Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-06-04
G. wAsHuNGroN,s CoURTsH1P.
Snubbed by One Woman, He Falls In
Love with Another at First Sight.

Snubbed by One Woman, He Falls I'm
Love with Another at First Sight.
Washington Letter in the Chicago News.l
Two persons did not succumb to this mar
velous authority of Washington. One was
the woman he married and the other was the
father of another woman whom he once
wanted to marry. This was Colonel Gary,
colonial magnate, and descended, as all the
Virginia Carys are, from that gallant gentle.
man, Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland. Wash
ington dearly loved Mary Cary, the mag
Mates lovely daughter, and Mary hankered
after George. But when Washington-then
plain Mr.. Washington with surveyors Ii
cense in his pocket-asked for Marys hand
her purse-proud old dodo of father replied
that his daughter was accustomed to ride in
her coach, and as Mr.. Washington wasn't
able to supply that essential luxury he would
be compelled to show him the door. 1t was
but a little while after this when Washing
toms magnificent conduct during and after
the Braddock expedition had made him a
very distinguished man, and when the Earl
of Dunmore, the colonial Governor, ex-
pressed a desire to conciliate him being
the most considerable man in the colony
that old Colonel Cary would have been glad
enough to have yielded the point about the
coach and taken him for a son-in-law. But
Washington had then met and loved Martha
Custis-a woman whose amazing grace and
beauty ought to relieve him from the suspi-
cion of marrying her for her fortune.
Washington was victim to love at first
sight. He stopped for few hours one day
at the ''white house, on the Pamunkey river
in Virginia and for the first time met the
fascinating widow. He travelling on
horseback and his only companion was Gen
eral Braddocks servant, Bishop, an old sol
36,l
from his dead commander. Bishop was Or
dered to have the horses ready at four o'clock
in the afternoon. Promptly at four Bishop
was at the door. But Washington did not
appear. The afternoon waned, but Colonel
Washington, he was then, although the
soul of punctuality, had apparently forgot
ten that time was flying. An order came,
however, for Bishop to be on hand at nine
o'clock next morning precisely. Nine o'clock
came and so did Bishop, but not so Colonel
Washington. All the ive-long day stood
Bishop with the fretting horses: no sign of
Washington. At nightfall came another
der. Colonel Washington would not need
his horses until next morning. One can i'm
agine the feelings of Bishop when this news
was conveyed to him. Next morning-not
indeed at the appointed hour, but well on to-
wards Washington appeared and rode
away. He was the affianced husband of the
woman he had never seen only week be-
about the pretty widow and her family-one
of the best in the State-and the pretty wild
ow was equally well acquainted with the
handsome, the dashing, the Immediately
correct Colonel Washington. Perhaps it was
a put-up job on him. Who knows? The
Presidents house in Washington was called
the White House a compliment to Nine.
Martha, who had been the chatelaine of the
other white house.
One hears much of ''the earlier and purer
days of the republic" but the truth is a
form and state were adopted by General and
Mrs Washington which would not be tolera-
ted for an instant in the President of to-day.
At their levees they received standing upon
a lofty dais. Imagine the roar of indigna-
ton that would go up now if a two-inch dais
were introduced at the White House-nay,
the bare suggestion of introducing one.
Washington also conceived when he was
President that he had right to influence
legislation and spent much of his time in the
halls of Congress. When legislation was
going to his liking he would not interfere,
but if it did not suit him he would march
into the House or Senate, seat himself and
scowl around with every indication of dis
pleasure Frequently members were not
brave enough to face his mighty wrath, but
sometimes they did, when Washington made
no effort to conceal his disgust. 1t must be
borne in mind though that there were no
precedents in republican governments in
those days. Everything was new and natu-
rally followed old forms It will he remem-
bered that it was seriously proposed to con-
fer the title of High Mightiness upon the
President John Adams, who was the son
of tinker, was dreadfully worried over the
lack of titles in the new republic. Edmund
Randolph, who was the son of gentleman,
told him that titles in republic or anywhere
else weren't worth al forget what particu-
lar form of objurgation he used, but it was
exceedingly foreible. Benjamin Franklin
then gravely remarked that if the President
was to be His High Mightiness the Vice
President could be called His Superfuous
Highness,