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Manassg 9 Manassas is a town of his-jj toric moment, and sixty years Ago all men talked of It. It tilled a larger place in men's minds and speech and in public prints than any other town had filled before, and today the name "Manas- J. sgs" snares prominence anu renown jc with the names "Gettysburg" anil i 'Appomattox." Manussas was the scene of the iirst clash of magnitude between the armies of the north and south. On- tysburg was the crisis of the civil war or the point at which the tide of fortune turned and Appomattox was ii the Held on which the Confederate 1 states acknowledged to the federal a authorities that its government and its armies were defeated, or. as Hob- ert E.

Lee expressed it in his farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia: "After four years' arduous service, a marked by unsurpassed courage and ii fortitude, the Army of Northern Vir- ginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. kT 1 need not tell the survivors of so Ti many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I a have consented to this result through no distrust of them, but feeling that vainr nnH devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for 2 the loss that would attend a continuation of the contest. I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen." 4y The fiftieth anniversary of the battel which made Manassas known around the world was celebrated with dramatic effect on the memorable field and the following inscription on a little monument in the courthouse 11 grounds at Manassas tells of that event: "In commemoration of the Manas- sas National Jubilee of Peace: The JJ first instance in history where sur- vivors of a great battle met fifty 11 years after, and exchanged friendly greetings at the plafe of actual com- bat and here on July 21. 1911. the closing scene was enacted: The tab- a leau of the Re-United States.

The President, the Governor Virginia lt and forty-eight maidens white In took part, with 1,000 veterans of the Blue and the Gray, and 10,000 citi- zens of the New pi tS 1915. on April 9. there was a jubi- tl lee reunion of federal and Confederate soldiers at Appomattox. It was 0 the fiftieth anniversary of the sur- render by Gen. Robert E.

Lee of the 61 Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. XJ. S. Grant and the Army of the Po- It tomac. The hopes of the Confederacy fi which blazed splendidly at Manassas, were darkened at Gettysburg and extinguished in the cam- it paign of Petersburg and the fall of I OM 1 Richmond, but it was at Appomattox that the red cross flag of the South was furled, even though a few Con- federate commands in other parts of a the south were not compelled to sur- tl render until the summer of 1865.

His- tl tory, everybody who fought in the civil war, and everybody who reads its bloody, desperate records, counts si Appomattox as the close of the four- year war. There is no unity of opinion as to where and when the civil war broke out. There had been marching and counter-marching and maneuver- ing. skirmishes and small actions or tl "afTairs." but it was near Manassas si that armies of the north and south first came to grips. The names Manassas and Bull Run are often used'one for the other or a interchangeably, and are so related in one's mind that when one speaks of Bull Run the thought "Manassas" comes up and a reference to Manassas si instantly calls up the thought "Bull tl Run." Bull Run is a stream with per- baps about the same volume of water as Rock creek.

It rises in the Bull Run mountains, one of the eastern i flRSDBH IS JjBK; -jR, flPu itfku uppplHHBi pKSB ll BR flm CONFEDERATE I 4 u-i: is, utposts, or outridges of the Blue tidge. Ten miles below a red stone ridge In the battle ground of Bull tun. but twenty miles if you should ollow the crooks and bends of the reek, the stream of tragic fame inites with a stream called Broad un. From this junction the united treams are called Occoquan creek, 'rom the creeks' junction to Old Ocoquan village is six miles. That is he head of navigation of the stream with its broadened part, called iccoquan bay.

is a tidal estuary of he PotomacBull Bun figured in the strategy of he first battle. It is the largest tream in the section and beause of its importance in the landcape the fighting which began near ts and reached battle-proporions and intensity from half a mile a mile and a half west of the tream. whs nnlloil 1 ho Hull tun. The Confederate base was at he little railroad junction hamlet Manassas. That was a strategic ioint from which to ward against a ederal attack on Richmond, to hold Confederate threut against Washngton and to maintain communicaion with Confederate forces in the alley of Virginia.

