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THE CARBON COUNTY NEWS, RED LODGE, MONTANA .• WEDNESDAY, FEB, 8, 1933. PAGE SEVEN

. % Scenes and Persons in the Current News

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v * iiÄ- r \ .1” ! :: ■ ■ % • ,• " ' ;■ I §g- I I* 4 George Washington lived a few of his child­ filled with aristocratic visitors. He had his stud I > By ELMO SCOTT WATSON hood years there. He was about eight years old of the highest breed, his fox hounds, and all UUINO the year Just passed the vari­ when the family took up residence on the Staf­ the luxuries of a prosperous country gentleman. ous ceremonies connected with the ford county estate which George Inherited in His kitchens, his smoke houses, his stables, his Washington bi centennial celebration 1743. His father was a man of landed wealth, stewards, his tobacco sheds, his fields of wheat ' \ ■ ■ D have revived In the memories of ail and evidently enterprising. He made several and corn, his hundred cows, his vast poultry Americans our debt to “The Father trading voyages to England, sent his two eldest yards, his barges, all Indicated great wealth, and of His Country." Monuments and sons. loiwrence and Augustine (Austine), to that generous hospitality which is now a tradi­ m ’4 memorials of all kinds, names of school in England, profited by the sale of iron tion. His time was passed in overseeing his towns, cities, counties, a state and ore deposits on his Stafford county estate to a large estate and In out-of-door sports, following ■ the capital of the nation all serve ■< smelting company and the carrying of cargoes the hounds or fishing, exchanging visits with 5^ to remind us of Washington, the of pig Iron to England. prominent Virginia families, amusing himself : ■ \\ soldier, the statesman, the President, All of the children of Augustine Washington with card playing, dancing and the social fri­ « the first American, the world figure. volities of the day.” received a good Inheritance, but Inasmuch as y But for all of these he remains In onr minds ' ' Ö, the Hunting Creek estate was bequeathed to It was this luxury which Washington was - > m something of a dim and legendary figure, the the eldest son Lawrence, It seems likely that willing to give up In response to the call of ii type of person who Is just outside the realm : their father looked upon It as his principal duty when the fight for American liberties be­ ■ of our experience. estate, though he lived on the Fredericksburg gan. After he had successfully led that fight, Perhaps the best way to get an adequate idea plantation. Lawrence Washington served as a he retired to Mount Vernon, only to be called IS®® [5j of Washington, the man, the human being, and captain under Admiral Vernon in the expedi­ upon again in 1789 to exchange his role of Vir­ w- to dispel some of the awe which surrounds an tion against Cartagena, In 1740, and never re­ ginia planter for that of President of a new Bernard M. Baruch, who may be In the new cabinet, is seen here tell­ ing a good Joke to President-Elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs. The two Jf Immortal Is to pay a visit to his beautiful estate. covered from the effects of that brief campaign, nation. W’hen he was ready to lay down the gentlemen are intimate friends. Mount Vernon on the Potomac river, Virginia. though death did not come to him until another cares of state in 1797 and retire once moro to The history of Mount Vernon goes back to the twelve years had passed. Lord Fairfax, whose Mount Vernon, only two more years of life re­ middle of the Seventeenth century. In 1657 or estate adjoined that of the Washingtons, was mained for him, for he died on December v 1658 a certain John Washington, who had been also at Cartagena, and this war-time friendship 14. 1799. J After the Great Atlantic Storm a Cavalier in England during the Cromwellian between the two families was to grow closer in At his death Mount Vernon passed as a life period, with his brother Lawrence crossed the Believe It or not. as Mr. Ripley later years through the marriage of Lawrence Interest to his widow, Martha Washington. Un­ /■ N Atlantic to Virginia, the refuge of so many Roy­ often says, this White House Hin­ Washington into the Fairfax family and the der the terms of Washington’s will some of his alists during the Puritan regime In England. ein! policeman is named John Law fondness of Lord Fairfax for George. effects had been disposed of and by his widow’s «•> John Washington made his home at Popes And when John holds up his hnnd In 1743, after inheriting the Hunting Creek Creek In Westmoreland county and there mar­ will most of the household belongings passed to a civilian, and says. “Stop.” that estate, Lawrence Washington built a house that ried Ann Pope. In 1674 Lord Culpeper sold a to her four grandchildren. Thus the original means the law ;s speaking doubly was In keeping with his station, and renamed grant of 6,000 acres on the west bank of the furniture of Mount Vernon became scattered. the estate Mount Vernon, in honor of the Brit­ m Potomac river, about 15 miles below what Is Mount Vernon, Itself, passed, In succession, to LEFT HAND CHAMP n ish admiral under whom he