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held at bay a force of Filipinos which
rushed up to bolo them This was Chap
lain David l.. Fleming, now of the I'd
Cavalry.
Chaplain George D. Rice, o7th Infantry,
is our only army chaplain now on the ac-
tive list to receive a medal of honor. This
he received flor devotion to the wounded
and assisting them from the firing line" at
Fort Bayan, Mindanao. in May, 1902. He
was also honorably mentioned for "abso-
lutte and fearless devotion to duty in ad-
ministering to the wounded under heavy
fire.
Each candidate for a chaplaincy in the
navy must not be less than twentyone
nor more than thirty-five years old. and
must. like the army dominies, pass a
rigid physical examination before a board
of medical officers. He must be "a regu-
larly ordained minister of good standing
in his denomination" and his moral char
acter, general fitness and experience must
be established to the satisfaction of
board of chapains," which must conduct
written examination to determine his
mental attainments'
According to the naval regulations, each
chaplain shall perform divine service and
offer prayers on board the ship to which
he Is attached at such times the COM
manding officer may prescribe He must
also visit the sick frequently, and may
instruct such of the ships Jack Tars as
are deficient in reading, writing, arthme-
tic and geography. In battle his duty is
Ito aid the wounded.
Four of the navy's chaplains rank as
captains, seven rank as commanders, hVe
as lieutenant commanders one as lieu
tenant and six as junior lieutenants.
Their pay in these grades varies from
S4, 400 down to So 200 while on sea duty,
and from 81 1000 to $1,000 while on shore
duty, when they are allowed also enough
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Virginia We're dotted with estates cali
ed ..Belyoir" "Beauvoir.'' .Belair." etc,
so he hit on "kalorama." Within a
few years after his purchase OF the
property he was appointed United
States minister to France and died IN
1911 in Poland during IL brief absence
from his post. His widow retained pos
session OF Kalorama until 1918, the
date of her death there.
kalorama long remained in the Bar
low family and finally came into pos
session of Col. George Bomford Of the
United States Army. After his death
in the f0s ii came under the ownership
Of the Fletcher family and during the
civil war was owned by Charles F.
Fletcher. During the war. when the
heights north of the city Were covered
with military hospitals, wooden bar
racks for the treatment Of smallpox
patients We're built in the kaiorana
grounds.
When the city of Washington invad
ed the kalorama lands and streets
were cut through. The Barlow burial
vault was demolished ana the remains
of those resting there We're removed to
Oak Hill cemetery.
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Giving Themselves Away.

THE late Mayor Gaynor was one day
censuring Il hypocrite.
.Hypocrites." he said whether they
are correcting the social evil or starving
factory girls. always give themselves
away They remind me Of the tramp.
''The gentleman who ran into this tramp
had gone out on an all-day fishing trip,
taking his lunch with him When he
reached the riverside he discovered that
he had dropped his lunch somewhere on
the way and 50 he hurried back to lock-
for it
After a while he met a fat. healthy
tramp. who strolled along sucking a tooth
pick and looking very well pleased with
life.
: Did you pick up anything on the road
as YOU came aiong@ the gentleman asked.
- No. sir; not me. boss, said the
tramp. / didn't pick up nothin'.
Couldn't dog have found it and ct il
sirT"
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sentatives on Thursday, March %, 1870.
and after some feeling remarks. says an
old chronicle. expressive Of the grief
with which he was filled by the recent
melancholy occurrence of the death of
that distinguished naval officer. Commo-
dore Decatur, which he rather alluded 10
than announced" called the attention OF
the House TO a resolution, the import
of which was that when the House ad-
lourned it would be to meet again on
Saturday, that il would attend the fu-
neral of Commodore Decatur and that
the members of the House, in respect to
the memory of Decatur, would wear
Grape on the left arm for the remainder
OF the session.
Mr.. Taylor of New York requested a
division on this resolution and said, in
opposition, that he felt it due to himself
TO say that In respect for the memory
and public services of the deceased he
Yielded to no member OF the House. not
even TO the gentleman from Virginia.
but. he continued lit is with the most
painful regret that l am constrained
to say that he died in the violation Of
the laws Of God and the country. I.
