Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1925—PART ragedy of Ancient Cherry Tree Sanders, New White House Figure, Furnishes Theme for the Rambler] Was Active Force at University ' Other Stories About Washington and His Early Life Are Examined and Attention Givento | Success Achieved in Later Life Was Forecast by His Student Associates, Who Looked - Career of Parson Weems, Author of Biography. to Him for Leadership and for Achievement in College Events. ATHER, T cannot tell a lie, | BY DUFFY GILFOND. I did it with my little . hatchet.” There are varia- tions in the phrasing but e e the substance stands. The niseing? 1Is there any art Rambler takes this as his text—beg = 3 - L b that can transform the Bandlon. | hig mublect because : Sy 3% : i ; / hard ook of care and the this time o’ year there is a good d s : RN ? Pad | wrinkle of concern to a soft gleam aid of the cherry tree story, thro and a wistful smile so readily? ing o silver dollar across the Potomac Since the announcement of Everett River vehers it is four miles ‘wids, gsnaecsfabpointeipnt aejecerctary o [breaking the » k of a young colt, the Prosidont I-r\ e 5 and a few other tales of the boyhood “looking backward expression has 0f George Washington frequently stole over the l-nlvl‘n}e The Rambler wants to tell vou nances of a number of busy Wash- 0] hese stories 1d set dow s N : 3 3 ingtonians. e = Tossing aside a prosaic case for o bAL G L ae ok 5 % ? S % the law, they flit back to the cam- ERe i e i b ? pus at Ingjana University, where Bv- a ”':\ DES “;’ l’,“ them '('; \‘r‘.‘ erett Sanders stood out from his fel- S oor e Arat o out hanely low classmates as he does among his el el e ; colleagues today. There is nothing improbable in the ‘Reminiscing. over Everett Sanders storfes. We will take from them {s ore than & pleasure. It is a les- what is not essential to them, and son- - For in the boy. on whose brawny B Ean naasd o muk e e dne. shoulders many weights rested, not matic or to give them a sharper only of ponderous law books, but the moral point. TRead my story, con- more burdensome one of earning a der the evidence, and I feel that living for himself and his wife, the if you have even the sense of the v el s : 2 1 embryo man is seen average reader and writer, you will P N O Rl 5 CHA ‘ 3 t > Of the more than 130 alumni of In- elieve that little George Washington A & - A e i p % diana living in Washington today, not [nay have hacked a fruit tree with a o b i ¥ 5 5 : L a few can recall the days when their atcher and, discovery of the| ; . N lives and Sanders’ were bound by one jamage done the tree, admitted that ¥ € ! X § | <pirit, the spirit of old 1. 1 he did i L ¥ sy T Only Sanders needed more than The Rambler has written on this : 4 . K spirit. He needed strength. For we ibject before, several times, but the | : . § - ¥ ;i e y must remember that this man who, pratter comes in handy every vear, S L S B St A i i beginning March 4, finds himself in % no reader ought to complain o St £ o Sy the presidential chamber of the the mbler works over old = e o, 3 ¥ A e J White House, started from a log He does it seldom. Your e S % S M + o P M | cabin. His wages as a farm boy, a minister and your Congressman work i % 2 i e S . shoe salesman or, even later, as a over the same sermon and oration, g e : N e 2 ) e s country school teacher who dispensed nd you never know it. The Con- : # A o et A > 4 with a janitor, were cermlnl)‘;nflllilld" - gressman takes ten paragraphs out ot g guate to send 3him through college SVERETT SANDERS (FRONT, IN CENZER) AS CAPTAIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA'S BAS € his last Fourth of July speech and AIR, IN PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY. VA. fike @ rich man's son. IENERETERSE N N e ises them at a Washington birthday == = = urvnxlhrh hha'l "‘;,;"" E. o Lo e celebration and the flag raising at|tough question and George staggered | ‘writing it put in some