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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-10-31

Anything in our line-Fish, Oys-
GERS, Milk, Meats and. Vegetables
Phone 81.
1876 Central Meat Market.
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RUSSELL B. HARRISON.

House sixty-nine years ago, he Is now
but fifty-five.
President Taylor left his Louisiana es-
tate to his only son, Dick. who became
one of the most daShing and r. ckess Off
GERS Of the Confederacy and is well re-
frembered in Washington a wit AMI
raconteur. His Louis.ana plantation was
confiscated during the civil war. but be-
cause of his fathers services to the coul-
try II was afterward restored though
largely ruined. The mansion house had
been destroyed and with ii nearly all of
the relics of Zachary Taylor. including the
sash of Gen. Braddock. containing stains
from the latter's life blood.
Lincoln's son. Robert T., now -presi-
dent of the Pullman Palace Car Company
has made name for himself in the cabi-
net and the diplomatic. service as well as
in the business world. Af:er serving
in the Union army as a captain, he be-
and minister to England under sHerriscn.
Grants son. Frederick Dent Grant, was
a cadet at West Point when his father
succeeded TO the presidency, but resigned
early from the army, becom;n. a civil
engineer on the Union Pacific railway
and afterward minister to Austria. under
Harrison. who thus appointed to respon-
sloie diplomatic berths sons OF both of
the civil wars chief figures. on the Union
side-l-lncoln and Grant. Frederick Dent
Gfant' AFTER leaving Vienna. became, like
RooseVeit, polio commissioner OF New
ork. IN which office he remained until
me spanish war. where he served as brig
acler general of volunteers. the same rank
IN the regular army. where he still serves,
having been given him after our resto-
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dwell-near to the great Mount Vernon
estate--two Observation-Disclosures OF the
first President Both of these southern
conference.-the Gberator's nearest of kin
are modest farmers. One OF them. George
Washington, when recently visited by a
friend of the writer and questioned as to
his exact relationship ~ the Immortal
George confessed his ignorance, sbut re-
ferred the visitor to a reighbOr who had
il all figured out Lawrence Wash
ington. another great-grandnephew Of the
first President. may now be seen in the
same neighbOrhoOd working in his fields.
His daughter. the great-great-gran
of President Washington, supports herself
by practicinS the noble profession OF
trained nurse. Honest poverty overlook
the heirs of George Washington In the
first half of the past century. and John
Augustine Washington, the heir to Mount
Vernon. not having the funds to keep up
the great estate. after trying to sell it to
the government and after refusing offers
of companies who wanted 1t for an amuse-
ment resort, disposed of 1t to the memorial
association that now maintains it.
Jefferson died so poor that had Congress
not given $4,000 for his library, his es-
tate would have been bankrupt. But one
of his grandsons became a man of par
ticular attainment-Thomas Jefferson
Randolph of Edge Hill. Va, who wrote
a book on the currency and died in 1879,
aged eighty-three. Madison di chiidless
and Monroe left two daughters. Maria.
who married into the Gouverneur family
of New York. and Eliza, wife of Judge
George Hay of Virginia, who. as United
States district attorney. prosecuted Aaron
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ULYSSES s. GRANT, 3RD.

lihood she taught school in Baltimore
until her eyes failed her Then, in 1876
w. W. Corcoran persuaded her to become
an inmate OF the Louise Home. founded
by him as a refuge for aged gentle
women. Her husband having been a vet
pension until the time Of her death De
cember % last. eight years before which
time she had selected her monument and
had seen its inscription with blank spaces
left for the date OF her death. She had
had 1t cut of Petersburg granite and then
placed in storage until after her death.
Tyler's Son Now College President.