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therefore. cannot consent. however deep
~ his loss is deplored by this House
in common with the nation, to vote the
distinguished and unusual honors pro-
posed by this resolution
Mr.. Randolph then withdrew the reso-
luton and moved that the House ad-
;ourn. The question on the motion was
taken by yeas and nays and it was de-
cided in the negative by So to 90
The story of Kalorama is a long one
and il has been told before 1t was a
part of the tract called Widows Mite,
which was a grant TO the Langswortn
family in the latter half of the seven
teenth century. In one of the chronicles
dealing with the property it is written
that Widows Mite was surveyed il DC
tober 1867, for John Langsworth, and
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the old files that The body of Com1no-
dore Stephen Decatur, late of the United
States Navy. will be inferred this after
noon at + o'clock" and that the fol-
lowing will be the order of procession
from his late residence: Firing party OF
marines with music: officers of the Navy
of the United States; officers OF the Ma
rne Corps; the clergy. pallbearers Com
rnodore Tinsey, Commodore McDonouSh'
Commodore Rodgers, Commodore Porter,
Gen Jesup, Gen. Brown Capt. Ballard,
Capt. Cassin, Capt. Chauncey, Lieut. Nc
Pherson: relatives; President of the
United States and heads of departments;
members of the Senate and House OF KEEP
resentatives; judges, marshals and other
civil officers of the United States. officers
Of the Army of the United States; the
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in the hospitals and the prisoners In the
guardhouse. give instruction in the COM
mon English branches OF education to the
enlisted men of his regiment. identify the
dead after a battle act often as counsel
for the defense at courts martial and
serve generally as post treasurer.
At some of our army posts. now, the
chaplain has charge of recreation work
This includes selection of the reels for
the moving picture shows that are now
regular feature of post life At Platts-
burg barracks, New York. the post chap
lain. a college trained athlete, has charge
of field athletics.
Four colored chaplains are now on the
army ROLL two being Methodsts and two
Baptists. The ranking colored parson is
Chaplain George W. Prioleau of the 9th
Cavalry.
The ranking army chaplain. the Rev.
Cephas c. Bateman of the 18th Cavalry.
performed some valuable ethnologic work
in the Philippines, where the Moro dattos
are said to have confided to him informa-
ton never before given to an American.
One of our heroes at the relief of the
siege of Picking was Chaplain Walter
Marvine of the coast artillery who was
with the Identification and bur
ial of all our soldiers who died in China
There isn't a Drawer man in the regi-
ment.' said Col. Roosevelt in his farewell
address TO his regiment when speaking
of Henry A. Brown, the Rough Rider
chaplain" now of the Engineer Corps.
He right there on the firing line"
the colonel continued. tending to the
wounded, and when we went up that hill
/ caught him with a carhine in his
hands,
When Manila was taken a Yankee
wearing the Latin cross in his shoulder
straps stood guard over the wounded
Spaniards and at the point of pistol
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sion and funeral service. Every Incl
dent evinced the deep sensation which
prevailed, and the volleys of musketry
which announced the consignment of the
hero s remains to the tomb sounded as
the knell OF departed chiyalry.
Not only a warrior. however. is
he lamented. With those who knew him
personally his civic qualities had riveted
the ties by which his military virtues
had bound him to their hearts. He was
amongst the first of those who have
added to the fame OF his country, and his
premature death is mourned as it ought
to be-
In connection with the death and bur-
ial of Decatur there is a forgotten in
cident which is worth the telling Mr..
Randolph arose IL the House of Repre-
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established no precedent for opening the
business of the executive and judicial
branches OF our government with prayer,
they saw "a special need for divine guild
ance Of the legislative branch, which
was. from the first, supplied with chap
lainS.
The two chaplains of Congress are
elected by their respective houses. as are
the sergeant at-arns and other officers,
and both receive the same salary. $1,000
a year.
The chaplain of the House. the Rev
He was born back in Indiana sixty-six
years ago. and when a lad III his teens
entered the civil war, in one of whose
battles he lost the sight of both of his
eyes He then entered the Ohio State
School for the Blind, and after being
graduated there was educated for the
UniverSaist ministry in the Divinity
School of st. Lawrence University. He
has been chaplain of the House since
1895. He is a distinguished looking man
of tall, erect, slender physique, and al
though his hair is white. looks younger
than his years. He and Senator Gore are
daily led to the Capitol by their faithful
wives.
The Senate has this year elected a new
chaplain the Rev. Forrest }. Prettyman
of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episco
pal Church of Washington. When the
Senate was reorganiZed by the demo
Gratis he was elected to succeed President
Taft's eloquent Unitarian pastor, Rev.
DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce who in his
turn had succeeded the noted Unitarian
divine and author. Edward Everett Hale.
