst; ? ] 2 . y afternoon they slipped that don't_take no notice. my| “Canes” says Ines. “Lotta ladies) y¢“(ogether and finally packages %3; next: hing I knew “Rarty -yellsd; in Al ttands within the lines of the farm |from 1820, had previously stood on| eai vieel “With ene. exception it 1% feet burt me But then Mr Bundy| carried ‘em. -And whole piles smoked {gan to arrive by delivery boys. I R “mon. Wheiher: he LONG time after the Rambler|which Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen|Chapel Hiil. He thinks that he cone| ine only helical staircuse in America come and tell me I must get behind | cigarettes™ . course I knew they were on another o | bought in 1870, The admiral and his|firmed that assumption, for in that| haw o vhiz-z- N he open, made it or not I can’t say, but every- wrote that Beltsvillestory he took ugl n . v , for at| having a hollow center, the other one free, and Whizzz comes o Al nalaround I doubted. o e Ohesed | shopping orgle, You remember maybe | body around me got Up and Waved|up tne subject of Paint Branch Chapel, | {amily ationded, that church, and V. 13 old story IC WrOLS L L g, | PEINE an anclent sione stalrcase e h‘“’l he Tie u“ ?x:m ‘I‘?:«' Peut Bu‘::fi‘;' or s ’.'L'.?cn.“%,;’ k;d g:f:;,:“"‘lolded his street udfl;ln; G m‘:: e ;:T:n;:efl:dam: ‘on ‘the shoul. | relocated its site in Chapel woods, in| gite and was a substantial contributor |is the farmhouse of the man who|of Mexico. The Atairway conains 160 ple they mig ety TNer o Bt in clubhouse,” Aln't so|Drise O & syn%“l&l‘“ = C:"l':" ders folksy, and before I realized|the Paint branch country, and photo-|to the building fund and to the main-|now owns the land on which these | steps - with seven-and-a-half - inch it's all kinda foolis L) s up quite a wad. Well, part of that| yya¢ I was doing I was yelling, to0.| graphed the church at its present aite | tenance of the church. old tombstones stand, or lie. ~His| rise each, and was built around a gal- “Then why all the excitement, |bad 2 Inez had jollied out of him. I don't e e thINE 10 Catoh: PR name Is Cornelius, or “Neely,” Galla- | vanizéd iron form in the shape of & Tnes? says L R e s e oo | L N e O e e “Bven: Inei holsted herself up|at Fairland. He told of the creation CGH Cutholte. shurches were | DA, Chapel Hill was the-site of St | pipe. while wooden forms were placed pick up all the bad habits of & lot of |on me. But then, he's her uncle, and | and began looking interested. of Paint Branch Chapel as & chapel of | rJ"HO Cathollc hes Mary's Church, the first Catholic| for the stairs. Material was prepared TOUTEE Stint ahe brightens up again. woman _goifers just because |besides, I haven't such expensive| Well, from then on it got. to be a|st. Paul's, or Rock Creek Church. In often far apart in Prince Georges | Church In Plscataway parish. It was|at a special rock crushing and sand ! “Oh, you shouldda seen!” says|you happen to be among those pres- tastes Inez has. regula’ game. There were a few |all that work he found nothis to | county, it is mot likely that there was|remov: m this place to the vil-{ plant located about one mile from the suggest that there.aad been. an Epis-ino:Catholic-church in that-neighbor- lage of Piscataway in 1820. The old ding, in a dry river bed. ‘Such swell clothesl” 'ent for.the afternoon.” Usually, though, she -springs her #he.