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is no less entitled to praise for the admirable order in which 

 his tool-house is kept. This applies likewise to the seed 

 room, where the best method is preserved in putting up our 

 native seeds. That apartment, moreover, contains a library 

 of 400 volumes, in which are all the late works on botany 

 and horticulture." * 



Andrew M. Eastwick had a mortgage of S15,000 against 

 the property, and Colonel Carr and his wife, being in 

 declining years, and their son having died, they were 

 anxious to retire from the nursery business, and offered to 

 give the property to Eastwick for the mortgage, f 



Eastwick had a fondness for ilge place, for he had made 

 many a pleasure trip in his boyhood, by boat, to Carr's Gar- 

 dens, and he therefore readily accepted Colonel Carr's offer. 

 Eastwick w^as in early life a machinist, and became a locomo- 

 tive builder, with a partner named Garrett. He afterwards 

 associated with him Joseph Harrison, Jr., and one of the 

 greatest achievements of the firm was the designing of an 

 eight-wheeled freight locomotive, which was so successful 

 that it soon became the accepted type for freight service. 

 This locomotive attracted the attention of agents of the 

 Emperor Nicholas of Russia, who contracted with Eastwick, 

 Harrison, and Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, to build and 

 equip a railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburg. 



At the time this offer was made by Colonel Carr, 

 Eastwick was home on a flying trip, expecting to return to 

 Russia within a week. Desiring, first of all, to protect the 



* The library of the Bartram fomily was presented to the Pennsylvania 

 Historical Society by Wm. Middleton Bartram. One hundred books of John Bartram. 

 ^^ illiam Bartram, and others of the family thus remain intact. For an account of this 

 library, see Philadelphia I^ublic Ledger, Friday, September 11, ISUl. 



t Public Ledger, Saturday, May 30, 1S9C, p. 2. 



