Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 79

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 1, 1925—PART 5. ~ Dramatist and Washington Family (Inaugurations Differ Widely Associated With Country Home| In Their Ceremonial Character | Rambler Gives Some History Connected With Estate in Westmoreland County, Va., Where White House Stories Gathered From History of Inductions Into Office of the Various Scions of First President’s Family Are Still Residents Presidents From Washington's Day to the Present Time HE Rambler thinks it was in k - - BY VICTORIA FABER STEVENSON the month of November, 1904, S 3 5 T E y NAUGURATION day invariably that he first visited the - T 2o} § i turns national attention to the 4 ‘White House and to Washington. 5 2 i ¢ Because President Coolidge de- in Westmoreland County. By St Y Fi il S ael s Jh I the rules laid down for writing a : i i parsde will not be as long as on story—rules laid down by men who 4 3 24 s ¢ & many former inaugurations, but never wrote a good one—that opening 5 Washington will turn out en masse sentence Is the worst possible intro- and visitors from all parts of the Na- tion will unite in paying respects to duction to a story. In the first place preal . the Rambler should not “think” it the President as he rides up the was in the month of November, 1904 § S ) 2 % Avenue. He should know more about it. A { c 3 Inauguration day is the only date successful writer must not think. He on the calendar when the Republic should mnot write “in the month of every four vears centers lts Interest ovember” because the matter would on its President and becomes reminis- :\ u::,jr ’!n )n\ m‘ |rv‘l”lrl\\ \f“hr w r:::vl cent of the official and unofficial lives “in November.” When a story teller of its former Presidents. And so, writes “November” even a reader while hailing Mr. Coolldge as the ought to know that the month of twenty-ninth man to be the Chiet November is meant. One ought never Executive, interest also extends back take chances on a reader knowing to Washington, the first. things, but now and then one meets Though his inauguration was nearly readers who can “get” a thing if two months late, both the parade and told it in English, but it's safer to inaugural address were instituted at i nare sttt 5 3 oA : that time. The first Wednesday in a 5 L S : ¢ March, which happened to fall on the v ought not to be begun with = X f $ 0 Vo 4th, as it does this year, s set for ® remark about the weather or the e - B ¥ “commencing proceeding: under the s Fhexe ey mofoonRneiy i MRS ! B F° - » i, new Constitution. It was impossible, beginning a story with “The lusclous 4 S A 3 s ¥ however, to obtain a quorum of the Eolden Suuthhly T X i RN ; : first Congress before the 6th of April, f' R e an § s 1789, as many of the members were | ol that the llac is a Fall flower $ owners of farms and plantations and er “"Twas a dark and stormy nigh 3 i : H i $ were unwilling to leave their homes ere is ‘xw more originality in that X 1 % g until after the Spring planting. :._',f\r;,.’"‘.“‘u“‘u',r,'“r"\;‘m“‘",;'; e L NN " After the electoral vote, was count- car - and enlightens vou with his % - : ed committees were appointed to opinion that “the weather ittle . e notlfy Washington and Adams of warm for this time o vear, but it . ; 4 thelr election. ~ Finally Washington iy e Butbre il hal s tann arrived at Gov. Clinton’s home in Wb wt kit to Tuvelsins s t i New York city from Mount Vernon in March.” and on the 30th of April was escort- Professors of English have laid - e . Z b, Rt A e aor s e T ey e e FRANCES WASHINGTON STANDING AT THE MONUMENT IN WAKEFIELD. pATEAsERefaral Tl iy ies o iman story and if you follow the rules you| G = S RER eckiNed A Bscial eugnel Gt will get a collection of letters be-|Mmother, Agnes Wirt Washington,|fore women began to quarrel over |Mansion—the Nellle Custis-Lewis ginning and ending “Returned iwith|lives there. Frances, now Mrs. Gar- |brige. I have seen 50 cents change |home, near Mount Vernon—restored thanks.” The way to avoid having|land Jones, lives on Church Point. hands in one of those all-night par-|it, lived there and sold it to the your stories returned with thanks is| * % * * | ties in the cabin of the boat that is|Misses Sharpe of Princeton, N. J. 1 to write 'em worse than anybody ND here comes a tragedy. There [R0 more. * | think the brothers thew bought a fa- elxe’ ('Hhe Duopert way: to bistic was Dan