Evening star., 1929-10-06

family Of George II. This was the Kink
celebrated in the opening lines of Oliver
Wendell Holmes poem, THE One-Hoss
Shay:
In seventeen hundred and ffty:nve,
Georsius Secondus then was alive.
Settlers Honored George III.
1t was during the reign of George II,
from 1927 to 1850, that this part of Vir-
ginia was settled and the largest worldly
wish ef the settlers was to honor hsai.
The southerly route to Rapidan goes
the King himself, and within a dozen
miles Of Caroline County. named for his
Queen. Not far away Is King and Queen
County, named for both. The visitor
will pass through Prince William
County, named for George the Seconds
second son. This more southerly Of the
two roads passes through the little city
OF Fredericksburg which. more than any
other place IN America, continues to
this day to perpetuate English tradi-
tions, English architecture. English
ways and English stock. Frederlcks-
burg took its name from George the
Seconds oldest son, one Of the few who
were Prince of Wales without becoming
King. In Fredericksburg George the
Seconds Queen is honored by Caroline
street, his sister by Sophia street. and
his daughters by Princess Anne street
and Princess Amelia street.
Fredericksburg, faithful to tradition.
and leisurely in temperament, still calls
its streets, not by the irreverent abbre-
Walton Of Anne" or Amelia" but fully
and roundly by the royal titles, Princess
Anne street and Princess Amelia street.
Just recently impious modernism has
changed Caroline street to Main street.
to the considerable indignation of the
older families who still Loyalty insist on
the ancient name.
Fredericksburg Keeps History.
The strongly prevailing spirit of
Fredericksburg is to maintain its ancient
associations. Recently the builder of a
motion picture theater there found him
self required by the town council to
abandon Hollywood models and conform
to the Colonial architecture. There are
complete city blocks with every house
more than a century old, and all Of an
architecture to remind Mr.. Macdonald
of some midland English small town.
Fredericksburg today, Scorning modern
slogans about bigness, is not conspicu-
ously larger than 1t was a hundred years
ago. Among its 1000 people, probably
not 20 families are of other than Eng
lish stock. II Mr. Macdonald should
ericksburg more of the flavor of Eng
land than exists anywhere else in the
United States. AS it happens. Freder-
icksburg also contains more relics and
with the family of George
Washington than any other community.
Mr.. Macdonalds trip to Rapidan
camp Is certain to provoke many reflec-
tions of varied kinds. Among them,
none is so startling as what George the
Second would think if he could see Mr..
go by in a motor car.
Neither George the Second nor his
Queen, nor his princess, nor his daugh-
ters. could have imagined the day when
a Scotch Socialist labor leader would
have. during his term Of ofice, more
real power in England than George the
Seconds descendant, George the Fifth.
Neither could George the Second dream
Of the day when Great Britain amicably
would divide sea-power with the nation
that was destined to arise from the
colonies which loyalty and humbly de-
lighted to name themselves after Eng
lish royalty