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I THE FLOWERS COLLECTION m KE one hundred and sev enty-fourth anniversary of George i.msiuugton's birth — finds still in existence many famous buildings which are identified w.th the historic events in which he figured. In fact, for the com mander in chief of the Continental forces merely to spend a night under i roof, may be said to have assured to the structure it covered a far longer life than other wise would have been granted to it. That reverence which even then was extended to tire Father of his Country, has availed to save from destruction more than two score buildings which he used as headquarters during the war of the revolution. It is now more than one hundred and twenty-two years since Washington laid down his arms, and retired to private citizenship after having won one of *he most unevenly matched wars in history. Tet to this day scattered through the thirteen original states can be found many buildings in which jre planned out his battles, sought retreat after defeats, or made the base of new operations. There has been no organized effort to save these buildings. In many cases they ’have been but poorly kegt. and can not go much longer without rebuilding, but private patriotism has acted where public officials have been indifferent, and one can construct a very vivid picture of the war, and revive the. trials that beset the commander, merely by going from one to the other of houses in which he sheltered during the conflict. There are so many that it would be impossible to mention them all. Tn Westerfleld, Conn., they show the Silas Dean house, where Washington lived just after- the_war began, and wulM the operations were around Boston. TWO AT CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge, Mass., points proudly to two houses. First Washington lived in the residence set apart Tor principals of Harvard college. Then he moved to the house of a fugitive loyalist, John Vassall. Ijater this became the residence of Henry W. Longfellow. the great poet, and hero were written many of his most noted works. Many other eminent men have been res idents and guests of this historic man sion. Just to mention Tallyrand, La fayette. Worcester and Everett gives a fair idea. Washington fiad many houses in New York. None is more beautiful than the building now known as the Jumel man sion. This was his TieatJUjuarters from Sep tember 16 to October 21. 1776. Tt is also rich in memories of Aaron Burr, who married the widow of 'Stephen Jumel. Jumel gained possession of the house when Roger Morris and his wife fled be cause their tory sympathies threatened to get them in difficulties. It was Mrs. Morris, who as Mary Pliii- ipse, George Washington wooed in vain. Cntil tlie evacuation of New York. Washington lived in the Roger Morris house. Harlem Heights. The location of this building is now almost opposite the intersection of One hundred and sixty- tirst street, Tenth avenue and the old Kingsbrfdge road. The ATiller house at White Plains'is another of Washington’s New York headquarters that still sur vives. During most of the retreat through New' Jersey, Washington lived in camp, but eventually he crossed the Delaware, and took up his headquarters at the home of Thomas Barelas- at Morri=.viife. £'*<- Tills fine property at'ihe time of Wash ington's occupancy was only a few years old. I.ater It passed into the possession of Robert Morris, the noted financier of the revolution. It is still standing a mag nificent, rambling stone mansion of the kind popular in that period. In its spa cious ball room was held a great enter tainment in honor of Lafayette when he came to the United States in 1824. Moving, farther inland, Washington gave the dignity of his august presence to the two-story stone dwelling that had been built by William Keith, a governor of Pennsylvania, at Brownsburg, Pa. This building has undergone no changes whatever. It is still in the Keith family, and walls, doors and even tlie paints re main to a large extent unchanged. Wash ington passed in this mansion one of the most depressing periods of tlie war. It was here he received the disconcerting news that General Lee had been taken a prisoner, a, mishap the more the fact that the commander in chief had pre dicted that it would take place unless he joined tlie main army. Washington left Keith's on December 20, and five days later made the never- to-be-forgotten attack on Trenton that resulted in the defeat of the Hessians, and gave new hope to the continental cause. Tne Van Doren residence, still standing just outside the village of Millstone, shows where Washington had his head quarters after the battle of Princeton. NEAR PHILADELPHIA. At Neshaminy, 20 miles north of Phila delphia, is a headquarters of- Washington rich in historic memories. It is a rougti stone building, two stories in height, lo cated near the bridge over the Little Neshaminy creek. Here Washington held Tlie Jumel Mansion, New York. an important council of war, at which the first time the young Marquis do. Laiayette took his place as one ot Wash ington's advisers. He had been commis sioned major general only a few days be fore. Wiien Washington received, news of the signal continental victory at Bennington, he broke camp, and moved nearer the city. He took up ills abode at Stenton, near Nieetown, about 5 miles front the heart of Philadelphia. This mansion has an interesting his tory that goes all the way back to the days of William Penn. It has been pur chased by an organization of patriot)'- Philadelphia women, and is preserved as a museum for relics of Washington and other revolutionary heroes. Tlie house of John Potts, founder of Pottsfown, r.ad the commander in chief for a guest briefly, then he moved