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Wakcfi«!d; a Rtstftr^licn of the ftPfiPfcred by National 6*ographtc Society, Washington, D. C.)-WNU Service. EOKGE WASHINGTON, soldier statesman, has eclipsed George Washington, thji traveler--yet as a traveler, and as a geographer who gained his information at first hand, the Father of His Country earned the right to another "first." : Many places Washington visited have been unaware of the fact; other places where he is reputed to have "stopped" or "spent the night" are far from the verified records of his travels. This Information developed when the map makers of the National Geographic society started on the extensive research task--research consuming more than a year--to record all of Washington's Journeys on a single map. thorough checks was made of the diaries of Washington, of the contemporary accounts of his travels, and in many cases personal visits had to he made to places, and musty courthouse .files scanned, because of places that have changed names, or have their names duplicated. The compilation of this Information shows that George Washington travelled over a larger area than any other official of his time. His travels extended from the heart of Georgia to Klttery, Maine. Westward, he went to the vicinity of Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania ; to the neighborhod of Point Pleasant, in West Virginia, and to Gallipolis, Ohio. Of three sea voyages Washington made, one was to foreign soil, Barbados. But the most amazing aspect of his travels, perhaps, are his Journeys on horseback--journeys ranging from Virginia to Fort I,e Boeuf, and from Mount Vernon to Boston. However, so far as records show, he did not visit the birthplace of his mother, Epping Forest. k Long Horseback Trips. Washington's horseback trips were Often arduous. He was known to average 35 miles a day for periods of more than a week. Once he rode ,560 miles in 16 days. That trip was from Cumberland, Md., to Williamsburg, Va., and two days of the 16 were "time out'," waiting for an armed escort. He carried the pay for Braddock's army in his saddlebags. Horses often broke under the strain, when public duty called Washington to move with dispatch. For instance, when riding to join General Braddock, upon reaching the vicinity of what is now Charles Town, W. Va., he reported that he killed one horse outright and had rendered the three others he had brought along unfit for service. When there was no urgency of public business his horses fared better. After his trip to his western lands In 1784, during which he had twice crossed the Appalachians and had been so far from civilization that he could get no corn for his horse (and nothing or ohly boiled corn for himself), he sets down with satisfaction that he had traveled 680 miles between the first day of September and the fourth day of October, on the same horses.. -- ' Washington's geographic instincts began to develop on this early trip. The trough of the south branch of the Potomac, where many years later President Graver Cleveland fished for bass, he described as "(a) couple of Ledges of Mountain Impassable running side and side together for above seven or eight Miles and ye River- down between them." He adds:., "You must Ride Rotind ye back of ye Mountain for to get below them." With boyish ssest Washington ate Ills evening meal on Friday, ^April 9. "We camped this Night in ye Woods nea^ a Wild Meadow where was a Stack of Hay after we had Pitched our Tent and made a very Large Fire we pull'd out our Knapsack in order to Recruit ourselves every (one) was his own Cook our Spits was Forked Sticks our Plates was a Large Chip as for Dishes we had none." Good Pay, Small Expense. A'letter written to a friend while on *l|l ©i : •* several other surveying ' tde to ihe waters of the >' •'•*» n-the Cacapon, and the ,*m Branch In 1749. 1750, 1751, ?fipi762 indie., t-s It was the good pay , ' -Oi'Clled young Washington to . Hardships of a surveyor's life, '••rein le as* that he had not slept ?hree <• !<ur nights in a bed. hut after w* • :. •< ail day he lay down ' before .tt upon a Little Hay S t r a w ' . I w l r s k i n w h i c h e v e r !.« with Man Wife a ml. (hi I rtrer ti* c parce' of Dosrs or f'atts -} gets the Berth near !v;P; » * nothing would ?.«»*•• Birthplace of George Washington, it pass of tolerably but a gwd Reward a I>ubbleloon ($7.16%) is my constant gain every Day that the Weather Will permit my going out and some time Six Pistoles ($21.50)." Traveling expenses were low In those days. Virginia had a law that rates for accommodations in each county should be fixed by the court thereof, and that any keeper of an ordinary not observing these rates should be heavily fined, half the fine going to the Informer. The Augusta county court order book shows that a hot dinner cost 9 pence; a cold meal, Q pence; lodging, with clean sheets,8% pence; twenty-four-hour stabling and fodder for a horse, 8 pence; and corn or oats, per gallon, 6 pence. When it Is remembered that the Virginia shilling was worth 16% cents of our money, we see that a hot dinner cost 12% cents and other service In proportion. From Staunton, Washington rode to Fredericksburg by way of Charlottesville, making the 114-mile Journey in three days and still being fit enough to play billiards the evening he arrived. On Wednesday, February 4, 1756, Washington set out for Boston to lay