Evening star., 1919-09-28

x. enlivened and the recollections
rlt awoke. 1t is not because OF the inter-
est It held for bfin. but because Of his
belief ;,or. his hops. that It may interest
ypv ,that he win set down some of:'the
things observed and learned and some
OF the men and women, met with on this
little sunday walk.
The name "schoolhouse lane" is not
! an fuhconirnon one in this and other
ReighborKo0ds. Usually when a coun-
try schoolhouse has stood upon a lane
,fong enough. t6 become historic or to
become q landmark . the dwellers
. fepndabout call 1t .-Schoolhouse
..lane"F The schooihotise may disappear
but the memory Of IT will survive. In
the name of the lane, In many neigh
borhoods there Is. a Church hilr,' or
A rchapel hillr' where neither church
nor chapel stands upon the hill. But
=, time and perhaps SO long ago that
MANS memory runneth not to the
icontrary"-and all that, a shrine WHICH
ipious and devoted people loved stood
upon that hin and that there men
listened to Taose messages Of love and
promises Of forgiveness which give us
strength In life and consolation on
the eve OF death.
The Schoolhouse lane which the
Rambler came Upon is in, Montgomery
county, Nd. The largest town near
/, 1t is Garrett Park and that place is
a ftrife under a mile away as the
crow fies-when he flies straight
and about mile and a half away,
IL from the junction of School House
Lame with the Rockville pike, you
follow the pike south to Flack's lane
and then follow that lane across the
green and, prosperous fields of the
Fiack farm to the northwest edge
of. Garret Park. Schoolhouse lane
ts q shady, narrow. road connecting
the Rockville. pike and the older part
OF the stage road between George
VILE. which now appropriately bears
the name "Old Georgetown road"
TIE pike and the older road are half
"a mile apart where the lane; runs.
East Of, the pike "a newer ,prelonga-
tion of the lane crosses the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad haff "A mile
east OF the pike and near the rail
sfraggles on for another half mile
eastward nearly to Rock creek. West
lot the Old Georgetown road a pro-
.longati6n Of schoolhouse lane. fpur-
sues Its course for mile among
farms But the true Schoolhouse
lane Isl the ola and tree-bordered
stretch which links the pike and the
road which east and west traffic fol-
lowed before the pike was built,
which was about 1920. The electric
railroad to Rockville crossas School
house lane and cars stop there to
take on and discharge passengers.
but 20 far as the Rambler has learned
name such as Jones Crossing or
Smiths Crossroads. The railroad men
call I thes place ""No. 4 Switch
The newer conductors might not
know 'Scho0lhouse lane, but every
man on the line knows mo.
Switch" There Is a patch of wood
hand close to the switch and about
q hundred yards west of that point
on the south side OF the lane is where
the schoolhouse stood. Not vus-
tige Of 1t remains, but in the; woods
Ground 1t, the feet of children have
beaten certain signs upon the earth.
such ns bare hard places where they
played, and tramped out paths over
which they came and went. Because
Of these reminders it is not hard for
an imaginative person to visualize
the old schoolhouse. Two schoolhouses
stood there. 8 +, ,.,s5,. s- +, w..
.. !: ... j. 4. r. "a s- ,.., s..
The frst was burned down, or per-
haps 1t got 50. badly out of repair that
the Montgomery authorities decided
to pull 1t down and build another.
The fate OF the first school is not
known to the Rambler. The second
school stood there till about ten years
ago. when it was discontinued and
torn down. The Rambler believes
that It was oflclslly called the Mont
rose schoolhouse, because it stood
tflfio more than half mile south Of
q place called Montrosc, an old place,