Her grave at Williamsburg is almost in
the shadow of William and Mary's Col
lege. Of which her half brother, Lyon Gar
diner Tyler. has been president for the
past twenty years. President Tyler's
first wife. mother Of Mrs. Semp'e. died
the year following his entering the White
House. The following winter occurred
the terrible explosion aboard the Prince
ton, off Alexandria. when two members Of
the cabinet and many others suffered sud-
den death. Among these was Mr.. Gar
diner of GARDENERS Island, n. Y, and the
Presidents sympathy for this victims
beautiful orphaned daughter, Miss Jul-
Ana Gardiner. ripened into love. They
were married at her home a year and
and nine years later the present presi-
dent of William and Mary's College was
born. After being graduated from the
University of Virginia he was principal
OF high school in Memphis for four
years. and was afterWard a member of
the Virginia legislature. Although the
son of President who entered the White
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the dressing OF the, hair on the part OF the
women and the prevalent way in which
the men are wearing their clothes. Let
one adopt some new fad, which some one
has written him Is the very latest, most
ultra-fashionable thing in London or
Paris. or possibly New York. and he will
at first be eyed with suspicion, and then
with tolerance, and. finally, IL his innova-
ton appeals. the following week may
find II adopted by many.
Naturally. such rendezvous could not
exist without there being a few objection
able features. the chief among which was
formerly the ''masher." These young
men. only too frequently the sons Of gem
tie families from whom they received q
training which made their offense the
more objectionable, were at one time
wont to station themselves at any ona
Of the six street crossings. where they
would stand for an hour or more ogling
every woman who passed. and treating
the looks OF scorn which were usually
their portion In return as an occasion
for great mirth.
This. however. thanks to strict police
regulations carried out to the letter and
Joined with the eagerness of nine out OF
every ten, men to deal out corporal pun
ishment u retrbution on the slightest op-
portunity has been largely done away
with A few still remain, but they may
no longer loiter, and. there being a notice
able absence OF encouragement on the
part of the gentler sex for such near
men, the species is rapidly becoming ex-
tinct.
And so the parade goes on. vast, unac-
countab.e. and for all the world like a
grown-up exaggeration of the childish
game of follow your leader, The Older
generation drops away only to be replaced
by the younger folk.
1t has always been so. 1t will always
be so. Washingtonians may come and
Washingtonians may go, but the F street
parade goes on forever.
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HARRY AUGUSTUS GARFIELD.

Burr in his treason trial. Jackson. like
Washington and Madison. was childless.
but Van Buren, had four sons, one of
whom fought with distinction in both the
Mexican and civil wars. in the latter as
brfgadier general. He married Miss Sim
gleton a cousin of Dolly" Madison. His
younger brother, prince John" died at
sea. after serving as attorney general of
New York
Another presidential family claiming
several men OF attainment was that of
Harrison. the only one compare lie with
the great Adams line. First there was
Benjamin Harrison. the signer of the
Declarations: then President William
Henry Harrison. and his grandson Ben
jam!n. also chief magistrate. The pres
ent head of the house. Russell BENJAMIN
Harrison, has tried his luck in various
ventures as mining engineer. civil engi--
neer. electrical engineer. newspaper man.
magazine writer and soldier-lieutenant
colonel in the Spanish war. Two other
descendants Of the last Pres dent Harri-
scn-the grandson known IN childhood as
Baby" Mckee and the child by the sec
ond marriage. with Mrs Dimmick. are
as yet too young to have shown their
caliber.
The Tyler family is another that has
been striped with bold contrasts Last
Christmas week, at the Louise Home. In
Washington. died Mrs. Letitia Tyler Sem
pie. last surviving child Of the first mar
riage of President Tyler. This former
belle. who for period presided as lady of
the White House. where she was hostess
20 the Prince de Joinville. son of King
Louis Philippe. married James Semple. a
paymaster In the navy. but after travel
ing with him abroad was widowed Dur
ing the civil war her house was torn
down by Union troops, and to earn live
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as are many of the avenues. There Is no
particular reason why It should be chosen
above all others. but it is. No matter if
the day be scorching hot. or freezing cold ::
no matter if the asphalt lies baking
and cracking in the burning rays of a
mld-July sun. or Is covered with the snow
and slush of the winter. Other streets
may be deserted. but this one never. Here
one will always find a crowd. always
dressed in gala attire. AS in the oldep
days all roads led to Rome so In Wash
ington today all thoroughfares lead surely
and irrevocably, to + street. Every one
knows this to be true. Who knows why :?
