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Show v." ; 1 a l lliKlKMralll - SN PRESIDENT IS A HAWIIAN . -. - i ; - . ; ... O person in the least degree conversant with the biography of George Washington catf fall to admire the extreme versatility of the Father of His Country. As a w arrior and as a statesman he won fame in a superlative degre,e: and yet it may be found, upon research, that he of-Jt- -- 7- . Probably nowhere was there greater surprise felt over the election of Dr. Sun-Sea at the president provincial republic of China than In:. Hawaii, where Dr. Bun was born. So true Is It that a prophet is not with-ou- t honor save in his own land, ill dur. ing the years that Dr. Sun has been arousing his countrymen to longings for a newer and freer . national, life and organizing for It the people of Hawaii have looked on him as a professional adventurer, careful of his own safety while exploiting the rising patriotism of his compatriots. - From time to time for years past have come reports-o- f uprisings-f- a China, some of them of formidable promise, said to be the result of his propaganda. Each report of the kind has brought out in some of. the Hono lulu papers Earcastlc or satirical para! rgraphsv describing him as a long- range revolutionist aridTa patriot for Yat THE PROVO HERALD - It - ' aUr' 's first - president was . "architect and builder" as we interpret the term, today. On the contrary 6t no. period ot revenue. his life did be devote his entire Nowhere was there more surprise than in Honolulu, therefore, when news time to form of activity ndr came that the .leaders of the present revolutlbn, both in the. field and in the did he this upon it as a means depend had recognized M?uacil, mefrif etlho - leadlngpirjt' cboseii Mm nresident wined - to- combine to compel Dr. Sun was bom in the district of Kula, on the island of Maui, in the to assume responsibilWashington group. His father was one of the early Chinese immigrants to Ha-- ities as an amateur architect and wait, coming in the early slxtico of tho laot'ccpMrytlL l1ftr-Tipan v HTuluaTi'fT" the fcJun was sent by his motner to'tionoiiiiu to be educated, going to lolanl term. On the one hand was the Christianity. ultimately embraced college several years and circumstance that he was master 4 of an eight thousand-acrestate and there 'was always more or less prates-stonally-a- n Ul. .. !P-- I meas-j- : showed ure of ability In the more modest pursuits' of planter- - and country BQuireThere ls, however," one branch of the great man's activities that has been almost wholly over looked by students of the niany:sldedWashingto This concerns his numerous and "extensive under takings as an architect and builder operations that in scope might have seemed to afford a- - sutlicient career lor any ordinary citizen. Of course there- - is no desire" to create the Impression that the " ' 4;-.- - : - ; - , Vrt Wd ' ISscis- - - - -- wbomVVn-Tiag-faag4s4ypica- ; l, pmTU 11 Zi - H Wif- - 1 lt -- 4f r v J A im$fflNtw flfj fJr ' t" "Jr - h r".?.'1 .E!- -a- . With no particular cilebration to mark the event, the Rev. James D. I.Iofxat, D. D., LL. D., recently entered year of his upon the presidency of Washington and Jefferson eollt-ge- . a rword for length of btrvice and accomplishment which is by few if any of the college and university presidents of the United. States. A man. widely known for his learning and for his business ability, a former moderator of the Presbyterian church and recognized as cne o the most prominent divines of. the Presbyterian denomination, Dr. Moffat has ably kept up the standing of the famous old school here which in Its more than a century of history Las gained a wide reputation as a classical institution of the highest order. Dr. Moffat was born in New Lisbon, Ohio. After finishing his preparatory schooling he entered Washington and Jefferson, graduating with the class .kZ.. .yj.. .M.." 1 fin - --- y.;rf V VJtr $rT? " -- - - ''"-i' ' V v;; -x iTir ' if. - 1 . - i . .i. - 3 - 1 . 0 t 'H'Sll,.' pr-UJI-i T r- - fund.