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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
BY SPIKE WEBB.
Famous Coach and Trainer of the United
StAtAe Naval Academy.


Wv We get little for the asking.
n We must work hard to
W. realize our greatest Amni'
tons. If you aspire TO be
A. star on the track you
must follow out training programs
like this:
Either A. setting-up exercise or
brisk walk before breakfast.
A good substantial breakfast.
A brisk walk, three miles, through
the woods, winding up with sprint
for the last hundred yards.
Mark off your course ny miles
Carry your. watch and make each mile
in 10 minutes. That's good gait.
After light lunch--not too soon
after lunch---you can start the real
work on the track.
Loosen up the leg muscles By trot.
ting up and down the track, lifting
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ONLY FEW COURT GAMES
REMAIN TO BE DECIDED
Augusta Military Academy Five Visits Tomorrow 10
Play Central and Easiern-Devitt Will Take
!. Part in Tourney in Annapolis.

w YITHNall hut few teams
n having ended Their seasons
NV only a spg1nkling OK basket
ball games are cardsd this
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w YITH varsity lscross practice
n under way. Spring foot ball
" " workouts In vogue and
base hall hatterymen tun-
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Co. Regulars t43l. wash. Preps q
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Totals. =. 1s 4 40 Totals 4.
RAfeFee---Mr. DevlIu.
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Totals -. p z 25
Referee--Mr. Nash.
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Wv YASHINGTON's professional
"A basketers will depart to-
NA day on trip which should
make or break them in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06

Fair sharpshooters from Geore
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17
Washington From
Human, Viewpoint


Mr.. Charles Moore of Washing
ton, on the occasion of the recent IN
yelling of a Washington statue, adj
monished the assembled spectators
not to keep Washington on a pedes-
tai, but to bring him down among
them, for he was one of them, human,
as they were human.
All the heroes of history had their
weaknesses, their human limitations.
Their greatness Is only greatness
when considered from this human
point of view.
On the other hand it Is neither de-
sirable nor necessary to dwell unduly
upon their faults when there is such
inspirations in their virtues. There
can be no just quarrel with Mr.. Ru-
pert Hughes, who is doing merely
what others have done in reminding
US that Washington had a high tenn
per, that he swore on occasions, that
he played cards along with other gen
tlemen Of his time, that he partook
of liquor, also in keeping with the
custom of the day, or that he was
not unfailing in his attendance at
church. Washington was a gentle
man, but as soldier he had, in his
earlier days, experienced some of the
toughest going of frontier life. He
knew the profane vocabulary Of the
time, and while there is no record that
he was gratuitously profane, "cussing"
merely for the sake of being emphat-
ic, it Is a matter of record that he
could go into a rage and draw on
that vocabulary. Perhaps the most
noted of the tongue-lashings that have
gone into history was that which
Washington gave Gen. Charles Lee for
the latter's incompetence and ignomin-
ious failure at the battle of Mon
mouth, for which he was court-mar-
tailed and dismissed from the army.
No higher tribute ever was paid
Washington than by his intimate as
sociate, Thomas Jefferson. In that
tribute Jefferson says: "Hls temper
was naturally irritable and heightened,
but reflection and resolution had OBJ
tanned a firm and habitual ascend
ancy over it. If. however, 1t broke
bonds, he was most tremendous in
wrath. Or the whole his
character was, il its mass, perfect,
In nothing bad, in a few points indif
ferent; and it may truly be said that
never did nature and fortune COM
bine more perfectly to make man
great, and to place him in the same
constellation with whatever worthless
have merited from man an everlasting
remembrance"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

