Thomas Nelson Page gave a dinner in honor of the victory, and Mr. Clemens was lion of the hour. Every literary stranger within the gates was present and it was a famous occasion. Mr. Bigelow tells entertaining incidents of this feast of reason and flow of soul. It was a splendid and satisfying banquet for which the home of the Southron is noted. On the morning after the Page dinner, Mr. Bigelow recalls a touching incident in this last visit the eminent humorist made to his capital city.

"At breakfast Mr. Clemens expressed a desire to visit Rock Creek Cemetery," writes Mr. Bigelow, "and see the bronze woman who sits in the still Park. It was a bleak, dull December day and as we walked down the avenues of the dead there was a presence of realized sorrow that seemed suited to our visit. We entered the little enclosure of cedars where sits the dark figure which is art's supreme expression of the great human mystery of life and death. Instinctively we removed our hats and neither spoke until we had come away.

"What does he call it?' asked my companion. I did not know but I had heard applied to it that great line of Shakespeare's: 'The rest is silence.'

"But that figure is not silent,' he said, 'but is in deep meditation over sorrowful things.'

THE MAYORS OF THE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON: THOMAS CARBERY.

BY ALLEN C. CLARK.

(Read before the Society, March 16, 1915.)

The Mayors of Washington were strong men, well equipped for their governmental responsibility and equal to even greater. It is the highest appropriateness that the Columbia Historical Society should in its archives have biographical sketches of the Mayors, with illustratory additions as reproductions of likenesses, pictures of residences and individual correspondence. The life sketches in the records of the Society to date are:

Every Mayor has a public school named in his honor except Rapine. There was a Rapine Building near the Force. The jest of a New Englander-"What kind of schools are these, force and rapine"-bore too heavily on the sensitiveness of the Commissioners and the name Rapine was taken down and another name put up in its place.

Thomas Carbery was the sixth Mayor. The American ancestor, his greatgrandfather, John Baptist Carbery, was born in Ireland about 1700. He came to America about 1730 by way of Boston, Massachusetts, and continued on to St. Mary's County, Maryland. His son, John Baptist Carbery, Thomas's grandfather, was born in that county. He married Miss Thompson, of Charles County, Maryland. Theirs was a large family.

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The father, Thomas Carbery, near George Town about 1805. and furnished the heavy timbers for ceilings and floors used in the construction of the public buildings. Of him the son says: "My father, Thomas Carbery, died in the City of Washington on the 12th of July, 1812, and in the sixty-seventh year of his age.1 His whole 1 His sons, Lewis and Joseph, were his administrators, Doc. 1, 546, Begister of Wills.