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the most important will be told, and,
as far as possible, in Mr.. Wigmore's own
words.
THE OLD CHURCH TOWER.
jamestown, Va.
GIVE are told, in quaint phraseology."

NWE are told, In quaint phraSeology,"
says Mr.. Wigmore, that the first
place of worship of the settlers was
fashioned with an awning hung to three
or four trees, to shadow them from the
sun; and the seats were of unhewed
trees, till they cut plankS; whilst the
pulpit was bar of wood nailed to two
neighboring trees; and in foul weather
they shifted into an old rotten tent, for
they had few better. Next came the
first actual church edifice of the Church
Of England in America, described as a
homely thing thike a barn, set up on
cratchets, covered with RATS, sedge and
EARTH"
Later he says, a second church was
built, probably on the same site.
Abandonment of the settlement was
attempted in 1910, then came Lord de
La War;, who took much pains to re-
pair the church and the Lord Governor
and the Captain General caused it to be
kept sweet and trimmed up with divers
flowers. In this second church, John
Rolfe and Pocahontas were married in
1914. No vestige of it has been or prob
ably ever will be found, for the greater
part Of the site of the triangular stock
ade, within which these first two
churches were situated, has been washed
away by the clutching of the waters of
the mighty James River.
mo eye can look upon, nor can the
mind contemplate the Old Church
Tower today without turning in
thought to the beginnings of the great
adventure BY 1917 the second
church (Which had been within the
stockade) was again in ruins and a
storehouse was used for divine service.
At about this period the third church
was built but this time outside the old
triangular stockade. 1t probably was Of
timber, but set on light foundation Of
masonry. Within this little building the
first representative body of English law
makers to assemble in America met to-
gether in July, 1919. How long this
third church was used is not known,
but new one, called the fourth church.
is believed to have been completed about
1647.
THE Old Tower probably was part
Of this fourth church, which, in turn,
was burned in 1876. with the rest Of
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Christ Church, Alexandria, completed in 1878.

"A few miles only from Old Abing
don is the strategic place on the York
River called Werowocomico. where the
wise. witty and cruel Indian potentate,
Powhatan. made his permanent or chief
home and, If the story be authentic,
where the supremely daring Pocohontas
bravely interceded and preserved Capt
Smiths life as. in the Indian fashion,
he was about to be Drained
Is. The church is cruciform in de-
sign and the west entrance is superb in
its symmetry and grace, and the old
fiagstone pathway in front. From the
heights Of Yorktown, opposite to Glou-
cester Point, CORVALLIS made last
despairing effort. under cover Of dark
ness. to cross the river stealthily and
escape, but fate and the elements turn
ed him back to a just DOOM"
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OLD ST. LUKE'S CHURCH.
Near SmithfieId, Va.

ct EFT us pause moment and medi-
tate upon the old brick church,
as 1t was Called says Mr.. Wigmore,
"in order to realize that this is the old
est building now standing in America,
which was constructed by an English
mana heritage which any national
Government might well surround with
every bulwark of protective care and en-
shrine amongst its principal heirlooms
Left only to the kindly help of the few
who could and would cherish it. it has
miraculously survived. Some of It's
earliest records were lost by the ravag-
ing raids of cruel Tarlton and his
Legionnaires during the Revolution, but
the church itself, with its castlelike
walls and tower, stands firm; visible
historian of invisible centuries.
Pushing their way up the James and
into the Indian-pathed forests, 1t was
builded by the colonists only 25 years
after the settlement at jamestown, and
lies now in Isle of Wight County, in a
region of rivers, creeks and ponds large
ly tributary to the James. This was one
of the eight original 'shireS' in the year
1884, and the first name it bore was the
Indian name of Warrosquoyacke."
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OLD BRUTON PARISH
CHURCH,
Williamsburg, Va.

"THE history of Bruton parish really
begins with the expansion of
settlement beyond jamestown. In 1882
Middle Plantation afterwards williams
burg was laid out and paled in seven
miles inland from jamestown. Middle
Plantation parish was created, also a
Harrop parish established. These were
united and called Middletown parish.
Later a Marston parish was formed,
and subsequently, in 1874 Marston and
Middletown were merged under the
name Bruton parish.
Washington makes mention In his
diary of attending service here and
adds, and tasted all day The good
Bishop Meade recounts that when the
decisive step was about to be taken by
the Colonies, in relation to the mother
country. after they had denounced and
renounced her as cruel stepmother
and were about to take up arms and
appeal to the god Of battles TO aid them
in their Just rights. the patriots de-
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from the frigate Liverpool January 1,
1776, when the bombardment COM
menced."
OLD GRACE CHURCH.
Yorktown, Va.

