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THE SUN, BALTIMORE. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1908. IT A Story And A Half Bungalow Of Moderate Cost THE SUNDAY SUN'S FOR YOUNG Verses by John Wilbur Jenkins. POLITICAL PRIMER AMERICANS Drawings by McKee Barclay. is for Gudge George Gray, From Delaware, they say; His name is always on the slate As a Presidential candidate, And every time the country notes, He gits them same six little votes.

His people never rant ner howl. He sets there like a wise old owl. His boom is so conservative It's hardly bold enough to live. Pity a man so wise and great Is chained down to a child-size State. FIRST-FLOOR PLAN.

BED KOOt-I I I lit! jji Nr In I HS I 1 1 fi ill -M -I? 1 1, ii iiWti 4 STOPC KM I ill above. v. x- if- 1 A low cottage home or bungalow carries wltli It a home feeling and a look of comfort that appeals to the great majority ot email home builders. It Is not new, as tome sections of the country are hullt up very largely of these one-story homes, but It Is the Invariable experience of an architect that people, when asking about plans and making Inquiries regarding one-story bungalows, always complete their inquiries and requests by asking for "space above," and they do not seem to be satisfied unless there is a stairway and rooms above or space that can be used on the second floor, wall into panels, a plain beam celling through the living room and dining room, all of the woodwork, including floors of Washington fir stained in shades of green. There are two finished rooms on the second floor, and the remainder of the space left for storage purposes.

Located over the kitchen and bathroom is a small tank room. It is designed to have a full basement tinder the entire house, giving ample space for laundry, vegetable cellars and heating apparatus, with outside entrance and steps. The exterior walls are shingled, the shingles being stained with light brown shade on the walls and the roof shingles stained red or a reddish-brown, and all sash, painted white. The bungalow that Is illustrated in this issue Is 23 feet wide by 30 feet deep, exclusive of the front piazza, which is 10 feet wide and screened in, making a nice summer room. The main roof is brought out over the front porch with, wide gable, with, timbered cornice and wide rirge boards, the cornice being projected three feet on all sides.

It is estimatedt-that this cottage can be built complete for $2,400, including plumbing and small heater. The finish of the interior Is on the craftsman order, with plain four-inch casings, four inch strip carried around the wall feet above the floor, with picture shelf, four-inch strips below dividing the 1 The Steamboat On The THE VIRTUOSO OF. VIRTUE. Governor Hughes' boom, 'tis feared Has got strangled in his beard; Smothered by a fatal bungle Found dead in the whiskers jungle. Surely he's a crackerjack 4 CORSICA Everywhere.

but on the track. He would be a sure-thing winner. If he'd only win the sinners; But he will not have for cronies The gay boys who play the ponies. He's a thoroughbred and yet He is not the ''One Best Bet." THE JEDGE. THE STEAMER D.

FORD aryland-NOTES ON HERALDRY -Virginia Chester River Steamboat Company To secure insertion under this heading all communications must bo short and to the point. Tile Sux cannot give its columns to private controversies or to discussions not of general interest. CHAMBEB CrtAMT3B to'-e'x us'-e' STOCK Srt. SECOND-FLOOR PLAN. Chesapeake member of its crews except two colored men, who fell overboard.

Among the first masters of the Slaughter Line were Capt. Edward S. Young and Capt P. S. McConnor, while Capt.

John A. Clark, Capt. Wm. S. Taylor and Capt.

Wm. Vandyke were associated with the company after it became the Chester River Steamboat Line. In 1904, at the height of Its prosperity, the Chester River Line was absorbed by the Pennsylvania system and became one of several lines consolidated under the nama of the! Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company. "My arms were growing heavy. All I tried to do was to keep my head above water, but I seemed to have been doing that for an hour.

My legs, too, were refusing to bend; The end could not be far away. "My arms must both be broken, for they would hardly move, and they ached- terribly. What a long time a man could keep afloat I I was vaguely glad I could not swim very well, because it would have meant waiting for the end such a long time. It made one drowsy. "Another wave lifted me and I saw the steamer had changed its position.

