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Show PMTCDUSTTPIWWi.,. AlE OTAn HISTORY'S MYSTERIES v 1 k Send-Tor- hwM tUStt Tsat Sta ftuzto 1 What Became of Harrejr Wentworth? I tv, : . , -- jofelet war brought about many THE Civilmysterious disappearances, fyr-iT? but one of the most remarkable of them all was that of Harvey B. Went-wortNew Hampshire farmer lad who went away on a furlough one day In July, 1802, and was never heard from thereafter. Naturally, there were a number of cowards who deserted the colors either because ot fear of dissatisfaction with the way In which they were treated, but everything pointed to the fact that this was not the case with young Went-wort- h and, as a result, ail possible efforts were made to discover what had become of him. But In vain. He had apparently vanished as completely as If the earth had opened and swallowed him. Early In July, 1862, a new regiment of volunteers was mustered Into service In the vicinity of Suncook, N. H-- a regiment known as the Nineteenth New Hampshire volunteers. One of the most enthusiastic members of this regiment was young Wentworth, a private in Company D. He was a farmer boy of exceptionally good habits, intelligent and Inquisitive. Therefore, when the regiment encamped on the Virginia side of the Potomac, near Acqueduct bridge, and Wentworth requested a furlough to see the sights of the Capital, it was granted without a moment's hesitation. In company with a number of others he left camp and was never heard from again. At the next roll call he was marked "not present" and some days later, was entered as having "mysteriously disappeared." No one ever believed that Wentworth had deserted. He was not built that way; and every circumstance In the case pointed away from such probability. A special court of Inquiry was called and, after considering the meager evidence in the case, reported that Wentworth had "disappeared from mortal ken but, In view of bis character and antecedents, we- - clear him from the charge of desertion and recommend that bis military record be regarded as without stain." This opinion was principally based upon the fact that Wentworth had never been heard to complain of the hardships of army life even during the forced march southward from New Hampshire. In fact, he had been too short a time In the service to tire of it and had been treated with the utmost consideration, his cousin being captain of the company of which be was a member. Moreover, there was plenty of evidence that the New Hampshire boy had been extremely anxious to reach the front and see something of real war. When he left camp be was full of youthful enthusiasm over the prospect of seeing the sights of Washington and, apparently, had never left the city. Sentries had been posted at every road that led out of the Capital, as well as along Its leading thoroughfares, and no one could get by them without having his pass recorded. The records of these guards showed that the missing youth had presented bis pass on entering the western limits of the city, and they indicated his progress along Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol. But, after that, all trace of him was iost The thorough Investigation which followed his unaccountable disappearance showed that he had last been seen on the brow of Capitol hill, looking over the city spread out before him. All about him were masons and stone cutters, working on an extension to the Capitol. Below him was a labyrinth of partly covered excavations for the subbasement of the new extension. What could have become of him? Did be meet with foul play, and If so, how was his body concealed? Did be fall a prey to the bullet of some Confederate spy? Was it possible that, while exploring the labyrinthine mazes of the new portion of the Capitol he was overcome by the heat and fell into some dark abyss, where his remains were later walled up and entombed? Had he deserted, Wentworth would have eventually returned to New Hampshire, If only for the purpose of keeping In touch with conditions there. But nothing was ever heard of him In any section of the country, and the only mark to his memory Is the monument In the little church yard in Suncook, New Hampshire, which bears the lettering: "Harry B. Wentworth Mysteriously disappeared from the knowledge of men Washington, D. C, July. 1862." (Q br the WhMler Syndicate.) b. rr '.&r y $r WlJt,$&w rvl r ;-:- ?: -- rX- -- H ' 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON r of April 10, 1830, . m AME the morning M ' I little town of St Louis, Mo., then a frontier trading post, three men, Jedediah S. Smith, when in the ' ' " ' - I r David E. Jackson and W. L. Sublette, called the roll of 81 members of a expedition, ordered the oxen and mules hitched to tha train of covered wagons which they had assembled and gave the command to start westward on their great adventure. Theirs was the to pass over what Srs( covered wagon caravan iistory has written as the Oregon Trail. Later years were to see thousands of other nurd wagons pass over that trail, and more than SjO.000 persons who carried "the star of empire wtward" were to follow it across the plains and ktff'tlie mimntu ius in an epic migration which Hands