After the surender of Sumter into Beauregard's lands he was called to Richmond and as directed to assume command of small force of Confederate troops what was then called by military ten "the Alexandria line." He took ommnnd at Manasas Junction, June 1S61. ET Gen. Beauregard, accomplished and skillful officer, tell why lanassas Junction was an important osition. He said: "Although the poItion at the time was of commandlg importance to the Confederates, he mere terrain was not only withut natural defensive advantages, but the contrary was absolutely unfaorable. Its strategic value was that eing close to the federal capital it eld in observation the chief army hen being assembled near Arling on by Gen.

McDowell, under tlie ini- tediate eye of tbe commander-in- I hief. Gen. Scott, for an offensive lovement against Richmond, and 'hile it had a railway approach in rear for the easy accumulation of and all the necessary lunitions of war from the southard, at the same time another railay. the Manassas Gap railroad, dierging laterally from the left at that oint. gave rapid communication with le fertile valley of the Shenandoah.

len teeming with live stock and pi substi3tence as well as with di ther resources essential to the Oonrderates. There was this further at alue in the position to the Confed- in rate army: That during the period ot seasoning and training, ei fed from the fat pastures. elds and garners of Loudoun. Far- uier and lower Shenondoah valley ci mnties which otherwise must have ol illen into the hands of the enemy." As a mutter fact, it was the ei 4 Jm xfyW-wr BlILDIXG OF E.ISTKRX COLLEGE. Gap railroad which brought ictory to the southern arms at Ma- assas.

It was that road which en- ei bled most of Johnston's army from pe Shenandoah to join Beauregard's pe day before the battle. It was the a ap railroad which brought from th? a alley Kirby Smith's brigade of John- ton's army, which, leaving the train a ear what is now Wellington station, ime upon the held early in the aft- pi rnoon during the closest and fiercest al the fighting. It was the arrival ri these troops which precipitated lie federal rout. The federal as- hi umptlon was that Johnston's army 'as coming up. The fact was that fh hroughout the morning and the ai ours before the route the federal fi rmy had been fighting the army pi Beauregard reinforced the day be- by Johnston, and Kirby Smith's rigade was but the tail end of John- tr ton's command.

But it came on the eld. and on an exposed fiank of the su ard-battling Union troops, at what 'ould be today called "the psycho- al moment." And this arrival Smith on the Union right was fr lii in nf th th Of th I St hi cr ca so -r rc ca eT tr gkU? rc 8L fli rrOTirKii cc bi si ft it ft maHma in oi HHHKmmKB NONIXEKT. irst Can MANY Famous I the North and Story of Conditions Houses, i gftWfee .4 3t in accordance with prearranged lans of the battle; it was an acci- of war. ii A skirmish took place on July 18 a ford of Kull run. called Black- jrns ford, three or four iniles from anassas.

and on Sunday. July 21. an igagement began at that point on 11 run where the Washington- airfax Centerville-Warronton pike a the stream on a picturesque stone bridge. That engagement 0 as desultory on the part of the fed- -aIs and too light and hesitating i fc a A vi. I WlnHmSa 1 the known strength of McDow- ITs army.

It suggested to Confed- a rate high officers a feint. Two corps. I two-thirds of McDowell's force, ere crossing the stream two miles bove. at Sudley ford. Sudley being hamlet consisting chiefly of a mill, church, a dwelling and a hotel and sulphur spring, well known to old 'ashingtonians as a "watering 1 lace." that being the ancient equiv- i lent for "summer resort." Dust i sing from marching columns and ood scouting revealed that the creek ad been crossed and that a move- i lent to turn the Confederate left ank was under way.

From the camps I round Manassas and from the fords irther down the creek and from aints as far away as Occoquan Con- tderate troops were marching to leet the attack. Small bodies of oops nearest to the enemy Were ushed forward to fight delaying a rtions. The Confederate line was formed ong rising ground south of the ashington-Warrenton pike westward om Stone bridge. The center of this ne was at the crossing of the Wash- gton-Warrenton pike and the Ma-1 issas-Sudley road. On the farm, ten owned by Mrs.

Judith Henry, in le southeast angle of the road the 1 ain action took place, and there it as that panic, caused by the arrival Kirby Smith's brigade, came upon ie Union army. Then began the ampede which caused sorrow and imilintion in the north, but strength- led its resolve to carry on. and tused exultation throughout the I iuth. The relation of the little rail- 3 ad junction town to the fighting tused ths people of the south gen- ally to rail It the battle of Ma-1 issas. while the northern people who id not seen Manassas, but had ossed and recrossed Bull run, genally spoke of it as the battle of Bull I un.

