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who enlisted in the ranks with the ex-
press intention of winning a commits
sion. Commanding officers looked kind
ly on these men, and it was much easier
for them to win their way up than for
the genuine enlisted man. no matter
how clever or how good a soldier he
might be.
The only other case at all comparable
with Robertson's is that OF Gen. Sir
Hector Macdonald, the soldier WHO lit
orally fought his way up from the
ranks to a generalship and who was
admittedly one of the most brilliant
soldiers of his time. Macdonald might
have gone as far as Robertson had he
lived. but it Will be remembered he COM
mitted suicide in Paris, while on his
way home from Ceylon to face the court
martial The story goes that his
friends met him in his Paris hotel, laid
revolver on the table and left the
room. this being hint that there was
only one way out for him. However
that may be, il seems to be pretty well
established that Hector Macdonald was
found dead in bed the next morning, al
though to this day there are thousands
OF people who declare that there was
no corpse in the bed, and that the cof-
fin which was brought home to Eng
land day or two later contained moth
ing but lead. These people believe that
Macdonald chose to disappear and from
time to time he has been identified in
various forms by believers in the dis
appearance myth. During the Russo
Japanese war there were many people
who were ready to swear that Cen Nogi
was Macdonald in disguise. He was
discovered" also on the Russian side
in this war. and later he was said to
be reorganizing the Chinese army.
The Macdonald partisans even have
affected to find him in the present war
on several occasions. forgetful Of the
fact that he would now, il alive, be
almost past active command.
Robertson Is a genuine ranker. He
Is the son Of q farm laborer in Lincoln
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~ ETTINCi out 10 visit one of the
very old. if not, indeed. the old
est. house in the neighborhood of
W Washington, the Rambler walk
ed through a section of the country
long familiar to him, but of which he
has not hitherto written. The chief
settlement of the neighborhood is
Forestville, village that clusters
along. is scattered along, the Wash
ington and Marlboro road three four
miles southeast of the boundary of the
District of Columbia. Like 50 many
other villages. its boundaries are so
underlined that a man cannot know
just where and when he enters or
leaves the settlement. But the point of
fhickest population of this village is
at the intersection of the main road,
which leads from Washington to Up
per Marlboro. and a road which leads
from the stations Berry and Richie,
on the Chesa peake Beach railroad, to
Camp Springs or Redds Corners, on the
state road, or the old T. 3. road, which
leads from Washington by way of Good
Hope. Silver Hill and SUrrattsville to
La Plata and almost any other place
in southern Maryland.
Forestville is so called in memory of
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In the matter of the forests of Mary
land it is worth noting that MANY of
the early chroniclers comment on the
timber of the province, and especially
on the size and variety of the trees and
the freedom of the woods from shrub
by underground, many writers men
tloning the fact that man could ride
horse comfortably through the
woods. There is an early document
styled, AN Account of the Colony of
the Lord Baron of Baltimore, 1893"
which now lies before the Rambler
Clayton Colman Hall of the Maryland
Historical Society. editor of the MAR
rative of Early Maryland, 1633-16S4,"
more's colony is a translation from the
Latin original transcribed about the
year 1882 by the late Father William
McSherry, S. j., from the archives of
the Society of Jesus in Rome.
The Latin text of Father McSherry's
copy, together with an English trans
1ation. was published by the Maryland
Historical Society in 1874. In 1898 this
text was compared with the record in
the Jesuit archives by Father Thomas
Hughes. S. j., and several minor cor
rections noted. THE original docu-
ment," says Mr.. Hall, was prepared
some months before the departure of
the first colonsts. and in anticipation
of that event, and was written by
Father Andrew White, S. J. 1t was
transmitted by him directly, or through
the provincial in England to the gen
eral of the Society at Rome, the Very
Rev. Father Mucio Vitellesch, for the
better information of the latter as to
the nature of the new field in which
the writer was to be engaged. The
sources from which the facts were de-
rived are stated in the document itself.
George. the first Lord Baltimore and
father of Cecilius. the first proprietor
of Maryland, was in fact an eyewit-
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CAREER of Gen. Sir William Robert
~ son, Son of an Agricultural Laborer,
Who Began Life as Domestic Servant and
Is Now Sure of Elevation to the Peerage.
