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into office che had just lost under the
most distressing circumstances his only
child, a son. Mrs Pierce's grief aroused
my fathers sympathy. and when she ex-
pressed IA desire for a conservatory ne
Immediately had beautiful little green
house built on the southeast of the White
House in. front of the stables. Saul. the
nurseryman, stocked it with plants.
After Capt. Easily S resignation as ccm-
missioner of public buildings he was sue
ceeded by his friend. Col. b 3. French.
Capt Easily died of bilious fever, July
30 1854.
There is yet another thing concerning
Capt Easily which will be of interest to
old Washington people. He owned the
house at Pennsylvania avenue and 9th
street east which is perhaps bet
ter known as Tunnecliffe's tavern-a
house that was standing there before the
seat of government was removed from
Philadelphia to the new federal territory.
Easily bought that house and the square
of land surrounding it at a mortgage sale,
March 30, 1921, for S1,5D0. The property
had been bought fourteen years before
by Josiah Fox for 81. 800 The house was
standing in 1895, and probably before that
date, for # must have been about thai
time that William Tunnecliffe or Turne-
cliff opened hotel there (which was
on the road to the Eastern branch ferry.
Capt. Easby called the place Warwick.
When he removed to the first ward he
rented Warwick to William Doughty, the
naval constructor at the navy yard. The
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Meridian Hill Garden.

a CORRESPONDENT who read the
"A Rambler's recent notes on Meridian
Hill recalls that in addition To |ail tirs
other industries and activities that have
been carried on on that historic tract
an amusement park was conducted there
before the civil war by a man named
Henry Weldon. In the summer OF 1862
welden advertised his place and hts
business thus;
Having leased for a term OF Years this
beautiful and romantic spot (Meridian HID
I will open it for the accommodation Of
the public on the I'D day of June, 1850
For beauty of scenery. delightful promo
nades and so forth il is unsurpassed bs
any in. this vicinity. The house is large
and cominodious. having two large dang
ing rooms for both ladies and gentlemen.
In addition | have erected a large pa
vilion for picnic parties.
find Ii a most desirable place to pass
the stiltry days of summer. partictfa ~
as the stlietest order viii be guaranteed
by the proprieters. The larder viii te
found to contain all the delIcacies OF the
season at all times.
.rhe bar will be furnished with the
choicest liquors and wines and the fnss'
: cigars. Societies.. Sunday schools. clubs
and military companies will find this .
most delightful resort for spending a.
orderly day. Henry Welden.
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by ceremony that they are seldom
brought into contact with the world
Their whole life is arranged for them
from the cradle 10 the grave. Their lady
in-waiting, who has authority over the
unmarried ladies to an extent which is
only possible inside the walls of palace,
is an adept in all knowledge of what an,
imperial highness may and may not do.
and the ladies at the Austrian court are
kept IN a somewhat hard durance. Al
the age of three they commence to learn
foreign languages, and are put in charge
of a German nurse-to make sure that
they learn to speak FIoch Deutsch, instead
OF the soft Austrian German-an Italian
maid, a French governess and an Eng
lish tutor.
Archduchess Isabella Marie, up to the
time she Joined the Rudoltiner House,
never did hands turn for herself. The
sisters in the hospital We're curious to see.
how she would enter into her new life,
The rules of the establishment are severe.
The sisters must be at work at a. M. ;
the cases are all very difficult ones.
Slight operations are carried out else
where, the Rudolfiner authorities selecting
their patients from among the most serious
and interesting in Vienna The sisters
train for six months. They are con-
stantly called upon to witness operations
and are trained in the special branches
of their work required in the field, 1t
takes strong nerves TO assist at an opera
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More Old Boats.