THE old church is probably the same
to which, in 1896, Gov. Nicholson
subscribed the sum OF eco, If built with
In two years and of brick. 1t was erect
ed prior to 170O.
so much has happened hereabouts
that whilst the eye is engrossed with
the scenery the mind is flooded with
emotions in contemplating the pano-
rama of history. Here the weary armies
OF the Revolutionary War finally closed
the struggle and CORVALLIS capitulated
'1nseparably connected with York
and the old church is the name of the
Nelson family. OF Gen. Thomas Nelson,
jr.. friend OF Washington, one has said
that. he certainly entered the war very
rich and came out of it so poor that
when few years had passed away
and he was laid in the old graveyard at
York, without headstone or slab
to mark the spot his property, save the
old house in deserted York and some
poor broom straw fields in Hanover,
was put up at public sale to pay the
debts contracted in his country's cause"
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OLD ABINGDON CHURCH.
Gloucester County, Va.

" A PREVIOUS church, whose foun-
dations were close by is supposed
to have been built on land donated by
Col. Augustine Warner, whose daughter
Mildred was George Washington's
grandmother, and here she must have
Worshipped and received her early re-
ligious training. That church was used
about 100 years, but on its becoming
unsafe steps were taken to build the
present beautiful Abingdon.
Gloucester County was carved out
OF York County about 1851, and the I'M
usual extent and nature of its water
'front.' its quiet waters for oyster gath
ering, its fertile land and salubrious
climate attracted both Indians and early
settlers, Here were located Abingdon,
Ware, Petsworth and Kingston par
ishes. but, at best, only remnants of
foundations tell where stood Petsworth
and Kingston Churches and earlier old
chapels of the days when almost solid
forests Swallowed the land and the In
dan trails
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OLD MERCHANTS HOPE
CHURCH,
Prince George County, Va.

RUILT presumably in 1857, Old Mer-
chants Hope Church is situated
about IA miles from Petersburg by land
travel.
1T seems a far cry from the epic and
immortal Shakespeare to these early
Virginia heroics. but by one thread in
the weaving of human events a certain
Richard Quincy, whose brother Thomas
had married Shakespeares daughter
Judith, in 1916, became part owner in
this great tract Of land, which included
Merchants Hope and Martins Bran
don plantations, where the lovely Bran
don homestead still stands.
1T Is Of stirring interest to tread
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OLD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.
Norfolk, Va.

"WITH the dawn of the epochal
year 1776, disaster pressed hard
upon this church, for the bombardment
of Norfolk by the English fleet of Lord
Dunmore, the last Colonial governor
under the crown, left the city in ruins,
and old st. Paul's did not escape. The
interior was burned. but the walls, be-
ing of ample strength, resisted not only
the fire, but the cannon balls of the
foe. There is still to be seen, high up
in one of the walls and now cemented
IN its indenture, the cannon ball shot
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the rugged old fiagstones within the
church, which. as of yore, still pave the
aisles feet in width, leading from both
doors to meet at the chancel, for 1t is
marvellous to think that these rough
hewn tiles, which have borne witness
to all who have entered its doors for
going on 800 years now, have survived
the stress of wars and the periods of
neglect to which so many and so much
of the churches have succumbed"
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jamestown. 1t is likely that only the
tower and walls then survived. Pre-
sumably these ruins were rehabilitated
during the partial rebuilding of James,
town between 1876 and 1886. Thus re-
paired, it has been called the fifth
church. and was apparently used until
near the year 1900. About this time
the walls fell, still leaving, however, the
Old Tower ruins from 1647. Now, again,
has the body of the church been re-
stored to its early form"
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OLD ST. JOHNS CHURCH,
Richmond, Va.

