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Prospect rock. pass through Darnse
place and walk across his side yard
Just before they, come to the piSa
barnes house. but George is good
natured and takes q very kindly in
terest in these amusing specimens 81
men who come out from the city TO
look for views. butterflies. buttercups
fiorid and healthy. came from Loudoun
county, where he married Miss
Crosen. His eldest son, Jack. Is
soldier at Camp Lee: young George
and Miss Virginia Lee barnes is be-
coming. II she has not already be-
come. one of the bellies of the Prospect
Hill region. Then two younger ladies
attend the carper Public School and
Hanley fnstructs and Of which william
Dodge is the superintendent
The carpers Of carper Hill were not
particularly strong Union sympathfsefs
during the civil war and had q good
deal of trouble. Philip W. carper
served in the 18th South Carolina Regf-
ment of volunteers and old Jim and Tom
Carper gave a good deal OF trouble to
the Yankees in that part OF Fairfax.
Early in the war Union pickets were
fired on near Dranesville. and Just
about that time and near the same
place Col. George Bayard Of the LIST
Pennsylvania Cavalry reported that he
and a party had been fired on. that
his horse had been killed and that
Assistant Surgeon Alexander and Pri-
yate Joel Houghtaling had been Sc.
verely wounded. A great roundup OF
Confederate sympathizers in that part
of the county was ordered. the ar
70 Adiutant General Biddle of Mccall's
Division by John Hawkshurst, who
said that three Of Mrs: Colemans
slaves had given him the information;
John Hawkshurst was a memoe H. .,
Fairfax county that met at wheeling
In the fall of 1861. He lived then In the
first house this side Of Lewinsville on
the road from Langley.
Among those taken in the round
up and lodged in old Capitol prison
were Thomas Carper. James Carper.
stephen Farr, Philip Carper. ellison
Jenkins, Samuel Jenkins, John Cole
man, DR.. William B. Day. Dr.; John
ginia Cavalry and A. NJ. Written Of the
same regiment. and Squire r. H. Gun.
nell of Great Falls. Kate Farr applied
to Secretary Seward for the release OF
her father on the ground that he was
loyal, and there was a long inquiry.
william Tyson of Langley. who had
been postmaster at Beach Grove, now
Tysons crossroad, testified that the
rebels had driven him from his ONCE
and that Farr was one of them. Nelson
Voorhees,. Nathaniel Hanery. Amos
Berdle. Thomas T. johnson. Daniel
Barden, Henry Bush and William
Waters testified that Farr was a seces-
sionist. Secretary Seward finally d.
rected William P. Wood. superintend-
emit of the old Capitol prison. to release
Farr on taking the oath Of allegiance.
and the Rambler believes that the other
men got out Of the old Capitol by tho
same route.
Mrs. Lydia Carper. eighty-four years
old, widow of Thomas Carper Of
Carper Hill. is living at Mclean. Va.
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A REPRODUCTION OF FIRST PAGE OF THE RATCHET.

opened tho entertainment season
aboard ship. Several hundred men and
officers watched the events from every
available spot and heartily cheered the
contestants.
I'm the evening a band concert was
put on, enlivening the boys. This was
followed by a rafting good series of
dance specialists had a chance to dis
tinguish themselves.
tuesdays program will open with a
band concert, 9:15 to 10. and another
where wrestling bouts viii be held at
1880. The band plays again at the
same place from to I, and In the even
ing from 8 to Z. The Ratchet will print
the daily programs twenty-four hours
The Ratchet. on April g. issued a spe-
ctal war anniversary edition of four
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pages. One item IL headed. 'The Day
We Commemorate" and is as follows:
"Now that we are fairly launched
upon our mission of emancipation and
our 'liberating lance goes flaming on
the way to France 1t Is well for the
whole ships company to give pause to
the days occupations and reflect upon
the Significance of what our country
undertook one year ago today and what
she has accomplished.