Thirty lone of the chaplaincies in Con
gress have gone to Methodists. twenty
four to Episcopalians, tWenty-four to
Presbyterians, fifteen to Baptists, live to
Congregationalists, four to Unitarians.
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otbar trees woven together with vines so
tapgled and matted as to Justify the APP
nI,cation of the word Jungle to the place.
II is new-old territory out that way, old
in that men have dwelt there for con-
turtles. and new in that 1t has been re-
Gently .upbuiiI in part. and is still up
building with fine houses set on modern
streets,
Along the north siac O. street :
Vire-mesA renee strung or "HAp'1a'e
posts. ~ 'iis lssise' aoo"t ''s'' Wy '''s
square. = = rlyh,ty safe "' "!fe i+vsh
With trail and decaytnS TIMBER IS q
frame. Tie -attpoSts are cracked, warp
al o,,f,,.,,,, ard an of ,lunf one gate
IT -. ,,.hat ,,.as . ,.,r-;.,s,.r.,v
-.
nut "hleh = it'N 'V' 'i'oi '..'-" . .'''4
trace paved WIN siiaIi t"op!es, hfoi>eh
bluestonc ard earth, rdttsd b. the rains
and bearing 4 crop oil red top foxta.
crab and other grasses. piautains and
awarftd .sI3e,fInaua If the wnitc heath
aster and b.ue-fowered chicKory By the
side Of the gate At tae carriageway is a
smaller gate that swings awry and creaks
on rusty hinges This is for pedestrians
10 pass through. An old metal sign on
ore Of the gateFosts reads-2-ul
=
Through the gate YOU may look into
. it, (which i Il aa.v ~ raiJ
s,, -. -. -
s'o'4'os eolt" ny eto"" VI" 'iSeS anu
shFubbeFN. he trees seem not TO be very
old. but they have a haggard look. one
feels that there would be very old trees
+, tb.4 lot baa No. stor,,,s ,.ty.,. 49,.
-, 20 -. -,
''''''.eu anu
INJURIOUS IN growth The oder OF box, a
fragrance reminiscent Of other times.
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semicircle OF box. rather ragged, the
bushes being from four to eight feet tall.
Other remnants Of plants show that al
one time a fine flower garden flourished
there. In these grounds will soon be
built the new Washington home of the
German embassy.
South Of the land surrounding the house
and in the tangle to which reference was
made at the beginning of this story you
may trace the dim and nearly extIn-
guished outline Of an ancient road. This
was the road which once led from Florida
avenue and up the hill to the house. The
gate OF the Kalorama grounds was at
about the point where Massachusetts ave-
nue. and I'D street intersect.
= :.
kalorama has been often written of as
the place where Commodore Decatur
died That however, is not the fact
He died in his oNn home, at the south
west corner OF II street and Jackson
place This is recorded on a bronze tab
let on the east wall Of the house. After
his death. though Decatur,s remains
We're placed in the Barlow vault IN the
Kalosalaa grounds. whence they We're at
length removed to a churehyard II Phli-
adplphl.. Elt as Decatur and kaiofama
have become so closely associated III the
go, r.rt ~ the Ealora,lla tract is
called Decatur place il is interesting at
this jrnctufe to turn taGk 70 tas n,es =,
the ION ~ ~ f,,eI rho
5 lett and he ft1neraI 81 Decatur.
The National Intel. gencpr Of Thurs
day, March -, At the top OF the last col
umn OF the hrst OF 'tS TOUR pases' -
=. BE- r,1e,,ar o.f.Iaels Wednesday
N5cbt Mach %
~ Hero has fallen Commodore Ste
phen Decatur, one a. the first officers OF.
our navy. pride Of lis cnuntrymen. tn
gallant and nobLe-hearted gentleman. 10
NO MORE. lie expired a few minutes
ago OF the mortal Wound received in the
duel Of YESTERDAY
"Cf the origin Of the feud when rev
Ia this disastrous result we know bui
what runas tvl3s The event, We are sure
w ..tt the aHa.r.rT With &r.ef
Mourn Duumbil. cor one Of thy brisht
est starS is SEGA son 'w4lhou IeI i.
