The times., 1899-05-21

had lived long enough to see not only her
own convent. but four of its filiations. es-
tablished on a firm and prosperous founda-
tion
The vault is lighted by windows open
ing into the garden. The rear wall Of the
chapel is adorned with ferns and ivy. but
the marble front elevation, which is en-
tered from Thirty fifth Street, is without
the softening effect of foliage. Over the
door is the solemn injunction:
VOVETA
EFT REDDITE DOMINO
DE0 VESTRO.
The chapel separates the cloisters built
fully sixty years ago. from the stately red
brick and brownstone academy. crested in
1873. It has been we'll said that these
structures and high walls conceal one of
the most charming enclosures in the Unit
ed States. The walls surround thirty-fiye
acres, in which fower-gardens, grass
plots, romantic walks and archways.
spreading oak trees and broad porches
form an ideal recreation ground.
An isolated, but highly interesting por-
ton CT the garden. is the enclosure in
which are buried the sisters who have
died within the convent walls. Among
them was Sister Stanislaus. whose father.
Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.
was one of the heroes of the war of 1Sl2.
y
after fifty-four years of life in the cloister.
She was among the noyices that beautiful
summer day in 1923, when President Mon
roe, with few felicitous words. presented
to the pupils, then more than 100 in num-
ber, their medals and prizes. Among the
pupils were three daughters OF the unfor-
tunate Emperor Iturbide of Mexico. One
of the gentle young Mexican princesses
died in the convent, and is buried in the
vault of the chapel
In another of the garden graves lies Miss
Virginia Scott. who died soon after beeom-
ing member OF the community. Her re-
mains were temporarily placed in the vault.
to await the arrival Of her father. General
Winfield Scott. who was absent from Wash
ington at the time Of her death. sister
thus described the incident: Here stood
the old hero OF Lundy's Lane and the con-
Queror of the capital of the Montezu
mas, to bid a last farewell to the lovely
child of his heart. whom he had generous
ly allowed to give herself in all her youth
and beauty 10 God in a religion he did not
profess, but respected
AT the beginning of the Civil War.
Georgetown College was taken by the Gov
ernment for army purposes. and the con-
vent would have met similar fortune had
not General Scott asked of Secretary Stan
ton that il possible. the spot made sacred
TO him by the grave of his child should be
spared.
Another whose memory will long be
cherished was Sister Jane Frances, former
IL Miss Emerson. of Boston. She was a
niece OF Ralph Waldo Emerson.
From these halls have gone forth many
brilliant any accomplished women. who
have exerted marked influence on the So
cial and intellectual life of the nation. This
Institution of learning has always enjoyed
the patronage and esteem of non-Cath tholic
families, and has never been without rep
resentatives from the households OF the
Diplomatic Corps. Among the former pu-
pills we're Misses Ellen and Theresa Ewing
the former of whom became the wife of
General Sherman, and sent her daughters
to her Alma Mater; Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson; three generations of the Carroll
family, one member of which became Bar
oness Esterhazy. OF Austria; Miss McLain,
who married Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston. and
Miss Deslonde. later the wife of General
Beauregard; Blanche, daughter of Gen.
Benjamin Butler. now Mrs. Adelbert Ames:
Miss Emily Warren who married Engineer
Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge;
the beautiful Adele Cults, grand-niece of
Dolly Madison and wife of Stephen A.
Douglas; Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren
and her daughters. Baroness Overback and
Mrs. Josiah Pierce; Miss Irene Rucker,
who married General Sheridan: Miss Con-
stance Edgar, granddaughter OF Daniel
Webster: Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Fred
d. Grant, Mrs. Russell Harrison, Mrs Ma
ry Logan Tucker. and the daughters of
Hon. S. ]. Randall. Hon. ]. ]. ingalls,, and
Associate Justice McKenna.