Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MARCH 15, 1925—PART Interest Is Aroused in Belief That Irish Discovered BY ROWLAND THOMAS. and after pa through a | N i of darkness, which may very L second 1 wh AY o [ have Leen the fog banks off Research in the Vatican and Lateran Libraries Brings to Light Some Valuable [ i voui i diica siaria foundland, he came to & bright| | last, after many peril » reached AR o B S 1 | Material Bearing on the Old Legend That St. Brendan, Called “The Navigator,” an | | i o Vi ays till they £ d a great river | discove f the Ame ndins plainly | Wik it the Saar e o e ant i leish Mlsswnary B1shop. Reached the Mainland of America in the Centurles Before "["“-'“ 1akthe yags 1912, He couldn’t hav broad for them to cross, and th established his colony. found here SO wor | S s o o eeren| | Leif Ericson or Columbus—Tales of Hardy Adventurers in the Days When History | |15 o Gisiid has at one . farther, f how would St. Brendan | them. But clashes between the in for ura y every T nd na- | pave | ‘ into warfare, which became s0 s Fhoenicis : : is a fascinating story, full of tan- that Karlstefni had to abandon his Joost i talizing gaps, but cqually full of star- first colony and build another settle- | Spaniards ment further to the North. Here the Skraelings were less troublesome, But internal dissensions arose, and in 100 he colonization enterprise was aban tling possibilities. It is all summed| We have, Plato and other writars| Leif, who grew up in his colony and, venturers in the Greenland colony|Landing, he found the well-wooded Christopher up in Look t painstaking | speaking in good faith of Atlantls,| was destined to win Immortal fame |shared this urge, and in the year 1000 | soil bringing forth an abundance of the Welsh i s holar, the Rev. Father I De Roo, | the land that sank beneath the West- | through a misadventure. By some | Leif Ericson sailed clear to Norway | grapes—a eircumstance which mad Irish vh the material for it out of | ern Ocean, and the Egyptian priests|one of the numberless strange con-|to get King Olaf’s commission to|him christen it Vinland Whether or e the Vatican and Lateran libraries, and | telling inqui old Herodotus | tradicitions of human psychoiogy, the | teach the gospel. Eric and his men bullt huts and|dcned on that account. The traders it now s y he Vatican secret archives bout it. Coming down to Christian| gentle doctrin, of the new faith,| On the retu voynge series of | 1jved shore awhile, recuperating |started back to ( ¥ their two Christe . times, the stream of mention keeps| Christianity, had made instant appeal | savage gales drove his Viking Yat|from the fatigues of their vosage. | ships. That which bore Karistefn up, always casual, as of 4 reglon uni-yf to the fierce hearts of the Vikings.|far off her course, and when he &t[They saw no people save thmecives, |and his wife Gudrid made port versally known and ueeding no tur-| They were eager to hear them |last made a landfall it was 10t on|But they did find leathern boats and | The other, wormeaten by wn written history is | ther exylanations. The legend of St.|preached. The handful of bold ad-|bleak Greenland, but a smillng coast. ! s just like thos a|in warm waters, foun honlathon of Phocnicia, | Brendan is born as early as the sixth | by Sk o Tski-| half its small Crew time about the | contury, and 200 3 r o pope mos of | Treland with a th © the twentieth cen-|in a bull, appoints an archbishop for i - s | heroixm of thelr ore Christ. And he, F: the lands and Islands of the West 3 7 A son Cycutualiy Kot Back | berately sacrificed points s 'cas mentioning a other localities v . spread far 2ad wide amons e cat.| young cubin Hoy mi Oceun. The old Egy s| A few ries more, and the lust . bt Sl b S e ame thing, and the | haze of vagueness lifts. The Vikings > E L e e et b 8 [Within Homer, talks of v~ | begin their voyages of explora- a suficlently famous BerdonaEs ty he eria on the western | tion and we enter the realm of his- [ 5avs & saga crow un srora conscious eartt meria be torical ¢ int | later. ~ Karistefni set out to him ever wrdin The « written evidence of the % s | the land Leif had discovered by acc e last hist Qiscovery and colonization of tireen- dent. His first attempt was an ut Northmen is in a work by { fallure. He mude @ second. a anon of the church at e s o B Bis searching ere he went about the | he first encountered a hitherto S i . it It he Helluland, works of Moses, stone 1y from the sail be soth islan of the Gospel be Adam also mentions but less definitely, 1w King it