Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 February 1898 — Page 3

A TENANTLESS TOMB.

IN THE CRYPT OF THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON.

It Wan Intended For the Remains of Washington—When Washington's Birth* day Was First Celebrated—Centenary of

His Death to Be Observed Next Year.

[Special Cdi£j?8j|fcnd6nce.]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—On the ten tenary of George Washington's birth, Feb. 22, 1832, John Q. Adams wrote in that famous diary of his: "The solemnities intended for this day at this place (the capitol at Washington) lost all their interest for me by the refusal of John A. Washington to permit the remains of George Washington to be transferred to be entombed tinder the oapitol, a refusal to which I believe he was not competent and into the real operative motives of which I wish not

CATAFALQUE IN THE CRYPT.

to inquire. I did wish that this resolution might have been carried into exeoutiou, but this wish was connected with an imagination that this federal Union was to last fnr ages. I now disbelieve its duration for 20 years and doubt its continuance fof five. It is falling into the sear and yellow leaf."

AH this pettishness was the result of John A. Washington's refusal to allow the remains of his illustrious kinsman to bo depositefl under the dome of our capitol, bccauso as Adams hints thereby Mount Vernon would lose the chiofest of its attractions and be less valuable as an attractive property.

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Forgotten Project.

Sixty-six years have passed and still the country seems to bo flourishing despite Adams' jeremiad. More than half a oentury has rolled by since the laudable intention was frustrated of entombing Washington's remains beneath the pave of tbo rotunda. Yet how many know that this intention ever was conoeived? Very few, and it is but recently that attention has been called to the tomb which was prepared for the reoeption of the general's ashes and which today still exists, though vacant and forgotten.

In tho center pf the capitol crypt, surrounded by 40 Doric columns, is a marble star, which is the theoretical center of Washington city as planned by its first designer, L'Enfant, and not far from this star, deep down beneath it, is the Washington tomb. There was formerly an opening over the star, through which one might gaze from the rotunda into the tomb itself after the manner of that more famous orypt containing the remains of Napoleon, but this is now closed and a glimpso of the vault can be obtained only by spccial permit.

It was early intended that Washington should be deposited here, and on the 38d of December, 1790, congress resolved that a rnarblo statue be erected in the oapitol, and the family of Washington be roquested that his remains be buried there beneath it. Mrs. Washington expressed her willingness, but evidently understood, or inferred, that she was to lie by the general's side. In a letter of Deo. 81, 1799, she tendered her grateful acknowledgments nnd unfeigned thanks for tho "mournful tributes of respect and veneration paid to tho memory of my deceased husband" aud consented to tho request of congress.

But the years went by, no statue was erected, and the tomb remained tenantless, as it is now, "except for tho sim pie bier of boards covored with black cloth which was used to support the remains of Lincoln aud which has been •used for each distinguished citizen who bns lain in state at the capitol since that dark day in 1865."

Interesting Anniversaries-

I was reflecting upon these things when it occurred to me that, while some of Washington's latter birthday anniversaries were interesting, those that occurred during his lifetime might be moro so, especially those during the .Revolutionary war. So I hunted up the records and found that it was not of Washington's own initiative that his natal day came to be celebrated any more thau it was by his instance that he was addressed by the absurd title of "your excel leuoy."

Washington's first Revolutionary birthday was passed—we cannot say it was celebrated—while he was laying siege to Boston. Having been appointed oommander in chief of the Continental armies, he set out from Philadelphia for New England in June, receiving the news of the Bunker Hill battle while on the way, and assuming formal command on the 3d of July, 1775, at Cambridge, beneath the historic elm. Then ensued those long months of weary watching and waiting, with the British cooped up in Boston, but the Continental army scattered, disorganized and with insufficient ammunition for an ait* saalt. Winter coming on finds the oommander in chief comfortably domiciled in the since famous Cragie mansion, and it was while he was making the final preparations for the seizure of Dor­

chester heights that his forty fourth birthday overtook him. His Forty-fifth Birthday.