literary flour- |sense ever sald he did it. I have told ngham o jo;, DOBL (OIR0e, 2 | 5 e S o1 cal s v v] study and study 0 mark the words of Guy H. Hum- he new high school, and ¥ou clap | ynder it for a moment, but quickly | 1shes to make It dramatic or to 2dd a |you that when George was about two |Classmate of Sanders, recalls just a|work when the others study and study = e N s he sole of. vour hands (credit to O. sermon-flavor. But the core of the |or three years old nis parents moved|few of h isGiigAs. puchas. sell- jwlicn:they piny L i Tenry’s ‘Tobin's Palm”) and when |TeCOVering himself, and looking at|giop s probably sound from the farm on the Potomac to that | ing shoes in Whetsell's shop, assisting e s ein isidaye whenramphioss he tumult and the cheering have | NS father with the sweet face of {70 B o 0 = 0 T et, he |on the Rappahannock, opposite Fred-|in the law library, selling maps and SPITE this and the fact that he aflersmavere Doth lave stnceng = . 3 vouth, brightened with the inex- B a , & : - a boarding-house club. 2 7 1 Sande 11 go e = G hied away—T believe that is a quo- iy BELEk . l | hacked a cheres tree. his father knew | ericksburg. The river is narrow there. | running Al Lt was married (which must also be e ca e e e ation——vou crowd up to the stand | Prestible charm - of all-conguering | nacked @ cherry tree, hia father RASW | 1" dom't know how wide it 1s, or how PR considered an occupation), Sanders was S i o shake hands with the sweating |ty 1€ BEAVEW cried oups o Cam il oeoy and George. because of in- |Wide it was when George lived there. in the midst of class activities B at Cho cliss: ihe, bBest senecally B Leraiflintne dimcsl ontiof ian o L Barn honesty. hade e he “was not |It was told during his life that as a HE Roscoe Fertich, another local lawyer, dboed, hes o orilHant ay. “Let me congratulate vou on|4plie: 1did cut it with my hatchet.r | Jor oo D ped, or because | POY OF youth he threw stones across puzzle some of our present-day |, JOREOS CTEL Ok B0 osen as one of | fhen In specific ways than he, but ne o Lie "ADAxdsE—T lonioy =l it ad 'l'h“l: {o my arms, you dearest _‘""‘-111 S e %¢| the Rappahannock. 1 do not know|readers, but a generation ag0 | p.pis four to fetch Dr. Bryan in the iy o o Al e ATl AT Tn accent on “s0”) much.” CEed gl atnbn i tansvoxts, yEladl) 2 when the silver dollar story came into | pleasant, well acquainted YOUDE | fi.c of foaming, formidable sophomores Al LoFite. otesvaa apneirance. Perhaps vour minister will chastise | o T Georse, that you killed that| Stripped of the literary trimmings.|circulation, and 1 believe that some| gentleman could help to pay his Way | yp, wajted outside. In those days a ! Nave found t i the well Eethape ! tree, for you have paid me for it @ |the story is not staggering. The 2] = v procuring board- R 0805 dayss ete. I have found that it is the w n and sinner: Satan on the ball players could throw from the|through college by p R sophomore stunt was to prevent fresh- | t th atellectunl . - thousandfold. Such an act of he versation between little George |y . — is landlady and payment for i o7 balanced man it e Hea 0co, pounce on cake eaters, flappers, |y, > gy °® | Washington farm to the Fredericks-|ers for his landla men from organizing. But these “frosh,” | ” fre s et T aran T Bl OoIE ol fanl] in my son is worth more than a |and his father Augustine might have |y, 0 gide of the Rappahannock. | their privileges. Getting the board- | ¢ wyom Sanders was one, finally man- | 7 Rt O Von ot S o it in the same fervid outbreaks|‘hOUsand trees though bloss becn something, Mk U0TEC | Parson Weems tells that Col, Lewls | % MaY not have been & 9IMCUll |aged to get togther and clect their of- ders’ potents e may be seen hat he has been using for twenty FTY e T Willis, a playmate and relative of Wash- | {4k _for_ %0 b"?"