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Chapman and Pye lands evidently
joined. Craney Island is laid down on
the old plat as Grain Island" and il
was body of land, apparently about
ten acres in extent. whereas now 1t Is
a tiny speck Of land on which a few
bushes seem to find precarious footing.
X
The deed from Robert Mason Of st.
Marys county to Edward Neale "of
Charles county, Gentleman" was dated
June IA, 1892. and was witnessed by
Walter Pye. Robert Hanson, jr., and
Benjamin Duglass. The consideration
ener's patent to this land was from that
Charles Calvert. who became governor
in 1862. The patent is dated 1873. and
it's issuance was directed by Cecilius
Calvert. father of Charles. 1t is Curl
Gus document, and is hard to follow in
it's verbiage. 1t recites that Luke
Gardener, patentee from Cecilious Abb
solute Lord and proprietary OF the
province of Maryland and Avalon, lord
baron of Baltimore. hath due unto him
$50 acres of land within our said prov
ince, being part of a warrant for 1000
acres Of land granted the 18th day of
May, 1868, as appears upon the record
and upon such conditions and terms as
are expressed in our conditions of plan
tation under our greater seal of Armes
bearing date at London the I'd day of
July in the year of our Lord 1649. with
such alterations as in them is made by
our declaration bearing date the 22d
day of September, 1858" The metes and
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Are Race Horses Set to
Their Tasks Too Young?

an earlier stage than other horses.
horsemen are almost unanimously OF
tho opinion that he docs not reach ma
turity until he is three years old. and
that at two years old his bones are
still soft and in the formative state.
One distinguished horseman has SAID:
The skeletons of such of the famous
English race horses as have been ex-
amined show the crushing effect on the
spinal processes of weight-carrying at
tender ages" Only about one-half or
the horses that start racing at two
years old are running when they are
four years old.
Capt. f. B. Cassatt of the Chester
brook farm, Berwyn, Pa, has given it
az his opinion that racing is necessary
for picking out the best individuals 10
continue the breed and for eliminating
the unworthy. but we should not elm
mate blu such drastically destructive
means when little more time gwen
the young horses would save so many
useful ones to the breed" capt Cassatt
presented to the Jockey CLUB the ioi-
lowing proposed amendments to IT'S
rules:
No horse foaied in 1915 thereafter shall
run in any rance before April Of his iw"-year-
old year. under penalty Of thereby disquaii!ylas
himself for all races under these rules nnth after
December 81 Of his two-year-o old year
On September 8. 1913. the Jockey Club
passed the following resolution:
That the members of tho Io key Cluh approve
in theory the ahaye amendment TO the rules OF
racing, and that the chairman of ihe Jockey tlun
he api,ointed n sommiricr Of one 10 a"t with full
mower and to arrange for mect ne with rep
resrntafive Of equal power from the kentucky
state racing commission and the Canadian Rae
in; Association. and tina; an Effort be made 10
bring about an agreement ON the early racing OF
two-ycar -olds.
The course of the war has prevented
the subject of the racing OF Young
horses from being adjusted. and the
number of hcrsemen who believe that
Thoroughbred should not he set 10
racing until his third year scen:3 TO be
Increasing.
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not the diplomatic explanation of the
circumstance. but ii IL the true one.
Ncihlhai!N, ne allies acted under the
lf-ple afrahse!nent of three quarters
OF century age. by which England.
france ana Russia guaranteed Greek
ihaependence ;Wi,hstandng the
neroi'm of Marco BoZaris and of the
creeks OF whom Byron sung. Greece
got her Independence from Turkey
Only through the action of the great
lowers Sh+ has been able to maintain
II ohiy through their support.
When, in the 9os. she undertook
war against Turkey and suffered hu-
initiating defeat. the great powers in
'efHenea and Kept Turkey from again
"isihe1hhef.ng Greece That was a case
IN which the victor got no spells Of
war whatever. How far the present
government at Petroerad was con-
suited In the course taken by England
ana france IN exiting Constantine and
,ne 'ioWh prince is not likely to be
.s''osed- but in the future whatever
soHeThment there may be in Russia
",l' nave a deep interest in Greece.
!, Would he a rash prophet who would
ut'ueriahe 10 say at this time what the
outcome of the Greek situation will be.