THE Rambler dropping in at the harbor
office the other day was reminded by
Russell Dean, ISL Lewis and other
waterfront veterans that in his history
OF steamboating on the Potomac river
the Rambler had overlooked few of the
old boats. One of the veterans had col
lected a number of old steamboat adver-
tisements. and though they do not reach
as far back into Potomac history as those
sought out by the Rambler. in an earlier
article. they are interesting. In March,
1874, there was printed in Washington
and Baltimore newspapers this advertise
ment:
The safe and commodious steamboat
Columbia. Capt. George Guyther, hay
ing been put in complete order. Will
leave Commercial street wharf. Balti-
more, for the District of Columbia
Saturday next at O'Clock pm, and
every Saturday afternoon thereafter al
the same hour; returning. she Will leave
Riley's wharf, Washington. every We'd
nesday morning at 6 o'clock and. Alex
andria at O'Clock, taking on and land
ing passengers and light freight at all
the usual landings the Potomac. The
freight of goods will be low as by
any other line. and no wharfage charged
thereon at Baltimore. W. Gunston,
president
In the same month. March, lS4f a
steamboat was advertised to ma re two
round trips a week between Washington
and Norfolk. The advertisement reads;
For Norfolk twice week. The steamer
Osceola will leave Washington every
Wednesday and Saturday at O'Clock
am for the above place. Returning. will
leave Norfolk every Monday and Thurs
day at 5 O'Clock pm. Passage and fare
&c. She will take off and land passengers
at the different landings on the river
and touch in Coan river every Saturday
going and Monday returning. James
Mitchell, captain"
In 1914 there We're two Washington
Alexandria boats running. each making
four round trips a DIS. They were the
steamboats, Joe Johnson, commanded by
Capt. Job Corson, and the Phenix, com
manded by Capt. James Guy.
In 1874 there was line of sailing pack
cts making weekly trips from Wash
ington and Georgetown to Philadelphia
It~was called 1.-The Hand Line The craft
were the schooner Orator, Capt b. Scott
the schooner J. w. Caldwell. Capt. 7
Hand; the sloop Friendship. Capt. c. NJ
Bradbury. and the sioop Henry Read
Capt. J. Bayliss
In the same year there was a line o.
sailing ships betweerf Georgetown ant
New York. The names of two of the
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HOUSE.

