Show SPLENDID PLACE OF REPOSE FOR PATRIOTIC DEAD Great Arlington Cemetery Dear to the Hearts of 01 All Americans Since the burial of William Jennings Jen Jen- flings Bryan Brynn at Arlington a n new public pub lie lic Interest has been bren awakened In that famous national cemetery The Pathfinder Pathfinder Path lath finder Magazine says cays It has received eds of questions Ar Ar lington and Its Ets hI history tory the time answers to which may well be repeated Arlington was originally the estate of John Jolla Parke Custis the time only son of ot Martha Washington When John Custis died soon noon after the capture of Yorktown Washington adopted two of his four tour children George George Washington Washing Washing- ton Parke Custis and Elizabeth who is known in history as Nellie Custis i It was George Custis who built the present house known as Arlington I I t Rit C 1 M i f fAn g An unusual view of the great theater meater at Arlington National cemetery cemetery tery tory looking toward the central contral plat form where President Coolidge delivers de de- livers liver his Memorial day address house house on on the estate Inherited from his father futher The mansion stands on the Virginia side of the tIme Potomac river directly opposite Washington and commands command one of the fine finest t views ob ob- of ot that lint dt city When Shen the time house was built It was In Inthe inthe the District of Columbia but time the Virginia Vir Vie ginia portion of ot the District was trots receded receded re re- ceded to time the sUte In 1841 When Imen George Custis died died In In 1957 1857 the estate passed to his Ills only daughter the wife of if Col Cot l' l K L Lee Lre e. who vimo left the time place never ne to return when he tie took command of the tue Virginia troops In 1801 1611 Soon after the Lees Lles left federal federci troops took possession and converted the Into Int n a camp using the time man mam MI 01 II as us Later Inter a hospital WES t lit nt Arlington Upon the time of M lg tl tIme p waS finally converted Into iOta a nu- nu ph place ce wa was military the first irn prepared being for u a Confederate grave crave C ate soldier who had hod died tiled In the tho hospital hos- hos pital In 1877 George Wellington Custis Lee Iel heir under the time Custis will viii established legal Igal title to the property S claim was finally adjusted when Ito the heirs l government paid t the e i x for tor the estate Near the front entrance of or the amphitheater Is the tomb of ot the Unknown Soldier The memorial amphitheater was built under the auspices of the time Grand Army of the Republic Its double purpose ws wm to commemorate our soldier sol noi dier dead and at the same time provide pro vide Ide a fitting assembly place vace for the thousands who attend services at the cemetery on Decoration day It has hasa a n normal seating capacity of There is room for a n couple of thousand thousand thou sand more In the colonnades which makes the time total capacity Inside Inside In side the time amphitheater Just above e the speakers speaker's platform Is an which has attracted much attention among visitors at nt Arlington n. n I It t reads rends When we assumed the soldier soldie r we did no not lay the e citizen This Thi s sentence was was taken from a speech made by George Washington on June Jun e 20 1773 1775 in reply reply to an address to him from the provincial assembly of f New York lIe He meant of course that In la becoming soldiers the tho American patriots had lind not forgotten their duties dulles and obligations as ns citizens v At the end of August 1025 1925 there were persons burled buried at Arling ton This Tills includes everybody e burl burled d dIn In the cemetery The greet great majority of ot them are the dead of the Civil Cicil war although the number Includes a few Revolutionary soldiers so and many of ot the Mexican Spanish-American Spanish and World wars One section section of the cemetery Is called the post section it is the se section section sec sec- tion where men stationed at an army post are burled buried The regular rules do donot donot donot not apply to them They are each ench given a lot on which all members of their families may be burled buried In separate sepa rate graves graes Irrespective of the num ber Another section of ot the time cemetery at Arlington is set aside for colored enlisted men The graves of colored officers and end white officers are not se seg |