The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-21
WESTERN INTERESTS
ARE CONSIDERED
EVENTS AT THE NATIONAL CAP
iTAL DEAL LARGELY WITH
OUR LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Special Correspondence.

| Special Correspondence.
Washington. Noy 2o.--rh- historic
| collections of the United States ma.
| tional museum are constantly being
/ increased by gifts or loans of price
less heirlooms. which frequently helr
To throw light on doubtful points in
the early history of the country. oil
this character is the recent deposit by
the Townsend family. through Mrs
Marshall Phillips. of set of Gin.
cinnati" china.
This valuable heirloom was origi-
nally the property of DIR. David Town
send. who served under Washington
i'm the war of the revolution. DIR
Townsend is also remembered as one
Of those officers who organized the
Society of the Cincinnati at New
hurgh on the Hudson in 17s3. and
from him the membership has passed
on through his grandson. General T..
ID. Townsend. who was adjutant gen.
eral of the United States for many
years. To Thomas Gerry Townsend.
who takes his middle name from Ell
bridge Gerry, a vice president of the
United states under James Madison.
and the author of the famous Gerry
mander compromise-whose daughter
was General Townsend's mother. The
original certificate of membership in
this famous patriotic society. signed
by General Washington and his first
secretary. General Henry Knox. is in
Guided in the denosit.
The china is Of special interest as
throwing considerable light on the
early pottery of the best kind that
came To this country. IL hears the
well-knoWn arms of the Cincinnati
done in colors and faithfully repro
duced by that painstaking effort So
characteristic of the Chinese dscora-
tors. II also has the monogram or
cypher Of the two initials of its
owner. DIR. David Townsend. The tea
set WAS brought from Canton by
Captain Samuel Shaw in 1890. and is
one Of the three sets ordered for Gen
Cral Henry Dearborn. Governor VII
liam Eustis of Massachusetts and Df.
David Townsend. That the ware was
made in China is obvious tn connois-
seurs in pottery and incidentally the
decoration is equally characteristic of
the variety of pottery called by our
ancestors 'Lowestoft' and imported
from England. This collection has
been 50 carefully preserved by lis
owners that only six pieces Of the
original set have disappeared. 1t Is
practically unique and carried with il
from its appearance the evidence.
that has long been insisted on by ex-
perts. that the famous Lowestoft
china MAS simply china ordered from
Lowestoft. England. and decorated i'll
China.
The appointment Of Anna Y. Woods
as pnstmistress nj the Hardy. Mont.
office is announced by the postmaster
general
Reports to the reclamation bureau
here from its field agents state that
Fort Shaw. on the sun river irrI-
rapidly homeSteaded. and that by the
first of the year il will be completely
filled with hamesreaders. Last month
the land office NJ Great Falls re-
eeived LEGO filings on land in the unit
and over TOO filings the month before
The rush of settlers Ia Fort Shaw
has been So great, says the report.
that although extra clerical assistance
had heen added. they had nat l4s-en
able to keep up with til. work.