Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-31

Because tnlS IS the mOnJn that IHC whole nation pays tribute to it's brave heroes. perchance the Social Corner would be interested to read about one day spent among the tombs and tomb stones in the National cemetery at Arlington, Va
 We fingered nearly an hour on the steps of General Miles tomb. eating lunch and commenting on the grandeur of the view which is a panorama view of the city of Washington, with the United States governments agricul- tural experiment farm just outside the cemetery and seemingly right at our feet.
 A wall about four feet wide and three feet thick and estimated to be about three miles long encloses the cemetery. The cemetery itself is a vast easterly slope.
 The tall round shaft with ball and eagle on top. erected by the Society oi Colonial Danes to the Spanish Amer ican War Veterans, was next in our line of interest.
 As l witnessed the procession which bore the remains of those bodies gath cred up after the raising of the Maine, I was interested in that section of the cemetery containing the Maine boys, and fingered there many minutes. There lies the great anchor which was placed in the cemetery directly after the Maine disaster and beside it is the great mast of the Maine. recently talk en from the wreck. and which is not yet erected.
 The confederate dead are in one small section in the center of which a monument is being erected.
 We stopped 8 moment to look at the stately shaft erected to Lieutenant Selfridge who was killed in an aero drome accident several years ago, the accident happening about half mile from the spot where his remains lie.
 Other monuments to such noted men as Evans. Shafter Samson and Schley also claimed our attention, but for only a few moments. as we were compelled to hurry on.
 From a monument of Vermont gran ite, erected to the Civil war heroes, copied the following:
 Beneath this stone repose the bones of two thousand. one hundred and eleven unknown gathered up after the war from the field of Bull Run and from the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths are record ed in the archives of their country, and it's grateful citizens honor them as of the noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace. September, A. D. 1866"
 Another monument from which I copied the inscriptions was of granite, erected to the Connecticut boys: "2nd Connecticut Hwy Art'y. Originally NJOnHGCiiCul !. D. 1896 by (seaD the State of Con- necticut. Defences of Washington 1S62-1865. Mustered in Sept. II. 1882, changed to artillery Nov. g, 1863, mustered out Aug. IS. 1885. Total en- rollment, 2.500. Total killed, 254. Total vania, North Anna River, Hanover town, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Vel don Railroad, Fort Stevens, Opequan, Fishers Hill, Cedar Creek, Hatcher s Run, Petersburg. Sailors Creek. Appo- mattox."
 The old Lee mansion is now simply an administration office, where visito4 l may register their names. On either wall of the hall hangs a massive bronze tablet giving a complete his tory of the Arlington estate and of the cemetery.
 1 beautiful spot, one ought to see it with their own eyes.
 When Father and Mother Dreamer visited this spot first they were jusr MT. and Mrs. Dreamer, and on this re- cent visit to the cemetery there were 1 Father and Mother Dreamer and-well, just Dreamer and company! Arlington House Estate (copied from tablet)-Tha lands comprising this es- tate or property are a, part of an orig inal grant of 5000 acres from William Berkeley, governor of Virginia. to ] Robert Howsen, in October. 1869. in consideration of the said HoWsen hay ing transferred number of settlers ! into the colony. In the same year Howsen conveyed these lands to John Alexander, the consideration being six hogsheads of tobacco, and on Dec. 25, 1 1778 Gerald Alexander. to whom the property had descended. conveyed the 1 Arlington tract. about HOO acres. to John Parke Custis. the consideration named being HOO pounds in Virginia currency
 John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington by her first mar riage. He was aid-de- camp to Wash ington during the Revolution, and upon his death Nov. ,. 17S1, of camp fever. contracted at Yorktown, Wash ington adopted his two youngest chil- dren. George Washington Parke Custts and Eleanor Parke Custis.