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CEDAR-LINED ROAD NEAR BLADENsBURG.

from the State Insane Asylum at
Topeka, Kan.
Corbett, though a sergeant in the 10Th
New York Cavalry. had never been re-
garded as man of normal mind. He
was an Englishman by birth and an
American by naturalization. His true
baptismal name was never known to
his comrades in the army, but he en-
listed under the name Boston Corbett
and in all the records relating to his
service in the Union army the name
Boston appears and not in quotation
marks. He was halter by trade, and
the story that was told of him during
his time in the army was that he had
Boston and on experiencing a change
of heart he considered himself as hdv-
iS been born again and called himself
Boston. In his regiment he was much
given to religious eNhortation, and by
his comrades was always looked on as
a strange man. He has been described
a a man of medium stature and rather
slight in build. The most distinguish
ing feature of this man was that he
wore his hair long and parted it in the
middle.
Herold surrendered to the soldiers
and civil detectives that surrounded
the Garrett barn. The other man re-
fused, or too long delayed surrender,
and through one of the many cracks
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tigation and there has continued to be
a great deal of discussion.
The commandant of the navy yard
was Commodore John B. Montgomery.
April Is he received from the Navy.
Department these directions: "If the
military authorities arrest the mur-
derer of the President and take him
to the navy yard. put him in monitor
and anchor her out in the stream,
with strong guard on vessel, wharf and
in navy yard. Call on commandant of
the Marine Corps for guard. Have YES
ceive the criminal at any hour. day or
so guarded as to prevent escape or in
jury to himself"
April II the Navy Department sent
to the commandant of the yard this:
The War Department wishes special
attention called this afternoon to order
of Saturday, 18th instant Keep a boat
in constant readiness and have guard
at the gate, that the prisoner can be
got safely on board
From the records of the navy yard
it is shown that April 18 two pris-
oners, Mike O'Flaherty and Lewis
Payne, were delivered al the yard and
confined on board the monitor Saugus
in double irons with strong guard. and
that April 19 prisoner named Sam
uel Arnold was delivered at the yard
April o1 two prisoners, James An
drew Atzerodt and Ernest Hartman
Ritchie, were delivered at the yard by
Col Ingraham. April "a G. v. Fox
assistant secretary of the navy, sent
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board the Montauk and ready for de-
livery when called for
Chaplain H. B. Hibben, in his history
of the Washington navy yard. says of
the letter of Commodore Montgomery:
There was no reply to this COM
plant of the commandant from the
Navy Department. Indeed, the records
plainly show that the Secretary of War
troll over the prisoners even after their
delivery to the keeping of Commodore
Montgomery. Maj. Gen. Augur was or
dered to station a guard in the navy
night, to be stationed and relieved as
Gen. Augur may direct The Secre-
tary of War seemed to be under state
of fear that the prisoners would escape
or be rescued from his hands This
fear extended even to the body of the
dead assassin. and his apparently ar
bitrary restrictions in regard to 1t and
the ENJOYMENT of secrecy in regard to
a degree that amounted to dfsrespect
to the commandant and disregard of
the authority that had been imposed
upon him as custodian of the body of
Booth
Gideon Welles. Secretary of the
Navy, at the instance of the Secretary
of War, sent to the commandant two
letters. The first of these was:
Il am informed by the Secretary OF
War that persons were permitted to
visit the ironclads on board of which
the prisoners are confined by his and
my order. You will explain. if this
has been done, and you will allow no
persons to visit these vessels who have
not the joint order of the Secretary of
War and myself until the prisoners are
removed from your custody"
The second letter was:
Send to the department in the morn
ing copies of all orders which you have
received touching the matter of visit
ing or communicating with the pris-
oners confined on board the ironclads;
also copies of all orders you have
given and copies of any permits grant
ed by yourself to visitors to go on
board these vessels. Report the names
of all visitors, male and female, to see
the body of the assassin Booth; whether
his hair was touched and what author
ity parties had for doing these things.
Commodore Montgomery reported
that prior to receipt of any orders from
the department to the contrary he had
granted permission by written pass to
Storekeeper Lathrope, Master Carpen-
ter Downing and his two quartermen,
Master Laborer White and Supt Nc
McMalley of the copper rolling mill to
visit the Montauk. The commandant
inclosed a report made to him by Lieut.
