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PART V.
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Acccrdirj? to lawyers. Jrors and high court
officials, the jury system o this city has become
more corrupt than at aiy time since the days
of the rlooa Tweed. Jurymen are Bald to
have sold themselves fo $10 and up, and some
court c:<rks are eaid o have leagued them
selves with powerful corporations for the pur
pose of putting bribed jurors Into the Jury box.
Those who have 6oufht the fountain head of
♦-his pollution have foind that It sprang from
the evil jflliance betwen certain corporate In
terests in this city anl Tammany Hall. These
corporations have pal. money to Tammany for
the election of Its ticket, and In return have de
man ' that even thi courts shall be "swung"
to their profit and «ggrandizement. The cor
rupting of Juries, therefore. Is said to be not an
occasional crime, vith alternate success and
failure, but a wide reaching and comprehensive
f-TBtem, which has >€en worked out according to
The tables of actuaries, and which, In nineteen
c^ses out of twenv. overwhelms Its victim.
The recent confusion of William H. Tllllng
hast. who said that for many years he had taken
money from a street railway company to s:t on
Juries and to obtain verdicts favorable to that
compc- may . ave startled the average citi
*en, but It did not surprise lawyers who have
been fighting such corporations. "I have won
red that the Md did not come off lons before,'*
Baid or prominent attorney. "We lawyers have
suspected that Hangs w^re rotten In our Jury
'ystern. but we did not dare attack the men
•vhom we thought were to blame. Some may call
us cowardly. If they will, but they don't under
stand. Lawyers have to make a living, and they
don't, as a rule, care to Ftrlke at those officials
rho have the power to cripple their practice and
mrtangw the Interests, of their clients."
FIGHT AGAINST THE EVTL WIDENS.
Since rminghttt told how he had sold himself
*s a juror the tight aeainst this evil has come
Into thr open, and each day lt has aS6Umed
greater and more formidable proportions. Judge
Peabury. of the City Court, aroused by the ac
cusation that the clerks of his court were "rig
ging*" Juries under his very nose, ha a begun an
investigation which promises sensational devel
opmanti a resolution was Introduced before
•he State Bar Association at its la=t annual
meeting by A. Edward Woodruff, a lawyer, of
N*o. 11J Broadway, asking for an investigation
*f th- methods pursued in their litigation by
•treet railway companies In this city. A resolu
tion was also Introduced iO the Legislature for
-.-. Investigation of th» judiciary of the state.
■» ith the purpose of finding our what relations,
tt any, exist between the bench and the street
tya The Governor has been petitioned to
caidon TilUr.gha.st. ho. soon after his confes
sion, was •nested for impersonating a juror who
wasted to be excused from Mrving The plea
for the pardon Is that because Tillinghast has
uncovered what appears to be a far reaching
conspiracy to thwart the ends of Justice he
should be permitted to help In the prosecution
of dM men who used him as their tool.
I:~. the City Court, according To lawyers who
practise there. jury fixing has been done far
more openly than In the supreme Court. The
Chief clerk of the City Court Is Thomas F. Smith.
secretary of Tammany Hall "The Supreme
Court clerk?. "• gaid Tllllnghast. ildn't stand
any monkey business. A man had to be on the
panel to get into the jury box But in the City
Court it was T-rent. The gang therr- had all
rhat fixed. I vas on the Jury there in lots of
hen T was not on the panel at all. The
•-■•erk would call my name, that's all. Every
body thought he was reading it from the panel,
r-ut he was not. He'd Just put his arm in the
" hcc 1 ., take out a slip, "-_r.d. no matter what name
•ras written on it, h» would call:
William H. Tilllnghast."
' And then Pd step up and go through the red
tape cf the examination, and get on. Some
'inces I'd sit on several case? in one week that
Whenever the company would want me lt
■"•ould ztrA a man to my house to tell me what
'■ourt to appear In. Then I simply sat Th<=re
my name was called."
JURY FIXER ENERGETIC.
ghasi "worked" as a
out m the City Court
«d below. In all of these
in, although his name
■•■-..■ In these cases,
-.:: fn his power to . ut
led for as low as possible,
I i Whether or not
he was so seen by a look at the
following instances:
jlius Wait rmari act Metropott-
- KHpper agt. Metro
road company.