without ,rproaeb iii the freshness OF MS
fame I'm the prime 81 his usefulness, mas
descended INTO the tomb
That issue of the Intellgencer was an
extra. Though ii bore the date OF Thurs
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HE Rambler found
himself on ) street
between I'D and
sd streets. On the
north side OF the
street was q grassy
and weedy ter
race. On the south
side was a city
square of land
broken by many
irregularities in it's
surface and thick
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laymen is now at work upon TINS uocu-
ment. which also will ask additional as
slstants and better equipment for these
naval and military parsons
Nearly a hundred clergymeE. employed
as such are already upon Uncle Sam
pay roll. To he exact there are ninety
six members of his chaplain corps, sixty
six belonging TO the army. twenty-four TO
the navy. four to the federal peniten-
tiaries and two to Conaress. OF the army
chaplains. sixteen are Catholics, fourteen
are Episcopalians, thirteen are Meth
odists, seven are Baptists, seven are Pres
byterians. four are Consregationalists
two are Lutheraus. one is Unitarian,
one is Dutch Reformed and one minis
ter of the Christian Church. OF the navy
chaplainS, six are Catholics. six are
Methodists, five are Episcopalians. three
are Baptists. two are Presbyterians, one
a Disciple OF Christ. one a Unversalist
and one a CongresationaIist
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SIE

should open the neNt mornings ses-
sion with prayer. and the motion car
ried
This same minister was regularly
elected chaplain ~ ConGress five DAYS
after the Declaration of independence.
and the following December two chap
lains We're appointed Ter tia Contineh-
tai Congress
That the two chapiains OF Congress
should he - different denominations.
and that thew should interchange
weeklF-thr Senate chaplain going
over 10 the House. and vice versa
was a precedent laid down by the
First Congress. under the Constitu-
ton, bat ii was not long followed
The nrst congressional chaplains re-
ceived $500 apiece, or just haif the
present salary. After the ratification
Of the Constitution the first Senate
chaplain was Dir Provost an Episco-
latian, Who served froHl 1888 ~
119o while the first chaplain Of thu
House WAS Rev. William Lam whose
term extended between the same wears.
IL the early tiftics there Was 4 protest
because the old RUE had been violated
by Congress choosing two ebaplains Of
the same faith By this time the salary
had been raised to 500 year
A&
NJ each OF tie big federal penitenti-
aries at Atlanta and Port Leaven-
""t II thetS are Two Sh'il'taths, one 4
Protestant and the other 4 Roman
Catholic. One Of these doing religions
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, = 80
~ ol1eIs 4fa"l lbs Si''''", ms various
60 80 u1l,es ~ d"ut'l9h 70
t. 49,, % = P'stoi ~ haiute re must
going mail OF prisoners and must keep
- =. y ~ : oopN Mne'.i,I ~ IL ~,
,no,1o, = 20 ,.iI.s,,, !, 70 peis 80
.b,a,,, ~. - "iso 80,
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80, - ~ "
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III. 7-,'a's 80 i, - ''.nS
ijari.,.,.. s. sapp'e' - tue
s@ns.,tis,,,.,f 1sS,,t ,,s, al oba,
rai,,s 60, ~, -, 80 -, -,
i balr fs,,fF,,t. - -, -, - ...,t,fr
members OF Congress- and outside poll
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Church Convention
Memorializes Congress
for More-Receive 81
400 to 5000 Per Annum
Their Varied Duties
Act as Censors of
Moving Picture Shows.
Schoolmasters and Hos
pital Ange Is Some
Must Open All Letters
and Packages Sent to
Their Charges Their
En- ploymen t Once
Caused a Row, but At
tempt to Dust Them
Was observation-disclosures
Are Heroes-Share of
the Various Sects IN
Their Appointment.
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

ORE chaplaius for
the army and navy
are To be as ked in
"a memorial to Con-
gress just author
lied by the tri-
euuial general con-
vention of the
Protestant Episco-
pal Church. A
special committee
OF two bishops. two
clerg ymen and two
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In the National Intelligencer of Sat-
urday. March %. you will find the fol-
lowing account of the funeral in which
is mentioned that the body was laid in
the kalorama vault:
The funeral of the lamented Decatur
took place at o'clock yesterday after
noon. Since the foundations OF this city
were laid. perhaps no such assemblage
of citizens and strangers on such an
occasion has been seen.
His remains were attended to the
vault at kalorama, in which they We're
deposited. by a great part of the male
population of the city and adjacent
country. by nearly all the officers of
the government members Of Congress
and representatives Of foreign govern
ments resident here. Due military hon
ors We're rendered on the occasion by
the Marine Corps under command of
Maj Miller. and minute guns were fired
from the navy yard during the process
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Braddock Memorials.