“'mn; ‘;L:g":;“:: ficers. One thing was miesing, the pres- 5 a dektar oo 5 Watan § nron ears, and after the closing hymn | J%EP ? SR S 4 3 ] ington, (aaid that lie! (Gewis, WilIn)(ind | o —oeaenbtatle o “goat «witn|)Shce of Presldent Bryan reading is former employe's ap- u will take him home to Sunday 3 F ' ” 8 often seen George throw a stone across | %25, Undoubtedly a “goa Sanders and three others were sent pointmen Walsh owr the shoe S e B ¥ S e s oo B 9 e RAGDENARAORE at thia s far e | siotheribeaid out of their hiding place into the fire store in Terre Haute where Sanders S = ot lower ferry at| " 'ppage avocations did not interfere find Wh [ alne i a v . o . -verything on the table. When you RN : ; . Fredericksburg. Col. Willis is also biit sid oot ames: Ramders) hism tever, ‘elss happenad | worked while attending the State put on your head-phones or pull out| [® # P 5 : 2Ny s quotedi as: sayings It wonld beinof—o o eane 0 G O e en | &V, ba disneganisd. Euffice It to. say | mal School. The let reads he plug of vour tube set, you hear o GRS § iy easy matter to find a man nowadays| DrnCIPAaL duest, Whloh Y alames. | they returned with him. Incidentally, it Congratulations. You cannot keep he announcer say: “By special re- 4 s % A ’ who could do that.” the covers of those stout tan volumex, | js interesting (o note that the meeting a good man down. Every one at home X 1 WeAs ¥ ot nearly thrilling as some of | way finally broken up by a sophomore, ; A : quest, Miss Birdie Warble, soprano . s e R E B 3 . ; BOL Hoarly Ay > & = » phomore, ed with your appointment > Coamopoilian Opera | CoMDary : f{:‘teplh‘:{fl:l:lr dr‘vex not assure vou that [ their cheaper shelfmates. In fact.|who threw a bottle of formaldenyde into ; = ot thel sirhelinize Tt o e e ombenT seorge Washington, when perhaps 14| Dean €. M. Hepburn of the Indiana | the rendezvous, and who later became a e atwaye SiGueh | Ve kuew . ar oi of he riller or 15 years old, threw stones across the | law i 1 said in recent issue of o] r Q| s . < o = = tudios. will sing ‘Sweet Cockleburrs Rappa &l oSy saoi b scliop o : prominent research professor fin St you would Ii - where—just bty o et ig i 32 . narrow Rappahannock River. What he | the Alumnus that had degrees with | Elizabeth's Hospital here. o e e - Miber Ve have eciieer » = > " > SR & wants to show qou is that in the first|distinction been awarded in 1807 | Though Sanders had little time for | The story is told of Walsh's refusal umber. ave rece a tele- | ; % L published biography of George Wash-|Sanders would have received one s, he grew up to be president of | to grant Sanders a day off because it ram from Mre. Gladss G e R e B A ington the story was not that he threw | His zeal for his etudies was un- it Repreieitalivs BRI Diics B aiv udEce i endsd byl ot ot 4 shishuls Fequs ! [ B K : < X e @ siver dollar across the Potomac doubtedly heightened by the struggle president of the local Indians S e e s tion Ihe inifos Th e 5 3 SINEL. 3 which their pursuit necessitated mni, tells how he refused to do any | askea nt But why must it be to- election are coming in for tt George Washington must have been|Camden R. McAtee, a lawyer in town, | campaigning, how he finally accepted | | as R a ot iinofher da? on so fast that Miss I s . ; % an athletlc boy. He used to visit rela- | still remembers the seriousness with | the candidacy with the privilega of not | S ecsine: T Eoliie o) bar mubited foprano of the Cosmopolitan Opera e 0 : tives on the Potomac side of the|which Sanders entered the 1aWw |oing a thing to be elected”—and then | today, ana Sdiother dnp DRoricdiont fompany and a.x\lltl; oloist of the : ¢ < Northern Neck.” which is the penin-|library, the determination and grit|shaved every day for two weeks Sihdcrs. He got it 2 R Ly, S rad ch ; jula between the Potomac and Rappa- | in that sait and face, so pronounced | straight! ila Wiotelire it st ance 1o, clpae iy enc 1§ by lal re-| : E hannock Rivers. Some of these kindred | from the usual saunter in, slumb | Another association of Sanders was 5 & 4 e e on e e e