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to catch the breeze He steps out solidly
with the tread OF a man who is walk
ing for the exercise. Following him you
will find that he keeps up the pace. with
out tagging, over the two miles or more
to his home.
This earnest pedestrian is Chief Jus
tfce White OF the Supreme Court OF the
United States. a veteran pedestrian. VINO
claims that he has continually kept him
self At by this exercise Every morning
except In the most inclement weather, the
Chief Justice walks from his home to his
Office. and each evening, as the snadows
gather, he strolls back again. apparently
invigorated by the physical exercise after
q day Of mental labor
Even in the hottest Washington days
and nothing outside the punishment or
Notes.-The Chief Justice makes his pill
grimage to and from the Capitol Occa-
sionally he ropes in Justice Lurton or
Justice Hughes: but they are not regular
Club as it is called by the Supreme
Court members, but to the intense JOY OF
their colleagues they could not stand the
grueling test day after day and week after
week. SO the Chief Justice usually makes
his trip alone.
1t is interesting to watch the Chief Jus
tIce on his homeward trip. Any person
who stops him, inquiring a direction. or
this or that, is the recipient Of a carefully
thought out, courteous reply Some hum
bier person, going the Chief Justices way
may accost him and walk with him for
a few blocks. The great jurist and his
new friend will chat until rhe time of
parting comes, and when 1t does Justice
White will express regret that their
paths do not lead in the same direction
for a longer distance.
Chief Justice White once conf1ded to an
associate on the bench that the expert
ences he meets on his trips to and from
the Capitol are as valuable as the walk
itself They help him to keep young he
told his friend.
Plenty OF rest and early rising is -Ad
miral George Deweys panacea for the re-
tention OF youth. 1t Is his health fad to
be in bed every evening by o'clock
and to be up with the larks. He
rarely varies this rule and, apparent
~ successful results have attended its
keeping.
On his last birthday ne told a party Of
friends:
NO worry and regular hours-the
early to bed and early to rise maxim
have kept me young. Every one. ! be-
lieve should learn the habit Of retiring
early and arising early
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin. who
is the Nestor of Congress-being eighty
four years of age-was asked what his
health fads are.
Light eating. enough sleep, warm
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the upper reaches of the river in the Dis
trict 1t is the ruin Of Eads' mill
The Rambler did not meet in that neigh
borhood any dweller who could remem-
her the year in which the mill was built,
who could tell many stories of the olden
owners the olden millerS or the early
roads and the early customers. But the
story of this mill goes far back into the
wears OF the nineteenth century, and the
Rambler found a few persons who had
lived in the neighborhood of the mill for
fifty years.
Perhaps you have been walking along
the Canal road with high. weedy and
leafy bluffs on the right and With cleo
trio cars rushing above you. but invisible
because of the deep foliage of summer
On the left is the gray stone wall over
run with trumpet. vine, now in Drlllant
flower This wall guards travellers from
the canal though in some places along
the course Of the road there is enough
land between the roadway and the canal
for small houses and little gardens
Along much of the way, though, man
may sit on the wall, as many do. and
fish in the canal. The river and the quar-
ry-scarred bluffs of Virginia are farther
off to your left.
At length you come to point where
a road leads down from the highland on
the right and joins the canal road. You
can trace the grade of this road By
rough stone wall half covered with vines
and shaded principally by sycamores. 1t
makes a romantic picture. but that is
another ramble Two telephone poles be-
yond the junction of the roads YOU VIII
see a sign which informs YOU that boats
are for hire and bait for sale. On the
left stands a LARGE stone house. four
stories high. surrounded by deeI, breezy
verandas. 1t bears the mark II age. 1t
was built in 1901 by a Scotchman whose
name was Abner McCioud. A daughter
of his married one Of the Carberrys. a
name still to be found in the neighbor-
hood, and daughter of that union mar
ried DIR. Ritchie. One of the Carberry
descendants. James Carberry, lives in
glen eff the FoNhall road known as Car
berry glen
Possession of the house passed from the
Ritchies to John Trissell. who lived there
for fifty years and reared a numerous
family. There was Annie. who married
Joseph Fletcher and lives in a small
house a stones throw farther up the
road from the old house. There was Ell
len, who married John Hilieary and is
living somewhere in-Virginia. There was
Alice. who married William Burroughs
and is still living OH the Canal road.
