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SEPTEMBER, 1921
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Let Democrats Buy
Monticello
(By Henry M. Hyde ..in Baltimore
Sun.) -
Simoon,'-Va., Aug. 5. A campaign
js now under way -for the sale of
Monticello, the historic country estate
of Thomas Jefferson, to a private pur
chaser. Several attempts have been made
to persuade congress to purchase the
stately and beautiful old place as a
national shrine. They have "all been
foredoomed to failure from the start.
I have talked with some of the
leaders in congress on the subject.
They are afraid of making a. preced
ent in the public purchase of the his
toric homes o our great men. If
Monticello were so purchased, they
believe, every state and most, of the
counties in the union would press
eimilar claims on the public, treasury.
Let it be remembered that even
Mount Vernon was preserved as a
place of patriotic pilgrimage and in
spiration solely by the efforts of a
private association of women.
A Monticello Association has been
formed and it has conducted a cam
paign for raising funds for several
months. It had not been 'successful.
It has secured pledges for less than
one-third the amount necessary to
fcuy and maintain Monticello.
Meanwhile former Congressman
Jefferson Levy, 6f New York, its pres
ent owner, has become tired of wait
ing. He has placed Monticello in the
hands of a Washington real estate
agent for immediate sale.
There are . not, perhaps, in the
United States half a dozen estates
which combine such beauty of loca
tion with such pure perfection of
classic architecture -From- .the top
of the little "Mount of Heaven,"
where it stands, the old brick man-
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sion looks out and over one of the
most beautiful landscapes on the con
tinent, the misty purple shoulders of
the Blue Ridge rising 20 miles away
to frame the picture. On the rolling
red hills in the middle distance lies
the little city of Charlottesville,
where in days before the Revolution
Patrick Henry, George Mason, and
Jefferson himself stirred the spirit
of the Colonists. And just to the
west rise the domes and ranens nf t.lm
University of Virginia, founded by
Jefferson as the crown of the system
of universal popular education which
he taught.
There is no estate fn the United
States combining such natural and
architectual beauty with such tremen
dous historic interest, in which is also
so perfectly perserved the atmosphere
and spirit bf the eany days of the re
public. The country is fortunate that the
family of Jefferson Levy, which has
owned Monticello ior more than 75
years, has during all this time kept it,
sg far as possible, in its original con
dition. The estate now embraces some
700 acres. The house, designed by
Thomas Jefferson in his early 20s, be
fore he had ever been to Europe, is
said by the best judges to be almost
unequaled in America in the dignity
and simplicity of its classic lines. The
plans were ready and the building
started in 1769, when Jefferson was
only 26. The Revolution and Jeffer
son's long absence in France delayed
its completion until 1801. It stands
today almost as it stood then, and
still deserves to be ranked as the
Due de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
wrote'in 1896 "with the most pleas
ant mansions in France and Eng
land." Jt iq, almost unthinkable thaj; this
estate, where the author of the Dec
laration of Iri dependence himself lies
,buried, this enduring momument of
his genius as an architect, should
be permitted to pass into the hands
of other private owners, who would
be quite' within their rights if the"y
closed its gates to pious pilgrims or
even altered or "rebuilt" the ancient
mansion. '
Apparently it is hopeless to expect
congress to buy it asva national mon
ument. No multi-millionaire stands
forward to buy the estate and dedi
cate it to the nation: The present
association formed for the purpose
of - buying and preserving it seems
impotent. s
Why should not the Democratic
party, which Jefferson founded, and
which looks up to him for constantly
renewed inspiration, buy Monticello
and maintain it as the central shrine
and fountain of their political faith?
If each of the men and women who
vote the Democratic ticket at national
elections would contribute a dime to
the fund, it "would be sufficient.
WOODEN FLEET WORTH $2,750,
000. TO U. S. AS JUNK
A New York, dispatch, dated Aug.
25, follows: The Evening World to
day prints the following:
Tho TTnitnrJ States shiDDinc board
can take the wooden ships nearly
300 of them in the James river and
clear more than $11,000 on each one
by selling the fittings and hulls at
auction, according to, Edward S.
Reiss, who. has bought many ships
from the board. .-
Instead of getting only $2,100 a
piece, as the bid of the Ship. Con
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ships, would net at least $2,750,000
if it undertook the work itself.
At Claremont, Va where the ships
are stored, the board has a large
force of watchmen and guards. If
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during the last year at majgjnjf
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rr 1.1 -horo hAPn held, nro-
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the United States shipping board. As
pointed out by M. L. Qilbort, form
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Construction and Trading company,
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000 or $40,000 as they stand if of
fored to Greece and other sorely
pressed European countries for the
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