Wirt, brother of Agnes| Dan Wirt lived in a house that was|mous house in England and lived story is not to soothe the reader but|and grandson of Willlam W Taw. | ©ld, and showed its age, and which | there. to stun him. Jolt him as though a|yer and statesman, I cannot enter|had the name Bleak Hall. It belonged| Coming - back to Virginia, Paul iruck had hit him. Grip him with|Dan in these chranicles as “one of |t0 the Wirts two generations before | bought Gunston Hall, made it his the first line and he'll read your|the most prominent and best known | Pan, and for nearly, or quite, 200 |home, and sold it to Louis Hertle story until he sleeps | citizens of Washington,” but I ecan ! Years before had belonged to the But- | Next, Paul bought an old place of his- Let us take up the trail in Wash-|tell you vithout fear of contradic- ]! family. a member of which was| toric association near and west of ingtonland — Westmoreland — where | tion"—old and honored phras Jane Butler, the first wife of Augus- | Alexandria. The next time 1 met Paul for the peace of mind of the Sunday | that everybody in Westmoreland and | tine Washington, father of George|was at the opening of his play, “The editor we left off last Sunday. The|many bodies in King George and| ' ashington the Great. Great Lady Dedlock,” and he told me ‘Washington lands and families mittee. As he stood on an outer balcony of this hall Chancellor Livingston ad- ministered the oath of office to him in view of the whole assembly of people. The first March 4th inauguration | took place in Philadelphia, when | Washington, alighting from his coach and six, went into the Senate cham- mony, and made the great crowds|running mate. While the log cabin | desire to do the right thing. It was that attended his receptions and din- |and coonskin were used as symbols| because of the y taste of Abi- ners and those who came to call feel|of Harrison's simplicity and pioneer | gail Powers F his wife, that very much at home. Mr. Cutler, mem- | days, Van Buren was a: iled as ex- | Congress, by req furnished the ber of Congress from Massachusetts, | travagant partly because the White | money to fit up the oval sitting room who, in company with nine others|House furniture was “too fine for the| on the second floor as a library, from Congress, dined with Mr. Jef- | President of a Republic’ He was| When popular Franklin Pierce came ferson, noted in his journal that ' the |condemned in Congress for using aito Washington to fll the highest s ) 5 e ‘M- | dinner was not so elegant as those | §0ld spoon when a wooden one might | office of the Nation his baggage ws ball given that night by the Phila. |MeRU consisting of rice soup, roasts of ‘(’;‘; m)i Snfmfn w‘-s plated :nd the | trunks and two 1y i por delphia Dancing Assembly to the Sen- | Peef. turkey, mutton, ham and veal;| White House furniture was the prop- | manteaus. ¥ o vman { Assem € Sen-| ' tlets of ham and veal, fried beef, |eFty of the United States Government, | reccrded fin t! nt as being ate and House of Representatives, In |y oq°eggs, a pie called macaroni, fcs |PUrchased partly before his term of |a mile long. Rambler had breakfast at the farm | Northumberland knew Dan. It was a year ago last September |he was living in the Wirt home of | BOUOF of the Presidents re-election.|cream, pudding with cream sauce, |2Mce did not change the views of Mr.| " puchanan became President Laurel Grove, with Mr. George Wash-| So far as the Rambler knows, Dan | that the tragedy happened which I|Wirtland. e T e e e (ea] chvioes Cruitd and”'Plenty ~of = good| V"0 Luren & oypsers. just as the coun in its final ington, Mrs. Agnes Wirt Washington, | was not a lawyer and statesman, but | have in mind. Dan Wirt was killed by * % k% AN la oo Mived thove for | wines: After Henry Clay had done what he | ¥oment for th of war. Miss his_wife. and their children, Eliza-|he was hones( and agreeable. Also,|a bull on the Church Point farm. He| Paul seems to have a talent for | o (WU @06 SHEC TREE0 0] Madison's stay of eight years re- |cOUld toward putting out a fire in e, his 1 endowed with beth, Frances and George Lee Swan-|so far as I know, Dan did not wear |had gone from Bleak Hall to visit|old houses in the country. De gusti- | (005 0 Wiite House, from October, | stored full ceremonies to the social | the White House laundry one eve-|pes with an exquisite taste son Washington, the baby. Miss|a rosette of blue ribbon on