NEWSPAPERS throughout the country
had much to say or to write OF the
dedication on October l. of a monument
to Gen. Braddock at Gniontown. Pa, on
the spot which has long been pointed out
as the place where that Inflated COM
lnauLer fell. The dedicatory ceremonies
We're not only participated III by Amer
leans but by representatives of the Brit
ish army and of the Canadian military
forces.
The French and Indian war marks a
big red epoch in American history, and
the iight for Fort DuqGeSne Is a story
that has been told so often that it is
familiar 20 nearly everybody who reads
and to those who get their historical in
formation in other ways. \ great many
OF the American soldiers OF the revou-
ton received their baptism of fire III that
@ar
in the city Of WASHINGTON are two
Braddock memorials. In the first place
there is the rock OH which il has been
maintained that a part of his army land
q on its march from Alexandria to the
western wilderness. That rock which at
one time was on the shore of the
Potomac river, is now considerably below
the grade of Potomac Park at the bottom
of a brick-walIed pit between the Naval
Hospital and the Museum of Hygiene, on
the north and that Potomac Park drive
which follows the line OF b street, on
the south.
The reclamation of the Potomac flats
left the historic or legendary rock at the
bottom of hole, but later this hole was
bricked up flush with the surface of the
new-made land. the work. being done
under the auspices of the National So
ciety of the Colonial Danes of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
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The date on the bell is nearly effaced,
and some words around the date are so
nearly obliterated that they cannot be
read. The date is MDCCLIlI.
Under the shadow Of the west wall runs
a concrete way. Between this and the
broad asphalted drive is a strip of lawn
Along this concrete walk are giant blocks
of Ignite and of copper and iron ores.
The first of these exhibits you come upon
is mammoth block of Ignite which il
it has a label on 1t the Rambler did not
find it. Next is a big block of hematite
ore from the Marquette district of Mich
isan Behind this is a bulk of mineral OF
bronze deep red. purple and brown color
ing. labeled Magnetic FED o." from
a mine in Marquette county, Mich. Near
it is a block of ore eight or ten feet long
and about four feet high and four feet
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two 70 Lutherans and one each 70 nj
Nersalists. Disciples OF Christ and Cath
olics. The Senate has had more Episco-
palian charlains than those Of any other
denomination. the first nine being OF that
faith. The House preference has oeen
for Methodists. although Il started OF
with three Presbytertans
The only Roman Catholic chaplain Of
Congress was the Rey. Father {. &.
Pise. who opened the daily sessions OF
the Senate in lss2 and 1883, while John
c. Calhoun as Vie" President. presided
over that body. The immediate predeces-
sor Of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale as
chaplain OF the Senate was, like the
present House chaplain a blind man.
This was the Rev. w II. Mi.buru.
Methodist minister, who had previously
served seven terms as chaplain of the
House-in 1sI5-46 1sl.i-55 and 1S.5-.,.. \
Senate chaplain, who, like Or Pierce,
vas also the pastor of a President was
the Rev. Or. Byron Sunderland. who
OBLIGATED at the marriage Of President
Cleveland and whose Presbyterian
church in Washington that caief
executive attended He was chaplain Of
the Senate six years. from 1873 10 1879.
The fathers of the republic were di-
vided on the question Of opening Con
gress with prayer On the opening
day of the first Continental Congress
Cushing moved that the session he
thus opened, but Jay and Rutlelge OBJ
jected on the ground that the colonies
We're too much divided in religious
sentiment Samuel Adar ;, however,
arose at this point and protested that
it ill-became men protesting 10 he
Christians to say that they were of
50 wide a difference Of belief that they
could not. as one man, bow their knee
in PRAYER to the Almighty
He then moved that Rev Mr.. DGshe
an Episcopal minister Of Philadelphia.
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Braddock's troops reached Alexandria
in February. 1865, having sailed from
England in 1754. After reaching the
Chesapeake, Braddock himself remained
for some time at Hampton. Va, but came
IN TO Alexandria In March. 1t is clear
from a number of items in Braddock's
order book that a part of his force came
by water from Alexandria To Washington
and landed at or near the mouth of Rock
creek. 1t is also supposed that some of
the troops marched by the wagon road
from Alexandria to Georgetown, crossing
the river by means of the ferry at about
the place where the Aqueduct bridge is
now.
In 1871 Prof Joseph Nourse wrote that
TRADITIONS are strong as TO Braddock's
troops camping on this hin Observatory
hilD, and the late Col Peter Force. 50
we'll known for his historical collections.
repeatedly pointed out the large rock
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The apportionment of these parsons in