It must be going back to tell them' at home what had happened to me. How soothing the sea was! If only I could stop trying to work my arms, that aching pain in them would cease and I might go to sleep. "Sometimes when I saw the ship, which never seemed to get any farther away now, I remembered I was fighting for another minute's life. It had been harder at first, but now the sea lulled me into happiness. "What on earth were they playing at on the steamer? I had nearly caught It up again, only somehow I had got in front of it.

It grew big-erer auicklv. nnri it Tens rnm ing straight on. If those ridiculous people were not careful they might run over me yet. "Perhaps it would be better to go to sleep, after all. My arms were easier, and I did not want to breathe so much now.

It was getting dark and ever so much colder than it was last night. The steward must give me an extra blanket. "Why w.is everything so hazy and the room stuffy? I could hardly breathe. And yet it didn't matter. Nothing mattered but I wished dreamily that some one would stop digging a knife into my back, for I was just dropping off to sleep nicely.

"Next day I found the 'knife' had been the point of a boathook with which they picked me up as I came to the surface. The Steamer had turned in a circle and arrived just in time." in the same year erected a two-story building over his Baltimore docks. THE COMPANY'S CAPTAINS. Captains were selected for service upon the route chiefly from sailboat masters who knew the waters of the Chesapeake and tributaries as lads and men, and as a consequence the line was peculiarly -free from disasters. The" company never lost tha life of a passenger and never lost a and If this space has good height the plan will always recommend Itself better than on that Is all on one floor and nothing History Of riT? STEAMER "Yes, yes," said Mr.

George Warfield, former president of the old Chester River Bteamboat Company, "in 1891 the Chester River Steamboat Company ran seven boats during the peach season to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and handled more than 1,000,000 baskets of peaches." He sighed, as one remembering "days that are no more," and added regretfully "Railroads across the peninsula broke up all the picturesque steamboat business that had been built up by local men in the Interests of Baltimore. It used to be an interesting sight at midnight at the old wharves of the Chester River Steamboat Company to see 40 or 50 colored men lying about the wharf asleep or singing to pass the time and waiting for the fruit boats to come in. They usually slipped, like ghosts, to their moorings at about 2 A. M-, and then the bustle and activity of unloading the great fruit freight began. "With the opening pf railroads across the peninsula much of this local trade was diverted from Baltimore to Philadelphia." IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

The Chester River Steamboat Company was a sort of natural evolution of the old Eastern Shore steamboat lines that plied between Baltimore and Cambridge, in the late forties and. In which such gentlemen las Col. James Earle, Mr. Tilghman and others were Interested. Under the familiar name of the old Slaughter Line a route was established to the Eastern Shore by Mr.

Henry Slaughter, which included a notable boat called the Si tern GEORGE WARFIELD a five and 40 B. B. but a to for the of the was the ter had of the How It Feels To Fall Overboard From An Ocean Steamer. Arrow, afterward detailed for Government service on the Potomac. Mr.

Slaughter also purchased tbe steamer George Law and built the steamer Chester at Crumpton. Upon the death of Mr. Slaughter some years ago the Chester River Steamboat Company was organized and took over the two boats, George Law and Chester. The officers of the new organization were Col. S.

Ford, who, like Pooh Bah, of "Mikado" fame, was president, secretary and treasurer, and a board of directors that in. eluded Messrs. James Clark, John K. Hill, Thornton and Frank Wright. The boats of the company ran daily in summer and every other day in winter to Chestertown, Kent Island, Queenstown, Gray's Inn creek, Booker's, Rolph's, Quaker Neck and Crumpton, with the route finally extended to Rock Hall.

The new company sold the steamer Chester, and in 1877 built the B. S- Ford, which was burned at Chestertown pier in 1884. afterward rebuilt and continues in service at the present time. CoL B. S.

