GHOSTS TO LEAVE
SURRATT HOME
WHEN REBUILT
RESTAURANT WILL OCCUPY THE
HOUSE WHERE MURDER OF
LINCOLN WAS PLOTTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.—
The ghosts that walk by night in the
old Surratt house at No. 604 H. St.,
Northwest, where John W ilkes Booth,
the mad actor, and his co-conspira
tors plotted the assassination of Abra
ham Lincoln are to be driven out and i
the picturesque old building will be
remodeled into a restaurant with a
modern front to hide the outline of
the haunted house.
When Irvin Swartzman, of Alexan- ,
dria, who owns the property, finishes
the remodeling, the historic house !
will lose much of its interest to hun
dreds of sightseers and neighbors will
be convinced that the last of the j
weird tappings of ghostly fingers of
the men and women who killed Lin
coln have been heard in the little par
lor on the second floor.
Before the Civil War flamed out, |
Mrs. Mary Surratt, a widow from Sur
rattsville, Maryland, moved to Wash
ington and took the house on H street
as a rooming and boarding house;
and it was there, according to the
testimony at her trial later, that John
Wilkes Booth, young Powell, and oth
ers, distorted by their hatred of the
Union and the blow to the Confeder
acy, came together the afternoon Lin
coln was killed, and arranged with
Mrs. Surratt to provide horses for the
conspirators for their flight through
Maryland and Virginia, which ended
when Boston Corbett sent the bullet
into the brain of Booth after the lat
ter had been cornered in a barn.
Mrs. Surratt, with full knowledge of
the plot against the life of Lincoln,
left immediately in a buggy for Sur
rattsville, her former home, to make
the necessary arrangements. She was
accompanied by Lewis Weikman, one
of her boarders, whose testimony aft
erward led to her execution.
And the next night Booth killed
Lincoln as he sat in the Presidential
box at Ford’s Theatre.
Days before the assassination, Mrs.
Surratt and her son. John, with Booth
the murderer, had sat in her house
and evolved a wild plot to kidnap the
President, but General Robert E. Lee
had surrendered the Confederate army
to General U. S. Grant, and it was too
late. It was then that Booth, bitter
at the loss of the Southern cause,
made up his mind to kill Lincoln and
Secretary Seward.
From the time of Lincoln's assassi
nation the house has gradually fallen
into decay. Families moved in but
soon moved out, and rumors spread
that the ghost of Mrs. Surratt flitted
through the corridors and tapped on
the windows.
More than two years ago the steps
which led up to the second story fell
down and since then the house has
been a tumbling ruin, a grim reminder
of the most tragic event in American
history.
Girl Now Confesses
She Made Up Yarns
To Avoid Spankings
ABERDEEN, March 20.—Dolores
Duval, pretty 16-year-old Aberdeen
girl whose three mysterious esca
pades on the Wishkah road have baf
fled police here for two weeks, was
revealed here yesterday as the prin
cipal and only actress in a fantastic
hoax.
In a signed affidavit delivered to
her mother and sister and two dep
uty sheriffs, she confessed that her
kidnapping, loss of memory and tales
of being drugged were merely asser
tions to enable her to escape a spank
ing by her mother for staying out un
til eight in the morning
She confessed she had not been
attacked had not been doped or mis
treated and that she alone was re
sponsible for every act in the drama
of which she was the leading figure
She admitted that two of her mid
night rambles brought her near the
door of death, and on the third trii
along the road, she planned suicide
but she was picked up by the police
before she could put her plan intc
effect.
Airships Soon To
Span the Continent
ZEPPELINS WILL BE DRIVEN BY
PACKARD MOTORS AS IN
SHENANDOAH
DETROIT, March 20.—Within less
than two years when a Spanish gran
dee gets the hunch he would Ijke to
see again the beautiful South Am
erican senorita whom he met on the
Riviera the winter before, the 7500
mile trip to the Argentine will mean
but little to him. At most it will be
a matter of only two or three days’
travel in the greatest ease and lux
ury.
Harry Vissering, Chicago, American
representative of the Zeppelin Air
ship Building company, is authority
for the statement that plans are now
almost completely matured for the
building of the first great air liner
which will link Spain with the Ar
gentine with a regular passenger ser
vice and express route. He insists
it will combine perfect safety with
the greatest comfort and a speed now
almost inconceivable for a trip ol
such length. To America may come
the job of building this pioneer of
long distance air travel.
However, when the great Madrid
Buenos Aires airship warps out of
her hangar for her initial trip, long
distance travel by air may be an old
story to the people of the United
States. First air lines now pro
jected in America will link New
York and San Francisco and New
York and Chicago. Successfully cross
ing the Atlantic by the ZR-3 with the
transcontinental trip of the Shenan
doah and the Army’s world encircl
ing aerial tour, he believes has done
more than anything in years to pave
the way for public acceptance of air
travel without fear.
That commercial use of great air
ships is a settled certainty in Ameri
ca, and only a very short time off,
was disclosed by Mr Vissering while
visiting the factory of the Packard
Motor company here to arrange for
the delivery of a Packard Eight car
j he has just purchased. He is on a
; tour of the country with Dr. Eckner
. who piloted the ZR-3 on her trans
' Atlantic flight.
For some time a study of weather
t conditions running back over a per
jiod of years has been under way in
; this country preliminary to the build
I ing of several Zeppelins and placing
j them in regular passenger carrying
j service.
j The ships will be built to weather
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Gas Code to Prevent
Fatal Mishaps Asked
WASHINGTON, D. C . March 20.—
Rules forbidding use of unauthorized
attachments with gas burners are
among the provisions of a safety
code for the use of gas, now being
prepared under the auspices of the
bureau of standards of the depart
ment of commerce and the American
Gas association.
Government experts and others on
the committee regard use of such at
tachments as dangerous, because of
likelihood of generating carbon mon
oxide. Gas burner designs are a
matter for experts, it is held, and
attachments that change the condi
tions under which gas is burned
should be used only with the advice
of experts.
Another rule considered essential
is one providing that “no appliance
shall be installed which is not sus
ceptible of adjustment to effect com
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to it under all reasonable service
conditions.”
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