Served Ten Years in Ranks Before He Won
His Comnission-First Case of Kind in
English History.
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south of the Eastern branch, west of
the Patuxent and east of the Potomac.
The Forest" probably made it's last
stand. The northern part of the high
land forming the watershed between
the Potomac and Patuxent rivers and
the broken slopes of that watershed.
deeply cut by a network of brooks and
branches, was the last of southern
Maryland to come under cultivation. 1t
was the land farthest from the rivers.
These were the great main routes OF
travel until the coming of roads, and
the early roads generally paralleled the
rivers except those comparatively short
roads which ran down the various
'neckS"
The early road system of Maryland
has been exhaustively dealt with by
Dr. Clarence T. Gould. professor of
history in the University of wooster,
who undertook study of the economic
history of Maryland while he was as
sociated with Johns Hopkins uniVer-
sity. and who was aided in certain ways
in this work by Prof. John NJ. Vincent
of Johns Hopkins and Prof. Charles NJ.
Andrews of Yale University. Ihe re-
searches of DIR. Gould We're published
Hopkins University studies in histori-
cal and political science. Dr. Could
wrote that from the main roads there
came finally to branch off in every
direction vast number of loca! ROADS,
public and private, which led down
each neck peninsula between creeks
and rivers These roads formed a net
work without system or regularity.
Their design in the tidewater counties
was not to feed into the main arteries.
but merely to strike the shortest and
best route to the great objective polnts,
the church, the public landing, the
county court. and sometimes the mill
The extension of highways made by
the colony during the period between
1920 and 1855 was the source of much
of it's progress in other ways. NO es-
innate of mileage, says DR.. Gould, IS
possible. but successive enumeratlons
in the county court records leave no
doubt about the rapid opening of new
roads For example. in Queen Anne's
county the enumeration Of 1880 divid-
ed the county into nine overseers dis
tricts, while that of 1853 showed thirty.
The significance of these figures is
that in 1920 the colony was still Sc
ries of scattered settlements spread
along the water front with little COM
munication by land, while in 1865 it
had become community every part of
which was accessible from every other
part.
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in the army. except Kitchener himself.
must obey.
Like most men of his type. Robertson
is glutton for work. and hardly
knows what fatigue means. He is also
master of detail When he was
quartermaster general to Sir John
French, at the Aldershot command. in
the two or three years before the war
began, he made himself familiar with
every detail of provisioning. clothing
and generally catering for the army
He introduced lot of reforms, one
being what is known as the iron ra-
tion. the little package of condensed
food which each man must carry with
him, and which he must not touch until
the last extremity
What he learned then stood the army
in good stead in the early days of the
fighting in France and Flanders. Never
once during the terrible retreat from
Mons, and later during the pursuit of
the Germans to the present line did
the British army go short of food or
supplies. Robertson. who was chief
of staff to Sir John French, cut all the
red tape and got the goods to the
places where they were wanted. ON
one occasion a trainload of food ar
rived at a French port and was badly
needed at the front. For some reason
the transport officer said il could not
be loaded and dispatched that night.
Robertson heard of the delay. he
heard of everything, and motored to
the wharf.
Il am going to stay here until that
train leaves" he told the officer in
charge, land If l miss my supper you
back to England" Rob-
ertson did not miss his supper. and the
Tommies at the front got theirs in
time.
1t is said that he has no nerves. He
can work all day and all night for
days on a stretch, and he expects all
those around him to do the same. A
man who is not in the pink of physical
and mental condition cannot remain
on his staff. Off duty, however, his
friends declare that he is kindly, if
rather bluff, man.
when he thinks it is clogging the wheels
of efficiency, although no man is more
rigid in his advocacy of system in the
business of army administration. One of
the most quoted instances of this was on
the retreat from Mons, when officers and
men lost caps. overcoats, rifles and equip
ment of all kinds. Now the British army
regulations do not provide for hurried re-
treats and they do provide that Il man
cannot draw any fresh article Of equip
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shire. where he was born hfty-five
years ago. and his preliminary educa-
ton was received at the village school.
