The Washington times., 1924-04-19
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LEADER
Mrs. Rust Heads Move
ment for Purchase Of
Wakefield.

- SA4NG 1A1OAA6 SAO - So 4Ss W
"A horts is Mrs. Harry, LIE Rust.
- a in whose veins flows the blood
I Of the Lees and the WashingtonE,
and who is heading the movement
for the reclamation of Wake
field-the actual birthplace Of
George Washington down in West
moreland county, Va. Mrs. Rust
really looks the part of a Washing
ton descendant. She could make
! UP as George Washington so well
that his own mother would be
fooled, If she happened to invade in
that costume whatever quarters
+ Mary Washington now ,inhabits.
When she wears a hat on colonial
or tricorne lines her friends laugh.
ingly address her as George"
: Mrs. Rust, on the first day of
the Daughters congress, presented
Mrs. Cook with a gavel made from
q cherry tree on the old Wakefield
property. Now, my dear, don't ask
me If 1t was the original tree that
Washington cut with his little
Ratchet. George could not tell a
lie-so why should I? Anyhow, I
don't know. Mrs. Cook is using
the gavel, I'm sure of that; and I've
seen Mr.. Cook nursing it tenderly
between sessions and telling groups
of interested Daughters its his
tory.
Mrs. Rust and her Wakefield
Memorial Association are planning
an interesting pilgrimage to Wake
field about the last of. this month
April 30, weather and roads per-
mitting-that being the anniversary
Of Washington's Inauguration in New
VnrsIp 4f~seA
United States. It will be basket
picnic and the trip must be made
by motor. Knowing something Of
Virginia roads-of the main high
ways-prayers of the public are re-
quested for good weather to make
the trip possible.
believe there is no house on
the property at present, the Wash
1ngton home there having been de-
Stroyed by fire when George was
quite a small boy. Mrs. Rust has
in her apartment at 2400 Sixteenth
street a table which was brought
over from England and was the
only thing saved in that fire, a
round mahogany table-three leg
ged, and Of the type which we
now call "snap top''.quite with
out ornamentation, no inlaying you
know-but in pretty good preser-
walton. I am not sure whether 1t
10 her property or whether she Is
simply its temporary custodian.
It seems to me it was destined for
the D. A. r. museum.
4 4 \
Reconstruction Workers I'm
France Now in Washington.
II Among the interesting visitors to
Washington just now are the Rev.
DR.. Julian s. Wadsworth and Mrs.
Wadsworth, Of Chateau Thierry,
France, who art staying with Con-
gresham and Mrs. Richard Yates
at the Argonne. DR.. Wadsworth is
q brother of Mrs. Yates, and after
serving THRU years as a minister
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
attached to the New England con-
ference, he went to France, during
the war with the Y. M. G.. A.
forces. Since the armistice, he has
been in charge of the notable and
Invaluable work being carried on by
the Methodist Church of America,
under the supervision of Bishop
Blake, at Chateau Thierry. There
In the old Elephant Hotel, known to
all world war veterans, just at the
north end of the embattled bridge,
a wonderful institute, with a score
Of activities, and welfare functions,
Is being conducted, in order that
America may have share in the
reconstruction of France.
Miss Dorothy Yates served under
DR.. Wadsworth for a long period in
France as secretary, and had some
wonderfully interesting experiences.
DIR. and Mrs. Wadsworth will
spend several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Yates. Mr.. Yates, formerly
governor Of Illinois, is now Con-
gressman-at-large.