Ford was drowned at Ocean City, in 1879 and Mr. George War- field became president of the line, with a board of directors, including Dr. S. E. Ford, brother of the former president, and Messrs, Ferdinand C.

Latrobe, Osmun Latrobe and Sherlock Swann. NEW SHIPS LAUNCHED. From the beginning the company prospered and in 1883 the Corsica was built as freight steamer and afterward altered carry passengers as well. Tbe steamer Emma A. Ford was also built and named the wife of the first president of the company.

In 1889 the line purchased the steamer Gratitude and extended the route to Cen-treville, Queen Anne's county, through Corsica river. Wharves were built and where company was possessed at the beginning Its history of two boats and about worth of property it closed its commercial career owning four boats and $100,000 worth of real estate. During the busy season additional boats were chartered. One interesting inheritance received by Chester River Company from the Slaughter Line was its house flae. which showed a red arrow upon a white field.

It the flag carried at the mast of the steamer Arrow and continued the signal of Chester River as long as the lat company existed. The Chester River Steamboat Comnanv Its wharves on Light street at the foot Conway street, and the company was first steamboat line in Baltimore tn build offices over its docks. In 1884 Mr Warfield noticed that New York steamboat companies were thus economizing space and Messrs. Editors: Has the history of the Martin family, of Maryland, been written? If not, will some of your readers furnish data concern ing the ancestors of Jacob Martin, born in Pennsylvania August 18, 1759? At the age of 9 he moved to Frederick county. Maryland.

At the age of 26 years he moved to 'Loudoun county, Virginia, where he married. In four years after marriage he moved to Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he resided 18 or 19 years; then he moved to Perry county. Ohio, where he died June 23, 1837. ould like to know who were his par ents and who be married and what relation he was to Jacob Martin, who settled in Frederick county, Maryland, 1767, and married Elizabeth Tabler, January 18, 1783? Any Information will be thankfully re ceived. Mrs.

K. O. Frederick, Md. A sketch of the Martin family, of Mary land, appeared in the Sunday Sun of April io, ana iaoo.j Messrs. Editors: I am VPTV mnch infe.reato1 In i-nnr Rldgely records recently published.

Thinking you may wish the female lines. nm sending you Alice Ridselv and Jan RMirp- ly in the Woodward family. William Woodward, of London. Plne-- land. born 1665-1670.

died hpfnre 1744 Abraham Woodward, of London, England and Annapolis, "born 1686, In England; died 1744. Will was probated March 1, 1744. Settled in Annapolis, prior to 1707. He was a brother of William Woodward, who married Mary Garrett, of London. She was sister of Amos Garrett, the first mayor of Annapolis, when it was incorporated into a city, 1708.

Abraham Woodward married, first, December 3, 1707, Elizabeth Finloe; second, August 23, 1715, Priscilla Ruley, widow of James Or-rick and daughter of Anthony Ruley, gen tleman, ana JtteDecca, J113 wire. The children were: First, William, born 1716; second, Rebecca, born 1722; third, Martha, born 1726; fourth, Abraham, born 1730; fifth, Thomas, born 1732; sixth, Priscilla, born 1735. William Woodward, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, born December 6, 1716. All Hallows' Parish Register. Died Will dated April 16, 1700.

Married in 1738 Alice Rldgely, daughter of William Rldgely, and Jane Westhall (his wife). William Woodward, of Annapolis, born 1742, Annapolis. Died Will probated April 20, 1807. Married Jane Rldgely, born died, April 21. 1817.

Yon may be able to supply the names of the father and mother of Jane Rldgely. From these two Rldgely lines are descended: Capt. Henry Woodward, of Anne Arun- Messrs. Editors: Will yon kindly give the ancestry of th Snead family of Virginia? They married into the Wilborn, Harrison. Callaway, William Henry Harrison married Miss Wil-borne.

