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OLD BRUTON PARISH CHURCH, WHERE WASHINGTON, PATRICK HENRY, MADISON, JEFFERSON, TYLER AND

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This church was completed in 1715. The first organ brought to the colonies was put up here in 1755

in the United States; the Moore house on Temple Farm, where the articles of capitulation were signed by Cornwallis; the ruins of a church built in 1660; a cave to which Cornwallis is said to have retired during the bombardment; the Nelson house which belonged to Thomas Nelson, who begged the Americans to fire upon and destroy the British who had taken possession of it. And at Yorktown are two monuments, one to the American soldiers who fell there and the other to mark the spot of Cornwallis' surrender. Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown are connected by water and rail with

the state, will also be in the path of the majority of the visitors to the exposition.

Around Richmond are innumerable battlefields, most of them connected with the city by trolley and railroad lines. Every visitor from the West will wish to visit Cold Harbor, Seven Pines, Dutch Gap, Drewry's Bluff, Malvern Hill, Gaines' Mill, the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Appomattox. Big Bethel, the site of the first land battle in the Civil War, is only ten miles north of Hampton Roads. Yorktown, where Cornwallis surrendered, is but twenty-five miles from the site of the exposition grounds, while Ap

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THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, AT WILLIAMSBURG, CHARTERED IN 1693 The second oldest institution of learning in the New World. The alma mater of Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Marshall and the Randolphs

pomattox, in the center of the state, can easily be reached.

The Jamestown Exposition management expects that the other natural and historical objects scattered all through the old State of Virginia will also figure in making a success of the enterprise. The The Shenandoah Valley, one of the richest and loveliest sections of the United States, will furnish a background of interest to all who are connected in any way with the traditions of the state. The Natural Bridge will attract almost as many people as Niagara Falls did to Buffalo. The University of Virginia, with its quaint designs and charming campus and build

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ings, the creations of Thomas Jefferson, will be a source of pleasure to western and northern people. The battlefields throughout the central and northern parts of the state will attract those who are interested in the Civil War period.

But probably the most unique of the excursion features will be the colonial residences along James River and in close proximity to the exposition. These charming survivals of ante-bellum and ante-revolutionary times abound between Jamestown and Richmond. They are kept in thorough and even sumptuous repair, and are all open to visitors.

Westover, a few miles above Jamestown, charmingly situated on the river, was erected in 1737. It is reckoned to be, with the bare exception of Monticello, the home of Jefferson at Charlottesville, the

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Berkeley, near Westover, was the birth place of Benjamin Harrison, whose son, Colonel Benjamin Harrison, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. General William Henry Harrison, who was President of the United States, was a grandson of this Colonel Harrison; and the late President Benjamin Harrison was a grandson of William Henry Harrison. All these men, as well as ex-Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, have held this sweet old ancestral home in remembrance and frequently paid it visits.

Just above Berkeley and Westover is Shirley, another colonial residence, the birthplace of Anne Carter, the wife of Lighthorse Harry Lee, and the mother of General Robert E. Lee. This residence was erected in 1642, and is to-day in perfeet repair.

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Upper and Lower Brandon, elegant specimens of colonial architecture, are just below Westover, and a few miles above Jamestown. Both these stately homes contain vast collections of portraits of noted Virginians. One feature of the history of these two places is that almost every President of the United States, from Washington to Cleveland, experienced their hospitality.

Curl's Neck, just above Shirley, is anher fine example of colonial architecture. the last century it was greatly ened. It is to-day known as the Malvern House on account of the fact that it upon this very spot that the battle of vern Hill, one of the bloodiest battles he Civil War, was fought.

ther interesting homes near Jamesn on the James are Carter's Grove, t by King Carter early in the the teenth century; Varina, the home of ahontas, after her marriage to John

Rolfe. From this home have come some of the most aristocratic of Virginia families, all of whom are proud to boast that they have in their veins the blood of Pocahontas. Wilton, opposite City Point, is another famous colonial home; and throughout the Virginia Peninsula, from Richmond to Hampton Roads, these colonial homes are scattered.

Here, also, in close proximity are laid the scenes of more recent books of American fiction than in any other portion of the entire country. Many, if not most, of the recent books of Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, Thomas Nelson Page, Julia Magruder, Marion Harland, George Cary Eggleston and other writers, have had their scenes laid in this section of eastern Virginia. Williamsburg, the ancient capital of Virginia, has probably figured in more fiction than any place in Virginia, and with few exceptions, in the United States.