After the evacuation of Boston by the British ensued the disastrous battles of Long Island and White Plains, followed by the retreat across New Jersey, with the British close upon his heels. He escaped tbein temporarily by crossing th ice filled Delaware, only to turn aud smite tbem with victorious sword at Trenton and Princeton. Snatching from these victories such fruits of his prowess as he could, Washington made his way to the heights of Morristown and there intrenched for the winter, whither the enemy dared not pursue him. Here at Morristown his forty-fifth birthday found him, not in very cheerful circumstances, either, as a letter of that date illustrates, setting forth the crying need of provisions for bis half starved army. The Continentals were hard pushed at that time, but General Greene voiced their indomitable Spirit w' he said, "We can't conquer the L..a&h force at once, but they can't conquer us at all!"

Washington's birthday dinner in 1778 consisted of cornmeal and potatoes. Half his soldiers were incapacitated by sickness and nakedness. But during the month of February Mrs. Washington arrived at Valley Forge, and the aspect of headquarters was changed for the better. Sometimes supplies intended for the British were intercepted and again the country was foraged for provisions —a measure only resorted to under stern necessity. "The general's apartment is very small," wrote Mrs. Washington to a friend, "but he has had a log cabin built to dine in, which has made our quarters much more tolerable than they were at first."

By the battle of Monmouth, in June, the British were taught a lesson of caution, Jersey was rid of its foes, and the farmers were more liberal with their supplies. The birthdays of 1779 and 1780 found Washington still clinging to New Jersey as a winter headquarters, and the latter date sees him living in the historic Ford mansion at Morristown, which is still preserved as a relic of the Revolution. On Feb. 22, 1780, he writes from there: "We have been so poor in camp for a fortnight that we could not forward the public dispatches. Money is scarce and worth little when we get it."

The Most Famous Birthday.

Perhaps the most famous of his birthdays is his forty-ninth, in 1781, passed at the village of New Windsor, for this was the first which was celebrated by his fellow officers—who thus established a precedent the public was not slow to follow. It occurred at the instance of the Count de Rochambeau, who was then in Rhode Island, aud who had his troops out in graud parade, firing salutes, letting off firewcrks and working themselves up to a fervent patriotism in true French style.

The days of fighting and nights of alarms were now practically things of the past, and for the next 20 months Washington was merely waiting upon the movements of the British, who were extremely reluctant to evacuate the posts they held. New York, in faot, was not relieved of their presence until the 25th of November, 1788, and in order to be sufficiently near while the definitive terms of peace were being arranged Washington fixed his headquarters at New burg on the Hudson. Here he and Mrs. Washington resided from March, 1782, till near the date fixed for evacuation, and thus the last of his Revolutionary birthdays was spent in the fa mous old Hasbrouck house, where he and his wife entertained many distinguished visitors.

There is no reoord of any particular observance of Washington's birthdays at Mount Vernon or that his wife and friends ever gave him presents on that oocasion. but for more than a century now the American people, in whatever land they have happened to reside at the time, have followed the example set them by tho gallant Frenchman,, the Count de Rochambeau, and especially honored the day on which George Washington was born.

Centenary of Washington's Death.

The centenaries of great occasions in the last century are now becomiug rare, but one of the most important will be observed next year on Deo. 14, 1899, the one hundredth anniversary of Washington's death. Arrangements are being made for its proper observance already by the grand lodge of Masons of Virginia, a committee of which meets on this birthday anniversary (Feb. 22, 1898) in Alexandria.

The ceremonies will include a visit to Mount Vernon and a bapquet in this city, and as President McKinley id a Mason he will be invited to deliver an address. -Washington, it is well known, belonged to the lodge in Alexandria and was first made a Mason in Fredericksburg. The historio clock, the pendulum of which was stopped by Dr. Craik (who assisted at bleeding Washington to death) with the hands still pointing to the moment of his demise, now belongs to Washington lodge, No. 23, of Alexandria, through which will emanate the invitations to participate in the anniversary proceedings to all the grand lodges of the United States.

