Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-12
JOHN BROWNS GRAVE,

mountain, 4,0OO feet ill height, and from the farm one can look up its entire southern slope and see where it dips into tho famous Wilmington notch.
 Looking southwark the visitor has a magnificent view of the srandest of the Adirondack mountains. Mount Marcy, with its domelike crown piercing the atmosphere at an altitude of near 5, 900 feet, is the highest mountain east of the Rockies, with the single exception of Black mountain, in North Carolina. Near it is the Elephant, long mountain with an apparent resemblance to the animal for which it is named Vest ward of Marcy stands Mount Mcintyre, second in height of the Adirondacks and atfording it is said finer views than Marcy, owing to its more isolated posi- tion.
 The finest views of all, however, are to be had from Whiteface which also stands apart from the other mountains- seems, ill fact, entirely separated from them. From its summit almost the en- tire length of Lake Champlain is visible as well as hundreds of the Adirondack lakes and the St. Lawrence river A project is now under consideration to mako the summit of Whiteface more accessible It is proposed to build rail road up from Mirror lake, like those up Rigi and Pilatus ill Switzerland and like those up Mount Washington and Pike's peak.
 That John Brown must have had an inborn love of natural grandeur is shown by his selection of burial place ill the heart of this magnificent valley. But with his first coming to North Elba love of the beautiful had far less to do than his passionate love of freedom. What attracted him most was the fact that Gerrit Smith had there established colony for negroes rescued from slavery. It may be that he thought it would be good center from which to propagate his openly avowed idea of organizing a negro army to make war upon the slave hold ing states.
 At any rate, he took a farm of PAS acres ill the then unbrolsen wilderness, made a clearing and erected little wooden house, which still stands where he built it, though it has been consider ably improved ill recent years. There he left his wife and the younger members of his family when he went to Kansas to fight against the extension of slavery into that territory. From there he went forth to his death in that famous raid on liar per's Ferry. There, after his execution, his widow took his body and buried it, in accordance with his desire, in the shadow of a huge powder that stands 80 or 40 feet away from the front of the house.
 The house and farm are now the prop erty of Kato Field, Sinclair Tousey, the sons of William Lloyd Garrison and sev- eral other admirers of John Brown. They bought the farm and put neat wooden fence about the grave. Their aim was to protect the grave from desecra- tion and the farm from unworthy uses The inclosure about the grave contains about an eighth of an acre and is filled with wild rosebushes. At the head of the grave stands a tombstone which John Brown brought from the grave of his grandfather at Torrington, Conn.,, and on it are inscriptions commemorative of his death and that of his three sons, who died, like him, in the effort to enamel pate the negroes. The tombstone has to be kept boxed up and padlocked to pro- tect it from dissertation by relic hunters, who had already chipped it somewhat before this precaution was taken. The powder has also suffered in like man. ner and has to be carefully guarded. On its summit, carved in great letters, is the inscription, John Brown, 1859.