Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-20

ing health. was q man of great energy and he
secured large donations and beaucsts from
former graduates and friends of the college.
The largest Of the donations came from Mr.
James u. Coleman. OF California. amounting in
all 70 S20.0GO and from the heirs OF the late
Thomas Dougherty, Of Canada, S5l coo The
rise IN value of some real estate which the col
lege owned and which it was enabled to sell
Tor about $4,000. was also of very material as
slstGnce in iQuidating the debt that had been
incurred ON account of the new building.
THE BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS.
OF course when father Carroll fixed the loca-
ton of the college upon the picturesque bluff
which overlooks the Potomac. he had no idea
that the capital of the then infant republic
would be located here, but he buiided better
than he knew and the university and its beau
tiful grounds now form one of the most attract
I've features of the national capital. At the
entrance of the grounds two whitewashed
gate-houses which look like guard houses.
and which were used such during
the period that the college was occupied
by the soldiers in the early years of the war.
Nhen hostliltleS commenced in 1861. and the
troops came to Washington. the college was
converted into barracks and the students and
professors were crowded into one building for
about three months. The Sixty-ninth New
York Irish regiment was the first 10 DE quar-
tered at the college, and when they were or
dered to the front they were replaced by the
Seventy-ninth New York. Scotch regiment
After the departure of this regiment. however,
the college was free from military control until
the following wear. when, after the battle OF the
Second Bull Run, the building were taken for
hospital purposes and so occupied for about
year.
The playground occupies soIre half dozen
acres of green swGrd, divided into two nearly
equal fields by road bordered with trees. The
field to the left of the entrance is used for the
-lapri oh \ 4 L.
of brick at its upper end, ike the standing center
wall and gable of a ruined house which used
to stand there. was the bowling-alley Here,
III former days, the students used to play hand
ball. OF which the modern base ball. with It's
professional players. its rules and leagues is
an evolution. Here. too, the students used to
meet sometimes to settle their little differences
IN stand-up fight. although the spot chosen
most frequently for the adjustment of differ
ences by this method was 1.-The walks"
The origin of the charming woodland prone
made known az 1.-THE walks il said to have been
an ordinary cowpath. fist enlarged by the then
owner OF the land in 1926. Upon his Joining
the order of Jesuits a lay brother. soon
afterward, he extended his labors. and. with
no other assistance than a spade and a natural
taste Tor landscape gardening, he produced a
little sylvan paradise. Starting from the green
house and gymnasium. at the east end of the
north building. 1.-THE walks" wind along the
sides of a romantic, deeply-wooded glen, in an
lrr gular semi-circle about the college build
ings for nearly a mile. Through this glen runs
little rivelet, and the deep shades of the pine
and poplar trees form an ideal spot for revery,
and surroundings which are calculated to bring
out the poetic side of ones nature. Here has
always conferred much of the poetry and pleas
ure of college life; here the student came to
engage in both physical and metaphysical con-
tests-to test whether he or his adversary was
the better man. where the fight would not be
likely to be interrupted, and to cram for ex-
amlnatlons in natures cool silence. Here. too.
in the old days when smoking by the students
was forbidden by the faculty. the youth would
steal off to indulge in the luxury of furtive
pipe. There were times when the youngster,
wrapped in contemplation and smoke would
be startled by a heavy fOotstep and turning
his head would find an amable professor stroll
ing down the path putting a cigar The free
masonry of the weed always secured the
scholar from being reported, and the two
would automatically place pipe and cigar be-
hind them as each lifted his hat in salutation.
1.-The walks" are free now. and smoking is nc
longer forbidden to the senior class but it is
hardly possible that the practice is so greatly
enjoyed by the students as it was when a ban
was placed upon the habit. The grounds CON-
prise In all lj6 acres, 81 of them woodland.
TWO HISTORIC CANNON.
Before leaving the grounds reference should
be made to two historic cannon which now
mount guard at the eastern entrance to the
new building. They stand on grassy mounds
supported by their trunnions on roughly-cut
blocks of Potomac gneiss.. but their story runs
back to the first Catholic settlement of Mary
land, for they were brought from England by
Leonard Calvert. the first actual governor of
the colony of Maryland On the 22d of No
vember, 1853, (thirteen years after the first
voyage of the Mayfower to Plymouth) a party
| of about 200 persons, led by Leonard Calvert
sailed from Cowes. Isle of Wight. The little
| fleet consisted of two vessels-the Ark emblem