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ARMSTRONG (CHEROKEE) HO- TEL .- This noted structure stands at the southwest corner of Second Ave- nue and East First Street. It was built and opened by R. T. Armstrong, of Birmingham, Ala., at a cost of near- ly $150,000. The first floor walls are of gray granite and the four stories above of brick. It is owned by the Rome Hotel Co., of which concern the J. A. Rousavilles are the principal stockholders. For several years sub- sequent to 1900 the hotel was called The Cherokee, but recently the original name has been used. As long as the younger generation can remember its ground floor has sheltered a barber shop-first, Ned Huggins' (Ned was also sexton of the First Presbyterian Church), and now Slaughter McCain's -where enough hair and whiskers have been cut to fill the Armstrong. In the corner Dick Cothran conducted a brokerage business for quite a while.
Some of the glories of The Arm- strong were recounted by W. S. Row- ell in The Tribune-Herald of March 9, 1921, as follows:
"The partial destruction by fire of one section of the Armstrong hotel early yesterday morning injures for a short time a building that has stood as an ornament to this city for more than 30 years.
"When this hotel was constructed and opened, it was the largest and finest in Northwest Georgia. It was a veritable capitol, as hotels went in those days. It pushed Rome at one swoop from a town into the propor- tions of a city.
"The annual banquets of the Mer- chants' and Manufacturers' Associa- tion were long famed for their feast- ing and their oratory.
"Among those famous orators and notable men who have held forth here were Senators A. O. Bacon, A. S. Clay and Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Senator Broussard, of Louisiana; Congressman James Tawney, of Minnesota; John Temple Graves, Gordon Lee, Judge Wm. T. Newman, Seaborn Wright, Senator Burton, of Ohio; Congressman Jno. L. Burnett, of Alabama; Wm. J. Bryan, of Nebraska; David B. Hill, of New York, and a host of others that we cannot now recall.
"The dining room of the hotel has been used as a ball room by the local cotillion club, since its organization,
and many other clubs and dance or- ganizations used it.
"When the hotel was first opened a large number of Rome's wealthiest and most prominent families left their homes and resided there. For a while it was the center around which the so- cial life of Rome revolved.
"Many times since its construction the hotel has been on fire, but always heretofore the fire department has been able to control the flames. The inside architecture of the hotel was peculiarly sensitive to fire, being such as readily drew a draft to any part of the building. This class of hotel construction is now out of date."
BELGIAN COLONY .- In 1848 Gen. Louis Joseph Barthold LeHardy (Vis- count de Beaulieu), dissatisfied with political conditions growing out of the liberation of Belgium from the Unit- ed Neitherlands, left Brussels at the head of a company of Belgians to found a colony in the United States, for the purpose of engaging in agricul- tural pursuits. The old General and those members of his household who joined him were idealists to whom the songs of birds and bees in trees and clover constitued much sweeter music than the hum-drum strife of the Old World, so they turned their faces southward on reaching America's
friendly shores.
It is quite likely that they disem- barked at New York, asked for new country, were directed to Charleston and there sent by a Rome "Scout" to the heart of Cherokee Georgia. Rome was a place of some 3,000 inhabitants, and it stood out as the largest settle- ment in that corner of the state and a city which must grow fast.
General LeHardy was a man ac- customed to army life and the hard- ships of the outdoors; his training had been along democratic, practical lines, and he welcomed an opportunity to re- move the restraints of political obliga- tions like a bird released from the cage. He turned his estate into cash and financed the colony across the At- lantic. In the party were his son, Ca- mille LeHardy, and family; his neph- ews, the sons of his brother, Compte Adolph LeHardy-Eugene LeHardy, 21, and J. C. LeHardy, 17; Louis Henry Carlier, a civil engineer and Ca- mille LeHardy's brother-in-law; Prof.
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E. Gaussoin and daughter, Miss Elise Gaussoin, whom Henry Carlier married after they reached Rome; a Miss Rob- ert (pronounced like the French), who later married Max Van Den Corput, of Cave Spring, (Max Corput and Felix Corput, his brother, were also Belgians) ; and a number of others. perhaps a total of 25. General Le- Hardy, Camille LeHardy and Louis Carlier selected a farm tract three miles east of Rome, where in a low- land dip there was an abundance of fresh water bubbling from a dozen springs. This was on the Etowah River and included a productive bot- ton land full of arrow heads and bits of pottery, evidence that an Indian vil- lage was once there located. Included in their settlement were several men and women of the agricultural class. The others scattered; Eugene and Julius ("Jules") went to work in Rome, while a few of the Belgians set out stakes between the eastern foot of Mt. Alto and the Coosa River. Dr. L. M. E. Berckmans, another Belgian, was attracted to Rome by the exploits of his friends, the LeHardys, but he did not arrive until about 1870.