■ opoll
."holly agt- M^tmpoli-
,jrheragt M-tro
..e railroad company
as J. cyßettly ae- Metro
■
««1 Metro
■
October 9. 1900— MorttS s.g?. Metropolitan;
vtrd:ct for the railroad company.
November 15. 1900— George If. Strachan agt.
Metropolitan; rerdict for the railroad company.
November 19, lt*oO— Annie McAleer agt. Met
ropolitan : verdict for the railroad company
November 20, 1000-Helen White agt. Ifetre
poliLai;; ve-dict for the raliroa«i company.
HOW JURORS ARE SHADOWED.
Hanging aLout the City Court and the Supreme
Court iher^ are men v.ho make a business of get
ting hold cf Jircrs afier they are in the boxjend
T trying the to buy them. One of these "doc
tor*. ' as they are called, who was regularly em
ployed by tint gamblers and policy people until
.Lou 1 year ar-«, uae frequently to be seen in the
oorrldon Ot the Criminal Courta Building, with
-.is tia.ck t..1: BU tipped far back on his head,
a h*Jf burned c:tar in one corner of his mouth
■i.-.d bis «-!c-f always watching the door
Of ti:e courtroom. It was not In the Criminal
Coorts Building, havever. t'nat this jury fixer did
'.. ... ..-;.. H« .lid it before lie got there, and
appeared only to e«?. that his p-ans were carried
-,ul After twelve in nad been selected for the
jury in a. ca*® ln lcn he wu interested he
sent out "shadows." 1 is said, to follow the men
ro and from their BOQes .nd to study their talk
-uid actions, their hailts and companion*. In
his way be decided w,at men be could "touch."
His judgment of humai nature was so good that
irer be was empMwfl t<, watch a • ase the
iury almost Invariably Ueagreod or returned a
Verdict of DOt guilty. S*ce Mr. Jerome eent AJ
Adams, the "policy KuCYo Sing Sing, however.
this ra^ucular "doctor" v*as rarely been seen
BfaOßt the Criminal Courts gliding. The convlc
fon of Adams to surprise! him that, it «r said.
he has not yet fully rtcoveed. At any rate, he
tou**i «.U«.t bis *r«--tlge as alury flx.-r was gone.
THE BLACK ART OF "JURY FIXING" AS PERFECTED IN NEW-YORK CITY.
Not a Spasmodic Crime, bvit a Carefully Regulated
System— Methods Suggested for Making It
More Difficult and Dangerous.
It was in fear of j US f such men that Mr.
Jerome took the severe measures which he did
recently in the trial of a well known lawyer of
this city for conspiracy to defraud a client
The District Attorney had the Jury locked up
from one end of the trial to the other. The re
sult was a speedy conviction.
CORRUPTION IN JURY BOX.
It sometimes happens, lawyers eay. that one
corrupt Juror will seek l0 de bauch some of his
fellow Jurymen, so that he will not be alone In
nis fight to prevent a just verdict. In a letter
which J. L. Quackenbush. the present head of
the Metropolitan's legal department, sent more
than a year ago to District Attorney Jerome,
reference is made to an alleged attempt to In
fluence a Juror after the trial had begun.
"On Saturday last" (December 9, 1904), wrote
Mr. Quackonbush, "Henry C. Price, of No. 170
East 81st street, called at this office and stated
to me that he had been a Juror in two cases in
which the New-York City Railway Company
was defendant, and that he voted as a Juryman
for a verdict in favor of the defendant in both
of these cases In consideration a promise*
which he claimed *as made him jy an employe
of the company by the name of Wund. I had
Wund brought into my room, and also requested
Ambrose F. McCabe, my assistant, to listen to
the conversation.
'In the course of the conversation Price stated
that he had been approached by Wund while he
was on jury duty and that Wund requested him
to do what he could for the railroad company,
and promised him that he would in return en
deavor to get Trice a job with the company as s.
plumber.
"Wund, in the presence of McCabe and my
self, admitted that he had a conversation with
Price, and that in substance he had told Price
TICKET SELLING MACHINE.
One of the automatic slot machines immediately
outside the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rai.way
station at Southport, England. The system
was introduced this month, and, should the ex
periment prove successful, an extension of the
idea will follow. The object of this novel de
parture is to save the time of the passenger
and the salary of a ticket agent In suburban
traffic.