As a member of this lodge Washington officiated at the laying of the capitol cornerstone, Sept. 18, 1798, and when he was buried it was given the post of honor in the funeral procession at Mount Vernon.

The remains of Washington and bis wife now lie in the sarcophagi to which they were transferred in 1887, their tombs a shrine for many thousands annually to visit-instead of reposing in the darkness and solitude of the capitol crypt F. A. OBEB.

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The Most Approved Methods of Filtration. Philadelphia Considering the Installation of an Expensive Municipal Plant.

What Other Cities Are Doing.

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PHDADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—This city is considering very seriously the problem of improving its water supply. A proposal to spend $3,700,000 for this purpose has been up and down in councils several times. The chief of the water bureau, John C. Trautwine, Jr., wants the city to spend this money or a great part of it on the beginning of a filtering plant. If his recommendation is followed, Philadelphia will be the first great city in the United States to adopt municipal filtration. There are filtering plants in London, Berlin and Hamburg, but none in New York, Boston, Chicago or St. Louis. The smaller communities in the United States are ahead of the larger ones in this matter. There are municipal filters in Wilkesbarre, Wilmington, Poughkeepsie, Davenport, la. Lambertville, N. J. Atlanta, Quincy, Ills. Eltnira, Oshkosb, Kingston, N. Y. Superior, Wis. Cedar Rapids, la. Ottumwa, Decatur, Ills. Elgin, Asbury Park, Long Branch, Lexington, Ky and many other towns and cities. In all there are about 80 in this country.

These filters are of two general kinds —the sand or open filter and the mechanical filter. Both use sand, but the one which is known as the sand filter uses sand only, filters usually by gravity and is cleaned by hand work, while the mechanical filter forces the water through sand in about one-thirtieth of the space used by the open or natural filter and uses alum or some similar coagulant to remove impurities from the water.

Mr. Trautwine is not wholly satisfied as to the superiority of either system, and he is in favor of constructing at first a sand filter on th 3 Delaware side of the river and both a sand filter and a mechanical filter in West Philadelphia, the mechanical filter to be made up of many units representing different processes, for there are many mechanical processes, and the competition among their owners is keen.

To complete the construction of a filtering plant for all Philadelphia, it is estimated, will cost $5,000,000 or more, exclusive of real estate. Philadelphia uses 250,000,000 gallons of water a day, and the usual cost of a filtering plant is $20,000 per 1,000,000 gallons. This varies with the character of the construction. The Poughkeepsie filter was cut out of solid rock, and its cost was unusually great.

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A sand filter consists of abed of "sand dug out of the ground or built up like

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a reservoir, with dikes or walls surrounding it. One acre of ground so prepared will filter 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 gallons of water every day. The method of cleaning this filter is simple. Men wearing broad soled shoes go over it with scrapers, taking off the top layer of sand, which has retained most of the impurities and spreading fresh sand in its place. The operation of the filter costs $2 to $4 per 1,000,000 gallons.

The cost of construction, which seems to the lay mind excessive, goes into the excavations that may be necessary, the laying out of the bed of sand and the building of walls, Mr. Trautwine says.

Abroad the sand filter is more generally in use. In this country the mechanical filters predominate. The city of Louisville has been making exhaustive experiments with mechanical filters and the engineers of that city are said to be working out a new form, which will not be tuxedwith the heavy royalties of the filters whicb are patented. Both mechanical and sand filters, however, are in the experimental stage still. Local conditions have a great influence on the operation of a filter and the heavy sediment of the river here will make operation of a filtering plant more difficult and costly. The variation in the atnount of sediment carried at different seasons of the year makes a universal variation in the cost of operation, and for that reason it is necessary in constructing a large plant to make extra provision, so that in the spring more of the filtering basins can be out of use and going through the process of being cleaned.

