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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930. Tearing At the top is the being torn down, along restoration of the old rova colonial drawi Editor of three corresponder and NEA Ser , desd greatest restoration project tory—the rebuilding, 1 Rockefeller, Jr., of istoric town of Williamsburg, \u town, capital of the provinee colonial days, is being restored to exact condition of 200 3 120, at the cost of millions of dollars. To- day’s article des »es the old ch and the governor articles writ for th John { old Ths ircin Washington, Dr. William A got the idea of Virginia’s old-tim liamsburg, to its colon w] f began with his own —Bruton Parish The building 1710, its histo; and it is considered Episcopal church in contit in America Bruton built in 16 was settled Ir 1674 it brick church, Virginia's coloni=l moved to Wi Jamestown in 16 came the church of the ernors, that brick build clared inadequate by the structu that now Took Out Modern kqui Dr. Goodwin = terior. All of “furnishings werc building wa nial aspec canopy p ernor's pev Few churches in Amer more historic than this on Its baptismal over which Focahon head when she embraced tianity. The bell in its rung in celebration of the stamp act in 17 the British fla from the capitol Cornwallis surrender town in 1781 the church are the grandfather, grandmot great-grandfather Washington. The brick wall of yard was erected in is worth noting vestry refused to the ground that it . built that it would ch Parish ct when Middle place 15 was e 1w royal ¢ with the up over the colo- NTE ro font s bow tower t d s In the cl of nre 17 and that the churc for it, c $0 T soon topy oor Ree zovernor: Johu ioodwin liome ssor into nal W ng on's ring olonial condi of of law \ p palace D. old financial Rockefeller, bought cht a p 1 set to work condition the Te Probabls whole netion palace its 1 i of and nder in wreh ari the America, propert 1t 1i for the | an old 1 dollars Jr., Down New School Building To Recreate 0ld Governor’s Palace church suppoct Dr. dilapidated George Wythe, first V\")-‘d“.; stepped down adjoiu has built a school house just outside of town, to replace the one that is to be destroyed. When Willilamsburg was made ‘mf capital of Virginia in 1699, jatter the burning of Jamestown, | Governor Francis Nicholson decid- cd he must have a suitable palace. | Work on the building was started in 1705, and the palace was ready | tor occupancy in 1712, It stood in the middle of a spacious tract of land, surrounded by eclaborate gardens, a lake and a deer park. Govern Alexander Spotswood was |the first of the royal governors to | occupy it. | In this palace the colonial gov- crnors held their court, on a more dazzling scale than anything else in British North America. Ti ralace became the social center of America. Brilliant balls were h in it, attended by cveryone in th- English colonies who really ma tered The gay times lasted until Then the colonial temper became 5o inflamed that Lord Dunm the governor, had the supply | powder transferred to a warship {in the river, and the palace was transformed into a fort lest the cclonists attack it. In 1781, lowing the American victory Yorktown, it was accidentaily burned when American troops were quartered in it, and enly its | fcundations remained. Two ad- jeining buildings were spared, but in the Civil War they were wrecked to provide bricks for the construction of Fort Magruder. But the whole thing is to be ° | restored just as it used to be. The rehiteets' plins for the pala have been found in a British mu- seum. The old will come into being again just where it was before, and it will be stocked with deer just as it used to be. The old gardens will be laid out on just as they were I ockefeller's money wagnificent new their old lin vhen bewigged and beruffled dan- their gravel:d | walks with the colonlal belles on Turning | their arme, ke a historic place. Yorktown Th ob w th omas Henry dquarter rects on biggest i be oval di t1 (i recot- governor's | redevelopment of 1c Destroy Many Buildings Be tarted i a jo dozen ind job ion b ne ) schoo hous a can & = in in 1 of itself even to fear bullding wred laundry UIHO rail- mile will cost | addition house and offie, | to restore it to its| the | headquarters | campaign. | voung men who stud-| its original occu Jettersoa, & from | the | Williamsburg ck a Tomorrow: son studied spoke. Where Thomas Jeffer- and Patrick Henrv it | Briand Goes to Paris To Consult M. Tardieu | London. March 20 (UP)—Aristide Lriand, head of the French delega- Lion to the five power naval confer- | ence, left London this forenoon tor | Paris. His trip was understood to ‘ be for the purpose of consulting Pre- | mier Tardieu about the conference. He said he expected to return to Lngland with M. Tardieu at the | week-end. of COAL O CE ROBBED Iurtford, March 0—Poging as a collector for a clothing company, a youthful bandit, after loitering about a | the office of the City Coal Company, 1 [ held up John Fleming, clerk, anid forced him to hand over nearly $159 in cash. The youth escaped. H: wore dark clothes and a soft gray hat. te Grown in Nature's Gardens "SALADA" TEA “Fresh from the Gardens” In Packets and Individual Tes-Bags 717 played by Ben Pollack and his orches- tra—OUT TODAY —at newsstands and better music stor —unanimous choice of Hit-of-the-Week Music Jury—Flo Ziegfeld, Eddic Cantor, Vincent Lopez —as the week’s best dance piece. Hit-of=-the=Week ords ... 