Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1924, Page 65

Rambler Takes Up an Important Phase of City Development, and Studies the Career of a Citizen \Who Devoted Wealth to the Fastern Branch. Glory of Men of Cantigny, to Which Monument Is Inspiring Tribute, Won by Unsurpassed | Bravery in Ruthless Warfare. | LUCRETIA E. HEMINGTON. : ey 5 gun his final retreat from the Marne, 0. No. 201, A. E X e i e g X a retreat that only the armistice ber 19, 1918: he com- Z o s : . halted. mander-in-chief has noted > e f G & e * % % in this division a special 2 2 . 3 de of service and a high s I state of morale, never broken by hardship nor battle” than which what nobler thing or thing of greater cause for pride could be said of any division? The 1st Division was like the sing- ing horseman that rode at the head | SRE was a run on the word | syndicate” in the District a | \ few years ago. When two | men. got together to buy a T was a magnificent achievement by | farm it was said that a these first sons of America, an |dicate” was being formed, and when imperishable record in the annals of | they got a surveyor to lay off streets victories whose balance is on the side | and lots, the “syndicate operations” of civilization. The ualties of the | were given greater prominence in the 1st Division mounted above 7,000 in | news than base ball. One of the syn- that week of terrific fighting (Grant | dicates of the ecarly 90's was the lost 7,000 in an hour at Cold Harbor | Bliss-Havemeyer syndicate, which in the Wilderness campaign), but|was to make a large section of the of the forces of William the Con- their valor had turned the tide of | Eastern Branch country “the garden queror into the battle of lastings! : £ % war and the end was not far off.{spot of America,” and bring train- tossing a sword skillfully into the air They had served at Cantigny and|loads of millionaires to build villas, to atch it again as it fell to the / Picardy not in vain: they were vet-| chateaus, palaces and castles on the rhythm of his song, * * * .a gay erans in spite of their youth. | majestic ridge at whos; se runs cavalier, a gallant fronting of the enemy, Soissons—it had meant mud and| Minnesota avenue, and along whose 4 first supreme sacrifice of utterly rain, mud up to their waists, tor-|crest runs Alabama avenue. i fearless giving. the vanguard of that . rentlal rains, lack of food and water [ I want to tell you what I know of unnumbered host that Amer] was 5 and sleep, and a deadly shower of g fine and interesting man who prok preparing to send along the hazardous < bullets as they stumbled over sbeli-|ably conceived the plan, had money, trail blazed by the noble 1st Division. broken roads and dead comrades;|became poor, lived in Overlook Inn It was not that their courage and but in the end, against the horrors|until it became unfit for habitation, daring excelled that of other d of Missy-aux-Bois Ravine, of Breuil | moved into humble lodgings in Wash- =ions; rather, it was that they were and of the Plateau of Buzancy, and | ington and died not long ago. His the exponent of our fighting power, 2 in spite of battalions being led by |name? Archibald M. Eliss .h. criterion, as it were, of the con- 4 sergeants because ull officers were The death certificate of this man, tribution America was making to the either killed or wounded, or of bat-| which I saw in the records of the fighting strength of the allies. Just 4 3 talions being almost annihilated, @ | Health Department, shows that he Aas at Thermopylae little band of i & g magnificent victory was wrested from | died March 19, 19; K street trained, indomitable Spartans, a mere the foe, who stubbornly resisted every | northeast, at the age of 87 vears, 1 handful of Greeks, in their valiant step of the allied advanc, { month and 25 days. The certificate is stand against the hosts of Persia, re- 1 g The laurels won by the ist Division | marked that he was four years sick Vealed to the Orientals and to the A at Soissons arp imperishable. and|and that he dicd of arterio-sclerosis Cireeks the temper of th steel that B Soisso! ends the epic-making list of and =enility. His mother was Mary lay in the scabbard of Greece. E % decisive battles, begun at Marathon |anna (if T make the name out) M So this 1st Division. with its high b by the Athenians, who went sin, i sol of Greenpoint, long Island. The endeavor and its fearless facing of the % into battle against a lesser civiliza-|card says that the information was hardships of