The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-05
NEeLEcTEp ENeLIsH sHRINEs.
london Marvels That Americans Do
Not visit Home Of Washingtons.
lChicaEo Trihune-


London, April 4.-The Daily Mail. which
at all times takes a friendly interest in
Americans and their doiugs, today print-
ed the following:
While it is both flattering and satisfac-
tory to know that a large and ever-in-
creaSing sum OF American money tlnaS
It's way annually into StratfOru-On-Avon
and other lcenters OF historic interest in
Great Britain one cannot but marvel at
the almost total absence or patronage
shown BY Americans towards Great and
Little Bringt0n, the two picturesque and
Old-taSh1Oned NorthamptonShlre hamletS
wherein lived, dIed and are buried gener-
of the world greatest and most prosper
Gus republic.
that, up to within the last few years, but
little authentic information was obtain
able respecting the English branches of
the Washing ton genealogical tree by
reason, principally OF the exhaustive but
nevertheless Un1ruiLful- search Tor traces
of the parents of the two Virginia emil
and his wife, AnphilEs. From 1f5t, when
Sir Isaac Heard first started this inter
mhen Mr. 4eaTy +. waters waters was al a5le.t Is
convert his theory of Identity into an
inGisputable fact few questions Tof q
similar nature nave excited keener con-
tT0Versy than that of the cradle of the
W9snlRgtons And II may safety be
flavet certainly never been advanced than
thOss embraced in the unraVeing of this
ancient and honorable lineage.
emf year VIII find he Oid church al St
Maryss Great Bringfon. Northampton-
shire wherein ne'pOse the ancestors of the
man who helped to make America what
II IS today, echoing TO the football of
many q devoted and wealthy pilgrim.
The mstter has recently been taken up
by a NUMBER of Influential men, who,
49, 2ev-LltlA oSe7oL4f ~ Opeo@5
special excursions TO Bringt0n on lines
similar 80 those already employed in 9TH
er directions ~ is therefore. only fair to
SurmiSei Ihat--at am rate 50 far as Amer
-ic5tIf5 are cOncerneG-th6 washington tour
viii soon become as popular as the
Shakespeare tour to Strafforti- on a Won
in and around which place the pflgrirns
are calculated TO spend some sl59,0O0
The attractions are almost identical, for
white at StrattQrd we,-have Shakespeare $
tom numerous tOnlbS of the AVashfng-
tQnS afia washington house, Wherein
INS3 ,seNetaA generations or the family,
slnclhdlnS the parents OF the two emil
grants This Ojd-fashioned. matched
oMldIng, OF ANCIENT cate, was first oecu-
after serious reVerses. Lawrence Wash
lngton, inc tnen re1gning lloyd OF Sal
migrated with his wife and family to
5tlnS tons lie then restored the build
and. to commemorate the event placed
the stone which is stiH TO be seen over
the doorway of the house.
Ia their stribula atoms. which lasted for
many years. tbs Ayasai1gtolas We're com
Iorted ana greatly assisted by the Spen-
GERS of Althorps with whom they claimed
blood relatOnshtp. and whose descendant.
an the person. Of the present Earl SpeD-
Ger, K G., still owns the whole of the
surrounding property. From 1910 to 1622
the cottage was occupied by Robert
Washington and his wife Elizabeth who
having no children Of their own had
adopted Amy daughter Of the elder
pros her. wrence. Upon their decease.
an March. ld2z within nine days of each
other the house was occupied by their
nspneW! the Rev. Lawrence Washington,
with his family Of five children COM
posed Of three daughters and two sons.
the latter being the two euaigraHts who
settled in Virginia in 1857