uest the selection, ‘Sweot Cockle- Srinm > wers the Fitahughs of Chotank. One of |down and self-pitving attempts at|with basket ball, as captain of the| EVERETT SANDERS WHEN A |glors, This one i as trivia) as any urrs That Stick I : i N A these was John Fitzhugh of Chotank, | study. team. Blassingham remembers how,| STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY. |55 MCTReC: Rt B 0 o e ite, be “There may be two reasons for this 3 ; ! and Parson Weems quotes John as say-| That he was conspicuous as an|as a green freshman, he tramped | Photo by Shaw of Bloomington, Ind. | W18 8 FO (AR C L 0 o ek does mot Irdie wants to put over one of her % il ing: ““We had nobody hereabouts that |orator even then is evident. for|from one athletic camp to another in| in some w link up with his other 14 songs or the announcer knows it : . % could come near him (Washington) in|George G. Cohen. a local welfare |gearch of the one he liked best. Com- | up excitedly, thumping her elbow on | eypariences and contribute fo the s so bad that he tries to put the g running matches. There was young|worker, still remembers Sanders’|ing to the basket ball camp, he found |the forehead of her surprised neigh- | citection of the whole, then this one lame on Mrs. Hokum, of Ashtubula. i 4 Langhorn Dade of Westmoreland, a|first case in the moot court—where [a scene of skirmish and clamor. Of |bor. The elbow was probably adorned | by 01550 % G T18 SOG * % 4 N confounded clean-made, tight young fel- | the judge may borrow the prisoner's | the 75 or 100 men in the conglomera- | by a dress ornament. Anyway, it has | [t is told by W. C. Mattox of Massa- 'HE Rambler is not working over | < : N 5 3 low and a mighty swift runner, too, |evening clothes after he has sen-|tion, only one figure was distinct. He |enabled Cohen to take a prominent|.pusetts, who recalls the time when s Lilgiiyise aaa s eriannes %~ U BB S but then he was no match for George. [ tenced him to 20 vears. carried the impression away with him | part among the reminiscencers of |ng tried to persuade Sanders (o take tories by speclal request or any | ok, AR Langy did not like to give it up, and| Sanders was defending one “Easy” |and has kept it these 20 vears. It| Everett Sanders. |a pretty gipl to a dance, but that un- ther kind of request. He is doing ST, 3 he would brag that he sometimes|Mark Smith, a freshman who was|was Everett Sanders. These little remembrances, circu- [ ysha] youlls gentleman persistently because he knows they are :;WH pit e i R, fi:"li."a“,',i’&?'i' g ;"h Lo refused, because there was “the girl tories, because he knows you hav 4 g SR ; aken, for I have seen them at home” (now Mrs. Sanders) hrgot that you read them last Feb 3 = el run together many a time and George The position which Mr iary and February before that, be- § g t 3 *: nlv::; s beat him, easy enough.” about to take also call lause he wants to get away from the & ¥ % 4 < ¢ hen George was a little boy he Y ] T fice for three weeks in order to do 2 ; 3 4 5 went to an “old field school” on or : > RO Yo e Y . 3 e bme work, because he must put up e ; % ; p f near the Rappahannock farm, kept ' % e 1 vers . ur “ramblers” in advance, and 5 % . Wy j & g by & man whose name was Hobby. T * K 2 - 3 2 = 5 t Maine Anniversary. ecause he feels that vou could not| |[eceelORTEn : o I have not the full name of this man § ; - : et through the morning without a i s s gk B g and an account I have read has it % - 3 framble” any more than without your 7 s & 5 that he was a t, - ke RN ga V@ , at 9:40 pm., the U. 8. 