Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
M'ADOO CARRIED
BACK TO BOYHOOD
CoIored NANNY" Presents
Photos of Secretary's
Mother and Father.
DAUGHTER BEARS GIFT
FROM OLD GEORGIA HOME
Incidents of Many a Year Ago Re-
called in Chat at the
Treasury.

Tilne-wurn photographs. one repre-
sentiug his father and the other his
mother came into the possession of
" lillian \. McAdoo. Secretary of the
Treasury last week under circum-
stances that wildly recalled to him his
boyhood days on the old McAdoo es-
tate in Georgia.
1t was the coiored nanny who
nursed him who sent him the photo
graphs-one of her greatest treasures
as souvenir of his parents and of her
self. aged and near death. Her
daughter, who had nursed the two
sisters of the present Secretary of the
Treasury. was the emissary who pre-
scented them TO Secretary McAdoo in
the Treasury Department
Some time ago a letter reached the
Treasury Department signed by AIDE
line Brown. addressed to Secretary Nc
Adoo. which his secretary. Byron New
ton, answered The letter told that
the writer was the old nurse of Mr.
McAdoo. that she was aged and fa1l-
ing and domiciled with her daughter.
Julia A. Gibson, at Marietta, Ga, ana
that she had d gift to make 10 hlin,
Secretary Newton in his reply said
that he would see that the gift duly
reached it's destination, if transmitted
Message bearer
Very early one morning last week
tvo hours before the Secretary OF the
Treasury was at his desk-a colored
woman took seat in the antecham-
her to his room, where Secretary New
ton has his offices. She asked TO see
Mr.. McAdoo, finally explaining to Mr.
Newton that she was the bearer OF
message from his old nurse
When Secretary McAdoo arrived Mr..
Newton advised him of his visitor Ar.
McAdoO went out TO see her.
"Ah m Julia. Don you member me-
Massa WHIP" said the visitor.
Hello. Julia" answered Mr.. McAdoo
recognizing the daughter of his old
nurse. and one OF ms coloreo ac9uhiii IL
ances at the old McAdoo home where he
was born at Marietta. Ga. They talked
over old times-incidents of his youth
which Mr. McAdoo tod her he had not
thought of for forty years.
Favored Over Own Son.
JuIia's brother. Henry. had been the
companion of his young white master,
when they were boys together Henrys
mother, Adelaide Brown, thought more
of the white boy she had nursed in his
infancy than she did OF her own son.
And frequently she interfered in their
qUdTrClS punish HtT lOi us
respect to his young master.
Her hand was heavy. and she brought
cries OF pain TO the lips OF the coiored
Doy every time she undertook to chaS-
tise him. One time Mr.. McAdoos ia
Their interviewed, telling Adeline that her
way Was not the way to punish the
boy, undertaking to show her how.
And Hen'y glg-giggled when yo' pa
famed him and famed him, jus lax
that" and Henry's sister Julia made a
Let lou EFT how ar n
lazy man beating carpet.
SO they talked over old days.
Both the father and mother of Mr..
McAdoo are now dead. His mother
passed away early this year, just before
he was called to be "a member of the
cabinet OF President Wilson.
Remembers Old Nanny.
Secretary McAdoo sent to the Treas
ury for a lot of new buffalo" nickels
which he gave to Julia Gibson for dis
tribution among her children. He also
provided her with an engraving of the
Treasury Department, on which he in
scribed his signature and some words
OF remembrance for a souvenir to be
given to his old nanny.
Mr. McAdoo's father was a wealthy
Georgian in the days before the war.
His means were, sadly crippled by thai
civil strife. he especially suffering
through the devastation caused by the
army of Gen. Sherman in his march to
the sea.
The photographs that his old nurse
sent to Secretary McAdoo by her
daughter had been sent TO her by the
elder Mrs. McAdoo many years ago
They show MIR. and Mrs McAdoo clad
in costumes of two generations ago.
quaint and unusual 10 present day OBJ
servers Mrs McAdoo wore a great
hoop skirt. Her dress was of black
silk.