But the terms soon became ossed and it was indiscriminately I It token and written of as the battle of I ull Run and the battle of Manassas, soon as the guns opened oh thati inday morning in July, 1861. Ma- issas leaped into fame, and before, le moon had it was the most town in America. HE renown of Manasses does not rest altogether on the battle of ull Run. In August. 1862.

there were around the town and espeally northwest and lapping over on te Held of the first fighting, which ade the first battle of Bull Run tree mid hectic little skirmish in imparison. This was the three days Sitting which came to be called the tcond battle of Manassas. By that' me the people of the United States id become so used to great tragedy imparison. This was the three days' ghting. with two days of about as tavy fighting as the civil war rought forth, did not attract as much much exultation i.

south the trth as the first the immer of 1862 the Alfcny of Northern irginia had been brought to a high ate of discipline and1 training. It as commanded by a general whose im? sheds luster on American arms. a corps commanders ware as sklllil soldiers as the marshals of and its division and brigade tmmanders were generally officers high attainment. All theds factors ade the Army of Northern Virginia! that time as efficient and effect-1 an army as ever folio wef a flag. I I le Into I battlegrounds Around South Was Town nts of 'V -P fe :1 'x yy STREET VIEW IN MANASSAS.

he Federal Army of the-Potomao ot rounded out into so great a fight- machine. You have your choice a many reasons. It did not lose bat- le after battle to inferior numbers of tr len not so well equipped as it. beause its soldiers were less coura- or less manly, or less inspired the conviction that they fought in si just cause. It was not because it i ir id not have splendid officers.

But its rgmization v. as "spotty." strong in hu es, weak in plat es It lacked ft eamwork. It was heavy and turn- crsome It lacked the "verve." ei elan." sprit" and mobility of the rr pposing army. The popular reasons oi this situation, given at the time nd given in the books, is that the 1 A irmy of the Potomac meddled 3' rith by politicians at Over these miles of fields close to Washington's neighbor town of Mr A assas fell thousands and thousands brave Americans from every state ast of the Mississippi river and from lany states and perhaps all the states rest of Father of Waters. It is ragic and heroic ground.

There is a st wenty or thirty year-old plan to take the blackest and the reddest A elds of Manassas a battlefield park, nd surely such a thing must come to tl ass in time. When the peace of Ap- ei omattox had been signed and the ai 'nion armies of the east were march- I tl rig up to Washington to pass in that I rami review of which you have all eard. long columns of these armies assed along the roads through the lull Hun fields. Tens of thousands of irant's troops knew these fields SoF- lers stopped there and they built two nonuments of stone. They set up one the Henry farm, the focal point of he first battle.

They set another by lie side of the railroad cut on the farm, called Peach Tree farm, ne mile from Oroveton (which is ne mile west the Warrenton ike from Henry farm) and about a nlie and a quarter or a half northwest of the monument on the first ield. pHESE monuments stand today, although, so far as the writer of hese lines knows, the States irs never taken any step toward their! and. and the families owning these, endants of the people who owned hem in "61 and '82. are the caretakers. monuments ore "soldier monunents" in that they were built by oldiers to the memory of their felows.

When soldiers set up the monunents the fields around them were dtted with sunken graves and sunken renehes in which thousands of battlelcin men had been buried. The town of Manassas has greatly ihanged. It has not' grown to be a arge city, but it has become a pleasint town of homes and ample busiless. It has civil war memorials, many fine churches, schools that are tp to the Virginia standard (which, jy the way. though many of you do lot know it, has.

within the past tuarter of a century, become a high tandard). a woman's college whlcjt famous. manufactures. banks, tewspapers. a public water system, i sewer system and a municipal elecric light and power plant, lighting he town and stores and residences tnd selling light and power to In- lustries.

