The Washington times., 1905-10-22
HARRINGTON HALL
INSPIRING SPOT
Presidents Nature Full of
Its Atmosphere.
TALE OF MOTHERS LOYALTY
Waved Stars and Bars Over Confed-
crate Prisoners in New York
Streets.
TALE OF MOTHERS LOYALTY

The visit of the President to his mo-
theirs girihood home, harrington Hall.
is one of the dramatic features of his
trip through the South. 1t must have
possessed a special and sentimental
claim for President Roosevelt. who loves
to trace the weil-springs of his COM
posite nature among the diverse streams
that contributed their quota to it's MAX
ing
That the President comes naturally
by his quota Of Southern sympathies is
not remarkable to those who knew the
gentle and gracious woman who was
MS mother. or have lived in the neigh
borhood In which appropriations of her
personality are held among the peoples
sweetest memories.
Faithful to Home.
Martha Bulloch was never less o.
Southern woman because she gave heart
and hand to wooer from beyond tn.
Mason and Dixon's line. The lessons
she drank in with the very air of Bar
rington Hall she never forgot and her
brothers. who were officers in the Con-
tederate navy, were the heroes of her
girlhood and womanhood.
story is told that illustrates well her
unfaltering devotion ot the South.
Toward the end of the civil war. when
regiments OF the victorious Union ar
mics were returning from the front. and
Confederate prisoners marched between
ranks of blue. to the prisons that await
ed them. such cortege mingled of vic
tory and defeat. elation, and despond-
ency. passed through the New York
street In which stood the Roosevelt
mansion.
The Confederate prisoners walked sui
lenly along, shoulders slCaching, heads
dropping, with ruin behind and cheer
less despair all the future held or
promised. Suddenly one of them looked
up. TO see the Southern stars and Bars
streaming from an upper window A
woman held and waved the silken folds.
Along the lines of gloom, eye after eye
caught glimpse OF the vision Hearts
thrilled and faces lightened and rebel
throats. in the hostile city street, pealed
out the rebel yell.
Son Reflects Feeling.
With a mother like that it Is not re-
markable that the President should un-
derstand the Southern character and
find means OF appealing to the Southern
people Indeed. it would be surprising
II 1t were otherwise
For one who has seen harrington Hall
and it's inspiring surroundings it is not
difficult to understand the traditions of
the South the mother impaired.
"One Of the most stately structures OF
the colonial type in the South is the Bull
loch home" said c. E. Graves today.
Mr.. Graves is a Georgian. who is
f.x <1ox W.
One of Most Stately.
I spent an entire summer there sew
eral years ago." he continued, but did
not know OF the connection that the
house had with the history of President
Roosevelt's mother, until saw an ac-
count in The Times yesterday of the
Presidents visit to Roswell
'As soon as / saw ii stated that the
present occupants were the Wings and
Postmistress Wood. / Immediately re-
called with peculiar pleasure the beau
taful home. crowning one of the pret-
ttest elevations in the little hamlet
among the old red hills of Georgia
''The Bulloch home Is situated at the
end OF long avenue of cedars. There
are two driveways approaching the
house. while there is a walk leading
from the gate TO the veranda. The
colonial mansion is surrounded by
lawn OF eleven acres. and this is made
a perfect network by small streams
which wind in and out among the dense
underground. The surrounding country
is overgroUn with giant poplars and
water oaks.
zone could not imagine a more pic
turesque spot than this home of the
mother OF our President. IL physical
surroundings have anght to do with the
formation of inherited characteristics,
one can find here an explanation for
President Roosereit's love for the forests
primeval and the wild rugged hills"