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tree that will grow in this climate, and
in the glass houses he has wonderful
trees, palms and flowers. The Gar
dens are a tanHle of wildwood beauty,
inclosed in q high iron fence, and con-
stitute one of the most delightful old
fashioned breathing places in the Capt.
tai. They have got to go, however. and
one sits with bated breath lest the west
front Of the Capitol, with its terraces
and marble steps, be shaved down to
please these architects. who have start
ed out to give US q bit of scenic" land
scape gardening. Save the markl
For all time, because we never have
earthquakes here, and marble will not
burn, we have got to hunt that beau
tiful memorial to the greatest General
of the age in a hole in the ground
down under the Capitol terraces. The
people who have planned Greater
Washington"-again save the mark
would now have us go down on the
Potomac, where rich people have a
driveway, and under the shadow OF the
great Washington Monument, to look
for peristyle to Lincoln.
memorial is great highway from the
White House door that will lead almost
as the bird flies, thru the Fort Stevens
battlefield, where Lincoln stood to
watch Early's attack on Washington,
and the only battlefield where he was
under fire Of the enemy's guns. on to
Gettysburg. That would be world
famous highway some day, and 1t ought
to be constructed. The first spadeful
Of dirt for 1t ought to be turned on the
anniversary OF Lincoln's centennial
birthday. Another project Is the Me-
mortal Bridge over the Potomac to the
Nations Va1halla, Arlington, to be
named for Lincoln. This, too. ought to
come to pass. Build monument on
every street corner to Lincoln, If you
like. The world will applaud. but let
no one Of them be meaningless. Let It
be something that will be of use to the
people. Bridges, universities, highways,
all will be of benefit to the people, but
Lincoln would not care for monuments
of himself in bronze and stone to MI
out some architectural plan.
But among the many plans one is to
buy the Oidroyd collection of Lincoln
mementoes. This is perhaps the best
of all, and will cost by slone odds the
least. The Government many years
ago bought the house fnfwhfeh Lincoln
died. 1t Is Just across the street from
old Ford's Theater. andzfn III Capt o.
III. Oldroyd has great collection Of
Lincoln furniture. booksI pictures and
other articles. which pertain to Lin
collecting for a period Of &c years.
Capt. Oldroyd spent most of his earlier
life after leaving the service n Spring.
field, and lived for many years in the
Lincoln home there. He had superior
chances to collect. antzsif this collec-
ton belonged to any other country the
Nation would have beenists owner long
ere this. No monetary value could
possibly be placed upen a iecollection
which includes the chairs In which
Lincoln sat in his office, his death mask,
the cradle his children were rocked In,
the queer old i1atrcictlf furniture from
his parior. ana ali thar sort OF thing.
Government would be making no mis-
take.
But 1t is more likely to build a pile
of marble down on the Potomac Flats
and call it a perfstyle, and it will look
like gate to the grounds of the Wash
ington Monument.
Fred d. Owen, Patriot.
Mr.. Fred d. Owen, of Connecticut
and Washington. Is as unique genius
as ever lived. He is tall and slender
and he always wears a high hat and he
speaks rather haltingIy, but there are
no kinks in his patriotism. II he were
a Daughter of the American Revolu-
ton, as his sister, Mrs. De B. Randolph
Keim, is, he could wear about a dozen
or more bars on his lineage indicator,
but being just a plain Son of the Amer
lean Revolution, he just wears blue
and white rosette. He does something
at the War Department 1 don't know
what, and for the purpose of this story
it does not matter. What he does do is
to use the War Department Flags to
advantage in decorations. He Is deco
to the War Department,
in fact, and is the deftest man with
Flags in the whole country. He has
superintended the decorations at the
dedications of the monuments to the
ANdtioh hCioSS LUZ many, many YEARS
for the War Department. The arrange
ments for the unvailings are always
most delightfully."- consummated. and
when Mr.. Owen has charge of the
whole thing you see an exquisite pic
ture of flying Flags from first moment
to tho last. Mr.. Owen says that the
Flag .should never be permitted to touch
the ground. so he has all his unvailing
Flags hung from wires far above the
statues, and when the combining threads
are broken the Flags open out and
float upward till they spread out away
up among the sunbeams. lust the pref
tiest things on earth
The other day a lot of the patriotic
societies got together and gave Mr.
Owen a dinner. Mr.. Owen Is perfectly
able to provide himself with very good
dinners. be 1t said. even il he Is so
thin. but this dinner had something
back of it. The patriotic societies,
thru Mr.. w. v. Cox. President of the
Washington Board of Trade. National
bank or two and several other things,
beside being member of the WASH
ington City School Board. land a Son
of the American Revolution, presented
Mr.. Owen with handsome gold watch
and appendages, as a testimonial of re-
gard for man who knows how to use
the American Flag for decorative pur-
poses, and puts it up ESQ ithat every
man who sees it feels as tho ne wanted
to take off his hat to it. and every wo-
man wants to kiss It. Mr.. Owen de-
served the tribute. Hei l1aa done a
great work in teachingc otl1ess how to
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