The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-18

N FORE Candles Hill had it's graded
* drives. It's planted rows OF trees
81 its turfed slopes and its general
lair of ordedliness. 1t was merely a
hough and precipltous slope overlook
knK the TredeRar Iron Works The
bed glare surrounding the forms OF the
workers who manipulated the molten
lnuid made a weird picture that might
hnve grown upon the canvas OF an i'm
spressionist or been inspired by lines
from Dante's Inferno.
Nature held the balance then. Now
tihe surroundings are more common
iplace. more comfortable. but far Less
picturesque. Candles hin looks down
Inpon the islcts in James Rives. On
ono or these. In June OF 1907, Captain
Newport. John Smith. and a company
OF brave adventures set up cross
snd took possession OF the country
around the Fails OF the James. in the
name OF King James OF England. In
that moment the knoll OF the red mans
power was sounded and the supremacy
~ the white man announced. Powha-
tan and his braves contestcd the ad-
vance Of the invaders ncrcely The
battle Of Bloody Run attcsted the su-
iyreme courage with which they took
their last stand in behalf OF the homes
and the hunting EroaDds from which
'rhcy were being drivsza away.
Powhatans seat was supposed TO
llaye been some miles away from
,GaRble's Hill. hut the fact that some
>vhere In this vicinity was the point
near the falls, that marked tho limit
of Viewpoints voyage OF discovery, has
always invested the einincnce with a
romantic association
Until the building of the state Pen
5tentiary at point which the HIN
iuverlooks. trees covered the site now
occupied by that ins.ftution. thickly
wooded area growing almost to the
ledge OF the river. 1t is believed that
'Beividere. called by the Traveller. Burn
LADY who visited 1t in 1853. the ro-
linantic ana beautiful seat of Colonel
William Byrd Ill was situated near
Iwhere the Denitentiary now stands.
lBui Of Bcividere. not even pictured
trace remains. and its exact location
can only he approximately decided
AS late as the EOS however. there
Ntood u7on the summit OF Candles Hill
la biz grey house individualized by the
scharacter OF its construction. vet hsv-
ing about it an air of decay, an APP
lpearance Of past pros perity and present
i1orsakenness y young Richmond girl.
lwho on Third street mad been watch
'inE tho Richmond, Fredericksburg and
iToiomac Railway train enter and
emerge from the tunnel on its rush
Eng way northward looked thought
Ifuily after II and then said as she
Presumed her walk. WHO built that
blouse eiooming above us with the
moonlight silvering It's windows and
lshuns up the emptiness within:
Tins has dealt unkindly with what
emrsi have been a proud home Of former
days for. even though 1t has shared
Hate too common not to be doplored.
81 frowns defiance at evil fortune with
me consciousness Of oygone years Of a
different kind behind 1t. Tho house
has a history. / am sure OF it,
The next day the young cirl. her
sympath!es strangely aroused. went 10
work 20 look into the past OF the big
,erey house. Il was not hard TO find
In the year of its building the popu-
iation OF Richmond was accounted to
ne 5.7s7 The town boosted a fair
number OF physicians and apothecarics.
nov spoken OF druggists BY way
OF public entertainment there were the
Eagle Hotel, Bowlers Ordinary. the
Swan Tavern. on Broad Street. and
WASHINGTON Tavern. facing the Square
Slow the Richmond Hotel The tastes
'ot Virginia Legislators In that day
may be estimated from tho fact that
l1ive gallon bowl OF today was daily
eprewed IN the Governors house. for
The benent OF Trans-ANeEhany mem
e
The Register OF the Land once at
rhis time was Colonel John Harvi- who
Fowned the land now embraced in IIol-
ilywood Cemetery where the TIarvie
Family burying ground, reserved when
BE environs We're sold. sun lies un-
disturbed. The Harvie tract adjoined
lothers purchased by Thomas Ruther-
ifoord from Alexander Buchanan and
Esxtanded down James River from the
cemetery limits. Colonel Hai-vie was
Ehe original protector OF the Grey
1iouse. but he's did not live to sec its
lcompletion. "A :" fall from ladder
causeri his untimely death and caused
ulso mourning in Richmond Over a man
lwho was citizen OF distinction A
patriot Of the War Of the American
tReyoluton. a member of the Conven-
pion OF l775 and of the Old Congress
The young gir reading the annals
INF The Grey House paused Il knew
hr' said she 10 herself under her
breath. Il had feeling that the foun-
fdauons OF the house were laid in trag-
trdy When she went further and saw
that Major Robert Gamble. who be-
f'ame the purchaser OF Grey House