- rev years hence there may or may
,iot ne Creek republic. with former
lleHuef \enizelos as president. STU
tents OF Greek character think there
WIN not be such republic. or II there
Is mat the greatest Grecian statesman
Of his day will not be president of it.
=, Is certain, however, that whether
mere De republic or monarchy there
WI not be the greater Greece that was
dreamed of by Nenizelos and ms col
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the great mansion on the heights. called
Arlington.
The Glymont section between Pomon-
key creek and Mattawoman creek was
once called CORVALLIS Neck because of
the grants to Thomas CORVALLIS. and
that part Of CORVALLIS Neck in which
Grimes Ditch or Mount Avantine is sit
uated was oflc!ally known as Pomonkey
Hundred.
the inhabitants of Pomonkey Hundred
were enumerated by Constable W. Nc
Pherson. and Pearson Chapman was
living there at that time. In the cen
Sus of 1890 there were various heads
Of families Chapman in Charles county,
but Pearson was not among them, hav-
ing died between the dates mentioned.
Grimes ditch descended TO Pearson's
son George. who also married into the
Alexander family. the maiden name of
his wife being Susan Pearson Alexan-
der. tho same name as that of his
mother: but the second Susan Pearson
Alexander was a daughter of Charles
Alexander OF Preston. very old home
on hilltop overlooking the city of
occupied by a descendant of the Alex
ander and Chapman families.
The son of George Chapman, who in
herited this place. was Pearson tsec-
ond) Chapman, and he married Sigts-
munda Alexander. daughter of DR..
Alexander of Effingham- Effingham, as
the Ramblers memory goes. being in
Fauquier county. The Rambler at this
moment Is uncertain as to whether the
place next passed to John Seabury
Chapman or to DR.. Nathaniel Chapman
but his understanding is that the last
OF the direct line of Nathaniel Chap
MANTLE purchaser. was DIR. Nathaniel
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der Cumming and Isaac Greenleaf The
area OF Crimes Ditch is given as $50
acres. Edward Neale. the vender. is
described as Of Queen Annes county.
Province of Maryland. and Nathaniel
Chapman is described as OF Stafford
and dingy deed witnesses that "in con-
sideration of 200 pounds sterling money of
Great Britain and also the sum of 500
pistoles'' Neale sells to Chapman 'all
that tract of land lying in Prince Georges
county. but formerly being in Charles
county. which Luke Gardener. late of st.
Mary county, deceased. sold and by his
Mason. late of st. Marys county. de-
ceased. who by his last will and testa-
ment devised the same unto Robert
Mason Of ST. Marys county, who by deed
bearing date of the 14th day of June.
A. D. 1882. conveyed and sold the same
TO Edward Neale. party to these presents.
called Grimes Ditch. beginning at
called st. John valley. the northernmost
bounds of the lands of Capt. Thomas
CORVALLIS together with an island
about half a mile distant from the said
land, and now laid out for $50 acres more
or less, with all rights and title to said
land, with all houses. orchards. pastures
fences. woods, fields. timber or timber
trees
The island mentioned in the deed is
that little islet supporting ciump of
Shrubbery which now stands far out in
the river and is laid down on the maps
today as Craney Island. In connection
with the first Chapman deed is plat
Of the land and the island Grimes
Ditch extended from Pomonkey creek to
about the Glymont wharf. which was
long years ago Pyes landing. and the
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Chapman. who sold the place 10 his
wife's sister, a Mrs. Boykin. and the
Roykins sold Mount AvaEtine to l. r.
Smoot OF Washington. the present
owner Of this beautiful and historic
property.
On the lowland. nearer the river shore
than the foot of the ridge on which the
mansion stands. is a burying ground.
Out Of the tangle OF vines rises VEN
cradle cedar In this shady. quiet place
are many graves but the only tomb
stones that remain are those inscribed
as follows:
Pearson Chapman. Born Sept. l. 1903. Died
MAY 10. 1877.
Our Moth.r-S NJ. Chapman. consort Of Peas
hon Chapman. Died June s, 1870. Aged az years.
John s. Chapman. Died Oct. 20. 1sAl. Aged
- years.
man. Born Nov. Is. 1880. Died March y. 1874.
1t may be that there Is an older ceme-
terry Oh the Mount Avantine property.
but 1t was in the vicinity of this ceme-
terry that the house occupied by the
Chapmans before the building Of the
present mansion stood. 1t was a long
and broad frame house. and and half
stories high, with dormer windows. The
mansion which one sees today was built
by Pearson Chapman, son of George
some time in the 40s.
