accomplished and the rights of our people secured by the success of our second conflict with Great Britain.

"The region was traversed during the War of the Revolution by that intrepid soldier, George Rogers Clark. He, with his band of Kentuckians, met the Indians at Harrodsburg in 1776, defeated them in 1777, and ultimately, in 1779, compelled the British commander at Vincennes to capitulate. Thus was ended the English occupancy and thus were made possible the negotiations for the possession of the vast regions beyond the the Alleghanies, subsequently conceded by Great Britain."

With how much delight Doctor Goode participated in the joint meetings of the two patriotic societies, especially the pilgrimage to Gunston Hall on the Potomac, June 12, 1896 (the one hundred and twentieth "Anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights" by Representatives of Virginia), to mark the long neglected grave of its former owner, George Mason, the author of that bill, and to listen to an address by Justice Harlan, as Doctor Goode said, "The man best qualified to speak of Mason's life and attainments; Mason, the man Virginians looked to, to put that instrument in strong AngloSaxon, over a hundred years ago."

With malice toward none and charity for all, who among those of us who heard Doctor Goode can forget his remarks on one occasion when an unfriendly feeling was said to exist between the district patriotic societies: "There can be no such feeling between our societies; there are two camps, it is true, but they are camps of the same army."

In the national convention in Hartford in 1891, a resolution looking toward the union of the two societies was under consideration; objections were raised to its provisions. Doctor Goode at the proper moment offered a concise substitute which was adopted and has been followed in subsequent negotiations. His influence for union was also felt both in Savannah and Richmond last spring, where resolutions that promised so much were adopted by the two societies, but have thus far borne so little fruit. In the latter convention he took a most active part, especially in framing the resolutions for union, which were unanimously adopted, the convention refusing to consider any of the substitutes offered, the delegates flocked to the side.

of Doctor Goode to congratulate him upon the success of the movement, which all knew he had so much to heart.

This fact is recognized by the Sons of the Revolution in their "Year Book" for 1896, in which it is said, "From the formation of the Society Doctor Goode was one of its staunchest and most zealous friends, and from the beginning his energies were directed toward the consummation of a union between our Society and the Sons of the American Revolution under one constitution and one name."

He was greatly interested in preserving the American flag from desecration, holding with Grant that, "there is no name so great that it should be placed upon the flag of our country.”

He gave his time freely to others, especially to young men desiring to prosecute scientific studies and it may be mentioned that through his instrumentality American students in France can now receive all the honors and benefits of the educational institutions of that country.

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His every pulsation throbbed in unison with all that was pure, as was his life. The friend is gone from us. Doctor G. Brown Goode died September 6, 1896. there hearts without sorrow or eyes without tears? How expressive the tribute to his memory by Doctor Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in which he says, "I have never known a more perfectly true, sincere, and loyal character than Doctor Goode's; or a man who with a better judgment of other men, or greater ability in moulding their purposes to his own, used these powers to such uniformly disinterested ends, so that he could maintain the discipline of a great establishment like the National Museum, while retaining the personal affection of every subordinate. But how futile these words seem to be in describing a man of whom perhaps the best, after all, to be said is, that he was not only trusted, but beloved by all with an affection that men rarely win from one another."

It will not be inappropriate to close this article with the resolutions of condolence of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, to which he gave his untiring energies:

"WHEREAS, Doctor George Brown Goode, the beloved president and patron of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in the District of Columbia, has been suddenly removed by death; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we, his compatriots, give public expression of our grief at the loss of one who added to the successful administration of the office of president, the constant affection of his heart for the Society.

"That we recall with pride his lifelong patriotic fervor, his zeal in building monuments and erecting memorials to revolutionary heroes, his high ideal of what a patriotic society ought to be, his genuine and overpowering desire to effect the union of all associations having in view the memories of the founders of the Republic and the collection and publishing of historical material for America.

"That we unite in our admiration of his marked intellectual ability, his sterling integrity, his unremitting industry, his affectionate courtesy, and his personal uprightness and enthusiasm."

Like him, let us remember not to idolize the past, but to emulate rather than boast of our ancestors, looking earnestly forward to the future.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

WILLIAM VAN ZANDT Cox.

SOME BUILDINGS OF THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CONTINENTAL HALL.

[Read before the Army and Navy Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, District of Columbia.]

IN considering the subject of a Continental Hall for the Daughters of the American Revolution so much stress has been laid upon the idea that the style of architecture must be "Colonial," that it may be interesting to consider briefly what colonial architecture was, and what was the appearance of the buildings in which our revolutionary ancestors lived, worshiped, and transacted their business.

Let us go first to Philadelphia with the signers of the Declaration of Independence. There they met in the State House of Pennsylvania, built in 1731, a plain brick building with stone trimmings and a wooden tower, in which hung the famous Liberty Bell. One of the lower flanking buildings is the City Hall, and the other Congress Hall. The old building is so well preserved that we can imagine that we see the dignified figures of the patriots entering its doorway on that fateful morning, talking together as they go of the serious business of the day. On the way thither some of them must have passed Carpenter's Hall, a handsome two-story building in similar style, then recently erected.

The delegates from the North must have admired the churches in Philadelphia, for there was nothing like them in Puritan New England. Indeed, at the time it was built, 1731, Christ Church was by far the finest building in the Colonies, and it was not equalled by later churches in its own city, such as St. Peter's and Zion Church. It was of brick, even the capitals of the pilasters being of this material, as there were no skilled stonecutters in the Colonies. The Massachusetts delegates probably found the quaint Old Swedes Church, built in 1700, a more familiar style than these edifices of the Church of England.

The houses where the visitors lodged, or were entertained