Evening star., 1932-05-01
ARLINGTON HOUSE
RECEIVES PICTURES
Assistant Secretary Payne
Formally Accepts Gifts
OF Societies.

Copies of four pictures which will
carry inspiration to thousands of
Americans" and make os Arlington
House not museum but o nome" were
formally accepted on behalf of the Gov
ernment yesterday afternoon by Col.
Frederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary
of War.
The presentation of the pictures was
made by the representatives of four
patriotic societies in the presence of
many distinguished men and women
who gathered on the porch and lawn of
the mansion in Arlington National
Cemetery, formerly the home of George
Washington Parke Gusts, the adopted
son Of George Washington and his SON.
n-law. Gen. Robert Edward Lee of the
Confederacy. Among the guests were
the French Ambassador and Nine. Clau-
del, Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the
Secretary of War; Mrs. Frederick H.
Payne, Secretary of Labor and Mrs.
Doak and Mrs. Russell William Magma,
president general of the Daughters of
the American Revolution
Other Guests Present.
Other guests at the exercises, which
were broadcast over Station WJSV, in
cluded Senator and Mrs. David A. Reed.
Senator and Mrs. Simeon D. Fess, Mai
Gen. and Mrs Herbert F. Crosby, DR. and
Mrs. Luther H. Reichelderfer, Maj Gen.
and Mrs. John L. Dewitt, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss
Bloom, Brig. Gen. William E Horton,
retired; Brig. Gen. and Mrs L. H. Bash
and Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Havenner.
The portraits, originals of which once
hung in Arlington house, are of George
washington, Nelly Gusts. Gen Light
Horse Harry" Lee and Lafayette
'Th6Tn fho
elderly man from New York City, who
gazed about the rehabilitated mansion,
restored to its former glory, with SYM
pathy ana emotion. He was George
Lyttleton Upshur, said to be the last
member of the Gusts and Lee families
to remember Arlington as it was before
the Civil War. Mr.. Upshur is a son of
Rear Admiral John H. Upshur, U. S. N,
and grandson Of Capt. William George
Williams, chief of Typographical engi-
neerS in Gen. Taylor'S army during the
Mexican War. As a boy of he was
taken to Arlington by his mother to say
good-by to the Lees, and was present the
day that Gen. Lee resigned his commits
sion in the United States Army.
The washington portrait by Peale, |
showing the national hero in the uni
form of colonel Of the Virginia Mill
tia, was presented on behalf of the So
ciety Of Colonial Wars by its governor
general, George de Bonneville Keim of
New York and Washington. The copy
was made by Miss Hattie E. Burdette
of Washington.
Miss Burdette also painted the COPY
Of the Lafayette picture by Peale, which |
was presented on behalf of the Society
OF the Cincinnati by Gist Blair of Wash |
ington.
Nelly Gusts Copy Presented.
The Eleanor Parke (Nelly) Custis |
portrait, the original of which by Gil !
bert Stuart once hung in Arlington, |
was presented by the Order of Found |
ers and Patriots Of America. The copy, |
made by Walter Gilman Page of Nam |
tucket, Mass, was presented on behalf |
of the order by its registrar general |
Prof. Adams of Trinity College, Hart |
ford, Conn. |
The last picture was Benjamin
West copy OF the portrait of Gen. Lees |
father, Maj. Gen. Henry Light Horse |
Harry Lee of Revolutionary fame,
which was presented on behalf of the |
Sons OF the Revolution, by its general |
president, Maj. John Vernon Bouvier
The original is now in the possession of |
Gen. Lees grandson, DR.. George Boil
ling Lee of New York
Representatives of the four societies |
1IOLl AdEyldIlO, virginia ana OJner |
nearby States attended the exercises, |
which conceded, in time, with the an
nual levees George Washington Parke |
Gusts was accustomed to hold at Ar |
hngton. In accepting the pictures, As
sistant Secretary Payne said:
Lovers of history, lovers of the |
beautiful, admirers Of the great names |
associated with this building have |
given unselfishly and spontaneously of |
their thought and their possessions to |
restore to its interior the tranquil lived |
in atmosphere of home. Today marks |
the installation Of four portraits, the /
generous gifts of four patriotic socie- |
ties, copies of originals that once hung |
on these walls.
LAS we gaze on these paintings we !
feel inescapably that they belong here. |
They are more than beautiful works !
of art, more than inspiring links with |
a glorious past. They are also, without |
question, portraits that the CustiseS |
and Lees would treasure and delight to |
hang on their walls. They make of |
Arlington not museum but a home"