ELSEWHERE We print a scant half
dozen achievements. These are COM
mon property. arresting the eyes of the
world. Would we could tell of all our
newborn Army, all our alert Navy
have done these past months. These
are state secrets and cannot be re-
we can gauge the splendid spirit actu-
atinE both arms of the service. And to
see is to know that we are. indeed. an
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Carper School. Not far away over the
fields Is the farm of E. D. Phillips, the
father of Mrs. Tom Carper. His chill
dren are pretty we'll scattered. Bernice
is Mrs E. 1. johnson of Washington,
Annie is Mrs. Clyde Rector of Rector
town. Md: Willie married Miss Mary
Easton and lives at Spring Hill Sta
ton: Lura married Tom Carper and
Mary is now Mrs Lowe of Spring Hill.
In the same patch of country Is Ed
ward Shottroff's farm and the children
there are May. Sidney, Edwin and
Frances.
Jackson place. is George barnes home.
All the ramblers and wanderlusters
and Audubon people, etc. in Washing
ton, who get of at Jackson to go to
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rod there for some time, but not for
any other purpose than to point out
things on the blackboard.
on the south side Of the pike. OPP
posite the schoolhouse, is the home
Of Thomas S. Carper. son. grandson
and great-grandson of the Carpers Of
Carper Hill. He married Lura Virginia
Phillips Of the old Rappahannock river
family of that name. Tom Carper's
family is large one. His son Thomas
works at the Washington Steel and
Ordnance plant: Ida Is Mrs. P. s. Dali
ton Of Washington; George Wallace
Carper helps to run the farm: Miss
Bernice lives in Washington; Oswald
is a farmer. and Birdie and Oracle.
who go to Carper School. are particular
friends Of tho Rambler. Then there Is
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the great river opposite Scott Island.
which many of the natives call jack
sons Island, because that was its
name before the civil war. and which
many natives still call Turkey Island
because that was its name before 1t
became Jackson's Island. Along the
west side Of the hill flows Rocky run,
which rises near Pleasant Grove Church
and which, after bubbling and tuning
along for two and half miles. falls
that streams union with the Potomac.
something short of two miles this side
of Great Falls.
The sources Of Bull Neck run and
Rocky run are one mile apart and their
mouths are two miles apart. Not even
surveyor could give you the extent
of Prospect Hill. because its boundaries
cannot be determined. It's form is also
extremely irregular. the edges Of the
tableland being broken by draws" or
ravines in great number. And that
territory which is laid down on the
map as Prospect Hill is but q north
ward extension of the elevated table,
land Of north-central Fairfax county.
The picture portion Of Prospect Hill.
or that part which so many. rovers and
ramblers visit. extends from the line
Of the Washington and Great Falls
electric railway to a point half mile
north. where q succession Of rough
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plete success the whole-hearted paN
triotic cooperation of the state. county
and municipal authorities"
trucks for use Of the American trans
port service in France. The construc-
ton OF these trucks has been under
way for some time. Two of the espe-
cially- designed war trucks. when COM
pleted. Were driven to Washington, for
the inspection of President Wilson and
Secretary of War Baker. from their
Rochester. N. Y. These sample trucks.
as they were termed. were the result
Of the combined engineering genius Of
the greatest automotive engineers IN the
by the War Department. and quantity
production was begun. These are, the
trucks going across the country now.
These thousands Of trucks are being
United States far from the various
ports Of shipment. If they were shipped
by freight to tidewater their combined
weight and bulk would make serious
problem for the consideration Of the
committee on transportation. The
trucks average three tons capacity and
only two OF them can be shipped by
rail in a forty-ton freight car.
Fifteen thousand forty-ton freight
cars. or combined capacity of 600 900
ton for the railways at this time. But
there were also other reasons why Gen
Baker and the highways transport COM
mittee wanted these trucks driven
under their own power to the Atlantic
coast. They could carry loads of gov
eminent materials for the interior
storage depots and at the same time
train an effective corps of soldiers for
truck drivers in France.
THE transportation committee figures
that on one trip the 80. 900 trucks, actu-
ally carrying 10000 TONS would be in
reality carrying 690. 900 tons go far as
the relief ordered to the railroads was
concerned. for $4,000 tons of railroad
rolling stock equipment needed so des-
perately for the transportation of food.
leased. The freight cars otherwise tied
up In the transportation of the trucks
and in carrying the materials which
the trucks themselves might carry
could be used for other purposes.