States and the board of managers Of
the society. That site on the public
reservation near the Potomac river,
where The monument now stands, was
selected. The corner stone of the mon
ument was laid on July 4, of that year.
This stone was a block of marble
weighing 24,500 pounds, and was quar-
ried and presented to the society by
Thomas Symington of Baltimore The
stone selected for the foundation was
the blue rock Of the Potomac valley,
in blocks weighing from six to eight
tons.
Design Changed.
When the actual work was begun
Mills plan Of circular colonnaded
building at the base was abandoned
and only the obelisk shaft, which was
changed as to proportions, was re-
tanned. On this plan the monument
was finally erected to a height Of 80
feet, by 1860. Then the Civil war
halted work on =. But at the end
Of the war further appeals were made
to the public for contributions, and to
congress for cooperation. 1t was in
1876 that the resolution was offered
to that body for the completion of the
monument. This act, as passed, car
ried with it an appropriation of $780,
COO. 1t provided for the transfer
to the government Of all property of
the Washington National Monument
society, and that the construction Of
the monument be placed under the
Joint supervision of the President of
the United States, the supervising
architect of the Treasury depart
ment, the architect of the Capitol, the
chief engineers of the army and the
first vice president of the society.
The first work on the resumption of
the construction of the monument was
the strengthening and enlarging of its
foundation. This was because the
original foundation was found to be
inadequate to bear the proposed shaft.
Stands on Original Site.
The completed monument, which
stands 500 feet high, was dedicated
in February, 1885. The total cost was
nearly S1,20O000 Thousands of pill
grims visit it every year, many of
them travelling to its summit to view
the marvellous panorama of their ma
tional capital.
Contrary to rumor at one time,
the Washington monument has never
been moved. From the very begin
nings of its construction it has re-
manned on the present site. How
ever in one sense, the monument
moves daily with the sun, turning
upon an arc under the influence of the
rays of heat. Likewise it moves IN
der pressure of the wind. But despite
these daily and occasional movements
there never has been the slightest dis
turbance Of Observation-Disclosures Mag
azine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17
Monument Is
Nations Tribute
to Greatest Son

The idea of a monument to the
memory of George Washington orig
mated in the house of representatives
1t was the ultimate outcome of a res
olution introduced by John Marshall
in 1899 that a marble monument be
erected by the United States in the
capital, at the city of Washington,
and that the family Of General Wash
ington be requested to permit his body
to be deposited under it; and that
the monument be so designed as to
commemorate the great events of his
military and political life" Before
this, however, the Continental con-
gress, in 1888, had adopted the reso-
luton shat an equestrian statue of
General Washington be erected at the
place where the residence of congress
shall be established"
In considering these two resolutions
congress amended the former so as to
provide that a "mausoleum of Amer
lean granite and marble, in pyra-
midal form, 100 feet at the base and
of proportionate height shall be erect
ed in the city of Washington Mean
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the funds given ever has been used
for overhead expenses" The serv-
ice of the associations administra-
tors is all volunteer service.
When George Washington's sister,
Betty, married Fielding Lewis, the
bridegroom was a man of wealth
quite the richest man In old Fred
ericksburg. He provided a fine home
for his wife-a capacious mansion
with brick walls two feet thick and
with a slate roof, set in the midst of
a plantation of 951 acres. Brother
George surveyed the site and himself
designed the beautiful plaster orna-
mentation, in elaborate Georgian mod
cling, which enriches the ceilings and
panels about the fireplaces. He sent
Hessian prisoners to execute this
work-after the battle of Trenton.
At the outbreak of the Revolution
airy war, Colonel Lewis made the first
guns for the Colonial soldiers. To-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17
Kenmore House
to Be Preserved
for the Nation

George Washington's Virginia kins-
welcome to the one exhibit at the
Sesquicentennial where floated the
flag of the Old Dominion.
She was very much at home there,
Miss Fannie Washington, for the ex-
hibit of the Kenmore association in
the Palace of Education was a repro
duction of the backporch of the man
sion at Fredericksburg, Va, where
once dwelt her great great-grandaunt,
Betty Washington Lewis, George
Washingtons oldest sister.
Her at-great-granduncle, George,
sat on that pleasant porch through
many a summer twilight in the days
when as q young man he used to
visit his sister at Fredericksburg or
drop In from his mothers home, right
next door.
Generals Met on Porch.
And when he virtually had achieved
the Independence of his country
George Washington invited all the
generals who had helped him win the
battle Of Yorktown to visit Fredericks-
burg and to meet his mother and sis
ter. There on that porch they talked
over the great victory and the happy
days that dawned ahead.
At the exposition, Miss Washington,
who comes from Fauquier county, Vir-
ginia, sat on the steps of Great-Great-
Grandaunt Betty's house, looking out
unto the bit of garden before the door,
where Ivy grew from four of Wash
3ngtons Virginia homes, and strummed
banjo, and sang old songs that have
been handed down in the family since
the days Of her great-great-grandfa
fher, Samuel Washington, George
Washington's brother
She is a Carter as well as Wash
fngtOn-her. mother descended from
''King" Carter, a baronial Virginian of
early days, who earned his title by
the way in which he ruled over the
destinies Of the colonists of the North
ern Neck, q great domain coded to
him by his monarch and personal
friend, King Charles H.
Many strange vicissitudes did the
old mansion suffer before the Ken
more association was formed, four
years ago, to rescue Kenmore and pre-
serve it as a historic spot.
Site and Mansion Bought.
The site and the mansion now have
been bought, thanks to gifts of $780,
600 from a host of generous donors.
But further funds still are needed
TO complete the work of restoring the
mansion to its pristine state-that's
one reason why the Kenmore associa-
f'~ 70 f'' hit at the Sesqui
rer'0r"ia! rs on4,ers have proud
tight TO say that not one dollar Of.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17
THE NAME OF WASHINGTON

