Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 25

PLAN TREE NURSERY . IN ANACOSTIA PARK Bill Devoting Part of Reservation ' to Use Favored by Senate Subcommittee. DEPUTY CORONER PROPOSED Substituting Electrocution Hanging in D. C. Approved. A subcommittes of the Senate ju- diciary committee yesterday decided to report favorably to the full committee 2 Dbl authorizing the cstablishment ©f a tree nursery in u portion of Anacostia Park. The subcommittee authorized @ favorable report on a bill prov@ding fLor a deputy coroner in the District. A third bill on which favorable re- ort w ordered s that introduced by Senator Dial of South Carolina Gubstituting clectrocuting for hang- ing in cases of capital punishment fn the Dist Three Measures Poxtponed. Action on three measures before the eubcommittee was postponed, One a Dbill introduced bv Senator Fletcher providing for the bonding of operators of motor vehicles to in- e pedestrians against i d recel from the % also ble report es on national in re are wepartments The subcommittea Jast two measures ra Zor that reason must tiie House under the provisi Constitution Rudolph Commissioner Rudolph met w gubcommittee and explained th the enactment of the bills on which fa taken wiil be mmittee on Wednesday ted they will be r Senate by the commit- the held e ue and vas 1 the full « ®nd it is ex yorted to th Tee. FIND BODY ON ROOF. SBuffalo Police Believe Woman Jumped From Apartment Window. BUFFALO, N January 12, body of J er, thir from Newton |-a’l e open w heory of suicid ice today were qu Lippe. in wihose s leased tw partment 31 Years at 935 F St. Diamond VALUES Especially Attractive-and 1.ow Priced For 31 years we have maintained our reputation as Reliable Diamond Merchants. 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UCH interest was aroused by,| —the third under John White and his the uncarthing, a week ago 'twelve assistants—which arived in in Washington, of a leaden | the summer of the following year, plate about the size of an | &8 We have scen. So it was of right license tag, with the | brave, hardy and homorable stock { little Virginia was born that hot August day on a sandy island along | the wind-swept coast of North Caro- lina. She was in the bosom of a 800d and well-to-do family, nelgh- bored by a friendly and wholesome coleny of nirety-one men, seventeen women and nine children. Ten of the women were married and six or seven of the children were with their parent:. M | automobile legend | “Virgin Dare Died Here Captif Powhatun 1580 Charles R" Whether the tablet has any his- {toric value will be determined by the authorities in such matters, to whom, it is said, the slab has been |handed over for thorough itvestiga- tion. The known story of Virginia Dare is one of the briefest in all the vast lume of human history. It runs. follows: “On August 18, 1587, Elenor, daug] ter of the governor and wife 0 Ananias Dare, one of the istants, jwas delivered of a daughter in| Roanoke, and the me was christ- | lened there the Sunday following, and ! {because thls child was the first| Christlan born in Virginia she was ¢ ! | The first noteworthy event which occurred after their landing was the christening of the savage Manteo, one of the two chiefs who had been carried to England, and who had { returned with this expedition, “and.” | | Hakluyt “called lord thereof” | (Rcanoke) and of Dasamonguepeuk “in reward of his faithful services: This took. place on the 13th ofi August, five days before the birth| of Virginia Dare. who was christ-| cned on the following Sunday, they must have observed regular| church services from the start. i It has be i the only named Virginia.” This is absolutely | lall that is certainly known of her {1t was written by her granafather. {Gov. John Whi to Sir Walter igh. who had sent jcharge the colo: w, to have been located on Ch peake bay and | cap town named with this John ! White as governor, and twelve as- ! sistant governors, of whom his son- i v. Ananias Dare, was one. Thus pLefore near being Raleigh instead White, S s the center of the lynanimous vote and ur glish settlement In fthe entire company to hasten back to ! Virginia. il:nghma on a fleet which had hap- Little Virginia's mother was EIy¥o-lpened by that place. It was desirable | ner White, daughter of the governor.|that his employer. Raleigh., should | and presumably married to Ananias|know what had occurred in America | [ Dare at her mative place in England fand that new items, equipments and | Newton in Hylmore, and she had|gupplies should be sent over immedi- arrived a month before Virginia was!ately in order that the colony might vorn. The governor's report of the prosper and remain content. It w hasty settlement Roanoke gives therefore, with bright prospects and [ us some idea of the situation—home 'all mood cheer that he took leave of | | and environment—of the wee girl |his dear grandchild at Roanoke. { born there some three wecks later.! The return voyage was an adven-| | Mer father, being assistant to his|turous one, but “on the 16th of Oc-| | fatlber-in-law. would probably have!tober he a.rived on the Irish coast| been allotted one of the best of the and. coming to England straightway, | quarters in the stockade or fortifi-!made cfforts to carry suecor to .tion, and they wo have been!people. but pever again did he look ! teemed as one of the “first fam- upon the faces of his duughter or his f the place—the beginning, |granddaughter or of any of their com- | might say, of the * .V panion Three years (mpm.]i H Two previous attempts at coloni- before Wh returned { zation in America had failed. But.