Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1927, Page 30

\ 8 FRICHIE INCIDENT FURTHER REFUTED Nephew's Affidavit on Flag- waving Read to Oldest = Inhabitants. rbara Xritchie's poetry-immortal- flag-waving incident drew further tation from members of the As- lation of Oldest Inhabitants, meet- last night in the old Union Engine se, Nineteenth and H streets, when John Clagett Proctor, a vice president, read a ‘“‘supplementary” ‘Pager in answer to letters of commen- dation and condemnation he received following the publication in news- - papers in several cities of his original esshy on the much-discussed incident w§ch he presented at the November mebting of the association. In addition to the Frederick, Md. reminiscences, which resulted from Mr. Proctor's paper, the association members recalled several of the fa- mous “ole swimming holes” in Rock Creek, incidents centering about the lower section of Pennsylvania avenue and historical data on some of the District's old mills, all of which Artemas C. Harmon discussed in a paper he read before the ociation During the business session which preceded the protracted period allowed for remarks and reminiscences, Wash- ington Topham. chairman of the as- sociation’s entertainment committee. reported that plans for the celebration of the assoclation's sixty-second anni- Versary next Wednesday night. are completed. These include dinner at :30 p.m.. accompanied by a program of addresses by prominent Washing tonians and District officials, and will be held in the City Club. Mr. Topham told his fellow members. Nephew's Affidavit Read. Declaring that since he delivered his talk on Barbara Fritchie at the No- vember meeting of the association. wseveral defenders of Dame Barbara have rushed into print in an attempt to prove the story true,” while others agreed with him in branding the inci- dent “a fake, pure and simple.” Mr. Proctor, who said he had collected data on the subject for 27 years. read an afdavit given by Valerius Ebert, a nephew of Barbara in 18 He T vead: “I have just read a communication to the Sun purporting to set forth certain facts in relation to the life and character of the late Barbara Fritchie, the heroine of Whittier's celebrated war ym. It may not be improper to state that I am the nephew of *Dame Barbara,” and had the settling up of her husband's estate in the ca- peaity of administrator, This neces- sarily threw me into frequent com- munication with that aged and vener- able dame, “Barbara Fritchie, my venerable aunt, was not a lady of 22 Summers, as your correspondent alleges, but an ancient dame of 96 Winters, when she departed this life; and it is but truth to add that she never saw the inside of the Federal hospital in this city. Nor did she depart this life in Sep- tember, 1863, but died on the 18th of December, 1862. Nor did any of the Federal soldiers from the hospital at- tend the old lady’'s remains to their last resting place. This, to my certain knowledge, was a fact, no orders to that effect having been given. There- fore, none of these convalescing in- valid soldiers were at my old aunt's funeral. So much for this branch of your New York correspondent’s state- ment. Did Not Pass House. “Now, a word as to the waving of the Federal flag in the face of the Rebels by Dame Barbara on the occa- sion of Stonewall Jackson's march through Frederick. Truth requires one to say that Stonewall Jackson, with his troops, did not pass Barbara Fritchie’s residence at all; but passed up what in this city is popularly called ‘the Mill alley,’ about 300 yards above her residence, then passed due west toward Antietam, and thus out of the city. “But another and still stronger fact with regard to this matter may here ‘be presented, viz.: The poem by Whit- tier represents our venerable relative OO CECEECECEC== “EN-AMOUR?” (%) FACE POWDER — Latest French Creation HERE s FACE POWDER GOUPON P=O=0=>O =Yoo == o= WorthtoYou R g—— Only carton and perfume grade raw materials, Try this DD =D k manufactured in the United States owing to th American women. It is different from all others—finer. skin, easily spread. Exquisite! Lasting! Alluring! Beautif for 39c—Note the Absolutely no C.O.D. or telephone orders accepted on Saturday during this sale = = (then 96 years of age) as nimbly as- cending to her attic window and wav- ing her small Federal flag deflantly in the face of Stonewall Jackson's troops. Now, what are the facts at this point? Dame Barbara was, at the moment of the passing of that dis- tinguished general and his forces through Frederick, bed-ridden and helpless, and had lost the power of lo- comotion. She could at this period only move, as she was moved, by the help of her attendants. “These are the true and stern facts, proving that Whittier's poem upon this subject is fiction, pure fiction. and nothing else, without even the remot- est semblance or resemblance of fact.” Other Writings Quoted. Other writings quoted by Mr. Proc- tor 1n supporting his contention that Barbara could not have waved a flag at Gen, Jackson, included those of Jacob Englebrecht, one