Some Of the youth and the truth Of
nation.
Ye that are met to remember the man
salvation,
Honor him now. set his name in the
van.
A nobleness to try for,
A name to live and die for
The name Washington!
Calmly his face shall look down
through the ages
Sweet yet severe with a spirit Of
warning:
Charged with the wisdom of saints and
Quick with the light of a life-giving
morning.
A majesty to try for.
A name to live and die for
The name Of Washington!
Though factions may rock US, or party
divide US.
And bitterness break the gold links
of our story,
Our father and leader is ever beside US.
Live and forgive! But forget not the
glory
OF him whose height we try for.
A name to live and die for
The name of Washington
Still in his eyes shall be mirrored our
fleeing
Days with the image of days long
ended;
Still shall those eyes give, immortal
ly, greeting
Unto the souls from his spirit de-
scended.
His grandeur we shall try for,
His name Well live and die for
The name of Washington!
George Parsons Lathrop.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

The old Kenmore house at Fred
ericksburg, Va, upon which porch
General Washington spent many
twilight hours dreaming and plan
ming.
ward the end of the Revolution, when
funds were low, Colonel Lewis raised
100000 to aid the cause Of independ-
ence. He himself advanced f7,000 of
his own funds for the guns that won
the battle of Yorktown-and never
was repaid He died two weeks after
the battle of Yorktown, and the old
house was seized for debts.
George Preserves Mansion.
But George Washington, the richest
American Of his day, came to the
rescue of his sister and her seven chill
dren, and saw to it that the man
sion remained their home till all the
young folks were grown.
The mansion and the plantation
eventually passed into other hands At
last only two acres Of the original SOL
remained attached to the house. Mean
while Fredericksburg had grown--it
now has some 1000 inhabitants-and
there was talk Of tearing down the
old mansion, Or timing 1t into an
apartment house.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

Then patriotic Virginians came to
the rescue The Kenmore associa-
ton was formed, to protect this
house, as an important historic mon
ument of the Fredericksburg Washing
ton called "the place of my growing
infancy" the Fredericksburg where
Washington threw a Spanish dollar
across the Rappahannock, the Fred
ericksburg opposite which was the
Ferry farm, his boyhood home.
Mrs. Fleming Heads Society.
The president of the Kenmore as
ISOLATION is Mrs. V. NJ. Fleming of
Fredericksburg. Its field secretary is
Mrs Flemings daughter, Annie Elem
ing Smith-Mrs. H H Smith-her-
self t-great-grandniece Of Patrick
Henry and Dolly Madison. Mrs.
James Starr is chairman of the Penn
sylvania branch of the Kenmore asso-
citation. and there is a chairman in
every state.
In the Kenmore associations exhibit
at the Palace of Education photo
graphs were shown of many details of
the gracious and dighified interior and
exterior of the old mansion, Of it's his
toric furnishings, many of them Wash
ington family heirldoms, and of
horse-chestnut tree still fiourishing
next to the house-sole survivor of Is
planted there by Washington him
-o1f who Tho
walked over from her home next
door.
There were historic pieces in the
exhibit, too-such as the side-table
once used by Mary Ball Washington
the mother of George Washington,
when she dwelt next door to Ken
more.
Having seen the porch of Kenmore,
now don't fail to pay a visit to Ken
more itself $50 Miss Washington
and Mrs Smith adjured visitor to
the Kenmore association exhibit at
the Sesquicentennial.
Historic Battle Scenes.
They promised much reward in such
a visit, sight of the Rappahannock
valley, of the rare picturesqueness and
natural beauty; a chance to visit the
scenes of the battles such as Chancel-
louisville, the Wilderness, Spottsyl
vania and the two battles of Fred
ericksburg-all fought during the
Civil war, within fifteen miles of
Fredericksburg and a chance to see
the home town of the Washingtons
and the Lees, of John Paul Jones, and
the seven generals of the Revolution.
airy war-the town, too where Mad
ison and Monroe We're educated.
Also the scene of the first Ameri-
can Declaration of Independence. The
Declaration was adopted at meet
ing in Fredericksburg OF committee
of which Colonel Lewis was chair
man, on April 20 i775, fifteen months
before q certain we!l-known Fosrth of
JUL. Ml twenty days before the
Mccklcnbu~r IN. C.) Declaration of
independence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

