Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1930, Page 4

\ a4 000 BRCKS MADE FOR WAKEFELD Primitive Plant Turns Out; » Supply for Rebuilding Historic Home. A primitive brick-making plant, such as was used for the manufacture of brick of which the Colonial mansions of Virginia, Maryland .and other American Celonies were built, has been set up and is now running at full capacity near the. site of the Wakefield Mansion, the house in which George Washington was born, overlooking the Potomac River, in West- mpreland County, Va. The “plant” consists of a rustic bower of small tree trunks placed upright in a circular form and covered with oak and pine branches to furnish shade for the workmen. The bower is about 30 feet in diameter and in its center is the “mill,” or mixing box. Here the clay is worked and mofstened into a suitable consistency to form “pones,” from which bricks are made. R Set upright in the center of this mix- ing box is a strong pillar of hand- squared oak, having fianges projecting laterally that stir the clay and insure & uniform mixture. Historic Home Being Rebuilt. The house in which George Washing- ton was born was burned Christmas eve, 1780, and its site later was marked by a memorial granite shaft, erected by Congress. Now, after 150 years, the historic house is to be rebullt, after | removing the monument, by the Wake- | field National Memorial _Association, | aided by the Federal Government and sponsored by the George Washington | Bicentennial Commission. ' Mrs. H. L. Rust of this city is president of the Wakefield National Memorial Associz- tion,. which is in direct charge of the rebuilding. Power to turn_the primitive mixing device for the brick clay at e- fleld is furnished, as in Colonial times, by & horse that tramps continuously in a circle about the mill and pulls a long, rustic pole that is attached to the central pillar. As the horse turns the mixer, a colored man shovels clay | into the hopper and adds water as required. The blades of the pillar are set so that they force the clay downward and it emerges as a heavy dough through & square hole at the bottom of the hiixer in a slow-moving mass. This mass is handled by the master brick- maker, who draws the lump of “pone” from the box and skilfully turns it in sand and drops it into a mold box, which has a capacity of six bricks. As ,each mold box is filled, the brick- maker draws a slat over it to insure “as=ness of surface upon the exposed ! e of the bricks. Dry in Sun Several Days. ‘The mold box, containing six fin- ished bricks, is taken by an “off- bearer,” who carries it to the “yard,” where the box is overturned upon a flat, sandy ground surface. There the bricks are left exposed to the sun for | several days. After they have been | sufficiently sun-dried the bricks are put into a kiln, where they are burned and made ready for use at last in re- building the house. “The kilns also are of primitive man- ufacture and will be set up at Wake- field as fast as they are needed to take care of the accumulation of sun-dried bricks. There is an ancient fiction, which persists with marvelous vitality, that most of the Colcnial homes, churches and other pretentious buildings of Vir- ia and Maryland and other original tes were constructed of bricks im- ported from England. It is true, ac- cording to historians, that a few of the early buildings_were built of bricks ght from England, but soon the Colonists began using the excellent brick clay on this side of the Atlantic— usually from a field near the home or church under corstruction—and there- after no more bricks were imported from England. On the contrary, many bricks were exported from the colony of Vir- ginia to other colonies, particularly to New England, in the Colonial period. Dimensions Conform. ‘The ancient craft of making brick by hand has survived in Vlrfl:h and other Southern States. At the Wake- feld plant, now in operation, not only are the bricks being made by hand, but they conform to the dimensions of the original colonial bricks—8% inches long, 2% inches thick and 4 inches wide. About 4,000 bricks, all moulded by a single pair of hands, is the daily out- | put at Wakefield. In the whole oper- ation of the plant there are only six workers, all colored men, including the molder, or master brick-maker, who stands waist-high in a pit by the side ©f the mixer and forms the “Dones” be- fore placing them into the forms. The brick-making crew is under the direction of a white superintendent, . R. Hedgecock, from North Carolina, ‘The newest of these employes has been Wwith Mr. Hedgecock for 15 years. They are kept employed almost continuously in the restoration of colonial buildings, Before beginning operations at Wake- fleld last week Mr. Hedgecock and his crew had been working at Williamsburg, colonial capital of Virginia, in the Rockefeller restoration program there, ‘The most interesting member of the erew is “Babe,” an ancient colored man, gray-haired and deaf, who is the master brick-maker. He has followed this trade for nearly 40 years and his unfailing deftness is shown by the 4,000 Bricks he turns out every day. 100,000 Brick to Be Required. The memorial monument, now on the Site of the Washington birth house, is being moved about one-fourth of ‘a mile to mark the entrance to the park that will surround the restored Wake- field mansion. The home is to be built according to plans drawn by Ed- ward W. Donn, jr., architect of this €ity, in accordancé with the lines of the original building. More than 100,000 bricks will be re- Quired to rebulld the home, and many more in addition for the kitchen and other houses adjacent to the mansion bouse, also for walls about the old Washington family graveyard and the ®ld garden. John D. Rockefeller, jr., who is re- toring Williamsburg, donated the land pon which the brick-making plant is Dow in operation at Wakefield. e YATICAN VACATONS \ ARE CONCENTRATED Administrative Offices of Church i Running on Part Time [ During August, By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, August 4.