time a mayor of Frederick, and a neighbor of Mrs. Fritchie, who declared that neither he nor any other neighbors of the famous dent of the flag-waving until after the publication of the Whittier poem. “So far as Frederick is concerned,” Mr. Proctor read, “my opinion is that the real heroine of Whittier's poem Mrs. Mary Quantrell, though the statements In the poem would not fit her entirely either. “An interesting event taking place at Middletown, Md., after the Con- federate Army had left Frederick, is recorded by Col. H. Kyd Douglas. He sp s of two very pretty girls who rushed out of their home as Jackson and his staff were passing and d their colors defiantly in that gene al's face. He states the general bowed and raised his hat and, turning with his quie smile to his staff, said: ‘We in ently have no friends this wn.' After speaking to you I had a_delightful Hildeb Henry J. Robb, now dents of Washington at 4810 Con- necticut avenue. Mrs. Hildebrand told me that her mother, then Nancy Crouse, was one of the girls referred to by Col. Douglas, and that the other one was Effie Titlow, who married a Mr. Herron and who is living, or did live, in this city Mr. Proctor asserted that it not his intention to ridicule Whittjer’s poem but merely “to take side against what, in my mind, is an overdrawn | and misleading story He contended also that the question is not a “sec- tional one’ since residents of both the North and the South have written re- futing statements to him. Holds No Animosity. The vice president of the association indicated he held no animosity toward the city of Frederick when he read: “Frederick does not need this story for its continued existence or glory. It was a prominent place nearly a hundred years before the Civil War began, and even then it was as “fair as a_garden of the Lord.' It was one of the first places to send troops to the assistance of Massachusetts after the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. I am proud to say that my great-great-grandfather, John Hines, father of Christian Hines, who wrote ‘itarly Recollections of Washington City.” and who was a member of this association, was among the troops which made this long and arduous march.” Expressing the opinion that most written treatises on the Fritchie inci- dent are copies from a preceding re- port save for some peculiar change in detail, Mr. Proctor sdid that one writer claimed the flag Mrs. Fritchie waved was of the Revolutionary War period, but that the written piece was illustrated with a cut of a Civil War era Federal flag. That was but one evidence, the association member de- clared, of efforts to give the story *“kick and additional news value.” “I trust vou will see what I am driving at,” he explained, “I contend that the whole basis—so far as_ Bar- bara Fritchie is concerned—for Whit- tier's poem, is the result of the re- sourceful brain of a first-class news- paper reporter, and that the great poet swallowed hook, bait, sinker and all, and practically went as far as he consistently could in confessing as much.” ‘When he had concluded his essay, Mr. Proctur read several letters wri ten by persons who had read the re- port of his initial Barbara Fritchie refutation, printed in The Star of No- vember 3, and from those who quoted similar articles reprinted in papers of other cities. Among these was one from Mrs. Ella Morrison McFarland, Youngstown, Ohio, who declared her- selt to be the daughter of Mrs. Mary C. Morrison, one of the women who Cut It Out Now ONLY AT ing’s Palace’ TOILET GOODS SECTION One Box to 01d woman heard anything of the inci-| /o NG STAR. WASHINGTO! THE EVEN stood on the porch with Mrs. Quan- trell when the flag was taken from the latter's hand by passing troops. Mrs. McFarland heartily agreed with Mr. Proctor and sent him an affidavit made by her mother as to the truht of the Quantrell incident. Following Mr. Proctor’s reading, Dr. Willlam Tindall, another vice presi- dent of the association, read a state- ment which Thomas Buckey, a fr! nd of his in the Confederate forces, made to him in writing vears after the Civil War. After relating the incidents during which his entry into the Con federate forces were reviewed, Mr. Buckey, referring to the day on which Barbara is reputed to have waved her flag at Gen. Jackson, said he was lving on the pavement with other soldiers, about “100 feet from the home of Barbara Fritchie,” when he heard cheering. [Learning that Jack- son was nearing, Mr. Buckey wrote: Heard No Cheering. «I ran out into the street cap and saluted the gener 'ok off his cap and bowed to me, emiling most pleasantly. I then re- turned to my place on the pfl\'t‘)l_\ent, ““There was no cheering by citizens at any door or window. The general was then passing Barl Fritchie’s house. None but soldiers and moving. Later on that day, from every window on the street came cheers and waving flags, both Union and Confederate. Their cheers were for Lincoln, for Jefferson, for the Union and for the Confederacy, as the preferences of those who cheerad vere inclined. saw no one abused or restr: nor