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Evening star., 1915-02-07
Old Washington Landholders.

IT HE Rambler recently wrote of the
u farms and the owners of the farms
on which the city of Washington came
to be planned and built. The occasion
of that article was a map prepared by
the geological survey called "A View
of the City of Washington i'll 1892 and
in 1911 The view" showed the farms
on which the city of Washington was
laid out. and was overprinted by a map
of Washington Of 1911. In 1872 the
landholders of the site of the original
city of Washington. extending from the
Eastern branch to Rock creek and
from the Potomac river to Florida ave
nue.. or the boundary" We're Robert
Morris and Nicholson Abraham Young
George Walker the Widow Wheeler
relict of Aquila Wheeler: William
Young. Daniel Carroll. Benjamin Oden
James Burnes, David Burnes, Motley
Young, Lynch and Sands. John David
son. Samuel Davidson, Samuel Blodget
Robert Peter and Anthony Holmead
Although these men were known as
the original prOprietors. some of them
were newcomers to these parts in 1890
and 1892. Some of them bought farm
lands near the junction of the Anacos-
tia and Potomac rivers because the
land was worth what they paid for it.
and there was proba bility for some
time prior to 1890 that the projected
federal territory or federal district or
Evening star., 1915-02-07

the fire, the air is heavy with the smell
of horse, harness, leather polish, coach
varnish and lap robes. Not all Wash
ingtonians would enjoy relaxation in
this way and place. There are some
who would rather sit around a garage
and inhale gasoline and axle grease
and engine OIL while there are others
whose preference is for the stove in
the corner of a cigar store where win
ter base ball is played. Taste is a
strange thing, and some tastes are very
strange.
But this stable office is mighty in
teresting place. The walls are lined
call up sweet and tender. cheerful and
exciting memories. There is, of course,
a big picture of Flora Temple, that
great mare which set part of the
world ablaze by her performance at
Kalamazoo, Mich, in october. 1853. of
a mile in two minutes. nineteen and
three-quarter seconds. And. of course.
there is a lithograph of the great
Dexter, who at Buffalo in August, 1867
trotted mile two and a half seconds
faster. Then close by Flora Temple
and Dexter is a likeness of that mar
vel mare. Goldsmith Maid, who clipped
a quarter of a second off DeNter's time
a divers times during 1872 and 1874 at
Mystic Park. Boston; East Saginaw
Buffalo and Rochester brought the mile
time down to PA. And dear famous
old Rarus, who at Buffalo in the sum-
mer of 1878 brought the mile record
down to 2.13A, is pictured Oh the wall.
In the midst of that glorious company
Sunol. Nancy Hanks. Alix. The Abbot
and Lou Dillon, who at Readville
Mass. August "a, 1908, brought the
record down TO two minutes fiat. Also
Evening star., 1915-02-07

graph road and the original Mount
Telegraph road until near white
chapel which sits on hilltop sur
rounded with white tombstones. That
is Sharon Episcopal Chapel. Before
reaching this chapel red clay road,
deep, wet and sticky at this season,
strikes off to the right. 1t is called the
Old Rolling road and would lead you
over to Franconia on the Washington
Southern railroad. A few hundred
yards along this road a tree-lined lane
calls to the left. Walk along that
lane for a quarter of a mile fnd you
come to box-bowered and ivy-wrapped
Wilton Hall
That is not the route the Rambler
took. Leaving the Telegraph road at
Cameron, he took the left-hand fork,
which is the old Washington or origi-
nal Mount Vernon road from AleXan-
dria, and climbed up through the ruins
and earth heaps of Fort Lyon. The
weather was piercing even for walking
and in a sheltered part of the road the
Rambler and his friends built COM
Portable fire and rested for an hour.
Then the line of progress carried them
to Mount Pleasant and from that home
stead the path lay westward over fields
and across the valley through which
runs the Telegraph road and White
branch. and which has the CHEEKY name
of Happy Valley. Climbing out of this
on the right you come to the fencing
which incloses the lands appurtenant
to Wilton Hall. They are extensive and
fruitful, but the HANDLERS rain soaked
notes refuse to remind HIM Of the num-
Der of acres in the tract.
Evening star., 1915-02-07