PUILT in 1741 "this shrine was
~ the scene Of Patrick Henry's great
speech-that immortal epic Of American
history! The second Revolutionary Con-
vention Of Virginia had assembled at
Richmond, In March, ITS. 1t was held
Continued on Fifth Page.l
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

Miss Helen Godfrey, II, Norwalk.
Conn.,, who secretly married Dr..
Frederic Ritchle, 68, New York eye
specialist By the marriage Mrs.
Godfrey becomes the stepmother. OF
woman twice her age.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

MicH.-Flrss air mail
route IL China IS now in regular serv-
lea rs2'<se,II E!-.':...ys e.,
5 peur soo-horsepcwer standard Stiu-
tsse -tssxzGtsv six passenger planes
ss,sesassSsa - Sns Chinese National Gov
sss,Ss~ss-.~ss ~ V,r Sti;,Sop Aircraft Cor =
!sf~r---~-s " e Ate 3-'ng operated 60
the now Ss:nese .tIe
Sna s-erss to Na'To'g VIZ "srk,ng
IS the first regular G@iy as unr
which the planes cover. The Ser" o
will be exte:lied Us rapidly as possisAe
20 Hong Kong. according to K. N'eh,
Minister Of communications c. the
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

tor at Selfridge Field during the
World War. and Capt. W. a, aarrer-
son, former flight ctt1c0 ~kEo Tho
Royal Flying Corps. M. sa>aAas vus
one OF the pilots Who >rnA =. night
of az Snnson- . Nsax1cni
early rhi, yras - ssrsjessss ow kus
Mexican svvrnI.cpr m s.@s ~~x.ns,
Nottss eyras -a~ <-nsXr iin~era-ssS ~
tho An-artp~~s a.:n'>rs. These hayN,
been sai.-.ts-x from ne cream of C'Ar
ae-~' y~r,tN. Woo havn r,rFd cv-0
pv..<D.@ y',.l:acnce Of wea..n and FAM
lily r..atss, to obtain she coveted OPP
portaGty. and maI.v Of whom expect
to purchase planes for their own use
after they have completed training. e
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

His Majesty the American either
need cast no enyiols Chances at an
Client Persian Shahs or any Of the
great Kahns Of China. for the glory
OF hocr coverings that once was the
boast Of Orientals is now available
in American reproductions, Walter
E. Olson, president Of the Olson Rug
Company. Chicago, said recently In
addressing a group Of club women.
Whether it's one Of the famous
prayer rugs Of the Persians. or the
Chinese floral, 1t soon will be repro
duced in this country. BY recently
perfected process Of manufacture. the
American Oriental plant OF the Oh
son Rug Company is able to weave
rugs and carpets that closely resem-
BILE In texture and duplicate in de-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

the Europeans arrived In 1843. The
foreign settlement has its own gov
eminent and policemen-burly. red
turbaned Sikhs in the British Con-
cession, wiry little Indo- Cinnamon
with peculiar hats in the French. The
Empress of Australia goes to Chin
wangtao. whence her passengers Jour-
ney to Peking-four cities in one.
Picking is magnificent. Tie Summer
Palaces, the Forbidden City, the
Temple Of Confucius. the Temple of
Heaven and other Oriental marvels
never fail to interest the visitor. A
train from Picking brings the traveller
to the Great Wall Of China, built GEN.
turtles ago to keep out invading
hordes. y.ss ~
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

: s2m!y twenty years cd. but already
g. antique" Is this clumsy cortrap-
tio4i Ct belts. wheels and tubs dis
played in Peoria. III. An up-to date
1879 girl arrayed herself in the garb
OF 1909 to poee beside the device, and
tho contrast in the one is no less
than it is in the other. An Identity
ing label is almost required to estab-
lish kinship with the sleek, Efficient,
electrically operated washer of today.
Built in the basement Of a village
|. hardware dealers store at Roanoke,
! ILL.,, it was designed by his two sons,
6 to spare their sisters from the drudg-
cry Of Blue Monday. Neighbors
/ scoffed at the idea OF washing clothes
without effort. without washboard
without hand wringing, until the
proud brothers and the still prouder
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-10-26