Commander E. E. Stone, the officer
commanding the guard.
This report throws so much light on
the arrival of Booths body, the autopsy
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that a number of highly placed people
who have Germans in their employ DO
not see why they should be deprived of
them if royalties are permitted to re-
tain their alien servitors.
The German royal servants whose
services were dispensed with by King
Edward were all pensloned, and are
now resident about Windsor. Are these
enemy aliens, to whom not vestige or
suspicion of being spies could possibly
be attached. to be arrested? AS mat
ter Of fact, when the order in council
was made. they were all notified that
they would have to be removed 10
concentration camp, but SO far this has
not been done.
For sheer oddity, it would be hard to
beat many of the legal cases which
come before the judicial committee OF
the privy council, the great appeal
court of the British empire. which sits
in a room in Downing street, and con-
sists of three or four tired looking pis
wigs of the law, who are SAID ocGa-
sionally to yield to slumoer ~niis @
tinRuished advocates, who may repre-
sent the interests of some Indian or
African god, some Chinese junk-o"ner
or Burmese mosque, are engaged III ao-
dressing them. x .h.
judicial committee is that OF two In
dian mahants, or heads OF tribes or
beegars, who have been setting tnelr
differences in this dull March Londoh,
SO far away from the banks OF the
Ganees. This is their case. A mahant
died ten years ago. mahant OF temple
in Hardwar. Lahar Puri Will have II
that he was the only disciple of the
dead mahant and that he was duly
elected mahant by the vote OF ten
classes of mendicants. But after TINS
election, Lahar Puri and all the ten
classes of beggars went out to batne IN
Ganees water He and they came back
to And the temple doors closed against
them. Inside, a disconted minority OF
was installing rival,
Puran Nath. as mahant.
This second lot Of beggars. 1t seems
never came out to bathe. UnWashed,
they sat behind the locked doors. They
were, they claimed, the true and ortho-
dox mendicants of all the ten classes.
So began the debate in Hardwar.
where is the holy footprint IL
Vishnu, who goes round the world in
three strides, the last invisible even to
the holiest. Sad to say. the court in
Bombay before which the case event.
ually came to trial, decided in favor of
Puran Nath, the unwashed mahant. Sad
der still, the privy council has upheld
the verdict of this court, and dismissed
with costs the appeal of the conscien-
tious bather. Lahar Puri.
Mai. f. H. Richardson the famous
trainer of police. ambulance and SEN
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made his autopsy you will have the body
placed in a strong box and deliver it to
the charge of Col. Baker, the box being
carefully sealed.-Gideon Welles, Secre-
tary of the Navy; Edwin NJ. Stanton,
Secretary of War
Following the autopsy a number of
things happened which appear curious at
this distance. In the afternoon of April
81 Booths body was taken from the Mon
tauk by Col Baker. who had brought it
there.
Commodore Montgomery the 2sth sent
to the Navy Department this communi-
cation:
BY telegram yesterday. pm. 1 re-
ported to the department the removal of
the body of the assassin Booth from the
Montauk to the United States arsenal in
this district las supposedly. l have to
report that the removal was made en-
tirely without my knowledge or any refer
ence to me by the party of officers and
others commissioned by the War and
Navy departments to visit the ironclads,
and the first intimation given me of the
removal was from the executive officer,
who accompanied me Immediately to the
wharf with the view of determining the
fact. l called at once for explanation
from the marine officer. who reported that
the body was SO suddenly and unexpect-
edly removed to the boat which conveyed
it away that he had no opportunity of
reporting before the work was accom-
plished. This unusual transaction de-
prived me of opportunity of inclosing the
body in a box prepared for it, as ordered
by the department. The box is now on
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Surrey, to the firing line in Flanders
and back again. and this feat is per-
formed inside of two hours and half
How on earth do the Germans find
out things they do" friend whose
adopted home is Vancouver, and who is
now in France with the first Canadian
contingent Che is Highlander). writes
home that the trenches his regiment
occupies are only some twenty yards
from the German 'diggings' They
had only been established there an
hour or so. he says. when voice from
the German earthworks called out. in
Scottish. how did you leave Vancouver
1ooking?" Since then, he continues,
quite friendly relations have grown
up between themselves and the foe.