8. i ” % g enant on Augustine e ; pld plunge and grapefruit e e 2 3 pre S k Washington's farm. Parson Weems : 4 3 Maine was blown up as she | George Washington was accused by | RN bRy . savs of him: “He was un honest, : 3 13 lav quietly at anchor in the is father of having hacked a che e A 5 g poor 0ld man, who ac B = Sl ate s Frif e : | poor old man, who acted in the double harbor of Havana, Cuba. Two ee with a new hatche o was : character of sexton and schoolmas- « - > lever charged with cutting down the Rl 4 ter. On his skill as a grave digger - 4 3 hundred and thirty sailors and two ee. When a little boy gets his first A2 | tradition s silent, but for & tesrbor ) officers, together with 28 enlisted men ck-knife he generally hacks a chair, of youth his qualifications were cer- B gy A ¢ of the United States Marine Corps, ble, rosebush or what not. The tatiivior E v s i imsortant thinei3a ooun el g:;‘:r.m"f"‘::“f»;“::‘, ‘Taging lost their lives when the Maine went homes, and most little country SehooTmastor S 4 4 i 5 down s wanfed a little ax. It was 4 £ e it te it % The a L2 At the time buntry boy a contury and a half J W ethnnooxion of the clmseli. the ; : X ; and 1 marine officer, with 19 enlisted T b ajended in Rrederfekss " -k i men of the Marine Corps and 290 sailors, on board. HAT pleasanter indulgence does life offer than remi- ) B i last-named vocation may TY-SEVEN vears ago to- fi?}..»lrui’ua;,\‘:f Sdeler ""0’“"{“’1“"‘3"% -6 burg. It is sald that he drank te ¥ 3 excess and : 2 < nife, red-top boots and a rabbit|with silver and their of purest | come here, sir. Did you hack up that | fxoere and "‘1":"‘" i::; sfsEani s Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, U, S. X.. Jkin cap. gold.”" " |cherry tree with your new hatchet?”| .o s an elastic H g was in command of the battleship The place where the cherry tree |® it wag in th teresting |and George, after hesitation and em- ”‘:jz"lv ;'": = ;‘lr'- Hobby lived to a g $ g 1 4 ¢ considered at that time as the “queen! agedy happened W the FerTy |poth his heart and head, that Mr. |barrassment, sald: “Yes, Pa, 1 chopped | ““g A e inference may be that b L A £ 3 %5y of our Navy. Events subsequent to rm, in Stafford County, across the| Washington conducted George With |into it a little bit” And then the | M€ Was & hard drinker. 3 o g » the destruction of this vessel de- appahannock ' River from Fred-|great ease and pleasure along the | father might have said: “Well, | o Th® father, Augustine Washington, . st St i 4 2 4 S A veloped into war. Years after the ricksburg. George's father and | happy paths of virtue.” George, as long as you own up to it [ %0 When George was about 10 S Lol Vigme | o . occurrence the bodies of those Who hother moved there from the PODE'S| (.. can see that the incident was |1 Won't punish you, but if you chop 3;’:’:: e 1?:‘:‘.? 8-’:1;.? that George 2 rgoa 3 £ ey ¢ : 5 were lost were reinterred at the Na- reek farm, now called Wakefield, | g oced up with language. he | any mo’ fruit trees about the place, s birthplace, on tional Cemetery, Arlington, Va 1 the Potomac River, when George ay, as a g ike atchet fre ou a the Potomac, then § ssess V| oS - y = Events leading up to the blowing e P R e 1o s 014 1ady, Who was a irl in 1737 | Ill take that hatchet from you and | (35 [Siamac, (hen in nossession of| EVERETT SANDERS. WHO BECOMES SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE MARCH 4. AS A HOO- Blars e IR R g a8 about three years old. It Is prob-| and told ‘the story to Parson Weems, | put you' to bed without your supper.” | g BooS Crook matarberhooh e SIER_SCHOOLMASTER, HIS SCHOOL WAS LOCATED IN LEWIS TOWNSHIP, CLAY COUNTY. e e ~ > 4 3 ‘ubans had long been under the yoke 5 had been telling it ever since Wash- * ok ok i S Subsns 103 . fon and his: wire, George's parents, | 100 D8e Lel BB T N B e I i us Took at the. story by a Mr. Williams, and there he 7 7 of Spain. This country had seen fit 8 £ ston came to b ell know 2 = e story about o have 5 aying 10-dollar bills to join fra-| Talki £ ssions, a lifel lati vashi t reli S e oved to that farm “they set out | UL G e she had been Georpe | immowing x Sivey aenae|Seems to have been very good, com. | PEYINE 3 ng of impressions, a lifelong |lating among Washingtonians to- |{o relieve R. O. Williams as the con oung_fr ees was the cus- adding a linguistic touch