Its shipping facilities are lrst-class. the town being on the J' nain line of the Southern, thirtyhree miles from Washington, and iouthern and Chesapeake and Ohio rains passing every few minutes, lay and night. It is still a junction ilace and trains come and go over jE he Manassas Gap railroad, which s' las become part of the Southern sys- i em. The Bull Run mountains rise air and blue about fifteen miles away the north and west and the chll- ii Iren of the town go fishing, swim- ning and wading In Bull Run. The ri ame roads over which troops narched in the civil war lead to the b.

lenry place, to Blackburn and rr litchell's fords, to Stone bridge, to Itone house, to Sudiey, to Groveton, Gainesville, to Brentsville, Brls- ow. Nokesvllle. Centerville. Chantllly nlap? familiar in civil War his- tl XKMOR Is the he Star Man Visits I Industries, Churche: ty and Town Official: I "x- i I 3ry. Of course, many new roads ave been opened, and.

although -all re not yet to be classed as good jads. there is progress in the relaklng of roads. One of the conspicuous objects at fanassss is the Confederate monulent. It is built of Manassas sandtone and is topped by the bronze najje of a soldier. It stands in lanassas cemetery and in the center a large plot inclosed by an iron nee the gate of which are the ords.

"Confederate cemetery." On ach of the four faces of the monulent is a white marble tablet, and one of these is this inscription: "Dedicated by the Dadies' Memorial ssoeiation of Manassas on August to the heroes of Virginia and er sister states, who yielded their ves on July IS and 21. 1861. and ugust 2K. 29 and 30. 1862.

in defense the Confederate cause.v On a block of red sandstone near te base of the monument is this: I R. T. Tillett. Co. H.

Va. uilder." On another block of sand one is this: "Manasti'ch Lodge. No. 12. A.

F. A. M. A. L.

5888 June 20. D. 1888. O. P.

Wright. W. Unpr and around this monument are le bones of hundreds of men gath-ed from battlefield graves. There re four separately marked graves in le lot. There Is a marble headstone Isjfi 'mBHKn JH 1 1 ONE iscribed: "Dr.

P. B. Bo wen of Co. 11th Va. who after being ounded became a member of the lack Horse Cavalry.

Born December Died June 12, 1902." One eadstone is inscribed: "Lieut. D. W. Itts. 4 Reg.

Ala. Vol." A third headone Is marked: T. E. Rawls. La.

Vols. Died August 17. he fourth is inscribed: A. Derek. 1st Reg.

Born April i S. C. Died August 16, very now and then, in making digging a will, cellar or foun- I ition, a skeleton Is come upon, and I uttons. belt buckle or some other dlitary accessory usually shows to! hlch army the man belonged. If I onfederate, the bones are interred ith fitting honors in this little ceme- I at Manassas or in a cemetery by le side of the Warrenton pike at EMVAfC f.v -Jt JpSSPpiifPV' AmmSj IAU a THB COVBTBOCBfi WOCN fotice Di irst Battle Between locality and Writes 3, Schools, Business 3.

Groveton. '1 here by the roadside Confederates buried their who fell in that trenches, and many years after the war the women of Manassas and other parts of Prince William county brought about the erection there of a simple monument. qc the same side of the town where the cemetery lies are the public school buildings of Manassas. One of the buildings ranks architecturally with the best in the state. Attendance is large and scholarship good.

The teachers in the high school are Miss K. H. Osbourne. principal; Misses Lulu D. Metz, Williette K.

Myers. Min- nie L. Swart. Mary J. Cox and Emily J.

Johnson. Mrs. W. L. Sanders and A.

W. Sanders, agricultural director. In the grade schools are Misses Grace B. Moran. Edith Callan.

Louise Maloney, Elsie Lawson and Grace Metz. There are three vacancies in the graded school faculty due to the fact that Miss Marion Lewis of Manassas and Miss Lillic I). Evans of Scottsville I have notified the school board that they will not be able to serve next year, and Mrs. K. D.

VVissler of Manassas has not applied for reappointment. The commencement exercises of the grade schools were held day or two before The Star man strayed into the town, and it is pleasant to relate that twenty-eight of the boys girls of Manassas graduated and will be in high school next session. They were presented with diplomas by Supt. McDonald, and their names sram area ret GornwelL Ardath Evans, Lula Hixson. Mildred Mills, Elizabeth Coleman, Hazel Saundera.