80-ton. March IT (Special).-Now that Con
gressman Roberts, of Massachusetts, ha£ lntr
duced a bill in Congress railing for an appro
priation of $350,000 for the extermination of the
gypsy moth and browntall moth Bcour*es, there
ta hope of something being done in a scientific,
systematic way to relieve New-England from
this rapidly frowtog evil, which \a fast being
spread over the East. Governor Guild appointed
a delegation to appear before the committee at
the trine on the Roberts bill, which Include*
Superintendent Kirkland. bead of the State
gypsy moth work; C H. Fernald. of Amhcrst Ag
ricultural CoUegi an borits on the subject
axul one of the inobt exjK-rt entomologists in the
world; W. H. Bowfcer. president of the Howker
Fertilizer Company, arid F. H. Appteton, of the
State Board of Agriculture
rlntendent Kirkland recently came out In
public, charging that grafters are goinK about
the ci/uiUry and deliberately planting the pests
In adjacent States. "I know gypsy moths have
been planted In Providence and throughout
Rho<Jr> Island," he 'planted by those uho
want the pi"*;"'' m that State. We know who is
to blame, but we are powerless. There is no law
-no law in rtther this BtaU or Rhode [aland—
which will reach them. lam jfoing to ask for
addlUonal legtolatton at once. Prison bars are
too good for the guilty parties. The work is be
ing maliciously dene by those whose Interest! lt
would serve by havlnK the pla«ue ln that State."
Professor Kirkland says that these grafter*,
who are necking employment exterminating, the
moths are engraved ln caxrylntc the plague to
other parts of the l»t and that warm spring
weather will see them auread all over Baatorn
New- York and throuirhoul Connecticut. Care
ful an . complete investigation by the Finance
Committ- • Of the Ithode Island General Assem
bly baa produced indisputable evidence that the
two plagues are being broueht there by those
who expect to reap a harvest in the work of
exterminatl..n. The work has been going on for
srm« time but the authorities Of the little State
say that they a,* helpl-ss to prevent it. as ther«
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. MARCH 18. 1906.
he would do what he could to get him employ
ment with the company.
"I subsequently called into the room Lyle T.
Hall, the assistant who tried the cases men
tioned in the City Court, and the conversation
was repeated in his presence.
"The statements made by both Price and
Wund to Messrs. McCabe. Hall and myself sat
isfied me that there was an unlawful agreement
between this juror and Wund, and that your
(Mr. Jerome's) attention should be called to the
matter, for such action as you may deem proper.
"When I assumed charge of this office on July
1 I gave explicit instructions to all employes
that no practices of the kind mentioned should
be tolerated, and that I should be the first to
make a complaint against any subordinate who
violated these Instructions. . . ."
When Mr. Quackenbush was asked, the other
day, why the District Attorney failed to obtain
an indictment with such evidence, he replied:
"I don't know myself. I heard that the grand
Jury could not understand why the attorney for
the Metropolitan should be seeking the Indict
ment of one of Its own men."
The McCabe of whom Mr. Quackenbush speaks
was arrested last Monday as the result of evi
dence which Judge Seabury discovered in the
course of his investigation of the City Court.
He is charged with having bribed a juror in the
case of Ettie Eicher. who sued thr> Metiopolitan
company for damages on ' Injuries on
May 12. 1904.
TRICKS OF COURT CLERK.
The investigation which Judge Seabury Is
making has shown that the court clerk may
easily pack a Jury, not only by calling names
not on the panel, but by manipulating the Jury
wheeL The panel of names is furnished the
clerk by thf Office of the Commissioner of
Jurors. At the present time a list of seventy
five names is given to the clerk of each of the
five parts of the City Court twice a month. A
clerk will then ru-.y the seventy-live names on
separate slips of paper and put these in a wheel.
After turning the wheel a few tirn..-s the clerk
reaches his arm through a hole In the wheel,
picks out a slip and reads it aloud. The Jury
SPREADING A PEST FOR PETTY PROFIT.