his lapel, | Sister Agnes. The family wash was[bus non est disputandum chacun a | 1300 %o March, 1801, sace him the|levees of the White House. His|RIRE he said to Mr. Van Buren, “We and perfectly schooled in sc Fanny Washington, daughter of theland, so far as I know, Dun never | hanging in the yard and on the line |son gout, and all that, and some time | yooy, t0 Mavch, 1301 Bave Wm BHe| ‘oung wife, famed for beauty, led | WAt You out of the White House, but \ces, was the inspiration Paul may take a new house in the s e N IOn the fashion for court dress at her | W€ don’t want you burnt out. ife a Executive Man- city, fitted with electric waffle irons, | ¢ (PG xesutive Mansion = ion|famous receptions, which were prob- | When “Old Tip,” as Gen. Harrison . E Republican automatic ice-cream freezer, ete. You |, “o Frst & CPrT 0 O Ot his re- |ably the most picturesque ever held ( Was affectionately called, took up his| Court” was lancing on the edge all know Paul. Yes you do! But you | . niong in knee pants, long, richly |in the Executive Manston. The social |residence in the White House, he did|of a volcanc should know him. The Rambler | SePUORS 10 Kt Pants one oy [iite of her regime is probably more [0 With the Jacksonian {dea that the| Congress takes what follows from “Who's Who | ih “\ me * gilken hose and slippers|Senerally reported than that of any |mansion was really the property of | cheered th in America, 1924-1925": “Paul Kester, [ 2th rufiies sLCet BORe Snc o o e | other administration. Even when the | the people. On observing that his|North and dramatist, author. Born at Delaware, | *TpRIEAIER TP (TR0 S VO out the | British came to burn the mansion in |servant had shown a caller into a|more bitterness Ohio, November 2, 1870. Author “His | ., o'y 00 tten engaged in conversa- | 1814 they found a dinner which had [Toom without fire because his shoes| tory, than has 1 Own’' Country,” “Tales of the R tion with strangers that Mrs. Adams|been prepared for thirty guests and | Were muddy, the President repri-| A4 tnat period Gypsy.” Also numerous poems. Plays: | (/e W00 S R 0 i that he was | %0: before going about their work, [manded him. ever mind spolling | a5 eclected. 1 “The Countess Roudine” (with Minnie | prs oY oo e more re. | did justice to the deserted hot meats | the carpet,” Harrlson said; “the house | op pyg life, Maddern Fiske), produced by Mme. | Sro 00y B WEHEL 8 9 hearty | and cold wines. belongs to the people. ton for th Modjeska; “Zamar,” produced by Al-|{FIeC (ct o O iR Deople| President Monroe, the stately Vir-| This open-door policy, however, | with gre exander Salvini; “What Dreams May !, (ell as he would have liked to|&inian who served as the Nation's |hastened Harrison's death, for day by |early on Come,” produced hy Mime. Janat-{'eey Biate cothon s o1t tnen. | Read for two administrations, was|day he was besieged by officeseekers, |23, 1561, schek; “Guy Mannering” (new ve: et gpifae | conspicuous for his polished manners, |28 many as 12 of whom wanted the | Scott super sion), produced by Mme. Janauschek; i having been in public life from youth, | Same job. Tradition runs that his|made i “The Cousin of the Kin (with WIIL Jefferson succeeded him he | ig colonial dress was complete, even |d¢ath one month after inauguration | coln Vaughan Kester); “Eugenc Aram,” came to the White House In|to the revolutionary-style cocked hat, | Was caused by the mental turmoil in | inve produced by Walker Whiteside; | blue coat with gilt buttons, blue|and as he was the last President to [Which he was kept by officeseekers,but| fence was ere: s Nell of Old Drury,” produced | pantaloons and practical American | wear that head dress he was called | Physiclans attribute it to pneumonia. ther: cavalry England by ulia Neilson and Fred |shoes tied with leather strings, indi- | “the last of the cocked hats.” ‘When John Tyler took his place the | troops surrounded hi prevent Terry, in America by Mlle. Rhea and|cating that he had cast off “aristo- The receptions of his administra- 'hope of office ekers fell. The whole | disaster. Ada Rehan, in Australia Nellie | Stewart, in the Orient by Matheson | | Lang; “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” roduced in America by Julia Marlowe and in England by Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern There is a long list of other plays and their producers and the Rambler picks these “Mademoiselle Mars," Mrs. Langtry: “The Cavalier” (with George Middleton), Julia Marlowe; “Queen Fiametta (with Mildred 1d- rich), Julia Marlowe; “Dorothy Ver- non,” Bertha ( 2 revived “Love of a King Marie Tempest; Lady in the Case” Annie Russell; * Woman in the Case,” Beve ‘s Balance,” “The Woman in Brc and “The Great Lady Dedlock,” produced by Margaret Anglin. The Rambler believes, dear reader, that you are wiser than that reader who picks out other stories than his. He feels that unlike many STUDENTS AT WIRTLAND ACADEMY, NOW THE HOME OF PAUL KESTER, DRAMATIST. PHOTO- er readers, you have heard of GRAPH MADE ABOUT 1907. harles Dickens. He believes that R uT 190 P ~|you are a member of the Dickens Fel- !14)\\\)1i|~ and that the name Lady Ded- lock recalls to you & Leicester, the Ghost walk at Chesnew Wold, Mr. Tulkinghorn, Conver: ion Kenge and late Robert J. Washington of Camp- |joined the Rechabites or Jonadabs.|was something red. It may have been beliton was there If he did, he didn't last long {a rea tablecloth. The bull came out Chanpas at them sad., haye| Dan had one of those long, aris-|of the ficld through the fence of the con since the Hambler stopped there | t0eratic pedigrees which o many | vard. The red thing on the wash line t dawn in what he thinks was the | Persons talk about and a few have.|lLe took us a challenge, and he tram- | 7 ppy, John Jarndyce and his onth of November, 1904, Little Lee | When the steamboat tied up late at|pled things in the garden in a mad- | Erowlery at Bleak House, Richard night at Wirts Wharf, once a week, | bull way. Dan got a pitchfork to|{arstone, Ada Clare, Krooks and his Dan would come aboard. Dan, the|drive him out. The bull knocked Dan |“Rag and Bottle Warehouse,” Mrs. €08 BYEeY And i s cap'n, purser. mates and engineers|down and—-. It was one of the sad|J€ll¥by, uplifter of the natives of called each other by their first names, | things in oI’ Wes'mo'lan’ County oboola-Gha; Caddy Jellyby, old all around, was embraced | | < = ne v Novnah ol . Y e Turveydrop, master of deport- Groat Mvatory Veits'azd 'The and there was often an informal hGbgh the rse of his story ydrop por; it i 3 Though the cour of this story|p...i: Mr. and Mrs. Snagsby of Cook's of Laurel G burned and heaps of | PATtY. Al the passengers—some-[may siac there are some thoughts, | (* 3 . graried 4 locust trees, the | fore the old steamboat got into Mad- | Rumbler's mind which he passes on to | P4nd, who could talk as much and ruitful jushes and tall crape | 40X Creek {you. Paul Kester, dramatist and |34¥ as little as any man today; Miss Mvrtle s Wirt Washin It is not the business of the Ram- | otherwise litterateur, lives in the old | Flite, Mrs. Pardiggle, the charity col- ton built = yuse on the “low.r | bler to take vou into confidence and | Dr. Wirt house of Wirtland, which ;;1“\1' poor Jo, “L}” lived in “Tom- far at n int, where Mad- | give away the secrets of those in-|was a long time the Wirtland Acad- [ {1-Alone’s’: the Smallweed . tamily, or t Potomae, and mal part but he will go.so0 far|emy fom Young Ladies. The Rambler |J0bbling, Mrs. Sergeant Bagnet, with PROCESSION ON PENNSYLVA! UE AT THE SECOND INAUGURAL OF WOODROW WILSON. there Ellzabeth and Frances grew to|as to tell you that one of the amuse- | stopped there on one of his trips and "“fr ‘l‘“‘~‘ cloak and umbrella; Allan = —— belichood. Elizabeth, now Mrs. Bowie, | ments wis seven-up, a pastime fash- | made the picture vau sce. Paul and | Woodcourt, Inspector Buckett, Capt| . ic toppery.” It fs said that he|tion were fotes of unusual splendor, |administration” was one of storm.| Befors reading his speech, which vebuilt Laurel Grove, and with her ble in that part of Virginia be-| Vaughn Kester bought Weodlawn Vkimpole, Lawrence- Boythorn and |!00k the oath of office in his old sult,| for Washington soclety had by that |Cabinet officers were frequently |he had so carcfully prepared as to Heax Fathor Suriacraoh because his new one did not arrive in | time attracted many wealthy South- |changed, warm supporters became | have had it priuted and ov - e > y somny p time, on account of the bad conditien | ern families that had means to lavish | Tyvler's bitterest enemies,.and Con- | terlined with important statement The Rambler tells you with pride a g e ined al h : Sionnd s 1 SnD ot Ith LT R I0e oE e Foada on dress and in high living. gress seemed lined up against him. |he adjusted his steel-bowed tacles g R e e H Jefferson