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I Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O.,
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RELICS OF V [A.
To Be Preserved by „_
Patriotic Women.
*
Occnpatlon of Jamestown Island
Dates Hack Three Centuries
Old Clinrch tu Wtiirli Poca
hontas IVorsfaiiied.
tSpecial Washington Letter.]
7 1KUUNTANS are proud of
y every chapter in the history
of their state,” says Senator
Daniels. “There are some paragraphs
in some of the chapters which are not
so brililant as others;-. but, on the
whole we are proud of every chapter
in our history.”
The occasion calling forth the re
mark is the fact that Virginia is grow
ing old, and has a history of almost 300
years. On the 25th of May will occur
the anniversary of the landing of Capt.
John Smith and his fellow-freebooters
upon the soil of Virginia, and the be
ginning of the permanent establish
ment of the first white colony in this
republic of ours.
On May 25, 1607, now 296 years agone,
Jamestown island was occupied and
preparations begun for town-building.
This was 13 years before the landing
of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, so there
can be no doubt that this was the first
permanent white settlement upon the
land which now constitutes the United
States of America.
There are upwards of 15,000 Virgin
ians residing in the national capital,
making their livings as federal office
holders. That is to say, that some 3,000
office-holders from Virginia support a
colony of 15,000 people, all of them in
tensely loyal to their state, and proud
of their lineage. Some 20 years ago
there began an annual exodus from
Washington to Jamestown toeelebrate
the anniversary; and there will be no
hiatus in this procedure. The pilgrim
ages will begin two days before the an
niversary. tens of thousands of Virgin
ians will visit Jamestown, but the prin
cipal celebration this year will be in
Kichmond.
In order to describe this ancient lo
cality the writer went to Jamestown
island, the trip occupying only two
REBECCA ROLFE (POCAHONTAS) WORSHIPING ON JAMESTOWN ISLAND.
days. It is stuated 30 miles above Nor
folk and Newport News, on the James
river, and is about 70 miles below Rich
mond. Old inhabitants say that it has
shrunken within a generation, but that
it has now an area of 1,700 acres. It is
two and a half miles long, and only lit
tle more than half a mile in width.
From the main shore it is separated by
a narrow cream and somemarshy low
land, over which there is a low wooden
bridge. The whole place looks “old*
timey.”
The island is as barren of civilization
as Palmyra of the desert, and the only
evidences of its former teeming habi
tation are the walls of the Ambler
mansion-house, and the pitiful piece of
tower of the first Protestant church j
built of brick in the new world. These j
objects of interest were pointed out by i
a young colored woman from the
mainland, who also directed the trav
eler to the screened little acreage sur
rounding the relics of the church and .
the long neglected cemetery. There
are no pictures of these interesting ob- j
jects, but the tower is like any ordi- |
nary old tower, and the mansion
remains are composed of the small ^
bricks imported in those early days; I
about half of the size of modern bricks.
The mansion is said to have been built
with bricks which were formerly used
in official and ancient structures. Tra
dition has it that in this old mansion
there resided a woman who declined
the honor of marriage with George ,
Washington.
If this be true she must have almost j
hated herself afterwards when George j
became “first in war, first in peace and |
first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
There is an association of ladies
known as an association “For the Pre
servation of Virginia Antiquities,”
and it is this association which has sur
rounded these sole relics with wire
fences and thick wire screens. These
ladies took this step only six years
ago; rather late in the day for the pre
servation of these antiquities, for hogs,
wild and tame, and other cattle have
browsed about the tower and the walls
and over the graves of the cemetery for
many, many years.
The ladies employ a custodian, but I
he was not on duty when the narrator
called. He is said to reside in a little
shanty there which is surrounded by
heavy earthworks thrown up 40 odd
years ago by confederate soldiers. Ry
his absence be lost one fee of ten cents,
which he is allowed to charge as part
of his compensation for living there in
the midst of squalor, dirt, malaria and
musty reminiscences.
On reaching the north end of this
historic island, work done and being
done by the federal government wu
discovered. It sterns that ihe island
has been crumbling so rapidly of late
years that the Virginia senators have
secured appropriations for the pur
pose of preventing the entire destruc
tion of the island by the swift cur
rent which sweeps unobstructed for
eig*i}t miles, and fiercely carries away
tons of clay and sand, llipraps and
jetties along shore may divert the
channel a little, but if the island is
to be fully protected it will prove to
be a very costly proposition. The
northern portion of the ruins of the
town are said to be under water, and
the covered foundations of former
habitations can be seen from the side
of rowboats. Alongside the north
east of the island there are big blocks
of stone just beneath the surface of
the water. They are held together
by cement, and evidently formed the
foundation of some big official build
ing.
