Around the pool table were Capt. C. R. Withrow, Capt. W. R. Beaty, Mrs. Withrow and Mrs. Beaty. Swimming and dancing were other features of the Open House entertainment.
It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.