Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1898, Page 21

aaa BS ins, at THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1898-24 PAGES. ‘ 21 NAMES OF LONG AGO The Downtown Part of Washington in the Forties, MANY AND GREAT CHANGES OBSERVED Landmarks in Trade That Are Now Forgotten. —»—__—_ QUAINT OLD ‘WAYS THEN — + Fifty years ago while to the general public the term city meent all within the corporate limits, to the residents it indi- cated only the central dewntown portion— between the Capitel, President's house, canal and Northern Liberties. This gection contained the theaters, places of amusement, many of the churches and per- haps seven-eighths of the business hous end the streets and avenues were nearly all improved, at least partially. It fs inter, esting to recail the fact that ex-Mayors Berret and Emery, Mr. John W. Thomp- son, the Willards and some others who have veen prominent in the advancement of the interests of the city and district came here in this decade, and naturally they first locatec in the city section. The old Marsh market was regarded as the central point from which radiated the business marts—Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street being the principal ones, and ‘fourths of the police business was ted at the Central gvard house. In ‘wood, ceal, lumber and lime much _ busi- hess was done along the banks of the canal. Sailing vessels of fair size, with canal boats and lorg boats, landed their cargoes on its banks. The bridges, how- ever, prevented sailing vessels from pass- into the town. . ional Theater in the early part of the 40's was the leading place of amuse- Ment, but it was Jestroyed by fire on the night of March 5, 1815. Other places were open for the votaries of the play—Carusi’s saloon, Apo'lo Hall, south side of E west of ; the- Adelphi Theater, Pennsylvania avenue between 442 and 6th stre and the Assembly rooms, on Louis used more Jana avenue opposite Sth street, were or iess for theatrical purposes, while Ja on Hall, on Pennsylvania ave flue east of 4% Odd Fello Hall, A Odeon Hall, Penn- #1 street, were the » ball rooms and concert halls. Up ome of the societies had chambers at the city hall other meet: ong halls were Bi ham's, on © street near loth; Dr. Howard's lec room, on 11th near F street, room in the second story of W bie, on C between 4 Old-Time Fut few, If any, of t built for the pu remodeled dwellings City Fotel, now Wil Hotels. hotels had been In some instances were the hotels. The then conducted by Messrs. A. Fuller & Co., consisted of half a dozen three-story brick dwellings frcnting the avenue west of 14th street. In the latter part of the 40's this hotel went into the hands of the Willards, Mr. H. A. Willard being the manager, the Fullers lee: = on the northeast corner of Penn- 5y avemie and 12th street, now in- cluded in the Raleigh site. The European Hotel, afterward the Mansion House, was @ high-toned hostelry in those days, con- duc y Gallaburn, Pennsylvania avenue above Lith street ‘The Indian Queen was then the name of the Metropolitan, long under the ma ment of the Brow nd more general known by their name. Then, as now 2 popular house, particularly wv hern people. The National, at ‘as popularly kr Coleman being the id ard 414 streets was 1 proprietor. ted the s was on and arles, street, p Hotel. street . a favor conducted Columbia nd E streets. Mr. J. H. Eber- then ow » two lon are aight polic¢ nh was a hall le form vania and Lovisiana Per: sorers. Pen for pi street b jally well known for the deep-tonec ck the durin; the o'clock bell ¥ for all mi accompanied by ble grown person, or without vihority ¢ ent or guardian ors by 10 o'clock. Those who dis- Tegarded the warning were liable to be escerted to their hoi by the police or locked up. On the side of 14th street be'ow the avenue was engine hous and hall of the Franklin Fire Company anc it v the meeting place of the ol flaunt Total Abstinence So- Lover by ‘Squire John D. ty, Jong presi rei Clark. Places of Worship. The church-going community were ac- commodated—the Unitarians in what is now the Police Court building at 6th and D The Foundry and Wes- odist Societies each had houses of on their present sites, but they 2 old- and en rn buildings its pr than ashioned chapel with galler- long since replaced by Epiphany Episco- nt site was