That the Destructive Gypsy Moth Is Being Deliberately
Is no law covering the matter To be doubly
sure, they called Profe— or Kirkland in consul
tation, and his independent investigation
brought him to the same result— that the niothe
have been deliberate!: I ' by mt<
parties.
The modus operandl was extremely simple.
The criminals, for they are surely nothing else,
even If they cannot be prosecuted at present,
came to Masaachusetts an<l belped then
to as many egg clusters as thty could
away and distributed the nests when- they
vould do the most harm. Exceedingly prottflc
and hardy, the most of the d-isters were Pimply
cast away In fields and vacant lots. Left to them
selves, they never disappointed the propagators,
bringing forth a goodly r.umber of caterpillars
to start in and eat up every green thttiK in
sight.
Although millions have been spent In ftj
lt, the gypsy and browntail moth ptst still
continues In Massachus< tts, ami now experts
find that New-York, Xew-Jersey and the Mid
dle West are invaded It is one of the greatest
pests of th« age. one of the greatest of all agos
since the locusts flew over Egypt. An over
whelming number of moths settled down upon
Southern and Eastern Massachusetts last sum
mer, and a southwest win<l swept into Boston
a horde of browntails. In uarts of the city the
white moths were so thick as to i:iak.- beelns
across the strett as difficult . driving
snowstorm.
Both moths are frequently carried sreat dis
tances by railroad trains. The gipsy caterpil
lar spins a long silken thread attached to tha
end of a bough and swings' In the wind until
some passing train picks hi:n up ami carries
l.lm *lon«. Anything moving is llk*ly to catch
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man with this name thereon responds, is ex
amined, and if satisfactory is put in the box.
It has been charged that by means of bending
over a corner or by folding one of these slips
a clerk may take out of the wheel the men he
wants. k
According to Tillinghast, the clerks who have
to his knowledge "fixed" juries get little money
for their crimes. He tells of several clerks who
were so poorly paid that "they gave lt up in
disgust." On*, he said, got a "Christmas pres-
ent of from $25 to $75." Tlllinghast himself, so
he says, obtained $40 to $50 a week for his
"work." He got the money on Saturdays.
In telling- of the first "weekly wages" which
he got from the street railway company Tilling-
Saturday morning at I<> o'clock
I was waiting for my friend in the hall of the
building. He was on time, and told me to wait
a few minutes while he went upstaii s. When he
came down in a little while he invited me to
have a drink with him. As soon as we got our
drinks he squeezed close to me and slipped into
my hands several tills. I shoved them Into my
pocket. When I counted the money afterward
I think there was $35 or $4<>
SOLD HIMSELF FOR $10.
The very first bribe money which Tillinghast
says he got from a railroad company amounted
to only $10.
Thomas Allison, Commissioner of Jurors, says
that no ramification of the Jury fixing system
can be traced to his office. He says that the
names drawn for the various panels are taken
oy him from wheels in his office in the presence
of a judge and of the County Clerk. For the
year 1904- 'O5 "ne drew for the thirteen parts of
the Supreme Court 17,175 names; for the five
parts of the City Court, 6,340 names; for the
four parts of General Sessions 4,200 names, and
and cany this caterpillar. In many cases the
as'-nt "f distribution ;ipp.;.r? to have been the
übiquitous automobile. The browntail. at
•. t>y light, \.ili tly Into an open car win
or into the cab of the engine The gypsy
is dependent upon these human agencies to
i him, for the female moth cannot fly, and
aterpttlar seldom crawli r.ioie than two
hundred feet. Not so the browntail, a swarm of
which will ri.sv Into the air. and th>-n, aided by
the wind, will fly many miles, to be drawn to
eanh at last by . . h of street lisrhts.
The gypsy motb plague is due to the care
• living In Medford, Mass.
The gypsy is a silk apinner, and Professor
Trouvelot had r 'ng it with
•:;inion silkworm h^: could : 'Cater
pillar the cold %\hi
rtetl a lot from their
ureleealy al
lowed t*.\»-ral caterpillars to escape. When they
to the eaft winds of Massachu
setts the mischief begun, lt was five hundred
caterpillars to each female moth. Soon a com
mission had to be appointed, which spent $1.
s<>o.ouo In ten years In a vain effort to extermi
nate the plague. What might have been, if the
legislature, in a fit of mistaken economy, had
ipended the work Is a matirr of specula
tion, but, at any rate, last M.iv Indignant puMl..
oplnl< I 1 alarra of ex
perts In the nelgbboj brought about
. comtntaaton. which
a conxiition of moth-riden counties. The
browntail had in the int-an time been Imported
from Holland <m some rose bushes. The care
: those Imported
. untold millions of
ge upon Madsachusett*
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S4O names. He also drew in the course of the
year 200 names for each of the sixteen municipal
courts, and also 450 names for the Sheriff.