-,'---- 11 'J ,if 1 r, I r " Id""-- " ls "Oo tagon Housed which it located only "a,7 few bTocTjsTrouTlbe Whlt HmiBn and iii tndsy one or the show places ol the capital, - having served In later ears at this tl . Tcategory .. -- -- . the permanent head quarters of the Aroerl Tbe'Jiation's flrsi can Institute of Architects. chief magistrate laid off the ground In this vlcla man or - BRIDE'S MANY REGAL GIFTS nny meant country homes, Ther are In the city ol Wash litgttm several build hl'ch attest hit Iiiks 7talrnt In this direction ' with reference to dwell lugs in urban surrounds lngs. Perhaps the most Jneresting and certain s - - r liinit-e- IfjfoeybUrttiffiho TrihrH n l 1 i 1 I - 'i ? I -- ?' rtfif ; . Danceof aweU. oraerea Generai 11 village. . ; ; 4he. itv nn. Tr,.nrAd th original plans-- f n slon. although, as in tie casej:two-t)tthrBiasions above mentioned, It was left to others U . carry out the plans thus formulated, 4 Octagon House., which Is of sdded Interest be caupe It was temporarily used as the Presldentia Mansion after the Urit.ish soldiers buried lh White House In 1814, derives Its name from lit "of unusual out octagonal form. Indeed, buildings line seem to "have been something of a fad wltt Architect Oeorge Washington. , He built a six teen-sidebarn at Mount Vernon and the' mill h constructed on that estate was likewise many sided. Almost under the ehadow of the capita brick building at Waslilngton Is a wubntnB44a4 which George Washington built Just before hit last Illness overtook him and which he had de signed as a winter residence. Indeed, owing t( . I .V" - iVifcsr ifSmiJurllKBf9 wa8h- plan- - Ml WJ i1""! V rr &&qrkT . - ' d 1 -- ' .. U.S. AMBASSADOR RESIGNS - ' - ' -- IW:' ' , ' ' -- ... dor cog-whee- "wd j . - .'. . . Tw-mamm- n ; ; two-Btor- v ; f n ' , 1 . !! c ;:; i . -- - . k I Pour million dollars in stocks, I I- lngton-eve- n t 1 U It bonds and other securities was given I " II Bed,the walks Oliver Mrs. Cromwell the other day to T"l ll 1 ' ' which are a con-x-s- 1 1 I T. I it head of i Edward , , i Stoesbury, by 1 lA feature "'LiI sptcuous I U & -I DrezeL Co., bankers, as a prelude to ' of the landeeave 4 ? 1 vMl. their marriage in the afternoon. work at Mount Besides the securities, Mr. Stotes-bur- y valued his at bride gave jewels " -About flve mtles a million dollars. The ceremony was performed at fuur o'clock at the home of tho brldo, lawn. a"cUa 1808 New Hampshire avenue, Wash to this day In an doto on stands and be done D. a which C. The bishop of Washingsuch Colonial mansion juildlng rebuilding Jngton, excellent state" of preservation and Is generally. ton, Rt Rev. Alfred Harding, read the main. On the other hand, George Washington, . service In the presence of a small but in later life, as the leading official of a new reaccounted, .next to Mount Vernon, the most -- construction-were stof bo- - -details-delayB-the-lnthe bear Impress of all the buildings that capital," had distinguished company, which' includ- public and the founder of General Washcompleted until after Washington's death"" ant ed the president of the United States thrust upon him innumerable questions of archiof, Washington's Individuality. bis of his family ever occupied the structure. none for selection which, pertorce. and Mrs. Taft Mrs. J. Pierpont TAiif- - tectural policy-an- d ington built Wbodlawn as a wedding gift n upon ilnel all his daughter this the ability-i-requisitioned Ernauopted . Custls, can and J. P. Morean. Jr. Arthur favorite, Nelly len Newb6t3"ofThilaphfa"a The; main building at Wondlawn. whicn is or pure best jnanMrs. CromwelL was given ''! pllltya8 a practlcaland consulting architect Is som Regarding the Washington' coatof-arm- s no wnen we means taxe into account , colonial aesizn. Is tony Dy sixty ietn. iu ue. In marriage by her elder son, Oliver uy sirange con light--Qui- te to come discoveries" have odd in-- all such structures there ere wings connected- Eaton Cromwell, acting In the place bis early experience as a surveyor. TTJis eccupa. belief the American oiir Washington to trary