The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-12

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3Lpshur hut was subsequently much err
slargcd and improved by the la lat Is
situated upon Eungar's creek, about
three miles from, It's mouth, and vas
in the years not SO very long "a gone, tho
lovoliest spot In all that beautiful wave
gIrdlcd gardcn-the Eastern Shore OF Vir-
GINA. ken sjH
When I say lovely, I do not speak Of
architectural cffecta prettly- construct.
ed wooden building tasteful IN design.
#faultlcssly kept, there was genial home
beauty 5in.s every line and angle 4of its
tcapacious and hospitabc proportions,
beside than un- translatable je ne Ssais
tquvi. which marked it as the residence
of the Old Virginia gentry. A
The Vaucluse house was Of that some
time popular cItline Indicated by tho
letter Il. the shorter norttonfo of the letter3
projecting front O., the left hand this
FORMED Il chain of pantries, butlers-:
closets, store rooins-culininating in tho
kitchen, the special domain Of old black
iPhebe-dueen of cooks, whom in my mind IS
eye see. as In days Of yorc, presiding
with her Slice sccptrc in hand.
n At the extreme right Of the dwelling
was the study, or ''offIce"-its books
upon books within. its climbing rose
without, and the interval between this
and tho other extreme of tho house a
succession of vlne-clad porchcs-transept
windows peeping through floral and leafy
lcurtaIns-green turf and shrub and flow
ering tree. s
# ! sec-how plninly-thc. open entrance
hall or passage withEits paper in gray
ath-pannelng, bordcred in the old
style with rich crimson, full-blown
roses, with their lialf-opened buds and
deep-green leaves in8Fvelyct paper. j
SEQ tho broad stalrway--easy OF as
cent. on the left hand. cnterlng-thc
'dining-room further on upon the same
side-ts paper of cerulcan blue. with car
ret to match, and upon It's walls, facing
each other the portraits Of 3two.-.'lovely
voted friends, Commander George p.
Upshur and William Kcnnon, u. S. r..
They are painted in lieutenant's uniform.
On the right hind front. opened the
parlor, and this again into mi Impairment
OF like size--"the library" by way Of
distinction. but then, parlor chambers,
halls all ware libraries liGre.
Let us 30 through the parors-o IL
brarics-obscrvin en- PEASANT their pale
gray-tinted walls with rose cornlces ike
the hall. Out by the back porcllas With
1nclr IWiNlES coral WOONDlHc ulW HIiiNN
tessamine--the former, in warm weather
invariably the resort Of those tantalizlng
hulIining- birds. Out upon the lovely gar.
den breathing It's doors Of a Thousand
flowers for n view OF tho beautiful sheet
OF water In front and extending far nwnS
| TO tho right hand, into the Chesapeake
| III tho same direction. approached sbS
an ornamental gateway leading from thu
garden, Is Little Neck Point with It's ar,
chard grass and superb oaks, presenting
| to view very English-looking pleasure
| ground.
Away down on "Thc Point" stands ;
rustic seat under a clumr OF holly ant
oaks. and on some of tho former arr
carved the names of ladies and thcI
lovers-famlly names and those OF visit
| oTa. g5a5 ts8s y
a little cove and glen separate-"LIttl'
| Neck and Great Neckn-whici latte
| Is the terminus. In that direction, Of tn
| Vauclnsr plantation, as also of Et'Churcl
| Neck" Il peninsula about four miles h
length, commencing at the venerable cdi
Ifce' from which the Meek" tskcs II
name.
4 rIiunsnr's Church. built in coIonla
4 timesJ
4 Down the garden TO the creek through
BY the cedar trenR Under them lis n lon
4 bench 10 rest II you've "A mind. Dow
the steps II you please There Is dc
! scent OF about sixteen feet-then there I
q pier sonie forts or fifty feet long-thGl
.Ithe b1lh'ng house. whore Is Tor was) 4
be had the most luxurious Of sult-wnte
baths
Fine soGietY could Church Neck boas
NJ one time within It's own confines al
joining Vaucirse was Pear Plain. the res
!dence 81 Colonel IJttleton Upshur. a
elder brother " The 1udge-n gentlcmn
Of high intellectual attachments, who i
one Inns repiesnnt"d his country In IN
Legislature. and whose reputation for be
neyolence spread iar and wide ibrous
all ihe country round.
! Chatham, three miles farther on. va