Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 4

PRONPT APPROVAL OF HEHVAY SEE Congresi Expected to Vote! $1,000,000 to Start Mount | Vernon Road. Fi __ (continued reze) | to Wakefield. the birthplace of Wash- ington, and will qonnect up with the main highway between the North and | South The Mount Vernon boulevatd seems to have heen first suggested in 185G by M. B. Marlow, then treasurer of Alexandria, Va.. who suggested com bining the idea of the Appian Way at Rome and London's . \Westminster Abbey, with bridges over the various streams along the route as memorials to the grewt foreign soldiers wnu fought 1o aid the Amerjcan revolu tenists. Since then the project has been indorsed by every President and | Secreta War and by thousands | of Senators and members ol the! Houge, the Grand Arny of the L | public., Deughters of the ~American Revyolution. Coloniul Dames and other patriotic organizations and by the Mc- Millan Park Comnussion in 1401 National Capital Park and Plau- mmission and by the Commis Arts. ning slon of Fine Has Becowe Vital. | In a very elaborale and exhaustive offiels] report 1o Secretary of \\ar| Proetor in 1890, Col. Peter C. Huins emphasized the real purpose of the | proposed highway, "It doe | take of the nature of an ordin: of fpternal improvement. It it would be of great value to the smali | section of the country through which | 1t would pass, but to the Nation it has no pecuniary value. Irs real ob is Lo commemor e the virtu grandest character in Americ tory. It is to satisfy the cravi a patriotic sentiment that fills t hearts of the American people honor the name of Washington.” i= true that since Col. Hains ma that report the revolution of trar portation with the advent and com mon use of the automobile and the| increasing-tide of pilgrims to the tomb | of Washington have united to malke this memorial stretch u part of o of the greatest of our national hig ways, and necessary as an approach. An organization headed by John B. Smoot, then mayor of Alexandria, was formed in 1887 to work for thi: ject with Henry A. Willard of Washington. vice president; M. B. Harlow. secretary and treasurer, and E. W. Fox of the Washington National Republican cor- responding secretary. The following directors were elected (and this list includes the names of prominent civic leaders) who worked for many vears for the improvement of the Capital and its vicinage: From Washington—Stilson Hutel ins, Beriah Wilkins, Noyes, W 8. Knox, John Joy Edson. N. H. Shea, A. Greenlees, Mathew Trimble and F. Martens. From Alexand; Park Agnew, | M. B. Harlow, rlin, W. B. Smoot, J. K. M. Norton. Hubert Downbh: Jam R. ¢ ngs o1 | he | [T i M. Hill County—Joseph Moore, W. H. Snowden Sraham. J. £ Wythe Cook nty—Jos. L. Wil | lard, R. W. Moore, W."I1. Snowden and and Alex J. Wedderburn. “Phe "R, W. Moore” in this list is Represenzative | R. Walton Moore, now a prominent | member of Con; From Willard, R. J. Tabor J Clements and From Fairfax ess. who introduced both the resolution for the Memoriul boulevard to Mount Vernon and (o the appointment of the commission to plan for a fitting celebration of the bicentennial of George Washington's birth, Many Leaders on ‘Commission. Bridging over the fwo.score years that have since elapsed we today have the commission headed by President Caolidge. with Vice President Dawes and Speaker Longworth as ex-officio | members. now prepared to advocate thin boulevard as the Nation's most fitting tribute to Washington, and in order that it may be .completed in time for the bicentennial the firet $5:000,000 should be made available 80 that work can start in the Spring The other members of this commis sion are: Senators Fess, Ohio Virginia. and Bayard. Dela resgentatives Hawley, Ors Leader Tilson. Connecticut Texas, and Byrns. Tennes presidential appointees on mission are Mrs. Anthony \Wayne ook, former president general of the D. A. R, Mrs. Mary Sherman. presi dent of the General I'ederation of | Women's Clubs: Hepry Ford. Hanford | MeNider, Assistant Secretary of War, | Edgar B. Piper. publicist of Portland. | Oteg.; Bernard M. Baruch. Prof. Al | bart Bushnell Hard, with former ator Thomas Sterling as field se tary, and William Tyler Page. cle of the House, as executive secretary Three Bridges Needed. The shore route which seems to be | thbione Jkely t e ARPLONES Sroutd run along the axis of Columbia Island | and across the Virginiz end of the iighway Bridge; swing down on the Virginia side of the District and Vi | sifiis boundary line at Munter Point 216ng the bank between the Poiomac Freight Yard and the ¢ through Washington street in Alexanuriu. and | follow closely the route of the Wash. | 1ngton:Virginia street railwsy com- pany to Herbert Springs. Thence it| would follow the shore line through | ¥qrt Hunt, which is to be preserved as part of the National Capi‘al park | svptem and acros ridge ove 1ittle Hunting Creek the Mouni ! Vérnon statien. In fact it s contem. | Pipted that three new bridges vijobably have to be built 1his memorial boulevsrd IThe other routes follow the general | direction of