. Book of the Royal blue . on scheduletime. While the river trip is picturesque,it consumes the better part of the tourist may now board an electric carand be at the mansion in an hour. Through woods which still retain theleaves of autumn, across the Hunting creeks,Big and Little, suggestive of raresport with gun and dog, the car speeds. their arrangements to watch them accor-dingly. The word watch is used present, with cars arriving every hourwith their loads of sightseers, the task ofthe guardians is a serious one. Thegrounds are closed at 4 oclock each day,with the exce
. Book of the Royal blue . on scheduletime. While the river trip is picturesque,it consumes the better part of the tourist may now board an electric carand be at the mansion in an hour. Through woods which still retain theleaves of autumn, across the Hunting creeks,Big and Little, suggestive of raresport with gun and dog, the car speeds. their arrangements to watch them accor-dingly. The word watch is used present, with cars arriving every hourwith their loads of sightseers, the task ofthe guardians is a serious one. Thegrounds are closed at 4 oclock each day,with the exception of Sunday, when theyare not opened to the public at all. It isnot creditable to the Mount Vernon pilgrimsthat they cannot be trusted to view thehome of Washington without attemptingto despoil it of its treasures. Even with the increased force of guardsmade necessary by the advent of the rail-way, relic hunters succeed in doing muchdamage. One who is not a vandal cannotgaze upon the carved mantlepiece of ?ff%£: MT. VERNON. By and by a white fence, with a back-ground of huge trees, comes into view. Itis the northern boundary line of MountVernon. When Washington was alive theestate comprised about 8,000 acres, much ofit the territory now traversed by the electricline. At present there are about 240acres. The surrounding country has notchanged materially, and the visitor withactive imagination loses nothing by reasonof the curtailment of the plantation. When the steamers landed their passen-gers at Mount Vernon at stated hours thesuperintendent and his assistants had a com-paratively easy time. They knew just howlong the visitors could remain, and made Carrara marble in the banquet hall with-out anathematizing the whole race of relichunters. This exquisite work has beenmutilated in the most outrageous way bypeople who undoubtedly would resent thecharge that they are worse than thieves. One may walk a few steps to the oldnorth entrance proper, near the four gianttrees p
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