Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-21

 principal proprietors. Lord Say and Brooke Sometime hope to go in the cemeterY there and visit the grave of Lady F'erwick Years ago there were excursions to Feuwick grove From Say brook we felt compelled to hurry on to New Fork.
 Ferried across the Hudson to Hobok- en, where we took Hudson boulevard to lJersey City, then took the Lincoln high way, going through Newark and reach ing Princeton at D. m. Stayed overl might at the Orange inn Near the, ao- tel we saw a large monument so walked out to see 1t and found out it was erect led last June and cost ss00o90 and 1t [ took ten years to make it. On one | side asbatie scene is cut into the stone We thought the workmanship fine. On the other side were these words i Here memory fingers to recall the guiding mind whose daring deed out Nhahked the foe and turned dismay to marched through the night to fight at i idawn and venture all in one victorious battle for our freedom.
 I've read that Washington had an ex- Exceptionally well balanced Inind-his 1 judgment of great value
 Princeton is 4s miles southwest of 1. New York city and Il ulilas northeast of EkS1zLE1t anu Is Hrd4tiLaity- 4OESllcQ upO1 ' an elevated ridge commanding fine prospect. It is noted as the scene of ] the battle of January 3, 177T, where l Washington defeated the British forces.. The monument erected Hast June com
 memorates the event. We saw some of the fine college buildings, nearly. all giY-
 en by generous benefactors, one by
 John C.. Green, who gave s1,500.000. Be- i sides the Halstead observatory there is | another school of science well equipped. ! The laberatcries and museum are well q furnished for scientific study,
 Passed on to Trenton, N. J.. and saw
 an electric sign reading thus: Trenton
 makes, the world takes
 I On arriving at. Philadelphia MT and
 Mrs. Ida bade us '.goosl bye,s and took
 steam cars for New York city to spend I the evening there and return home to keep things right side up while I was
 away. Daisy called on friends---brief- q iy. So much in this fine city to see, but V,s time was limited, so hastened on, but did see the white marble steps. that
 the tenants are expected to scrub. off every morning. Remembered seeing them in 1876 when attending the centen- ) niaL A friend of mine moved to, ,and EliYed in Philadelphia a little time and | when she returned inquired, How did t.l you like the city? She said, T like : the city, but they didn't catch me going tout every morning to scrub those marble steps, though"
 : The next large city was Baltimore. I I was in this city at the time of the : JaHfestewn Exposition and have had a f desire to see Druid Hill park-but both times could not spend any time there aj We arrived in Washington about s I D. m. on Monday evening and l thought . after the usual greeting of relatives and : i friends, and being shown to our rooms as an old lady said. God bless the mar
 who Inadesa bed. =
 3 On Tuesday we went. to Ideunt Yer. ? mon. In the year 1874, 5000 acres situ | land fifteen miles south of the presen f city of Washington, became the proper ' ty of John Washington and Nicholas t Spencer, 2,500 acres of this trac < descending to Lawrence Washington $ who, in 1T4S, built residence an, U named the estate Mount yernon-aft
 Ter a British admiral under whom h ,- had served.
 .sJ At Lawrence Washington's deatl .EQ752), the estate passed to his half . brother, George Washington, who ex z Z tended the boundaries of his plantation : Auntu they included nearly 5000 acres. o ,In lT99 when George Washfngto 'l died the property passed as life inter est to his widow-by whose will mos Q of the household goods at her death Ber n divided among her four grandchildreI r. thus scattering the original furniture ( IT the mansion. John- A. Washington, Jr IS the last named. owner offered to sell til .d property to the national goyernmen ne This project tailed as did the attem1 if to sell it to the commonwealth of Vii Id ginia.
 ce ! At this juncture the Mount Verno
 Ladies, Association of the Gnien 7ws in formed f1S5s). organized by Miss P H. uaeIia Cunningham of South Caroiin ,y She appealed to all American womf al (Dec.. 1S53) and accomplished her n k, ble project.
 x Money was contributed from thirt
 tthree states of the Union. Hon. Edssa,
 Everett, of Massachusetts, lecfured f q the benefit of Mount Vernon and realiz at s6S. .294. In 1858 the association " IS able 10 buy from John A. NWasaingtc te Jf., and his heirs, POP acres includil ter mansion, tomb, wharf etc, the pri' led paid being s3O0,OoO and interest. tod In 1887, 531$ acres were acquir ain through the generosity of the late J eat Gould of New York.
 Jpssi In 1893 Christian Heinrich, of Was att ington, D. C., gave two acres more ma mt. ing total area at the present time yir 257 E acres.
 in- What we saw in Washington's ho, ad I'll have to reserve for another letter ,ar (RFYT,I A