The Rambler has been told that she
was nearly seven feet tall and that all
her growth was not in the direction of
height.
The persons from whom the Rambler
has learned these Wilton Hall stories
speak of Froebel as "Bushrod Froebel
and his fame as a gardener survives
him. In many of the historic places in
that neighborhood old men and women
are forever pointing out to you some
flower or shrub which they prize ex-
ceeding high and they tell you that it
came from the gardens at Wilton Hall,
tina Bushrod Froebel gave it to their
grandmother. The story of Froebel
continues that when he had reached
manhood the Washingtons at Mount
Vernon bought for him the property
which he called Wilton Hall. and if one
could determine the origin of that
rame it might throw some light on the
history of the man who lived there.
though is has grown wild. You can
trace an intricate system of walks
hedged with box. but this box has
grown so that the design is nearly OBJ
liberated and the walks impassable. IVY
of several varieties abounds. For years
II has been disputing with the box for
possession of the place, and ii may be
that the contest has not been deter
mined yet. but to the Rambler it seems
a draw, or that the box and ivy have
agreed to a joint tenantcy of the
grounds y number of old and large
trees grow above the riot of box and
ivy, and these viii be pointed out to
You as trees of unknown species
which F'roebel brought from Europe.
In the garden are several tall buck
eye trees and two ancient holly trees.
Evening star., 1915-02-07

science more than $685.. .o0o to his
nephews whose property he had taken
without due process OF law
1t might he gathered from the above
that Assistant Attorney General Thonlp-
son is a gentleman who puts a punch in
what he does. II is a correct estimate
That is the habit of the man. acquired
in his foot ball days. You see. back in
1886 and 1896 he was a famous Princeton
foot ball star. lie is The Thompson who
played end on the Tiger team when IL
1895 it beat Harvard l. 10 4, and in 1896
beat Harvard again ]: {" - While in the
same year il beat Yale a 10 q
Is il any wcnder that the former
president OF Princeton. nov President Of
The United States, finds this earnest
Young lawyer. who once contributed 50
much to Princeton'S fame. c"ugeuial
member OF the Presidents existing
team?
Having earned lis way through college.
Mr.. Thompson on graduating turned
his attention to foot ball coachinc-.il
Oberlin and subsequently At Lchigh
order to put himself through the New
York Law School. Foot bah coaching
led him 10 Texas. where he formed
acquaintance. which ripened into warm
friendship As coach of the University
OF Texas team for Two years Nj.
Thompson piloted ii To wonderful Sc
rleS uf victories. The regent OF that IN
Stitution in charge of athletic sports al
the time was Mr.. Thomas Watt Gregory
of Austin. now Attorney General of the
United States. The dean OF the uni
versity was Prof. David Francis HouS-
ton, now Secretary of Agriculture: and
AN alumnus OF the university dwelling
in the university community and taking
deep interest in all university actiNi-
ties. was Representative Albert sydney
Burleson. now Postmaster General
When Mr.. Thompson WAS called 10
Washington he was a highly successful
pra cticing lawyer in Denver. Col, where
he was admitted to the bar in 1899 The
only public office he ever held before en-
tering the federal employ was assistant
attorney general of Colorado, in which
position he served from 1906 to 1907.
But while he calls Denver home and
regards it as home. he still Hnds home
like atmosphere in Washington. With
his former Princeton and University of
Texas connections, why shouldn't he?
ASHAIUN BROWN.
Evening star., 1915-02-07
HUSTON THOMPSON,
Assistant attorney general.