Thelma Kerrell. Mary Lee Arrington, Eva Breeden, Lucy Brawner, Madeline Petitt. Winnie Wenrich, Mary Sweeney, Margaret Kexrode. Josephine Hirst. Boulah Baker and Gladys! Ball; Hawes Davies.

Wilmer Jasper. Manuel Sabatier. Charles Armistead Sinclair. Ashby Lewis. Clyde Muddi- man.

Arthur Muddiman. Selwyn King, I Clyde Hedrick, Strother Stevens and Abner Myers. Soon after passing the school build- logs one coines to the courthouse and the jail. It was in the '90s that the court seat was removed from Brents-: ville to Manassas. Brentsvllle.

which I became the county seat when it re- moved from Dumfries on Quantico creek in is about six miles south of Manassas, and the old couit build-j ing there is used as a schoolhouse. I The contest over the removal of the county seat was such a one as is us- ual in such cases. Sentiment leaned toward Brentsville; certain practical reasons indicated Manassas. Manas- sas was a railroad town, and Brentsville lay six miles off the iron way, Manassas was a growing town and i old Brentsville had stopped But if you want to feel the quiet inspiration of an old town, tlnely situated on a hill, with views of a vast stretch of county, and with houses and an atmosphere that tell of times, you should visit Brentsville. While 'Hie Star man was setting up; his camera in the courthouse yard three men came into the picture.

They were George J. Tyler, clerk of the I court; L. Ledman. deputy clerk, and THE MAKASSA SCHOOL, BCILDI.M Crandall Mackey of Arlington county and Washington. who was trying a case at the Prince William court.

The principal officers of the county, other than those named, are: Judge, Samuel G. Brent of Alexandsla: commonwealth's attorney, Thomas H. Lion; sheriff, Charles A. Barbee: deputy sheriff. John P.

Kerlin; treasurer, J. P. Leach man; deputv treasurer, C. C. Leach man: surveyor, F.

Norvell Larkin; superintendent of the poor, J. J. Carter; superintendent of schools. Charles It. McDonald; electoral board.

H. Thornton Davies. Hezekiah Iteid and It. B. Gossom: commissioners of revenue.

W. S. Itunaldue and S. T. Cornwall; board of supervisors.

J. L. Dawson, chairman; B. Lynn Robertson. William Crow, McDuff Green.

O. C. Hutchinson and T. M. Ilussell; jailer, Robert Jarmon.

Jii M. aring Ci' "i-c. THK PRKSB Manassas is governed by a mayor I and city council, with a superintend- ent of public utilities. When The Star man was in Manajtsns the town offi- cers were: W. Hill Brown, mayor: C.

1 Raymond Ratcliffe, clerk; Frank Hue. superintendent; Harry P. Pavis. treasurer; members of the council, a J. Arrington, K.

Newman, C. M. I Larkin, R. L. Byrd.

J. H. Burke. J. L.

u. o. nn nwu- i ertson and W. F. Hibbs.

An animated 1 pre-election for mayor council is in progress as this is writ- ten. and tv.o tickets are in the field. I One ticket proposes the For mayor. Harry P. for councilman.

It. J. Arrington, J. H. Burke.

M. Bell. W. F. Hibbs.

R. M. Jenkins. AI. Bark in, Jarnes 11.

Earkin. J. E. and E. Newman.

The other ticket proposes: For mayor. J. C. Parrish: for ouncilmen. J.

Ar- rington. J. E. Bushong. J.

M. Bell. B. Cornwell. E.

R. Conner. R. S. Hynson, C.

J. Meetze. M. Bruce Whitmore and B. Lynn Robertson.

the county seat, the corpora- a tion does not need a numerous po- lice force, and law and order are gen- erallv preserved by the town ser- geant. R. M. Weir. The water sup- ply of Manassas is pumped from deep wells into a reservoir and distributed by gravity.

Plans art- on foot for in- creasing the supply. The fire depart- ment is volunteer. The department owns a horse or hand drawn fire en- ii gine, carrying a gas-driven pump, a hose cart and hook and ladder wagon. The town owns its electric plant and furnishes light and power to subscribers. Among the industries are a flour mill, a wood paving block mill, ice and ice cream works, a lumber mill and a stock feed plant.