The farming Belgians raised truck and fruit, especially grapes, and they sent their goods to the Rome market in little wagons drawn by ponies or mules. Everything they offered for sale was fresh and wholesome and put up in good style; the apples in nice boxes, the grapes covered with mos- quito netting, and their prices were as low as could be found. The law per- mitted of making wine out of grapes, and considerable wine was made.
As in most cases where aristocrats attempt to go back to the soil, how- ever, the colony plan was not a suc- cess financially. The titled Belgians undoubtedly did their utmost
with Dame Nature, but Her Highness, treat- ed to the picture of the grandeur of palaces and of refined tastes and tem- peramental dispositions, did not smile her favor upon them. The story is told that a fastidious young Belgian was in the habit of driving an ox cart to Rome, the while he was dressed in a summer suit of snowy whiteness, suede gloves and patent leather shoes.
After some seven years, disintegra- tion of the colony, individually and collectively, set in. General LeHardy and Camille LeHardy and family left for Charleston, where they lived until 1858, when they returned to Brussels. Dr. J. C. LeHardy went to live in Sa- vannah. Eugene LeHardy departed Jan. 2, 1861, for Europe to buy sup-
plies for the Confederate Government, and was there marooned until after the Civil War.
But a circumstance was eventually to arise which was to pile sorrow upon disappointment for the doughty Bel- gians. Camille LeHardy, it will be re- called, had married Rosine Marie Terese Josephine Carlier, a sister of Henry Carlier. Relations between the brothers-in-law were apparently pleas- ant enough to permit Mr. LeHardy to go back to Belgium and leave the coun- try place in the care of Mr. and Mrs. Carlier. Quite possibly Mr. Carlier never expected Mr. LeHardy to return, so that when he and his family did come back after the close of the war, friction arose between the two men over possession of the place. They continued to live together, but it was a house divided. According to the story told by Mr. LeHardy, Mr. Carlier would frequent throw rocks at him from the woods, and otherwise nag him and members of the LeHardy family. Finally one day Mr. LeHardy heard a commotion in the barn, and, rushing to the scene, found Mr. Carlier astride of and pummeling Henry LeHardv then 17. Mr. LeHardy went to the house and got a gun, and, poking it through a crack in the barn, fired and killed Mr. Carlier, whose body was laid to rest in Myrtle Hill cemetery. Mr. LeHardy's peaceful disposition, his un- blemished reputation and the attend- ant circumstances caused a jury to render a verdict of acquittal.
The tragedy occurred in the sum- mer of 1870 and about eight years later Mr. LeHardy removed his family to Eagle Cliff, Lookout Mountain, near Flintstone, Walker County, Georgia, where he died March 6, 1888. He was the last of the Belgians at Rome, Eu- gene LeHardy, his cousin, having died there Dec. 27, 1874, and having been put to rest in Myrtle Hill.
BERRY INFANTRY .- A Civil War company organized by Col. Thos. W. Alexander, commanding officer, and named after Capt. Thos. Berry, Mex- ican War veteran and father of Miss Martha Berry, head of the Berry Schools.
On the eve of its departure for camp near Griffin, the company was pre- sented with a handsome battle flag by Miss Florence W. Underwood (Mrs. E. M. Eastman), a daughter of Judge John W. H. Underwood.
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1-Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, Md., in group on girls' campus, May 5, 1921. 2-Princess Caroline R. Radziwill among girls. 3-President Theodore Roosevelt, Oct. 8, 1910, -a Republican with a background intensely Democratic. 4-Miss Alice Nielsen in a group. 5-Dr. Albert Shaw, of New York, editor of the American Review of Reviews, and Mrs. Shaw, on visit Apr. 22-26, 1921. 6-A group containing Miss Helen Keller.
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BOOTEN & HARKINS' CAVALRY COMPANY .- The following officers were listed in the Tri-Weekly Courier of Apr. 20, 1862:
Daniel F. Booten, captain; John Harkins, 1st lieut .; A. J. Bearden, 2d lieut .; N. C. Napier, 3d lieut .; M. A. Ross, orderly sergt.