|and when he came he found | mothivg daunted, Raleigh began atserted and the scitlers gone—w) | once fitting out another expedition’No one wi S0 = remarked t nce of the conferring' of nobility on a native American | and that these were.the first christen ings recorded as having taken pla l“'lllfln the tervito | the thirtcen ¢ Virg this is| of o] of what bee 1 colonies been her grandfather, | born | John | the t prayer of Tor Gov on | { i at to Rouncke, | VIRGINIA DARE |/ {did her life end in tragedy amid the !oi the was enshrouded and will ever remain in mystery pathetic. The dead past will not give up its dead.” Of his return, White says: “The 20th of March, 1590, the three ships! put to sea from Plymouth. . . . The! 15th of August we came to an anchor at Hatteras and saw a great smoke rise in the Isle of Roanoke, near the place where 1 left the colony in the year 1587 The next morning our tyo boats went ashore and we saw another great smoke, but when we came to it we found mo man or sign that any had been there lately. As the colonists had falled to leave certain signs agreed upon before the governor's departure, he had nothing to gulde him In his search and, find- ing the word “Croatoan” on one of the posts of the palisade, he concluded they had gone southward to the coast of that name, where was the home of Manteo, the friendly chieftain. { Raleigh, who had never visited| these shores himself, had failed in his laudable and brave efforts at col- | onization in the new world. And so the curtain fell! And no hand has, with any certainty, Hfted it these 335 years. What became of Virginia | Dare? This pathetic question has| been asked by the heart of the Eng- lish-speaking world ever since her| story, brief as it is, was heard. Did| e die early, while vet at Roanoke, nd does her dust, mingled with the | soll of her birthpl biossom there | into flowers that blush unseen? Did| her little feet join in the wanderings of the settlers? Did she grow tol womanhood in the second home, and ! enshrouds the fate + ¢ A faint echo,| of the lost White omes to us which may huve reference to her, and with it the rec- ord closes forever: “In his first vol- ume of “The History of Travalle’ Williwm Strachey, secretary of the Jamestown colony, writing in 1612, of events that occurred in Virginla in 1608-10, says: ‘At Peccarecommek and Ochanahoen, by the relation of Machamps, the people have houses built with stone walls, and one story above another, taught them by those English who escaped the slaughter at Roanoke, at which time | this, our colony, under the conduct of landed within the bay; where the people tame turkeys about thelr * = and where, Rita- the Weroance Iyanoco pre- d seven of the English altve, | men, two hoys and one YOwng { maid, who escapell the massacre and | fled up the River Chanoke (Chowan). | This young maid may have been Vir- | ginia Dare. who, at the time men- tioned, would lave been about twen- | age. l s It will bo seen darkness which so0 up houses ¢ * * at | L et e~ The Meodern Davenport Bed Combines Luxury and Utility Usher into your living room or library a modern Davenport Bed and you have a magnifi- cent furnishing that not only tractive and comfortable the room where it is placed, but adds another bedroom to vour home. ¢ “All day long it serves as a delightful li furnishing and at night you can convert it into a full size bed in as much would take to walk upstairs. You’ll find here a large assortment. makes at- ving room time as it There's a three-piece Mahogany-finish Cane Panel Suite, with reversible cushions in blue. velour, for $295, including a ;good . velour for $195, with mattress; styles for as low as $69.75. mattress; an Overstuffed Davenport in and other Lifetime FurniturelIs More Than a Name sy ;Sevenfll Stre.e‘t' : : Mayer & : CO. , ‘Be:wuuAD 8 E | that the history of the Raleigh col- onists was known to the people of Jamestown. John Smith mentions scattered parties of these colonists, and the Virginia Company speaks of some of them as “yet alive, within fifty miles of our fort,” and they sent searching parties to find them. But none of these partles was ever able to get into actual touch with them. The Indians, appar- ently, were determined that thelr fate should not become known to the others of thelr countrymen. But we learn that they found crosses * ¢ o and “assured testimonfes of Chris- tians newly cut in the bark of trees.”” But, still, the curtain is un- lfted—tho veil of mystory hangs|her death her spirit down persistently. Naturally, about such a character. tradition has been busy—never in supplying the particulars of Her life one wouid wish 5o much to kuow, but in weaving a gauzy web of romance about her and hers which many have faintly belleved and passed along from generation to generation, even to this day. It is sald that among the natives the mother of Virginia Dare was known, in their figurative and dis- criptive way, as “The White Doe,” and her baby, the first white child they had ever seen, “The White Fawn.” It was also said that after T b fi umed that form, and at times, hung fondly about the place of her birth, and often gazed wistfully over the sea; and that, in that gentie form, she was slain by her lover, & young Indian chief, who had been persuaded that the enchanted arrow he used would thus restore her to him in the flesh he had known and adored. Around such beautiful traditions as these two novels have been writ- ten or woven, and, presumably they have been read by many thousands who fondly sought to trace in them the thrilling and pathetic story of Virginfa Dare. But that story, beautiful or tragic, brief or long, 25 as it may have been, has remalned buried to this day—lost till the Judgment day, when we “shall know as we are known,” and all the mil- lions of dark wmysteries in human history shall be uncovered and made plain. ©0ld Roanoke. \ song of the fair Of Virginia Dare. —_— en-elevenths of the d's popu- lation are north of the equator. The tongue of a seventy-foot whale has been knowp to yield as much ax a ton of ofl. q i This Week at the Lifetime Furniture Store Bedroom Suites of Rare Good Looks Are In Abundance and Most Modestly Priced Single Pi They are some of the best-looking suites you ever laid your eyes on, too—suites of the time Quality”—rich in finish, pleas- ing in taste and built to last your children’s children. Lifetime Furniture is not at all expensive, either. L : €Ces If you need just a single piece or two cor Lifetime and select what for there are lots of looking single pieces always. 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