The names of the important streets are: Center. Main and Battle streets, Cl T-U 111 QVAnim ti Vpnnp. avvnue, Stuart avenue, Brentsville I road, Centerville road, Sudley road, I Stonewall road and Quarry road. The postmaster is W. W.

Davies and the hotel, the New Prince William, is conducted by Mrs. E. V. Vaughan. Manassas, with a population of about 1,500, has nine T.

P. D. Clark, pastor; Church of the Brethren, Rev. E. E.

Blough. pastor, and Rev. J. M. Kline, Catholic, Rev.

Father William Winston; Episco- pal. Rev. A. Stuart Gibson, rector; Lu- 9 theran. Rev.

Edgar Z. Pence, pastor; I Methodist Episcopal South, Rev. Wil- liam Stevens; Presbyterian, Rev. A. B.

Jamison, pastor; Primitive Baptist. El- der T. S. Palton, pastor, and United Brethren. Rev.

S. P. Skelton. Down at the railroad station you will -y meet some of the busy people of Ma- nassas. The workers there are W.

H. Clark, station agent; Ewell Evans, ticket agent; A. McMillan, express agent; G. W. Merchant, Ed Hixson and Herbert L.

Wetherall, operators; Claud Hixson and Mrs. Louisa Teats, freight clerks. 1 When you take down your telephone receiver in Manassas the girl who says, "Number, please." will be either Miss Minnie Connor or Mrs. Fleta Simpson, directors of the National of ManassAs The National Bank of Manassas and the Peoples' National. The officers and directors of the National of Manasas are Charles R.

McDonald, president; Westwood Hutchison, vice president, and Harry P. Davis, cashier; directors, 8 R. H. Davis. C.

E. Nash, E. R. Connor, R. A.

Hutchison, H. W. Herring, O. C. Hutchison, T.

H. Lion, B. Lynn Robert- son, Charles McDonald. George H. Smith, R.

S. Hynson. W. Hutchison. T.

O. Latham and O. E. Newman; C. C.

v. uaiuiifi is iruci, into. vs. id bookkeeper and John T. Broaddus Is assistant bookkeeper.

The resources of this bank on June 30, 1920, were 1662.407.63. Officers and directors of the Peoples' National are William H. Brown, president: G. M. Ratcliffe, vice president: G.

Raymond Ratcliffe, cashier, and M. M. Kllis. assistant cashier: directors. William H.

Brown, G. Raymond Ratcliffe. E. H. Hlbbs.

A. A. Hooff. Ira E. Cannon, G.

M. Ratcliffe. C. A. Sinclair, George D.

Baker and J. J. Connor. The resources of this bank, February 21, 1921. were 1047.328.67.

The health of tho people of Manassas Is looked after by the following physicians: Dr. S. S. Simpson. Dr.

B. F. 4 -ML. vil War 9 Fv IIRCU OF MANASSAS. den.

Dr. W. F. Merchant and Dr. W.

i. Newman. The dentists are Dr. Hough and Dr. V.

V. Gillum and he veterinary is Dr. George Docke. druggists are Drs. W.

FnvJ Dowells. It. C. Johnson and B. Cocke.

4 'he principal merchants of the town Hibbs Giddihs, clothiers Hvnon's department store. H. D. Wenrich jewelers; Nash Fisher, hardware; 'onner grocers; J. L.

Bushong. rocer; J. C. Steele, general merchandise: D. J.

Arlington, grocer: K. Cornwall, grocer; B.vrd Clothing K. Beru-hley, confectioner: K. Sanders, butcher. There arc a lumber of garages and restaurants.

I I'HEN Tie Star man struck nassas the townspeople were not inly talking of the approaching town lection, but of the coming visit of an minent statesman from Georgia and Washington. On most of the telephone auo in several snop nmuvna bill reading: "The Georgia Cyclone, cith 'John and His Hat." Newest, Jreeziest lecture. Will Upshaw, Congressman from Fifth District of leorgia. Town Hall Tonight. Admision.