DR.. Nathaniel Chapman. the last of the
Chapmans Of Mount Arantine, who sold
the property. married his cousin, Mary
Chapman. Their children we're Ridgely.
living; Mary, married and living in New
York; John, dead; Emma, now Mrs. John
Mitchell Smoot of lower Maryland:
Helen, now Mrs. Wynne, living in New
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~ NE of the important objections to
III horse racing as conducted at
present, where hors. racing is
permitted is that the horses begin
their racing careers too young. Men
who are interested in the general inn
movement of American horses say that
thoroughbreds have their serious train
ing begun while they are too young.
and that they are put to the strain OF
racing while they are immature. me
result of racing immature horses IS
that they are stunted or ruined There
are many men who believe that any
horse or every horse is the better for
having in him strain of the thor
oughhred, and that the racing OF two
year-olds ruins many horses that might
become brilliant race horses and ruins
thousands of horses that would be OF
great service in improving American
horsehcsh for many classes OF Work;
and especially in improving the nree9
of horses for use in the cavalry and
artillery.
1t is pointed out that in forcing thor
oughbreds to train and run races al 100
early an age. they are. if they ran 10
become successful race horses, TOO
small and generally broken down to be
useful for other purposes. especially so
for breeding. The practice is 10 SCI
thoroughbreds to racing at two years
old. The distance they have TO run
NAV he short, but the strain of training
and of racing Is SO great that only
certain percentage are equal to 1t. and
develop into horses that have pros
pect OF winning races. The 'twe-year-
old" is often not two years old when
he begins to race. He is usually born
between the middle of January and the
middle of May. and the AVERAGE date of
the birth of race horses is in March.
But on he following New Year day he
is officially one year old. and on the
next New Year day is two-year-old
for racing purposes His active train
ing hesins when he is about seventeen
months old.
Though the thoroughbred natures at
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figure in embassy drawing rooms, yet
this apparently useless and futile young
man was now considered one or the most
brilliant members of the secret service
Older men at the game We're Won. 70
say of him that he trusted too much to
instinct and not enough to reason, but
even they admitted that he had Won
derful flair which up to now had never
failed him.
AS to Miriam his connection with her
was Of the simplest. A letter of intro
duetion from friend had landed him
at her husbands farm in Rhodesia. Rod
erick Lee was remittance man OF the
worst type. He did all the obvious
things-that is. drank. gambied and
knocked his wife about Brent who had
a genuine talent for friendship. pitisd
the lonely intelligence STRANDED IN IN
wilds as much as he did the iIi-used
feminine: and it was on loan from him
that Miriam Lee began life for herseir
as secretary to a member OF the ooueh
African government. Later sun, IN
case where woman OF charm was nee
essary. Brent recommended her to the
authorities as his collaoorator since
when she had been associated with MN
several times And il her FEELING ior
him went ever so little deeper than his
for her. when do these things ever
swing quite levele At any rate. both We're
filled with genuine satisfaction at work
ing together once again. and even
Molly's detection with Percy only LETT
Brent freer for the matter in hand
AS the morning wore on slight maze
came over the brightness. Nothing ap-
preaching mist but rather that fins
grayish blight which sometimes over
casts fine autumn day and behind
which the sun seems to be holding its
breath.
Molly had not vet come hack: Mr.. Poll
lock was playing golf with another Ike
unto himself whom he had picked up at
the clubhouse. Miss Myrtle was in her
room writing letters. a pursuit when
she always referred to as my corre-
spondence" and which she had INDUCED
until it had become a habit. Like most
unattached people. she felt she had to
expend a great deal of energy in what
she called keeping IN with her friends"
Mrs. Sanderson had gone TO the sta.
ton to change a library book and meet
her son. who was coming down for the
week end. Only fraulein knitted with
the Quiet persistency of a tricoteuse in
the French revolution. and Fritz. the
Dutch waiter, conversed with her as he
went in and out in the course of his
work The red brick gabled house 1.-THE
country round Eastermouth was OF the
residential" type. where red bricks
abound) glowed in the clear sunlight.
and the lawn and clustering trees
looked almost painfully green by con-
trast. A little distance from the house
itself showed the annex where the
maid servants silent.