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MAYORS OF THE PEOPLE

HENRY M. BEARDSLEY

MAYOR OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

Portrait on page 667

BY

HUGH O'NEILL

THEN Henry M. Beardsley was M. Beardsley was elected mayor of Kansas City on April 4, 1906, another count was added to the political heresies of Missouri. The state that had voted for a Republican president and a Democratic governor followed those iniquities by harboring within. its borders a city that appointed a chief executive because he was an honest, Godfearing gentleman. The spectacle of a governor who enforced the law, even against the leaders of his own party, and an attorney-general who prosecuted monopolies while deriding as unprofessional the popular and rhetorical avocation of 'trust-busting," was supplemented by the irruption of a reforming mayor whose objective is crossed by no opposition, but

finds instead the support of all the people. That Mr. Beardsley happens to be a Republican is merely incidental; he would have been mayor of Kansas City to-day if he had stood as the nominee of the Democratic party.

Mr. Beardsley has no aptitude for spectacular movements and the one event in his public career that might have been used for dramatic purposes was concluded with a bow and a smile and the polite greeting in an open doorway of a very unruffled gentleman who had defeated a barefaced corporation "job." That happened in April, after his election as mayor, but before his installation, while his predecessor, Jay Neff, was still in office.

Mr. Beardsley was then president of the

upper house of the city council and, at a meeting of that body held in April, it was announced that a new franchise, giving the gas company an extended lease of life, had been tacked on to the budget by Mayor Neff. The new franchise obliged the company to supply natural gas at twenty-five cents instead of artificial gas at $1, but it abrogated an important clause in the old charter, entitling the city to buy out the company if the people so desired, within a certain period of time. For that right of purchase Mr. Beardsley had contended during the long controversy that had waged over the question, but that night the "gas aldermen" were in the majority and the issue seemed merely one of counting the votes. Just then a telephone message came from Mayor Neff, three miles away in Kansas, that he had forgotten to sign the budget and asking that its presentation be deferred until his return. He was on the cars and would be at the city hall in ten minutes.

The occasion was Beardsley's. He asked the clerk to bring in the budget. The clerk demurred; there were the mayor's orders. Beardsley pointed out very politely that as Mr. Neff was out of the city, he, as president of the upper house, was acting mayor. The documents were produced, he canceled the franchise and signed the budget. The "gas aldermen" filed out of the chamber to leave the meeting without a quorum until the mayor arrived. They went into the clerk's office, where the agents of the gas company were waiting, and prepared themselves to explain their impressions of Mr. Neff's omission very fully to that gentleman as soon as he returned. They never thought about the president. Again it was Beardsley's occasion. He promptly declared the sitting adjourned and walked down the council chamber to meet Jay Neff at the door, hot and sweating, in his hurry to crown an administration of inept folly with an act of gross betrayal. Beardsley smiled cordially and extended a courteous hand.

"You are just too late to sign the franchise, Mr. Mayor," he said politely, "I have adjourned the house."

Two days later Jay Neff installed Henry M. Beardsley mayor of Kansas City.

Mr. Beardsley was a new type in public life as politicians understood it. He did

not drink, he did not smoke, he did not swear, he was President of the Young Men's Christian Association, he had sometimes delivered addresses from the pulpit of the Congregational church of which he was a member. He never called his political opponent a liar or a thief and he had gained success in the profession of law without the retaining fees of a single public corporation. The calculus they had used so long in the mathematics of machine politics was dislocated by this new factor; the problem was beyond their solution.

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And yet it was simple. Henry M. Beardsley is only an honest gentleman, with enough courage for one man, a ready intelligence and some quality of quiet tenacity that is not very accurately expressed by the rather vigorous word "character." His appearance in no way at all fits in with the popular conception of a "strong" man. Physically he is of moderate stature, with a slim figure, built rather for activity and endurance than mere strength, and a face of almost feminine refinement. If he has any aptitude for oratory on public occasions he never employs it, and his voice has that clear timbre of the stage "juvenile lead" that would be lost in the turmoil of the hustings. He was practicing law for twelve years in Kansas City before he entered municipal politics as a member of the upper house, and twice refused the Republication nomination for the mayoralty because he could not afford to neglect his profession and he felt (honest man), that he could not serve the city faithfully unless he did that. He has done that now, and he will probably relinquish office at the end of his term a poorer man than he is to-day. He has not said this for himself, but his friends know it, and his friends are legion.

Even the oldest and most cynical newspaper writers in Kansas City believe implicitly in Mr. Beardsley. Not only in his mental astuteness and ability, but in his incorruptibility. And in that last conspicuously. He is, they believe, a "good man."

He was, as a matter of fact, a good boy; one of those boys that the excellent Dr. Samuel Smiles loved to write about in his panegyrics on "Self Help." In Knox County, Ohio, where he was born forty

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