When he left school he worked In the
fields for a time. and then he had
great stroke of luck for one of such
humble. origin. He was received
into one Of the great houses in the
cen the military fever seized him. He chose
crack regiment, the 18th LaEcers,
and he must have made an ideal caval-
ideal of a dashing soldier. tall. well set
up and with an extraordinarily firm
chin and jaw. He had no one to help
him along. and he served in the ranks
bition was reused and he probably
foresaw that in his case the soldiers
knapsack really did contain the field
marshais baton. He began then the
study of languages and of military his
tory. both of which have stood him In
such good stead in his subsequent ca
reer.
IT is not necessarily surprising that
this laborer's son should be esteemed
the possessor of the most brilliant brain
in the British army, for brains are not
inherited. but it is surprising that with
his lack of educational advantages he
should be one of the most brilliant lin
gusts. His French. in fact. is said to
be better than his English. for, in spite
of his long association with men whose
early opportunities were better, his
English still smacks of the soil and the
barrack room. and possesses a fullness
and flavor that rather endear him to
the private soldier, and make him the
terror of the shirker and incompetent
among his officers. for Robertson's is
not the temper that suffers fools gladly.
Robertson's French is the purest
French of the Academic, and French
officers who confer with him always
come away exclaiming on it's excel
ical Briton acquired an accent of such
purity. He also speaks German with
easy fuency. and has good working
knowledge of Russian and Italian.
while there is hardly one of the scores
of Indian dialects in which he cannot
make himself understood. while in
many of them he speaks like native.
When he was chief of staff to Sir John
French in France during the earlier
stages of the war he used to delight in
visiting the Indian lines and talking
Familiarity with the sepoys and troop
ers about their homes.
After his ten years service in the
18th Lancers, now known as King AL
fonsos own" Robertson received his
first commission as second lieutenant
in the Sd Dragon Guards and was
sent to India He chose the Indian
service wisely, knowing that he could
not live on his pay in crack regiments
at home. and, moreover, at that time
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In outlining the oldest through cross
country road in Maryland DR.. Gould
wrote:
The most important roads in the province
were those forming the main line of travel be-
tween Philadelphia and Virginia. This route
divided in Delaware and entered Maryland by
branches One branch ran down the eastern
shore. The other branch of the road. from Della
ware, reached Annapolis around the head of the
bay. running past the head of Elk river to North
East. to Susquehanna ferry. near Port Deposit;
to JOppa TO Baltimore thence either across the
Patapsco. at Ferry Bar, around by Elk Ridge
and to Annapolis. A little way from Annapolis
the road again divided. one branch crossing the
Patuxent, at Queen Anne Town, and leading to
Upper Marlboro and Addison's ferry, opposite
Alexandria. and the other crossing the Patuxent
at Nottingham and passing through Piscataway
to the main ferry across the Potomac near the
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LONDON. March 20. 1916.
g~1ROM servant to head of the think
IA ing machine of the British
army IN the greatest war in his
q tory, with the sure prospect of
peerage at the end of the war. IL not
before. This is the record of Gen. Sir
William Robertson, who was recently
appointed chief of the general stan at
the war Office in London. and virtual
commandment chief of the British ar
mics. Since his appointment he has
taken over several of the duties for
merly performed by Lord Kitchener.
thus leaving his great chief freer to
devote his time to the work more prop
erly belonging to the province of the
civilian minister of war. for that is the
post which Kitchener. although the
greatest soldier of his day. is occupy
ing at present.
Robertson's rise to the very highest
possible position in the British army is
unique. There is case record of a
ranker attaining the highest command
in the British army, and only one 9TH
er case in which a ranker came with
In even measurable distance of it. Pri-
vate soldiers, it is true, have obtained
commissions before the great war, and
in this war hundreds of them have been
promoted to commissioned rank, but in
the old days few of them ever got
farther than the rank of major.
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reconnaissance. Requiring a sketch of
the enemy's position he handed his
sword to a native guide and crawled
forward. Suddenly the guide fired on
him with a double oarreled sporting
rifle. the charge from one barrel pass
ing through one sleeve of his tunic and
the charge from the other barrel pass
ing through the other sleeve, but with
out scratching him. Robertson dashed
FOR the man. firing with his revolver.
but the revolver damned and he threw
1t away and grappled with the traitor
and choked him into insensibility, but
not before he was cut over the head
with his own sword Two more native
guides made a rush for him, but before
they could reach him his Ghurka guard
arrived and rescued him.
