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Evening star., 1915-01-03

F1HE RAMBLER has more than
once written sketches OF the
Tenleytown neighborhood, the
q remains of Fort Reno, at first
called Fort Pennsylvania, the River
road which leads westward by the site
of Fort Bayard and over Little Falls
branch. and of the Murdoch Mill road
which leads down the valley branch to
the ruins of the ancient mill.
1t was in a neat frame house with
Cedars and box bushes near 1t that the
Rambler met two women living there
who told much of the Tenleys, after
whom the village and section are call
ed Their names were Mrs. William
Britt and Miss Barbara Lightfoot. The
Rambler does not know. but he hopes
these women, who are sisters, are liv-
ing in that little cottage yet. They
were born there. and so was their
mother. who was Sarah Robey before
her marriage to Daniel Lishtfoot. Their
mother lived with the Tenleys, and
Mrs. Britt, who was Miss Mary Light
loot, and her sister, Barbara. inherited
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of her bed and walked two hours IN
greatest physical anguish. The doctors
whom I sent to attend her said 1t was
doubtful if she could live.
Thanks to the generosity of Eng
land, France and Holland about 100000
of these poor refugees have found
haven. But there are millions of 9TH
ers destitute and 1 have come to
America to plead their cause.
Il have come to the United States be-
cause it is the only nation where rea-
son and human kindness exist today.
On the other side the delirium of war
has sieZed us all. liberation, equanim-
ity, reason no longer have any mean
ing for us. We cannot read book,
look vt beautiful pictures or take
pleasure in music. The primal instincts
dominate. Our only delight is in hear
ing of terrible slaughter among our
foes.
Your sympathies and pity go out to
the people of all the nations in strug-
gle -convulsed Europe. but 1 think you
have particularly tender spot In your
hearts for Belgium-she who has de-
Tended her honor SO heroically. You
Americans are the warmest-hearted
and most generous people in the world.
To you only can Belgium turn in her
distress to bind up these wounds and
to aid in the gigantic work of recon-
struction.
you are happy in the possession OF
peace, the greatest and rarest blessing
in this earth today. From your lofty
throne of honor and justice consider
us. a ravaged nation. Think of the
glorious part that will be yours to
stretch out your hand in charity and
brotherly love to help up your little
sister," to give us encouragement, con-
fidence that there is such thing as
justice and love among nations. to in
vigorate us. to rebuild our homes, to
till our fields again, to give birth to
another nation Of men to glory in the
kingdom their fathers are dying in
the trenches to defend.
THE civilian population of Belgium
is starving and dependent entirely on
your charity. The poorest among you
in the United States has a home. AS
you gaze on your children think Of the
poor children of Belgium and the an
guish of their mothers, who have no
food to give them, no home to shelter
them from the very severe winter that
is now sweeping with icy blasts. scat
tering the scarcely cooled ashes OF
their once happy homes.
MY country must stretch out to you
the strained hands of these distracted
mothers begging bread from you to
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Justice for Piscataway.

A GOOD deal of mail comes to the
6A Rambler, much of which is of
kindly and encouraging tenor. Most of
the correspondents ask for information
concerning old settlers and old homes
in the District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia, and some of the corre-
spondents give information Now and
then comes letter of an unusual kind.
A few Sundays ago the Rambler
wrote of the very old hamlet of Pts
Getaway, a place about fifteen miles
south of the Eastern branch, which DR..
Hurt, the oldest resident there. and
perhaps the Oldest practicing physician
in the country around Washington.
told the Rambler lis foresaken by
God and forgotten by man. or, his
words may have been forgotten by
God and forsaken by man. 1t was
a good many years ago that DIR. Hurt
used that phrase to the Rambler, and
not very many changes seem to have
taken place in the little old village
since.
The Rambler has dug in to the his
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ELpBRookE CHURCH AT TENLEYTowN.