ts name ndance of grapes there he second oldest witness is Ari Thorgilsson (died 1148), the first his- torian of lceland. Arl says he ot story from his uncle, Thorkil who got it from & com- Eric the Red, the discoverer f and. He was he discovery occurred | the teenth or fiftecenth Winter be- fore tha formal acceptance of Chris-| tianity by the Icelandic Althing, | | | which took place in the year 1000 So Erics disc is definitely placed AXD now vide or the story | u please—links up un- expectedly with the mythology of ancient Greece and Phoenlcia. Eric the - Norse accounts go, named new island Greenland in pious fra He wanted colonists. But if he told them they e bound for a narrow | strip of f tten grass with a wall of glacier-covered mountains for a background, they'd be few and far So he gave the place a und is the great-grand- inscrupulous promoters. explanation, in Father De opinion, is far-fetched, es when you have the real one staring you in the face from that old papal bull, promulgated | least 200 years before Red Eric| hoisted sail or dipped an oar. Kron- | land—not Greenland—the land of | Cronos, fabulous Cimmeria, lying just | THE LATE MGR. LUKE EVERS, PASTOR OF ST. ANDREW'S ROMAN where the cient geographers put it. | CATHOLIC CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY. A STANCH SUPPORT- | | Some of the oldest of all survivine ER OF TRADITION THAT CENTURIES BEFORE COLUMBUS - S BE R e it he THE_ATLANTIC COAST BETWEEN CHESAPEAKE BAY AND NCIENT STONE CARVING OF QUETZALCOATL, THE LEGENDARY MEXICAN “FAIR GOD. WHO ST. PATRICK'S BELL, WHICH HAS AN UNBROKEN RECORD OF | Lhat bereal stretch of FLORIDA WAS “IRLAND ED MIKLA,” OR “IRELAND THE ACROSS THE SEA FROM THE EAST IN A “SHIP WITH WINGS” AND MAY HAVE BEEN AN 1,400 YEARS. The red-headed pioneer had a son GREAT.” IRISH FOLLOWER OF BRENDEN, THE NAVIGATOR. OF THE SIXTH CENTURY Peggy O’Neale Once a Storm Center of the Executive Mansion BY OLIVER P. NEWMAN, i va > custom > in which the| W ights were of almost | pert, saucy manner made her the pet | Pretty Peggy. to whose charms he | (whose memory he held sacred) in “Proof: Bring me proof! Vaughn, the strat even ceurrence, and Gen. Jackson |of the habitues of the taproom, the|was no more insensible than any of | the scandal, and the reason th no words Baron Krud enitiarh 15 self imported his best birds from |toast of the town, a breaker of hearts | the scores of others fluttered st curious page of W | The two pastors said could | Minister. These three, with offi- » Hermitage to participate in the [and the despair of the grand ladi sut her. It was not long hetore the | I ry hel had been mar- | prove their charges, which w their head, went into battle who protested at her shocking be- | gossips were busy i v A yo v to & Vir n g Timberl n in Peggy's by v v t ar | ght of the dueling |havior, but were suspected of being |tor Eat nd Pegg) & 1 named r whom g New York hotel. 1In |ecally solid Te of 4 s S crica, and hardly a morn- {moved in their condemnation of | only made the independent, spir- | she did not got fashion Jackson turned [of Washington into SoHA! eaie abati 5o, ot B edriiint . that two hot-blooded | pretty Peggy by an entirely different|ited girl show him more and mo short time and which he |against them, and and most picturesque oecupa o itle not meet at B drl,_w‘«lumvm\. aroused because so many |tention. Then came a bombs ing was he v P and his iept Secra- for two vears. Peg's the White House—Gen. Andrew Jack- t tisfy their grievances on|attractive men spent so much time|Timberlake committed suie a|Then news ci by word | tary Eaton were 52 ners and & nd w Son field of honor. It was a swash-|at O'Neale's when they might have|foreign port—and the gossips said it{of mouth or 1ly means of | preachers appeared, tterly Ay to \ pretty barmaid, transformed from | VUCKIINE, boastful, prideful time, |been dancing attendance at the great|was because of Eaton's attentions to|communication) that Robards had ob- | sustain their charges and were su r and dis eper's daughter to a cabi- | Yhen men talked expansive with | houses of the socially elect. Mrs. Timberlake. t d divorce by of the Vir-| marily ordered out of t te | Berrien, Ingha » large complim , bowed gracefully| At the height of her reign as * * * | gix islature. A short time later | House by sident ated by over ladie nds, took snuff and|wQueen Peg o' the Tavern” this “pert HATEVER th use, Peggy|Jackson, then a rising young lawyer |gave up his pew in church and |to wh nk much d often. It was a s Trish-syed Kathlsen Bavobr. mourned her departed purser|Ool” Nashville, and Mrs. Robards w never entered that edifics again Fatons wer e o sparkling seial activity married John Bowie Timber- east outwardly), for a shockingly married. Twc rs lat they learn-| Gen. Jackson thought h trial had | time ev 2 ivable sort of st Balls, routs, ievees, drawing room | purest in the Nave. but: the |brlef period, after which she was basic]80; for the firat that she was | cleared Peggy and wou the at- |scandal and gosaip conce o eI bt ik ot and dinners held ' constant sway.