existing highwaye swing ing through the Arlin ms ex- | parimental station which i a came an extension the Cémetery and sing through Fast Arlingion. down 1ween Del Rayv and the Episcopal Theological Seminary ta a J uth | of Alexandria citv. where v vqvor's stakes show one ¢ in| & straight line te Mou sttion. while the othe: taward the shore and arr Dyke and Warwick and Weliingion | Villa. thence curving back southeast-| ward into Mount Vernon station | Building Alters Plans. | Mhe country has been so rapidly byilt up in the last few years that the engineers making the survey found it weuld be impossible « se the route proposed by Col. Hains in his report in 1890, so the new routes have been staked out to.encounter 24 few physical obstacles as possible (It _will cost more than one-fifth of the entire amount to make the ills, and this it & pointed out | be made available by Chngress in the Spring so- that the flls will have time to-settle -before itl1a necessary to do the setual work of laying down the road. This pre- lifninary work naturally includes all Atainage structures. Not only is the readwa: ftself to bé unusually wide (o carry all the tifle of tourist traffle from the South 4 the Capital and pigrimages to Mount Vernon, bur & wide right of | wiay {8 10 be acquired so that the land on either side the road can h4 attractively landscaped. and with N P that in time the various Frates®will erect aionz e route e T Huse 31d of | be | sw intand | e | 1 off | curves | by Lewis Smoot of ,Alexandria, and it | voad. | Cooper | United | Lovd | Fairfax | Revolutionary fame. son of Virginia's 1 | buildings in which their industries will be exhibited and sites for statues of their outstanding heroes and | leaders. No area of similar size in the entire United States is so crowded with his- torical landmarks and places of in- terest to tourists and students. This} was deseribed by Charles H. Callahan of Alexandria at a hearing last vear before the House committee on roads, which ordercd the survey to be made. Arlington is s:tuated on a part of what was the original Howson grant. That grant was divided up, und fell into the hands of the Alexanders long before the Revejution. Tt was divided. and the upper part was received by one of the heirs, Jared Alcxander &nd the lower part became the prop- erty of Philip Alexander. The rour Mile Kun was the dividing hine. Bought 1,000 Acres. 1 | During the Revolution Gen. AWash-| fnzton bought 1,000 acres from Jared | Alexander for his stepson. John Cus.| tie, who ¢rected a very substantial building which goss by the mame of Abingdon. ‘There he lived. and there his children lived. Abingdon fs still standing and can still be seen from either route proposed for this read. Custis died during the Revolution, about 12 days alter the Battle of Yorktow: ‘The Alexanders eniered a suit to recover Abinzdon. It had been paid for in continental or provincial money and the money beeame useless. | Mre. Custis Jived th The property came on down, until it is now owned 1 | | stands today @ very beautiful home- stead. | After the death of Gen. Washing ton, George Washington Parke Cus: tis, the son of John Custis, who built Abingdon, purchased or inherit ed 1,000 acres that had constituted a part of the Abingdon estate, and there he erected Arlington House. That was after the death of mother, Mrs. Washington. in He first took up his vesidence in a small house adjoining this, where former Representative Philip P. Campbell lives now, and lived there until the completion of the Arlington House and his marriage to Mrs. Ran: doiph. Will Skirt Braddock Heights. The Memorial Boulevard will sKirt the hills known as Braddock Heights and Arlingion Heights. On the former Gen. Braddock's army \Vintered in 1 and from that point it started on iis disastrous advance in the Mon ongahela campaign. ‘There Gen. Brad- dock was killed and his army returned. | Washington, who was a major on Gen. Braddock’s staff, returned with it. This road will extend a short dis- tance below the site of Braddock's camp at this temporary site. The northern roud leading by it and divers- ing from it was known as the Lees- burg Turnpike. the first toll road in the United States, constructed in 1786. The Mem ! Boulevard will give | A command! view of the $35,000,000 Masonic emorial Temple to Wash inglon, which occupies 35 acres of | land in the western suburb of Al andrla. and which xtands 5 feet | above ground or 363 feet above tide- water on a pyramid of seven aces. The road leuding out on the south side of the teraple 15 the King's High way. Just beyond the temple it turns across what known now, and was known then, as Cameron Farm, which | was owned and occupied by Charles Broadwater, the colls ue of Wash- ington in the House o1 Burgesses. Alexandria Is Historic. Alexandria has a great many places of interest, tor example, Christ Church, in which Washing- | ton owned a pew and which he at-| tended for years: the home of Gen. | Light Horse Harry Lee: the home of | Robert E. Lee in his early lite, and of his mother, and in which he lived at the time of