The shopper argues that she is at
tracted Chiefly by the high-class stores
with which 1t is lined-but why? There
are other streets which are lined with
stores of quite as good repute. There is
Pennsylvania avenue, or G street or a.
portion of Connecticut avenue. for in
stance. But no. Mlady may do her shop
ping somewhere else-indeed, she fire.
quently does: but she will deliberately
and invariably get off her car and walk
up or down F. street, as the case may
be. and turn off at the proper corner when
she might, perhaps. by remaining on the
car. have been carried to the very door
of her particular shop. Returning. too.
she will deliberately walk four, five or
six totally unnecessary blocks merely
that she may be on her beloved boulevard
"The Glass Of Fashion, Etc"
1IllS applies, however, only Wnen MlldQy
is well gowned. Let one wee lock of
hair be out of place. and one could not
drag her by force to this veritable show:
ground. She knows that the hundreds of
other promenaders which she will en-
counter there will be groomed to perfec-
ton and that her one unruly wisp will at
tract as much attention as would the lat
est thing in sheath gowns.
And the same is true the male ele-
ment. You will see hundreds of men on
F street during the day. and they will be
clad in all manner of raiment. Here is
one the tailoring of whose coat smacks
decidedly of the English. There is
typical college youth. and yonder goes a
man whose clothes bespeak their French
origin. Approaching you Is a dignified
gentleman past middle age. wearing a
simple business suit-but nowhere do you
see aught but the very latest style. and
never. never will you see pair of un-
creased trousers.
From time immemorial there has exist
ed heated argument to whether ~nen
are more vain than women. or vice-versa.
Judging from the F street viewpoint, the
question will never be decided. For it is
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atty. these sidewalks extend their all
pervading fascination into the foreign lega-
tons. with the result that many diplomats
have contracted the F street stroling
habit. They attract no especial atten-
ton, not even the women o. the legation,
for the crowd is hlase in the extreme
and they have seen these foreigners too
often. Many a titled parsonage takes. his
constitutional unnoticed along with demo-
cratic Washington. and. though the PAM
pered child of wealth may motor down
18th street. she will dismount at F, send
her car home, and walk down this local
Broadway directly behind siXty-dcllar-
a-month stehographer in one of the de-
the formers clothes may have cost far
more than those her more humble
sister is wearing. the little stenographer
is sure to look mighty trim, and usually
suffers but little in the inevitable COM
parison.
Even the Mighty Stroll.
Senators. representatives. officers of
high rank in the army and navy and
cabinet officers are among those whose
daily presence helps compose the cast hete-
rogeneous throng of >strollers who. to
paraphrase Omar Khayyam. walk.
though they know not where they go. nor
why
All these and hundreds of other types
go to furnish unlimited material for the
student of human nature. Not pedes-
trian but has his own little peculiaritIes
and idiosyncrasies. which always inter-
est and not infrequently amuse. They are
all different-different in feature. different
in dress. different in birth and breeding.
different in every imaginable way. And
yet. withal. they similar, for they
have many traits in common.
All are drawn by the same attraction
that ineffable something which is as elu-
sive as the anatomy of neSation. They
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all come to admire and be admired. to be
amused-and to amuse in turn. Finally.
they come. all of them. Just to walk"
And If one looks closely he will find
that these folk wear. almost without ex-
ception. set look of eagerness and ex-
pectancy. which is strangely intermingled
with rather bored expression. 1t is the
same with them all although the face
on which it rests may be fair or dark.
serious or piquant-one may not add
pretty or not. for those who are not
blessed with good looks rarely frequent
F street.
But. more than AL else, there is a COM
mon stride, regular. easily recognizab BILE
IF street walk. which is adopted prob
ably unconsciously, by every last one
of the strollers. 1t is long. slow.
front.
1t is. too. peculiarly adapted to it's use
No one wants to hurry, nor yet does any
one wish it to be thought that he or she
is deliberately dragging along. This walk
therefore. invented by some unknown per-
son during some far distant and equally
unknown year. is the one thing that an
swers all requirements. There is nothing
hurried about 1t. 1t carries you forward
so slowly that not a detail of the person
you are passing escapes your eve It is
full of ease and grace. and is just languid
enough to escape being called lazy.
Falling Into the Stride.