Chinese Nationalist Government at
Marking.
Passengers are being carried as we'll
as mail. The planes are tns Atest
Stinson model With hpx,,1rus cabin
Accommodations baggage ~znpart-
meno and wasArJ,E,a ~,.sesa a~ids
and beacons hare tse.;, c a. II - s.arn-
plet'on at tic alri'u;+s w',c., rr-a~
tual!Y Will have E,cIern i~-,llay or
restaurants and waiting rooms as we;!
as Ep-to-date hangers.
aa,s:tcan pilots assigned by the
'S:hson Aircraft Corporation to In
augurate the Chinese National Air
Mail and Passenger Service are Je-
rome Machle, military flying instruc-
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sign the fayor!tcs @: T.: c -:
courts.
"Cclor was q stumbling block ia -
path Of making A,.cricsl ru5a tn
sian in quality Tor q long time. cat
the lost shades are fast becoming
the great American myth ard. With
the dye equipment CT tic grca: Fats.
even practical method OF manu!ac-
turing the Tyrian purple will be
found"
The rug shown above is an ancient
Persian vase carpet that hangs in the
South Kensington Museum III Lon-
don. England. 1t is worn from III:
feet Of the Shahs. 1t is one CT the
most perfect examples OF rIrc Per
sian design n ez.ateace toa-y az
is reprodG.ei exactly on Anl.:.-a,-
looms.
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highl.ghts Of the Forthcoming world
cruise OF the Canadian Pacific liner
Empress Of Australia" which leaves
New York Dec. 2. 1929, for a globe
5irdling voyage Of 1877 days. 1t is also
the Oriental terminus Of the white
Expresses Of the Pacific"
Slang, Il. en- the Whangpco River,
another fascinating Chinese city, IS a
place c. contras ST. ,agn!hcert build
ings, hotels ard thea .res-and narrow,
crooked streets containing rabbit
warren / zGar3 where che can procuro
yrinkets and Oriental novelties.
5hanghat is the most cosmopolitan
city in the world. 1t is now thriving
metropolis of 100000 inhabitants,
but it was a mere fishing village when
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China. that vest empire Of the Far
East, with its peculiar customs and
traditions. has 4 subtle appeal for the
Occidental mind. and travellers are in
Guiding 1t in their itineraries when
ever possible. There is Hong Kong. .
British Crown Colony. the harbor of
which can challenge any in The world
for size and grandeur. Here the jadeA
traveller in search Of new worlds to
conquer sees Chinese junks. queer
looking craft with eyes in their bows
SO that they can see to go; sampans
with Slated sails. and merchantmen
representing almost every country in
the world. Hong Kong Is one Of the
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sisters proved the device really did
what they said it would.
Evolution has bern so fast the crude
machine is as far out-of-date now as
centtry-old relics viewed with awe in
great museums. The sons Of the Ro-
ancke storekeaper, s. H. and A. w.
Altorfer. are president anG vice-presi-
dent today OF great Peoria enterprise
bearing sSeir name. ASC washers.
SURPRISING their first design as the
Le9iathan surpasses Robert Fulton's
steamboat, 60 to every part Of North
America and score of foreign coun-
tries. The little school house factory,
used when the business Of the BROTH
ers outgew their fathers cellar. could
be lost in corner Of the present great
plant.
To-day It would take a ten-mile
freight train to haul one years pro-
duction." said the president.
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M u SIC
JOSEPH PARBECoT,s RECITAL.

Or. Hugh Roberts Of the Washington
College of Music presented Joseph
Barbecot. baritone, in an artists
diploma recital last evening in Barker
Hall at the Y. W. c. A.
At the outset Mr.. Bsrbecot put his
audience at ease with his immediate
assurance and poise in the legato
phrases of 'Lungi del Caro- Hene," by
Sarti. following this with folk tune,
a French Bergerette, arranged by
weckerlin, and closing with brilliant
version of TIE Mozart. aria Non Ptu
Audrai." from Figaro"
group Of French songs. beautifully
sung occupied a middle position on the
program. Words by the poet, Paul YER
laine. are set to music by Reynolds
Hahn in Dune Prison" and Of
Bourget. set by Debussy, in Beau
Soir." These we're artistic efforts of
high order representing in the atten
ton to nuance and tonal quality con-
scientious regard on the part Of the
singer. Henri Duparc, a pupil of Cesar
Franck, uses the exotic poem by Beau
delaire for the creation of a striking
song, LA Vie Anterieure." demanding
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making gifts ranging from $4,000 to
500, 600. On one occasion he presented
$1,000 to each Of $50 employees.
Wide publicity came to Mr.. Cochran
through his short-lived romance with
Gamma Walska, Polish prima donna,
who later became the wife of Harold F.
Mccormick OF Chicago. Mr.. Cochran
and the singer were married secretly
in Paris In 1920. The wedding was a
great surprise on both sides of the At
lantic, for Mr. Cochran, the former
most elig BILE bachelor" had become
known as a confirmed bachelor
Mr. Cochran was about So years old
He had a residence in New York City,
q Winter home in California and in
1915 purchased a million-dollar estate
in Colorado. In former years he spent
much time in Europe, mostly in Paris
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-20
PUTNAM URGES
LIBRARY CHANGES
Facilities Are Too Strongly
Concentrated in East,
Delegates Are Told.
~ the Associated Press.