Louisa married George Moore OF George
town and is dead. Laura married a man
named Deck and IS dead Richard lives
on the New Cut road. The ancient Me
Cloud Ritchie-Erisseu house is now
owned and occupied by Daniel Cru;c-
baugh.
At four telephone poles beyond the
junction of the New Cut and Canal roads
stream boflS down a rocky little 6Crae
and passes under the Canal road and the
canal. A culvert leads beneath the canal,
but in wet and muddy periods II i TEL
ter to cross the canal in one of the small
neighborhood. You will also cross the
tracks of the branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio that runs into Georgetown. ana
then. among the tall weeds and grasses,
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tary Bryans weakness has become more
generally known than before. Conse-
quently the Bryan home is Hooded AT All
times with radisheS, large and small,
white and red. pithy and juicy.
AS Secretary Bryan unbluShlngly ad-
mits that he weighs IDS pounds it takes
horse with a good, strong physical and
moral backbone to keep going without
weakening amidships. Such horse the
Secretary OF State has had sent to him
from his home In Nebraska. Almost any
fine day. after the State Department has
closed. the Washington pedestrian and
car rider. traversing the northwest sec
ton of the city in search Of home and
dinner sees the Secretary of State can
tering along with large, gray. soft hat
pulled well down over his bushy hair.
Get close to the farm and you Will al
ways be young" said Secretary of the
Navy Daniels when asked for his elixir of
life
You see." he continued confidentially.
my plan is simple, yet is one which
will prove efficacious in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred. What you need is
to escape from the too complex strain
OF city life. The open country is nee
essary for every man who does not
get much active exercise. Therefore. if
YOU are a commuter and raise chickens
and have garden, YOU will always main
tain the joy of youth
The naval Secretary is the most bu-
collie man for nautical man you ever
saw in your life. When he came to
Washington with his family, after re-
ceiving the portfolio Of the Navy, his
first act was to pick out a quiet little
spot In Woodley Park where there was
much ground and there establish him
self in the same quiet fashion in which
he has always lived.
Then he purchased one hundred young
chickens He also started a garden
while naval officers went to him. and
man to man. inquired whether he was
trying to usurp Secretary HoustOns job
in the Agricultural Department
Secretary Daniels is an early riser.
Eacn morning when the rooster utters
his feeble plant and the gentle cursing
OF the milkman announces that another
quart bottle has been smashed on the
door step, Secretary Daniels arises, dons
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partment. Mr. Bracket said Ee had no
definite information as TO where MAJ.
Album carried on his experiments. 1t
was evident, he said. that Maj. Album
secured his catawba grapes second
handed from man in Maryland and
not direct from South Carolina. Mr..
Bracket said that in 1S41, when In
Cincinnati, he used to visit Nicholas
Longworth's vineyards and gained
much information in regard to the
catawba from him. He. Mr.. Bracket.
purchased number of vines enough
for planting two acres. and took tn@f m
TO Iowa. setting them out there lie
produced an article the cataw-
ba grape. published in the West
ern Horticultural Review in October.
1880. and written by S. Mocher, III
which the effort Is made to trace MAJ.
Ad,um's connection with this grape.
The trail runs from the Carolinas to
Montgomery county, Md. and the Dis
trict of Columbia This writer. away
back in 1850. says: THE origin of the
catawba, which has of late become an
a subject of curious inquiry, but never
until lately satisfactorily ascertained.
Although 1t has been known by the
name for thirty or forty years, In few
gardens, no one has been able to locate
the spot where single vine could be
found growing in its wild state. Recent
w. however, j have aScertained through
Dr. Solomon Beach of Hamilton county.
growing In the elevated mountain regions
of North Carolina in Buncomhe county
about ten miles southeasterly from -Ashe-
vile. without then knowing it's name
and long before 1t was introduced into
Cincinnati The olden chroncler says:
.In that year. DIR. Beach informs me,
he made a journey from Cincinnati to
Chester Court House In South Carolina.