OF the Washington Monument Associar
ton 1t is told by his daughter that ne
Incurred the displeasure of The president
o. the association by protesting against
the character of the stone that was USED.
!. He insisted that the iron pyrites IN TINS
stone on oxdizing would cause assures
which would eventually elldanger the
whole structure. Capt. Easpy offered
stone from his own quarreS as the cor
ner stone of the Monument, but IT was
refused and that stone in 1852 became
the corner stone of the marble extension
of the Capitol. a.
Another of the traits of Capt Easny
was that he was good reader and COL
lected a valuable library, which was
often consulted by strangers and stu-
dents He and Col. Peter Force We're
the most energetic collectors OF rare
books in that period OF Washington $
history Easily was d personal friend OF
Henry Clay and was delegate to the
Baltimore convention, which noninated
Mr. Clay for the presidency.
In 1871 Capt Easily was elected MEM
Der of and later became the treasurer
of the Institute for the Promotion OF
Science. The National Institute was the
offspring of the Metropolitan Society es-
tablished in 1916, which was succeeded
BY the Columbian Society chartered by
Congress in 1918, which, falling into de-
creptude was revived as the National In
stitute in 1910 and was finally merged
into the Smithsonian institution,
The last position of Importance which
Capt. Easily filled was that Of commits
sioner of public buildings. He was ap-
pointed by President TAYLOR and held the
Office until the year after the Inaugural
ton of President Pierce. Capt. Easily S
daughter tells that when Pierce came
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aware Of what had occurred. The princess
in an attempt tolpostpone the Marriage.
had applied match 10 the delicate lisa
sue, ard the work Of many weeks wenf
up N flames, and the dressmakcrs vera
forced to pass the night in making n
makeshift wedding gown OF sorts. for thu
ceremony, which took place on the NOR.
row. -
The Archbishop OF Vienna made a carl-
GUS faux pas at the wedding. Whether
purposey. suSpecting something OF the
state of affairs or by accident he thpss
the indissolubiity OF the marriage Il. aa-
the subject of his sermon.
The prince and the newly married
princess elected to spend their honeymoon
near Munich. ana all seemed well Tho
Archduke- Frederick and his wife werts-
however. very Startled a few DAYS after
the wedding 10 get a telegram from their.
daughter saving that she was returning
home with her maid. The parents wh1
we're resting after the turmoil Of toe
wedding ia Pressburg. resolved their ch.id
and hearing that the differences between
her and her husband were Of a serion2
nature. which could not be easily over
come took her away 10 Karaparzri
where she spent the Summer in = perry 4
faTyland. 20 forests The depths of WHICH
have never been explored
Copyright. 1918. hy Curtis Br5wu)
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ality was taken very amiss in Vienna.
where archduchesses are expected 20 fol-
low tradition of the court 10 the n1inutest
detail
The elder daughter OF the present En-
peror of Austria. Franz Josef and of
Empress Elizabeth Archduchess Gisela
married Prince Leopold Of Bavaria, thus
continuing the tradition of interrparTage
in the last generation.
The repetition of the experiment in this
generation. however. was d complete fail
IRE. Archduchess Isabella Marie is a
woman OF considerable force of, charac-
tee She had known her cousin from
boS hood and ii appears that she did not
care for the husband her parents had
selected. This became known by a sin
gular circumstance.
The afternoon before the eve of the
wedding a fire broke out in the palace
of the Archduke Frederick in Vienna. The
cause of the fire was not revealed for
some time The official inquiry elicite'l no
satisfactory answer. The dressrnakers
who had created the marvellous toilet in
white duchesse satin, embroidered in
myrtle and orange blossoms which was
to serve az the bridal robe, however, were
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nominal kings, are ruled out, as most of
them are Protestants.
The Russian imperial family belongs
to the Greek Church, the same difficult
applying to the young scions of the small
Balkan families, and, although the pos
sibility of the marriage of Austrian
archduke Karl Franz Josef, the heir to
the throne after Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand, and one of the Balkan princesses
was spoken of some years ago, 1t was an
understood thing that the princess would
embrace Roman Catholicism, and it is
probable that dislike of the transaction
on the part of the mother of the arch
duke, Archduchess Josefa, led to the idea
being abandoned.
The alliance between the Austrians and
Bavarians has been successful. on the
whole. The late Empress of Austria WAS
a Bavarian princess. and. was extremely
popular. especially in Hungary in spite
of her advanced views. Her simple char
acter rather startled the Austrian cour-
tiers, who are not accustomed to ladies
who have wills of their own.
X X
An amusing anecdote is told of the
dismay created at Schonbrunn Palace
when, shortly after her wedding. the late
empress commenced to assert her own
ideas II has been the custom of ages to
place brand-new pairs of walking boots
at the bedside of the reiSning monarch
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inaugurated the one at Baltimore and
the other at Point of Rocks.
Capt. Easily, in letter dated July a.
1S2S, written to his mother, who still
lived in Philadelphia, wrote:
''Yesterday / witnessed the commences
ment Of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal,
in which the President of the United
States took the conspicuous part of re-
moving the first sod, previous to which
he delivered a very appropriate address,
after which he took off his coat and went
to work in good earnest The spectacle
was very imposing one. Mr.. Adams
appearance was such as to elicit respect
debflitated, but bore the fatigue of the
day better than was expected.
Capt. Easily was also interested in the
construction of the canal as contractor
and as d bondholder. His daughter, az
Administrative of his estate, still has
some of those bonds.
when Capt. Easily retired from the
NAVY yard and began his personal husi-
ness career he surrounded himself with
a force of highly skilled workmen who
could build Ships or canal locks or
bridges. The names of many of the
workmen We're ON his rolls for twenty
years and some of them remained in the
employ of his sons. when they took over
the shipyard in 1S4S. On the pay roll
year after year one reads the names of
William Knowles, William Frush, Will
Marshall, Dyson Moran. George Bean,
Samuel Middleton. Adam FeTgurson, AL
fred Pollard and William Wise.
Capt. Easily was an original member
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house had acquired the reputation of be-
ing haunted. A man wounded by the
British on their entrance into Washing
ton was said to have bled to death in one
of the rooms under the caves. There was
q deep stain on the boards of the floor
and there We're strange noises in the
house. These noises Capt. Easily traced
to echoes of the sound of passing carts
ard wagons on Pennsylvania avenue.
which was then a commons with well
worn wheel trace running along it's
course After Capt. Easily turned over
the shipyard business to his sons in
1913 he moved back to Warwick. There
he died.
In this house the daughter who has
given to the Rambler these facts was
married six weeks before her fathers
death to Representative William r.
Smith a member of Congress from Ala
Dama. Capt. Easily bequeathed the house
to his son, Horatio Easily, who, not car
ing to live SO far to the eastward. even
tually sold it. 1t is believed by many per-
sons to be the oldest house in Washing
ton east of Rock creek.
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Anecdotes Concerning
Well KNOWN People
w
Warning for Peace.