war, established a stand- 3 tion than their own. Noble 1st Di-| given by Ann Tool. Burial was at ard to which all succeeding divisions . % ¥ . vision, with what splendor is its very { Brooklyn, N. Y. must live up, flung out an oriflamme % name emblazoned in the halls of re-| Turning to The Star of Tuesday, of deathless valor that thrilled the membrance! March 20, 1923, 1 find the following hearts of the defenders of the world’s $ : : 2 A few days of rest were granted | sketch which contains several mis Peace, % # these exhausted heroes, then they |takes, but furnishes some information LAny one who saw thelr splendid 3 S < were ordered to the quiet but dan-|pertinent to this story: e - ; ines swing down our Appian Way gerously situated Saizerais sector. A| “Archibald Meserole Bliss, formerly y eiauThis] ¢ think ot e e Sames Al could not help but see the light of replacement of 7,000 troops was made | member of Congress from Brooklyn, | Lne.on, Hotel and lived there during (o think of a man. e i Vot et Rt g high purpose in the serried ranks of and the new men soon imbibed the|N. Y., died at his home, 1108 K street | 08t Of his service In Congress. The | berous and jovial in his middle | ol e IR B e g Bl These veterans of many a field, though - o : - ¢ g spirit of the veterans among whom | northwest, in this city, yesterday fol- | older folk of Washington remember f [0eT, Wi OB B e v e e O 30 young, the proof of whose sublime 7 s they were allocated. The division|lowing a long illness. He was 85 that in the 70s and 80s the old Arling-| s o/d fEIRAS Gead or as poor as he,| Fork, Benjamin B HIN of Georsw courage shone in the chevrons on the 2 was known from this time on as a|years old. The body was sent last|ton was one of the costly and luxuri-| SIS ightly in bis T old P e o = oT Masrachuseris W left arm or glowed with a kind of R “shock division,” and at the end of | night to Brooklyn, where his son-in-|ous hotels of America. Only a rich | D + e ';“,‘_‘,"T ke s [oE Vil Pank B ot 0N holy fire from the individual deco- 5 A a month withdrawn from D Swilifami Do wa) iwillbae | man coulaidaaralitol itye ithere | an TSI QU dtben dans. And o0 Tir s} ¢ BT B HESRIc LR o Oh rations for bravery as well as from | |- - e that uneventful sector and establish- for the funeral and’ burial in |though it is probable that mapy men | N Rambler has heard. there was|f 2. jiosson of fows, W . Keb the general decoration of the Four- ed at Vaucouleurs for special train- | Greenwood Cemetery. not rich lived there—for a short time. | 200¢ 0 do him revers R CaeL. T Randil of Do ants ragere presented to the division by : ing before entering the battle of St.| “Mr. Bliss was a native of Brook- | But they could not afford it. anile andsolds Sam Taslor John Proctor Knott (of Duluth fame) Marshal Petain Mihiel. Iyn, where he received his education. | Afr. Biiss, in his years of prosperity of Kentucky. Lucius Q. C. The riderless horse that had its in- | The little immortal town of Dom-| His first venture in life was in the|had what writers like to call “a host 3 Mississippi, Roger Q. Mi evitable place in those ranks seemed | remy, with its ageless flame of pa-|hardware business, in which his fath- |of friends” When his days of pros- begin Y- |, 1. Morrison of Hlinois, T. C. Platt io lead a silent host of the slain com- | triotism burning in memory of Joun |er was éngaged. He was elected to | perity passed his friends were not so : i 5, ¢t New Yor! agu Texas rades; for the first fighting unit, o | - of Arc, lay in this area of Vaucou- |the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1895 and | numerous. That is an old story. When cl t i William M. Sj Illinois, Alex- relentle: ‘war, must ever sacrifice | . ’_,,’ leurs, and the men of the 1st Di-|served that body for 12 years. H he grew old und had mnothing but a ier llamilton Pne of Georgia, heavily of its devoted members be- . 