her death and from which Robert Lee wus sent 10 \\’(‘sl“ Point. Leaving the temple in ria one passes by Cameron Run | numerous his- places thut are plainly visible from this route, which foliows the King’s Highway. One of them is Clarens, the home of James Murray n. of the Mason-Slidell affair. he Daughters of the American Revolution are marking these histeric places as fast as they can. On the south side of the valley is | the birthplace of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee; the home of Gen. John Mason, the{ son of George Mason of Gunsten Hall. and also, by the side of the “in a house called Cameron, Alexandria into the which are lived and died G Samuel adjutant general of the, States Army before the war | between the States and adjutant gen- | eral of the Confederate Army during | that wa ! g pursui touri Hagle. where over Cameron Valley and | the old King's Mighway. the will pass close by Mount | the home of Bryan, the eighth | Fairfax—the last house visited | by Washington before he died. Bryan incidentally, was the last visitor 1o Mount Vernon before the zeneral’s death #rom this point the visitor will be able to locate and sec a part of the home of Gen. Thompson Masen of rge Magon, au- great statesman, rights and first thor of her bill constitution. lLeads to Postern Gates. Going on the tourist comes to Gum Springs. vight by which lived Dr. Humphie, Peak. Washington's near- est neighbor. The old house has heen destroved, but it ean be easily located. Bearing to the left at Gum Springs an go straight ahead and is known as . the postern gates or the western gates of Mount Vernon. This was the favorite snd historic voad traveled by Wash- ington in going to his home during his lifetime. There were (wo roads out of Mount Vernon. One was g sort of byway and the surveyors from the Bureau of Public Roads have marked one of them as a proper road | or cirele by which to get out from | of arvive there today. It was at the postern gates. the west entrance to Mount | Vernon. that the military and eivic | delegations mei Washington and escorted him to Alexandria. and. after his farewell address on the steps of the old City Hotel. which is still standing. escorted him to Analostan island. where he took the ferry across into Gecrsetown and the Mary Jland eccort took him in charge and escorted him through . Maryland to Delaware and & on to the seat of overnment in New York But ihese postern houses are still there. The postern gates, or rather 1he reproductions of them. are still tiere; and from this particular point there is a vista through to the west front of Mount Vernon. This has been opened up and restored as nearly as possible to the exact condi- tion in which it was in the days when Gen. Washington lived there. The vista was 200 feel wi either side of it was an opei land. kept clean of underbrush by Gen. Washington, so it would form a bordering park on either side of this road City Hotel Marked. There are a number of other impor- tant places along the route, all of which will be in time clearly defined by tablets. The old Clty Hotel in Alexandria has already been marked tablet has been placed in the wall of the present City Hotel to mark the point from which the survey .was made in Alexandria—the cousthouse in which Washington cast his last vote, and nearly all of his votes, and in which building his will was orig- inally recor It was from this peint where that tablet {8 now lo- cated——the old courthouse—ihu: the survey to locate the District of ‘olumbla was started {n' 1791 The firet corner ‘tu of the Dis- ROUTES STAKED OUT FOR BOULEVARD FROM ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE TO MT. VERNON TO BE BUILT BEFORE 1932 FORT HUMPHREYS ug§ Accotink triet of Columbia was laid with Masonic and civic ceremonies in 1791. That corner stone s still standing with the inscription cemplete. It is on what is known as Jopes Point. in the southeastern section of Alexan- dria, and is easily accessible and vis- jble from this road. It can be lo- cated by what is known now as the lighthouse, which is erected right Ly the side of it, and the southern line of the District of Columbla passes by the foot of the hill of the temple, and is incased in an iron grate. It is the old District line. The part that was ceded to the Federal Govern- ment by Virginia in 1780 was ceded back in 1846. But these stones have all been marked now. They are sull there, and in almost the identical lo cations that they were formerly. Many Washington Relics. On Shooters Hill. on the site occu- pied by the temple. or within a hun- dred vards of it. lived Ludwell Lee. He was the eldest gon of Richard Henry Lee. the Virginia patriot and sauithor of the resolutien that brought on the Declaration of Independence. tie lived there until about 1799, and moved to Leesburg, died and is buried there, and his first wife, who was the daughter of Charles Lee. Attorney General under John Adams, is buried there. The Masonic Lodge in Alexandria extremely valuable collection of Washington relics which are to be placed in the new memorial temple. and