The times., 1897-05-22
PILGRIMS TO MONTICELLO.
Notable Gentlemen Enjoy Them
selves at Jefferson's Old Home.

NOtahie Gentlemen Enjoy Theul-
selves at Jefferson's Old Home.
The Congressional pilgrims to the home
of jefferson. from all the accounts and
from an inspection of the returning party
last evening, had an interesting and
profitable day at the old manor noUse of
the founder of Democracy The trip TO
Monticello was under the personal con-
duct of Col. Greegor, OF the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway, by which the excursion
was made. Col. Greegor giving the party
every attention en- route. The occasion
was planned by Senator Hoar, he and all
the others in the party being the guests
at Monticello of Mr.. jefferson Monticello
Levy, of New York, the present owner of
the property. Mr.. Levy went to Mon .ic.jio
for the purpose of receiving the party,
with him being Mrs. Rittenhouse, OF New
York, and Mr.. II L. Lyman, who lives
near Monticello.
There were about sixty in the party.
or TIE Senators there were MessTs. Del,oe,
Galiinger. Turner, Jones, OF Arkansas;
Berry, Butler, HOar, Chandler. rurpie,
Pettigrew, Hawley, Kyle, Bacon, Pasco,
and Chiffon; OF the Representatives, Speaker
Reed, Pierce, of Tennessee. and Tongue, of
Oregon. Col. Bright, sergeaht-atarms
of the Senate; and Nr. AIonZo Stewart,
assistant sergeant alarms, were with the
excursionists Mr.. Stewards always much
in demand on these and similar occasions
when courtesy and attention are required,
and he acquitted himself with his usual
zeal and success. Among the ladies' were.
Mrs Marion Butler, Mrs. Hoar, and Miss
Jones. The rest of the party was COM
posed of private secretaries and their
lady friends.
Senator Chandler was by long odds the
most Jeffersouian OF the pilgrims He
wore a gray outing suit and straw lat,
which looked al If it had seen service sew
eraI summers among the insurgents of
Cuba
The train left here at a. m. and arrived
at Charlottesville o few minutes before 10
a. m. From the station fifteen or twenty
carriages and a taIIy-ho conveyed the party
along the Little Mountain road 10 MoRu-
cello There the excursionists were shown
over the grounds and some Of them into
the ground by the cellar, where they keep
the Monticello claret and Old Cabinet
A certain official of the Senate from In
diana said that one draught of The Old
Cabinet was worth q trip to Monticello.
even il 1t happened to be On the other side
of the globe. A bath in it, however, he
thought, could only be an aspiration for
the gods
AT about midday a collation. was served
on the lawn Here the party was largely
increased by the gentry from the country,
who had been invited to meet the distin
guished visitors. Ali OF the guests spoke
OF the hospitality OF MI. Levy as equally
ample and elegant, and especially as ~
the strawberries. although there was cham
pagBe, claret, punch and old Cabinet III
streams
There was no forrnality.
After another view OF the house and
the grounds the party, on the invitation
of the professors from the University OF
Virginia. WHO had been invited to Monti-
cello, went to the university, where some
time was acreeably passed.
The train for the return trip was taken
about O'Clock, and reached the city at
sos p. m everybody in good spirits and
delighted with the journey
party OF ladies with Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst. her guests. who are on their way
TO AsheviIle. " G. stopped at Monticello
later in the day