give the travellers safe conduct and
proceeded with them. Presently. at
place called Mountain Meadows, the
soldiers fell upon the party and nilled
all the adults. sparing only some or
the women and children. This was
known as the Mountain Meadows mas
sacre.
Years after Emmy Thurston, one of
the surviving heirs, presented the mat
ter to Congress, alleging that the SOL
diers involved in the massacre were
Mormons and asking an Appropriation
to reimburse her for the loss of the
property belonging to her relatives.
Congress did not act, and the case came
finally to the Court of Claims
Here it was pleaded that the massa :
ere was perpetrated by Indians. wards
of the government, and no mention was
made of Mormons. obviously, the gov.
ernment could be held for the acts or
it's wards, but not for the acts of Nor
mons. The government sought in the
files of the Senate and found the orig.
inal affidavits in which the blame had
Evening star., 1915-02-07

rain at Richburg. Miss. Jem smiths
lithograph is there, and across the
wall from the horses pose Bob f'itzsim-
mons. Peter Maher, Jim Corbett (James
J. CorbetO, Jim Jeffries and Tom
Sharkey. who went down before JET
fries in the twenty-fifth round at
Coney Island. November ,, 1893. Tom
my Burns, who laid low Bill Squir-s
of Australia at San Francisco in lS0I.
Gunner Moir at London and Jem Roche
of Dublin. and himself fell before Jack
Johnson in Australia December &c. 1909.
has his picture on the wall Quick
and fierce fellows like Jack Brittou,
Young George Dixon, Joe Jeanette.
Sam Langford. Charley LadouX, Young
Shugrue. Gunboat Smith and Adolph
Wolgast appear in appropriate posture
and recall other days.
Upon the mantelpiece. above tho
glowing CRATE fire. in that stable Office
is a. picture that would stir the fancy
and recall the youth of hundreds of the
graybeards and baldheads of Wash
ington. 1t is a Autograph of LYDIA
Thompson How time flies! 1t was
only back in 1859 that the Lydia
Thompson Burlesque Company of Eng
lish Blondes captured. first New York
and then the rest of the United States
The play. as you remember. was TX
ion" Pauline Markham, who WAS m
Washington about twenty five years
ago at the Globe Museum. the site o.
W hich is covered by the Post Office De
pa rtment building. led the -Amazons n
'Ixion." Liza Weber sang
Up in balloon. boys up in balloon,
All among the little stars sailing round lhe mccu-
Evening star., 1915-02-07

be written from the files of the court
First there were the revolutionary war
claims; then the French spoliat1on
claims. of which I shall speak present
ly at greater length; claims arising from
the war of 1872. Mexican war claims,
claims arising from depredations along
the line of the Santa Fe trail civil war
claims, cotton claims, so called, arising
out of the war, and numerous interest
ing claims arising out of the Spanish
American war and our operations in
the Philippines.
Typical of these cases and involving
an almost forgotten incident in Amer
lean history was what is known as
the Thurston case, finally decided in
favor of the government and against
the claimant last year.
THE records disclosed that a party
of Gentle immigrants was making It's
way through the west on the way to
the Pacific. One day, in the mountains
of Nevada. the party was attacked ny
Il band of what seemed to be Indians
The immigrants gave battle and ap-
peared to drive off their foes. on the
second day party of soldiers appear
ed. expressed sympathy. promised TO
Evening star., 1915-02-07
S6HE PAMBLERzzs'1fSzs %