vile, where LEnfant, the architect of
Washington's system and beauty, lived
and died and where his bones rested
until their removal to Arlington three
appointments L'Enfant took up his
residence with Thomas Digges, who
owned the large estate of Warburton
along the Potomac and extending up
Piscataway creek, and on a part OF
which estate is now Fort Washington.
That Digges dying, L'Enfant removed
to the home of Thomas Digges neph-
ew, as the Rambler remembers the
relationship, Dudley Digges, who own
ed the estate which is still called
Green Hill.
There LEnfant died, and his grave,
with several others, laid in the garden
not many yards from the great brown
stone house and under a mat of myr-
tie shaded by solemn cedars. The
Dgges house, which the Rambler has
now known ever so long as Green Hill,
was also called Chillum Castle Manor.
In the Library of Congress the other
evening the Rambler was resting after
a thirty or forty miles stroll for facts
and he came upon this interesting
advertisement in the National Inte1li-
gencer of October II. 1924:
"MarshaTs sale: BY and in virtue
of three separate writs of fiery facias
issued from the clerks court of this
District for the county of Washington,
to me directed, / shall expose to public
sale and to the highest bidder Monday,
the twentieth day of September next,
for ready money, all the following de-
scribed land and premises; viz, all that
part Of a tract of land called and
known by the name of Chillum Castle
Manor, sieZed and taken in execution
as the property and estate of William
Dudley Digges, and will be sold to
satisfy debts due to Joseph Parker
and James Campbell, use of G. G. and
]. Brent, Elisha Riggs and George
Peabody, and George Hoffman, as
signee of William Brent. Sale to take
place at IL moon, at the county court
house. Tench Ringgold. marshal, Dis
trict Of Columbia"
Following this was a supplementary
advertisement reciting that:
'The above property has been sur
veyed and divided into lots containing
from fifty to 100 acres each with a
due proportion of woodland attached
thereto. 1t will be sold entire or in
lots to suit purchasers.
"The sale of the above described
property, lands and tenements is post
poned until Thursday, the 21st day of
October next, on which day it will
take place at the county courthouse
at IL noon. Tench Rnggold."
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More Facts About Sharon.

THE Rambler, in the story of his
y visit to Sharon, which was half
century ago the home of Commodore
Thomas Ap. Catesby Jones, United
States Navy. and which stands back
from the Georgetown and Leesburg pike,
about four m les west of Chain bridge,
interrupted his narrative at point where
he was relating series of condolences
which impressed upon him the fact that
this is a little world.
In the cemetery of the Presbyterian
Church at Lewinsvile he came upon the
grave of Parson Maffitt, who opened his
home, Saona, to President and Dolly
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TENLEY HOUSE.

year.
And that is the pretty story of Gloria
Point.
Just below where the River road en-
ters the Rockville road the Murdock
Mill road enters the River road. SO that
there is quite. cluster of road juno
tions close to the site of the Tenley
house. The intersection of the Murdock
Mill and the River roads is marked by
a neat frame church-Eldbrooke NJ. f.
Church-and at the rear of this church
cemetery, where many of the people
of the Tenleytown neighborhood rest
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CQNgTR

L VandeNe This Country and Canada Raise Funds for Relief of the
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Sale of Chillum Castle Manor.

