The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10
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the servant to remind him that it was time to 20
by leading up the horse and handing the bride
rens to him. The members of Washington
family, the local historian relates, always came
up in large coach drawn by four horses If the
roads were heavy. Not infrequenty neighbors
were guests in the coach.
Another favorite rendezvous in Alexandria for
sightseers is the room occupied by the Masonic
lodge named for Washington. This lodge stu
houriShes There one may look upon the chair
in which Washington sat when he presided over
the lodge of which he was master, also the Ma
sonic apron he wore his wedding gloves, pair
Of spurs he wore pruning knife he used on
the Mount Vernon plantation, and n penknite
which his mother gave him when he was boy
And there Is to be seen in the old lodge room the
last authentic painting of him, a pastel from life
made by William Williams of Philadelphia.
Another old Washington landmark in AleXan-
dra Is the Carlyle house This structure was
there when Washington was young man. In
colonial days it one of the beSt-knoWn hotels
in Virginia. The fine folks of the Old Dominion
gathered there for balls and dinners and for good
times generally, and Washington the local his
torians say, was present at any unusual event
General Braddocl had his headquarters In the
old hotel when he proceeding against the
French and Indians, Making ones way back to
the capital city over the Alexandria, Arlington
road numerous landmarks may be seen. This
highway leads by Arlington, the resting place OF
the nations heroes, and TO Georgetown.
As this old highway brings the traveller around
the brow of a hill four miles southwest of the
national capital the Washington monument looms
up across the low land and the Potomac river
From no point in the envrons of the national
capital does the monument appear to greater Hd-
vantage-a magnificent reminder of the good
works of one typical American. This monument
is fitting companion piece for the great me-
mortal to Abraham Lincoln soon to be dedicated
II speaks Of the founder of the Republic; the
other Of the saviour of the Republic.
Many projects were discussed before the Wash
ngtOu monument was conceived and work on it
begun. At the close of the Revolution the Con-
tiuental congress recommended the erection of an
equestrian statue to Washington. Immediately
after his death the congress, sitting In Phadel-
phia, voted to erect a monument under which
he should be buried. Another project was to make
the Capitol building IA memorial TO him. Tray
eiers may to this day have a peep at vaulted
chamber directly under the rotunda of the Capitol
which was designed rs a resting place for the
body of Washington
The Washington monument is the most CON
splcuous work of man at the national capital
The dome Of the Capitol ana dome Of the Con-
gressonal library and the new Lincoln memorial
stand out with bOldnesS, but the monument over
tops them On clear day the monument may
be seen from the crest of the Blue Ridge noun
tains 10 miles away The memorial had its in
ception in the minds Of patriotic people who
formed the Washington Memorial association. 1t
was proposed TO charge Il membership fee of 81
and the money thus contributed was to be used
in the erection of suitable monument TO the
hero of the Revolution, The money came In
slowly ana il looked at times as if this project
too would have to be abandoned.
FINALLY In 1S4S congress voted site The
spot chosen had been marked by Washington
himself as a monument to the Revolution which
ne hoped would sometime be built The work of
erecting the monument proceeded slowly. 1t had
renched a height of 17S feet when the Civil war
came on 1t was rooted over and stood untouched
until 1876 when congress again took hold and I'M
der the spur of congressional action IT was com
pleted in 1885.
The height Of the monument Is 555 feet and 8
inches From the lookout on the top the view OF
the national capital and its enyirons fascinates a
million persons year.
other unprclentious memorials Of Washington
ore 10 be seen In the national capital