2 vision, as they walked its unpreten- | political career as an alde £mall monthly remittance from a el t - William H Missouri cause they are the pioneers, the trail- tiou: treets, dreamed aguin her|man in Brooklyn, serving from 1864 [ source the Rambler does not know, t andolph blazers into new methods of warfare. b dreams and saw again her visions——|to 1867 ¢ * ¢ Retiring from Con- [his “host of friends” in Washinzton v 1 € 5 Vance of Can’t one see. through a mist of the freedom of her loved France from | ress, Mr. Bliss made Washington his | was reduced to two, and these were " tears, their brave little ways of keep- ! the invasion of the enemy. home, purchasing Overlook Inn, on the | faithful to the Il One was Ann | ing their hearts gay? It was voiced 2 After 10 days of training in that jEastern Branch of the Potomac, a pic- { Tool, spinster, who had been hisi]I in the vases of valiant poppies s (l “ g area, especially in the skillful cut-|turesque site which he remodeled® houscekeeper in happier days, and the | was occupied % m about the platforms of their heavy = ting of wire entanglements, they “Mr. Bliss was a lover of blooded |other was Sam Taylor, an old colored] of Brook iam B Allison of lTowa, Henry Zuns, in the metal of those guns pol- 2 moved on to their new field of en-|horses and always kept a stable. His|man |, When 2 came to Wa 4 ny of Rhodr and, Thomas ished like a mirror, in the kitchen 2 E deavor, whose guns liad thundered in | private carriage, with ite perfect Miss Tool is living. Her home is in|ten Gra avard of Delaware. Geor vtensils shinig like prized silver and 2 4 their ears in their first training camp | double team. never failed to auttract|New Yor and this Summer she | Babcock 1 of Maine, Blanche K in the horse show they gave at Ple- 4 at Gondrecourt. These boys were to|attention on the city’s streets worked in an Atlantic City Hotel. At (colored) of Mississiy ardy. the groomed animals with shin- > % undergo a fiery trial in the battle of {e of Tennsylvania ing flanks being the same horses that ¢ 3 St. Mihiel. {1 f Arkansas, Fran CHURCH AT BRX\(,” AND ALABAMA AVENUES. Lamar of nando Wou another rong them at night would carry up to the front the needed suppli and that show ziven only under the protection of the arching trees that screened the streets of Picardy. Brave lads with sa hearts. jesting as they kept in the dawn their vigil with death. Their glory is peculiarly their own; To other group may claim it, and thelr rich possession of it makes no group the poorer. They are a match- less frieze upon the walls of the temple dedicated to liberty. Their unique place in the annals of the war is chivalrously epitomized in the re- quest that their first three slain should forever remain where they were first buried, as an inspiration to France and as a_memorial to the cause America had consecrated with the youth of her broad lands. The glory of these “men of Can- tigny” is one with the glory of Eng- land's “contemptible little army.” It is the incense rising from the altar that bears the first sacrifice, and to the god of battles that sweet first courage is priceles: * x ¥ % OMEHOW that single shaft, that towering column, so nobly in- scribed with the names of the fitlds of batfle and of the slain, supporting on | its summit a winged victory. inher- | ently catches and holds for the eyes ©f men to see the peculiar contribu- | tion that they made * ® % they, Wwho were the standard -bearers of the Army of America. It is one more notable monument in this city of monuments, a fitting tribute to the noble 1st Division. Tt will be remembered that in the early morning hours of April 6. 1917, our Government declared a state of war with Germany, the momentous words of President Wilson still ring- ing in the ears of Congress: “We have no quarrel with the German people, but only with the military despotism of Germany. The world must be made safe for democracy. We desire no conquest of dominion. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when these rights have been made as se- cure as the faith and the freedom of rations can make them.” We had not been at war with a first-class foreign power for over a century, and a declaration of hostil- its summit a winged Victory, inher- the herculean task of training mil- lions of men for an art, the exercise of which America has had little need, for her sword rests at long intervals n its scabbard. France could not wait for assist- unce, so she sent a mission, with Marshal Joffre at its head, to our tiovernment to urge that a military force be sent to the battlefront with- out delay. He maintained that the sight of a young giant, panoplied for battle, would revive the war-weary allies along the western fromt, would zive them that renewal of courage and hope that alone could stem the ~bbIng of their spirit. The allies de- manded a sign, and the 1st Division was the answer to that demand, their numbers made up largely from the Regular Army. Indeed, the first con- tingent came from troops stationed n_Texas and Arizona, seasoned and hardened to service in the Mexican disturbances. An