a case of military precedence before Gen. William Shirley, commander In chief of the British forces in America. He reached Philadelphia the following Sunday, and took five or six days to look around the city. He apparently made the 90 intervening miles to New York in two days. And what must the New York of that day have meant to the young Virginian, who had spent the last three years mostly in the primeval forests or fighting French and Indians on the savage frontiers! A Vtslt to New York. There was the "Microcosm** to Visit described at the time as a world in miniature, which took 22 years to build. Washington's enthusiasm for It Is written in his accounts, for on two seperate occasions he enters items "for treatg. Ladies to ye Mi(crocos) m." There was also a rout at Mrs. Baron's, and tips to the servants in the household of Beverley Robinson, son of the speaker of the Virginia house of burgesses. The young offi< was always punctilious In tipping the servants in households where he was entertained, and equally so in entering these items in his account books---two traits that have aided a great deal In tracing his travels. Two days before he was twenty-four years old he set out on the last leg of his Journey to Boston, and the "Pennsylvania Gazette" carried the news that "Colonel Washington, of Virginia, but last from Philadelphia, left this city (New York) for Boston." On his way to Boston he stopped with a Mr. Malbong, In Rhode Island. He entered a tip for the latter's servants of £4 and anot^^r item of £5 for a broken bowl. v\ In Boston he stopped at Cromwell's Head tavern. He saw General Shirley, who decided the question of command at Fort Cumberland in his favor; visited a man of war in the harbor, lost some money at cards at the governor's house, and then set off for Virginia. But at the governor's he had jnet such people as John Adams, and made a deep impression by his recital of conditions in western Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Unconsciously he again was playing into the hands of destiny, for John Adams was one of those who 19 years later joined with Thomas Johnson of Maryland In making him commander in chief of the American forces. Survey of the Frontier. Another interesting phase of Washington's travels bopan when he determined to r-nbe a personal survey of the frontier with a view to establishing a chain of forts at the important passes, in Che hope of damming the Indian tribe btehind the Allegheny divide. During the French and Indian war days, villages and towns near the frontier had not yet begun to take shape, except In the case of county seats. Places were known as "John Smith's Plantation," "William Scott's "Mill," "TaskerTosh's Fort," "BigLiek," etc. The changing ownerships of five generations, together with the substitution of bridges for fords, have obliterated these names from map and mem ory alike. It was necessary, therefore, to jo patiently through scores of massive land-grant books, dozens of old deeds books, and all the survey records that have survived, in order to find out where the early settlers lived. EARTHQUAKE STUDY • PROVES U. S. SAFE * -f " Manhattan Island Is Safest, With Area East of Rockies in Na Danger. New York;--Despite the proximity >f the recent Cuban earthquake the hances are five million to one against my individual in the Uufted States losing his life through an earthquake, and the chance against ah earthquake occurring within any one area of 25 square miles, in a total area of more than 2,500,000 square miles east of the Rocky mountains, in one particular year during the next 50 years, is also about five million to one, according to John Ripley Freeman, president of the Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance company, and past president of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers. Mr, Freeman presents this information in a 900-page book entitled ' Earthquake Damage apd Earthquake Insurance" just published by the McGraw- Hill Book company. The volume, it is stated, is based on more than 25 years of study by the author Of the causes and effects of earthquakes, particularly from the standpoint of the safe design of engineering structures. In his preface to the book Mr. Freeman declares that its purpose is "to promote research toward better data for engineers relative to earthquakeresisting construction, which data ftfe now far ft-om satisfactory.** Loss of Life Small. Even Including the danger of the Rocky mountains, and the 7<)0 or more lives lost during the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906, the author finds that only about 930 people in the whole of the United States have lost their lives directly and Indirectly through earthquakes during the century which ended in 1930. During that period, he states, the greatest loss of life, outside of San Francisco, was during the earthquake atr Charleston, South Carolina, In 1886, when 100 lives were lost. Of the total loss of property in the San Francisco earthquake and fire In 1906, Mr. Freeman finds that only 5 per cent can -•fee attributed to the earthquake prop^ er, and that the balance of the,loss was due to the fire which followed. "Ah estimated loss ratio average of 5 per cent damage of the. structural value In an area effected by a severe earthquake would be high," the author declares, adding that, "this figure is in excess of the actual qunke damage in San Francisco