One evening one of the Canadians
called out to the Germans: 81 say. you
fellows must be members Of trade
unions; what do you mean by going on
popping after hours?"
Well stop firing after 8 If you
WILL replied spokesman for the
Germans. and since that, after pm.
not shot has been exchanged. Every
morning. however, both sides get to
work and proceed to pick off as many
Of the Opposition" as possible.
The handling of the enemy aliens in
England is causing the military au-
thorities more sleepless nights than
they would like to acknowledge. There
are a number of persons who must for
very good and sufficient reasons be ex-
empted from even surveillance For ex-
ample. it would be obviously absurd
to place Wolfgang st. Just, a high
official in the foreign office. or Mark
Breiter of the home Office, under sus-
picion. And for equally good reasons
there are a host of lesser important
aliens in the civil service who cannot
be Compounded
A rather more difficult problem con-
fronts the government in regard to
Germans or Austrians in the employ Of
royalty. In the English royal house
hold there are not more than two or
three Germans, for when King Edward
ascended the throne he made clean
sweep of the German servants then in
royal employ and restaffed the whole
royal esta blishment with English men
and women.
But practically every servant in the
employ of the Battenberg and Chris
tian households are Germans. Under
the recent order in council, every one
of these should be placed in a. concen-
tration camp. But for obvious reasons
they are not There are difficulties in
the way of leaving the two chief royal
households, next to that of the SOW
ereign, servantless, which the govern
ment does not care ito face. But the
problem Is complicated by the fact
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brittle. broken, twig-like branches
and green, wavy and waving tops
that shut out the sun, and. OF
course. fill the place with deep shad-
ows The plumes of the pines are the
favorite playthings of the winds.
Eolus. Auster and Zepher play better
on pine tree tops than on any other
trees. The pine seems to bring out
better than other trees the singing
quality in the voice of the winds.
However, it is usually not cheerful
songs that the winds sing in the pines,
and the peculiar tonal effects of the
pine-wind voice has led poets to write
of it as the soughing of the wind
pronounced w-y-n-d-or the signing of
the pines. Some persons who do not
walk much through the pines get the
idea that pines are sad and gloomy.
Some persons will insist ON being
wrong even about pines. Pines are very
convivial trees and distillers have
found that most pine trees are full of
GIN Then, you certainly have observed
that they are gregarious trees because
they are nearly always found growing
together in groups and large tracts.
And that argues that the pine tree Is
not anti-social, but likes the fellow
always looks forlorn and the Rambler
knows that pine trees feel sorry for
any member of their family who has
to stand aloof.
But a road that leads through pines
has a charm for a man who likes 1ul-
la bys. nocturnes and so forth. instead
of ragtime. 1t is easy for a man walk
ing through pine land to think of love
especially unrequited love - rather
than of joyous things, like jigs and
two-steps. The Rambler has known
men on whom the wind moaning
through the pines has had the same
effect as the tolling of church bell
or the night call of the whippoorIill.
Some folk, when they walk through
pine land. will fall to thinking of the
time when the pink blossoms of to-
bacco and the golden tassels Of the
corn grew where the pine trees mourn.
For where you cut off the native hard
woods. till the land for seasons or cen
turtles. and then lay by the plow and
the hoe, that land will grow up in
pines.
When the road comes out again into
the wide fields Your thoughts come
back from pine cones. dirges. pine nee
dies, sad songs and glum reveries
From Your road there is nearly always
a farmhouse or the house of a farm
worker in view. Often these are bare
places, and suggest that the men and
women dwelling there have not learned
to live, and that their sense of the
beautiful is not highly developed.
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Around some of those places not tree
grows, not a flower blooms. However,
many other country houses-country
homes-come into view. There are
trees shrubs. flowers and orchards
Some of these are close to the road;
some far back from it, with cedar
lined lane leading to it, and, OF course,
this lane is calling you to follow it.
Every lane and every old road that
leads off a main road is calling to
every respectable fellow passing that
way to follow it.
