The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-12-17
A COSTLY COLLECTION
Miss AAA. c. Psrk viii Place csbiAsu Ia New
iMCA Bulldins.

eurios and yaluAbles In the YMcA
building, as soon AS II would be ready
10 receive IL, has caused many 10 OK
press themselves as being pleased that
one OF the finest collections Ia the state
should at last be placed where Il could
be better seen, especially by the young
people What adds interest 20 the col
lection il the fact that tho larger part
OF Il vas gathered by Miss Park her
self while on tour around the world
lasting something like tao years.
AZ prescott the collection IL enclosed
Ia large cabinets which stand 10 the
up stairs hall way Of hor residence on
Pleasant street, Accepting an invita-
tion often extended reporter visited
the home ~ Miss Park few days ago
aud spent large portion Of one morn
Ing looking AZ the display aud when he
leI 10 was with the Intention ot re-
turning NJ tho dr,l opportunity aud
looking DO over again,
Everything belonging 10 the collec
too Is labelled, what Il Is, where Ii was
procured, aud II nu, gathered boy her
self, who by. one Of the objects Of lo'
cal Interest, is an old fashioned atm
chair. In which Ethan Allen aud Seth
Warner 81 Green Mountain Boy fame
have both sat In. Among tho hlslorl'
cal selections isa piece OF the coat
that Martin Luther wore when making
his last trip from wlrtenbarg 10 Elsie.
ban. There is piece OF the coat that
Abraham Lincoln had on the nigh; he
was shot Ia Ford's theates In Wash
ington.
The bombardment OF Fort Sumter
IL recalled by piece OF the dag stan
aud Aag that Hoaled over IL during
the attack. There Is also piece OF
the walls showing the material OF which
the fort was constructed, and an unex
ploded she'll that was fred nj the fort.
incation from Ellis Island. One can
gaze nj piece OF Turkish dag taken
by the Venetisns at the battle Of Lep.
anto, Oct. I, 1871. There IL piece OF
a tree under which the Contlnentals
rested In Concord, Mass 10 the early
days OF the Revolutionary war. There
also a fragment OF sofa formerly
owned by John Hancock, another piece
taken from the hull OF the Confederate
iron clad Merrimac, piece OF wood
from the jail at Harper's ferry where
John Brown was captured, and n piece
OF the tent occapled one winter by the
late Maj. A. b. Valentine during a
campaign in Virginia In the civil war
Among the relics from the Holy land
and nearby countries is an ancient
Egyptian household God, like that
which Rachael stole from her father,
Laban, as recorded 10 Genesis 81, 20
%; bronze lamp such as the wise yir-
gins used when they went forth to meet
the Saviour and which was picked up
near the head waters OF the river Tig.
ris. Another bronze lamp was picked
up ia one Of the old tombs az Athens.
There are also several kinds Of earth.
en- lamps picked up 10 the same tomb.
There is also large collection OF
shells OF almost every variety from the
Hawaiian and Micronesian islands,
star fish Of different sizes, sea urchins,
coral OF all colors and varieties, met
ais and stones from all parts OF the
world. dried grasses and flowers from
various places. One box OF shells
contains ten thousand OF all varie
ties and sizes.
The display from the Holy Land is
large and fine. There are brick made
with straw from Ninevah, the same as
made centuries ago by the children of
Israel; cedar and burnt wood picked
up in the streets of Pompeii, stones
from Herculanedm taken from the house
Of Diomedes; petrifed olives and silk
worms from A isxandria, Egypt; a
piece of tombstone from Tyre on which
is an inscription in Greek, piece of
Hat stone on which is Cuneiform in
scription, taken from one Of the an.
cient palaces in Nirevah piece OF
mummy case from Egypt, stones from
Mt Carmel where Elijah prayed for
rain, from Mt Moriah, Gerizan, from
Tyre aud Sidon, from the Mt Of Olivet,
quartz from the pool OF Sloan,
stone from a street in Bethany where
Christ walked, from the prison of Jer-
emiah Ia Jerusalem, from the tomb OF
Zachariah, from the Manertime pris..
on In Rome where Peter and Paul were
both imprisoned, mosaics from Putoli
near Rome, stones from Nazareth,
piece OF brick taken from one of the
palaces of the Caesars, and horn
drinking cup made by prisoners in a
Boer camp In 1902.
An interesting object lisa phylacteria
from Palestine in which are three
manuscripts each being prayer such |
as was used in the days of the pro.