This characteristic walk is seldom. il
ever. used during business hours or in
other sections of the city, but the
confirmed "boulevardier' walk briskly as
he will from his home or ais office to this
highway he will no sooner have turned
the corner of 18th street ard gotten fairly
started on his first trip. when he Will fall
into the common stride. along with the
rest
There is also a noticeable similarity in
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to account for the strange. apparently IT.
resistible fascination which draws peo-
pie daily to that portion of F street which
lies between 18th and 9th streets north
west
Whether the fact is brought about in
some measure by the two great govern
ment departments which mark the ter
minal points of the stroll, whether it is
due to the central location of the street
or whether 1t is the stores, no one can
say! All these things undoubtedly have
their influence. but. primarily. the ind-
vidual goes because the crowd goes
and the crowd goes-well-just because it
does. Shakespeare gave as near a solu-
ton as can be reached when he wrote
THAT that is, is
Known the city over as the Washington
boulevard + street is thronged- with pc
destrians, shoppers and idlers from early
morning until dusk although it is be-
tween the hours of 4 and ) in the after
noon that the daily parade displays its
most Kaleidoscope melange. At this hour
madame has finished her shopping the
young brokers' clerk and recently grad
uated lawyer. the physician, and other
embryonic professional men have locked
their offices for the day. Students of the
high schools have taken their books home
and have Joined the throng. The hun
dreds of young women of the exclusive
finishing schools of the city have done
with their recitations and are out for.
stroll. and last. but by no means least
the departments have let OUT their
hordes of employees of both sexes =.
Just Strolling Along.
All these, and more, hasten to F street,
where they saunter up and down from
18th to 9th, and from 9th back to 18th,
cheerfully walking the six long blocks
without sign of fatigue. greeting their
acquaintance. admiring or criticising
others. and being themselves admired or
criticised in return.
What though the dinner hour be fast
approaching; what though there Is an
engagement to be kept: what though
there even be some business of minor i'm
pOrtance which should be attended to-?
No matter. it can wait. Everything can
and must wait while a large proportion
of Younger Washington, and no small
portion of Older Washington as WELL
promenade up and down a thoroughfare
which draws the crowds through the me-
dunn of some ineXplcable fascination that
can not be analysed, but which none the
less surely exists.
F street is by no means the most beauti-
full street in the city: neither is it the
widest; nor is it shaded with great trees
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IRRESISTIBLE Easel,

IRRESISTIBLE Fascina-
/ ton That Draws All
Washington to "The Street"
Diplomats, Cabinet OFF,
GERS, Senators, Representa-
tives, Judges, Lawyers, Physi-
clans, Business Men, Clerks
and Idlers Help to Make
Up the Strolling Melange-
Milady Finds Her Way There
and Shops From 1t If Not in
It-Other Streets and Ave
nues Offer Ideal Strolling
Qualifications, But They Are
Not F Street-When the Men
Stop and Admire Themselves
in the Windows They Prove,
That the Women Are Not the
Only Vain Ones-Near-men
Washers Are Rapidly Becom-
ing Things of the. Distant
Past.
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decidedly third-rate shop on that street
does 1t not possess huge. plate glass win
doWs, which make very good mirrors in
deed. and therein. possibly, lies another
of the attractions.
The observer notes a continual turning
of heads on the part Of the promenaders,
and. on investigation, discovers that each
and every one Of the aforementioned is
furtively cycling his or her reflection and
stealthily remedying any slight defect
that the friendly window may disclose. 1t
would be impossible to persuade the
frankest of the promenaders to admit 1T.
The male being will not. for worlds. look
into the window Of shop for women
dashery. or a similar establishment.
where, II accused of vanity. he may in
dignantly deny the charge and offer the
quite reasonable explanation that he was
merely looking over the stock in view Of
a possible purchase. The same is true of
the petite debutante. only she, of course
patronizes the windows of milliner or
lingerie shop.
A Form Of Washingtonitis.
The F, street habit for 1t certainly is a
habit of the most pronounced sort. is dis
tinctly a form of Washingtonitis. Other
cities have their numerous busy streets,
but there is only one F street in Wash
ington.
city for the first time ridicules his ac-
quaintances for dropping everything at
the mystic hour Of four and hurrying to
his or her place in the daily parade. To
him it is utterly hing beyond
comprehension.
