Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-15
FEATURE Rcz
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
The Unseen Sights in Woshinqton


Washington is beautiful city. It was always beau
tifu and have stood within without catching my
breath. Like Pompeii it is preter without people The
buildings the broad the -spanged streams
and the kelly hills enhancing by themselves Add
to this black streams Of people thousands of axcabs
trucks, the smoke of industry, and you have less
In this city. know places not people. Always the
at the top Of Arlington Cemetery The house it
when Robert E. Lee stood between the ued columns before
the beginning OF the civil War The view was down across
River Beyond it he the city of Washington and the
Capitol without DOME
He colonel good tactician, hard and fair dis
cipnaran. They offered him command of Union Army
and he thought about it and said that his first loyalty
to the Old Dominion where he lived. 1t must have
been hard for him to say this because he knew that
the first territory the North would take would be his
wifes home.
1t was q good solid home for man looking toward
retirement The beams under the ground floor were white
washed trunks In the basement the big iron tubs for
washing hung on pegs The cooking fireplace was
ing: dining with glass chandelier music room
small west where tutor taught the Lee children
and the children of the slaves In the back there were solid
buildings for the servants smoke house for hanging meats
charred hickory, an ice house grape arbor.
said and he took his family and lost forever
his home He fought well and honoraby and savagely with
fewer and less than the North, and their
was spte They not only occupied his mansion
they desecrated well And when the DONE the
North buried its hero dead the slopes in front Of
the mansion.
there unknown soldier deep in the hollow to the right
of the CustisLee home But to known soldier stands
ing the proposition Of giving his home for security.
Other Places, Other Dreams
There other places visit And other dreams dream.
Theater and walk the street Peter
where they carried Lincoln die look down at
bed and the big ugly in it, the knees
buckled the bare feet hanging out over the foot
To me, it is not empty room. Stanton stands
the washstand proud with framed spectaces
and thin perfumed whiSkers Dr. Quincy the minister
the to God which went unanswered Young
Dr. Leae 49, assistant u S. Army sits the inside
edge the bed holding the hand of the President that
If he recovered for an instant in his blindness
he would know that he had friend
leave. There other places and always must
them all before time out The National Cathedral with
the purple shadows of which Woodrow Wilson prayed that
he could make brothers of nations the Smithsonian nsu
ton where Lndberghs plane hangs wheels high the
hangs plaster dummy in rich and ancient folds.
Still More Old Haunts
There is the Capitol where Andrew johnson showed
Ill drunk Lncoln inaugural and although he
much of drinking he knew that he would
live down. Lafayette Park the north side of which
murderous maniac named Lewis Pane down the river. a
place called Mount Vernon where the rich farmer George
Washington lived in style with his hunters his dogs his
cellar until when he felt the heavines of time him.
he drew map and said Bury here and build little
place brick Red brick 1t still there and he still there
There is the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memo
rial and the Executive Mansion where Tad Lincoln played
the oak lawns with his goats There is Blair House for
distinguished guests and assaSsn and the of Sixth
and Pennsylvania where John Wilkes Booth stayed and the
bronze horse of Andrew Jackson Others
Today it is full of people who too busy it,
This time brought Gayle She it, knew that she could
really it because she whispered though she in
church.
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