The biggest ships of the olden time
used to come up the James and an
chor at the wharves of Jamestown,
hut they could not do so now. In
deed, when the capital was moved to
Williamsburg in 1723 the channel was
becoming visibly more shallow. Thus
was business affected in the begin
ning of the decline of Jamestown.
There were big financial and politi
cal battles in those days, preceding
the removal of the capital; and tra
dition hath it that several hot-blood
ed Virginians emptied their guns at
and into the bodies of eaeli other.
However, the inevitable came, the
capital was removed, Jamestown
slowly fell into innocuous desuetude,
and Williamsburg flourished. We
have seen just such rivalries and bat
tles between rival towns, far in the
interior of the new world, within our
own generation.
The brick church, of which only the
tower is left, was built in 1S38, when
the colony was only 30 years old.
Previously the people had worshiped
in a large wigwam made of logs. The
new brick church was 50 feet long
and 28 feet wide, furnished lavishly
with donations from England; every
thing in it being as rich and regal
as the trappings and vestments of
the best churches in the old coun
try. Gov. Hale wrote: “There is
some comfort in religion now;” as
though his religion had been no com*
fort to him in the commodious log
wigwam.
But for the removal of the capital
to Williamsburg there might have
been a great education:!! institution
at Jamestown, because Parson Blair,
the Scotchman from the University
of Edinburgh who founded William
and Mary college, was assigned to
the parish at Jamestown in the new
brick church, just before the trans
fer of the capital. He had for a
short time been pastor of the parish
of Yarina, where Pocahontas was
one of his parishioners. She was the
wife of John Rolfe, an extensive to
bacco planter, and was known as Re
becca Rolfe; quite English, you know,
as compared with her aboriginal
name when she hurried into history
by her rush to the rescue of Capt.
John Smith. Parson Blair often said
that if he had remained at James
town he would have founded the col
lege there—an institution which has
endured until this day, and will ever
endure.
The celebrated educational institu
tion was originally built of bricks
made on Jamestown Island. They
were made in tlie style of the im
ported bricks, but were not import
ed; neither were those which were
used in the church at James iown.
Parts of the ancient structure remain
in good state of preservation, and the
old church at Jamestown would still
remain intact, if civilization had not
deserted it.
The ladies’ association for the pres
ervation of Virginia antiquities re
cently held an important meeting, at
which it was decided to memorialize
the Virginia legislature to make ap
propriations to aid them in their
work. They hope also to induce the
Virginia senators and representatives
to interest the congress, so that suf
ficient appropriations may be ob
tained to save from complete ruin
this relic-remnant of the original set
tlement of the soil of the United
States by the Anglo-Saxon freeboot
ers; the aggressive ancestry of
which we are all so proud; an an
cestry El Dorado-seeking maraud
ers who plunged .. way across this
continent and blazed their pathway
with the blood of innocent aborig
ines.
But they had their goou points;
and, anyway, they made history
which it might be well to preserve,
even in relic form.
SMITH D. FRY
Swallow Is a Swift Flyer.
A swallow, at its best speed, ca»
travel at the r»t« of 134 miles in a*
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THE SIZE OF AMERICA.
Somethilng of n \mUon, AppordJng to
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Description.
Col. Abraham Gruber is the master of
more Irish jokes, it is said, than any other
man ir. town. In making a speech at a re
cent public dinner he tola this one, says the
New York Mail and Express:
“Micky Fiimigan, who had been an
American citizen for about a year and had
traveled about this continent considerably,
returned home to Hibernia for a visit. Thi*
is the way he described his new country to
one of his relatives:
“ ‘Phwy, Amer-r-riea is so big, begorra
thot if you vror to dr-rag England thr-rough
the shtates you wouldn’t lave a mar-rk in
the dir-rt; an’ you could lose Oireland inone
o’ them gr-reat inland oceans we hov phwat
we call lakes; an’ if you had Scotland to get
rid of, there are a thousand corners you
could hide her in, an’ nobody could tell
where you had put her except, begorra, for
the bad smell o’ the whisky.’’
Funeral Sermon to Order.
The old Bridewell burying ground, which
is now the subject of legislation in the Eng
lish parliament, is the resting place of Mme.
Creswell, so often mentioned by the Charles
II. 'dramatists, who died in Bridewell prison',
and left $50 for a sermon to be preached at
her funeral, on condition that nothing
thould be said of her but what was well
The preacher got out of the difficulty neat
ly by saying: “All that I shall say of her
is this: She was born well, lived well, and
she died well; for she was born with the
name of Creswell, she lived in Clerkenwell,
and she died in Bridewell.”—Chicago Post.
