Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-27
The Oldest Of Colonial Capitals Lord
Baltimore and His Times rigi-
nal Pictures Of
George Washington, Lord Baltimore
and Conwallis-Jocal Option
Reduced to Practice what
Men and Women Say of IT. Mr.. Dohoney
viii Listen-The Woman Suffrage
Question in Maryland,
correrpondenee Of lhe oaaetle.


old people are its inhabitants. The
capitol of Maryland crowns lofty
hill overlooking n broad deep inlet
from Chesapeake bay. The bay itself
Is perhaps twenty miles wide, and the
view from the cupola surmounting the
state-house is magnificent; but not be-
cause Annapolis is below. The old
town constitutes an insignificant point
Of the landscape. In fact, 1t Is
only a narrow congeries Of old
houses about the hill on which the
capitol Is reared and this structure,
famous in the annals Of the country
because the continental congress sat
here when Washington surrendered
his commi .sion as general-in-chiefofth the
colonial armies, Is neither costly nor
beautiful. IL Is very like, in its out
lines and proportions and In its inte-
rior arrangement, the Beacon street
state-house In Boston. Thesame arch
itect may have planned both struc-
lures. AS In Boston, 80 In Annapolis,
there Is an older state or colonial house
This latter, in Annapolis, stands on
the side Of the hill and not far below
the more modern and more imposing
structure. or course the bricks OF
which this ancient capitol was built
were imported from England
and here the colonial coun-
Gil sat and Lord Baltimore
went In and out before the people. A
sort OF shed-room attached To the "sen-
ate chamber" ten feet square, the SEN
ate chamber not exceeding twenty feet.
was the Treasury" of the colony. !
found within IL three strong boxes"
made Of sheet iron and having great
locks and keys TO secure the money be-
longing TO The c0iohy. Ihe interior
walls of this Treasury vault are lined
with oaken planks an inch thick,
strapped TO the walls with sheet iron
bands an inch wide. A modern bur
glar would go through such deleuses OF
treasure without comforting the pres
ence of an obstruction ana these old
sheet-iron treasure chests, deemed
faultless security for gold and jewels
two hundred years ago, are
ridiculous originals of Herring's aud
other patent safes of our time.
AN OLD PLACE-mOIr
IVA INDICTED into this n.ant de-
pository of the arcSiyyes ~ LAND
by VIM. Camden, W.sno,,tS i.. vel. he
honorable office 0f viiv-vtsui be
treasure Of Maryl NOE forty
wears. His age Is eighty'nye, but does
not propose TO retire until ne mas
neered over into the twentieth century.
How small and modest y body was
the congress Of the United States
when convened at Annapolis was
forced to reflect by the statement Of
Mr.. Camden that the new and grander
edifice few rods away was unfinished
when the colonial congress came. The
apartment occupied by these law
makers was not more than twenty feet
square.
The ceiling is low aud the business
of law-mBking must have heen lack
ing in many mode IN appliances OF
comfort, folly and extravaganza, We
don't read, however, that these law
givers Were sutlocated or that n great
windmill ventilated the chamber in
which they sat, Perhaps those old
congressman, of 100 years ago, did moi
require so much wind. They published
no aerial Record" and II was not
thought necessary to delude conBtitu'
encles by producing the impression
great noise In the little capital. Ever
the senate chamber of the present
capitol of Maryland Is hardly large
than the leading oommittees' apart
ments of the federal capitol.
IL was In this senate chamber o
Maryland that Washington appeared
when the revolutionary war closed
Two of his aldes-de-camp stood behint
him. His body servant was not IA
away and there sat around the cham
Der, among the rest, James Madison
and James Monroe and Charles Car
roll ofCarrollton and Alexander Ham
ilton. Washington's left hand reste'
on the table in front of the president o
the continental congress when he SUI
rendered his commission as general-in
chief OF the colonial. army.
A magnificent painting descrlptiv
OF the event almost covers on
wall OF the senate chamber. Tn
likeness of every person who's
face appears Ia said 10 be eS
act. That OF Washington is ceTtainl
accurate as is that of Hamilton. on
cannot help wishing, however, whe
contemplating this portrait Of Wash
ington, and that on the other side {
the same senate chamber by Gilbel
Stewart, painted only eight or te
years later, that Washington grew oil
in appearance very rapidly. Whe
surrendering his generals commissio
he seems to be less than 80; whe
painted by Stewart he Is apparently
years old. He died at 81. This orig
nal picture by Stewart is that copie
In Weemsl Life OF Washington, whic
everybody read fifty years ago. VeT
certainly the father OF his country, ce
tainly IN the expression of his face an
eyes, was heavy and dull enough
correctly represented by this artist; pl
then his face wears an eminentlysolem
and benignant aspect and no doul
Stewart was already contemplate
him as the father ofhls country !
the gravity and dignity and solemniI
OF Washington many ascribe his fan
and greatness. He won single victor
at Trenton, such as In the late int
state war would hardly have been di
nified with official mention In form
ranorta Cornwallisl sword WAS All