BROAD STREET "INHABI- TANTS."-Now and then an old-time chronicler comes back to Rome and takes note of the many changes in bus- iness locations. In order that the pres- ent occupants may "write their own," the following list of establishments and individuals (furnished by R. V. Mitchell)* for 1922, is herewith set down. The chronicler starts at the foot of Broad (Etowah River) and walks northward through North Rome. On his left at 1 and 3 Broad is the market produce establishment of Stamps & Co., after which the 100 block starts, and continues to Second Ave- nue; the 200 block starts at Second and ends at Third, and so on.
Left Hand Side-100 (Shorter) Block.
101-Holder Coal & Lumber Co.
1011%-Rome Musical Center.
103-J. P. Reid Wholesale Grocery. 105-
107-Gibson & DeJournett, wholesale grocery.
109-Montgomery & Co., wholesale gro- cery.
111-Scoggins Furniture Co. McGhee Cotton Co.
113-R. J. Ragan, wholesale grocery. 115-
117-
119-J. L. Brannon & Co., wholesale grocery.
121-Arrington-Buick Co.
200 (Noble) Bloek.
201-First National Bank. Rome Chamber of Commerce, Floyd County Farm Bureau and Boy Scout headquarters (in rear).
205-Rome Book Store Co.
107-McGhee Tire Co.
209-Floyd County Bank.
2091%-Drs. M. M. McCord and Carl L. Betts.
211-Griffin-Cantrell Hardware Co. 213-
215-Newark Shoe Store.
2151%-Frank W. Copeland, Nat Har- ris and Wm. H. Ennis, attor- neys.
217-Wyatt Book Store.
*The telephone directory has also been freery consulted.
219-McGinnis & Welch, lunch room. 221-Edward A. Farley, clothing.
223-S. H. Kress 5 and 10-cent store. 225-Elite Motion Picture Theater. 2251%-Drs. L. F. McKoy and J. I. Todd, dentists. 227-Citizens' Bank.
227-Will S. Hawkins, tailoring and haberdashery.
229-M. M. J. Mendleson, tailor.
231-Nixon Hardware Co.
2311%-Mccrary & Co., photographers. 233-Strand Motion Picture Theater.
235-H. B. Parks Co., crockery.
237-239-W. M. Gammon & Son, cloth. ing.
241-243-Owens & King, gents' fur- nishings.
2431%-Dr. J. S. Daniel, dentist. 247-Daniel Furniture Co.
300 (Nevin's Opera House) Block.
301-Piggly Wiggly, retail grocery. 303-Allen Jewelry Co.
Dr. Geo. B. Wood, optometrist.
305-Johnston Hardware Co. 3051%-Drs. J. Turner McCall and J. H. Mull, physicians; Dr. A. F. Daniel, dentist.
307-309-311-Ira A. Watson Salvage Co., dry goods and groceries.
3111%-Quick Lunch stand.
313-F. W. Woolworth Co., 5 and 10- cent store.
315-Porter Phillips, soft drinks.
323-Second Precinct Police rest room. 325-Rome Supply Co., electric outfits and plumbing.
327-E. A. Leonard, dry goods.
329-Walker Electric & Plumbing Co.
331-Henry Powers, shoes.
333-Fred M. Henderson, retail gro- cer.
3331%-Todd & Hickman, tailoring and pressing.
335-Rome Shoe Hospital.
337-Palace Barber Shop.
3371%-Drs. Geo. B. Smith and Wm. J. Shaw, physicians. Shoe shine parlor and news stand. 339-McGinnis', cigars, soda, lunch.
400 (Old City Hall) Bloek.
401-Lanham & Sons' Co., dry goods. Eugene Logan Kandy Kitchen. 403-Broadway Motion Picture Thea- ter.
407-Friedman Co., dry goods. 409-Paris Cafe.
40916-W. P. Bradfield, contractor. Wilkerson Realty Co.
411-L. H. Esserman, dry goods. 413-Boston Shoe Store. Liberty Shoe Shop. Lewis Barrett, barber shop (c.). 417-Watson Shoe Store.
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419-Culpepper, Storey & Co., gents' furnishings.
4191%-Rome Tribune-Herald.
421-M. Rosenberg, dry goods.
423-Watson's grocery.
425-427-Esserman & Co., dry goods and shoes.