—The Bdministrative offices of the Catholic Church, which from this little bit of dependent territory govern the church oughout the world, are runn on f-time or quarter-time throughout August. All Vatican vacations are con- gentrated, as much as possible, in the nonth, The suprei <oty ths of the Vatican gardens, but prac- lly all his assistants have betaken ithemselves to the Itallan seashore, dakes, or mountains, or to Switzerland. ing ground. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUuUST 4, 1930. HANDMADE BRICK FOR WASHINGTON’S BIRTHPLACE A primitive brick-making plant has been set up close by Wakefield, overlooking the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Va., where bricks are being made by hand and horse power for ington was born, other adjacent buildings and the walls that will surroufid the old garden and the ancient family bury- in rebuilding the house in which George Wash- U. 8. Commissioner Holds Session By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4—A Court opened on Sunday for the first COURT OPENS SUNDAY day and 34 alleged prohibition law violators were admitted to bail by TO ADMIT 34 TO BAIL | United States Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter. ‘The Sunday ocourt was established as a result of a dacision by city magis- trates to accept no bail bonds for dry law offenders over the week end on the ground that professional bondsmen [] were splitting their profits with police- men. Suspects arrested during week ends have been forced to remain in "jail until Monday. Commissioner Cotter said the Sun- When City Magistrates , to Block Bondsmen. Act Federal time in the history of the city yester- day Federal Court “will mean fewer acteristic of Period of C BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR. At last the fact has been utah!lshed} beyond any question that at least a| part of the Old Brick Capitol, at the southeast corner of A and First streets | northeast, is the original building erected in 1815 by a Washington syndi- cate to house Congress after the burn- ing of the Capitol by the British on August 24, 1814. ‘The writer, in looking the build- ing ever, found that some enter- prising person had pecked away the cement mortar covering the front and north side of the building, and had exposed enough of the brick work to show that it was laid in the Flemish bond manner, typical of that so ex- tensively used in brick construction in this country even down to as recent as . Must Await Razing. Just how much of the original walls still exist will not be known until the mechanics razing the building, but it is believed, as generally con- tended, that the north and east walls —except where the present windows and doors were placed when the struc- Old Brick Capitol Proof Found Cement Covering Removed to Reveal Type of Masonry Char- onstruction of Building. | ture was remodeled—are of the orig- inal building and were not destroyed by the contractors, Dearing and Mor- sell, when they remodeled the build- ing into three dwellings in 1867 for George P. Brown, sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. Indeed, much of the belief in the originality of the building has hereto- fore been based on The Star's state- ment of July 13, 1867, in which it is said: “The old brick Capitol.—The con- tractor for converting the old brick Capitol, now the property of Mr. George P. Brown, sergeant at arms of the Sen- ate, into three dwellings was yesterday awarded to Messrs. Morsell and Dear- ing.” Some Still Doubtful. However, this was not satisfactory many ho contended that the entire buflding was razed and that “Brown's row,” as it was called by some, was erected from the ground up, and even the word of living witnesses present at the yemodeling availed nothing. But | War is, of course, well known. now the indisputable facts present themselves, and_the old wall, in all its old-time glory, is seen again as it has not been seen for more than 60 years, and we knew that it is really a part of the old brick Capitol where Congress met from 1815 to 1819, where James Monroe was inaugurated in 1817, and where John C. Calhoun died in 1850. The fact that it was used as a prison or political offenders during the Civil Knowing that Herndon Morsell, the well known singer, was the son of S. T. G. Morsell, who as a partner of G. T. Dearing had the contract for remodel- ing the brick Capitol, the writer got in touch with that gentleman, who said that he always understood from his father that the old brick Capitol was only remodeled and not rebuilt, and if seeing is believing, then the picture of the wall as here shown should settle the matter for all time. Dog Spirited Away. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. August 4 (®).—T1 the State of New Jersey wants to execute “Jiggers” it will have to extradite him first. “Jiggers,” a 2-year- old wire-halred fox terrier, wag sen- tenced to death Saturday by Recorder Altman for biting a woman, but his mistress Mrs. Dora Gauker, spirited him to the home of her mother in New York. 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