After passing the Tennessee line into
North Carolina and travelling up French
Broad river to Asheille, he found plenty
of grapes OF black color. some Of
which were very good, growing over
small trees. Leaving Asheville and
travelling about ten miles on the main
road from Tennessee into South Caro-
lina he stopped at Col. Murray's. who
kept a house of entertainment and had
been a long resident there. Having
auired Of the family IL any good grapes
could be obtained there. Mrs. Murray
said they were very plentiful and that
there was one kind Of uncommon excel
OF the house, which runs into the Cataw
ba river. and pointed TO one particular
vine, running over a small oak tree IN
sight of the door. He went to the tree
and found plenty of grapes which he de-
scribed as OF reddish color. with a
purple, dusky appearance, the taste
sweet and pleasant with a peculiar
agreeable flavor On returning to the
the family about them. They told him
that they had long known them in that
neighborhood and that they had sent
cuttings and roots OF the same to many
q their friends in different parts of the
country.
There were several families of MUIR
rays residing in the same neighborhood
who emigrated from Maryland and were
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Capitol inclosure" In his report Of Feb
ruary, 8, 1920. he said that the iron rail
Ing and wall around the grounds had
been completed, but that the gates. seven
in number, "haye not yet been made and
fixed" This report shows that by acts
of Congress Of April 20, 1916, and March
B. 1917. the aggregate sum OF $6S,6oS
had been appropriated for inclosing ana
in 1926 to s. Van Rensselaer,. chairman
OF the committee for finishing and FUR
nishing public buildings, Bullf1nch wrote
OF the need OF erecting iron gates win
stone piers on four sides of the square
and Of the need of two porters lodges
February 1. 1928, Bullfinch submitted es,
Inmates for the erection of gates and
lodges and in his report for 1929 he refers
to two lines Of iron scnoll fencing from
the lodges to the first flight Of steps. The
inference is that the lodges were erected
in 1928 or 1890.
In Glen Browns History Of the Capitol
it is written that 1.-The old Capitol was
situated In park OF twenty-five and
half acres inclosed by an iron railing.
There were nine entrances to the grounds.
two each from the north and south LOT
carriages, two on the east and three on
the west for pedestrians.
1.-THE western entrance at the foot OF
the hill was f1anked by two Ornamental
gates or warehouses. The fence was OF
iron, taller than the head Of an ordinary
man, firmly set in an Aqua creek sand
Is,
ION entering the grounds by the west
ern gates. passing by a fountain, one as,
cended two flights Of steps to the grano
terrace"
The grounds were enlarged and lmproN-
ed in the seventies. The north and south
extension OF the grounds was provloed LOT
in the act OF Congress approved May D.
1872. making appropriations for the lee-
islative. executive and judicial expenses
Of the government"
The Rambler searched the reports OF
Col. o. Z. Babcock, then in charge OF
public buildings and grounds. TOT tne
ing references to the removal Of these
gatehouses, and was reading through the
reports of Lieut.. Col. Thomas Lincoln
Casey, who succeeded Col. Babcock,
March 3, 1877. But before coming to any
matter bearing on the removal OF the
gatehouses the Library Of Congress closed
for the night. The date 1877 cannot De
very far removed from the date OF the
emplacement OF these old Capitol gate
houses at the corners Of 18th and ana
18th and b streets.
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Capital Gatehouses.

A L the northeast corner OF 18th and b
streets, that is, at the southwest cor
ner of the White Lot, Is a strange little
drab color stone building. Opposite Is
the white marble palace of the Pan
American Union, and diagonally across
the way IS the little stone LIGHTHOUSE of
the old canal, gray walled and shingle
rooted. The curious stone house stands
somewhat below the present grade OF
18th street. wooden rail on the street
side guards pedestrians from the depres-
sion and four wooden steps lead down
TO the tagged space before the wooden
door. A circular stone pillar stands at
each side of the arched doorway. Rest
ing on the columns is an entablature
decorated with a geometric frieze and
above this is cornice Ornamented with
stone 1osettes. You can peer through the
iron-barred window on the south side and
see that the interior of the little build
ing is filled with picks, spades, shovels
and wheelbarrows. 1t is occupied as a
Toulouse by the Office of public buildings
and grounds. AT the southeast corner OF
the White Lot, where 18th street inter-
sects Il street. is a duplicate Of this
house occupied as station by park DO
lice.