4291%-Drs. R. H. Wieker, Henry A. Turner, Roland D. Russell and A. W. Wright, physicians. 431-Sam Mckinney, meat market. 431-Fifth Avenue Drug Co. 500 (Hargrove-Bosworth) Block. 501-National City Bank.
503-L. W. Rogers Grocery Co.
5031%-Industrial Life and American National Life Insurance Com- panies. 505-Buehler Bros. Market.
511-Purity Ice Cream Co. Isom Jones' Restaurant (c). Guarantee Shoe Repair Shop. Asa Johnson's Barber Shop (c). 513-Rome Co-operative Drug Co. (c). Dr. C. T. Cain, physician.
515-Rome Fish Produce Co.
517-Paul Henderson, grocer.
525-533-Best Motor Car Co.
535-537-Woco Oil Co. 600 Block.
Standard Oil Co., gasoline and oils. 700 Block.
700-Gulf Refining Co., gasoline and oils.
1600 Block.
Atkinson & Jolly, general mer- chandise.
Right Hand Side-100 (Etowah)
Block
100-Chero-Cola Bottling Works.
1001%-Shrine Club and Dance Hall.
102-Consolidated Grocery Co.
104-McCord-Stewart, wholesale gro- cery.
106-Mann Bros., meat market.
108-People's Cafe (Tony Vincenzi).
110-I. M. Adams, meat market.
1101%-E. R. Fishburne, watch re- pairer.
112-
114-Rome Hardware Co.
116-A grocery warehouse.
118-Empire Lunch room.
120-Sam Bredosky, shoes. 122-New York Shoe Stores. 124-American Lunch Room (c).
126-Fred Huffman, shoe repairer.
128-Harris & Vann, meat market.
130-Norton Drug Co. 1301%-Drs. Ross P. Cox, J. C. Watts and A. C. Shamblin.
200 (Veranda-Yancey) Block. 200-Curry-Arrington Drug Co.
202-Bartlett Automotive Co.
204-Miller Shoe Co.
206-Lesser Bros., dry goods.
208-L. W. Rogers, retail grocery.
2081%-Dr. J. D. Moreland, dentist; Dr. J. J. Farmer; H. E. Beery, attorney.
210-The Bee Hive, dry goods.
212-Burnes-White Mercantile Co.,
wholesale grocers.
2121%-Henson Pressing Club.
214-Win. J. Pilson, Jr., groceries.
216-Holder's 5 and 10-cent store.
218-Misses Hawkins, millinery. 220-
222-Busy Bee Cafe.
224-Central Barber Shop.
226-Exchange National Bank. Burney's Department Store.
228-230-
232-234-Fahy's Store, dry goods.
236-238-J. Kuttner, dry goods.
2381%-Dr. A. A. Orr, dentist.
240-Cantrell & Owens, shoes.
242-244-Miller's Cash Store, dry
goods and clothing.
246-R. L. Williamson Jewelry Co.
250-S. P. Coalson Co., general mer- chandise.
300 (Medical Building-Masonic Tem- ple) Block.
300-Hale Drug Co. 3001%-Drs. Henry H. Battey and Robt. O. Simmons, physicians; Dr. T. L. Morgan, dentist; Henry Walker, lawyer.
302-
304-Wyatt Jewelry Co. 306-A. Pintchuck, tailor.
308-City Supply & Vulcanizing Co. Brown Transfer Co.
310-Reagan's Barber Shop.
312-Graves-Harper Co., coal. E. J. Moultrie, real estate.
314-New York Hat Shop. 316-Rome Pawn Brokers. Sam Williams' lunch room. Shoe shine parlor.
318-Miller's Electric Shoe Shop. 324-Misses Belle & Estelle Cato, mil- linery. 3241%-Claude H. Porter and W. B. Mebane, and Jno. W. Bale and Joe Lesser, lawyers; Judge Geo. S. Reese, justice of the peace; Clarence J. Mull, lawyer.
326-E. S. and Paul Nixon, music store.
328-Singer Sewing Machine Co.
330-Reese's Garage.
332-E. R. Fishburne, watch repairer. 334-Orr Art Studio, photograph gal- lery. W. A. Mullinix Shoe Shop.
3341%-Jno. P. Davis, real estate; Jno. Camp Davis, lawyer; Jas.
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A STUDY IN BETTER CITIZENSHIP.
