Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-05-13

In the center of the city is beauti-
full little park called the Plaza, here
is located the old Plaza Market, this
is sometimes called the slave market
but history tells US that it never was
used for slave trade. From the Plaza
/ walked down Hospital Street TO the
oldest house in this country. This
house was built in 1916 and it certain
ly looks its age. From here I walked
along the sea wall and then went
through Treasury Street. This street
narrows at its east end to an alley
across which two persons may clasp
hands, and is said to be the narrowest
street in the world. There are the
palace hotels in St. Augustine which
are true examples of Spanish archi-
lecture aud which add greatly to the
beauty OF the city.
After riding northward all day from
S.. Augustine through miles and miles
of fields already prepared for the
crops and dotted here and there with
negro cabins, was glad TO stop for
the right at Camden,S, Q. The next
day rode on TO Richmond, the cap
ital oe the confeGeracy and the capital
of Virginia.
Here first visited the Capitol build
! ing and then the "White House of
the Confede. acy," this was the home
of President Davis during his officla
| life in Richmond and is now used as
a Confederate Museum. In the old
St. Johns Church l stood for mo-
ment in the pew where Patrick Henry
stood when he spoke there these
| famous words: ''Give me liberty or
! give me DEATH" There are many
curious epitaphs in the old cemetery
in which this church is situated, one
| of which reads as follows:
s'Stop, my friends, as you pass by;
As you are now, 80 once was L.
As am now you sooI must be;
Prepare yourself to fellow me-"
Westward from the city is the beau
tiful Hollywood Cemetery, here on
hill overlooking the James River are
the graves of Presidents Monroe and
Tyler, and little ways beyond
the grave of Jefferson Davis. Every
road out from Richmond leads to
bartlefelds, but time forbade my visit
ing but one, that on which was fought
the battle of Seven Pines. In about
the middle of the field a national cem-
etery is now located and old breast
| works and Notifications may still be
seen in different sections of the field.
In Washington, my next stopping
place, remained ten days, making my
headquarters with my uncle, G. q.
Tower, but as you have recently had
fine description of the places OF
interest in this wonderful city l will
pass over my stay here except to say
that in the National Cemetery at Ar
lington, where sleep twenty thousand
Civil aud Spanish war soldiers,
heard President Roosevelt deliver
the dedicatory address at the unwilling
of the new Rough Riders monument
and in the New National Theater
heard w. J. Bryan speak before ths
Y. M. @. A., his subject being "Th'
Prince of Peace"
In Philadelphia visited Indepen
dence Hall and in Boston I visite'
; many places of interest, among then
! Harvard University and the elm un
, der which Washington took comman'
t of the Continental Army.
In all instances during my tril
} through the south / found the south
? erners courteous and ever ready t
give directions and information.
3 In closing would say that l visite
? many places that lack of space for
8 bids my describing here, but let al
j who can visit the sunny southland, TO
t it is surely interesting, instructiv
g and uplifting.
h w. A. TOWER.
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