as one of the greatest movements In all faory. And now, Just a hundred years later, the ip!e of America are to honor the pioneers who Mowed that trail. President lloover has Issued a broclamatlon calling for the observance of the jt'overed' Wagon Centennial from April 10 to De cember 29 of this year April 10 being the hun dredth anniversary of the.start of the first wagon westward and December 2!) being the hun- I&Tdth anniversary of Ezra Meeker, "the Grand Man of the Oregon Trail," who devoted his to the perpetuation of Its memory and the Memory of those who traveled It. Mien Ezra Meeker died In December, 1928. at Ithe age of ninety-eighhis last whispered words were: 1 am not quite ready to go; my work is I unfinished." But he left behind him an oreanlza- Hon which proposes to see to It that his work Is I dnished. That Is the Oregon Trail Memorial asso-which he founded and a fitting climax of Ifiation work is the Covered Waeon Oenten- lB ffhlcI) it has Invited the whole nation to I- Participate with city, state and national covered S8on centennial celebrations. In view of the nation-wid- e interest which this celebration has, it seems appropriate particularly tut there should have appeared recently a new wk by a historian which deals with Oregon Trail from n now nnint nf viow it la IThe Overland Trail : The Enie Pnth f the Plo- ni to Oregon," written by Agnes C Laut and I Published by the Frederick A. Stokes company. In r first chapter Miss Laut says: iuere stand In Amerca three great obelisks. fur-tradi- ISSrSUJTSj - ISSd UH n "He Is In Washlnirtnn tha forlornl onnlfnl Tt la Washington monument marks the begin- It 8 Of a great nnllnn In Ita ovnnncln tr.nm tha "antic to the Pacific. one It 7 commemorates also noblest leaders who ever guided that its ,e "oaln na-- destiny. The Second Is In Knna nttv Tf mmmm r'M the soldiers who perished In the World war; marks the beg,nnIn8 of a great racial Atlantic to the Overland Trail. aiocf. k..n.nt,W. uuuiauiij " nth thSt exPansIn 'rom the nc. That racial path is the let Ollt- In- tha- laot trab r. . ii en ui Iw. "U, Dot fin arrtlV nfitici nnlrlioro In AU tl UVIUIV1P 7 1 W raid, aat to ceu-toor- a hnneer.'frm hardship, from Indian Slns'e year on the 0reen TraI1- - If J00 realize the enic hprnlym nf aiinh nlnneer eoniI)are tnat mortality loss to the array th H ' 8 8insle ,lttie war ,n EurPe over ae Dri ot ine SIze of a 8lnIe county Id fh. V f ' !tates bordering the Overland 1 Trail ! Then Whnt ,he great racIaI h)ghway roea119 toAmei lcan h'story. You realize why, to the West, it h ... ine vefy a'tar stairs of a saint's . . . ""lent n ur t too, is a.vea id acrifir.ii ''"CUUmartvri.in.wi "rope. i i uw, ,ia worn rinig' f t it, vj 111c vu in traces which time can never efface. Colii)hihilid ',eIisk stan(ls at the ttnal outlet of river to th Pni.ifip it 1. tnnu-the fiorieera(T0"th' U marks the end of the 0reKn I couiememorates far more, it nnboIUe ""lu oestination or man s ire wm tt, . A . years , 4. J J f b, history. 1 1 1 1 ;; The Congrett, by nnanimoui vote, t . . authorized commemoration of the heroitm . who traveled mothert and of the fathers On April ; We.t. far the to trail the Oregon . c 10, 1830, the fint wagon t iram icn I f .ul - tf er of thI8 book then follows the trai. from tl,e Ml88ourl to the TaeHlc, link- Ill the d wlth the Present ,n tne vast ever" ""itaf Panorama of the trail's And as Writ tp 1 I .1 u 1 1 "'r7 Jj flnd seeing how all evolved from pres-Djpt- 1 t I W 1 .. Louu for Oregon, pioneering the way ror who et- women and men of the thouiandi tied the Pacific ftate.. On Dec 29, 1830, ;; over Ezra Meeker wa. born, who carried of thu .. memory a per.onal into our day Memorial . hi.toric epoch. The Oregon Trail and wh.ch founded he which J ...ociation, T ;,1Je. men and women in all walk, of ha. .pon- life in all part, of the country, p. the morement to oo.erve of thi. year . from April 10 to Dec. 29 10 rec. the Covered Wagon Centennial, thi. of national .ignificanc. the which e.tabh.hed of the great we.tward tide a continent. aero., American civilization Pfe.ident J. Hoover, Herbert Therefore, I, call upon our peo- T of the United State., do .. A employ tbi. ntinB Lmorate the live, and deed, of the heroic .. .. won and held the We.t pioneer, who .et to .. heru I have witne.. whereof. e "PerT5' 8rasp the Blgniflcance of these things to thTPS" ',y telescPin8 back from the 1 A PROCLAMATION nd ""u and the climax to this stirring picture are these words from the lst chapter of the book : "And cow look back over the long Overland Trail; from the Mississippi to the Pacific two thousand miles stretching from Lewis and Clark's day roughly to 1857, over half a century Look back over the longer racial trail dim in the historic past covering at least two thousand years, or perhaps before historic annals on stone or parchment, six thousand years, or roughly, sixty centuries. We may say it was pagan persecution as to idol worship, or it was lack of pasturage for his flocks sent Abraham trekking up the Euphrates to Palestine about 2000 IS. C. Drought sent Jacob and his twelve patriarchal tribal sons' trekking to Egypt. Economic persecution sent his descendants under Moses wandering back to their Promised wilLand