Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-09

! 4 LbERL1 Washing ION people
| X and thousands not yet elderly
| IL cherish as many memories OF
Glymont as there are young
and fresh green leaves in the groves
of that old and once happy place
| Perhaps the Rambler should follow
the more approved and more conven-
tionaI literary form by saying that
than there are leaves in Vallombrosa:
but the green leaves In the groves OF
Glymont will answer the purpose or
getting this narrative started. IL mas
been pointed out by poets that leaves
were especially numerous In the an
cient Tuscan resort and that the sum-
mer forests Of the Prato Magno chain
of mountains were of unexampleo
verdure, but the Rambler will nave
to be shown by more substantial anu
more accurate witnesses than poets
that the trees of Vallombrosa pore
on a hot day than the trees OF ely
The Rambler feels that there are
some points of similarity and some
points of difference between Glymont
and vallombrosa. 1t is related thal
man who had become Benedicune
monk and then a Camaldultan. with :
drew to a shady dale in the side Of a
mountain in the Apprentices. ten miles
from Florence. in which dale he leo
a solitary life for several years. That
was in the eleventh century. D1sc1-
pies gathered around him and the or
der Of Vallombrosians came into be-
ing. The old resort Of Glymont was
in a shady dale in the side Of high
hills. When Glymont was in the hey
dey of its fame it was by no means
nj a.
Today Vallombrosa is a summer re.
sort Of Florence and the dale OF ely
mont is as still as the dale In which
ST. John Gualbert retired for solitude
and meditation. Glymont cannot be
compared with Vallombrosa In reiig-
ious associations. but the old families
of the Glymont neighborhood were
pious folk, to whom the tones OF the
bell on st. Charles Church-'the Neck
Church" sweet and solemn
music.
If the Rambler could collect all the
memories Of Glymont that cling IN
the minds Of our people they would
fill the pages OF all newspapers ana
raise a roar from the conservators
Of print paper and spruce forests.
slow-going steamboat. perhaps the
THOMAS Collyer, the Keyport. the
Wawasset. the Arrow or the Mary
Washington: OF broad. maJestic
river glittering In sunshine. or tnat
shone like sheet of o. old s'l friends whose
memory is with us fresh and vivid.
but whose souls are among the stars;
of big trees that cast deep. cool
shadows; of pavilion where you
danced to merry tunes that you sell
don don II hear pett n9~ things IN than you can
buy now, and of the biscuits and
preserves and fried chicken and the
like spread on a cloth laid on the
fresh and fragrant grass at the foot
Of a great oak tree.
Then, there was the big spring IN
the dale. 1t is still flowing, and per-
haps it sometimes thinks OF you;
The old trees stand lonely there. and
perhaps they wonder why you never
come to sit beneath them: the v1olets
and buttercups in the dell come PACK
every spring. and they have told me
that they remember you. John. when
YOU sat among them on calm ana
nanny day long gone and held her
hand and laughed and laughed and
said sweet nothings: and they also
have told me that they remember
the green groves by the side Of q
youth who to you was the fairest.
f,nest youth in all the world. Per-
haps. John and Mary. you are looking
at these lines through your sps s.s aes
and I know that your thoughts are
going back to Glymont. 49, p.,,.r
The "old'' Glymont. as the Rambler
has said. was in a beautiful vale near
the wharf, which is now Jumbie OF
rafting piles. Subsequently pavilion
was built on the top OF the blun.
following from The Evening Star of
June 13. 1887: "a new pavilion has
been built on the hill at Glymont.
and both that and the old pavilion are
/; in condition. so that two assoclations
can be entertained the same day' ana n
can be occupied by visitors and the
new one in the breezy location on the
hill in extreme hot days" The Ram
! bier has found the name OF another
+, of the old Potomac STEAMBOATS, that
| used to make landings at Glymont.
II was the Powhatan. and the year
was 1859. This advertisement was
published in The Star number OF
times during the summer OF 1853:
NOTICE TO PLEASURE SEEKERS.
The Potomac Steamboat Company IN ADJ
| ton to the semiweekly trips Of their steamer
Powhatan to Norfolk offer an opportunity 70
| the public to enjoy a trip on the beautiful
Potomac to Glymont and Aqua creek during
seneer to Iay Oh at Glymont one night. where
| good hotel accommodations can be had.
For further informa ton apply to company'a
| Office at No. 372 Pennsylvania ave-. next dooi
| TO Browns Hotel.
GEORGE f. MATTINGLY,
Ticket Agent Potomac Steamboat Company.
In The Star Of July 8. 1859. was pub
lished an advertisement under the
heading, "a Deserved Testimonial,
which recited that Messrs. Jones and
| Miller Of Glymont pavilion have re-
ceiyed the following communication
!
War Department announces the for