The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-05-10

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But Washington was puncdlious to
observe to the letter the agreements
he had himself proposed. Again and
again he babe his mercantile agents
In London assist him to guard against
any 1nadvertent breach Of them; not
to send him the articles Parliament
had picked out for taxation in the
colonies. r.
Life still continued to go, It Is. true,
with something Of the old sumptuous4
ness at Mount Vernon.
It was in June, 176s, that Colonel
Washington ordered new chariot.
made in the newest taste. handsome,
genteel, and light to be made of the
best seasoned wood, and BY a cele.
brated workman" which was to cost
him, fittings and all, 8133.
For all he grew uneasy lest the col,
onies' disagreement with England
l>hould come at last to a conflict OF
arms, he pushed his private interesta
With no abatement OF thoroughness or
lf.possession, 40 If there were no
fear but that things would long enough
stand az they were. !;
Washington Acquires kands. y i
He had not run surveyors lines for
Lord Fairfax, or assisted to drive the
French from the Ohio. without seeing
what fair lands lay upon the WESTERN
rivers awaiting the owner; and,
though there was still doubt how titles
we're to be established In that wilder
ness, he took care, through the good
offices of an old comrade In arms, at
least to be quietly beforehand with
other claimants In setting up such
titles as might be where the land lay
richest and most accessible.
"A silent management" was what he
advised, "snugly carried on under the
guise Of hunting other game" lest
there should be a premature rush
thither that would set rival interests
a-clashing. A strange mixture of the
shrewdness OF the Spectator and the
honesty of the claims
pushed with privacy, but without trick
cry d chbcane-ran through his let
ters to Captain Crawford, and drew
rs canny replies from the frontiered
soldier. +;
Continues His Outdoor Sports. !
Business gave way often to sport
and pleasure, too, as Of old, when poll
tics fell duh between sessions. Now
It was the hunt; then cunning party
In the woods; and again q day or two
aboard his schooner, dropping down
the river, and drawing the seine for
sheepsheads upon the bar at Cedar
Point. i
Even politics was mixed with DIVER
sion. He must needs give a bali at
Alexandria on the evening OF his cleo
ton to the house which was to meet
Lord Botetourt, no less than on other
hike occasions, Of whatever kind the
business OF the assembly was likely
10 ba
Goes to Philadelphia Races.
He did not lose his passion for fine
horseflesh, either, at the thickest of
the plot. In ITO he was with Cover
nor Eden Of North Carolina at ! the
Jockey club races in Philadelphia, no
doubt relieved by the news that all
but the tea tax had been repealed,
The next year it was the races in
Annapolis that claimed him; and In
l773 Jacky Gusts held him again at
Philadelphia on the same errand.
1t was wholesome to be thus calmly;
In pursuit Of diversion in the inter-
walls Of trying business. It bespoke a:
hearty life and z fine balance In the,
man, /
There was one matter = to which
Washington felt it his bounded duty,
as a soldier and a. man of honor to-
devote his time and energies, whether
politics pressed or not. A grant of
two hundred thousand acres of the
western lands had been promised BY
the government of the colony to those;
who enlisted for. the war against the
French and Indians in 1854: but MOTH
Ing had ever been done to fulfill the
promise, and Washington undertook,
to act as agent for his comrades In;
the business. !
|. Selects Farms for Fellow Soldiers. ;!
In the autumn Of ITO, accordingly,
he turned away for a space from the
deepening trouble in the east to
plunge. once more into the western
ways and search out proper tracts for
The grant along the reaches Of the
Ohio. IL: ."|;
Twas z two months journey, for
he did not stop till he had gone close
three hundred miles beyond Fort Pitt.
And when he was home again no one
In the government who could lend a
hand In the matter got any peace
from the stirring, thorough man until
the business was put finally into
shape. 49,
There was tidy profit in the grant
for himself; for his own share was
large, and he providently bought, be-
sides. the shares of others who were
| unwilling to spend or cooperate in the
matter. But there were months upon
months Of weary, unrequited service
Tor his comrades, too, given. with
hearty diligence and without grudg-
Ing. r.