then present. Trinity oa er at sal Church was in what is now the > present loca- | being thought ist Protestants h between E and F street: ther known as s.” originally at 19th and I 2 lth street betw ptist, After remo 1 to & the : me Ford's Opera House, in Lincoin was g nated ly was purchased by the and used by the on Ken- Dr. G. W the E it Church. bth, and and plainer structpre than the . Anew site at Ith a n purchased by this s Patrie church, a story brick building at th and 1th s the place of for tne Cathciie, who maintained ent’s Orphan Asylum adjoining the F street. The First Presbyterian erected a few years before street and was an exceed- in building. t oflice building had been erect- d, end the hail fitted up and ay our only museum . all visitors being 7 is F street was a ¢ ory buildings used for offices. The Post Oilice Department then occupied less t one-half of its present dimen- contained about seventy-five This ‘Ooms three floors. The post office buil dé of the Capitol building, Was most admired by the public. The for- mer was rded as the most tmposing and the latter as the most complete, it having been one of the first buildings pro- Viled with furnaces for heating. On H tween 9th and 10th, was located hington Orphan Asylum adjoining mausolenm erected by General Van Ness, in which some of his family had been interred. Mrs. Van Ness, for a long time a and manager of the asylum, was in not far from her wards. The city ts name to what is now Judiciary The courts of the District and the city councils ocevpied the larger rooms, @nd the clerk of the court and marshal the smaller rooms in the east wing, and the corporation officers those in the west end. Two janitors lived in the basement, where there were severai armories and office rooms. Banks Were Few. Tke two-storied buiiding—the first Jail erected by the government—tronting the Sear of the city hall, was then the Wash- ington Infirmary (the general hospital for the community). This was afterward en- larged, and was used in the early part of the war (till destroyed by fire) as a mili- tary hospital. In 16 a large frame build- ing erected 6n the lot was used some months for a fair, and it was here that McCormick’s reaper and the sewing ma- chine were first exhibited. A new building had been erected for the Jail in the northeast corner of the square a few years before, and served for the pur- pose till the close of the 60’s under the popular name of the “Blue Jug.” That section southeast of Judiciary Square in the neighborhood of C and 3d streets was known then as “Irish Hill,” the most of the settlers being of that nationality. Within hearing of the court house and jail People there were so frequent eruptions and family jars in a frame on a bank near 4th and F streets that the name “Mt. Etna” was given it, and it became well known to the people of that da: Within the “city found the alleys; section were to; be least all those to which names had been given. Among the most prominent were Calf alley, now known as Express alley, north of B be- tween 2d and 3d streets; “Prop,” now Mc- Dermot: south of avenue between 3d and 4¥@ streets; “Marble,” on the square west; ‘Jackson Hall,” opening on avenue between 3d and 44 streets; “Slate,” opening on E street between 12th and 13th streets: “Black Dog,” the west part of what is now ‘Theater alley, opening on E east of 14th Street. But few of these alleys had been in the least improved, though there were dwelling houses in some. There were but four banking houses—the Bank of Washington, originally on New Jersey avenue, then, as now, at the inter- section of C street and Louisiana avenue, near 7th street; the Bank of the Metropo- lis, now Metropolitan, on its present site, 15th street; the Patriotic Bank, on 7th near D street, which liquidated in the early %0’s, and succeeded by Latham & Co.; and Corcoran & Riggs, now the Riggs National Bank, Pennsylvania avenue and_ 15th street, known then as the Exchange Bank. Newspapers Then. The newspapers of that day were the old National Intelligencer, published at the corner of 7th and D streets by Gales & Seaton, the National Union, the organ of the democracy, conducted by Thos. Ritchie and J. P. Heiss, both daily. A German pa- per, Gazette, at 7th street and Louisiana avenue; the Times, Pennsylvania avenue and 12th street; Hewitt’s