put an end to all cere-| John Quincy Adams, a President| After a company of unthinking|and placed his gold-headed cane on e doves In mite. Or moureal WM | ———————————————————| Who was son of a President, was the |politicians assembled at the White|thc papers on thec table to serve as S e dip S g (e most punctilious man who ever lived | House to state their grievances, Con-{a paper weight e, e e combey, Liz7le|ye or she will tell you the way tofin the Executive Mansion. The clock [sress awoke to the necessity of pre-| It would have been for Hexam, Gaffer Hexam's daughter:l.Nnls gannie Washington's” home. | was his master, for at 4 in Summer |venting a recurrence of &uch an in-{any one to take Lincoln's place as Ruth, the sister of my dear friend| “prom Laurel Grove the Ramblerfand 6 in Winter he rose. Then a|dignlty. A bill was introduced n the | President, but the assassin's bullet Tom Pinch, who was clerk to the|ioliowed the nearly level land for|cold bath, a four-mile walk to the [Semate providing for an “suxiliary|put Andrew Johnson in the White great architect Decksnlff, and Miss| 43,0t o mile to the home of Law-|Capitol and through the parks and |Euard” to protect public and private | House. Certa no President Bella Wilter, the daughter of RUMDUY | rcpce Washington. Lawrence, or|back home and he was ready to read | property and to enforce police regu- | faced a greater task, either Wilter, who _ clerked for Chicksey, | iy 01 Lal,” Is now 8 years old, but|exactly two chapters in the Bible. |lations. This corps, consisting of & |or soctally than that of htm;:lc;& \dn;;czl:s. were also girls| o (he Rambler first came upon| After this he read the newspapers|captain and 15 other men equipped | Nation together again afte e ved an ves. e wa v 6 S y ¥ y a a ) v lements” to distingulsh 2 restoring broken s se o ! & ‘ him he was only §9. Twenty vears|until breakfast at 9. From 10 to 4 |With “implements’ _ stingulsh | War, or restoring broken ties sev Well, Paul wrote “The Great Lady |20 q& Fot G0 O, each day. he attended to his officlal | them in the dischargé of their duties, | by hatred, and of satisfying two fa f’et"‘;“‘nd“"d hl’arf‘}”‘d";‘f:i‘"-]_)‘";‘ “A walk of a mile or so brings|dutles. After another walk he dined | Was the nucleus of the metropolitan | tions in a discordant Congress nted and comely, played Lady Ded-],,,, {5 the home of Lawrence Wash-|at 6. police of today. Johnson's fam »stenta- };’.f:‘.;}mn\ ‘Z&’rv"’if"&"fiin‘;“““;“ an|{ton, & descendant of Augustine| FHis evenings were devoted to social PR tious that the ned almost to L. RO S slan phrase, | woshington of Wakefield, brother of | dutkes and public business. In his . live in retirement but my recollection is that it was| g oloe'” \Washington. The by-way |administration the White House, and | | T 15 5aid that James K. Polk was so not a box-office success. T could check | (380 " Sior man traveled brought | especially the east room, was pro- | Slender that he wore his clothes O i i st e it up_on that recollection by calling|nim“\n to the kitchen door of this|vided with elegant new furnishings | Several sizes too large in order to ; S to Bill Landvoigt, in the next room, | W {heton home, where he met Mrs, | costing $14,000. appear heavier than he was. It s re- | UV order of (hings at the wWhite but Bill is busy and we will let the i e i corded that he was of a serious, sen- | House was banished. New furnish- recollection stand. My bellef s that | WASIRELOD: Bxplaining his mseion. b sitive nature. He was especially |ings and a chane in plan of house- ohathi er deprn“\ll,\. Reall?', ths pla; He hya;? -ilsm;:f ;a&;i"alrrese!nblan«'e augurated President he started |and took dinner at the White House. | Style more keeping with the was so lacking in indecency that the | %M asn 10N the Father ton re- | e Precedent for taking the oath of | The fact that John Quincy Adams,|dignity of hix Hefore his term Rt R Iacking 10 qroerhy Sl s La : on £ |office on the east portico of the |then in Congress, did not call always | President's wives had superintended What I am coming to is this: Pauj|ccived & patrimony and has lived a|Capitol. The first .great inaugural|grieved him. their own culinary departments, but wrote “Lady Dedlock,” a dramatiza- | lcisurely life as farmer and fsher- | crowds of visitors came to the city |~ When a troupe of jugglers performed | now & White House steward was Ir Rl i g 20 tag|man. He served