here and |across the Potomac where it is three | PAT€d With the other boys, at jump- | ternities, but never even got a sip|one was made on George Cohen by |day, indicate the diversity of San-sul general. President Grover (v‘llv\ki— m. It is not at all improbable that | yoro® Gooq old Parson Weems in lor four miles wide. Nobody with any | B8 With a long pole, heaving|from the keg whioch the money for|the presence of Sanders on the|ders’ activities as a youth. It |land then appoinfed Gen. Fitzhugh he little boy George, five or six years ' weights and running. his “Tappa Keg’ (the name of the|varsity team; though Sanders was|may even be that this variety of in- |L:€e in his stead. No better candidate B o yien 2 et naGheokealone . Parson Weems says that Washing- | false fraternity) afforded. Of course, [only the indirect cause. Mrs. Sanders | terests, noticeable in the man's eight |Could have been selected for the of- Sttty ton never learned a syllable of Latin, | he won the case. really made the impression, and|vears in Congress, is responsible for |fice. L 2 The cherry tree and other stories A St - T and it is quite impressive how many| Yet even in this atmosphere of kegs, | Cohen points to it right on his fore- | his present appointment. For what | Durins the latter part of January ¢ Washington's boyhood were pub- i sqaae 59 el Americans achieve greatness without | kidnaped Instructors and shaved heads, [ head. 1t was at one of the varsity|position requires a more generally 1898, the Seeretary of State tele- shed by Washington's first biog- ) 3 o oy ythat handicap. 1t is .said that|Sanders, the student, was popular, | games—a hotly contested one on a|rounded man than secretaryship to|Eraphed Gen. Lee that the United apher. Rev. Mason Locke Weems, 2 W T SR gy | George was very good at reading,, Popularity is not unusual for “one of | slippery day. Sanders stumbled and |the President? States lntendedito sesuins the friend s a6 Weers.'onde faixestos o7 1 2R He, 4 d [cpelling, arithmetic, bookkeeping and | the boys™; it Is for « fellow who must | the co-ed sitting next to Cohen jumped | 1In this connection it is interesting |1V visity of the American Nayy to va- on”” ms, or_of el - g 4l Ll rious Cuban ports; and in this con ount Vernon Parish, a marriage % D 002 : geography. There are those who : {neet hat the U. S. S Maine would elation of Washington, and on | M £ AL T e BICS] | have read George Washington's let- : e : = : B el Eevns it s reyaey rlendly footing with 8he family. S < T % b ters, written when he was a world- - . . e B e s e yeems published his biography soon o 2 % sl 3 character, Who sav that he was not . . ; - S h sl e e iarro ot ot fter Washington's death. The copy . A% — : % ; very good at spelling. Whether he . . ] : - -+ ] |f2tween the authorities and the naval n the Library of Congress s| E . n 3 - learned surveying at the Willlams : ' officers. However, at that particular rinted fn 1812, and is the sixteenth . 4 o 3 school the Rambler cannot tell you, time, which was January 24, Gen. Lee Ldition. On the first page is this: | e 4 ; W but he was not at school after his wired back to the effect that there [“The Life of George Washington with L : : £ K fifteenth year, and he was between : 1 ; : had been some excitement and sug- ‘urious Anecdotes Equally Honor- 3 15 and 18 when he began running a0 . { 1 . gested that the visit of the Maine be kvle to Himself and Dxemplary to . , 2 lines with a surveyor's instrument s L . - - G postponed for a week lis Young Countrymen. By M. L. - g ; i F through wild lands in the upper| [ A ; : i : v Quietly, about 11 o'clock in the Weems, formerly rector of Mount . K Potomac and the Shenandoah coun-| [ii-ic © : : . » i - morning of January 26, 1898, the bat- ernon Parisk g | ; s i 3 tries included in the patent to Lord| F ' & g < S . tleship Maine arrived at her anchor- Parson Weems makes much of the | P& : : Colepeper which had come to Thomas : . . b L age. There was no demonstration ‘im,l‘l\i ,‘,b,‘,p‘ ,.:4,_.. “d'\m"fil:; : ¢ Lord Fairfax. 