Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18

,trytnn ID, c., Dec. IA, lo5i,-
Wasn"e sooraent improved the last
Your e,,ndoy nv n wheeling trip to
pleasnns 80, cemetery. on purpose to
our Na'. ..',,,ors NJ the News, how 1t
tel uia 49, sooson of falling leaves
looks - ,,a,,.a and the fine estate of
Arlington iioueS -, ~ ho,,a
thousand acres "hici WIS ~ -
!, General George washington
tsd son from 1902 to the time of
auopatb--lies on the Virginia hills,
DIS - miles from the Capitol dome.
just ioN- ate 10 roach il. Won pass
as the crow hle9' a.,
through quaint olu peoi se'o"" 10
,,hle-down mansions built a century
rorrow steets. and old old
ago' i's h., a,,orido+ed warehouses;
canal, ana the .,,..
AZ n by-gone port IT'S great resr'oi''
"a brnnd new power-house of the
anu ,,,yov and smelt market
electric ia'i"', ~ oto,, r,,tho-
din double setse'' 10 -
uertniyersity and community OIL priests
AIMS and professors; its proud
Anu I,o,,,,,ioa and the historic
First ha''''''' 90 t,a II
cemetery where many inore VI WIG
= VS. may be found; its swarms OF
,, d,rkevs and mongrel ours; its
sniiiils -, ,a,r,re,- ,,,o,,,,
frank sluuioi %
poverty. All this Is Georgetown, ana
great deal more which can better
,o,,ad-th.n described
be lei' anu 49,, - ,,,oo,a,
Then you cross e'e io"s "oouen
bridge, on top of the canal acqueduct'
hitch suans the Potomac, where all
oa "nuiet" today as during those
soorv months when McCleliand's
woes Inv along the placid river, and
m, me-, cpr.r cTATt, on vIpc1NrA
me -, 49,, -,
beginning with isossiyh' tne niue nall-
let at the iarther emu Oh the prluse,
Next you speeu uonS an unieiicea
road, when Is as luii oi NOES ana
sules as only virginia ROAD can De,
the sacred SOL on elther size as req
Is brick aust anu apparently inGapaple
Of growing weed, past several negro
statements, from tne uoo.s Oh whose
thantles oiach laces' grin anu yeiiow
dogs NY out 10 snap at your neeis-a
trance OF the cemetery GROUNDS.
Arlington house Is SITUATED at the
highest point OF the ridge which over
4 books washington, SO that straight
line drawn from lts doorstep TO the
4 Capitol buiidlhg, would be about on a
sNei WIN me piuined helmet OF the
Goddess OF Liberty atop tine done-3Si
feet above low-tlde IN the river The
whole estate Oh i,ooo acres, Whlcn
les along the highway between
georgetown ana Alexandra, Is en-
closed win a substantial wall OF red
ireestone; put only about 200 acres of
H. immediately surrounding the man
SION, are used Tor cemetery purposes.
Ihere are three imposing gateways in
the wall ana over the arch or the
principal one is enscribed these words:
Here rest l9,ese OF the 3l5,55S citi-
lens VINO died in defense of our coun-
Try. from 1851 TO 1861
Entering the. gate nearest George
'OWh, you are at once In the midst of
Countess sraVes-foot-high, marble
headstohes, unduiating uphill and
Gown lar us tne eye can reach. To the
ilgnt ana ieft OF the winding road
nlends the silent biVouac of the
oeaa, ana imagination involuntarily
.vnJures up the scene when Gabriel
BOWS MS trumpet In the morning, and
aiS urahu army OF our Republic gets
" IN answer 10 the summons! Each
white stone tells It's own brief but
names, which in most instances
.peak OF their Anglo Saxon origin on
" farms ana IN the village work
snops OF the North as, for instance,
mi henry Robinson, from the
ian counters, besides George
c cSns o, the Maine cavalry, with
M one SIDE and James Knight, from
few '' id ,sea,a On .ne o,her. Ihere are
strange to saw. those of won,en nnnaa t.
on many of The slabs WIN tbav are
4 here, It is impossible to understand
= To be sure there were "BeIIe Royds''
and female spies in the war-but all
n these could not have been of that
"A description. Perhaps they were nurses
4 In the hospitals around washington,
II where they died of diseases contracted
81 from the sick and wounded soldiers: or
"A maybe they were "daurhters of the
n regiment" and II few NAV have been
n those strange Characters who shed the
Il habllaments of their sex, donued the
81 Warriors garb and marched. Amazon
81 Ike to their graves. In either case.
q the spirit Of heroism was within them
and they deserve ia sIumber viii, The
Grand Army The colored tronns two
or three thousand Of them, IRE en-
eamped by themselves in one corner
and like their white commencement
arms, the majority went to glory from
Virginia battle-fields and Washington
hospitals.
AT length. wearied OF interrninnhle
headstones. Won turn 10 the left nv
some leaf-strewn pathway under. the
memorial oaks work soI,.bword IN
and down the gentle hills cross two or
three little creeks--nlvvavs with graves
On either hand TIN suddenlv nm onen-
Ing in the trees disclosos
AprrNcro>r rJor-ep
fine, 49,, o4' iioo'h
iitati ,,ne5h' looking very much as "
he ," Wy IT'S haloyon days "befo'
Frn as they say IN virginia.