while, the equestrian statue men
toned in the resolution of the Con-
tinental congress eliminated in the
statue by Greenough, which was
placed in the rotunda of the Capitol
in 1871. But it was later moved to
the east front of the Capitol and
more recently to the Smithsonian mu-
scum.
No definite steps We're taken toward
the erection of the monument until
1888. During that year the Washing
ton National Monument society was
organized, with the idea of erecting
a monument by popular subscription.
In 1886 the society invited American
artists to submit designs for a monu-
ment. The only requirement was that
any plans submitted should "harmo-
niously blend durability, simplicity
and grandeur" The cost of the pro-
posed structure was to be not less
than S1,O0O000.
Proposed Memorial
Many designs were submitted. The
one selected was that submitted by
Robert Mills, prominent architect of
his time This design, known as the
original design of the Washington
National monument, is reproduced in
the accompanying illustration. The
plan, as shown was a circular colon
naded building, go feet in diameter
and 100 feet high, from which was to
spring an obelisll shaft 20 feet square
at the base and 800 feet high.
But funds for the monument accu-
INFLATED slowly because contributions
had been limited to one dollar a per-
son. Thus, it was 1917 before enougl
money to justify beginning the build
ing of the monument was accumu-
lated.
In 1913 congress adopted another
resolution authorizing the society to
erect ii morumont anon site TO be
selected by the President OF the United
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

There's good authority for the
statement that George Washington
owned Americas first mule. The
mule was 81 pre-. u. to Washington
from the king of Spain, and was
named Royal Gift.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-02-17

Washington arch is in itself me.
mortal to the great Washington and
has been decorated by two statues
of heroic size, The western one show.
ing Washir gton the statesnn IN, Is the
work OF A. Sterling Calder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01
COURT RULING IN COLGATE IN.
JUNCTION CASE

The bill in equity recently filed by
James G. Colgate of Bennington. VT,
for an injunction against the Phila-
delphia Electric Power Company in
connection with the steps prelimin-
airy to exercising it's right to con-
denim certain lands owned by Col
gate in the vicinity of the Conowingo
Hydro Electric Project, was dismis
sed, and the motion for prelimi-
aary injunction denied.
Colgate, who is the owner of sew
sral tracts of land located in Penn.
,ylvania above the dam at Como
wingo, sought to enjoin the Power
Company, the Pennsylvania Water
md Power Resources Board and
public Service Commission, from
proceeding with the consideration OF
he Company's application for a GER
,ificate, as required by law, prelimi
nary to the exercise of its right to
condemn the plaintiffs land, and
further to restrain the Power Com
)any from taking possession of OIL
entering upon the plaintiffs lands
Colgate commended that his pro
perty situated in Pennsylvania could
not be taken for the benefit OF q
Maryland corporation. The Court
held that the plaintiffs land was be-
ing taken for the purpose of pub
lie use to serve the Pennsylvania
public and in concluding said, 1T is
.hus clear that the plaintiff suffers
40 legal injury nor any irreparable
damage by the exercise of the pow
or of eminent domain for an avowed
public use."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01
STARS AND STRIPES FIRST UN.
FURLED AT COOCH'S BRIDGE