These little structures We're once the
satehouses or lodges at the west en-
bier believes that they were erected in
the Capitol grounds about 1929. when
Charles Bullfinch was architect of the
Capitol. They We're removed from the
Capitol grounds and set up in the places
they now occupy in the seventies. but the
Rambler after some work gave up the
enort to determine the year, feeling con-
fident that a number OF older Washing
tonians would be able to supply the date.
Charles Builfinch OF Boston was, upon
the resignation Of Benjamin II. Latrobe
in 1877. appointed architect of the Capt.
tol. He constructed the rotunda, library
rooms and the central portico. His con-
nection with the building ceased upon
its completion in 1880. The Capitol was
then placed in charge of the commits
sioner of public buildings and grounds
and remained so until 1851, when the
plan of Thomas L. Walter for the ex-
tension was adopted. Walter was ap-
pointed architect for the construction OF
the wings.
Under the Bullinch regime the Capitol
grounds We're greatly improved. 1t is
shown in Bullfinch's report of December
10, 1910, which he made to Samuel Lane,
commissioner of public buildings, that
during the year he had expended 81 800
for work on the grounds within the
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EapIes in Franklin Park.

IST- HERE used to be eagles in this
square" said an old man who,
seated On a bench in Franklin Park, was
tossing bits Of bread to the chattering
sparrows and then coaxing with a pea
nut a timid hesitating squirrel.
Eagles said the Rambler.
..Ycs. sir eaSles There was a cage in
this park ana the eagles were cooped up
in it. When ! was a younger man !
useG TO COME through one Of the gates
in lie high wooden fence around this
square t. lcok az the biz birds. They
w,aAs a treat show in this part OF the
town. '2nat was long before there was
a Zoo in washington and III those days
the circus gave us or only CHARGES to
see wiis animals ans. strange live birds"
The Rambler maie further inquiry
about the eagles OF Franklin Square and
this contained IN report of Col. o. L.
Babcocl officer III charge of public
buildings and grounds. of the date of
1874. was pointed out to him:
1.-THE President presented 10 this office
handsome specimen OF an American
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daytime he is the earnest. preternatur-
ally dignified exponent of Boston aris-
tocracy. In the night time-on occasion
ne is a giddy terpsichore. whirling and
flying like Mercury bent upon a private
message from Jove.
Where the senator picked up skating
nobody knows. But the fact remains
that he did and has. And he declares
that he Will stick TO IT, too.
The writer asked Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette what he considered the best
paracea for fag and nerves. The word
fad was not used. ior the senator
hates fads.
Hard work the farm he replied.
lis the best medicine for any man
You mean real farm work" was asked,
''or do YOU mean the life in a hammock
with a best seller lying near by while a
hand maiden Tugs forth the buttermilk?
Hard work OF a physical nature re-
piled the senator. terSely.
1t seems that some time ago hard men
tai labor had broken the iron senator
from Wisconsin. lie had been leading a
desperate fight against his enemies
and his health was broken. When he
finally took TO his bed the iron senator
was reported. to the great joy Of men
he had fought. TO be incapacitated from
further work.
Instead of quitting. other men might
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Overlooking with radishes of the smaller
species with the red exterior-and IL he
bounces himself up and down on the
hurricane deck of some serious minded
steed. he will never become ill or ailing
and can always preserve his temper.
The Secretary of State contracted the
radish habit when he began to be a
steady visitor at banquets about twenty
years ago. He is a man of acute per-
spicacity-make no mistake about that
and it did not take him long to learn
that if he filled himself with the various
tempting courses served at the average
banquet 1t would only be a question Of
time before he would have to be wheeled
around in chair. Taking himself firmly
in hand. the eloquent Nebraskan said to
himself:
Health and horse-rejuvenation and
radish. This shall be my motto
And he has stuck to the combination. to
the intense establishment of other and
more careless diners who used to Won
der where in thunder he put all the rad
ishes set in front of him.
