The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13

The photographer was out, but doubt.
less II he had been in be would have
stood stoutly by the old lady's memory
and his pictures. ~
Tbs house was pulled down in 1869,
and there are those who do not b esi-
tate to cay that the authorities of that
time found it convenient to widen the
creek at that precise spo. in order to
destroy that monument to Barbara
Fritchie's stanch loyalty. On the
other side, the non-believers in Dame
Barbara ridicule the idea as ahsurdly
false. Canes we're made from thu
wood OF this house AMI sold at the
Centennisl-hundreds of them, with
o certificate attached.
To return 10 old Jacob Engelbrecht,
the tailor. who lived opposite Mrs.
Fritchie when she waved the flag, and
who was glad oft. Honest old Jacob
has Joined the majority. but he has
left diary behind, written in every
line and day By day himself. This
was seen and found to be full inter.
eat.
OLD JACOBS DIARY.
On September 9th, he wrote: "This
morning about 3 q. m. the re bels took
possession of our good city. One
thing ! know, We put ourselves into
the hands of the Lord, who has
watched over US so many years, and
we we're fully assured he would not
forsake US in time of need The
old gentleman is reported by s
grandson to have been an AboIitionist
fearful name in those days-and
perhaps his fears of p rsonal Injury
were lot ill grounded. But he makes
no mention OF Barbara Fritchie wav-
ing the flag. 1t is not probable. il
such a noteworthy..sact had occurred,
coupled, too, with the important event
of the Confederate army occupying
Frederick in force, that John Engel-
brecht would have deemed it fitting
OF honorable mention in his quantity
expressed and curious diary? I can
scarcely be considered probable that
he would have omitted it, unless, in
deed-ss was pleasantly suggested by
a Fritchie partisan--unless Jacob was
hiding in his cellar at the time and
was afraid to show himself. This,
however, we must decline to believe
OF old Jacob. who later on in bis
diary. and when the stars and strips
again waved over Frederick, entered
this: 81 must say this rebels behave
themselvas yell ~ They left Oh the
10th, after buying everything in the
shape of wearing apparel that the
stores of Frederick had in them
That is to say the advance guard
did. Those who came afterWard go
nothing and Left as ragged as they
had entered.
THE GRANDsoN's STORY.
Louis e. Engelbrecht, the grand
SOD of Jacob OF the curious diary 81
we'll kept, says of the Barbara Frit
chic story that his grandfather die
not believe in it. he lived opposite
and must nave known of a circum,
stance so fully in accord with his owl
feelings, if it had occurred, but tn
old gentleman never failed to de
nounce it as fiction which had nj
foundation in fact.
Such ale the conflicting versions o
the story of Barbara Fritchie. Elk
haustless inquiries simply duplicate
these. But Whittier's poem ha
niched old Barbara Fritchie amonl
the heroinee, and she stands Their
looking out bfavely. She lies in To
graveyard of Frederick, and hun
dreds go there every year to do he
memory honor. This is fame. Th
ssroophagus OF Alexander coult
claim no more. And this only tn
humble resting place OF an, Ole
woman who waved o fsg-in a poem
and waved il perhaps nowhere else