Evening star., 1921-08-14

lie buildings and the manner of liv
ing there. and a searching exposure
Of the various jobs and scandals
which have excited public indisna-
.tion QS76).
Swamp Outlaws. or the North
Carolina Bandits. being complete
history of the Modern Rob Roy and
Robin Hoods QS72).
Bohemian Days. Paris ISs0).
Campaigns of Non-Combatant
Columbus in Love; in Lippincotts
Magazine 1S93).
Katy of Catoctin. or the Chain
Breakers: a national romance u886).
The Entailled Hat. or Patty Can
mons Times $3.50.
Lost Abroad (1S70).
Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Harrison;
a Romance (1S90).
The Mormon Trials at Salt Lake
The New World Compared with
the TaIss Gls q fsfs9 .he chssap.ske: sss na s'n
Tales of Gapland.
Volume of Poems.
Among the published works of Mr..
Townsend not listed above are Life
of Garibaldi.' published in 1867:
Life of Abraham Lincoln" published
in 1867, and president Cromwell.
TN Mr. Townsend's washington
1 Outside and inside" published at
Cincinnati in 1873, is this dedication:
This book is inscribed to Edward
Cowles. Esq. editor of the Cleveland
Leader, who took the first letters
wrote on politics and occurrences
from the city of Washington in the
~l,
to me a considerate and thoughtful
friend"
That would seem to place the be-
ginning of Mr.. Townsends work at
Washington in 1858. though 1t may
be that he was here in 1867. as some
chapter headings in Gath's Wash
ington Outside and inside set down
here with the belief that they will
give you a hint as to the way Mr..
Townsend's mind inclined: Credit
Mobilier Investigation in 1873 and
dar': How Washington Came to Be;
Was 1t a Job or a Compromise? Had
Gen. Washington Interested Motives
in Locating It?"~"Wrangles Of the Land
holders; "Architects OF the Capitol and
Their Feuds"; '"The Lobby and The
ernment ScanGals': "Some Queer Peo-
pie in Washington Among these he
mentions Lorenzo Dow and his wife
Peggy Ann Royal land an old resi-.
dent Of the name Of Alexander. who. be-
cause Of claim he professed to have
against the British government, was To-
cally known as 1.-THE Earl Of SterA9g
and hereditary lieutenant governor Of
Her Majesty in the provinces of Nova
Scotia. Including New Brunswick and
upper and lower Canada" He has
chapters on the New Year ceremonial
at Washington, the newspaper press
and its relations with the government.
and interviews with two venerable
citizens whom he writes OF as Chris
tian Hines. who remembers back to
1885, and Noble Hurdle, his cotem-
porary."
The death of Mr.. Townsend would
have been given much more space In the
press had 1t not been for the immense
pressure on newspapers by the Mexi-
can situation. The day of Mr.. Town
the Atlantic fleet to Tampico and the
next it seemed that war between
Mexico and the United States was in
evitable. Newspapers were crammed
with dispatches about Huerta, Mex
lean affronts, salutes or no salutes.
and advisers and pictures Of warships.
Mexican ports ana inland Cities. Cities.
Mexican volcanoes. maps OF the At
lantic and Pacific, North America,
Central America, South America and
all that. No "follow-up" story Of Mr..
Townsend's death telling of the
funeral was sent out Of New York
or carried by any Of the New York
newspapers whose files were exam
ined by the man writing this How
ever, an old newspaper friend of Mr..
Townsend's in Washington (James
Rankin Young) furnished the infor-
nation that Mr.. Townsend was buried
at Philadelphia in the Townsend fam
lily lot in East Laurel Hill Cemetery,
now a part of Fairmount Park. In
that lot rest the ashes Of the mother
and father Of Cath" and Of his wife.
who was born Bessie Rhoades of
Frankfort (Philadelph!a). Pa, and
who died at Washington about 1902.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer carried
L this Thursday morning. April Is.
1914:
George Alfred Townsend. widely known jour
nalist and author, who wrote for many years
under the pen name Of Garth" died yesterday
at New York at the home Of his son.in-law, =.
r. Bonaventure. He was seventy-three years old
and had bsen In poor health for some time.
Mr.. Townsend went to. New York two weeks
ago from his hone tp Washington to visit his
doughtsr. He had beea suffering for some time
from general debility. Hardening Of The artef-
10 IVES given - the cause Of death.