Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-03-05
GIVE GEORGE A CHANCE
he WAS a sle MAN IN HIS DAY EVEN
W lie IS FORGOTTEN.

An Ineidens In . Building which wa.
Once the Headquarters Of the Father
Of His CouEsry-An Example of the
Changes That Tine Makes
Away down on Broad street there Is a
building In which great men used to
meet. but which they keep away from
now.
In II met stately George Clinton, the
no less stately General Knox. and there
General Hamilton drank wine or coffee
with Burr long before they met on-ths
fields above weehawken. Thomas JEFF
ferson sat and discussed politics in that
very house with Robert Morris and Ed
mund Randolph, and II they did NOS o.
ways agree II did not matter fer the mo
ment.
In the same days az odd times great.
dignified figure would sometimes ap-
pear IN an upper loom of this very house.
This man hhd large head. net al
swelled. and large feet. too. for tnat
matter. He stood head and shoulders
above the rest. and In stateIiness sur
passed them all He drank his rum and
Il
that was really good with that enjoy
ment that Is felt by the man who knows
the worth Of good vintage A dark look
ing man was near to attend to every de-
sire Of this stately man.
| The other habitues of the house treated
the dark man with familiarity. They
addressed him as sam, and called ON
hin from time TO time to hotly pursue
his boys from the taproom below to the
| room above with the tankards and the
crackers and cheese that were ordered.
The stately man was treated with rever-
ence-. Hats were of and tongues were
stin when he spoke, which was seIdom
They called him "Generai. and in his,
presence contentious minds forgot 20 dis
pute.a -.
THE HEADQUARTERS TODAY
For this was General Washington, and
the dark attendant was .Blaek Sam"
Fraunces. and the house was '.Fraunces'
tavern" u.f as
The other day a newspaper man who
still finds something To admire in Wash
ington visited this old tavern that. until
little over year ago. still bore ON its
wall sign that designated it as Wash
ington's Headquarters" The sign is not
there now. The old wainseoting Is gone
from the taprpom on the lower door.
The stairs that Washington aud Jeffer-
son. John Adams, Hamilton and the rest
4 OF them used in their day are torn down.
and bar, over which schooners of beer
are sold by "a stclid German gentleman,
stands where II did
You approach thu ,''long room, sacred
10 Washington and his officers, by an
entrance, ON one side Of which Is chear
barber shop. ON the other signs to the ef.
feet that you can get lodgings for gen.
tlemen only also liver and baeon, sauer-
kraut, kidney stew and other dishes Of
the kind for practically nothing.
, These delicacies are served In what
was known as the sIong Room" whers
Washington and his generals met In
their day II Washington and some d
tho stately men Of his day could now
visit this room at that hour of the dag
when kidney stew u most rampant they
might be a trife shocked.
In one corner of this Long Room,
where the dodgers eat. bust Of George
| Washington still stands Il shows up
! his big head and noae In u very fair way.
But when you see IL in room filled
with the odor Of iudneys. sanerkraut and
corned beef the effect is little spoiled.
. SHABBY TREATMENT.
Tradition has IL that man went into
the .sLong Room" not many months ago
and saw this bust II was In the morn
: ing, and the cooks had some cabbages
piled about the bust OF the Father Of his
.. Country. Perched upon the top of the
head, so to speak. OF the figure was the
|. battered derby hat of some person un.
/ known. This man was big man. SO be
kicked few OF the cabbages away and
threw the hat out of the window. To O
. German waiter who then appeared on
the scene hs expressed himself frankly
and freely.
How dare you treat figure Of George
Washington that wayy' he demanded.
"Vot George yashingtony said the
|, waiter. Then the American walked on,
: OF the place IN dazed sort Of way and
0 went mp Broad street Right in front oi
: the sub-treasury he noted the big statue
. OF Washington that stands there. HI
looked at the brightness Of the shoes and
stockings Ms they are represented n
compared with the general dinginess oI
, the rest of the figure. He did not know
. | that crank came along some time age
and frightened up the statue from tbs
| buckled shoe to the knee. for he ex
claimed in anger;
"Ef they haven't blacked his feet snt
! legs with stove blackinr No wonder
: New York didn't git the Worlds fair 4
! ! shes too mean 10 give George fail
A show"
1 Then he drifted sadly away. His re
marks were hardly fair. Still the SO
b ciety of the Cincinnati" has had it's head
) quarters in Fraunces' for more than los
9 years, and in that particular locality a
= least, to use the expression Of the rura
!. patriot quoted above, George Is no
= getting fair show. New York Re
70 corder.
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