The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

or ten or twelve houses OF worship
IN tho city when ! was lad. all have
come to dust or been rebuilt with the
exception Of st. Johns. the Monumental.
the Synagogue and Universalist. on Mayo
street and possibly some one or two
more. Those remaining on their orig-
nal sites are not altogether intact ns
when they came from the hands Of their
builders. chapel for snilors-a neat
frame structure--once stood near the
mouth Of Bloody Run. and was well at
tended by those who came UP from the
sea in ships, as well MS by the dwelers
Of Rockets, that once furnishing suburb
Fulton 80 named. after Andrew. or his
son. William NJ Fulton. a captain In the
Creek War. was then without streets or
people. II went by the name of Port
Mayo-had n warehouse overlooking the
river and two or three dwellings, over
looking the valley OF Gillie's Creek. st.
Johns Is no longer the old st. Johns
wherein the Burgesses sat when "Henry.
the forest-born Demosthenes,'' reused
them TO revolutionary action. The needs
Of growing congregation may possibly
excuse Its recent enlargement. but no
antiquary viii. The very ground on
which 1t rests Is haowed. Under its
sod lie the remains OF the saintcd dead.
come with. and many more without.
monuments. No stone marks the grave OF
George Wythe. one OF the signers OF the
Grand Declaration.
And, questionless. here In this open
court.
Which now lies naked to the injuries
OF stormy weather, some men lie In
terr'd--
Lov'd the church so well, and gave so
largely to t.
They thought 1T should have canopied
their bones
TIL doomsday"
The Friends Westinghouse.
Let us go down from St Johns BIZ the
way OF Twenty fifth Street.-The eastern
bound of the corporation of 1i42-to It's
intersection with Main: thence up town
till we get to Twentieth Street. on the
east line OF which once stood the Meet
ing honse. in which The Friends wor-
shipped the Mighty Master. the Great
Head OF the Church AS you looked up
TO Its gabed front and saw no steeple
or looked within and saw no cccleslas-
teal ornamentation. the very plainness
Of everything being strictly IN keeping
with the meek and quiet spirit of its MEM
bcrs--you would have said Involuntary,
this is Quaker meeting house. The lot
on which the building stood was of am
pie size-its two outerlnes inciosing 1t
with palings on the east side of the
Cary. This street had not been extended
farther than the Twenty-frst when the
foundation OF the house was laid; 1t was
In the air as far down as the old ship
locks.
The ouakers were formerly more num-
erous than they now appear to be. Ma
thaniei Bacon Crenshaw, whom i well
remember. was then Elder Friend.
Under his mInistration might have been
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the Bates, Clarkes, Crenshaws. Crews.
Couches. Peasants, Sintons and several
others OF the best townspeopie.
Upon the departure OF the congrega-
ton uptown the old meeting house be-
came Il Bethel. and finally a school
room Mr. John Kelly. whose ware
house adjourned ut one time the Quaker's
lot. has preserved from the wreck of
the church two relics. which, he author
ICES me to say. will be freely given to
tie Society for the Preservation of vir-
ginia Antiquities. One OF these Is tho
wide-entrance door to the building. the
other marble capstone to the arch
above 1t. a super-addition in the shape
OF an anchor.
The Pineapple Church.
Going UP from Main Street. on the
west side of Eighteenth, one might have
seen in recent time within an angle
formed by the intersection of this street
with Grace. a modest-looking building,
which was better known in the town
by the above appellation than by that
of Christ Church CEpiscopaD. There shot
forth from its low roof slim spire of
painted wood that held aloft n golden
pineapple glistening in the sun. The foun-
dations of the building ha,- been laid
In the gravel-bcd of Shockoe Creek. SO
that the floor of the church was under,
rather than above. or upon n level with