to Pen- nypacker's Mills. now known as Schwenksville. This is the home of Go\- ernor Pennypaeker, of Pennsylvania. Both the Potts house and the Pennypaeker house, in which Washington had his head quarters, are still standing. The former is used as a hotel. Between the Skiooack and Morris roads, about a mile from the present village of Ambler, is another Morris house, which answered for a time as the military head quarters for the chief of the continental forces. From here to Valley Forge are a num ber of buildings that saw the. commander planning how. with his pitiful force, he could hold back the forces of Lord Howe. The White Marsh headquarters was a ver itable baronial hell wncre Geoige Emlen dispensed hospitality with a lavish hand. The Valley Forge headquarters of Washington is justly famed as one of the holiest sh->:ies o? American freedom. This o'.d stone house was the residence of the founder at Ihe time when the for tunes of the cause went to their very lowest. It is now maintained' by Penn sylvania. and being stoutly built, will undoubtedly survive for long years to come. AFTER VALLEY FORGE. From the time Washington quit Val- ley Forge he was more or less on the move. The shifting of his forces took him to Fishkill. New York, and here he took quarters at'the home of Colonel John Biekerhoff. The house remains as It was at that time. He also lived for a time at the home of Colonel Der rick Biekerhoff, a nephew of John. This house has also been preserved. The Wallace house at Middlebrook. N. J.. is one of the best preserved struc tures that Washington occupied. lie wGnt 'there in December, 1778. Mis fondness for the Wallace house was shown when, having been away for a time, he returned there in 1779. Along the Hudson are a number of houses that have the fame of being put f° the service of their country's maker. West Point is very proud of its Moore's house, located in what is now called Washington’s Valley, one mile above the town. Further up the river is the venerable structure that did Washington service at Newburgh. This had a military use. It was situated -on a bluff that over looks the river for 8 miles to West Point. From this outlook he could watch to find if the enemies’ ships had man aged to make their way up the river. This house was erected in 1760. and stands today just as It did In Washing ton’s time. It la a plain, one-story building, built of stone with walls 2 feet thick. Among the other headquarters that survive may be mentioned the Jacob Ford mansion, at Morristown. N. J.; the Pey mansion, at Preaknaas, N. J.; the Robin soli houstL below West Poiu;, which was also the headquarters of Ben edict Arnold when he betrayed the cause; the Hopper house, on the road to Morristown, in New Jersey; the Van Courtiandt house, at Peekskill; the home of Joshua He-tt Smith, 2 miles below Stony Point; the home of Chancellor Wythe, in Williamsburg, Va : and Mount Vernon, who r t IYc>f'ungton sl< "1 after so'roit-ier ct 1. - v*.I «, ». * ‘No vember !2 to 20, when he went to Phila delphia. It is a great list, and conveys a com forting thought that the birthday of the founder finds hallowed even of houses in which lie slept during that time of stress. ' if] IJ® *3 I If 0.e.0o—o—o-ceo-o-• l The Motherhood of Beechy Daw ; • • J By Phillip V Mighels * t ..o—o—o— i—o —o—o—o—c— JN TWO PARTS—PART I. Copyright by HARPER & BROS. ED WOLFE and Company, tanners of buckskin, sat beside the spring working patiently. The Wolf was a stalwart Shoshone. The “Company” consisted en tirely of Ilia squaw, for their little brown papoose, amusing himself in the sun, was har«-y to be counted in the industrial association. The family of three were up in the tln\ber b-!t of a broad Sierra spur, in a gorge or channel like a “Devil's Slide" of titanic proportions. The Indians were encamped in a cove carpeted 'With dry grass, except about the spring, where -the fringe was old green. Buck and Mahala. the two Sho shones. were absorbingly busy in tlie Indian-summer sunlight. In the hands of either a deer-skin was being denuded of hair. This process was accomplished at the expense of much energy. The portion of hair which had come away easily was already lying in a fresco about the .workers. To rid the hides of what remained, the Indian tanners - worked at the surface with sharp bone implements. Not .fifteen feet above 'where the In dians labored, the granite wall light.y held a few hundred tons of snow in a great, precipitous pear or hollow. It was a new deposit, which had fallen the previous week, and tlie only rem nants, of which were a few- isolated drifts, slowly melting in places shaded from the sun. The child was sitting quietl— in the brown grass, grasping in his tiny fist the Headless body of rattlesnake, the yellow belly of which was twisted up ward tortuously. Nearly naked as he was, the small Shoshone chieftain had an intaglio pattern of the grass and twigs embossed in the soft bronze of his pretty legs. He had been sitting there on the grass for a long time. In deed, he was now so weary of amusing himself that it was with exceeding dif ficulty he remained awake. His grip on the dead snake play-felloiw was list less. Vexed with the clumsy Lotharios of the lumber-camp below, with herself, vexed with the fate which had dragged her hack to the woods and the saw mill from the charms of Boston. Beec’iy Daw came sullenly toiling up the gorge. She was escaping the undersired atten tions of Hiram Thole. It was true, she admitted, that Hiram had formerly ful filled all her category of requirements in a man, but that had been before Boston. Her ideals had undergone a change. She would never marry; her life she intended to devote to art. She Continued on Fifth Page. Washington’s Headquarters at Valley Forge.