In 1739 John Snead came to Virginia. He was born In England In 16DS. Ills son, John Snead, was bora in Virginia In 1739. Can anyone give the descendants of this John Snead, and whom they married? Will be very grateful for some Snead data. Major Thomas Snead, John and Capt.

Charles Snead, I see, were Revolutionary soldiers. Can you tell who were their parents and their children Would also like to get the Hobb family of Virginia. They married Into the Lucas and Wyche families. I have the Lucas and Wyche pedigrees, if anyone would like to have them. Capt.

Richard Hobb came to Virginia In 1661. Would like to have his children and Hla son, John Hobb, married Elizabeth Griffin. Have you any record of the Wilburn family? M. No sketch, of the Wilburn family has appeared. Messrs.

Editors: Can you, or any of your readers, tell anything of Samuel W. Whltelock, who married a Miss Elizabeth Cromwell, daughter of Zachariah Cromwell? C. B. Messrs. Editors Kindly let ma have tha history of the Wentworth family or its connections.

Watson, Francis, Taylor, Jones and others. What is the connection with the Palna (Payne) family? Give ancestry of Gen. John Payne, England. What date did he emigrate to the United States? To what branch of the Payne family does It belong? Give history. E.

C. F. Oakland, Cal. Messrs. Editors: In reply to R.

H. In March, 8 issue. I will eay Lambert Hyland, born In Cecil county, Maryland, July 24, 1752, was a soa of Capt. John Hyland and Martha Tllden. married April 29, 1789, at the North Elk Parish Church, North East.

Cecil county, Md. Will dated August 17, 1766; proved November 19, 1766. Will book B. B. 2,271, Elkton, Md.

Their children are as follows CoL Stephen Hyland, born December 26, 1743; Rebecca, born January 19, 1740; Nicholas, born October 15, 1742; John, born November 27, 1746; Charles, bora March 20, 1749; Lambert, born July 24, 1752, and Millicent, born February 12, 1754. The first born son of tapt. John Hyland and his wife, Martha, was CoL Stephen Hyland, who married Aramlnta Ha ram. not liana, as I often see it misspelled. Fha was a niece of Augustine Herman, of Bohemia Manor, and a daughter of Dr.

The. Ha mm. del county, born April 22, 1770, in Annapolis; died October 1822, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. Married, February 14, 1797, in Prince George's county, Maryland, Eleanor Williams, of Prince George's county. Descended from Col.

Thomas Williams and Rachel Duckett. She was born 1774; died August, 1S50. Captain Henry Woodward was authorized by Governor Wright, of Maryland, In 1S09 to raise a company of militia, which was called the "Severn Rangers," to assist in protecting Annapolis in the War of 1812. Henry Williams Woodward, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, born July 30, 1S03; died October 12, 1841; married, first, June 18, 1829, Sarah Gambrill, daughter of Augustine and Maria (Woodward) Gam- brill. She died December 18, 1833.

Henry Williams Woodward was a graduate of St. John's College, Annapolis. The child by this marriage was Sarah Juliet, married Prof. P. M.

Leakin. Henry Williams Woodward married, second, February 24, 1833, Mary Edge Webb, daughter of James Webb, of London, England, and Clarissa II. Magruder, of Prince George's county, Maryland. Mary Edge Webb was born May 3, 1813, and died March 12, 1894. Children were: William Woodward, of Baltimore (1843) and of New York city (1864), and James Thomas Woodward, of New Y'ork city, president of the Hanover National Bank.

William Woodward, born December 31, 1835, in Maryland; died March 20, 1889, in New York city married at South Kingston, R. I. Sarah Abigail Rodman, daughter of Hon. Samuel Rodman and Mary Peckham, his wife. Childen were Mary Edge, Edith, Julia Rodman, William Woodward.

William Woodward, of New York city, married Elizabeth Ogden Crydej, daughter of Duncan and Elizabeth (Ogden) Cryder. Children are: Edith Woodward and Elizabeth Ogden. S. A. W.