The Rambler often feels embarrassed
by the number of such invitations and
his inability to walk far enough and
long enough to accept them all; but 1t
is his habit, after hearing the call OF
one of these roads, to thank 1T for Its
kindness. and promise that when he
comes that way again he Will not only
let it lead him where it viii, but that
also he will make few pictures OF ITS
principal features. Even an old roao'
no matter how muddy it may BE- no
matter how many ruts it has and no
matter how shabby and worm-eaten
the rail fence and the cedar trees tna'
line it, seems to appreciate belns
spoken to in a friendly and good-hu-
mored way.
Your road often passes down 10 'he
bottom of a vale and a stream runs
out of the woods, crosses the road ana
then disappears among the oirches'
sycamores, sweet gums and the thick
cts of laurel and holly on the otner
side. Perhaps you may pause Tor a
moment and speculate as to where the
water has come from and whittier 1t
is going in such a hurry. and why-but
it goes on. quickly followed by other
water You know that it is seeking
the Potomac or the Patuxent. 1t IS
going out into the great world In its
quiet springs and fields and pleasant
woods it has heard stories of the wide,
deep seas. 1t must go and see them
The great sea, it knows, must be wait
ing for it. 1t has always been an i'm
portant stream in Prince Georges, or
Charles, or st. Marys, or Prince Will
liam, or King George counties. but it
has never had full opportunity to show
what it can do as stream. 1t seeks
bigger fields or bigger seas 1t passes
on and out. 1t is swallowed up. Its
identity is lost. 1t never comes back
to water the gentle cows or make the
pretty violets grow. Streams are very
like some men.
Your road leads you to a hilltop and
great extent of country lies below
and before you. Away off you get a
glimpse of your road as it climbs an
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G. APRIL

to Commodore Montgomery this ncS-:
The Secretary of War requests that
the prisoners on board the ironclads.
belonging to his department., for bet
have a canvas bag put over the head of
each and tied around the neck. with
hole for proper breathing and eating,
out not seeing. and that Payne be Sc
cured to prevent self-destruction." The
commandant of the yard replied that
the hoods had been made and applied
as directed. April "a Ned Spangler,
prisoner. was brought to the navy yard
from the Old Capitol by Capt. Potts on
order of Col. 1ngraham and confined as
directed
Commodore Montgomery. early on the
morning of April 27. sent this memo
rable dispatch to the Secretary of the
Navy: David c. Herold. prisoner, and
the remains of Wilkes Booth were de-
livered here at AS this morning. The
body of Booth is changing rapidly.
What disposition shall be made of 1T?
1t is now on board the ironclad Mon
tauk."
The following order, signed by both the
Secretary of War and the Secretary Of
the Navy. was dispatched to the COM
mandant of the navy yard at 10 o'clock
the morning of April 27:
You will permit Surgeon General
Barnes and his assistant, accompanied by
Judge Advocate General Holt, Hon. John
A. Bingham, Maj. Eckert, William G.
Moore. clerk Of the War Department:
Col L. c. Baker, Lieut.. Baker, Lieut..
Col. Conger, Charles Dawson, J. L. Smith,
Mr.. Gardner, photographer. and an as
sstant, to go on board the Montauk and
see the body of John Wilkes Booth. Inn
medfately after the surgeon general has
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EMERGENCY CORPS A GREA'

Selfridge & Harrods. Ltd, who have
placed orders with us.
We have developed scheme for
training women in market gardening
and poultry farming. We have had lahd
lent to US for this purpose. and have
been offered the generous services or
experts. AS soon as we possess the
necessary funds a large number OF
middle-c women will be trained and
helped in their endeavor to win a Nv
ing in the country.
We have placed a number OF women
of all classes in posts suitable TO their
temporary or permanent need.
I'VE have registered numerous oners
of hospitality; houses have been gwen
to US. children and adults have been
taken into country homes. and many
of the most desolate sufferers from
the war have been in this way housed
and comforted. We have supplieo tne
Red Cross Society. the l.. {. e. care
committee. Soldiers and Sailors rant
lies Association, maternity centers:
mayors distress committees ana
creches with over 500 selected volun-
tary workers.
I'VE are teaching new trades to wom-
en-; for instance. we have at present
sixty girls working in our toy shops.
To-day the country needs every wom-
an no less than 1T needs every man. II
is for us as women to wage unremlt-
ting and strenuous war against all
conditions of poverty and disease ana
misery that weaken the empire at It's
heart 1t is for US as women to fight
in dead earnest against the spirit or
social apathy, Indifference and despair.
