The Penn's Grove record., 1923-04-06
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
Wonder Sights To Be Seen of Historic
Value

a party of seeing the Capitol of these
United States last week. A large
number of high and grammar school
children were of the party from New
York, Oyster Bay and Pittsburg. They
came on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road and were placed in three differ
ent hotels. They started from New
York with railroad ticket, hotel cost,
guide fees, entrance fees and bus
costs. all in one, combined with a box
lunch to take on the return trip. A
lady friend and myself went straight
on the Pennsylvania Railroad with the
privilege of going on the sight seeing
trips with B. & o. tourists.
The Boards of Education should
give their graduating classes h
privilege of these trips, as many do:
They are educating. These boys and
girls lust starting out in life and get
ting this trip certainly would have a
higher sense of reverence, love ana
LOYALTY for their country, and a prayer
Of thanks that they were born Amer-
cans. or adopted. They would acquire
a feeling of gratitude to these thou
sands of dead, that gave their life,
that they might have life and freedom
in this country.
The trip to Arlington Cemetery was
most IMPRESSIVE. There are 1000 boys
of The late World War brought back
and buried in a section apart from the
800 that lost their lives at San Juan
Hill. with a large stone erected IN
memor of Theodore Roosevelt, their
beloved commander. who so much
loved his boys. There are many
thousands of the men of the Civil War.
Here and there were the larger stones
that mark the graves of officers.
The tomb that is in memory of 1000
of the nameless of the Civil War.
There is an Amphitheatre of entire
marble built for Decoration Day pur-
poses and in memory of our dead
heroes. The beautiful tomb that marks
the unknown dead of our late war, this
alone surely stamps itself on ones
m for life, be it man or woman,
boy or girl. There are 100000 dead
lying there.
During the ride about Washington,
the calling out the inter-
esting things and homes of famous
men, certainly made one thankful that
they had been constant readers OF
1t all seemed so very
familiar. The home of our own Sena-
tor Edge, a beautiful home, Bernstoff's
former home, which is now closed,
blocks of property belonging to Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. Some one asked
how Mr.. Wilson was in health. The
reply was that he was the most pitt
able object, carried in and out of his
house bodily, when he goes for a ride.
The home of ~Guggenheim, who lost
his life on the Titanic; Ford, the third
richest man in the U. S.; German,
Smoot, McAdoo, Tumulty, Champ
Clark, and many others.
The experimental farm of the Gov
eminent, from whence the seeds come,
that are sent out from the post office,
has 1877 acres.
The many embassies of foreign
countries, the house in which AleXan-
dria, where Capt. Elmer Ellsworth
was shot, because he took down a
Confederate flag from a hotel the
keeper had put over his building.
At the Masonic Temple was a small
pearl handle knife given to Washing
ton by his mother and carried by him
to the day of his death. DR.. Dick, his
physician, took up that knife from the
table and with the blade stopped the
clock at the moment of his death.
There it is today. A black kid glove
was also shown, that Washington
wore as a badge of mourning for his
mother. What a tender feeling seems
still to remain in Washington for the
President, and everything that can be
named for him his name is used. What
a close and loving friendship there
was for the Marquis Lafayette, who
later became commander in Washing
toms army. A room was kept apart
in Washington's home always for him.
Tn 1924 Lafayette came again to visit
the country and vas given royal re-
ceptions wherever he went.
Mt. Vernon, the home of Washing
ton, is kept up by a band of women
who, after asking Congress for an ap-
preparation for buying this property
and being refused, they said they
would have the money for it in a short
time. They collected two hundred
thousand dollars and bought it and
charge 25 cents for admission. 1t
must have proven a smart venture in
finance, as thousands view this place
weekly.
The trip thru Fort Myer was of
interest. Many good looking buildings
were there in which the boys are
housed in regiments. Being the moor
hour, we saw many of the soldiers,
and they all looked well and happy.
The inside of Washington's home
proclaimed loudly its refinement and
valuable furnishings with several
spare rooms and the four poster beds,
which now are fashinable. Christ
Church was visited. In it is Washing
toms pew, which is marked. This is
where Robert E. Lee spent twelve
hours at night and alone bordering
over the question whether he should
accept the offer of President Lincoln
to be the commander of the army,
North, and eventually refused. Robert
E. Lee married Nellie Gusts, the
daughter of President Washington's
adopted son.
Statues of famous men are all over .
Washington. New Jersey has her
own, of which she may be proud,
General Phil Kearney. Many of these
statues are on horses.
Lincoln pantheon is a beutifu1 edi-