s1r HE RAMBLER has written several
u long stories in the course of ten or
fifteen years about Green Mill, the Digges
farm on Northwest branch near Hyatts-
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tory of that naturally beautiful region
around Piscataway and has told of the
old plantations and their owners, the
old roads. churches and taverns: He
wrote of the departed glories of Pts
GATEWAY, which glories he hopes may
come again. and of the present quiet
that has come upon the place He has
told the story of the little Catholic
there in 1888, and rebuilt a few years
ago. and of the graves and monuments
in the churchyard. He has told the
story of the site about three or four
stood before the congregation settled
on the present location in the village
of Piscataway.
Soon after the publication of the
Rambler's recent story of Piscataway
he received the following letter:
'In your paper of November 20, 1914,
I note your Rambler gets in his work
on Piscataway. Md. We of Piscataway
do not question his article as being a
bit of antique history, but we do ques-
ton the right of any newspaper to
tell only part of a story and leave
all it's readers believing the entire has
been given in full Your Rambler takes
fe wpictures of it's most dilapida ted
part of our town to prove his store
of information is true leading the pub
lie to think we were thing of the
past
"Why did your Rambler take such
snap judgment? Why did he not take
a fair estimate of our little village
and if it was worth writing of tell the
outside world that we were still alive
and show some of the pretty new
homes that have recently come into
existence?
1--WE have as good homes, as good
land. as good people and as prosperous
section as any dead village can
boast of.
II have read your paper for some
nineteen years and did not believe it
would be guilty of SO gross an in
justice upon a poor suffering public as
to try to kill the only PiscataWay in
existence. Send your Rambler back,
tell him to give the sign, he shall be
fed. We will see that he goes back
filled with that which makes a man
feel inclined to do justice by his fell
lowmen. He will not have to visit
the graveyard to see who lives here,
nor will he find that a man has to die
here to get his friends opinion of
him.
Come up to DR.. Horace Edelen's old
sides a tomb. Believing that you are
harm us, l beg to remain one of many
of the same opinion in old Piscata way"
The Rambler means to accept the in
vitation extended by mis- kindly cor
respondent, and to examine the new
houses in Piscataway as well as to
sample some of that beguilinE stuff
limited at in the letter.
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been written. We will need at least
$1,000 600 month for at least eight
months, and even at that many will
die of starvation before your charity
can reach them.
with her cities burned. her fields
devastated, her country denuded of
trees. with here and there a burning
house the only landmark, the Ger
man government has levied an enor-
nous tax upon country overrun
through no fault of it's own, and to add
to its already great distress has COM
mandeered all of the food. Even those
who have a little money left can buy
no food, for there is none to be bought.
Every dollar which you give will
serve to prolong human life if you will
only sent it now. 1t is not charity for
the poor; it is a cose of feeding the en-
tire population of Belgium. For the
seven millions of non-combatants there
is but a few ounces of -four per head
between them and starvation. The prob
lem confronts you. England is already
overburdened Americans must feed
the Belgians through this winter or we
perish. Never was an emergency so
great"
Mime. Vandervelde described Belgium
as it was before the war, with popula-
tion of 100000 prosperous, industrious
people. She told of it's coal mines, giving
glass works, it's quarries Of marble, slate
and gsanite it's many manufactures.
She told how the industry Of the people
had made fertile the low, sandy soil
lying between Ostend and Client. She
spoke of the forests and many towns
celebrated for their beauty OF archi-
lecture She painted beautiful word
picture of Belgium before the war, the
sun setting on busy industrial towns and
fields of popp:es and grain.
1.-The sun now falls on heaps of slain."
There was a catch in her rich contralto
voice, and she faltered perceptibly.
August 13 last saw Louvain, of which
we now speak only in the past. Motor
cars were dashing through the town, and
the inhabitants were quiet and peaceful.
Who could have foreseen what would
happen in less than fourteen days? The
beautiful Church of st. Peter, dating
from the sixteenth century; the churches
Of st. James and st. Gertrude. and others.
dating all the way from the thirteenth
century the university and library, with
countless priceless volumes and rare
manuscripts-all destroyed!
1T has never been proved that either
in Namur or in Louvain did the inhabi-
tants shoot at the invaders. Even IL
such were the case, would that justify
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tee or to help one already organized
And no place has yet failed to respond
most generously. Do you wonder that
j love Americans when I see their in
tense feeling. so practically proven, for
the suffering women and children of
Belgium! DO you wonder that I am
eager to get back and put new heart
into my people by telling them the
fountain of love that 1 have found
bubbling forth for them in America?
How long / shall remain here de-
pends on the needs of my country, and
the continued generosity of the Amer
lean people. The present need in Bel