Register, E street between 9th and 1th streets; the Colum- bian Fountain (a temperance journal, pub- lished by Rev. U. Ward, and edited by the late Rev. Dr. J. T. Ward), at Pennsylvania avenue and 2d street. Some of these were printed by what was called “jug power,” for steam was not then in general use, and some presses were worked by two or more men (usually colored), at a wheel, and to aid th a jug of whisky was provided by some offices. ‘Among the business houses there have been ny changes, and though with the growth of the population and the more than corresponding increase of business the old-time houses have been overshad- owed and hidden, some of the familiar ns in may be seen in the sizns, b and advertisements of today. The coach factory of M:hael McDermott, on the avenue near 3d street, at flourished till late years under the man- agement of the McDermott Brothers. The modest fra undertaking establishment of Lee & Espy near hy is represented by the imposing building of J. Wm. Lee, son of the senior partner. Gait & Brothers, in their handsome quarters near The Star office. are the successors of the old house (or rather roora) of the north side of Pi James Gait, then on msylvania avenue a few doors west of 9th street. The drug store conducted by Z. D. Gilman in a mod- est _two-storied brick has heen replaced by a more modern establishment on the old site, Pennsylvania avenue east of 7th; ft yet bears his name, the family being interested in it. The locksmith and bell-hanging bus- then conducted on the south side of venue west of 12th street by J. M Kuehling is continued tcday by his son, J. H. Kuehiing. Mr. L. H. Schneider then conducted a similar business a few doors east of 11th street, and subsequently, till a few y since, when he retired from the hardware business at the same place. Michael Priel & Brother, for many years manufacturing confectioners on 9th strect above E street, were then on 6th street above F. George Wiltner, for a long time in the paperhanging and upholstery bus- in on 9th street near E, was then a sad- and harness maker near the avenue s of Allison Nailor. sr., coach nd livery stables, on E street, be- nd th street (the entire avenue as the livery business ent date. Business Firms. W. H. Harrover, in the stove and tinning busin, was located half a century or his cvath, a few yea ce, on busine: by the sons to a re more, 7th st near D street, and the is is continued by his family. Mr. Daniel Hauptm business as a tinner, on 11th street above the avenue, has been con- tinued by the family to the present. The oid book and stationary trade of W. M. | Morrison, on the avenue between 412 th street, passed down to the s two of whom are in the old trade on F between ith and th streets, The bakery known es Havenner street between 4% and 6th street an old institution with we inscribed ay our country for bread,” above the doe Jiavenner, who established and his third on. on, managed it, and to- eration of the family curry The firm of R. W. Carter & Co., dry goods | merchants, on Market space in those days, Was recently in existence on the same spot. Wm. R. Riley then was at the corner of Sth street and Market space, and after the war at Sth and E streets. Mr. Perry, now at 9th street and the avenue, succeeded his father, who was then of Perry & Ashby, on the square east. The old house of W.%.Todd, hats, caps, &c., in Concert Hall buildings, Pennsylvania avenue near Brown's Hotel, scon after became Todd & Co., Col. Davis the 7. “Co.," and Davis Brothers, Penns nia avenue and 12th street, succeeded to e business. Dr. kumphries and R. Fin- ley Hunt practiced dentistry from those days to a very few years ago. Many names and places of business are not difti- cult to recall by Washingtonians of middle age, for some were in business more than e average lifetime. Tenth and D streets was then, as now, an auction house, con- ducted by R. W. Dyer, afterward Dyer & McGuire. Benj. Hobans was next door in the same business, and other auctioneers were Wm. Marshall, Pennsylvania avenue between 9th and 10th streets, and Amon Green, near Brown's, the latter succeeded Wash. B. Williams, now at 7th and D ts, and his brother Walter is at Dyer’s old corner. An old-fashioned yellow brick house on the site of the Central Nationai ank was the principal drug house, con- l by Mr. Chas. Stott, and