Show TROLLEY TO MOUNT VERNON I No Longer Necessary to Sail Down the Potomac to Reach the Home of Washington I In theso days of trolley cars and Interurban connections it is no longer necessary to sail down the Potomac to reach Mount Vernon although that is always a pleasant trip The Washington Wash-ington Alexandria and Mount Vernon trolley cars carry passengers along the rivers wooded shores pass through quaint old Alexandria and onto on-to an entrance of the estate leading to the rear of tho mansion house The train crosses a bridge which has replaced re-placed the famous old long bridge over which the Union army marched In the GOs a privilege denied the confederate con-federate troops As soon as tho Virginia side Is reached the conductor hangs up cards one in the front of the car with the significant word White and ono In the back which Indicates that backseats back-seats are for colored passengers This means that in obedience to the laws of Virginia you must If a white passenger pas-senger move from the back seat you may have legally taken In Washington Washing-ton and leave It for the occupancy ol the negro passengers who are forbidden forbid-den to sit In front At Arlington Junction where passengers change cars for Arlington National cemetery there is a small frame station with two rooms Over the door of one Is printed print-ed For White Passengers Over tho other Is the notice For Colored Passengers Mount Vernon with its ccnturyol < trees its formal English gardens Its hedges of boxv tod Its deer park its sun dial its oldfashioned barn its outbuildings for the servants the kitchen tho butlers house the laundry laun-dry the spinning house Its kitchen fireplace big enough to hold several men in standing posture its rolling acres of velvety lawnIs so reminiscent reminis-cent of the estate of an English gentleman gen-tleman that it makes the democracy of the man who held It the more remarkable re-markable It is not strange that after ho had douo his work ho was content to remain hero and look after his broad acres The Mount Vernon Ladles association which through Its state regents holds and cares for tho property has forever removed from the nation tho fear that tho first presidents pres-idents house would fall into neglect and decay 0 |