(ro BE CONTINUED NEXT sunday
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~ HAPMASs POINT is an unobtru-
N sive headIand on the Maryland
II shore of the Potomac river well
~ known to all navigators of that
river. as well rs 20 a great number OF
landsmen. Following the winding
course of the Potomac. 1t is close upon
seven miles below Mount Vernon. 1t is
Il mile and n quarter below Hollis point,
made By the entrance Of Paruuukey
creek into the Potomac. 1t is trife
more than mile south by little east
of Hallowing point. the easternmost
part Of that large and irregular PENN
sula called Gunston Neck. whlSh Is
bounded on three sides by Pohick bay
and Gunston cove, the Potomac river
and by Belmont bay and Occoquan bay
1t is four and a half miles this side OF
Indian Head. Perhaps the older genera
ton of Washington people will under
stand the location of Chapn,ans point
more easily if they are told that it is
a mile this side of Glymont. 1t is eleven
miles west of the Popes Creek railroad
at White Plains and from the state
road which parallels the railroad from
its crossing of Mattawoman swamp to
the head OF Herrick swamp.
A (
summer green. rise from the river
shore. but at Chapmans point the river
shore and the crest of the ridge are
half mile apart. The slope OF the
river shore. a bit over quarter OF a
mile the land is fat and close to the
level of the river. while the crest or
the ridge is 10 feet above sea level
handsome
house of brick and stone. with high
and heavy outside chimneys and line
of dormer windows 1t is large
house of elegant architecture and pro-
portions and would attract notice in
Rambler would emphasize here is that
the outlook from this old house IS one
of the most commanding in this region.
In going down the river. after passing
course west and southerly to the Vir-
ginia shore and will pass close to the
wooded bluns of the Fairfax estate of
Belvoir. long known as THE White
building. which was one of the Fairfax
buildings. stands on the river shore.
Directly after passing Off the shore
from Marshall Hall you will, if you
look to the south and the weather is
clear. see a big house FIVE miles away.
There IS a wide green slope before it.
with woods as it's background. You
will keep this house in view until you
pass Chapmans point.
This house and the property sur
rounding IL constitute one of the in
teresting places about Washington. 1t
is the ancestral home Of the Chapman
family Of Maryland and which was one
of the numerous families of royalists
to settle in Virginia after the overturn
Of the House of Stuart by Cromwell.
In reaching this house the Rambler
left the steamboat at Glymont and
struggled along the hot. sandy and
pebbly shore for half mile. until he
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proud Of the fact that until the coming
OF Chris she had never allowed any one
to kiss her. Yet she was oddly con-
scious now Of the fact that her refusal.
instead of sounding noble, seemed
rather selfish. She looked apprais-
ingly at Percy, at his eager. anxious
face and his nice blue eyes. and It
was not entirely unselfishiness which
prompted the sudden upiifting OF her
cheek toward him.
All the way home she felt rather
wicked, but pleasurably aware OF the
fact that even il Chris We're flirting
entirely faithful. either. She won
dered whether Chris would mind IL he
knew, and hoped he would, but truer
instincts told her that he was much
more likely to call her a blessed in
FAINT and say he was glad she had been
able to do that much for poor old PEN
nicuik. 1t was probably this instinct
rather than any newfound wisdom
which made Molly eventually decide 10
keep the AFFAIR to herself
As may be seen, Mr. Brent counted as
something Of mystery in household
where everything seemed ordinary ana
open. as it did at Wave Chest. Yet his
history, if he could be said to have one.
was nothing out of the way except
that it reflected far more credit on
him than he would have admitted even
10 his intimates. No one at Wave Crest
was an intimate Of Christopher Brent.
with the rather notable exception OF
Mrs. Leland this although he was
supposed only now to have made her
acquaintance.
Deception such as this. especially
when practiced before young ana
hitherto trusting fancee. sounds as
though there may be something repre-
hensible to conceal. Nothing could have
been further from the truth IN the
case of Christopher and Miriam. They
were both OF that rare race which holds
work, and the idea behind it. to be OF
more value than anything personal.
They had first met when Brent was
taking a we'll earned holiday big game
hunting in Rhodesia. having just
brought to a successful conclusion the
delicate mission with which he had
been intrusted. Up till then he had
been a not particularly shining orna-
ment of the diplomatic service. He
came of a reasonably old though un-
titled Irish family. which perhaps was
why, although younger son. he was
not in the proverbially penniless CON
dition of his kind.