X
He won the distinguished service or
der in this campaign and definitely at
tracted the attention of his Superiors,
chief among whom was the late Lord
Roberts, who formed very high opin-
ion of Robertsons ability. When the
South African war broke out it found
Robertson a captain, but his ability
as a linguist and strategist had been
recognized by this time and he was
made an Intelligence officer at head
quarters. He came out of that war
colonel, and then he did most amaz-
ing thing for a ranker officer, or, in
deed, for any officer of his seniority.
He secured permission to attend the
Staff College at Camberley, in order
that he might obtain the magic let
ters "P. S. CO. (passed Staff College)
after his name. and the right to wear
the red collar tabs which indicate this
distinction.
OF course, he passed brilliantly, for
there was little of the art of war that
the Staff College professors could
teach him, and most surprising thing
of all, he, ranker, a graduate of the
village school, was appointed director
of the Staff College in 1910. While he
was there he insisted on close study
of the various continental army sys-
TENS, and there is little doubt that
whatever success the British have
achieved so far in this war is due in
large part to the educational system
for staff officers instituted by this ex-
private soldier, at Britain's chief mill
tary training school.
By this time he was a ma jor gen.
eral, and in 1914 he became a lieuten-
ant general. He became a full gen.
eral last year. and he is probably next
on the list for promotion to the rank
of field marshal. In his present posi-
ton, however, his name is signed to
the orders which all the field marsRals
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Most of these, too. were what is
known as gentleman rankers." young
men of good family who had not either
the money or the ability to go through
the military college at Sandhurst, and
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The house and estate bear the name
Dunblane The name is compounded of
the Scottish words dun meaning hill,
and Blame" after the saint of that name
who in the seventh century erected a
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-30

who is past seventy and a veteran of
the Civil war, as he reached down
and drew forth an object from be-
meath the seat Of his wagon See
that gum"
The pickets fell back a step, for
the old man was patting the stock of
"a double barrelled shot2un which lay
across his knee.
Now then" continued the cid
dairyman, suppose you take another
look at those cans in the wagon
here. !"
Each container was draped nicely
with an American flag. Jaws dropped
in surprise.
WELL" pursued the farmer, "by
my reckoning, whoever tries to make
off with one of those cans desecrates
the American flag. l fought for that
flag in 81 and I'm fit and ready to
fight for it now. And if anybody
here doubts l mean what | say, let
him touch one of those milk cans
and I'll endeavor to make my mean
ing clearer-with the aid of this"
The old farmer patted the stock of
his shotgun again, but that demon
stration was lost on his audience,
which, indeed, was an audience no
longer, but an enemy detachment in
full retreat.
The above incident was reported
to William Burgess, treasurer of the
Standard Dairy by the companys
agent in Moravia. The agent did
not give the farmers name, but he
is one of three men who were the
only ones to thwart the leagues
pickets and reach the station with
milk. These are John David, James
Bates and Joel B. Jennings.
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dent and Treasurer; n ~
Vice-President, ]. E S T., ~
tary. Edwin Spencer SI IT,
ers' and ]. E. Sullivan, ni, y 0.
VI. Olrector,
to which this corporation iT ms
time subject itself sha, may a
Hundred Fifty Tbons" ali be
| 250,000.00). ''nd d
The names and reside.
subscribing incorporate Of
amount of capital stock snh and
each are as follows: 'uOscrlbS
Edwin Spencer, Jr 1,,
ida, 267 shares. Aeand
D. o. Rogers, Lakeland N
shares. riOfldt
! shares. i' oai
na -, W. NnoS W HEREOF, TN
hands and seals this 2Otb d.. w
Der, A. D. 1916.
