The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-29
The JUMEL MANSION OPENED
u. 4. n. SNOW THE RESULTS OF
THEIR FIGHT FOR TT.
Hundreds Of Interesting Relics OF Colonial
baSs Grouped In the various Chapter
Rooms dozens OF Well known
Daughters Present at the Reception.

Rooms Dozens Of Well known
Daughters Present at the Reception.
The women who compose the Wash
Inrton Headquarters Association OF New
York celebrated all yesterday afternoon
tho formal opening OF the old Colonial
Jumel mansion. at l6Oth street and Jumel
terrace. after many months work or re-
storation and a longer fight to get the city
70 buy the site for the Department OF
It has been an uphill fight for the four
CHAPTERS OF the Daughters OF the American
Revolution which make up the associa-
ton 10 convince the municipal authorities
that the place should be saved from de-
6trlction.
There were no formal exercises yes
terday, but all over the building the Stars
and Stripes were draped, flags few from
the lawns that overlooked almost all Man
haitian and part OF Long Island and a brass
band played for the assembled crowds
ill dusk fell. The house was thronged
with visitors who had come TO see the in
teresting relics in the various chapter rooms
and the lawns were dotted with girls in
spring gowns and elderly matrons who
sought the camp chairs. There was n big
sprinkling Of men also, most OF whom wore
badges OF various patriotic societies on
their coats.
Mrs. Samuel j. Kramer. regent OF the
Washington Heights Chapter. d. A r.,
received the guests yesterday in her capacity
OF president OF the Headquarters ABsocia-
ton, which comprises the Washington
Heights, Manhattan. Kniokerbocker and
Mary Washington chapters Of the New York
D, A. R. Among others receiving with her
were Mrs. John Hudson Storer, Miss Mary
Van Buren, V~anderpoel. Mrs. William G.
Story, Mrs. Frederick Hasbrouck, Mrs.
Edwin r. Fay of Stamford. Conn, Mrs.
Robert Dhu Macdonald. Mrs. julius H.
Seymour, Mrs. Thomas Vermilye, Mrs. N.
Taylor Phillips, Mrs. Albert B. Vorhis, Mrs.
william r. Stewart and Mrs. Julius Henry
Caryl. Among the guests were Mrs. Arson
A%tterbury, president OF the Colonial Danes;
president Of the Little Mothers Association;
Miss Julia Leavens, president Of the Chicago
Women's Club; Mrs. Thomas J. Vivian.
president OF the California Club OF New
York. and many officers representing the
Daughters OF the Revolution. Daughters
OF the American Revolution. Sons OF the
American Revolution and the Historical
Society.
In each chapter room the women Of the
various chapters have grouped hundreds
Il HlItToblllR CDC u SOIOIlloi Noypt oAAd
these are o TO be permanently, on view
for the benefit OF the public. The relics
lent or given outright TO the association to
form the museum are too many. TO list.
There is a four poster with old chintz cur
,ains done in block printing on the top
floor and the bed itself is covered with a
white and blue spread that was spun and
woven by han generations ago by a servant
in the Weed family.
Portraits Of colonial celebrities. men and
.-1,aon aIorn tha vviIa corridors anH tho
chapter rooms. Some of the paintings
are originals and the remainder are copies
made from pictures that hang in the Capitol
at Washington. All afternoon the crowds
who journeyed 10 this old home, that was
Washington's after the retreat frGm Long
Island and where later Nine. Jumel
and Aaron Burr were married. wandered
from cabinet 10 cabinet to see the relics
that ranged from blue china or an oil can
$50 years old TO a Latin testament printed
in 1914 and lent by the Rev. John q. Gebhard
OF Yonkers.
In the tea room" at the left as one enters
il the fireplace and mantelpiece that was
there in Mime. Jumel's day, andi IL was before
that fireplace that she and Burr stood when
they we're married. Many Of the rooms
have been reprinted n papered, but in
tho room devoted to the Revolutionary
relics picked up round Washington Heights
and lent by Reginald Pelham Bolton two
Of the old wall paper panels have been
ll'bClN Cu anu liz w" 'Nhb ''NN''
Of plate glass.
When one had wandered from room to
room for a few hours and had become
saturated with a proper colonial atmosphere
it was somewhat Of q shock to step out on
the pillared veranda again and look down
upon the Polo u where little figures
in gray or white uniforms stood on a field
Of green velvet encircled by bleachers
filed with black humanity that looked
like flies far below. There were no coaches
and four around the ouTbs, eitheT. bat l2aS
lines OF waiting automobiles instead. The
hand on the lawn was playing Victor Her
hert music, and far across the city the
elevated trains ratified like red worms
and the smoke and steam trailed from
chimneys even far across on Long Island.
But the Daughters said they were glad
that their visitors could See these things
from the front door Of the new museum
because they accented the relics all the
more. And the factories can send up
rlumes OF smoke all they want to now.
said the Daughters, 80 long as the Daughters
crowd their m,Iaaum of the lot.