But If he remains in the city sufficiently
long he will be forced to THE Street"
through sheer loneliness Wherever else
he may be when O'Clock arrives he finds
himself solitary pedestrian. He goes to
+ street and there he finds the friend
he ridiculed few days before. The fol-
lowing day witnesses a duplication Of the
experience. and so on. until the visitor
is himself a confirmed parader. recognize
ed as such by the habtues of the street.
who. although they may have no speaking
acquaintance invariably know one an
other by sight.
And this Is easily accounted for for,
once you get the habit" always you
have it. Day after day and year in and
year out one sees all the cd faces, while
new ones are constantly appearing. which,
as time passes. grow SO familiar that one
must exercise restraint to keep from
speaking as he passes.
And just to show that their power is
confined to no one class, nor even nation
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service under both Sherman and Sheridan.
But after thus serving his country and
after becoming thirty second degree
Mason he became so poor III his old age
That he was reduced at the age Of sew
enty. TO asking aims in the streets.
This Adams faruiiy within itself shows
startling contrasts of fortune. In many
respects Il has made = record more
notable than that of any other family in
our history--a record which can best be
quoted IN contradiction 90 tie oft-rereated
adage that greatness does not strike twice
in the same family. The Adams family
has produced men of attainment in every
generation since the republic flashed into
history. After the father and son had
succeeded TO the presidency the grand
son. Charles Francis Adams. after having
been the nominee OF his party for the
vice presidency and after serving in Con-
gress distinguished himself as diplO-
mat!st while occupying the trying post
of minister to England during the civil
war. when England frowned upon his
government. In the fourth generation
We now have Gen Charles Francis
Adams. soldier. lawyer, railway presi-
dent and historian, and Brooks Adams,
professor of law. economist and author.
And the fifth generation has produced
Francis Alexander Adams. who became
editor of Printers Ink when but twenty
two. and who Is now associate editor of
the New York Commercial; also the au-
thor OF several books. including a novel
With the Washington family fate has
dealt from her other hand. The father
of his country died childless. but down
the Potomac On the Virginia side now
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ration OF peace with the dons. He bears
remarkably close resemblance to his
father and wears his beard in the same
fashion. Young Sartoris is not the only
grandson OF President Grant who has
been attached to the government service
HIS cousin Ulysses S. Grant. Sd, was sent
through West Point and is now a cap
tain in the regular army. wherein he has
a good record. Julia Dent Grant, anot her
erSndchild of the general. married Prince
Michael Cantocuzene of the Russian i'm
peria. guard
Garfield Boys Both Leaders.
The Garfield boys have both been q
credit to their father. Harry Augustus.
who now becomes a college president. Is
but two years older than James Rudolph,
who last year entered the cabinet as
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Both
We're graduated from Williamson which
Harry is the president-in the same class.
and both later studied at the Columbsa
law school In New York, bu. II AIRY h'-
ished up at Oxford and Inns OF Court.
London. before entering IN law partner
ship with James. The latter went to the
Ohio legislature. and afterward became
United States civil service commissioner
and commissioner OF corporations before
entering the cabinet. while Harry became
professor of politics at Princeton prior
to his election this summer as president
of Williams. Both have stood side by
side for good government and political
reform Their sister. Miss Mollie." like
Miss Alice Roosevelt. selected an Ameri.
can citizen, Mr.. Stanley Brown, for Q
husband
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Presidents Grandson Arrested for
Begging.

Two other recent cases presenting strik-
ing contrasts in the fortune Detailing the
descendants of our Presidents are the
assumption this summer of the presidency
OF Williams College by Prof Harry Au-
gustus Garfield. son of the second martyr
President. and the arrest some time be-
fore of George Adams Robinson a grand
son of President John Quincy Adams and
ereat-grandsOn of President Jonn
Adams. on a charge of begging on the
streets OF Bridgeport, Conn This case.
Ike that of Stovers, is peculiarly sad.
Robinson-whose mother was belle o.
the White House and whose father was a
physician-after being graduated from
Harvard in 1861 enlisted in the 18th Reg
iment Massachusetts Volunteers and saw