Evening star., 1924-07-27
Road of Many Names Furnishes
Material for Rambler'S Story
ton Ago; n Good Hobea Nnesuch.

No mountains rise, no chasms
cape, no waterfalls fill the
air with sound and spray. 1t
! passes through country where hills,
steep and sloping. stand above wales
! that wind from north to west or east
to south. Trees--oak, gum, ash and
fifty other kinds-grow singly and in
groups. Here a pine tree stands
alone. and there naples make a grove.
From high places you see that hill
succeeds to hill till sky and country
meet. Brooks, which we call branches,
| are marked by lines Of sycamore and
birches, and rows Of cedars tell where
old lanes were. Green fields are
patched with white by daisies, var
row and Queen Anne's lace. In fields
| where crops are growing, men in dirt
and sweat stained clothes and with
naked sun-browned breasts and shoul-
ders are at work. And health and
| happiness are theirs.
There are many houses in the shade
| of aims and poplars and some
houses are close to the road, as
| though with their windows they
| would see the world go by. Other
| houses stand a little distance from
the road, as though shy, yet curious
to see what's going on. Some are in
gardens gay with flowers, and one
| thinks they may have decked them
selves with colors to win smiles from
passers-by.
From some places on the way one
looks across the valley Of the Eastern
Branch and sees far-off ridges that
seem to bound the earth. So. although
this road is not scenic way. it has
| grace and beauty.
Nor in historic sense does it COM
pare with many other roads No
troops Of Constantinople marched
along. No British columns passed
that way. Perhaps some COM
panies Of Redcoats went that way in
August, 1915, but the Rambler doubts
it This road took little part in the
Revolutionary War, though men pass
ing between their homes in southern
Maryland and the Republican armies,
north and east, must have Travelled
on it.
| In the Civil War no armies passed
to battle, but a line Of forts defend
/ ing Washington stood along this road
and Army teams and men in blue
stirred it's dust. 1t could have done
as big things in war as any other
/ road. but Fate ruled that it, should
have no place in bloody fame.
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WYE have passed along this road
w from Good Hope to Nonesuch.
It's first name I have found on maps
| is THE Road to Marlborough. Later
mans give it as THE Marlboro road.
Later still it becomes the Ridge road.
! though there is also a Ridge ROAD
which connects it with RIVER roao
near Benning. After years OF service
as Ridge road map-makers set II
dowr as Bowen road. remaining IL
| for SayIes j. Bowen. a man of note
in local annals and who was mayor
of Washington two terms. 1858 ana
i1Ss9
Mr.. Bowen built a country home
on the road, and the house, a hand
some, comfort looking frame, is
standing.
A son of Bill Landvoigt of The Stal
owns the place. Bill has been popu-
lar fellow Mn Washington ever since
the District Of Columbia was discov'
cred and has been SO prominent in Ma
sonry that l feel that number OF
members of the order have heard o,
him Arnold Landyoigt bought the
Sayles ]. Bowen property from Harry
Conger of laundry fame. and Harry
bought it from George 3. Stark
! weather, president of the Biogenetic
Survey. / have known George forty
| wears and he is no older than when
| we met. He has the secret of youth.
Across the road from the Bower
place is the old home of Henry
A. Linger. long known in Wash
ington as a mattress manufacturer
This was his home before he moved
to Anacostia, and the Linger house
there is one of the old home:
of the metropolis of the Easter
Branch. 1 meet Henry Linger's bo!
Fred now and then and also George
| Havener in a full-dress restauran
where 1 eat pie at noon.
The old Linger house and lands OF
Bowen road have been owned a goot
many years by Blair Domer. Blai
is a brother of Charlie, Will, Harry
Eulalie and Della Domer. All tn,
old boys know Charlie-Nationa
Fencibles, lst District of Columbi:
| Volunteers, and all that. Will i
TELLER with the Columbia Nationa
Bank. Harry is with the Swartzell
Rheem & Hensey Company. Eulalie
married Clarence Rheem, and tina
brings UP memories of gentle Clar
! ence, of Tom Hensey and Georg'
Swartzell. Della married John ALE
man, a Harrisburg lawyer. She il
a widow and lives in the Brunswick
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