Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06

neT lOTRnette rays size lne AAIIiOleI ,
page and says in rather an unsym-
pathetic way, What a strange collec-
tion of ordinary persons he has
brought together" Well, well, you
can't judge the character of person
by his name, especially the character
of person who was the head of a
family in 1890. But the Rambler feels
that in that list there are as high
sounding or as pleasant-sounding
names as in list of the Shareholders
of Montgomery. He thinks that there
Is as much aristocracy in the sound of
Richard Beale of William, Catherine
Norman, Samuel Rittenhouse, Mary
Palmore, Mary Gentle, Philip Tracy,
Ignatius Montgomery, Ruth Bryan.
William Windham (Wyndham). Glenn
ent Chamberlain and Joseph Abby, as
in the following names of large slave
holders: Hasel Butt. William Cation.
James Higgins, Nicholas Hooker, Ma
thaniel Pigman, John CoXen, John
Lee, George Smell, Josh jackson, Ben
Dunn, Jeremiah Quicker, William God
man. Sam Carter and Ann Darby.
Last Sunday the Rambler. after
strolling northwest along the track of
the Metropolitan branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad for several
miles, left the ties and rock ballast at
a little station called Randolph, and
struck west along a dirt road which
crosses the Georgetown and Rockville
pike at Montrose, just few rods be-
yond lngleside. And. by the way, there
is a trio of fine sounding names for
you-Randolph, Montrose and Ingle-
side.
The road leads through fair green
and bright country for two miles,
then drops into the valley of Cabin
John creek and zigzags along the
side of that romantic stream for
about mile. Then it crookedly
climbs some hills and intersects the
Seven Locks road between Rockville
and Bells mill. at the shady home
of John Lethbridge, who lives in
the comfortable old place which was
the home of Russell Magruder, son
of Wade Magruder. That is only
about a mile from the Montgomery
county poorhousc. a place where the
Rambler once spent some time and
about which he means to tell before
he finishes this series of stories But
on this occasion he did not go to the
poorhouse, but turned south to visit
an interesting part of the country
sailed Snake Den and a widely scat
tered and far-flung settlement of col
ored people called Scotland. He
turned south not because he had any
fear of going to the poorhouse. He
has, as he wrote few lines above.
been there before, and Tyler Case
the superintendent, treated him we'll
The Rambler has no complaint to
make. He knew the place when
Tylers father, Philip John Case
kept it, and before that, when viii
Rabbit kept ii. and before that, when
I.eonidas Ricketts, kept it. Tyler
Case has charming sister, Miss
Mamie and some time the Rambler is
going to tell some pleasant and in
teresting facts about that poorhouse,
how he got there and why he got
various persons living there. And
this prompts the Rambler to remark
that he has also been to the Prince
Georges county poorhouse and the
Charles county poorhouse, spent
some time at the Frederick county
poorhouse, and is very we'll acquaint-
ed down at Occoquan. Blue Plains is
also very familiar place to him,
and so. too, is st. Elizabeth.
Soon after entering upon the road
west of Montrose the Rambler met
four young ladies. If you could see
the photograph as the Rambler made
it you would probably recognize
them. 1t is a fine photographs; the
Rambler took it himself
When the Rambler hit that old road
he thought it one of the most allur-
ing and attractive and fascinating
roads in Maryland geography. When
he came upon the young ladies he
was convinced that the road was all
that. His memory Of what the road
looks like is somewhat confused, but
he remembers that on the north side
was a row of cedar trees so trimmed
I'll hat oh H.