"Human products of the soil" at the Berry Schools, Mt. Berry (via Rome), in Floyd County, Ga. At the top is the boys' band, which is a "wind-jamming" organization without a peer in the state. In the center is a field day group receiving medals from the girls, and the onlookers are the children of Georgia farmers. In the oval is the champion baseball team.
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P. Jones, lawyer; C. N. Feath- erston and C. Irving Carey, lawyers; Linton A. Dean and Lamar Camp, lawyers. 338-340-Jervis-Davidson Co., drugs and tea garden. 334-340-(In Masonic Temple) . 400 (Lumpkin-Empire) Block.
400-Southern Bell Telephone & Tel- egraph Co. Exchange. 408-McCartha Bros. Garage. 410-Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop. A. Victor, confectionery and lunch room. 412-Rome Bakery. 414-R. A. Jones Marble Co.
Bros. Furniture 416-418-McBrayer Co.
420-422-McDonald Furniture Co.
424 -- Franklin Auto Supply Co.
4241%-Willingham, Wright & Coving- ton, lawyers. 428-Harvey-Given Co., real estate. 430-Hotel Forrest Building. The Flower Shop. Hotel Forrest Barber Shop. Sam J. Davis, real estate and insurance.
Woodmen of the World, W. A. Keown, clerk.
Hale-Brannon Co., real estate. Frank Salmon Piano Co.
500 (Buena Vista) Block.
500-Parsons & Ward, life insurance. Updegrove Marketing Co. 502-504-Howell-Cantrell Furniture Co.
506-Misses McGinnis, millinery. 508-Howell-Cantrell Undertaking Co. 510-Hape Sing Steam Laundry.
512-Franklin Meat Market.
514-Rome Cafe (c). 516-Rome Pressing Club (c). 518-Smith-Malone Barber Shop (c). 520-Auto Repair Co.
522-524-E. E. Lindsey, automobiles.
526-0. W. Curtis, undertaker, (c). Drs. Eugene W. Weaver and J. W. Sams, physicians, (c). 528.530-Curtis Cafe (c). 532-534-Daniell's Garage. E. L. Adams Motor Car Co. J. H. Carroll Auto Repair Co.
536-Keith-Gray Grocery Co. 600 Block.
600-Texas Co., gasoline and oils. 800 Block.
800-Rome Railway & Light Co. 1000 Block. 1010-W. G. Duke, grocery, (c). 1100 Block.
1100-Florence Restaurant (c). Dozier Undertaking Co. (c).
P. D. Q. Dyeing & Cleaning Co. (c). 1300 Block. 1310-Howell Grocery Co. No. 2. 1500 Block.
1502-Harvey Chair Co. Standard Marble Co.
1506-F. M. Scott Coal Yard. Byrd's Engine Mills. J. W. Mullinix, shoe shop. 1800 Block.
1806-Harper Mfg. Co. 1900 Block.
1904-Harry Brooks, grocery.
On South Broad Street, South Rome, may be mentioned the following estab- lishments, nestling close to Myrtle Hill cemetery :
East Side.
103-Colegate-Calloway Confectionery and Ice Cream Parlor.
113-Beard & Helton Garage.
123-Thos. Warters Cigar Factory.
133-C. O. Walden, grocery. 102-Dry Cleaners (c). Ever-Ready Garage.
104-Sims' Barber Shop (c).
206-H. J. Klasing Carriage Works.
310-Frances Berrien Hospital. 420-August Vincenzi, fruits and gro- ceries. 601-Howell Grocery Co., No. 1. * X-
BURIED TREASURE .- There are various tales of buried treasure and frenzied hunts around Rome. North- ern soldiers dug into an old cemetery in North Rome, later abandoned. Now and then somebody gets an idea old Dr. Berckmans was rich, and disturbs the ruins of his retreat on Mt. Alto, as they do the sacred precincts of Gen. Burwell's deserted home near Hell's Hollow. Virgil A. Stewart tells how his father, Samuel Stewart, used to receive from the Indians gifts of pieces of gold, lead and tin which they could produce at any time by going out on the trail for four hours. White men often tried to follow the Indians to these treasure beds, but the redskins were too nimble for them, and the secret is supposed never to have been discovered.
James Foreman, an Indian, was brought back from the west after the war by the Nobles to locate precious metals and ores. He searched some time, but claimed the face of the coun- try and the forests had changed, and he could not find anything. The forks of the rivers were thought to be a
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good direction point, but this did not help him.