gium is colossal but the American
generosity is even more colossaI-that
is the only word ! can find to express
the measure of your giving.
You must not fail us now. There
were no crops sown in Belgium this
year; our food and cattle have been
cOnf1scated: we have nothing on which
to live during the entire winter and
until new crops can be planted and
harvested. If aid from America should
cease l am fearful that the civilian
Population made desperate by starva
tion. would throw reason to the four
winds and revolt against the German
occupants, and that frightful massa-
ere, a blot on history, would result.
1t is for Americans to avert this crime,
this determination of a people already
tortured by all the torments of an un-
just war that has been brought to them
without the least provocation on their
part.
II was in Antwerp when the first
Zeppelin came dropping bombs. The
noise was terrible as they burst, kill
ing women and children. There was
evidently some one in the airship who
knew Antwerp well, for the missiles
fell near the royal palace, where the
king and queen were with their chill
dren. They also fell near the two
hotels where the government was
quartered. and near where large guam
struction they brought was terrible,
and came without the least warning.
The city was not under siege and we
had received no notice that it would
be besieged.
During the bombardment of Ant
werp l saw terror-stricken families
whose fathers. brothers and sons had
been killed, becoming separated with
out any means of finding one another
again. You should have seen, as l saw
the poor people coming into Antwerp
with their heads bent as though the
burden of their loss and grief were toe
heavy to be borne, leaving all they had
In the world behind them, fleeing from
their burning cottages into cities. only
to be driven later from places like
Malines and Antwerp by the shells and
bombs of a relentless foe.
IL was touching to see how the poor
neighbors helped each other. ] spoke
TO one woman seventy-three years Oi
age who had walked all night and
saw young girl of fifteen with cur
vature of the spine who had gotten out
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pioneer had that name or that any In
dians fought or lived at Gloria Point,
and there was no reference to 1t in
Braddock's Orderly Book, which men
tions large number of places along
the route Of march from the Potomac to
the Ohio. When the Rambler wrote the
story of his walk to Murdock's mill
he mentioned the mystery of Gloria
Point and soon after received the fol-
lowing letter from a lady in George
town:
X j.
Dear Mr.. Rambler: have been away
and on reaching home am bringing my
perusal Of The Star UP to date. I al
ways read your articles in Sundays is
sue. and in one you speak of the coun-
try west of Tenleytown, beginning at
Gloria Point. You wonder why it is 30
named. From Miss Gloria Hunt, the
daughter of the place. In casting
around for a name for the pretty and
conspicuous situation of her home
Mrs. Hunt decided to name it for her
daughter. Mother and daughter lived
there alone. and may be there yet. I
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RR@AVE us or we perish! All is
OOS lost but honor, The American
Nj people alone can save Bel
gium from determination. 1t
is this great, freedom-loving, generous,
peaceful people who can best sympa-
thize with us in having lost all that is
dear to them. By giving of their plen-
T. they can keep alive our women, to
be mothers of the new Belgium that
must rise Phoenix-like from the ashes
Of our homes and temples
This is the appeal brought by Nine
J.alla Nandervelde, wife of the Belgium
minister of state, and il has touched
the hearts of all the people of the
Cnted States. She is touring this
country and Canada to arouse the SYM
pathies of the American people and
provide food for the starving of Bel
isium.
She pleads particularly for the ba-
bies OF the devastated nation that has
been called the little sister of the
world" She pleads for the preservation
OF the women of her country who must
have sons to replace the manhood of
the country who are now falling vic
TINS of mans inhumanity to man.
Long personal friend of King AL
bert, sent by him to plead for his peo-
pie, has come this cultured, beautiful
woman, garbed in mourning for the
sacking and massacre of her people,
who never before this mission had
made public speech. She sways thou
sands by the intense pathos of the
story OF suffering and need she SO sim
ply tells.
She is truly a cosmopolite-born in
England, educated in France and Ger
many, married to a Belgian, ardently
in love with America.
Il love America and Americans she
says. You Americans are ingenious
and clever. The wealth here is mar
velous. The women here are more re-
spected and better treated than any
where else in the world. was told
that I would get sympathy in America,
but little money. How differently it
has turned out. In scarcely two months
j have been given much more than a
quarter of a million dollars. 1t has
been given spontaneously.
The other day l received a check for
$500 from Virginia. I had not spoken
there and the donor is quite unknown
to me. l had one workingman come
onto the stage at one of my meetings
and turn over his bank book to me--he
gave me $3.50, all that he had. wait
er gives me tips he has been saving for
"A long time. Chauffeurs give to me
prodigally. The employees OF one de-
partment store gave me more than
= $500. This is how the people are touch
ed by the sorrows and distress of my
countrywomen.
II go somewhere to start a commit
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24
ANNOUNCEMENT