1t Is for US as women to show that 10y
atty in each other which is manifested
by comrades in the field; to stand by
those who have lost their economic
weapons, and to save them from the
defeat that comes with loss of inde-
pendence. Therefore, we call on all
women to come and help us"
One of the big surprises of the war.
of course, has been the showing that
has been made by Britain's flying men.
In both the caliber and the prowess OF
her flyers, Albion was supposed to
make a bad third to France and Ger
many, but it is question if the avia-
tors of either of these countries have
surpassed. if. indeed, they have equaled.
the deeds of the English airmen
Recently, SO the writer was told yes
terday by member of the Royal Fly
ing Corps back from France on a few
days leave, a new test has been in
stituted for applicants wishful of join
ing the ranks of that branch of the
service. To gain his pilots certificate
in the Royal Flying Corps, now the
candidate must fly from Farnham. In
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LONDON, April S. 1915
ROBABLY no woman of modern
s "s. is "s': ss::'; ~s:s 'sss
q the born Duchess of
Marlborough. Sunderland House. her
Ms yfair mansion, is the headquarters
of unuumbered schemes, most of them
intensely practical, for the relief of
suffering in every form.
II was III Sunderland House that the
writer recently called upon the former
Consuelo Vanderbilt to hear of her new
est work, that in behalf of the Women's
Emergency Corps. one of the largest
organizations arising out of the Eu-
ropean war.
Sunderland House is to outward ap
pearances unpretentious a building
as such a big house can be. The min
ute the front door is entered the spirit
OF modernity departs and the style of
furnishing transpIants us into the time
of Louis XIV and Louis XVI. The ante.
room and the semi-circular boudoir on
the ground floor. where the duchess
receives her intimate friends, are fur
nished with beautiful Buhl cabinets,
with the comfortable double cushioned
brocaded armchairs of that period and
with electroIiers to initiate the stately
Candelabra of that time.
y
The dining room, which can be en-
tered from the boudoir through a small
anteroom-in which a fine portrait of
the duchess is the most arresting OBJ
Ject-has marble floors and walls At
night. when the rich coloIs of the mar
BILE are reflected in the mirrors of the
closed shutters, the huge room is a
vivid reminder of the glories of Ver-
sailles. A magnificent gobelin panel
covers the wall on the side between
Two doors facing the windows. Fifty
people can comfortably dine in this
room. which ordinarily is Furnished
with a large oak table and another
smaller one.
The writer was received in the duch-
eSs' special workroom on the second
floor. when he entered he knew at
once that he was in the presence of one
who takes work seriously. On a screen
facing the writing table is a large map
of Europe with flags indicating the DO
sition of the warning troops. The writ l.
ing table itself is very large and COW
cred with documents of all kinds: il
proclaims its owner very busy WON
an. Here the duchess is found on most
days at bout 10 am. and. when work is
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in the barn a match was struck to hay
that was piled in one corner. In the
light Of the flames a man could be seen
standing in the middle of the barn.
resting on a crutch and holding a car
bine in his hands. Believing that this
man was about to shoot at the officers
and men groupd around the barn door
in the faint light of early dawn. Cor
Booth at the base of the skull. He
dropped to the barn floor and was
dragged out of the burning building.
at first laid on the grass outside the
CARROTS house about a hundred yards
away. There he died two hours later.
and, according to the best accounts.
without recovering consciousness. or at
least without saying anything intelli-
gib1e.
The body, wrapped in an army
blanket and roped to a pine board, was
brought to the navy yard. The pro-
cession came from the Garrett farm to
the Rappahannock river. crossed on
way, moved across King George county
and at Belle Plains landing, on the
Potomac, took the steamboat John S.
1de. This boat was met off Alexandria
by a government tug, and Herold and
Booths body were transferred TO it
and taken to the navy yard. Herold
was imprisoned in the hold on the
monitor Montauk and Booths body was
laid out on the deck. This was early
in the morning of April 81, 1865.
x X
There were a number of strange hap
penings in connection with the autopsy
on Booths body and it's removal from
the Montauk. About these things there
was a good meas of official inves-