Now. whenever a public banquet is at
tended by the Secretary of State. he sees
to 1t in advance that he has q plate of
radishes set in front of him. The soup
comes along. and the Secretary eats a
radish. Ditto in lieu of fish. Ditto In
lieu of entree. roast. dessert and wine.
1t Is recorded that when he sat down
to the democratic banquet In Washington
last year. when about LOO other good
OF harmony, he incurred the displeasure
of a former democratic senator. who sat
near him. eating and drinking with great
heartineSs.
The senator. when not hurting susie
nance into himself. fixed coldly critical
eye upon the peerless leader. The sena-
tor watched one plate of radishes disap-
that also disappear into the general di-
rection of the silver voice.
When coffee was reached the senator
could bear it no longer. Leaning toward
the POSTMASTER. he inquired heavily:
In the name Of heaven, is that man
going to drink his tOasts in radishes
too"
Since his arrival in Washington Secre-
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tai vineyard in the District, ano from thiS
section in 1873, began the general dis
tribution OF the catawba grape. The
Rambler has been at pains to locate the
spot OF Maj Albums valuable expert
ments, but the effort has been vain How
ever, an interesting story has developed.
and here II is
Prof. u. p. Hedrick of the agricultural
experiment station at Geneva, y. Y. re-
Gently wrote on the subject of the do
mestication OF American grapes. A great
many little known facts were brought
out He said that there were about forty
species OF grapes In the world, more than
half of which are to be found in North
America. and that few other plants on
this continent grow wild under such va
ried conditions and over such extended
areas He expressed the belief that it
was possible that all the native grapes
have descended from an original species.
but that the types are now as diverse a.
the regions they inhabit.
-
The abundance and variety OF grapes
seemed to very early corners here TO be
one Of the distinguishing features of this
continent. 1t is said that Lief the Lucky
who, if the Icelandic records are true
was the first European To touch America
christened the new world 'Wineland'' be-
cause of the grapes. Capt John Haw-
kins. who visited the Spanish settlements
in Florida III 1853. mentions the wild
grapes as among the resources of the
new world. Amadas and Barlowe sent
out by Raleigh In 1854, described the
coasts OF tire Carolinas as so full OF
grapes that In all the world like album
dance cannot he found" Capt. John
Smith. writing in the jamestown period
described the grapes of Virginia and rec
commended the culture OF the vine as an
industry for the newly founded COLONY
All these facts have been presented by
Prof. Hedrick.
Efforts to cultivate American grapes
in America We're belated by centuries
and the effort to Americanize European
grapes until the DAYS OF California re-
suited IN many failures. French
man. Peter Legaux, founded a company
10 grow grapes at Spring Mill. near
Philadelphia. in 1898. The Kentucky
Vineyard Society was organized In 1895
by John James Dufour TO grow grapes
In the valley of the Ohio. in Kentucky
and Indiana. From colonial times until
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Ruin Of Eads' Mill.

IN those seasons Of the year when the
trees are leafiess or the foliage thin
you may see by the side Of the Potomac
not far inside the District line, gray
ruin. You have probably seen 1t many
times as you travel along the electric road
to and from Cabin John. or as you nave
passed up and down the Canal road be-
tween Georgetown and Chain bridge Inc
ruin, in favoring seasons, is visible from
some OF the high points along the Con
duit road. But you are not apt to catch
glimpse of 1t now, so deeply is it screened
by growing green. 1t 10 familiar bit OF
the landscape to fishermen who angle IN
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One Esteems a Diet
of Radlshes as a Youth
Inducer, w h il e An
other Carries a Bag of
Parsley and Chews.
Polar Bear of the Sen
ate Says Cold Induces
Youth-Athletic Fads
of Other Noted Actors
in the Theater of Poll
tics They Describe
Their Fads in a Series
of Personal Interviews.