Show CLOSED THE ROOM roes mes the ghost of washington still stam stalls through the old mansion 1 sion it was customary in the family of george washington to shut up unused for two years a room in which death had occurred says an exchange so I 1 after the death of the first president in the stately chanter with the great four poster bed which is still shown to visitors martha washington with her lonely heart nightly climbed the attic stairs to lie in a low ceilea sloping doping roofed room with one window a room intolerably hot in summer with little or no means of securing a draft except by a triangular opening where the lower corner of the door had been cutoff to make room for the passage of the cat martha washington died before the two year period had ended if she had occupied the death chamber would she eho have seen the ghost of her dead husband they say that the tha stalwart stately figure of the bravo brave general stalks through the passage with martial tread and carr v 1 astral ura sword in spectral scab td again and again it has happened that people detained at atal mount lount vernon vemon on the busin business essof of the mount vemon association have declared on waking from a sleepless night that they had heard the ghosts sword and stride and seen its tall commanding figure dressed in the old uniform that in life it wore no lights are permitted in the old house bouse for fear of fire except during the meeting of the regents and then only candles ghosts Ghost sare are said mid to love loveda k or ill lighted houses |