550 Save money on Hitof-the-Week Needies — {inest quality —only 5¢ for 50 — all newsstands fol- | at| 52,000000 LSS IN REFINING FIRE Pier Burned Also clals estimates today placed the loss in a fire which swept through the at Girard Point last night as in ex- cess of $2,000,000. The tank steamer Hagan was badly damaged and a pier nearly half a mile long. 15 tank cars and a big warchouse filled with oil vats, tanks and drums werc destroyed. burned, but the vessel listed and bottom of the rive before the fire W settled on the partly submerged, of oil. Members of its crew of 35 leaped into the river and were pick ed up by tugs and police boats. All were reported today to have heen ac- counted for. © 1930, R. J. Reysolds Tobacco Y, Winston-Selem, N Tanker Badly Damaged—Long| Philadelphia, March 20 (®)—Offi- | Gulf Refining company’s reservation | Most of the Hagan's superstructure | | reached its cargo of 70,000 gallons| A scorc of fire companies and sev- eral fire boats fought the blaze | under contrel. |Miss Du Pont to Marry George Phippen Edmonds Wilmington, Del., March Miss Natalic Wilson Du Pont who, despite the wealth of her family, ha | been working for several years, engaged to be married. Announcement of her engagement to George Phippen Edmonds, son of | Frank Edmonds of Boston, was made vesterday by her father Lammot Du Pont, president of the 1. I. Du Pont De Nemours and company. The announcement did not | Mr. Edmonds is 26 and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to Wilmington four years ago and is cmployed as a chemical engincer by the BLond Manufacturing company Miss DuPont has been employed for several years in the st partment of the invest Laird, Bissell & Meeds 1t's time that April Ad dept. Camel Cigarettes. for three hours before it was brought state | when the wedding was to take place. | ent firm of | rent—Herald Classified | 20 (P— | ‘Back Wickersham o Asking | fundamental drys to begin to think ahout | DRYS NOW BELIEVE N SMAELER UNITS State Enforcement of Law Washington, March 20 (UP) — Drys are looking with new interest on the proposal of Chairman Wick- ersham of the president's law en- forcement commission for putting the onus of prohibition cnforcement on the states. Previously drys were skept hut recently a number of the more im- portant witnesses before the house Judiciary committ including as Joseph Daniels former retary of the navy, and Samuel Crowther, economic writer have urged as a solution of cx an‘ conditions the placing of in ed enforcement responsibility states. on such | the | |of | additional enforcement burdens, the |idea being that enforcement will be | better all around when its responsi- bility rests heaviest on the smallest group. Would Arouse People spirit of the people for en- ment can better be aroused, they say, when pressure for it comes from nearby rather than from far off Washington. This is the old idea first expressed by Wickersham in a letter to Gov. | Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York last fall. There are many here who believe Wickersham's views may prevail in the final report of the commission. They believe this is the one foremost |'possibility which may grow out of the present agitation, despite the fact that some drys fear it will lead to the cventual withdrawal of federal enforcement. The chief difficulty with the pro- posal is found in wet states like New [ York and Maryland which have no |state enforcement act. This difficully stressed when Wickersham's s were howled down by drys at time they were submitted. he constitution looks to all parts the government cooperating,” The | for i‘ the Some even haye gone so far as fo| Daniels said in approving the plan demand that the various citi 1ccept | generall ‘1t calls for concurrent ac- Standing out as the better cigarette THE SINGLE IDEA of superlative quality was the inspiration for From the time when the first Camel Cigarette was made that onc idca has set Camel apart. A policy of better tobaccos, combined in an incomparable blend, manufactured with the most exacting care—all to assure the utmost pleasurc in smoking. That is the ideal and the practice back of every package of Camel Cigarettes. It has made Camel the most popular cigarette ever known. More millions have chosen Camels for smoking pleasure than ever accorded their patronage to any other cigarette. for pleasure CAMELS | e | fion. The states are morally bound to join in enforcement and I think we should stress the increased re- sponsibility of the states and cities. Some members of the committee, including Representative Bachman, democrat, W. Va., also adhere to this view. Bachman believes the states arc twiddling their thumbs, saying, “Let the federal government do it.” Another outstanding dry, Daniel Roper, former commissioner of inter- nal revenue, was called upon to lead the dry testimony today. Mrs. Lena Yost, in charge of wit- ness arrangements for the National W. C. T. U. said she had applications from 50 real estatc and business men and home builders who desire to She was unable to say when she would conclude, but there is no possibility of finishing today, she in- dicated. ADS |USE. HL] ll\ll) CLASSIFIED ‘OUGHS | < “VIEKS 12 MILLION JARS USED YEARLY

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