REMEDIES FOR JURY FIXING.
"I believe that the penalty for the Impersona
tion of a Juryman should be more clearly defined
In the statutes than it Is at the present time,"
said Commissioner Allison yesterday. •"The
c-lme strikes at the very foundation of our civ
ilization. I would advise, therefore, that a new
subsection be added to both the Civil and Penal
codes, which would make criminal the following
Impersonating or making to any court any
false representation or statement as to the lflen
tity of any one whose name appears on the panel
of Jurors In such court, or In any part of such
court, or of any one claiming to be the person
whose name so appears.'
"This subsection would fit Into Section 8 of
the Civil Code and Section 148 of the .Penal
Code."
"The penalty Imposed for such an offence, ao
cordlng to the Penal Code, would be a maximum
imprisonment of one year, or a maximum fine of
$500. or both; and according to the Civil Code, a
maximum Imprisonment of three months, or a
maximum fine of $250. or both. A Judge could
punish an offender, therefore, according to either
cod?, as he saw fir
JUDGE SHOULD TURN WHEEL.
According to many lawyers, the turning of the
Jury wheel should not be Intrusted, as at present,
to the oourt clerk, but. instead, to the judge.
"Ijet the Judge call off the names of the Jury
men." said Abraham Gruber, "and we will get
clean Juries." Mr. Qruber, in a recent case in the
Supreme Court, discovered an employe of the
railroad he was suing ta the Jury box. As ha
It Is conservative to estimate that over $1,000,
000 will be expended in the State of Massachu-
setts In the next two years to fight the plague
of moths. The State has appropriated dir»-'-Tly
$330.<X)0; cities and towns will be obliged to ap
priate as much more at least. The sum of
about $7ix.>,<mO will be spent, mainly In the work
of supervision and of rlidlng the public domain,
such as parks, of moths.
The only methods so far successful In con
trolling the plague are methods of direct tree
to tree work Certain habits of the Insect help
in this herculean task. The browntatl cater
pillar hatches in the late summer, and aa soon
as the weather becomes cold weaves a nest at
the end of a bough, into which he crawls and
hibernates all winter. These nests are cut off
and burned. Both troths are the prey of vari
ous parasites.
Dr. O. W. Howard, of the Department of Agri
culture, was In Europe this last summer to de
termine whether the European parasltea c>uld
be acclimatized in the Vnlted States. Several
thousand parasites of different kinds have been
Imported and placed in a special observation
station at Nor' Mass. The greatest
dependence is belr.*; placed upon the tachina fly,
a nathe of Japan.
The moths are voracious pests, especially
the gypsy. Fruit and shade trees suffer alike.
In the natural parks north of B stou thousands
of fine trees are dead, and thousands more not
yet entirely killed were as bare of leaves in mid
summer as in the dead of winter. The brown
tall has so far exhibited a marked preference
for pear trees The browntail caterpillar is also
an <n"»my of man it she. is its mtarati . wiry
hairs, and thes'
into contact uiih human TU-sh, prodw.
ful irritation of the skin <"ases have b.
ported so serious that the victim, with face
swollen beyond recogi.itl.>:i and eyes closed.
has had to go to a hoeplul. ci .ly the other
day a colony of the gyp*}
*o Connecticut.
FINANCIAL AND
MISCELLANEOUS.
could not get the man out. he threw up the ease]
on the spot.
"This duty the Judge could easily perform.*
Mr. Gruber added, "and I don't believe crook*
would then dare to Impersonate Jurors, or that
Juries would be packed a: the Instigation of un»
scrupulous litigants. I would also recommend
that the Commissioner of Jurors should not. as)
at present, prepare such and such & list o4
Jurors' names for such and such a court. In*
stead, let ail the lists, after they ar« prepared, b«
shuffled up and distributed among the dif
ferent Judges haphazard. This would prevent
certain names from getting on the panels fas
certain cas^s "
LAW SUrnCTJEUST IF ENFORCED
a., ma-wnoj-a woodrua. who U th« counsel oi
Judge Seabury and one of the leaders In th«
present fight against the Jury fixing evil, be
lieves that the present law is severe enotisrh.
