The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-02-06

| ton walls, indicating that 1t was large
enough to roast an OK in. The care
taker will live there. 1t was in that
spot that the excavators found many
| pieces Of broken crockery and bones.
| Some of these pieces are now on eX-
| hibftion in the National museum at
Washington.
A round table, saved from Wake
field at the time of the fire, and which
tradition in the Washington family
says was brought from England in
1860, has been presented by Mrs. 81.
L. Rust, president of the Wakefield
| association, for placing in the house
when it is restored.
The broken Washington platter, in
the salt glaze in vogue in 1735, has
been restored by potters and dupli-
Gates will be soon available. Other
pieces of furniture and other belong
ings from the original house are doubt
less extant in various parts of the
country, and the association hopes by
purchase or by gift to acquire them
| for the memorial. These will be en-
tered in the Golden Book of Wakefield,
as a record of the donor
Among the pictures that will be
placed on the walls are replica of
Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washing
ton as President, and Rembrandt
Peale's Lafayette, painted in Paris,
which have already been presented by
Mrs. L. K. Graves and Mrs. H. P
Woodruff. Other paintings has been
located, but not yet acquired by the
association.
The replacement of the library can
be guided by the list given in the in
ventory discovered by the historian Of
the association. In includes thirteen
volumes of Rapin's History of Eng
land" nine volumes of the Spectator,
three volumes of Virgil, six volumes
Of Pope's Homer" two volumes of
the Conquest of Mexico" six vol
umes of Shakespeare, two volumes of
Abridgment of the Reformation, six
volumes of Clarendon's History of
the Rebellion" three volumes of maya
zines, eight volumes of Clark's Ser
mons, Gordon's Geographical Gram
mar a Great Lexicon, Webb's Jus
tice," book called 1.-The Art of Cook
cry" large Bible, a large Book of
Common Prayer and sundry old Eng
fish and Latin books.
The cellar had its own revelations.
It is soberly recorded that there were
eleven gallons of spirits, seven and
one-half gallons of brandy, one hogs
head of Teneriffe wine, fourteen bot
ties of white wine, twenty-three bot
ties of ale;;'' and with that treasure
one horn punch ladle, three carved
beer glasses, thirteen carved wine
glasses and twenty and one-half doz-
ems Of quart bottles"
Another project, apart from the re-
building and refurnishing of the house,
which the Wakefield association has
undertaken, is the rebuilding of the
ancient log house. 1t will stand on
the site of log house that used to
be on the estate. Furthermore, the
i association has purchased, by formal
deed of conveyance executed by the
present Washington heirs, title to the
family burial ground. In the ancient
arched vault ten members Of the
Washington family, including the IA
Their of George, are buried.
Early last year the bodies Of more
than thirty members Of the family of
George Washington were placed at
rest in a large reconstructed vault in
the family burial plot close to where
the Father Of His Country was born.
With impressive ceremonies, four gen.
erations Of venerated dead were dis
| inferred from scattered graves in the
little family cemetery and placed in
| the vault, which Immediately was
sealed. 1t was another major step in
| the restoration Of Wakefield, the birth
place Of Washington.
The Wakefield Memorial association
has asked the United States govern
ment to dredge and improve the har-
Dor, to admit visitation by boat from
the Potomac river, to build an ade-
quate wharf and to landscape the
| grounds, after the present granite
shaft has been removed from the site
of the birthplace. It is expected that
such cooperation will be given, so that
everything will be ready for the COM
memoration Of the two hundredth an
niversary Of Washington's birth in
1890.
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