1t was one of the dismal afternoons
of the winter that the Rambler and
his friends stood shivering and foot
wet among the box and ivy and under
the bare Wind-swayed trees IN tne
garden of Wilton Hall. 1t was the aft
ernoon of Sunday, January "a. the day
of the sleet storm which coated every
thing in the city with Ice but dld nor
make the clap roads and fields SO nara
that a man would not sink to his shoe
tops in the mud The sky was dark
and the light feeble, and on the whole
it was day many intelligent persons
would rather WOO steam fadlatoI
than hunt history with camera and
notebook. But such is rambling.
The house of Wilton is in two parts.
The north section is frame and the
south part. which is the main section.
is of brick The frame section is the
older, as often happens in the country
around Washington Froebel added the
brick house to his domain as prosperity
blessed him and as his property de-
veloped. The front porch has fallen. but
the front door, of oak. is stout and sturdy
and swings truly on its grating, monster
iron hinges. In the rooms are stone
paved open freplaces with trace or
ashes from cordial fires that burned
out perhaps before many of the readers
of these lines were born. These freless
fireplaces seemed especially cherries on
the wet and icy afternoon. On the wall
between the two front windows of the
main room is the relic of what was
once no doubt handsome mirror. 1t
is very heavy glass. but the reflective
backing is nearly all gone. In the oaken
window frames one sees still the curtain
hooks. rusty and misshapen now, but
suggestive that once that room was
furnished and comfortable The frame e
part of the hall is decrepit but the
main or brick portion is i'll an excellent
state of preservation SO far as the
walls and chimneys are concerned
Down deep in the garden is ruin.
A chimney stands, and around it are
sections of broken brick walls, parts of
the walls being tumbled into heaps.
over all this mat of kindly ivy has
spread itself, but whether the ivy has
done this to screen the ruin from the
eyes of men, or whether to make a
right choice meal off bricks. the Ram
bier does not know. That ruin was
Froebers hothouse.
You will be told by people who live
in the region that in the fair and pleas
ant seasons of the year many strange
flowers bear their blossoms i'll the gar
den of Wilton Hall, and when genial,
happy spring returns the Rambler
means to ramble there again.
Evening star., 1915-02-07
Little Tommy's Spirit.

ee1s HE English complain that SOL
diers' wives. while their hus-
bands are fighting at the front. pay
too many visits to the public houses.
The Germans complain that their SOL
diers' wives are eXtravagant and shop
and lunch out too much. The French
complain-but why continue this dis
NAL catalogue"
The speaker. Hamilton Holt of the
New York Anti-Armament League.
sighed and resumed:
Il am afraid that the spirit of those
left at home is but too well epitomiZed
in the anecdote of little Tommy.
Little Tommy's big brother. vol
unteer, was starting off in his new
uniform for the front.
Good bye, all. the young man said.
and If don't come back
Here a sob overcame him. but. re-
pressing it, he went on: IF don't
come back
IF you don't come back. Joe, in
terrupted little Tommy. can l have
your bike""
Evening star., 1915-02-07

beloved by all the old dwcllers in that
neighborhood. Elizabeth F'roebel died
at Wilton Hall about quarter of
century ago. and Anne, whom every
body roundabout today speaks of as
Miss Anne" lived there until the day
of her death few years ago at the age
of ninety-two years. She was a re-
narkabIe woman in many ways. She
retained a clear memory of all the peo-
pie who had lived in the neighborhood
and of all the events there during her
long life. and she preserved a strong
memory of all the stories which. when
she was young. she had been told by
gray and bent men and women. An
other of the unusual things about this
woman was her extraordinary stature.
Evening star., 1915-02-07

on the wall are great Creseus and
thlan, with Mai. pelnar, Hamburg
Belle. Sweet Marie. Harvester aud gal
liant BERTHE X. who trottod four miles
at Blackpool. England, september II.
lSa9. in ?.5S.
If your mind inclines to PAGERS YOU
can sit by the fire ana think on the
pictures and the achievements OF Dan
Patch, Morning Star, Prince Alert.
Darrell. Directum and The Fisherman.
who went five miles at san Francisco
IN December, 1874. in l3.O3t2. Mascot.
John r. Gentry and Star Pointer are
also there
Where is the man whose blood has
been SO cooled by the automobile that
il does not thrill hot at the thought
Evening star., 1915-02-07