through the war asito do him honor. Jackson, In his|at the White House he did not wish |stailed for the first time. For eight Tomne ot W ieand and the Haembias|a private soldier in the 9th Virginla|warm friendship, dispensed such | (o waste his time in secing them, but | years State dinners, brilliant Jevees Hlosier T PRl Yo jlen hile | Cavalry, and was of considerable poD- | bountiful hospitality that he was con- | his interest in the. visit of Mr. and |and receptions at the White Houss e o o e e e mele ularity With his comrades and his of- | stantly using money from his farm | Mrs. Tom Thumb was very marked. ffairs of national interest. Ris h 8 0“};1" & B (;1 Aoy T at|ficers, He is an affable and kind man | in Tenncssee to help pay the costs. In 1849 Gen. Zachary Taylor of Melah, the Itallan, who oTas, “’* g . and has the esteem of his neighbors. Martin Van Buren, the power be-|Mexican War fame was sworn into | complained that there was not enough Since that was written Mrs. Wash- | hind Jackson's throne, came to the|the office as President. This pleas-|Silver to spread a proper table, got TTHIS has been a digression. You!ington, who was a Miss Carter, has| White House a gentleman schooled |ant-faced gentleman, wWith snow- |up his dinners according to the “qua may have noticed it, and we will| passed to another sphere, bl:li!{ner- in the perfection of fashion and good | white halr, pleasing voice and courte- | ity of his guests” As the tabl step back to the house of Laurel|haps her soul dwells on the old farm,imanners. About the only unconven-|ous manner, won friends on every |seated only 36, it was mecessary to Grove and make a fresh start. Before | keeps guard over the children who |tional act recorded of him is that he | side. His appearance In public|make these functions weekly during starting let me tell you that Miss|live there and flits away to look on|went upstairs two steps at a time de- | brought forth such general applause | the short social season. Though some Fannie Washington, daughter of Rob- | those children who left the home.|spite his 5 years. Though party fac- | that he was accustomed to acknowl- | dinners cost as little as $300, the ert J. Washington, whom the Ram-|Uncle Lal's sons, Lloyd, Lawrence|tions were bitter during his adminis- | edge the compliment In the courtly |Usual amount allowed was $700: bler met there on his first trip to|and Henry, live on the farm and|tration, and campalgn enthusiasts|response: “Your humble servant,|but when Prince Arthur of Tnglani that _part o e country, is now |Miss Elsie keeps the house and acts|often became personal at his expense. |ladies: heaven bless you, gentlemen!” | Was a guest the nine-course spread Mrs. Spillman. I think she lives on|as mother of the family. The daugh- |yet he maintained his dignity. His sudden death of typhoid fever|for 36 cost $1,500, exclusive of wines the :Vlfll:;ng(nn h;’m hn( l;}nmnl;ell» ters. Isabel, s.mxe] n:d‘mm. I!;e Jln h(;exl\,. William Henr)‘( x-llucrfiuon_,rwh‘o 16 months after his inauguration | T’{j“«"‘nl?it ;'l»r the presidency was CMBERS OF THE WAS G “AD oL G E. NE. Pl ) - ton, but if not on it she lives close |foreign parts. Isabel, a graduate|had been governor of Indian Terri-|plunged the Nation into sorrow. 80 er in Hayes' time that the MEMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON FAMILY AT LAUREL GROVE, NEAR WAKEFIELD. PHOTOGRAPH |'% g 0. "5oon as you get down|nurse lives at Alexandria: Julla is|tory and had won fame in the Battle| Millard Filiers. aho teok Gen. | President himsel? was not sare of MADE IN 1904. FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: FRANCES WIRT WASHINGTON, ELIZABETH WIRT = ol = } < hi & . g WASHINGTON. SECOND ROW: ME. AND MRS, GEORCE WASHINGTON AND GEORGE LEE SW In 'King George County and long be- |a_school teacher In Kink George |of Tippecanos, was put up for the | Taylors place as Fresident was also |his clection until & fow days before SHIN R . AND MRS. G £ G G AN- |fore you reach the Westmoreland line | County, and Sadie, married, lives at|next Presideni e slogan “Tippe- | popular. He had the reputation for|Re took the owds of office. The first SON WASHINGTON. MISS FANNIE WASHINGTON OE CAMBELLTON IN BACKGROUND. Just ask any Virginlan you meet and!Akron, Ohio. i canoe and Tyler, too,” Indicated his|affable simplicity, frankness and al (Continued on Bath Dage) Swanson Washington died. ( Washington, who used o hook