New York city. Messrs Editors: I have recently read In your paper the genealogy of the Snowden family, of Maryland, published in The Sex of January, and find that you have fallen into the same error that Dr. Thomas has in the Thomas family. The John Snowden you both name as the tenth child and youngest son of Richard and Elizabeth Thomas-Snowden cannot be correct. Ac- cording to both of you, his children mar- I ried the grand and great-grand children of tamuel Snowden, third son of Richard and Elizabeth Thomas Snowden, who you call his brother.

Besides, my great-uncle, Col. Henry Snowden, one of the Old Defenders, who died In Baltimore county In 1868 at the age of 81 years, had often told me that his grandfather was the youngest son of Richard and Elizabeth Thomas-Snowden and that "Old Tom Snowden," of the Pa-tuxent Iron Works, was his brother and the uncle of his father, Francis Snowden. From this great-uncle I also learned that the Snowdens were Quakers, from Wales that there were three (not four) brothers who came to tnis country. The first to come was John, who went with William Penn to Delaware, and removed to Pennsylvania. This John Is the forebear of the Snowdens of Pennsylvania.

Two brothers followed John, and the ship they came in was wrecked off the coast of South Carolina; one brother remained In that State, and the other went to Virginia and later to Maryland, and Is the progenitor of the Maryland Snowdens. John B. Snowden's will was probated March 17, 1777 (folio 179, Liber 1). He resided in Baltimore county, 10 miles from Cowles' Manor, In what is now Howard county. The names of Lis three plantations willed to his two children, Francis and Susanna, were Watson's Trust, Snowden's Chance and the Escape.

Francis Snowden was born 1757, and died in 1812. He married Eleanor Miles, of St. Mary's county, and had nine children four sons and five daughters. His seat was called Branton (Baltimore county), where he died, as stated in ScharfB Necrology. His daughters married into the Brun, Dorsey, Spalding, Elder and Locke families.

The Bona removed to Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri, except my grandfather, who lived and died in Baltimore. Among the descendants of Francis Snowden In Maryland are the late Mrs. George Patterson, Mrs. James Carroll, Mrs. Randolph Mordecal, Ex-Gov.

Frank Brown, Mrs. Henry Moale and the grandchildren of Basil S. Elder, an old and respected citizen. Mes. J.

J. G. Louisville, Ky. Messrs. Editors: I wish you would publish or ask for details and names of the Sommers family.

I have only a few names and a tradition. Baltimore, Md. M. R. "Once npon a said a traveling man, "I fell overboard from an ocean steamer.

I was sitting on the rail and Just tumbled over. Instinctively I held my arms out for the dive, and while I was still falling I heard the cry ring out, 'Man over board 1' "Down, down I sank, for the fall was from a considerable height. Being able to swim a little, I was spared the first mental agony experienced by the nonswimmer who unexpectedly finds himself In deep water. The surprise caused by the suddenness of the fall filled my brain, but as I struggled to cregaln the surface, my lungs almost bursting, the horrible thought of the propeller churning out its 100 revolutions a minute flashed upon me. "Should" I be mangled beyond recognl tion in a second? Oh, for another year's sweet life Would my leg be cut clean off, or "I could see" the sky again, and I took a great breath of fresh air, though sick with fear.

Then I saw the steamer had passed. I was spared mutilation, to die slowly by drowning. "How rapidly the steamer was vanishing 1 I could catch a glimpse of it when a great wave lifted me high in the water. I would only be able to swim for 10 minutes 10 little minutes though I was still in the prime of life. Surely, that cry as I fell would have roused somebody to action and yet I was alone in the Atlantic, with possibly two miles of water between me and the bottom.

"I looked round anxiously to see whether a life buoy had been thrown there was nothing In sight but a wide waste of water and the fast disappearing steamer. Pernicious The Last Word In Tbe Evolution Of The WideSpreading Merry Widow Chapeau.