His real genius seemed to he for pri-
vate theatricals, and this it was which
gave a certain great man-who was
really extraordinarily intelligent for
member Of the intelligence department
the idea that Mr.. Brent could be some
use to him. That idea had been fully jus
titled. and though no longer popular
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Roth factors, II may be assumed, are
patriotic according to their lights. hut
the knowledge of their patriotism did
not help 10 clear up the confusion IN
the American mind.
On the part Of the Ameyican public
there VAS Amusement that King Con-
s;antine kept his throne SO long. Pos
s.bly full allowance was not made for
the fortcarance of the allies When
former Premier Venizelos. after unavail-
ing efforts to commit the government
TO war against Germany, started revo-
tuition. the assumption was that having
the backing of the allies. or at least of
ENGLAND and France. King Constantine
would he deposed without much trouble.
1t was assumed that tie mass of the
people were with NenizeIos and against
ROYALTY. Yet there was no Widespread
revolt. The king kept control of the
major part of the army and navy.
The NenizeloS revolutiouists We're
not able to establish central govern
ment at Athens. Instead. they set up
a provisional government at Sa!oiIiki
under the protection Of the Anglo
mands This provisional government
was recognized by England and France
aud IL. other "liies. but such recog,i-
lion did not enable them TO ignore the
existence of King Coastautine's gov
crUmcHt "a Athens.
After the VeniZelos provisional gov
errmcnt was in function. advocates of
a determined policy urged the allies to
take complete control OF the situation
aud Dust King Constantine. With their
fleets controlling every Grecian port il
was pointed out that this easily could
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be done. but the British and French
cabinets hesitated. 1t was whispered
that the car was not in favor of de-
friendly to the cause. of the allies. He
knew the danger of upsetting royalty.
although he may have had no fore
thought of the revolution which was to
upset his own throne.
Following the Russian revolution it
was intimated that King Constantine's
turn would come next, but the volatile
Greek people If they had such pur-
pose, We're slow to execute it. Conse-
quently, the allies. with the Thessalan
wheat crop in mind and with the ne
cessity of an unhampered military
campaign in the near east, came in and
acted for the Greek people. This is
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nounced for this assertion to be ac-
cepted.
The sharp division among the Greeks
of the United States as between King
Constantine and ex-Premier Venizelos
added to the confusion of those who
were sincerely anxious to form an i'm
partial judgment. The controversies car
ried on in the newspapers published in
the Greek language were transferred to
the English language newspapers. and
those who wanted to know the merits
of the dispute had the opportunity to
inform themselves. The most. however.
they could CLEAN was that one faction
held that King Constantine was a
traitor to Greece, while the other faction
maintained that Venizelos actually had
betrayed Greece and destroyed her future.
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struck a long disused trail through
dense woods and corn and tobacco
fields. which brought him out into the
grounds of the old house. TarrylnS
too long amid the memories and beau
ties of the ancient place, he wended
his way back to the river shore. only
TO see the boat, which had been to
leaving Glymont for Washington. The
case looked to the Rambler like a walk
TO the railroad. with the gloomy pros
pect OF not getting train until next
day. But as the steamboat came up
the river and abreast of the Rambler,
Capt. James Beach, whom everybody
on the river calls "Cap'n Jim saw him,
blew the whistle. turned around and
went back to the Glymont landing,
there to await his coming. The Ram
bier did a record piece of travelling
along that half mile of hot. sandy and
pebbly shore.
Chapmans Point takes its names from
Nathanie! Chapman. who bought the
property in 1850. Before that it was the
property of Edward Neale. Before that
it was the property of Robert Mason. 1t
had been the property of Robert Mason's
father, John Mason. who had bought it
In those remote days the property went
under the unpoetic name oftGrimes Ditch.
but by one of the later Chapmans.
probably by the builder of the grand old
house that stands there today, the place
was renamed Mount Avantine, which is
its name today.
The first Chapman deed to this prop
erty bears date OF October 81. 1850. and
was witnessed nv George Smart Alexan-
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erty bears date of October 81. 1850. and
was witnessed by George Stuart, Alexan-
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ISTRACTED Greece reappeared on
| NJ the screen Of the world war with
| ~ startling swiftness. For more
than . year the country has ap-