Newark post., 1919-02-26

his brother-in-law, W. H. Logan,
ru.. who is in overseas service.
TN Saturday, the 18th of Janu-
... Whittemore and | took the 2
u NJ. train for the first capital of
...#Hd and were fortunate
....eh to have a non-croWded car
...o and a fast train.
At Winchester we found several /
..ar,cs who had come to meet /
...-.' Polling, the head of the
...s.an Endeavor Society, and
... .aIker 4 heard him at CoIum-
".a IN JuIy) who was to speak at
ur uf the Camps, They like to re-
,.t that an aid-de-camp Of Gen
nra| Biddle told Secretary Baker
aa@n there, that a million Ameri-
.al soldiers had passed through
the four camps around Winches-
t.r 1t may be so but | doubt it.
4 million is an easy thing to say
D1t hard thing to count.
However they proposed to take
lii to the Y. NJ. c. A. Hotel where
some Of the Secretaries live and
aI-o where some do not. We we're
vii in a Ford and when I found
that the place was almost two
miles outside of town | baked. One
0f the men said it would save
money to stay there instead of
hotel. l, rather impudently, told
him that we had not come 5000
miles to save 2 shillings.
SO they took us back to God
Begot of which l knew but had
forgotten in the planning for our
visit. This is an old building re-
stored and is the joy of all the
schoolmarms and other visitors. |
wrote in the Visitors Book, "Our
Good Fortune, which has given us
so many pleasant memories of
England, brought us to God
Begot." 1t is on the site of a
Manor of Godbite which was given
to Emma, wife of Canute, (who sat
on the seashore), and had the right
of sanctuary. 1t is now run by a
Miss Pamplin who has been to
Philadelphia and visited the Arch
Bishop or other in Dover, Del
The rooms instead of being num-
bered, are named. We slept in St
Swithun's room, he was King AL
fred's tutor and was buried at
Winchester. When he was moved
the 40 days rain came. Other
rooms are Queen Emma, Judith
King Alfred, Matilda, the bath
room is the Druids Well, the
toilet, Hygeia. There are little
knockers on each door of different
shapes, among them the Imp OF
Lincoln. There are exposed
beams, some of them several hun
dred years old. Nothing in thi:
town is of interest unless it date!
before 1400.
In the last Visitors Book were
some clever verses, of which, here
are two:
"a narrow street that's steep ant
long,
4 city full of history,
An old, old house, with old oal
beams,
And panneled walls OF mystery.
A place to visit many times,
For all of you there's pity
Who do not know the God-Begot
In Winchester's fair city.
The city is ancient and old,
The weather is rainy and cold.
And the only spot is the home God
Begot,
And the luck to be in it untold.
But we had very fine weather, onl
a little rain in the afternoon.
My friend Mrs. Robert McClel
Ian owns the original of pictur
which hangs over the fireplace i
the Lounge of this hotel. 1t is
beautiful scene of a Highlan
Glen, Among the Hills
After getting a room here, abou
4 p. M, we went up High Street t
the Great Hall of Wincheste
Castle. Just near it, inside tn
West Gate, which was part of tn
old city wall, is a monument t
commemorate the plague of 1861
It has a stone basin under it Wher
the towns people put their none
in vinegar and the country peopl
fshed it out after it was thus dis
infected. Some market scheme.
Winchester Castle was built Q
enlarged by William the Conquere
in 1066. The great Hall is all ths