by corridors with the main structure and these of her father, James H, Roberts, who tion which he followed during much of his young not and does stripes.", shield in manhood gave" him" splendid Judgment as to the height, wings are little more than one story .. ,. Is 111 in Florida.. withstanding' that more than a thousand book relative qualifications of sites for both private while the central portion has a height of two The splendor of the bridal gifts amazed Washington society. "Chief among and so proclaim, lADd " as. many, more publlsbedBrticles " '"" rediscernhient .' wag stories. public buildings, and his " ' "shield the Jewels presented by the groom is a, long siring pf pearls, the most beau- - flected facts'are the that It. Washington The Likewise-locatin the advice he gave asJto the sites for atno great distance from ed "tlful collection which Washington Boclety has been permitted to view, pur- the the of mulletB and "bars knight' ; contain (spurs In which Is. Mount Vernon Is Arlington Mansion, buildings at the national capital and chased from a Parisian jeweler at a cost of half a million dollars. 80 long is the public The earliest preference which) I bavs boots.")" manor bouse Just" a character erected to be the same of the the almost buildings degree ' the string that Mrs, Cromwell can wear it only after it has been coiled about thereon. been able to find which announces the Washing mentioned, a monument to the architectural abil-.?r':... - Accordihg 1,-'-to tradition, George " Washington, her neck several times.- - - shield blazoned with stars arid stripes, relate, ton ity of George Washington. Th9 mansion at Arla to public banquet at Baltimore, Md.. in 1851,' s'ure was seated on the veranda of an elevated country until not to erected after be ington, the Ideas of an English poet Martin Tup-where but-th-builder was e bouse, with the panorama of the present Dlstrfct the death of Washington, ' of Columbia spread out before him, chose what is per by name were voiced, proclaiming that th Washington Parke Custls; the adopted son of was , heraldic with Us' bop notions, American flag, now. known as Capitol Hill as the site of the legisGeorge Washington, who had lived for years at lative headquarters of the government He also Mount Vernon and who was not. only thoroughly - rowed from the Washington shield, which possess RobertBac6nr.anibaBsador"of "the ed stars and stripes. Ever since this banque!"" or Dot only chose, the site of the White House familiar with Washington's architectural Ideas, United States at Paris, has resigned American-- authors and orators have, without fur ' of him conducted with over Presidential but had but the talked Mansion, personally requirements '' to ally himself with Harvard anlver- ther investigation, accepted the statement o for-the ot the negotiations the site at Arlington. -- Yet. her houses for the purehaseof the needed " Blty. . . - . '" correct: The English-- - poet -- was - misled.. hy h Washwhich land. The work iof actually designing the variarid of construction Oeorge design Ambassador Bacon's letter, In which for the Heralds' college at London In fancy, fervjd out located ous and are was the streets and", laying public 'buildings the, picresponsible ington he announced his resignation to Pre&l- - ' "" on British heraldry' write! ' the Highest was" Washa new with authority. which of the Federal left Shenandoah by City region parks Vally turesqbe dent Taft, was received by the Presl- ".' fol.t. as ws; or . , ' r reason particularly-familiato his but in of other fact was time he the the up bands, by ington dent jit Washington a few days agd. . "A . Washington shield with stars and stripes a general supervision of "as a young man he made, the original sur- illness last that exercised, he " Mr. Bacon especially refrained from ".' (pales) hasaiever been of rrrecord." alMbi 4and reys-- of ,acfatiTe"VorkBnd"tiisTirchItecturatdeas-w- ( as-- wet. ' It altogetberprobable-thatT-uppemaking ' his retirement public, as he Is .,. .. embodied in most 01 tne plans arawn. George