Edwin Spencer, Jr I'd
, ID. o. Rogers
]. E. Sullivan
STATE OF FLORIDA y
COUNTY OF POLK
Before me the undersignAa
ty personally appeared Fdwi,
Ger, Jr., d. o. Rogers, and Ip
van, well known to me to u h. \
dividuals described in and We n.y.
scribed their names to and wh1
cuted the foregoing instrumsu.|
they separately acknowledge VI
ecution thereof to be thnir ~
and deed for the uses and N.Y.
therein set forth and expressed aiI|
IN WITNESS WHEREOF F''I II
hereunto set my hand and ofRoia|
lat Lakeland, in the County NJ
land State of Florida, this 2Otb 1
October, A. D. 1916.
| (Notarial SeaD
MAUDE D. POOL
Notary Public Safe Of Florjd
Large.
My commission expires jam,
1919.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-30
(Signed) park TRAMMEl

controlled by the Standard Dairy Co.,
of Gil East Twelfth street, New
York iCty.
On his way he was beset by a
party of five or six determined look
ing me n,who CURLY announced they
represented the league and that it
was thir business to see that nom
members abided by the organiza-
tons dictates and shipped no milk
to furnishing New York until the
city's distributors came to the
leagues terms
The old farmer expressed mild sur
prise and asked what they intended
to do with his milk if he wasn't to
take it to the station and sell it.
The league pickets replied his milk
would be dumped upon the highway
One of the number stepped forward
to execution.
Zone moment" said the farmer,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-30
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY
For LETTERS PATENT

The undersigned hereby give notice
that on the Goth day of November, A.
d. 1916, they will apply to the Honor
able Park M. Trammell, Governor of
the State of Florida at his Office in
the City of Tallahassee, Florida, for
LETTERS PATENT Incorporating
them, their associates and successors,
into a body polite and corporate un.
der the name of the MUTUAL FL
NANCE CORPORATION, under the
following charter and articles of in.
corporation, the original of which is
now on file in the office of the Secre-
tary of State, of the State of Florida,
at Tallahassee, Florida.
EDWIN SPENCER, Jr.
D. o. ROGERS
]. e. SULLIVAN
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-30
Governor Trammell
To Support All
Dem. Nominees

Governor Park Trammell, Demo-
cratic nominee for United States en-
ator, has ent a letter to Chairman
George P. Raney of the State Demo
cratic executive committee, declar-
ing he is for the nominees of the
Democratic ticket in Florida and
that he will be pleased to make one
or more speeches for the ticket if his
official duties will permit. In his let
ter Governor Trammell urges all
Democrats to stand by their party
which has made such a splendid rec
ord of achievement during the past
forty years in Florida.
The governors letter to Mr.. Raney
is as follows:
Hon. George P. Raney, Chairman
Democratic Campaign Committee.
Jacksonville, Fla:
Dear Sir-Answering your COM
munication of recent date, l beg to
say | am always ready to champion
the cause OF Democracy and to work
for the Democratic party, and, while
the official demands upon me at the
present time are numerous, l shall be
glad, if my official duties will per-
nit, to make one or more speeches in
behalf of the Democratic party and
the principles it advocates.
In President Wilson our party has
furnished the nation the greatest
president who has occupied the
White House for half a century. Dur
ing his term more good legislation
has been enacted than in any other
similar period during the history of
the republic.
Under Democratic administra-
tions for forty years, our own State
has been blessed with good govern
ment; and faithful administration
Of the public affairs. 1 feel that
there is every reason for Democrats
to feel proud of the splendid record
of achievements made by their party,
and to cause them to rally to the
support of it's nominees in the pres
ent campaign.
For the good of the nation and
the good of our own State, | trust
that every Florida Democratic will
go to the polls on Nov. z, and assist
in giving to our party nominees a
great victory.
"Yours very truly,
(Signed) park TRAMMELL."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-30
PROPOSED CHARTER OF THE
MUTUAL FINANCE COR
PORATiON

The undersigned hereby agree to be-
come associated together and do here
by associate themselves together for
the purpose of becoming body polite
and corporate under the laws of the
State of Florida, the provisions Of
which are hereby accepted.
The following articles shall consti-
tute and become its charter upon the
issuance of letters patent according to
law:
|.
The name of this corporation shall
be: MUTUAL FINANCE CORPORA.
TON. Its principal Office and place
of business shall be at Lakeland, Polk