in 1906, and is high also for the actual quake damage In the great Tokyo Japanese catastrophe of 1923, the greater loss In both Instances having been caused by the fires which followed the quakes." "No region within the United State# or Canada appears wholly immunt from the possibility of earthquake damage," the author avers, "although the liability is exceedingly small in those portions of the United State* located east of the Rocky mountains^ From all data of earthquake hjstory and geology," he adds, "Manhattan is; land with Its foundation of exception* ally rigid bed-rock, over which \|t$ buildings of greatest value stand, np< pears to be one of the very safest: ts In the United States for probable immunity from destructive earth- ! quake shock," Total Quake Damage Low. "The total earthquake damage in the United States and Canada, exclusive of Are damage following quakes, , during the last century," Mr. Freeman estimates, "does hot exceed, roughly,; $40,000,000." The author also explains that the motion of an earthquake is not as bad as most people believe it to be and, "rarely, if ^ver, as terrible as many of the published accounts lead one to believe. In nine cases out of ten," he udds, "happenings during earthquakes that Involve loss of life and property are the results of Inexcusably bad designs, or of bad building construction, and could be prevented by the use of proper construction methods." The author reassures his readers concerning the possible earthquake future of the United States. "The zones of greatest earthquake activity," he says, "are limited and well defined. By studies of earthquake bolts, and by history, and by studies of topography and great contrasts of elevation between mountain ranges and ocean deeps, we are reassured that the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the New Madrid earthquake of 1811, and the Owens valley earthquake of 1872, present examples of earthquake destruction of the greatest violence and broadest range that we have to fear in the United States and Canada.^ Nothing worse than these three historic quakes appears to be even remotely possible in the United States or Canada." 8I«OCUM'S LAKE Mr. and Mr*. Ra/ Dowell and daughter, Delores, /vren callers at Lake Zurich last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Prances, were callers at Woodstock last Saturday.* Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss were business callers at Elgin last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and son, Robert, were callers at the L. A. Huobsch home at Mundelein last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell spent last Friday at Waukegan. John Nested spent Sunday with friends at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Fosa were callers at Crystal Lake and McHenry last Wednesday. v . Mrs, Clara Smith was a caller at Wauconda lasl Friday. . ; Mr. and Mrs. H. L, Brooks called on friends at Crystal Lake last Friday, ; A. W.Foaa of Libertyville wair a caller at the home of his parents! here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rayniond Luskat Maple. Park- Mr. and MVs. George Eatinger^of Wauconda spent Monday evening rat the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Mr. and Mrs. John R .Knox of McHenry spent, Sunday afternoon at the home of Henry Geary. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hayford of Crystal Lake spent Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and sons spent last Friday evening «t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis. Mrs. Lucile Rohman of Chicago spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of Mr. hod Mrs. H. L. Rrooks. CjVfr. and BCr». H. E. Maiman pf Wauconda were Sunday supper and evening guests at the home of the latter's father here- Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss were callers at the home of their son, A. W. Foss, at Libertyville last Friday evenings Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and daughter and Louis Pearson of Waukegan were Sunday supper and evwiinp: guests of Mr. and Mrs Elmer Esping. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughters, Dorothy and Delores, spent Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dowell at McHenry. Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon and daughter, Vinnie, of Roseville, spent last Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr.'and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. . Mr. and MrS. A. B. Kin&rd of Davis Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boehmer and Mr. and Mrs. E- T. Pratt of Wauconda were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews Last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse spent last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon- Mrs. Harry Matthews was an afternoon luncheon guest at the home of Mjr. and Mrs. „G. J. Burnett last Thursday. • Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks were callers at Crystal Lake last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darre'l, Misses Myrna and Beulah Bacon and Miss Frances Converse attended ihe class play at the W. T. H. S. last Friday evening. Chesney Brooks was a Sunday Afternoon and supper guest at th * home of Mrs. Ella Park at Park Ridge , Miss Dorothy Dowell accompanied Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Davis; to Wood-, stock one day last week. niinistrator's deed and