for forty years. lighting a way through to 1200 B.C. derness raiders sometime about Twelve Tribes Dispersion by war scattered the sea up through Russia, across Germany and up by to Hercules Gibraltar of Pillars the through Britain from 800 to 600 B. C. Love of adventure I i II I H I I I I I I II 1 111 II UUU iVi UU MW"t transforme(j a desert lntQ a garden . and ,n a "Me mre than a century hT(a0mp"shecl t the 01,1 JtJ noi acnieve .in sixiy um hiries. n, conquered by sheer dogged, daunUess an empire half the area of Europe. Twen- l' thousand nonr.i uicii, women uuu cuiiuicu Msti At ,00 3EKER AMD HIS COVtt&D WAGOf n A " ,1 I and determination for religious freedom sent the old sea navigators from Columbus to Cartler and Hudson across the billowing Atlantic in ships not so large as many a sailing yacht, from 1492 to 1535 and 1610. We may explain that it was purely from t, - jL I myh.d..dc.u.ed.he.eaIof.h.Un,ted be affixed. STne .tth.cityofW..hing,on,hi. n the J- T- " ;; 21.t .. day of February. 1930, and of the inapo"""" the 1MB. Uni: - ' ttc of America, HOOVER. HERBERT Signed J trade motives the fur traders pushed up the Great Lakes and down the Ohio from 1000 to 1800. We may add it was the same lure of gain drew Missouri and New York and Baltimore traders to the foothills of the Rockies. "It was hard times from 1837 to 1S57 forced men In a fever across the Rockies down to the Pacific. The fact remains the Great Racial Movement had gone round the world In a complete circle; and the movement in spite of human motives, low or high, had been a spiral up from the lower level of humanity as a hunting and bunted animal to a spiritual rebirth both as to vision and daily living. We may give the human motive any name. Behind the motive was a Something Greater than the races moved. "Some call that Something Greater X. Some call It Y. Some call It Z. Some call it destiny. Some call It God. 'His Dominion had extended from the rivers to the ends of the earth.' "As the culmination of that movement, the Overland Trail stands without a parallel In racial history ; and that Is why it is held In honor today." So the Oregon Trail has an international significance as well as a strictly national one. It Is probable that many Americans do not even realize its national significance. Therefore, in vJew of the call for a nationwide observance of thn Covered Wagon Centennial this year, a statement by Dr. Howard R. Driggs of New York university, president of the Oregon Trail Memorial association. Is especially interesting to Americans in parts of the country other than the territory which the trail traversed. He says: "We are prone to think of the old Overland Trail as a western trail. It Is no western trail at all except geographically. Historically It Is an eastern trail. It was discovered and worn deep by Easterners who went West "The West, may I remind you, is simply the transplanted East. It Is more It is In a very real sense the blended North and South. They sing a song "Out Where the West Begins"; frankly, I do not know where it begins, but I do know where it began. It began on the shores of the Atlantic. The pathfinders who mapped and charted our Far West came from every state east of the Father of Waters. "These heroes may 1 repeat were native sons of all our older states. Listen to the names of Just a few of them Capt. Robert Gray, who by discovering the Columbia, gave us our initial claim to the Pacific Northwest, was a son of old Rhode Island ; Lewis and Clark, the first to lead a band of Americans across the continent, and Jln Bridg-er- , who as a boy trapper discovered the Great Salt lake, were Virginians; Wilson Price Hunt, who led the Astorians overland, and Capt. Zebulon Pike, of Pike's Peak fame, were sons of New Jersey; Edward Robinson, who, fighting under Daniel Boone, was shot and scalped and left for dead on the Bloody Ground, was one of the three Kentuckians who found the South Pass, the great gateway of the Rockies; Jededlab Strong Smith, the first to dare the great American desert, and Dr. Marcus Whitman and his devoted wife, who gave their lives to carry Christianity beyond the Rockies, were from old New York; Nat Wyeth, who built Fort Hall a place of refuge and help for weary emigrants to California and Oregon, was from Massachusetts; John C. Fremont, the fearless Pathfinder, who by a daring stroke won A full roster California, was a son of old Georgia. who heroines significant and played heroes of the our West adds luster to parts in the winning of states of the Union. tvery one of the older Smallest War Memorial as to where the smallest Is still a moot point In London one encounters It war memorial, writes "Looker On" In the London Daily Chronicle, The smallest I have come across Is a glass case on the front of a block of workmen's flats on Albert embankment near VauxhalL It Is a simple, homemade affair enshrining only about a score of names of men living In the block who served in the war, with a cross marked against those who fell. All these yeaw it was apparently started during the wai" It has been carefully tended by the tenants ; there are always one or two blooms In glass Jam Jars in front of It. 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