|young husband soon had to sail away |in the. taproom, as gay and saucy as|not divorced! The news came in|tacks on her, but it only added fuel ors in this strange dra g room. Gen. Jackson g and lfl:]hs, young matrons|on a ship for a long absence, so|ever. Then her dear old friend, Gen brutal form-—through Vh: filing of to the flame. Three members of his|about ff’rn’rl‘IV to lip, wh R ouat of Miraair old, dignified, austere statesmen | peggy went back to the tavern and |Jackson, was elected President of the | dlvorce suit by Robards, ch & | cabinet had been appointed at Vice |caused half of the cab o Indiz mpalgns, d | frivolous younger politiclans all|rpqumed her lively activities as bar- | United $ Senator Eaton and she | that his wife was living in ¥ | President Calhoun’s sugge to speak to the other But onG wenber of hig G : S w themselves into the gayety,|majd. At this time she first met (and | were married In January, before Jack- | With one Andrew Jackson Jackson and Calhoun were of public business tn Cor the pastor of his church ou f which was a continuous performance | straightway idolized) Gen. Andrew |son’s inauguration, and a few d The charge was technically true|friends, personal and politi 3 in the executive departme White House and n 1 7 from mnoon one day until 3 or 4|Jackson and his beloved wife, Rachel, | before March 4, 1829, it was officially [and the divorce was granted, where- | Were Attorney General Joh 3 came to a stands In the sident of th ted S ock the mnext morning. HoOP-|who were living at the tavern during | announced that Eaton would be Sec-|upon Jackson and Rachel were re-rien, Secre of the Treasury t not a whisper of all -the 1l bocause \ i gay-turbaned ladies, in peri-|the general's term as United States |retary of War. married. No criticism was ever lev-|uel D, Ingham and Secretary of S published in the newspapers. would mnot 2 3 ' wder and patches, trooped to | Senator from Tennessee. There was| Then the tongues began to wag in|eled at them in their home com-|Navy John Branch. All were married ghot ie whole two vears i " to > 1 i . where membe welcomed | cemented the friendship which ex-|earnest. From a person who had|munity, where the fac were all d the wives of all three were sec- | Was all a i-of-mouth battle 1 them to seats on the floor, and gossip | plained Old Hickory's staunch de- | merely made them lift their eyebrows|known, but the story was dug up in|ond only to Mrs. Calhoun in host it was ove w never so furious and spicy iIn|fense of Peggy later, for she became | and shrug their pretty shoulders, Peg |the 1828 campaign and used all over | to Peggy Eaton, | One international episode ocecured ole history of the country. like a daughter to the elderly couple, [ now became a menace that caused the | the country, which Jackson always * % k¥ At a d r given Baron Krudener Bl and as a daughter Gen. Jackson loved | great ladies of Washington society to | believed caused Rachel's death on T the head of the cabinet, as Se the wife of the Dutch minister, Mme. most romantic spot in this|her when he returned to Washington | burn with indignation. Beginning |the eve of their departure for Wash-| &X' retary of State, sat Martin Van | Huvgens, refused to sit at the table world of romance was the|alone to take up his duties in the|with Mistress Calhoun, the wife of [ington for his in iration, and after | Buren, the “Red Fox of Kinderhook," | because the position of honor was r 1 om of O'Neale’s Tavern, on the | White House. the Vice President, and extending|the neighhors had worked for a|who, fortunately for his own pol 1| given to Mrs. Eaton. She rose, called §14). Pennsyl ave S of the road to the artisto- | Jackson never forgot the tender af- | clear down the line of officialdom, it | month outfitting Mrs. Jackson with a | future, happened to be a widowe -|her husb and left the room been openc ts un oved | crat ge of Georgetown, less|fection which had existed between|was “thumbs down” for Peg o the|wardrobe suitable for her new sta-|did not arrive in Washington whereupon, in