The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
THE SUMNER CAPITAL"- "-WHERE?

one general store. The neatest general
store imaginable. but still not to be
compared as a trading center with the
thirty or forty shops which line either
side Of Main Street In Windsor.
Some Live Citizens.
Windsor is town Of about 400 peo-
ple happy. Industrious, thriving 1t has
no skyscrapers. no trolley lines, no sum-
mer parks. II has many cottages. an
excellent high school, a good library. a
, brass band, baseball nine. and the old
est newspaper in the State, the Vermont
Journal
Also. Windsor is blessed with public
spirited citizens. Perhaps the best known
of these is Maxwell Evarts. a live-wire
son of that distinguished William NJ.
Evarts who defended Andrew jackson
in the celebrated impeachment trial, was
Attorney General under johnson, Secre-
tary OF State under Rutherford b.
Hayes, and a member Of the United
States Senate from New York until he
was seventy-three years old, along about
1881.
| runs the livery at the Windsor House
was appealed to about the pronunciation
of Harlakenden House.
How should one pronounce il. Peter
'H-a-r-l-a-k-e-n-d-e-nT
What you want is the pronunciation
here in Windsor
That's the idea
How We say II here?-'
Exactly
WELL" said Mr.. Peter Bordo. II pro-
nounce it 'Churchilrs'"
There are less than I,I00 people in the
town of Cornish, on the New Hampshire
side, and they live in four widely sepa-
rated villages and on farms in between
miles and miles apart.
Thus We have Cornish, and Cornish
Center. and Cornish Flat, and South
Cornish. In Cornish-up in the Ieft-hand
corner Of the town, so to speak. close to
the great river-dwells the New York
coloney," which has made the place IA
nous.
These New York colonists in Cornish
are not exactly ''neighbors." There is
no congestion in Cornish. no tenement
problem" You drive a mile and see one
set of buildings. and You drive, maybe
two miles. before you see another house
The Way You Go.
To get to Harlakenden House YOU
cross the toll bridge. turn to the left (or
north) and follow the course of the Con-
necticut River perhaps five miles.
Two miles up the river you come to
the Beaman place, and Blow-Me-Down
Mill. on Blow-Me-Down Brook
The Beamans are the widow and son
of Charles c. Beaman, who was Beaman
of the great New York law firm of
Evarts. Choate & Beaman. He married
the daughter of Senator Evarts. the
senior partner. Mrs. Beaman is also the
granddaughter Of Gov. wardener of Yer
mont.
II was Mr.. Beaman who got the first
Of the st. Gaudenses to look with favor
on Cornish the Beautiful. Cornish of the
hills and wales and brooks and ponds
st Gaudens came and bought and built
and then came the others. Churchill
came and wrote his books and was
elected to the Legislature and fought his
fight against the free pass and the d.
rect primaries, and. with the help of a
great band of other young patriots
smashed the old railroad king in New
Hampshire politics. The whole county
of Sullivan. in which Cornish is situ-
ated, was progressive long before the
name came to be spelt with a capital
.P"
And then again
The man in charge of the Churchill
estate. in the absence of Col Churchill.
VINO mas spent tne winter IN southern
California, is George F. Roberts, an
Alton boy. who was graduated from the
State college at Durham in the class of
1911
Estntc of Churchill.
The Churchill estate is of about 100
or 500 acres, mostly in pine and oak
The farm proper consists of about forty
acres. Last year the farmer had pretty
good luck with sweet corn. raised for
the canning factory at Windsor.
The house is practically new. but some
how has the appearance of great age.
II is built of brick. It looks like pic
ture from one of the Illustrated. weeklies
of England
Almost under the western windows
runs the Connecticut. which here lately
has been carrying away railroad bridges
and disarranging train schedules as they
have not been shaken before in forty
years. Across the mad river rise the
Vermont hills.
The approach to the house Is by way
Of a private road. lined by pine trees.
These pines conceal Harlakenden House
from the main road.