b. Tire Associated Press.
ROME. June 2o.--Herbert Putnam,
librarian Of Congress, speaking before
the World Congress Of Librarians, sug-
gestsd sweeping changes in the ar
rangenent and constitutions Of libraries
in the United States.
Declaring library facilities were too
strongly conferred in the East and too
widely scattered elsewhere. he urged the
DEVELOPMENT NJ eight or ten regional
centers Of collections sufficiently strong
IN meet the needs Of ordinary research.
He advised the concentration within
e. few locations as possible Of raterlal
more highly specialized, this effort at
concentration In involve the surrender
bv some libraries of books to other
lihrs&es more specialized
Collection Strengthening Urged.
He also suggested that annual funds
for the purchase of books be applied IN
such a way that collections would be
strengthened rather than duplicated.
Duplication would be unnecessary under
a new system of interlibrary loan be-
tween sectional libraries.
He said that the funds annually
spent in the United States TO purchase
library books we're very large, totallng
for SO academic libraries alone nearly
S25n00 900 annually.
Mr.. Putnam detailed how the new
catalogue system Of the Library Of Con-
cress. containing already more than
; non 200 titles, will be extremely vslu-
able to investigators. This catalogue
will list books in the principal libraries
Of the United States as we'll as those
in the Library Of Congress. He said
that the compilation was being financed
hy John D Rockefeller. jr., and that It
NAV total 10000 900 titles.
Advocates Exchanges.
He advocated system ri inter-
library exchanges and said that special
postal rates would be instituted ap-
plicable TO books transmitted for other
than commercial purposes.
Conditions which make some libra
ries merely museums for books will pass.
he said. when the idea becomes preva-
lent that the use of a book by the pres
ent generation is more important than
the preservation of it for posterity.
Delegates to the congress spent this
morning wandering through the beau
tlful halls of one of the most famous
libraries in the world, the Vatican Ii
brsry The visitors we're escorted by
assistant librarians, who gave up Their
usual work for the morning.
American delegates to the congress
we're surprised to find Americas mod.
ern imprint on the 500-year-old library
in the form of steel bookstacks and
device to regulate the atmospheric con-
ditions so as to counteract the Italian
damp.
They were shown a new cataloging
system installed with the help of Amer
lean experts and financial assistance
from the Carnegie Endowment. Many
books and manuscripts which are not
ordinarily shown to visitors we're taken
out and shown to the Librarians.
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forceful Interpretation and dramatic
insight, qualities displayed convincingly
by Mr., Barbecot.
The singing Of the songs with English
text was satisfying to an extreme from
that standpoint alone. George Bagby's
The Moon" Eric Coates Songs at
Eventide" and the Terrari Mirror"
sung as an encore, we're examples of
fine diction. A "Ronde d'Amour," by
Chaminade. was the final programmed
number but in response to the en-
thusiasm of his audience Mr.. Barbecot
added the famed aria from Benvenuto
Cellini, "LArte Immortele," by Raphael
Diaz. This aria has furnished Mr.
Barbecot a satisfactory vehicle before
and il was gratifying to note in his
performance of last evening distinct
growth in every phase of singing. His
advancement in style and stage pres
ence is apparently the outcome OF
serious application to his study, and
with the natural beauty of voice which
is his, there is reason to look forward
to future achievement.
Mrs. Fanny Amstutz Roberts acted as
accompanies.
Mr. Barbecot is 10 receive bach
elor's degree in voice at the Washing
ton College of Music commencement
tomorrow evening
Catherine Benson. pianist. was called
by illness to her home in Iowa. Her
p,sce on the PROGRAM was taken by Sara
Becker Of the college faculty.
An interesting group Of modern com
nositions included Tn q Rickshaw," by
Cowles: Prelude" by Stoiowski, and
Fairy Tale" by Conto. The Chopin
"Fr1inor Valse" and the heroic Pol
onaise on. So" we're heard later. Miss
Becker plays with fine musicianship
always and her mastery of the din
culties of the Chopin polonaise gave
her playing authority.