Washington Induced his three brotfierr desired the first announcement Tto others. was" deceived "as." homes-anas sbBp? pt the for arc their acted bytbe to select this promising region put while, Washington consulting come from Harvard university, Thich "mullets,"" These spurs, as worn by the knlghti vfith reference to many of oifr'Tnost 'notable ltect be personally built, tor his efdest brother, or old, werff' round in form, resembling moderr. recently, chose him to be a fellow in public buildings be was actually and' directly reSamuel, the famous Harewood Mansion on a complace of Judge LowelldeceaseiL. somewhat, and their bristling polnti for the plans of many private resisite facing the HlueJlldga Mountains, sponsible manding . "Bacon said he wished dences and these are xonsetjuently-tr- f even great-- ' possibly suggested , the "stars" of' which JTuppei-.miles If6m Harewood 13 Claymountrwblch t ' his, friends to know thai there were , archi-; ; spoke.. " er interest than the public buildings as evidence ., generally accounted George Washington's ''"'' so ulterior motives for his resignation. tectural masterplecer- - He'drew, thg plang foLthls.!., hlr architectural ideals." The structures are lo ;of Labor.-.---.-'t of .He had been for 17 years a member estate-aDivision ; Mount Ver cated not only on his own mansion, but did not supervise Its construction,-.. of the board of overseers and could, - Voice From Below 'Are. you children alt in, bed! non on the Potomac, but at various other points which was carried on by a relative. The manor. - he of not, be said, decline the honor of be a with now brick West Virginia.-TIn Virginia and what is house consists of central building .'.Voljs From Above "doming a fellow of Harvard,' which be Voice Frtrtn Below Well, I must say It didnf , each side ftf sep-commodious wings knd-cmansion at Mount, Vernon, was not the original iwo ' ! considered to be the best single lnflu-- ; vou long to say your prayers. buildlnz with take connected amta thetont conception; of Oeorge Washington, haVIhg been an'eac We divWedm up ence for good in America. . court yard .ybiceiFTom Above built by hie Baltbrother; Lawrence Washington, rectangular building bV arlck-walle- d Mr. Bacon added that he welcomed. took aiWdW an'aald emall at enc, Cleje'a.M some dozen years ere it came into tne possession thirty feet square. The connected buildingswhlch ' ," ' - , - the opportunity to Identify himself cv x:' ' - of ..: . Leader. almost wholly of yellow brick,. . . , are George Washington through Inheritance. How' arid life. national with the .American, . drle two . of of and hundred tlrely great problems have an aggregate length ever, George Washington enlarged the original t V: "Is your resignation at this time Influenced bjr the presidential election ; feet"? On the north: front of thlg ' expansive ' residence by increasing Us Jength and height and i:,. , ' ' - . Heartfelt. 'fittt - i "Geef first I jwlsl, ., s Kid ' his lie w se-icigar) theportico-relieveThe f' a (after stone ,. rather structure, I he added various notable Jmprovementr to the " ' : No was the decided asswen : have no Intention of entering politics. manor house4 as well as erecting from .nig own, outllnee. t 'vere j 'X ' '.T'JX'c moat cordial of" and most ar a as relations President Washington's witi raft : TM, My However; friendly fvity'-::J,C ability designer arcbltecturai designs Jiumber of supplementary-' : tooreoven I have voiced la my letter of resignation." : 'U , j FeiTde tlces waT'noT- b f - I ! : . .,.:.. i -- Wheeling, W. Va. In January, 1882, he became president of Washington and Jefferson. . When Dr. Moffat began his work 30 years ago the college bad no scientific laboratories, no gymnasium, no library, no athletic field, all of which things it now possesses. The endowment when Dr. Moffat took charge was less than $200,000. Today the endowmenkfund la more-th- an $640,000 with " plans well under way for the raising of a $1,000,000 endowment . ....... e COLLEGEEAD THREE DECADES thirty-fourt- ff" K ;i ' . |