Birth of a Great American Ttallroad.
May 17, 1903, marked the Fiftieth Anni
versary of the incorporation of the New
York Central Railroad; a fact interesting
n the history of the State of New York,
tor the consolidation of the ten separate
small roads into one line, that formed a
continuous route from Albany on the east
to Buffalo on the west, was the beginning
that made possible the enormous in
dustrial and commercial development in
the country contiguous to it.
Articles of agreement were filed May
17, 1853, the first Board of Directors was
elected July ffth, and the whole line de
livered to the new company August 1st,
1853; insuring better service, more com
plete connections between all points, and
a more general stimulus to development
than was possible under separate and
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way for the consolidation of the New
York Central Company with the Hudson
River Railroad in 1869, which event
presaged that era of wonderful progress
in the undeveloped west, for it created a
direct line from the ocean to the inland
seas, known as the great lakes, and
brought distant territories into close con
nection with the seaboard.
It is a picturesque fact that this line
traverses the one break in the whole Ap
palachian chain between the Gulf of Mex
ico and the St. Lawrence River, and it
would seem as if Nature meant this to
be a readway for travel. Certainly the
Indian found it so, for the Mohawk trail,
the pathway of the confederated Iroquois
tribes, is almost identical with the New
York Central Railroad of to-day. This
trail was also the pathway of war during
the French and Indian and the Revolu
tionary Wars, and later, in its offering of
easy travel, it lured the pioneers of the
West to the Mohawk Valley, Which is so
rich to-day with the product of agricul
tural industry, on to the broad and fallow
fields of the Genesee, to build up and
develop the traffic of the west upon the
great lakes.
It is a far cry indeed from that primi
tive little line of the New York Central
of fifty years ago to the great Railroad
of to-day with its Twentieth Century lim
ited speeding like the wind, carrying its
passengers on luxurious palace cats, over
smooth roadbeds, with a scarcely percepti
ble jar, and fifty years of progress could
not find a better illustration than is re
lated in an interesting letter of remi
niscences written by Mr. Joshua Wilber,
of Lockport, New York, describing rail
road travel in New Y'ork in 1839.
The writer says: “We took the cars
on State Street in Albany; these cars
were di;awn to the city line by horses,
for locomotives were not then allowed in
the city. The cars Were of the ancient
pattern, entered by doors on the side,
with seats across the car, the passengers
facing each other, as in the old-fashipned
stage coaches.
“The speed was tremendous—about
twelve miles an hour. Arrived on the
ridge opposite Schenectady, our cars
were let down an incline plane, secured
to a large rope cable, the other end being
attached to flnt cars weighted with stone,
which were drawn up on a parallel track
as we went down. At Scheneetadv we
changed cars and traveled west to Utica,
reaching there in the afternoon. That
was then the end of railroad travel.
“A crnal packet was boarded which
landed us in Syracuse next morning.
There another packet was taken for
Rochester, which we reached early the
following day. A third packet brought
us from Rochester to Lockport in six
teen hours.
“The time consumed in coming from
New Y'ork City to Lockport was nearly
four days, being on the move all the
time, except the night spent at Albany.
“Not long after the roads built from
Albany westward, and from Buffalo east
ward met, and a continuous line was
formed, but with many changes of cars
and other inconveniences.
“Then the Hudson River road was
opened, and Buffalo and New York
became neighbors.”
Mrs. Clubman—“Will you be home early,
Jack?” Mr. Clubman—“We-eil, yes; but
don’t wait breakfast for me."—Brooklyn
Life.
lleknsM Mnde Them Gcatrma.
'When the government ship Dolphin wu»
coming home from Cuba, carrying; [Secretary
>i War Moody, Senator Ilale, of the naval
committee, and Speaker-elect Cannon, gome
rough weather was encountered. Just pre
vious to the coming of the storm the state**
men named had been discussing the pro
posed building of six battleships. Messrs. ___
Hale and Cannon succumbed to o^asicknee*.
When his suffering had become too intense
to be borne any longer in silence “I'ncle
Toe” called oat to Secretary Moody: “Say,
Moody, if you will get us tu shore quickly
i’ll give you six battleships next winter.
T will make a better bill than that," ex
tlaimed Senator Hale. “I’ll favor 20 bat
tleships tf the secretary will only keep this
ship still for half an hour.”—Kansas City
Journal.
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Mrs. Mary Dunlop of this place has suf
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ihe tried much medicine and many treat
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