effort was made to keep their transportation to Hoboken secret, but their final destination was only oo evident. They rode in Pullman trains to the port of embarkation, a significant contrast with their trans- portation from the port of debarka- tion at St. Nazaire to their tralning camp in the Gondrecourt area, a journey made in ““Chevaux-§, Hommes-40" box cars on French trains. Their journey across the subma- rine-infested seas made more hazardous in that theirs was the first experiment in convoying troops to France. Cruisers and destroyers, like = valiant bodyguard, protected the four groups of four ships each that carried the first contingent. There must have been anxious hearts in that group of young cru- saders, as there were among the offi- sials who were responsible for this first adventure in making the world safe for democracy. But theirs was a gay courage, for the hardships were unknown and unguessed in their intrinsic mercilessness. A kind of exaltation of spirit buoy- ed up their courage, for they were the chosen ones, the vanguard, the bearers of shining new swords to those whose broken swords struck weary, brave blows at the foe. Duty and high endeavor build a wall against doubt and fears, and so safe- guarded, lead on to success, to vic- tory. “VICTORY,” AT THE TOP OF THE FIRST DIVISION MONUMENT. tation of that first contingent of the | 1st Division, a remarkably reassur- ing feat in itself, for our hands an. wits were all untried in the wary eluding of the death-dealing thrusts of the submarines, those stilettos of the seas. » Crude, indeed, was the camp at St. Nazaire, where intensiv training was begun at once to harden the muscles grown soft by the 20 days' relaxation furnished in' traveling to France. * k * (Y July 4 a great celebration in welcome of the American forces was made in Paris, and the 2d Bat- talion of the 16th Infantry was se- lected to march in the parade. What a thrilling sight that must have been those khaki-clad Americans, seif-as. sured and trained, marching with | steady step down that most stately of all avenues, the Champs Elysees, amid the cheering thousands, and on to the tomb of Lafayette. Soon enough after that momdntous honor in Paris the men of the 1st Division were sent by means of the box-car method of transportation to the Gondrecourt area for intensive training, their camp being within hearing distance of the never-silent guns of St. Mihiel. The first men had reached France in June, 1917, and by September the ranks were complete save for the artillery This mobiliza- tion had enrolled men from prac tically every State in the Union and fromn the Territories as well, They developed a marked cheerful- ness in the face of bad weather and untold privations and, Spartanlike. accepted what was their lot without complaint and without bitterne: At the end of a month of this in- tensive training, the division was placed in the trenches at the Summer- viller sector in Lorraine, the men be- ing grouped with the French units i order that they might put into prac tice what they had studied so dili- gently in theory. A raiding party of the enemy at- tacked the trenches and shed the first American blood in the death of one corporal and two privates of the divi- sion, these dead winning ageless glory in their permanent burial at Bathelemont under military honors from the armies of France and Amer- ica. The French general in command requested that these three first of- ferings on the altar of liberty forever remain in the soil they bad come to defend. At the end of a month this division was withdrawn and returned to Gon- drecourt area for further training, Gen. Pershing insisting that trench warfare must cease as the war drew to a close, and that the men must be instructed in the methods of open wasfare. Mimic wars were carried on to_iliustrate these tactics. By January, 1918, they were ready to fight, nine months after the decla- ration of war. A million men might spring up over night willing to serve, but intznsive training, a hazardous delay, was an imperative corollary to unprepared millions of men willing to fight for their flag, especially when they must face relentless veterans on the field. Since they were rated a combat | unit, their time had come to take over a gector for whose defense they would be responsible. They were sent to Ansauville, a little northwest of Toul, to relieve the 1st Moroccan Division. It was comparatively quiet there save for raiding parties and their small-scale depredations. Mud