War Department Makes Final De-
cisiOn, Eliminating Rival Fort
The war department has reversed
is position taken last summer that
the flag unfurled at Fort Stanwix N
Y, on August 3, 1777, was the Stars
nd Stripes, and that therefore Fort
Stanwix and not Cooch's Bridge
Del, was the scene where the Amer
can flag was first unfurled.
The war department has conclud
"a that the flag unfurled at Fort
;tanwix had no stars and strines and
'ould therefore not properly >e cali
ID an American flag. This decision
caves Cooch's Bridge as the nnds-
,uted spot where the STARE and
'tripes were first hoisted to the
preeZes
Secretary of War Davis declared
|>h1s opinion in a letter written few
lays ago to Senator Bayard, wherein
ne states 1.-The War Department
has reached the conclusion that the
flag that was unfurled by the Ameri
,ans at Fort Schuyler, formerly Fort
Stanwix, August 3, 1777, was not
he Stars and Stripes"
Secretary Davis decision was
reached after an investigation in re-
gard to the Stanwix flag, made by
The historical section OF the Arneri-
IAN War College. A similar posi-
lion recently was taken by Postmas-
ter General New, in refusing an ap-
,lication on behalf of Fort Stanwiy
for a special postage stamp COM
memorating the claimed use of the
lag.
No application was made for 3
lag stamp for Cooch's Bridge. The
lain of the latter was, therefore,
not brought in question, but is af-
fected in so far as Fort Stanwix is
eliminated as rival.
In refusing to issue flag stamp.
he postmaster general consented to
issue this year stamp commemor-
,tive of the 150th anniversary OF the
battles of Fort Stanwix, Oriskany,
Bennington and Saratoga.
The Delaware Society Sons of the
American Revolution Is cooperating
with the Pennsylvania society in the
request for a similar stamp for the
150th anniversaries OF Cooch s
Bridge, Brandywine, Germantown
and Valley Forge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01
AMERICAN LEGION AMBULANCE
SERVICE

Week of June goth to 26th Inclusive
The furious rate at which the
American Legion ambulance has been
used in the past two weeks bids fair
to establish a record for service in
the time in which the ambulance has
been in use. The six trips made
during the past week maintain an
average of one trip day through
out the last two weeks period.
Communities served during the
past week included, Elkton, Will
mington to Elkton, Port Deposit (2)
and Peach Bottom. The fact> that
.hree of the trips made during the
week were on accidents should warn
ds all to be especially careful OF per-
sonal safety and do all we could to
prevent accident either to ourselves
)r other folk.
STATISTICAL REPORT
Number of trips for week q; Aver
age milage per trip 80 mi; Total
mileage for week 239 mi; Total
rips to date 272; Average mileage
per trip 31.6 mi; Total mileage to
date 1863 mi.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01
ORPHANS, COURT

Bonds Approved. Allen Fisher
executor of Thomas Lynch; Wilson
L. Coudon, Jr., administrator o:
Wilson L. Coudon; Joseph II. Smith
administrator of William A. Smith
Arabelle Husfelt, administrators OF
George w. Jackson; Willis l.. Kirk
and Harriet F. Bullock, executors OF
Jacob H. Kirk; Blanche Benson.
guardian of Harriet Ida Benson.
Accounts Passed-First and fina'
account OF Walter ]. Dalton, admin
istrator of Cosley H. Dalton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-01
AMERICA

America, my home thou art;
And dear to. every patriot heart
Beating within the boarders wide.
Thy mountains, valleys, rivers, seas;
Thy radiant skies, life giving breeze;
While freedom on thy winds doth
ride.
Blest be the patroit bands, now
dust,
Who broke our chains, who said we
must
Not bow the knee to tyrant's will;
But freemen all, tho we but die,
To free our land we can but try,
Or bear our bonds, pay tribute still
So these brave hearts, and voices
stilled,
Gave forth the challange: We have
willed.
To pay no hateful, unjust fee;
Well fight for right, if then we
must;
Full well we know our cause is just.
Our land we love, it must be free.
Then let us all rejoice and pray,
That this, our land, as now, Away
\ heaven for the poor oppressed.
Our flag unsullied, proudly wave,
Above the land our forbears gave
For of all land, we know it's best.
JENNIE GILLESPIE