What is needed, he says, Is its enforcement. He>
said:
"Section 71 of the Penal Code says:
" 'A person who gives or offers, or causes to {•«
given or orfered. a bribe, or any money, prop
erty, or value of any kind, or any promise or
agreement therefor, to a Judicial officer. Juror,
etc , or other person authorized by law to heas
or determine any question, matter, etc., with in
tent to influence his action, vote, opinion or de
cision thereupon. Is punishable by Imprison
ment for not more than ten years, or by a fln«
of not moro than $5.0u0. or both.'
"Section 74 says:
" 'A Juror, etc.. or other Derson authorized by
law to hear or determine any auestion, matter,
etc., who a.-kd, receives. r>r agrees to receive, any
money, property, or val is of any kind, or any
promise or agreement therefor. ur>on any agree
ment or understanding that his vote, opinion
action. Judgment or decision, shall be influ«mcej
there >-> .^able by Imprisonment for not
more than ten years, or by ane of not more
than £.~ - - >th.'
"Offences punishable by Imprisonment m state*
f>rison are felonies, and not outlawed ur. «
apse of five years."
TOW A TXEBRIACT LAW.
lime It Has Become Popular
Confirmed Drunkards.
Des Molnes. lowa, March 18 (Special).— low*
has more drunks than she knows what to do with.
The inebriate hospital established a few week*
ago at Knoxvllle is already tall to overflowing,
and the board of control ta alarm has ordered
that no more candidates for the "Jag cure' b«
accepted until vacancies occur In consequence,
from every village and hamlet has gone up a
wild cry of anguish, for the inebriacy law
passed by the lowa Legislature has been the one
delight of lowa drunkards ever since lt was put
into execution.
The State of lowa has made lt exceedingly
pleasant for its Inebriate wards. Statistic*
proved that drunkards were responsible for most
of the crimes committed in the state, and the
board of control wanted to eliminate this, even
if lt cost as much to cure a man of the drlnl|
habit as it did to send him to the penitentiary.
So the state opened the hospital.
Drunkards, as fast as they applied, were hur-»
ried to the baths, stripped and provided with
new suits of clothes. Then they got good food,
pleasant work and a promise of their liberty
when cured. The men who didn't like eve ,
much confinement didn't stay, or rather |
remained for a few months until they had rest*
Scores of confirmed drunkards have been sent
up for lnebrtacy dozens of times in th* few
months the law has been In operation. Just as
often as they leave the hospital they begin an
other spree In fact, the confirmed drunkards,
of the state— they number anywhere fr.
thousand to fifteen thousand — are having a
glorious oU time at the expense of the Stat* of
lowa, and appear ptrfe ;!y willing to keep It up.
ed from their last spree. Then they left th*
hospital and sta tnotner. and a few
weeks of a good time made them in condition tr»
accept the hospitality o| the atate again.
EQTJESTEIAN STATUE OF ITCLELLAH.
Th« «queatrtan statu* of Major Oes«ral G«org*
B. McClellan. BOW la process of construction by
Frederick Ma^Mor.n!«. will be ur.v«!l«<j In Wash
ington on October IS The commission la charg«
of the work is composed of the Secretary of War.
Senator Wetsaoi of Rhode Island, and General
Horatio C. Kiug. of Brooklyn. The s'atuo Is tba
outcome of the efforts ar.d subscriptions of th« S»>.
clety of th« Army of the Poror.sac. whio!» will hoUl
Its thirty-seventh annual reunion <v>irc:Jent with
the unvellii.g in the capital city. Th» 'UscuMloa
caused by the appeanuud o? thi> model of General
McClellan ln a «louch hat. it a period whr that
was v.ot worn, ltd to the substitution of th* cap
which General McCleUan were at the time 1
which the atatus depicts him. when h« was iu coci
j&aikl of th« Asvay oX th* Potom«a.