and sleet and snow added their hard- ships to trench life. Their casualty list ran almost to 600 before they were relieved from the sictor. The 1st Division was sent into the Gisors Area for further training,and as they labored in their mimic wars, long troop trains filled with French and British soldiers, recalled from Italy to strengthen the allied line in the west, gave the needed touch of reality to their work. They knew only too well that soon they must add their forces to that thinning line on the western battlefront. * £ k% I_‘l April they were sent to take over and be responsible for the Can- tigny sector, where they earned through steadfast valor and dash No accidest marred Lhe mm-‘ww-wm- Heavy bombardment was their lot, but they held true to form. The town of Cantigny stood on a ise of ground in the German salient, yan observation post of inestimable |value to the enemy. It had been {captured and recaptured twice, and it was yet to see further desperate fighting. The allied high command lordered the 1st Division to retake | the town. | After hot fighting the whole gar- | rison was captured and the town held jagainst the most determined attacks |of the enemy at a cost of over 1,000 {men. It was a momentous achieve- ment. not in magnitude, but.in .in- fluence, for the Americans in that desperate engagement revealed the temper of their steel. Consequently, a spirit of confidence grew, not only in the American forces but in the allied ranks as well, for Cantigny was a crucible test that showed the pure gold of genuine capacity for service. Much merited praise from those high in command fell to the division as reward for their fearless courage under a murderous fire from the German guns. ‘With the enemy moving ever cloger | | | withdrawn from the Cantigny sector, thus lengthening the area under American defense. The renewed ac. §ivity of the Germans made Pic a lively place, but the ls vielded no ground, the French serves checking the offensive launch- ed against the sector. There were hardships in Picardy. There was no issue of new clothing in exchange for the lice-infested old garments, no water for bathing, and only one meal a day. To one of a Spartan mind, it was excellent train- ing for the great battles the future had in store for the division. Leonidas himself might well have Leen proud of men the counterpart of these youthful Americans. Their voung patriotism must cele- brate July 4 in some fashion, so they £ave a horse show and held many a contest, awarding prizes to the win- ners. War might be hell, but these dauntless first crusaders possessed and never yielded an unquenchable, fiery enthusiasm for the cause for which they were fighting. The beauty of the Summer, with its fields of flowers, its singing birds and its meadows green with grass for the half-starved horses, warmed their Theirs w a gay young singing through the halls of . for their casualty list for Picardy was close to 5,000. The proved efficiency of the divi- sion dedicated the men to greater efforts, and Marshal Foch included them in his magnificent but costly counter offensive against the enemy in_the Marne salient. Tt will be recalled how the Ger- mans in July, 1918, had pushed for- ward as far as the Marne, between Soissons and Rheims, their objective being Paris. They were flushed with recent victories, they were confident of success, and their morale was wellnigh perfect. Their advance must be stopped, else all was lost for the allied cause. A powerful offen- sive attack, therefore, was planned against Soissons by the 20th Corps, composed of the 1st American Divi- sion, the 2nd American Division and the 1st Moroccan Division. With great difficulty, the men and supplies were brought into, position for attack, the terrain being waist- ihigh in wheat and bordered with ra- vines in whose farther heights the German forces lay intrenched. The fate of the war hung on that battle. It was to be added to the few decsive battles in world history. Both sides knew it, and both_sides prepared to win at any cost. It be- gan on July 18 and ended on July 23. So terrific was the fighting and so merciless the rain of metal that when it was over and the pale shadows of men guthered in battalions so re- | duced that they looked like com- | panies, a weird silence brooded over | the groups, for so many of the fa- | miliar faces were gone never to re- turn. For the living, a little food from the rolling kitchens, a little music from the band, and then the sleep of exhaustion after