Adults cents, Students ents. Family Tickets $2 (if me iot over 13 children). Five Dollar UiSl the man wlio goes to sleep." The congressman's picture is a part of the ill, and he is shown with his right, and raised and the first finger pointing the ceiling. Under the picture is this ndorsement. or recommendation, or ulogy: "He is a halo of sunshine, a of energy, an avalanche of atural Clarence J.

(wens, Mg. Director, Southern Comlercial Congress." One of the features of Manassas is lastern College Conservatory and academy, "with special advantage music, art. expression, home ecc omics and commercial branches; a I nstitution of high grade anil stanc ng for girls and young women; a chool of the cultural and practical is chartered by Virginia to legrees. The large, fine building set in an extensive park. The atalogue of the college emphasizes advantages of asningiou ity in this way: Some one said that it is a liberal eduation to live in Washington.

White thia nay be true, it is also expensive. The tudents of fiistem have the advantage of that eniitifiil city without the expense of living here. Tie- great libraries, the art galleries. museums aud otner public buildings and cenes of historic interest in and about the 'apital city offer their to our tudents. The great rpera and dramatic com aides of tie- world come to Washington.

It possible to attend an evening entertainment the city and return to the college the same vening. 1'nder direction of a member of the faculty. excursions are made to Mount Verion. Alexandria, Arlington, the obserraory. the navy yard and the Smithsonian Intitution.

Sometimes outings extended Annapolis and Baltimore. and may include a rip down to Chesapeake bay. The catalogue says that "Lkistern College is unique among the instiutions south of the Potomac as to ts courses of study and its governnent. In its government it is of church and state, but thoroughly Christian and patriotic its teachings and influence. The is thus free to do its work without political or ecclesiastical lictation.

All denominational faiths ind creeds are welcome within its vails. At least eight evangelical delominations are represented in the 'acuity. No one is employed as a eacher who is not a person of up ight Christian character and a Ilvng example of what a Christian should be." The faculty are: R. H. Holllday.

a nroaidont. Cum am University. Jnlversity of South Carolina. Cni ersity of Tennessee, University of llissourl. education: P.

H. Honn. I. dean, mathematics; Aisle Crum ine Hogan. A.

English; Hazel A. B. modern lanruages and classics; Margaret K. Jardener, B. science; Paul Vermes t.

advanced French; P. H. Hogan. I. history; Grace Butler.

Spanish: 4ary AJife Ramsey, bookkeeping; Irs. H. Holliday, B. shorthand, ypewritlng; Paul Verpoest. violin; rime.

Germaine Posthumus. voice Evelyn A. Johnson. A. tarmony and historv of music: Miss Irwin Deweese.

A. 3., piano and aeompaniment: Edna Plonk, expresion: Margaret S. Gardener, home conomics; Edna Fort, A. physical ulture; Alleyne M. Hamilton, art; Istelle Jinkins.

dormitory superisor. social etinuette; Mary Culberton. nurse; William C. Ewing. M.

ihilosopliy and' education; Clarence V. Power. Ph.D.. secretarial science; rtary Smith, dietitian: Mary Hatfield, tome science, and Louise Thompson. ii8tory.

A BOUT a mile from the town la the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Touth. founded In 1894 by 'ennie Dean, a pious and patriotic legro woman, intelligent and having ertain of the elements of greatness, "he institution provides graded 1 e.4 chool, industrial, auricuuunu ilgh school classes for negro boys mil girls, ami the aims of the school ire explained as follows: To train for useful Uvea those bora rirla, who from necessity or desire Bust ntcr as early aa possible iato aotac eelf-acytortlng occupation: In whaterer course, the aim fa set aloaa as sake young men and woiaen craftsmen. but make craftsmen better men and a nsiea. Jiat abine. but rather to excel.

A pamphlet issued by the school ays that the founding of the Manasas Industrial School is really the Ife story of Jennie Dean. Her parents slaves, but of the most intelli rent class of negroes, her rather navng been taught to read and write arly in life. He was ambitious, after be war, to own his own farm, but lied before he had finished paying or it. Jennie Dean, then a young rirl. left home and went into serelce Washington, her wages going to the balance on the farm, aa well to pay her younger sister's tuition college.

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