In addition to the transport problem
itself, the quartermaster department
considered the highly important matter
of adequate training for the thousands
of military motor truck drivers needed
In the war. The department points out
that no matter how capable a man may
be in the operation Of commercial
truck at homo under peace time condi-
lions. he must receive weeks of addi-
tional Instruction and training before
he can become an efficient unit in the
highly, organised transport service
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- TOW good roads will aid military
ILL truck transportation and help
It'll solve the serious problem of
/. q q rail congestion and release
freight cars for grain and other sup
plies for the American Army and allies
in France has been clearly demon
strated during the last few months
when long trains of loaded military
motor trucks were seen numbering
along the public highways of the east
, lantic seaport where they were loaded
ron liners for the other side.
never been more forcibly brought home
to thousands of people living In the
more remote sections of the middle
west than it has been since these
khaki-colored. travel-stained. motor
transport service, bowling along the
country road or entering some sleepy
town, awakened the inhabitants to the
reality of the grimness Of II all. Many
of the civil war. when 1t was no I'M
usual sight to see long wagon trains
of war supplies, drawn by army mules.
traversing the country.
>.
These big land ships driven by SOL
diers in khaki. flying the Stars and
Stripes. never fail to receive q rousing
welcome as they enter the towns and
cities along the route. In many places
Boy Scouts form an escort, marching
by the side of the motors after having
done yeoman work in patrolling ofd-
cially designated routes. preparing the
way for the Army war trucks. These
miniature Paul Reveres," on hearing
of the approaching trucks, pass hur-
-riedly through village streets and with
shrill blasts of their bugles warn every
canteen at that particular place. but
the soldier lads are given hot conee,
sandwiches and the best the place
affords.
Up to March Is the United States was
100000 tons behind In it's program Of
loss in shipping corn or potatoes after
April !, when the period of termination
sets in, and the delay in shipment due
to the breaking down in railway trans
portation, wheat, which earlier in the
year had been given priority. had to be
sent abroad to avert famine. Food sup
plies in sufficient quantities are still
being delayed owing to car shortage.
The Army trucks. which have for sew
eral months been rushed to completion
by the thousands in a score Of busy
plants. will supplement and relieve the
overburdened railways The highways
transport committee of the Council of
will be ready. and the roads must be
kept in good condition for use. Such q
patriotic service as this call to the high
ways committees Of the states and coun-
ties will not only be helping Uncle Sam
to get the indispensable trucks'for sery-
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MERIcANs, whether they be
soldiers. sailors or civilians-at
n sea or on land have accus-
. toned Themselves to the daily

IN sea or on IAno- nave accuS-
q q toned themselves to the daily
newspaper to such an extent that they
are entirely lost without 1t. News of
the world in general and of the home
spot in particular is just as much a
part of the day as are the three meals
one Is about as important as the
other. and the loss Of either usually re-
suits in a feeling of discomfort. Ameri-
can newspapers are now being pub
lished in France for our soldiers. but
the newest form Of publication for
fighting men is written, printed and
distributed at seattle daily Ratchet
of an Army transport. the file for the
month Of April Of which has just been re-
ceived in Washington.
The Ratchet. which first appeared on
April 1. is never "scooped" on impor-
tant news items. It's news comes via
lacking in details. Special attention is
given to all phases of war news. which.
naturally, Is most interesting to the
soldiers and civilians carried on the
turned over to contributions Of pas
sengers-poems, stories and ship an
nouncements.
The first number Of the Hatchet con-
tains the following item under a head
ing, Help Wanted:
DO not think that contributions are
not wanted by the editors Of this pa
per? They are yearning for them with
the thirst of the desert. The. Jokesmith
Column begs for material. as also the
poet in his quiet corner. II what you
send does not appear in print, lay, 1t at
the door Of the censor-the dragon Of
pressdom: with every CLAW being its
own eraser. ink destroyer and black
smudges to delete. Do not mention
even the name Of the ship you are on,
the number or name OF your company
or regiment. or anything else a. mos
quito could get his hooks on. Like the
we'll known ballad. II you talk in
The Ratchet is forced to change Its
entire staff-editorial and composition
departments-auite often. and for this
reason the workers are not forced to
hold to q rigid stability Of policy. A
smile on shore might occur in a news.
paper which changed hands every cou-
pie Of weeks-a new owner. new edi-
torial force and new faces in the COM
posing room. However, the rules of
size and appearance OF the pa
per are adhered to and no radical
force sets to work. The newspapers
size is about ten by eight inches.