the dead silence which | condit e of 4 1 mile beyond the Presi-|“Rachel” and “Little Peg” Upon|Tavern. A barmaid as a cabinet lady! | tion. | two months after inauguration, w followed, pert Peggy trilled a nd Ea 1 er r resl L wet F 1 o Ma Here the gay, proud [ many and many an evening he sat be- | Never! A campaign of conversational | This experience planted a bitter- | the Peggy O'Neale row was pling laugh and exclaimed: ion Pegg: dry « spirits of the gay little capital, the|fore the fire in his library in the|slander and social ostracism imme- [ness in ckson's heart (especially | height. Perhaps it was his kindly| ~Has not madame a beautiful s of any nee to r n ere e |rich young bloods from the Virginia |President's Mansion, with Peg nestled | diately followed. Practically all the|against Henry Clay, whom he be-|peart; perhaps it was his sagacity | Carriage! F - thelr own retir i Maryland plantations, the adven- |on a footstool at his feet, his favor- | women, led by Mistress Calhoun, took | lieved instigated the use of the story) | and knowledge of Jackson's charac-| Mme. Huygens was reported to|M i m a cle Jicturesque foreigners of the|ite miniature of “Rachel” propped up arms against “that awful Peggy |that affected his whole life and re-|ter; perhaps it was the fact that he |have sald she would give a dinner Jns and the youn 5 against a pile of books on his desk, | Eaton,” while all the bachelors and |mained until his death. When the|wag himself the son of a tavern keep- | immediately without inviting Mrs and Navy gathered nightly while the two who lov8d the departed | widowers (and all the hus who | Washington gossips, therefore, ex-|er, but whatever the reason b aton, and that Mistresses Berrien toast and revelry—and for a|wife best talked of her fine heart, her | dared), became Peg's champions. | plained Gen. Jackson's defense of | promptly put on his best bib and | Inghai nd Branch would quickl smile from the red lips, a nod from |noble soul, her unseifish devotion and |None was so vigorous, determined and [ Pegey Eaton on the theory that!iycker and called formally at the|follow suit. the dark head, a bright sally from |her deeply religious fait loyal as Gen. Jackson, who smashed|“birds of a feather flock together”|home of Secretary and Mrs, Eaton W hether. api ot (he fhreat ws the sk ton a slap from the| While Timberlake was aw v | his clay pipes on the stone hearth of [he became more indignant than ever|ang pretty Peggy flew over to the |actually made, the four dinners w dainty fingers of Peggy (Mar-|also met Maj. John H. his library fire by the dozen, pounded |and more determined than cver that|White House that very evening and | give in quick succe et) O'Neale, the danghter of Billy | lant soldier, who had his desk with his fist, reared his wiry | his protege should be exonerated. | le, the jovial Irish proprietor of [other Senator from Tennessee. | gray cockscomb pompadour into the| The ¢ overnight, was the cause of ntroversy, i ich Old ¥ of the gay “capital in the pered the good news » the old | Hickory smashed another pipe, a A pastor of the principal Fres-| President's ear. Which may explain |out another “By_the et n: 1 | Staunch and long-time friend of Gen, |air and swore “By the Kternal® that |pyterian church of the city, where | the entry in Van Buren's diary where | swore the Huygens should be ladies, 4 ther, ‘ez frequently s barmald | Jackson, he naturally took up living | Pretty Peggy must be accepted! | Jackson, though not a member, paid |he comments on the warmth and cor- | off home forthwith, sur t a rare beauty, | quarters near Old Hickory, which 2 It was not long before the £0ssips|for a pew and frequently attended|diality with which Jac slapped | name's Andrew Jaskson!” T services, joined with a P adelphia [him on the back and called him|matic Van Buren, however, calmed |of preacher in making charges to Jack-| “Matty"” the next time th met down the fiery old warrior, obtained |cently son against Peggy. The cld war- The Postmaster General, William |from Mme. Huygens a written denial| was RODUCTION OF AN ENGRAVING OF THE COMPLETED CAPITOL, MADE IN PEGGY. O'NEALE'S TIME. SHOWS THE BUILDING AN OLD PRINT OF HISTORIC ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AND THE WHITE HOUSE. IT WAS MADE ABOUT THE TIME PEGGY O'NEALE FLIT- “:grm THE RESTORATION AND BEAUTIFICATION OF THE GROUNDS FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION BY BRITISH SOLDIERS, ___ TED BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN HER FATHER'S TAVERN AND ANDREW JACKSON'S LIBRARY.