Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-12
LIKE MOUNT VERNON
THE HISTORIC OLD MANSION TO BE
REPRODUCED AT CHICAGO.
Mrs. Bsate Thinks she VIII DO Able to
Furnish II with Little Dsfi,cuity-Ths
Prospects bright.

Mrs. W. r. Beale, Of Botetourt. tho
lady assistant to the Virginia Worlds
Fair Board of Managers. has just re-
turned from visit TO Mt. Vernon in the
interest Of her board. While there she
was the guest of the Council OF Regents
OF tho Mt. Vernon Association. She is
now stopping at tho residence OF her
sister, Mrs. A. Il. Boulware, No. east
Franklin, where q representative OF the
DrspATcH met her and had a very in
teresting talk over her plans and pros
pocts for the ladies' part of the work in
connection with the great worlds show.
Mrs. Bcale il very enthusiastic as TO
the work she has in hand, and talks very
encouragingly about il. She says she
was at Mt. Vernon during the annual
meeting OF the ladies' association by
special invitation of Mrs. Emma 4. Ball,
oil this city, vice-regent. The ladies'
were exceedingly kind and considerate
and proved 10 10 in full sympathy with
the plan of the Worlds Fair Board to
duplicate MI. Vernon at Chicago. They
took her all over the house aud into the
private rooms where the most precious
relics are kept, which are exposed only
once a wear al these annual board meet
ings, and offered to allow her every facili-
Is for duplicating any and everything
in and about the historical old manson.
FURNITURE JUST LIKE wAsnNGToN's.
Mrs Beale was surprised and de-
lighted 10 find upon critical exsmina-
ton of the furniture in the building that
she owned many articles herself which
ere exact duplicates of those in the Mt.
Vernon building. She saws she has
stored away in her former home,
"Smithfeld," near Blacksourg, in
Montgomery county, where her father,
Hon. Ballard Preston, lived to the time
of his death, some old furniture which
was owned by her grandfather, Gen
eral James J. Preston, and which had
been brought by him during the
last century in sailing vessel
from England. In this lot of
furniture IS an old high-post
bedstead, the exact counterpart Of
the one now in the Washington chamber.
upon which the General died, even to
the white dimity Counterpart. There is
also massive old mahogany sideboard
and high clock, both of the very same
pattern, with some other articles, and
some old silver of her grandfather's ex-
actly like this at Mt. Vernon and Mrs.
Beale says she can, by borrowing some
articles that she has in mind from her
relatives and friends, furnish the dining
room exactly like the Mt. Vernon one,
without costing the State fund one dollar.
TO MAKE SOME ARTICLES.
TO finish up the other rooms some ar
ticles will have TO be made after the
style of the Mt. Vernon furniture, but
q great many can be borrowed, and Mr..
Beale hopes that members of the Wash
ington family and Others who have
Washington relics, antique, furniture,
portraits, paintings, and rare old cur
tains, hangings, &C., suitable for fur
nishing the second Mt. Vernon will
communicate with her, and by the loan
oil such things much expense in fur
nishing and decorating the building Will
be avoided.
When she gets to Chicago and is in
stalled rs mistress of this notable man.
sion Mrs. Beale will take special pleasure
in welcoming and entertaining those pa
triotic persons from the old State who
helped her to furnish and adorn that
Virginia home IN the West and she
talks Of tho Virginia beat biscuit, which
she proposes to have there by the barrel,
and the old Virginia ha,ns, which she
expects to have by the score. from which