.sngied box and ivy that over
~ the garden of Wilton Hall.
was ! beautiful place and il is po-
.ert:aliy beautiful today. Nobody lives
here. and nobody has lived there for Il
good many years, though it is easy to
-eel that ghosts. good-natured and hos
oItabIe ghosts. stroll through the ruin
I'd garden and stalk across the creak-
'ng floors of the bare, cold rooms and
the empty halls that are silent save
ror echoes.
UaU in connection with the story of his
Tisits to Mount Eagle and Mount Pleas
ant, neiGhboring properties. The leg
end of Wilton Hall which the Rambler
3as heard from the lips of old-time
folk whose minds are stored with
7eighborhood traditions is that when
zen. and Mrs. George Washington We're
residing in Philadelphia. when that
>jty was the capital, they attended
theatrical performance and heard boy
singing. They liked the little chap and
MS parents or guardians, if he had
suy. being willing, the general and MS
'asdy finally brought him to Mount
Vernon. where he developed into a
IL is said that that garden which is
low known to everybody as Nellie Gus
is garden, was in part his work. The
7ame of the boy was Froebel That is
.he story told in the Wilton Hall neigh
Jorhood and ii has come down from
rroebel and from his daughters Anne
md Eliza beth. who were known and
Evening star., 1915-02-07

1871 You can look ON tho faces ot
Sayer. and Heensn. and PERTAINS your
memory viii so back {" the battle ~
1860. old NashiuctonlarS VIII r,"ol-
lect. # they 30 not remember. lem
Mace. who beat Hurst iu 1851. beat
Tom King in 1862 and WIS b'atcn hv
King IN l>6S Well. the HIGHT troiu
the red Goals in the open crste shines
ON his face. Jem Mac" WAS battling
az late as 1872, when he fought a draw
with Cohurn
John l.. Sullivau's face and arms look
on you. John wears the costume. o.
part costume. and appears as he dld
when he beat Paddy Ryan IN nm"
rounds at mississippi city in i>>2.
seven years before he beat Jake hll-
Evening star., 1915-02-07
Reveries in a Stable.

THERE are times when the Ram
bler's ardor for rambling is al
most chilled and a glowing fire in the
open crate seems to offer more pleas
ure than a long clay road deep with
cold mud or roughened by frozen clods
and swept by a wind that bites the
ears and nose and makes an old frayed
overcoat feel especially thin. When
this spirit of rest comes over him the
Rambler likes very much to sit in the
office of particular livery stable
where, in addition to the warmth OF
Evening star., 1915-02-07

One Of the hollies is thrifty and green,
the other is ruinous and the story is
that one bore scarlet berries and
has been rifled and stripped and torn
so often that it is nearly dead. while
the other being barren SO far as ber-
ries are concerned has been spared by
vandals.
If you would go to Wilton Hall you
should start out along the Little River
turnpike from Alexandria,, and at the
site of the old tollgate turn to the
left along the Telegraph road. cross
Cameron run, pass the hamlet OF
Cameron at the junction of the Tele-
Evening star., 1915-02-07

of the thoroughbred? And by the
cozy glow of the fire the Rambler looks
on pictures of Salvador. kildeer. Amalti.
Stromboli, Maid Marian. Macy, Rapid
Water, Banquet. Whiskbroom ii, Old
Roseben. Irish Lad. Africander and
pounds and ran one and three quarter
miles at Morris Park October 3. 1908.
in 2.51 Ethelbert's picture looks down
at you. a horse that a Brighton Beach
August 4. 1900, carried 124 pounds two
and Il quarter miles in a fraction over
BAG. Ellie. brave four-year-old. who
raced three miles at Oakland April s.
1905. in d-22, looks down at you with
flashing, tender eyes.
DO you remember Silvio. ridden by
Archer to victory in the English Derby
of 1877" Well, he looks at you and
from the spirit land of noble horses.
Other Derby winning Archer mounts,
stand before you, and you may gaze on
the 1.-the, heroic forms of The Har-
vester, who ran a dead heat with st.
Gatien in the Derby of 1884; Sir Nisto,
Persimmon, Jeddah. Diamond Jubilee.
Nolodyovski. Rocksand. St Amant
Spearmint, Orby, Sunstar and Durhar
II. All these thoroughbreds are mile
horses and better.
But all the pictures that the glow
of the fire lights up are not horses.
You can look on the face of Perry, the
Upton slasher, champion of England
after his fight with Paddock in 1850.
who was beaten, or heat up. by Harry
Broome in 1851, and who on Broome's s
retirement in 1888 held the champion
ship until Tom SayerS beat him IN