That amusements aboard ship receive
considerable attention Is shown by an
item headed. Amusement Season
'The bouts pulled or ON the after
hatch on Monday afternoon formally
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Writes of the Syhnd West of Washington, Prospect H

Is a wistaria vine growing in loops.
pendants and festoons Of purple and
pale green. JonQuils and dandelions
looked like nuggets Of floral gold in
the rich spring grass: On the Dig grass
birdhouse that stands atop weather
beaten cedar post and the branches of
the cedar tree were Topped on so far
from the tree trunk that they FORM .
little thicket of perches for the birds:
softly. and not far of a pair Of mock
ing birds caroled rapturously and
showed their white wing bars in flight.
Two giant oaks stand sentry near the
on one side Of the house q big apple
orchard bloomed like big bouquet.
~
A pretty woman, with bright eyes
ana friendly smile for tramps. came
along the clay road. She wore q sun
bonnet and carried basket. She OK
planned: MY hens have q way Of stray
ing of to lay and have to search for
the eggs" why don't you talk It over
with them and appeal to their reason7'
the Rambler suggested. II have re-
monstrated with them." she said. but
they are Maynard and undutiful.'
Yes" she said; those are flne old
the hickory tree Andrew Jackson"
The house. which stands on that high
ground where Druid" and "Dryad"
and Andrew Jackson" cast their long
shadows in morning and afternoon.
years than the Rambler can tell. The
Carper family gave its name to this
skyland, and all the people roundabout
know it as Carpers Hill. They con-
and there is a mild sentiment Of re-
sentiment against 1t. as though 1t were
an intruder which would Gust an
ancient place name. A large acreage
in that neighborhood stu remains IN
and the summit Of the hill Is now, and
for a good many years has been, the
home of M. D. Hanley Of the firm Of
Hanley & Hoyt. Washington lawyers.
bier encountered in the sunbonnet re-
turning from a search for the eggs
Of her waywafd hens She is the Sum
day school teacher in that "neighbor-
hood. and the class meets in the little
public school which sits among the
pines off the north side OF the pike
on the eastern or Bull Neck slope Of
the hill. Sometimes that school has
been called the Prospect Hill School
after the nearest hamlet. but the old
settlers frowned upon that irreverent
innovation and painted on the front of
the little building in big letters. Gar
per School" -
Leaving behind the old house, the
Rambler followed the clay road along
the crest of the north-south axis Of
the hill to the pike Far to the east
the white buildings Of the American
University and other landmarks on tho
Nebraska avenue-Tenleytown ridge
shone in the sunlight To the north
west, Sugarloaf mountain. which rises
from the floor Of the Frederick valley
and at whose western base rolls the
Monocacy. stood up in the sky like a
dome-shaped mass Of blue-grAy mist.
Near the junction Of the clay road and
the pike Is q large frame house. the
homo Of Charles Mechanism, whose
wife was Dora Trammell, one Of the
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The road leading across the hill is the
familiar Georgetown and Leesburg
turnpike. which also has not been
turnpike for a couple of generations.
but is Just plain and rough county
road. Along the east side Of the hill
flows Bull Neck run, which rises near
Shiloh Church. two and a half miles
south Of the Potomac, and empties into
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old families in the Great Falls region.
Two little McClanahans-Hazel. about
seven years old. and Virginia. not yet
three-live and play there. while an
older sister. Thelma, lives with her
grandmother at Balls Hill. A little
way eastward along the pike is carper
School. or 1t may be "Carper's School,"
Cora Buckley has been welding the
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also Prospect Rock. a gray castle which
the Great Architect reared above the
swirl and eddies Of the river and from
whose main tower may be had an out
iook on the world which thrills per-
sons who are sensitive to such things.
An old settler whom the Rambler met
near the crumbled ruins of Walkers
mill said that IL this prospect habit
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Wilson carper. who is very little
chap yet.
Near by is the Guilford place. owned
now by Mrs. Elizabeth Guilford. widow.
