Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-24
ON THE ROAD TO JAMESTOWN.

trees. mostly naples of no great age.
Residences and shops. brick and frame,
are interspersed. Some Of the cot
tages are quite new, but set in venera-
BILE gardens. and in some of these gar
dens are crepe myrtle trees as big as
street trees in Washington and as tall
as the houses.
These were in bloom when the Ram
bier strolled along that great historic
street.-the Duke of Gloucester street
along which Indians and American pio-
neers have walked; along which the
French and Indian war; along which
the red coats of CORVALLIS and the
buff and blue Continentals of Washing
ton marched. and along which the gray
legions of the south and the blue hosts
of the north marched at intervals for
four years.
1t is a street which nearly all the
Virginia patriots of the revolution
Mason, Thomas Jefferson. Patrick Henry,
Peyton Randolph. William Nelson, Ed
mund Pendleton. Richard Henry Lee,
George Wythe and all the rest of that
great company.
The Rambler sat by the granite block
marking the site of the Virginia house
of burgesses and watched the traffic in
Duke OF Gloucester street. There were
horses and buggies, gray with dust or
caked with mud from the farms of
adjoining the site of jamestown. Some
of them had come from the neighbor-
hood of Yorktown.
Some of them had come from the
fields that now grow green on the bat
tlefeld of williamsburg, the only
markers on which are the redoubts
which were spaded up by the men of
1S61-65. There were mule teams and
OK teams, single and double. There
were men on horseback and automo-
no
tomobiles with parties from afar come
to visit that historic ground.
Along the footways were very mod
ern people-men in Panama suits and
girls in dainty summer frocks of latest
mode and wearing shoes and stockings
and hats of the same cut and colors
which one sees in the F street prone
made OF course, everybody living in
Williamsburg Is not weIl-to-do, and
you see some old folk whom the world
good many colored people. Good man.
ners seem to be practiced by the COL
ored as Wen as by the white inhabit-
ants, and life runs along very smooth
ly and quietly in williamsburg.
Standing at the Powder Horn of Gov.
SpottsWood, about which the Rambler
told last week. you may look across
the Palace Green to the site wherein
was built the first theater in the United
States. There is record of theatre
cal performance in Accomac county, in
Virginia. in 1865. the play being I'VE
Bare and Ye Cubb" ("The Bear and the
Cub'). and 1t is likely that there were
plays before and after that date in
jamestown. because Sir William Berke-
ley. governor from 1912 to 1852 and
from 1860 to 1877, was fond OF plays
and players.
In Pepys' diary is reference to the
fact that Sir William Berkeley wrote a
play, called The Lost Lady," which
was performed in London with consid-
cradle acclaim. 1t is considered prob
able that as there were players in the
colony of Virginia during the regime
of Berkeley, and as he gave many en-
tertainments at the governors house,
he also had the pleasure Of seeing plays
performed at Jamestown
DR.. Lyon G. Tyler, president of the
College of William and Mary since
1888. has written: The fact that in
1902 a pastoral colloquy was recited
by the scholars of William and Mary
College before the governor in Will
liamsburg (Sir Francis Nicholson) is