their giant Jask was dong, for the enemy had be- to Paris, the Irench troops were | The Germans held a pocket-like calient between the Meuse and the foselle Rivers that gave them great advantage over the allies. It was de- cided that this projecting pocket must be captured and the line straightened out. The plan included a double attack, the union of the at- tacking forces cutting off the salient| {and straightening the line. A stiff | resistance was cxpected by the allies, |but so well co-ordinated was the plan for attack t the juncture was auc- complished with a loss of less than 600 men To the great surprise of the weary oldiers, a perfectly equipped rest camp was found in the captured sali- ent and the captors took advantage of the recreations it offered The Germans were surprised ap- parently in the rapidity of the at- tack and they were rendered largely helpless by the continuous heavy bombardment from the. attacking |guns. The eagerness of the Infa: gave birth to their slogan of £o!” for that animated phrase was heard all along the lines while the guns and howitzers deluged the en- emy posts with gas and metal It was a masterly plan, executed with a perfection that was greatly disturbing to the Ger n mind. The psychology of America's y ticipation in the struggle was beginning to be most definitely felt. An_efliciency like that shown in the St. Mihiel sector drive warranted further succes The German lines must not be permitted to stabilize for another Winter. * % % "THE most strategic section in that area wa the Meuse-Argonne, held by the Germans as an_indis- pensable protection to their line of communication from Metz to the west. If that line could be destroyed the German forces would be in a pre- carious position, necessitating re- treat. The section assigned to the| American Army was most formidable, made up of ravines and matted for- ests and the Meuse River. The Ist Division was to be held in reserve until called upon to serve. The Germans resisted So vigorously that veterans were needed, and the 1st Division was set in motion. A | marvelous esprit de corps marked the | division, which functioned as one man. A staff officer passing a column on the march asked the men what corps the division belonged to. From the | men in the lines came the reply: “We don’t belong to any corps—we go to the corps that needs us most.”" Only incarnated valor could have spoken like that. The 1st Division was ordered to, join the 1st Corps and move to Neu- | illy. Only veterans could have kept | their courage in such a war-devas- tated area over which the spirit of destruction brooded malignly. All was waste under the deadening roar of never-silent guns, and amid it all lifted the mute white crosses of friend and foe. Only veterans could move grimly forward through a waste like that ‘and keep their courage, for silent prophesies of their own fate lay all about them. The courage of the men of the lst Division received a crucial test in their seven days of fighting in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The special mission of the division was to drive a wedge into the enemy’s lines, compelling him to surrender his hold on the Argonne forest that stood like an unconquerable barrier in an effort move the line forward. For three days these grim veterans dug themselves into holes, whose in- cluding area the enemy inundated with gas and shell while they waited for orders to move forward. It was a terrible strain on men whose slogan was “Let's go!” for since the work must be done, the sooner they were at it the better in their estimation. The battle began on October 4, and the 1st Division was not withdrawn until October 11. The ground to be gained by their indomitable courage was a succession of densely wooded hills, in which the Germans had mar- velously well intrenched themselves, their ‘batteries and maochine-gun nests being concealed from the Amer- icans by the trees, As on they went from day to day, the enemy’s fire raked them from both flanks as well as from the front and thousands of the brave fellows fell never to rise, and thou- sands more were wounded. At the close of one day out of a certain group of 20 officers and 800 men there re- mained 2 officers and 240 men. - Blood flowed like water, for the Germans had determined to dle fighting and no resistance is greater than that. A tank corps of 47 ma- chines. started oul o assisl the in- | Missonri, Henr A GLIMPSE OE'VTI_IE_BOWA'E}AR()?I). r. Bliss numbered among his close personal friends