insulted in any way, W that immediate neighborhood late in the day, and I can say that I am perfectly certain that Gen. Stone- wall Jackson was long before su that morning as far away from I erick as South Mountain or its v itv. There could not have been & guch incident as related in the poem about Barbara Fritchie. Gen. Jack- son was not there; I am sure that she never saw him at that time.” Quotes Grandniece’s Denial. Herbert P. Gerald, a visitor to the association, attracted by the announce- ment that further Barbara Fritchie refutation would be offered at the meeting, told the members that he once wrote to Whittier asking infor- mation about the facts described in the poet’'s work. Whittier replied, Mr. Gerald said, that he had been sent lppings from a newspaper by a woman, later identified as Mrs. E. N. Southworth, describing the - dent. Mr. Gerald also said that on a visit to Frederick some vears ago he met a grandniece of Mrs. Fritchie who, when asked about the flag-wav- ing, declared emphatically, “Aunty Barbara never did wave that flag!’ The reason she gave, Mr, Gerald said, was that Mrs. Fritchie was “bedfast” at_the time. Tn his paper on Washington’s old swimming holes, Mr. Harmon ad: “As a boy 1 went swimming in Rock Creek with other boys in the neighborhood many times. The ewimming holes, as 1 remember, were Snaky Bottom, located about 100 yards below the Klingle Road Bridge at a projecting rock into deep water, which made a good living place. Here 1 learned to swim at the age of 8 or 10 years. Sycamore, located at the turn in the creek just 100 feet below the Boulder Bridge now on the Ada Mill road in the Zoological Park: Big Rock and Soldiers’, adjoin- ing. Jocated in deep water about one- quarter mile above Sycamore. At Big Rock there was a large rock project- ing into the stream, and from it the boys would do their stunts. The tast two places were frequented mostly by the colored boys during the day, hut in the evening the white boy ere often accompanied by their fathers or other older persons and took in Big Rock.” Remembers Operating Mills. Mr. Harmon here recalled that sev- eral mills were in operation when he and his campanions visited the Rock Creek swimming holes. He reminded the association that “‘our road to the Sycamore hole was out Nineteenth street, then across Kalorama road and down the hill, then across the little wooden bridge, then up the creek. passing a_good-sized stone house on the opposite side of the creek located at the foot of the hill on Adams Mill road, leading past the old colored cemetery just off Columbia road and Eighteenth street.” The stone house, Mr, Harmon said, was old Adams Mill, and at that time it was occupied by “a stumpy old white man, who had a vegetable gar- den next to the creek adjoining the @ CASH Y POWDER, this This Coupon In Love IN THREE SHADES: White—Brunette—Flesh and is absolutely free from lead, Box and is known for its fragrance. lnfd, more natural in tint, ing. “EN.AMOUR” (In Love) FACE POWDER is the latest French creation. The box, label, are manufactured in France and imported to the United States. 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Mr. Harmon said the mill house was razed in 1892 after Rock Creek Park had been established “Rock Creek often overflowed its banks in those early days,” Mr. Har- mon_recalled. “When a boy I re- member seeing the big, swollen stream nt the time of the Johnstown, Pa., flood, in 1889. 1 also remember see- ing Plerce’s Mill, which was located farther up the creck. Flour and corn meal were manufactured there con- tinuously In the eighties and before, and the old mill was, the center of busy scenes on the creek in those days. 1 remember the hum of the burrs and machinery, the® splash of water turning the great wheel, the running of the water in the mill race and the miller with clothes white with flour and meal.” Quotes Christian Hine. In the same paper Mr. Harmon read cerpts from Christian Hine's historical writings of early Washing- ton, including descriptions of scenes along lower Pennsylvania avenue. The paper prompted Admiral R. F. Nicholson, a member, to remind the association that Rock Creek once was navigable, and he recalled seeing a brig moored in the stream and load ing for a European port. Mr. Proctor recalled that Christian Hine “was the oldest-looking man I ever saw in my life—just a_mass of wrinkles!” During the buasiness session James F. Duhamel, chairman of the hall and archives committee, reported that the wall paper and pictures in the asso ciation’s meeting hall had been thor- oughly cleaned and that the treasured pictures, one of the organization's concrete assets, had been replaced in more logical grouping order. Percy B. Israel made a motion, that was unanimously accepted, that the com- mittee which arranged the renovat ing of the hall be extended the thanks of the association, and, acting for the body, Theodore W. Noyes, president, expressed the gratitude of the asso- ciation to the chairman of the com- mittee and his fellow workers. 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