The Washington herald., 1913-02-02


after they are dead-'we are but NOR
tails, after all" Even their initials are
often forgotten. The chances are that
six and a quarter men out of every ten
If they were asked suddenly what were
the initials of President Harrison WOULD
answer, Benjamin H." Just as thou
sands. even now while he Tags super
fuous on the stage" think that the only
living ex-President is T. r. Roosevelt.
Mr.. watterson himself is often written
Henry W, watterson, and George Brin-
ton Mcclellan Harvey is simply known
as George, says J. c. H, in the Arkansas
Gazette.
Mrs. Martin Lttletons active campaign
for the recovery of Monticello does not
touch directly the question, What snail
we do with our Presidents?' but it sug-
Costs tnouiry into what we have done
with them after they have 'shuftied on
this mortal COLI and il must be said
that the nation has done very little IN
their honor-in most cases II has not
provided for their sepulture or any ade-
quate monuments to their memory
Where Presidents Are Buried.
The former Presidents are buried in all
sorts of odd places-in country church
Yards, in city cemeteries. in vaults OF
massive masonry, in leaden caskets and
in plain coffins, after the manner of the
plain people from whom they sprans-
these imperious Caesars, so to say, DEAD
and turn'd to clay" who might stop
a hole TO keep the wind away'-thls
phantom caravan that has reach d
the nothing il set out from.
Why not dig up the bones OF Thomas
Je6erson-which have been resting in the
,,ravo chosen by himself at Monticello,
his home in Virginia, for eighty-siH
years-and re-inter them in the National
Cemetery at Arlington? That would DIS
pose finally and in the most enecllHe
way of the question of securing oy ghI
or purchase the home of Jefferson lot a
national shrine. Without his DUST ms
former place of residence woutd lose l.S
chief interest TO the American PeoPie
who would do him honor. Buried again
at Arlington. still in the soil of the com
,nonweaIth which he served so stead
fastIv. his resting place would be ma
tional charge a sentimental SPOT "ilhii
easy reach of the National Capital to
which all pilgrims to the heart OF the
country could readily resort ana pay
their vows TO the Father OF American
Democracy. . "
non his estate situated on the South-
ern bank of the Potomac River anu
sixteen miles distant from the Natlohdl
Capital His monument Is mol one VI
the most imposing of the memorials to
the Presidents, but it is the most I'M
pressive because of its simple olshlty'
The tomb is a brick structure, t"eNe
feet high, entrance to which is proSioeu
through an iron gateway, fanked by
nilasfers- and on the arch surmounting
the gateway there is this inscription:
within the inclosure rest the remains
Of General Washington" In a plain
marble sarcophagus placed in the ante
chamber OF the tomb rest the remains
of washington. This sarcophaSus was
fashioned by John Struthers, OF Phlla-
Jelphis. from a design made by William
Strickland. Another severely plain sar-
cophagus of the same workmanship ana
design and containing the remains OF
Martha Washington stands in the tomD
hard by that of her illustrious husband
These sarcophagi were presented by
Mr. Strickland to the relatives OF WASH
ington The grave of Washington ana
his home at Mount Vernon are under the
protection of the Mount Vernon Assocla-
tion. composed of women from all the
original thirteen States, and are well
cared for as a patriotic duty by these
women as 4 shrine to which lovers OF
the country journey every year TO pay
their vows and catch fresh inspiration
meditating upon the virtues of the
Father of His Country.
Burial Place of John Adams.
John Adams, the second President of
the United States, was buried at
Quincy. Mass, in a leaden casket in a
tomb built of ,rough-faced granite in
the cellar beneath the portico of the
First Congregational Unitarian) Church.
His coffin was placed within a case
hewn from a single block of stone. In
side the church there is a memorial tab
let to John Adams and his wife. Abigail