many of the prominent statesmen and politicians in high public positions of his time. Mr. Bliss entered Congress two years after Uncle Joe Cannon had entered that body. There he established an early friendship with Mr. Cannon and ever afterward he was one of the close personal friends of that dis- tinguished statesman who has just re- tired from Congress after a service covering 47 years.” * * * FTHE story of the Bliss-Havemeyer syndicute suggests oue on the building of the “new” Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. The first appropria- tion for that bridge was made by Congress February 23, 1887; it was opened for traffic March 20, 1880, and in celebration of its construction a dedication ceremony was held at the bridge Augnst 1890. A story of the building of the bridge would call for some account of Twining City, at the cast end of the bridge. That lage has grown on part of what was the Naylor farm. The subdivision was recorded June 7, 188, having been made by Richard Smith and| Charles A. Elliot, trustees appointed by the court in a celebrated equity | case of Naylor vs. Naylor. The Rambler hopes to work these matters out for the instruction and satisfac- tion of hi: patient followers. Mr. Bliss came to Washington in 1875 as a member of the House in the . Forty-fourth Congress, which convercd December 6, 187, “The Speaker of the House was Michael C. Kerr of Indiana, who died August 19. 1876, four days after adjournment of the first session. and during his ill- ness Samuel S. (Sunset) Cox of New York and Milton Saylor of Ohio wers successively appointed Speakers pro tempore. At the second session of that Congress Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylvania was chosen Speaker. Mr. Bliss registered at the old Ar- fantry—at the day's close three tanks only were left. All the horrors of Soissons were repeated in this death-dealing of- fensive movement, and the men's faces grew grim with the determina- tion t carry on until their objectives were reached. Many dead comrades could not be buried because of the ceaseless pounding of the defending batteries of the enemy. Food and water were often lacking and sleep was impossible. But on they went from one ravine to another, up one hill, then on to the mext, their thinning ranks clos- ing in the courage that defies death. Hill 272 proved to be the most diffi- cult stronghold to capture from the Germans, so the 1st Division was ordered to take it. Exposed to the enemy all the way they went, they reached the hill's base, only to be- gin their decimated climb to the summit, a summit that had been swept by hundreds of tons of steel| {Cuntinued on FUW Pagta long intervals she comes to Washing- | put to see old street northeast. have the house vears before his death M. a room, are recent comers in the row. Eleventh stree dead in woods near the site of Overs look Inn not long after the death of or grew up on nds near Fort Stanton, and her was one of the early in Garfield, 4 subdivision by George E. Emmons in 1882 In fair fortunes coachman, and as fortune faded still held the reins retary of the Sam was Mr. ter General, |coupe hecame aky and oh' state that any old coat from anywhere weather for Mr. visit to the lobby of the Shoreham or Hlackburn of would drive back to Overlook Inn and 1rleigh of | liss over to Miss Annie. Maine, Joseph O 1 not set down all the de- | tails of my knowledge, but I want you Virginia, Her as, Geor: nt TR Jersey, John B, Hannibal Hamlin Ingalls Kansa Nevada. Jol Thomas (' Justin S Eli San G. Thurman kney Whyte of {liam Windom of Ma Conkling of Yor \Y G New York. being fes Jth. sixteenth tee d cighteenth Brooklyn and the towns of Flatt latlands, Gravese w Utrecht Forty-fourth aid publican Bre the national Repul at Baltimore in 1864 and in S and to the | convention at ¢ imati i a member of the b missioners of Brc Railroad Co. since the New York and | and also a director ¢ York Forty-fourth Congre Repub sfers of many pieces tate to Mr. Bliss in the of the District, and over to vou at another Rambler has been told persons bevond the E that the Dliss-Havemeyer was formed with the idea that ¢ Cleveland would buy {xide of the river for t It does not bear investis. Bliss-Havemeyer deeds The Cleveland deed carlier. That deed we on and his wife Wilson. to Grover ¢ York. In consid Wilsons transterred survey on ‘ferra Prospect, now known as I nd bounds are {and the northerly - of West {described as { known as VAYSIDE HOME ON THE BOVEN ROAD, director of untry home