Wednesday and Thursday of this week Lihby's Milk will be demon strated at this store to prove that this brand is unequalled by any other brand on the market. This milk needs very little advertising as when once tried if then advertises i'self as much better results can be- attained in all purposes by its use. As whipping cream it has no equal; for all purposes in general it is better, and this good ness stands out pronounced by the comparison of pouring a portion ot Libby's into. a portion of any other brand-notice how the rich creamy substance distinctly stands out against the other Try it in your coffee and notice the vast difference of betterness and then in your cooking, notice the greater efficiency that is attained by its use. and then when once given a i fair trial, you will be an ardent sup porter ever after. Investigate this at
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 The Quality Store.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24

But four of the city dads answered to the roll call at the council meeting last night and the small attendance which has now seemingly become GUS tomarv, resulted in several important matters being again laid over to the vague and distant future. Mayor Dia- mond. Councilmen Thompson, Ross and Blake were the only members on hand and the business of the meeting was decidedly brief After the reading and approval of the minutes, a communica tion from the Western Union Telegraph Company asking the payment of forty-four cent undercharge on a mes sage sent to Delegate Wickersham by former Mayor Grigsby in 1914 was read but no action was taken. A petition signed by fifty-five property owners be changed from September first to November first was read and also passed up. This document stated that the signers were willing to pay a two per cent levy on real property In the event that 1t was assessed at something near the actual value. The Council were also adjured to fix the value of personal property at somewhere near
 it's actual value" Thompson reporting fo, ho Err arI .to to1 that the fire department had responded to one call, on Aug. 21 The fire was in a cabin near B street and had been extingufshed with the chemical The damage was about fifty dollars. Chair man Ross of the Streets, Alleys and Lights committee reported that he had
 Investigated the petition for a light at the corner of Kings Way and Hogan's Alley and requested another week be- a section of the townsite for building the Snake River bridge, also an ordi- nance to impose and collect tax from
 inherent merchants and vendors were given second reading and laid on the table until there was better atten- dance of the city representatives. The Ross resolution changing the date of the annual property assessment was also read and laid over. The City Attorney suggested that the ordinance relating to the taxing of itinerant vendors had best be handed over to the Law and Ordinance and Finance committee for 'heir consideration and the matter was % disposed of by order of the Mayor Claims and accounts against the city in the sum of s54S.47 were read and on motion of Thompson and Blake. war rants were ordered drawn for all labor bills and the same to be paid There being no further business, Councilman Thompson moved that the council ad- journ.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24

NJ. J. Mcdonald returned from his quartz claims on Gold Bottom last eve ming and reports that he eJnsen-Con- nolly mill is closed down owing to lack of water as the mill is run by water power. The owners are now engaged in building a ditch which will provide an ample supply at all times. The re- suits of operations are said to be ex- cellent McDonough himself has been doing development work on his own properties and states that things are looking good
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24

Messrs. Carleton. Mayer and Reed.
 Van Sickle and l.. Kerr returned from a week end fishing trip on Nome river Sunday evening and brought back fine lot of fish as a result of their endeavors. Several of the party were out since Wednesday and found good fishing from Nome river bridge
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24

If you want to see the sights of Coney Island and at the same time witness a roaring comedy don't miss "Cohen's Outing" at the Dream tonight. Besides this Keystone scream a good all star two part drama, "The Green Eyed De- vii" and a one-reel drama "A Senti- mental Burglar" will be projected. This is a good show tonight and will give universal satisfaction.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24

The Flyer departed for Solomon shortly before eleven this morning with the inland mail, beef for Council and the following passengers: Gene Win ter. J. Jacobson. owners of the Augusta c. who is en route to Safety and one other whose name could not be ascer- tained. The vessel will return this evening and will leave for the east again tomorrow morning at ten.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-24
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