The movement to improve the water supply grows out of the increase in typhoid fever in this city. It is this condition which has aroused St Louis and many other cities to the necessity of purifying the water supply. The question Is being agitated now in Washington. It is a question of a few years only when most of the large cities will have filtering plants. Those which do not will be in position to illustrate the advice given by a scientist to a student in a London college some years ago who asked what he should do to make the city water fit for drinking. "Boil it," said the professor. "Then filter it. Then drink something else."

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A Ran Coincidence.

While lunching picnic fashion upon the Mer de Glace a party of tourists were surprised by a woman who, letter in hand, emerged from the neighboring hotel. The party consisted of husband and wife, two daughters, a young girl friend who was traveling with them and a courier and guide. The woman eyed the crowd for a minute, and, then, rushing straight up to the young girl, she asked her to mail the letter. "It will get there so much sooner if you ffon't mind carrying it down with you," said the woman "otherwise I shall have to wait until tomorrow when the regular postman comes." The whole proceeding was so sudden and so characteristic of.: women that the girl was inclined to laugh* but she pocketed the letter and promised to mail it as requested. "Your face was your fortune that time," remarked the man of the party on the way down. "That woman looked us over well before she picked upon you. I suppose she saw that you were one who could be trusted not to forget to mail letters."

Now the point of this story is not that the girl forgot to mail the letter, for she didn't, nor that it was the man of the party who had to remind her of it, for she needed no reminding, but that just before posting the missive the girl happened to glance at its superscription. It was directed to her mother. The girl could hardly believe her eyes, yet there it was in good, plain American writing, the name of her own dear mother, whom she hadn't seen for so many months and at her own home address. The girl sent a letter home upon her own account and learned that the woman was an old friend whom the mother had not seen for many years and whom the girl bad never seen, though often heard of. When the two, woman and girl, afterward met to know each other for the first time, they agreed that the Mer de Glace had supplied them with the choicest sample of coincidence in their experience.—New York Sun

A Test For Risht or Left Handedness.

It is noted editorially in The Medico Legal Journal, New York, that in many criminal cases it becomes necessary to know whether a man is right or left handed. Quoting Dr. Hall of Denver, a high authority, the writer says. "The matter has generally been settled by the production of witnesses, who have testified freely in many cases to a given, condition when an equal number of witnesses have been brought forward who have testified to an opposite condition. In many cases the question could be better settled by an examination of the prisoner, if such an examination could be obtained, or of the corpse, in cafie thia became desirable by a study of the cicatrices upon the hands, such as are inflicted by every man who handles tools of every kind, but especially tbo pocketknife. Although most left handed boys are taught to write with t'right band, I.believe the knife is commonly handled with the left hand in such cases by the left banded, and many tools are used in a similar manner in various trades. In women the study could not be expected to be of so much value, and slfll it has proved to be fairly conclusive in many cases.^"

Lovemaking In Public, '-g*',,/.

It is evident from her letter to The Ladies' Homo Journal that Miss Lilian Bell finds much in Paris to interest and amuse her. Among other things that are rather novel to an American "one sees," she writes, "the comical sight of a French bride aud bridegroom, in all the glory of their bridal array— white satin, veil and orange blossoms— driving through the streets in open cabs and hugging and kissing each other with an unctuous freedom which is apt to throw a conservative American into a spasm of laughter. Indeed the frank and caudid way that lovemaking goes on in public among the lower classes is so amazing that at first you think you never in this world will become accustomed to it, but you get accustomed to a great many strange sights in Paris. If a kiss explodes with unusual violence in a cab near mine, it sometimes scares tbe horse, but it no longer disturbs me in the least. My nervousness over that sort of thing has entirely worn off.

A Noble Steed.

It was Sir Henry Havelock Allan's boast that he could make his Arab, like the British army, "go anywhere and do anything," and there is a well authenticated story of how one day, mounted upon his horse, he called upon a friend, who received him from an upper window, with the remark, "I'll be down in a moment." "Oh, don't trouble to come down!" was tbe general's reply. "We'll come up to you, "and he set his steed at tbe steps, and in a moment was in the hall and would undoubtedly have ascended to the drawing room.— New York Post

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