which are viewed by more than 50,000 tourists each year. These relics inciude an original painting of Gen. Washington for which the lodge has a standing offer of $100,000, paintings of Edmund Randolph, Dr. James Craik, Dr. Elisha Craik, who was with Washington during the whole period of the Revolution as surgeon general of the Revolutionary Army, was with him when he died. with his wife when she died and with his stepson, John Custis, when he died. He occupied a very peculiar position in Washing- ton's friendship. He was with Wash- ington in every battle that he fought from Cambridge to Yorktewn. There is also a picture of Dr. Dick, who was with Washington when he died, and cut the cora that holds the weight of the bedchamber clock and stepped it @t the moment of the general’s death. It was presented to the lodge by Mrs. Washington thiree days after the fu- neral. The painting of Dick is particularly valuable. - As master of the lodge presided at Washingt had charge of the [ Dol\l\(y er ™ Arhrigton < . Jack‘son Cs Arlingtong @ 4 'Addison ‘/a.fligh 0 t.[da De\Ray Lioyds 1 Bradpock | =3 7 = ALEXANID R12 | | NewAlexa I “N.Mt. Verr, Riverside ' S ForT S HUNT e i p INGTON Wl o He was the rangements at the funeral in censtant communication with | general during .his life. He was a Philadelphia man. He was made a Ma- son in Philadelphia, and came down to Alexandria just before the Revolution. Other reiics are the trowel. the square and the plumb, which were used for laying the corner stone of the Capitol of the United States. the Washington. The Charles Wilson Peale painting of Lafayette, presented to the lodge by an English admirer of Lafayette, the Pope Peale painting of | Washington in early life; the paint- ing of Nellle Custis, and & painting of Miss Nancy Fauntleroy, a girl who s supposed to have discarded Washing- ton, or refused to marry him. During a cengressional hearing on { the Memorial boulevard it was em- phasized that “ne man ever went to Mount Vernon who did not come away a better man. a better American, in- spired. and with a better feeling toward his country, icloser In contact with and knowledge iof the Father of His Country and | those histeric places in the neighbor- {hood.” | The Congress of the United States passed upen this matter ence, in this |way: The District Commissioners hag lacquired title to the land immediately |south of Meunt Vernon for the pur- ipose of erecting a prison camp there, nd despite the fact that the land i had been purchased and paid fer, Congress passed an act taking that |land from the District Commissioners and compensating them for the half that the Distriet of Columbia had paid, and sald in effect that there should. be no stripes in the vicinity of Mount Vernon save the Stars and Stripes. KILL 24 POLAR BEARS. Mrs. Louis A. Boyd and Party Homeward Bound From Hunt. BERGEN, Nerway, September 1% UP).—Having killed 24 polar bears and eaptured 5 live cubs during a hunt- ing expedition in Franz Joseph Land, Mrs. Louis A. Bovd of San Franeisco and three companiens have sailed for heme by way of England. Mrs. Boyd shot 12 of self. She chartered a v bears her- isel te take her party to the polar hunting fields, whers very unfaverable ice weather aacountersd, Bible that was used in the days of | having come | OWNER OF CAR HELD - | AFTER FATAL CRASH, Richmond Police Say His Driver's Permit Had Been Revoked. Liquor Reported, Special Dispateh to The Star RICHMOND, Va., September 18— t of F. O. Greene, owner of the | car in which Miss Mildred Clarke and Robert Lee met day morning: is taken to mean that the officers have struck a lead that may bring developments. Lee's per- mit as driver had been revoked. but ft was his car in which the party made the wild ride preceding the accident at a bridge, which snuffed out two lives and badly injured Greene and Miss Ada Chappell. Greene is now in the hespital of the city jail. and will be transferred to Henrieo County Jail |as early as possible. Miss Chappell is suffering from a fractured spine und Greene is hurt about the head Lee, a great-néphew of Gen: Robert E. Lee. served averseas as secend lisutenant. | The officers declare they foupd two ihames containing liquor In the wreckage of the car. When the po- lice gave chase the driver of the car in which the four young people were seated, quickly turned out the lights and then drove uway at a speed that distanced the officers. So complete was the wreck when the officers got to the bridge that they would have mjssed jit entirely had not the lights from another machine been thrown on the pile of junk. - | | READY FOR MELLON. Spic-and-Span Office Awaits Secre- tary's Return Temorrow. Mellon returns to his office temorrow., after his extended European trip, he will find it theroughly refinished. The floors were scraped and revarnished. walls and woodwork repainted, and rugs cleaned during Mr. Mellon's absence. Even the automatic eleetric elevator in use at the private en- trunee to the Secretary’s office refinished. Mr. “Mellon m'fi New York [} their death Thurs- | When Secretary of the Treasury | 0ld Autos Now on Exhibit. At the South Kensington Science museum in London a permanent exhibit of the first automobiles and moter cycles fs attracting crowds of curious visiters. The eariy locomo- tives and trains have been shown for vears, and the automobile and cycle exhibit has just heen added with the completion of the new galleries. When the exhibit was first ppened practical- ly all the schonlboys of Lendon were taken tc see it. “Where Security Isa Surety” M MORRIS A Mortgages Guaranteed by an Outstanding Surety Co. SEES TENNESSEE VICTORY State Democmtic Chairman Pre- dicts Triumph at Polls. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. September 18 ). An easy Democratic victory" for the entire State ticket in the Nov ember 2 general election was predict- ed here tonight by Ernest N. Haston. chairman of the State Democratic executive committee. “I do not mean to indicate. how- ever,” gaid A statement issued by Chairman Haston, “a lack of weil organized activity in the coming cam. | paign. “The inference intended is that our[ party machinery is in fine trim. even | better than twe vears ago. when we | put the party back on the Demo. cratic reservation in the State and | elected everybody, from United States Senator to constable, including inore | Democratic members of the legis | lature tham ever served in the body before.” SONS OF REVOLUTION | PLAN ESSAY CONTEST| Action Taken to Provide for Pa- triotic Exercises During Coming Season. Plans for conducting its annual patriotic prize essay contest among pupils of the public and private schools in the District and for decora- tion of statues of historic figures in Washington and the holding of ap- | propriate services were laid at the first Fall meeting of the board of man- agers of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, which ‘was held at the Army and Navy Club Friday. The meeting commemorated the 139th anniversary of the date en which the Federal convention recom- mended to the several States for ratifi cation the Constitution of the United | States, September 17, 1787 It was voted to award the custom- ary gold medal tor the winner of the essay contest and to present it at the public celebration of Washington's birthday on February 22. The board of managers also authorized the ap- pointment of a committee to co-oper ate with other patriotic, civic and | fraternal organizations to participate in the Washington birthday exercises. A committee also was appointed to ar- range for the commemorative church service of the society to be held Sun- day, February 20. Committees were named to place floral. decorations on the statues of John Marshall, September 24; Count Casimir Pulaski, October 11, and Baron von Steuben, November 15. ceremonies at the Marshall and Pulaski statues are in commemoration of their birthdays and that at the Von Steuben statue is to mark the anniversary of his death aboard the U. S. brig Wasp resulting from wounds received at the battle of Sa vannah, Ga. The following new members were slected: Lieut. Comdr. Glenmore F. Clark, Col. Robert M. Thompson and Percy R. Van Kirk. Eliminate the coil Reduce coal bills. night. Water Faucet est and largest 1305 G St. N.W. ] A PittSbu WATER HEATER WILL Eliminate overheated thumping boiler. Eliminate rusty water. 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Strong., who represented the Unitarian Laymen's League in the famous Tennessee evo lution law case, spoke to the subject Not Confined to South. Dr. Pratt pointed out, at the outset, that fundamentalism is not confined to the South. He said Dr. John Roach Straton has declared in 1 York that all schools had better be wiped out than to permit the theory of evolution to be taught, that scien tific text books had been used 1o kindle a bonfire at Morristown, N. J and that in Kansas City a funda mentalist had declared “that the Ger mans who fed poison candy to the children of Belgium were saints com pared to those who would teach chil dren to disbelieve the story of Gene: % “The Southern family. howe he said, “takes its religlon serious The Copernmican theory did not strike so vitally at the foundations of the Christian religion as that of evelution The Southern folks believe that the Christian church is based on the fall of man. And if there was no fall, evolution would prove, then he b lieves that the whole scheme of sal vation goes. “The best way to avercome this sftu ation is to start a fight—not only in the South but throughout the coun try—to teach a rational conception of the Bible. This association should be gin a national campaign of education to teach the people to study the Bible from a standpeint of common sense. Once that is accomplished, there will be no arguments about evolution. Sci ence will cease to appear in con flict with the church.” Dr. Crothers, pastor of the church that the late Dr. Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus of Harvard Uni versity, attended, declared America {s going through a ‘“spasm of ignoble fear” that is nothing more than a passing phase. 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