Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-24

Sir Walter Raleigh over the front door
and today this bust is one of the relics
In the. powder horn. Taverns had
names just as hotels today have names.
but the style of nomenclature Of build
ings has changed.
Tavern names seem fanctiful to peo-
pie OF the present. There were the
Cheshire Cheese. the Blue Dragon. the
Swan. the Lion, the Horsehead. the
Boorshead and what not, but these
names may not appear to us any
stranger than to our descendants may
houses.
The Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg
was In operation before 1875. DR.. Tyler
of William and Mary College mentions
county is a deed dated in 1886 under
which William Randolph of Tuckahoe
sells 200 acres OF land to Peter Jeffer-
son, the father of Thomas Jefferson,
and names as the consideration "the
biggest bowl Of Henry Wetherburn's
arrack punch" Wetherburn being then
the keeper of the Raleigh Tavern.
There was string of proprietors of
this tavern following Wetherburn.
When the assembly Of Virginia was
the burgesses had denounced the ac-
ton Of parliament in advising the king
to transfer to England for trial all
Americans accused of treason, the bur-
adopted non-importation agreement.
That was in 1859. When Lord Dunmore
dissolved the assembly in 1774 the bur-
gesses again adjourned to the historic
tavern and adopted the famous resolu-
tons AGAINST the use of tea.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the first
intercollegiate fraternity organized in
the United States, came into being in
this tavern In 1776. In the tavern was
an assembly room called the Apollo"
vVo In hof hat he h,rr-
gesses held their memorable meetings.
In that room also were held banquets
in honor Of Cows. Gooch, Spotswood,
Dinwiddie and Botetourt. 1t was a.
public meetings, and Washington. JEFF
ferson, George Wythe and hundreds of
other notables danced there. 1t was
destroyed by fire two years before the
outbreak of the civil war.
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A short way from the Capitol monu-
ment is the site of the printing office
from which the Virginia. Gazette was
issued in 1886, where the laws of vir-
ginia were printed in 1929, where the
charter and laws of the College of
William and Mary were printed in 1886
was printed in 1749. From this Office
was issued in 1855 another paper. also
called the Virginia Gazette. and which
In way was backed by Thomas JEFF
ferson as an organ in the propaganda
Of colonial independence. The old
Office building survived until 1896.
when flames claimed 1.-THE red fate
OF SO many buildings rich in interest
ing memories.
Until a few years ago there were
standing but a short walk from the
ancient court building six chimneys of
house that was burned long ago. The
chifnneys were torn down because they
became feeble and unsafe. They were
the chimneys of the home of Col. John
Custis, the father Of Daniel Parke Gus
tbs, who married Martha cambridge,
the daughter of John cambridge of
Williamsburg. 1t was Martha Dan
bridge who, being left widow. be-
came the wife Of George Washington.
Descendants of the Custises live in
Williamsburg today. but the Rambler
did not learn that any member of the
cambridge family still lives there.
This Washington association recalls
to the Rambler that the Cary family
was prominent in Williamsburg. and
that 1t was a daughter of that family
who was wooed and lost by George
Washington. Mary Cary used to visit