said note to become due one year from date with interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, interest payable semi-annually, and said note to be secured by a first mortgage or trust deed on the premises so sold, which said note, trust deed or mortgage is to be approved of by the County Court of said McHenry County. DattS this 21st day of March, A, D. 1932. JOHN McDONALD, Administrator de bonis non of the Estate of Rosanna McDonald, deceased- CHARLES P-" BARNES, Attorney NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ; * ' ESTATE ' By" virtue of an order and decree of the County Court .of McHenry County, Illinois, entered on the 14th day of March, A. D. 1932, on the petition of the unders-igned, John McDonald* Administrator tie bonis non of the estate of Rosanna McDonald, deceased, for leave to sell the real estate of said: deceased, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the 18th day of April, A. D. 1932, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the East door of the Court House in the City of Woodistock, in the County of McHenry and State ofJllinois, I will offer for sale and sell to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate belonging to the estate of Rosanna McDonald, deceased, to-wit: Sub lot No. Two (2) of Lot One (1) of the County Clerk's plat of Block Twelve (12) of the original plat of the Village of West McHenry, situated in the City of McHenry, County of McHenry and State of Illinois. TERMS OF SALE One-half ca«Jh to be paid to said administrator de bonis non upon the approval of his report of sale, the other one-half of. said purchase money to be secured by the purchaser of said premises by giving a note for the balance of said purchase price upon the delivery to said purchaser of said ad- •:' ; Wwls Not Reltte* *• In spite of their similarity in appearance and habits, the night-hawk and th& whippoorwlH are twp distinct sfpecles of birds.' The night-hawk. Chordeiles virginianus, had no call arid appears chiefly <h.t sunset, while the whippoorwill, Antrostomus vociferous, whosi? peculiar call is so Well known., to Jfy after dusk. * ^ Hvmtn NatoNT* MHab faith In human natalfe," said Uncle ®ben^ "but don't carry it so fur aa to make yoh'sef de final custodian of all de counterfeit money in de neighborhood."--Wnslungton Star. Looks Worse From Afar ' Trouble is much like a hill on the highway. It looks much worse from an elevation than it does from the bottom. Mistletoe a Paras it* All attempts to raise mistletoe fron the earth by means of slips or seed have failed. The curious word "ml*- tletoe" Is from the Saxon word "miaf (glue) and "toen" (twig). Mistieto* Is a parasite and grows only on othffc, trees, chiefly the apple, poplar atttf maple. , • Indication of ImprorMaeat • A. man should, never be ashamed own he has been in the wrong, which is- but saying in other words that it* Is wiser today than he was v enter das. --Pope, ~r LISTEN IN TO THE Main Street Crusader Broadcasting Twice DaDy JExeepi Saturday Station WJJI> ' 'The Mooseheart Station" 1130 Kilocycles 1:00 p.g|, 8:15 p. m. DR. C. KELLER Optometrist and Optician During the winter months I will examine at my nimmer home in Lasch iSubdivision, on Riverside Drive, one block North of city limits of McHenry, on West side of river, on Sundays and Mondays only. Phone McHenry 211>R \ - Why Buy Baby Chicks When we can sell you 8 to 10 week-old pullets? Stop in and see a nice bunch of your pet breed. Old hens taken in trade. * P. W. FRETT & SON PHONE 302 WEST McHENRY, ILL. « i « ^r* «j m j-p.»» - -- -- ---- -- -- -- i-- -i~ rir-iri«~ij~ij-ij-i_rijfW' 7 CHEVROLET/; You get the best New Life pan whfre burning die ings i forms part of the •mony. The bride lights a bich the groom sets a fire "finning the Day begins at the International which corresponds practi-1 itfce 180th meridian from faff, » ' y. Domestic Economy One couple finds It's quite cal balancing their household budget every evening--when they get through it's too late to go anywhere,--Tgrre Haate Tribune. " la the Sontk Seas The expression "the South aaa« i»- lands" Is not definite, but refers to the islands In the southern and central part of the Pacific ocean. California Pullet Lays Egg of Record Size Wataonvllle, Calif.--Mrs. A. Gill be lleves her nlne-fflonths-old white Leghorn pullet Is a possible world's chani pfon egg layer. Not that it produces an egg a minute. It did something to make every hard-working hen jealous. It laid an egg 9 inches In circumfer ence the long way and 7% inches the short way. The egg is white and perfectly formed. , 1«0 Yean Old, Still Works Middlebury, Vt.--In his one hurr dredth year. Dr. Jferritt H. Eddy Is still a practicing., physician--probably x&e oldest in 'the United States. r - " • 1 "Uncle nrale has mean way*,* Uncle Eben, "bnt he's useful in taken de conceit ont'n de man dat thinks all he has to do to lnffton Star. The Tinge' murals In the Los Angeles Public library are said to be the largest modern murals ever painted. CHEVROLET SERVICE from your Chevrolet dealer at the LOWEST PRICES for, quality work Your phevrolet dealer is in a better position than anyone else to give you quality work at lowest prices. His service station is factory-supervised. He has factory-designed tools and equipment--factory-trained attendants and mechanics. He uses only genuine Chevrolet parts. 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