4 i The Spanish commanders called on vas a o instill in his son principles | Parson Weems married Fa; v £ 3 4 F e iRy Capt. Sigsbee and the regular salutes bt religion and truth. He tells the 3 Ewell, daughter of Col. Jesse Ewell, . - G . were exchanged. From the first there glisnry jtree story and a Jess JINOW Y 3 { in 1795. Col. Jesse Ewell lived in ad : o s R % I |wasan unfriendly feeling on the part pple orchard story on authority of big brick house on a plantation of : 2 : of the Spaniards to the visit of the ‘an aged lady, then a girl in 1737." Conslderably Sinora thin s at fhouaas o | Maine, but to keep up appearance the et us take ihe cherry tree story | acres, and the name of the estate was o 3 3 d | fctions awiftio gert of Sliis Auan aT but of Parson Weems' book: Bel Air. The house stands today & - 4 3 § - % were civil. The next day Gen. Lee When Geor she sajd (the lady lle’ ‘off ~thol SeHALy Tean TeabinE . | - -] [ana Capt. Sigsbee, accompanied by D s i Thas e aoie from . Deaessounty resdc Jeating ? ; : 1 Sl several of the ship officers, called on pix years old he was made th Manassas, seven miles west of the| ki . L ; e e s wealthy master of a hatchet of which, il e . . § The following day the acing gover- r g , old town of Occoquan, and in Prince| E 3 2 8 like most little boys, he was immod P bt pie g S . e . { |nor general, Gen. Parrado, and his o & p . Y ; : staff visited the Maine and were erately fond and was constantly golng about chopping everything that o tures on this page the Rambler left came In his way. One in garden where he had am acking his moth S D inluckily d the edge of atchet on the body of a beautiful oung English cherry tree which he arked so terribiy that I don’t believe 1o tree ever got the better of it. “The next morning the old gen- eman, seeing what had befallen the ee, which, by the way, was a great vorite, came into tae house and ith much warmth asked for the ichievous author, declaring at the me me that he wo d not have ken five guineas for the tree. No- ,dy could tell him anything about Presently George and his hatchet ade their appearance. “George,” 1d his father, “do you know who lled that beautiful cherry tree oder In the garden?” This was a the county road at Minnieville and was guided through a mile of snowy and slushy woods and muddy flelds by J. Winfield Dewey and Charlie Dewey, who live three or four miles from Bel Air. At the house they were joined by F. M. Peargon, whose farm was a part of the Bel Air tract and who was born on_the place. Parson Weems died at Beaufort, South Carolina, in May, 1825, and his body was Interred in the Ewell bury- ing ground, within 200 yards of Bel Air mansion. His grave is un- marked unless marked by one of the bits of country rock which mark many other graves there. Mr. Pear- son and Mr. Dewey, shown in the picture, are standing close to what they believe to be the grave of Par- #on Weems. G s ELLA NEAL SANDERS (FRONT, IN CENTER), WIFE OF EVERETT SANDERS, AS CAPTAIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIAN. TEAM. HER HUSBAND WAS LEADING THE MEN’S TEAM AT THE SAME TIME. GIRLS’ BASKET BALL shown over the ship and entertained by Capt. Sigsbee. On February 4, after the Maine had been in anchorage for about a week, the Secretary of the Navy deemed it advisable for the boat to leave. The reason advanced for the change was “lmanitary reasons.”” Gen. Lee thought otherwise, and telegraphed to this ef- tect. On the night of February 10 Capt Sigsbee and Lee attended the re ception of Blanco. The next morning Lee and Sigsbee paid the Spanish officials a visit Four days later, at 9:40 o'clock on the evening of February 15, the L. S. S. Maine was blown up and de stroyed. The Spanish army and navy officers and the Spanish governor general rendered assistance. The Cit of Washington picked up Capt. Sigs bee and most of his officers. .