James went to gardening for Mrs. Robt. Battey. She showed him one day how to set out okra seed. When the plants came up they were too close together, for which Mrs. Battey re- buked him. James was half full of "fire-water," and he replied with a fiendish grin, "Do you know I'm an Indian?" She replied, "Do you re- member my father, William Smith? He often whipped Indians bigger than you !"
James soon went back to his tribes- men. He told Horry H. Wimpee while he was here that Coosa meant "rip- pling water" or "where two waters meet," Oostanaula meant "mother of waters" or "clear water," and Etowah meant "muddy bottom." These mean- ings are doubtful. "Etowah" is said to mean "high banks."
Will Mitchell tells of a spooky hunt for buried treasure. Looking wistfully from a window of the North Rome Public Schools one day when he was a boy, wishing he could be out where the birds were singing so sweetly, he saw two men drive up to the front of the school lot and measure off a cer- tain distance from a tree, and then measure from another tree. Inquiry next morning of a negro family living near the school disclosed that at mid- night two men had driven up in a buggy and gone to digging by the light of a lantern, and sure enough-by looking down the hole Will could dis- cern plainly the print of a tin or steel box which had been removed.
A Cherokee Indian, Holland, came to Rome between 1874 and 1880, prob- ably from Indian Territory, looking for minerals. He may have been the In- dian who went to the Sproull place on the Kingston road and told Capt. C. Wm. Sproull that he had a chart which showed where buried treasure was located and would give him half if they found anything. The Indian stepped off distances from certain large trees, made cross marks on the ground and finally came to the black- smith shop. His chart showed that the treasure was supposed to have been hidden under the anvil. The anvil was moved and the Indian and a negro dug a deep hole, but without success.
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CARLIER SPRINGS .- On the Chu- lio road, three miles east of Rome. Here in 1848 Gen. L. J. B. LeHardy, Camille LeHardy, Louis Henry Carlier and others started a Belgian colony,
with the idea of housing other colon- ists from Belgium if the venture proved a success. The Belgians built a two-room log house and several out- buildings, and lived there perhaps seven years. Around the springs was a tract of 100 acres which extended to the Etowah River. J. J. Cohen ac- quired it later, and sold to Geo. M. Battey, who about 1890 sold to his father, Dr. Robert Battey, who died there in 1895. S. R. Cockrill, a grad- uate of Cornell University, now con- ducting a truck farm on the Alabama road near the North Georgia Fair Grounds, bought the place from Mrs. Martha Battey, having lived in a cabin on a part of it for some years pre- viously. The present owner is Mrs. Ella Tarvin.
In a two-story frame house on this place Mrs. Battey established about 1894 a small school for the neighbor- hood children, and maintained it at her own expense. Sunday School under Methodist auspices was held on Sun- days. The day school later was taken over by Floyd County and called the Battey Heights School, and in time was removed to another building in the neighborhood.
There is a suggestion of the old world on this place for which the Bel- gians were not responsible. Many years ago Godfrey Barnsley, the Eng- lishman who developed Barnsley Gar- dens near Adairsville, brought from the grave of Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena a willow switch which he transplanted on his Bartow Coun- ty estate. Some years later he pre- sented an off-shoot of this willow to Mrs. Battey and she planted it on or near a pond at Carlier Springs, and there it is today in the form of quite a willow tree.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY .- Erected in 1911 with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, Pa .; 7,000 vol- umes; nearly 5,000 members; main story and basement devoted to meet- ings of the U. D. C., Floyd County Camp 368 of Confederate Veterans, the Junior Music Lovers' Club, Woman's Club, Girl Scouts and other organiza- tions and conventions. Librarian since establishment, Miss Helen Underwood Eastman; board of trustees, Judge Max Meyerhardt, president; Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson, vice president; W. Sinclair Rowell, secretary; Mrs. Jno. C. Printup, Mrs. J. A. Rounsaville, Mrs. Perrin Bestor Brown and Prof. Byard F. Quigg. Located on city prop- erty on west side of Broad Street be-
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SCENES ON THE BERRY SCHOOL CAMPUS.
At top, a dormitory built by the boys; in oval, the log cabin on the Thos. Berry place, where the idea of the institution originated in small classes taught by Miss Martha Berry; the handsome chapel, inside which is a blank tablet to be engraved at the anonymous donor's death; at bottom, the "shack" where Col. Roosevelt, Wm. G. McAdoo, Dr. Albert Shaw and a host of noted men and women have been entertained.
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