Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-11
submits to the Painters.
lcontlnned From Yesterdayl

He even found sitting for his DOT trait grow easy at last In for a pen ny, in for a pound. is an old adage," he laughed, writing to Francis Hop kinson. T am so haclSReyed to the touches of the painters pencil that l an now altogether at their beck; and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of nay face. At first l was as impatient al the request, and as rest i've under the operation. as colt is of the saddle. The next time ! sub mitted very reluctantly. but vita less founcing. Now no dray horse moves more readily to his thin than l do to the painters chair"
 Besides the failure of the public credit, it concerned Washington tc note the fact that though he kept a hundred COWS, he was obliged 10 buy butter for his innumerable guests. He saw to it that there should be at ! least a very definite and efficient | government uPon his own estste, and. when there was need, put his own hand to the work lie "oiten works with his men himself-strips of his coat and lahors like a common man, " i measures with his own hands every bit of building or construction that is going forward. and shows a great { turn for mechanics. one of his guests noted. amidst comments on his great ness and his gracious dignity.
 Unchanged by War.
 i It was such eonstancy and candor and spirit iA living that took the ad- miration of all men alike upon the instant: and his neighbors every day saw here the same strenuous and sim pie gentleman they had known before ever the var b,gan.
 It was through the opening of the 1 Potomac, after all, the thing nearest his hand-thst a way was found to cure the country of it's malady oi i weakness and disorder.
 Washington had been chosen prest dent of the Potomac company, that J might have the advantage beth of his name and of bis capacity in affairs; and he had gene upon a tour Of m spectien. with the directors of the [ conpany. to the falls of the river in the summer of I7s5. keeping steadily to the business he had come upon and Insisting upon being in fact 2 private gentleman busy with his oWr isfairs despite the efforts made every where he went to see and to enter tain him: and t presently becams evident even to the least sanguiae that the long-talked-of work was real fly to be carried through.
 Plan Ridleuisd by Baltimore.
 A visitor al Mount Vernon in shf summer of f7s5 found Washington
 "quite pleased st the idea of ths Baltimore merchants laughing at him ard saving 1t was Q ridiculous plsa and would never succeed They be gin nov. says the general, to look little serious about the matter, s' they know it lSust hurt their com merce anazingiy.
 The scheme had shown it's real con
 secuence in. the spring of that yer year. when it brought eommissionerl j from the two states that lay upon th' river together ia conference to deyis'
 plans of co-operafion
 Commission at Mount Vernon. ; Both virginia and Maryland had ap pointed commissioners. and nieetin, had been set for March, i7s5. at Alex andria. For some reason the Virgin ! ian comniissioners were not properl.
 notified of the place and time of con
 ference The meeting was held nevertheless a minority of the yiF ? giniaR commissioners being present
 and as if to give 1t Eore the air of :
 cordial conference ef neishhors
 Essnin-ton invited he zs1iessata sesss-ssa. .ss..-..S. .1. 'ss..-z.----.