Her boy. Arthur, is in the Navy: an
other son. Carlton. is at Camp Lee;
May Guilford is Mrs. William II. Dodge
of Washington: Elmer is at work in
the navy yard. and Elizabeth goes to
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terraces lead, like mighty steps, down
to the bowlder-strewn edge of the Po-
tomac 1t is near the north end OF
the brink Of the first terrace. that the
Georgetown and Leesburg turnpike
leads across.
At the little green open-faced shell
ter where the electric car stops clay
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E1HE skyland of the region west

.E7HE skyland of the region west
Of Washington through which
the Rambler has been heading
q his readers is Prospect Hill.
Who 1t was that gave the hill that
name the Rambler does not know. The
question has been put to the old set
tiers in the neiehborhood, and they
have given their gray heads a negative
shake. Then perhaps they will tell
YOU that they not only do not know
how Prospect Hill came by that name
. but also that they are not sure II
should be called by that name today.
They never heard anything about Pros
meet Hill until crowds of city people
took I'D the hobby of walking and
came that way. Then. among these
groups of persons who. having no real
work to do, took to walking about tho
country for exercise, there were men
and women who amused themselves by
,dissecting weeds. peektng through
opera glasses at birds. talking about
wild flowers and sometimes going 80 Iar
as to quote poetry about dandelions'
buttercups, daisies and other pests.
Some of these people even seemed quite
enraptured with the evil-smeliins dos
SONS of mayweed in the spring, ana IN
the fall appeared enchanted Win the
notorious golden rod.
Soon after these strange creatures
adopted or appropriated this part OF the
western environs of Washington as
their playground the name Prospect Hill
seem to come into being. So many peo-
pie from Washington began to ask
about Prospect Hill that those VINO
lived there and whose ancestors had
lived and died there came to under
stand that a new name had been fast
ened onto their neighborhood. There
is no criticism as to the appropriate
ness of the name. for everybody VINO
climbs to the big nat top of that hill
gets prospect worth the tri p.
X X
% But 1t might Just as we'll have been
given such a name as Lookout HILL"
"overlook HILL" High View" Grand
View" "Belleview,' "Montview" or
some other of those labels which per-
sons with an exuberant fancy pin to tall
places and also pin to low and ex-
'tremely ordinary places. There has
sprung up custom OF setting up a
portable bungalow in patch OF scrub
oak and calling it Myrtlehurst.
"Hollyhurst" or "Hazelhurst." or Of put
ting up a very plain frame house IN a
thicket of jack pines and calling It
'-The Elms." The Oaks. "Beechrood'
or "Mapleshade."
= One old settler told the Rambler that
he thought Prospect Hill nigh. Fave
got its name from the fact that some
men prospected there for gold. That
. Is hardly sound theory, because every
hill and dale, glen and vale. stream
bed, hilltop, hillside and meadow be-
tween Washington and Great Falls and
.above Great Falls has been prospected
for gold and in. that sense Is pros
pect." TIE name Prospect" has been
laid on that part of the country with a
heavy hand. In addition to Prospect
:. Hin. there Is Prospect run. a beauti-
4ful stream which adds Its liquid crystal
to the Potomac after flowing through
o deep ravine whose steep slopes are
shaded with thick foliage in summer.
= while in winter they are evergreen
with laurel, ferns and moss. There Is
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The transport committee considers the
wear and tear on the trucks themselves
as inf1nitesimal and Of no consequence
when compared with the greater benefits
to be derived from their use.
In the plan Of moving the thousands
of trucks from the factories in Detroit
and other cities. loaded. manned. officer
ed and already in the service of their
country, rather than in the concealment
of box cars. the War Department and
the highways transport committee
have not overlooked the opportunity
presented for awakening to a new and
more vital realization of Americas war
preparations a vast portion Of the
American public, and inspiring them
with a new enthusiasm and a new ap-
probation of the unity of national ef-
fort required.
The trucks with their officers and
men going forward night and day to-
ward the front, to take part in the most
terrific and deadly battles of history,
will be a sight to constantly inspire
anew in the hearts of millions OF every
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- oOW good roads will aid military
I'LL truck transportation and help
It'll solve the serious problem of
q q rail congestion and release