Evening star., 1919-02-23

lures as different as those which are
sometimes shown on two pages Of
book. There are acres of peach trees,
the tender bark of the branches hav-
Ing pinkish hue suggestive of the
blooming time of spring, when these
young trees win robe themselves in
gorgeous pink. Near the orchard Is
q widespread and emporched house
tforgive me for that, where lives the
man who owns the orchard. Two
letter boxes stand by the roadside
and are inscribed John II. Cravatt
and ID. B. Edmonston. Which is the
peach-tree man the Rambler does not
know, Close to the next house down
the road is letter box inscribed with
the name, John w. Lynch. You are
now travelling along high land, which
falls away on the right to the valley
of Cabin John branch, and on the left
into the valley of Rock run. a stream
whose sands and gravel have yielded
considerable quantities of gold to in
dustrious and principally lucky
men.
A big frame house off to the right
comes into the picture and long,
treeless lane leads to IT over field;
1t is closely surrounded by a grove of
trees which on approaching you find
TO be naples. handsome long-leaf
pines and a group of those trees of
the genus Melia. most often called
Pride of India" and sometimes "Per-
sian ou may hho" AiiS HouSt
from afar by the thick cluster of
trees about It and by square little
structure on it's roof. which is look
out or observatory. inclosed by white
palings. The name of this place Is
Glen Moore. This land was part of
the original tract called Beall's Hon
esty or Magruder's Honesty. The
Rambler believes that the title to
that old tract was ''Magruder's and
Bealls Honesty" It was wild land
granted in 1926 to Daniel Magruder
and Charles Beall and it extended
from the tract called Leeke Forest,
that was surveyed in 1858 for Col.
Henry Dulaney. southwesterly toward
the Potomac river.
The lands of Leeke Forest were in
the Bethesda neighborhood and the
Rambler believes that the town of
Bethesda, which used TO be called
Dorsey's Store, Is Oh this tract Long
ago--and II the Rambler knew how
long ago he would give the date
this old house and its fields and grove
became the home Of Charles Dodge,
who was paymaster in the Navy.
Before 1t became the home of Pay
master Dodge it was probably part of
the extensive landholdings in Mont
gomery county of Samuel Davidson
and his son, Robert Grant Davidson.
Robert Grant Davidson's daughter
El1zabet2 became the wife of Pay
master Dodge. John Davidson died
about year ago. having lived con-
siderably past his ninetleth birthday.
The Rambler, going through this part
or the country summer before last,
was told that John Grant Davidson
was a son of Samuel Davidson, one of
the original proprietors of the site of
Washington. One of the farms on
which Washington was laid down and
set up was called Port Royal This
tract would now be roughly bounded
by New York avenue on the south
18th street on the west and I'd street
on the east.
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The north line of Port Royal start
ed close to 18th and NJ streets and ran
northeast TO about I'd and @ streets.
1t was subdividcd into three nearly
equal parts by north and south
lines. The easternmost part extended
from I'd to 9Th streets and In the
original map of Washington was
marked as being the property of
Lynch and Sands, early real estate
operators who hoped TO be made rich
by the inclusion of this land in the
new federal city A frame house was
indicated on this early plat as stand
ing near the southeast corner Of 7th
and M streets The second division
of this tract extended from 9th to
18th streets, and was marked as be-
ing the property of John Davidson.
There was a house at the southeast
corner of 18th and l. streets. The
western part extended from 18th to
18th streets, and was marked as the