1Tt INTERVIEWED Andrew Carnegie in
1 Brussels said newspaper. cor
respondent THE great little man talked.
r course, about peace.
':He told me peace must be
ryeaehed gently. az .ately. You can
lever convert peof enragins them.
on can't fight for peace.
.-He said peace advocate of the fiery.
,irulent, bitter school made q speech one
-sfght al a Banquet ia Pittsburgh, and
ben he d .fir.s54eti an old man shook him
the hand and said.
THAT was fine speech, sir.
= Thanks Glad you liked IL.
Yes said tie old man, ! liked 1T
rst rate But excuse me, sir, what are
you for-peace CT war;
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The Excur sion Stamp.

WHEN Jeffrey Farnoi, the novelist,
w was painting signs IN New York AMI
writing stories that nobody would buy,
he vas, Of course. hard up.
Farnol >" said 4 Kew York editor.
''tells me that IN those days POSTAGE was
his curse. II cost him such z lot. yol
know. to post his heavy stories 10 tsIg
magazines. and OF course he had 10 pa4
the postage back as well Their ieiecz
ton
"Faraol sad it seemed 10 him ia thssa
days that Use word crying need was =
cheap excursion stamp there and bacilr
for authors manuscripts.
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years ago. was one of the familiar char
actefs OF Washington. People who knew
Mr.. Brady often think Of him as they
look up SO the windows Of the second
story OF the old building AT the north
east corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street. where he had his studio.
camera and make the picture OF the
arsenal hanging. and IN that picture
one may recognize HARRISON.
The executioner of those convicted hy
the military commission of completely in
the Booth assassination conspiracy, was
Capt c. Roth. He is dead now. but was
living in 1891 when Osborn VI. pldroyd.
the Lincoln collector. published a book
entitled ASSASSINATION of Abraham Lin
coin From that volume the Rambler
extracted the following. it being pointed
out TO him by sergt. Harbnson:
capt. c. Roth, the eNecutioner is stf'i
living lie says: J received orders from
Gen. John ]. Hartranft 10 execute Mrs.
Surratt. Payne. Herold and Atzero6t. Tho
orders were that the execution should
take place at ! clock July = or as soon
thereafter as circumstances would per-
NIT. IL did not como off as early as WAS
expected from the fact that Gen. Han-
cock, whose presence was necessary. tan
ed to appear. IL was stated that Mrs
Surratts counsel undertook 10 stop tide
execution by having Hancock arrested. L
saw the gallows built and secured the
rope, which was a thrce-ply Boston heJar
from the navy yard. made the noosef
placed them on the beam. saw them adj
justed on the victims. then STEPPED aside
and gave the signal to the men beneath
the gallows TO spring the traps. short
time afterward the bodies were taken
down and buried.
Sergt Harbinson enlisted August y.
1861. He was wounded in the lighting IN
: the Wilderness and was sent TO Washing
ton with thousands of other wopnfied
men, being assigned a cot i'm Columbian
Hospital, on Meridian Hin between l4th
and 18th streets. He remained in the hos
ptal three months. His enlistment period
having expired be re-enlisted in the LIST
Regiment, United States Veteran sNolna-
teers. After some service as sergeant he
was commissioned n second lieutenatt,
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A WELL known architect said in New
"A York the other day.
Some OF our skyscrapers in New York
and Chicago are things Of beauty Otiera-
again, are in such atroeiols tasse tbas
they remind me Of the OH City farmer :
An Oil City farmer struck OIL OF his
farm and came straight to towss aaf
bought his wife. -huRCred-and2
fifty dollar piano.
~ week or so later he turned up agaiu
10 buy a book Of 60 3ege sonss.
= How do you Hke the piano by unwy-
the salesman asked him.
BY crlnus,' ehuclled the farmer. ye z
oughter sec il now, young Teller. Mx
old wonans painted It yaller to Inatcir
the chest of drawers
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Floored.

A GRABBED, old misogynist said to
"A Ethel Barrymore ct dinner in Bar
Harbor:
Woman, Feninissn. Suffrage. BAH
Why, there isn't woman alive VINO
wouldn't rather be beautiful than intel
iigent''
That's hecanse ? said Miss barrymore
calmly, $50 MANY men are stupid. while
so few are blind"
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Old and New.

