New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-21

ufesaue gardens was then dense wood into when
the first settlers had made little progress. Up to
1898 The pioneers from Elizabethtown and from
Newark. who were the first to be attracted by the
which found in the mountains in the
neighborhood called the place West Hanover. In
1870 the town and the county we're named for Gov
ernor Lewis Morris. Washnston's headquarters
are scattered about the country in great numbers,
and some OF the headquarters claims are 30 Fl msy
that they are accepted reluctantly but there is no
doubf 10 Morristown having sheltered Washing
ton for months at time. He went there in jan
uary H. shortly after the battle OF Princeton,
and remained until May of the year. making
his headquarters at the Arnold Tavern The spot
where the old tavern stood Is occupied by
modern brick building. The original building was
taken down and rebuilt on the COLES place. In
Mount Kembe-ave., and was purchased by the All
Souls Hospital Association a few years ago
Julia Reese Coles. in speaking of he Old house
in her history of Morristown says: Here is stu
the bedroom which Washington occupied the par
Tor. the dining-room and the ballroom where he
received his generas-Greene. Knox Schuyler
Gates. Lee. De Kalb Steuben. Wayne. Winds Put
nam, sullivan and others" The same work re-
lates the following interesting incident: 1T was
during this time OF residence at the Arnold Tavern
that Washington Joined Pastor Johnes and his peo-
PIE in their semi-annual communion. after recev-
ing the good pastors assurance: Ours IL not the
Presbyterian table. but the Lords table and we
whatever name This is said 10 be the only oc-
cason in his public career when il is certainly
known that Washington partook of the Sacra-
mert."
When Washington went 10 Morristown the sec
ond time he stayed for six months in the house
owned then by Mrs. Theodosia Ford which has
since become the property Of the Washington As
ISOLATION of New-Jersey. and is now known as the
Headquarters The house was opened with i'm
posing ceremonies on July D. 1915 on which occasion
Governor Theodore F. Randolph said: Under this
roof have been gathered more characters known
TO the military history Of Revolution than un-
der any other roof in America Here the eloquent
and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during the
long winter of 1880 and here he met and courted
the lady he afterward married-the daughter OF
General Schuyler. Here. too, Greene splendid
fighting Quaker as he was. and the great artillery
officer, Knox; the stern Steuben the polished
Kosciusko. the brave Schuyler gallant lighthouse
Harry Lee. old Israel Putnam. Mad Anthony
Wayne. and. last TO be named of all. that brave
soldier but rank traitor Benedict Arnold"
The old house stanis on comman ding erinence.
half mile from the centre of the town. al the
junction of Washington and Morris AYES Since the
property into the hands OF the association
more land has been acquired and has been laid out
in lawns and garden which form fitting frame TO
the old Colonial mansion, fun OF relics of the time
when the Nation was in its infancy and when those
whose names are brightest its record were shap-
ing its destines beneath the roof of the Old Head
quarters
II would be impossible in a short sketch 10 mention
all that there is of interest in the house. Every
nook and corner Is occupied by some piece Of fur
niture ornament or antique garment which az one
time did service Tor Washington or his wife There
hangs the original commission issued TO George
Washington. there scores Of letters written 10
and by him, the clothes which ne wore a; his in
auguration. the antique tea service end crystal
turnbers and the solid mahogany table which
they did service Flags Of patterns long forgotten
and bonnets and shawls % the style OF long ago
fintlock firearms and spinning wheels and other OBJ
jects by the hundred reminiscent Of the days OF
70"
There is the great old fireplace ana one can al
most fancy group of patriots and Colonial danes