had served. Wealthy LSJ now the District of Columbia, to Nicholas Spen­ Bnshrod Washington, John Augustine Washing­ and of good family, Capt Lawrence Washing­ cer and John Washington and on that tract ton and John A. Washington. Jr, changes taking J ton lived In gentlemanly state at Mount Vernon. John Washington built his home (now known place In the furnishings and interior decorations |V Lawrence was fond of his half-brother George, as Wakefield) at Bridges Creek, about a mile of the house, as convenience or Inclination this fondness developing almost Into guardian­ M from the Pope home. He saw some military prompted the respective owners. ship. George loved his brother, and was fond Jm. service against the Indians and held the rank The Washington family, In the generation of of Mount Vernon, too; so. much of his time In V > of colonel. He lived the life of a gentleman- John A. Washington, Jr., were desirous that the adolescent years was spent at Mount Vernon. planter for twenty years, death coming In 1677. historic estate should, for better preservation, m* His son Laurence was the grandfather of the In 1751 he accompanied his half-brother pass Into the possession of the nation. He of­ Illustrions George. Lawrence to Barbados, whither the latter had fered to sell Mount Vernon to the United States, r \Y( i Augustine, son of Lawrence, married twice, been ordered by the family physician, Rut and later to the commonwealth of Virginia, . ■ «ÄÜiSS! ■ '•■Xy. .,7*33 and at his death, in 1743, left a widow and Lawrence did not regain his health, and George Both projects failed. ; \ WI seven children. There had been three other chil­ himself contracted smallpox. This slightly But what legislatures could not accomplish fc. dren, four by the first marriage and six by the pitted his face for life. Lawrence died In 1752, private patriotic agenclea could achieve. Miss 4 4 i second. Ijiwrence, first born of Augustine by his and at his death George became responsible Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina appealed * ■’***•>. ^ ■y first wife. Jane Butler. Inherited the estate soon for the administration of Mount Vemon and to American women, and in 1850 she was able to be known as Mount Vernon. George, first also for the care of his niece, Lawrence’s only to organize the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Asso­ * of the five surviving children born to Augustine child. The daughter did not long survive her ciation of the Union. One great American, Ed­ *** *** v father, and at her death George Washington, by his second wife, Mary Ball, inherited an es­ ward Everett, took np the cause, toured the ;■ by the terms of her father’s will, Inherited tate In Stafford county, Va., nearly opposite country, and gathered $08,294.59 for the Mount <-• O Fredericksburg, In which estate, however, bis Mount Vernon. Vernon fund. In 1858, therefore, the ladles’ mother had an administrative Interest during During the period of peace—the calm before association was able to buy from John A. Wash­ Wreckage of the Hlnklman house. In Seahright. N J.. after It was the storm—Colonel Washington saw much of his minority, as Indeed she had In the estates ington. Jr„ 202 acres of the Mount Vernon es­ demolished by Ape terrific gale which swept along the Atlantic seaboard Mount Vernon. In 1759. he married the richest of her other children. tate, including the residence and attendant ,* j 'Die heavy surf driven hy the high winds washed away shore foundations woman In the Potomac region, Martha, the George was horn on February 22, 1732 (ac­ bnlldlngs, the gardens, etc., and also the tomb S \ at many resoris Mountainous waves tore boardwalks to pieces and scores cording to the so-called new style of calen- widow of Daniel Parke Custls. Of the next few of our revered first President. The price paid ■ of homes were blown from their bases. dar), on his father’s plantation at Bridges years In Washington’s life one historian has was 1200,000 and interest. Subsequently, Creek, In the parish of Washington (now written : through the generosity of Jay Oould, in 1887; Floating Reitauranli Wakefield), Westmoreland county. Va. In the “His style of life as the lord of Mount Vernon Christian Heurlch of Washington, D, C.. In 1893. Fred Webb of Shelhy N. C.. who Fear anj Ditlike next year his father built a brick barn on his was almost baronial. He had a chariot and four. and Hugh McK, I>andon, In 1925. the total area won the national left handed goli Flower boats In Canton. Chinn Uncle Ah aayi that one reason Hunting Creek (Mount Vernon) property, and with black postilions In livery, for the use of his owned by the asaoclatlon has been Increased to cliamploNsftlp ovei the Miami Blit are used as restaurants and can tie why the world does mu go ahead seen best at night when they an* In 1735. or a little earlier, seema to have erected wife, while he himself always appeared on horse­ approximately 200 acres. aiore country club course Wehb is laster Is hecause most folks fear a dwelling bonne also, for the record shows that back, the finest rider In Virginia. His house was (C St W*»u™ N«w»p*p*t Union.-» shown with the trophy he won. aglow with Chinese lauterua. and dislike their betters- e