THE late Robert c. ogden. business
man and phlanthropist of New York
and Philadelphia, possessed old-school
atorals. and saw nothing laudabls in
finance Of the new school. the school
that occasionally lands IN fail.
In an address in Philadelphia in aid OF
his wonderful Hampton School, Mr. Og-
den salt:
In the old days business man was
satisfied to hold his own. but the modern
financier insists on holding other peo-
pies"
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Her Unhappy Mar
rage With the Heir to
the Bavarian Throne
Was Annulled Almost
Immediately After the
Ceremony, and She
Joined the Staff of a
Famous Hospital as an
Ordinary Nurse in an
Effort to Forget Her
Sorrow Submits to
the Regular Routine of
Work and Signs an
Agreement to March to
War as a Red Cross
Nurse Should She Be
Called Upon to Do SO.
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coWaroly Anonymity.

n GORGE ABE was rafting of. With
" ali his old-time humor. quips agalnsr
marriage
Take the phrase. single bessedness, =
he. sasd.s who Was the agthu cf ul-
Why, Some Anonymous coward " mar !.
ried man. OF course
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girls in Europe-by her insistence on
their having gowns made Of linen en-
broidered by peasant work. Much OF
their table linen, too. was embroidered
in Grass colors by Hungarian women
The enthusiasm of the elder archduch
ess for welldoing has been transmitted
to her eldest daughter, and now that fate
has robbed her of throne, she has an
occupation TO her hand and can turn
from the life of splendor which was
opening up before her as presiding lady
1T the court of Munich, ruler over a pal
ace which the heir to the throne had
s,ifit for her accommoda ton, to the sim
r!p life OF the tent on the battlefield, OF.
falling wars to years of quiet piety and
qgelldoing under the direction of her
mother.
place some eighteen months ago. She
had been lpetrothed to Prince George of
Bavaria for some months. and every
one expected that the marriage would be
q success.
Alliances between the ruling houses of
Austria and Bavaria have been very FREE
uuent. The Bavarian court is very strict
and the princes and Processes enjoy"
very much the same upbringing and edu-
cation. although on q less magnificent
scale. as do their royal neighbors. The
Young men are soldiers attached to regi-
ments and spend a great part of their
lives with the troops. while the girls are
convent bred. The relationship between
the two houses is so very close in the
present generation that the desirability
of introducing fresh blood has often been
mentioned Unfortunately alliances with
most of the royal houses OF Europe are
barred hy the religion professed by the
members. The German princes who rank
as reigning sovereigns, although merely
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ORkING as Il cont
mon nurse in a
Vienna hospital.
the Archduchess
Isabella NJ a r ] e +,
daughter of the
Archdut,e Freder-
lex. the richest OF
the Austrian royal
family, is trying 10
heal her own ach-
ing heart. In the in
terest of her daily
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ordinary sister is allowed to absent her
self only once a week, and the arch
duchess has net asked for more extended
privileges, bat places herself under the
regliia tons OF the mouse IN tfle same Way
as any other sister.
There is some speculation as 10 what
the future of the young archduchess viii
be The eldest daughter of the Archduks
Frederick, second cousin OF the emperor.
She was destined to a throne. After the
dissolution of her marriage with Prince
George il was expected she would re-
tire to the shelter of a convent, and there
was considerable establishment when j,
was known that she would follow the
far bion lust now so popular among tn
aristocracy and train Red Cross
nurse. She bound herself, on commencing
the course. to place herself at the dis
position of the association, and may be
called upon at any time to leave Vienna
and follow an Austrian army To the hat
tlefield, there 10 comfort the diving and
tend the wounded. Should there never
be an opportunity o. putting her skill to
the proof on the battlefield. she viii no
Doubt assist her mother the beautiful
Archduchess Isabella in tending the sick
and relieving distress on the country
estates of her father, unless, like all the
unmarried archduchesses, she becomes
the SUPERINTENDENT of some institution in
former times they have invariably become
ADDRESSES of npnnerles in default of mar
riage. As Archduchess Isabella Marie
shows no inclination for religious life.
some secular sisterhood may be organized
specially for her.
Arcbduchess Isabella. mere, is keenly
, interested in cottage industries and is
responsible for the great progress
which has been made in thai direction in
Hungary. She has spent years of her
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sIsa Mie work ordinary

life in encouraging the peasants to pur-
chase better patterns for their work and
has held sales of their produce in Buda-
pest and Vienna 1t is said that she
spoiled the appearance of the trousseaus
of her daughters some q The Trettiest