at the cor- ner of Yih and the avenue Mr. Robert 8. in the drug business established by him years before. The Book Stores, ‘There were a number of book and pcriod- {eal stores, and from the location of a num- ber on Pennsylvania avenue between 11th and 12th streets, that section was the lit- erary center, E. K. Lundy was at the northwest corner of 12th and the avenue, trett Anderson, Wm. Fischer and Wm. Bayly on the square east, and Robert Farnham at the northeast corner of 11th and the avenue, now Brentano's. On the north side of the avenue between 4% and Gth streets, Frank Taylor had a book store, while on the square below W. Adam dealt im books, periodicals and papers, and G. Brooke & Co., at the corner of Pennsyl- vania avenue and 15th street, conducted a literary depot. Col. Joe Shillington estab- lished a news and periodical depot in the latter part of the '40s in the Odeon building, 4% street and Pennsylvania avenue, which for nearly a half century was a lead- ing house. Most of these carried fancy goods and varieties also, and Fischer and Anderson, each in pianos and musical in- struments. Richard I. Davis, on the south side of the avenue between 9th and 10th streets, was the principal music house, but he also carried fancy goods, But some few years after George Hilbus founded the firm of Hilbus & Hitz, at the southwest corner of the avenue and llth street, for the music trade exclusively, and Davis dropping his fancy goods, Washington had in the early "50s two houses exclusively de- voted to music. ‘Among the bakers of that day were J. C. McKelden, on 7th above E street; J. M. Krafft, northwest corner of 12th and F streets; C. Hagar, F near 13th street, and Thomas Havenner, above noted. Charles Gautier occupied then the north- west corner “of Pennsylvania avermue and llth street as a confectionery establish- ment. J. Aigler was engaged In similar busi- ness on D between 11th and 12th streets. Other confectioners remembered were Geo. Norbeck and J. F. Downs, each on the north side of the avenue between ‘th and 10th streets; P. Kinchey, south side of ave- F. | Clark, Mattock & Griffith, Owen Evans & Patterson had succeeded Dr. Wm. Gunton ; nue, between 10th and 1lith streets; John’ Miller, 9th and -F streets; Harry ‘Kuhl, north side of avenue near 13th street. In addition to the druggists, Patterson, Stott and Gilman, before noted, were.those of M. Dulany, northwest corner 4% street and Pennsylvania avenue; F. W. Fuller & Co., Pennsylvania avenue and th street; Wal- lace Elliot & Co., 12th and F streets, and J. F. Callan, 7th and E streets. The latter added the business of seedsman and agri- cultural impléments to his trade, occupy- ing the corner store in the Callan build- ings, in which were located Dr. A. Holmead and several claim agents. Few Rema’ There were numerous agents for the prosecution of claims: Bigelow & Pugh, W. C. Allison, at 7th and E streets; James H. Causten, F near 15th street; Charles De Selding, near Brown's Hotel; Clarke & Quantrell, B and 10th streets; L. B. True, 4% and avenue; T. L. Smith, F near 15th. On F street opposite the patent office were Z. C. Robbins, W. F. Hunt, G. C. Thomas and W. P. Elliot, engaged in patents in one-story frame offices. Elias Kingman was on 12th street above E street. The principal retail grocers recalled are John A. Donoho, 7th and D streets; Ed- ward Hall, Market space; A. and L. Le- preux, 12th and the avenue; Presley Simp- son, D near llth; G. A. W. Randall, 12th and D streets; B. W. Reed, J. J. Joyce and Elexius Simms, corner 13th and F streets; John T. Given, 13th and E; Elias Travers, avenue east of 13th street; W. B. Laub, 15th and F streets; A. G. Caruthers, 11th and F streets; Sharrett & Brereton, 7th and F streets; John T Killmon, Pennsyl- Vania avenue and ist street. The wholesale grocery firm of George and Thomas Parker had then branched out on @ long career latterly the Co. being added on Market Space, between 7th and 8th streets. Messrs. Murray & Semmes were on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue be- tween 4% and 6th streets, in the same bu: ness. It was a matter of comment in the business world that when some of these houses closed there was one, which, after a business aggregating nearly a million an- nually for a quarter of a century, had less than $4,000 of unpaid accounts on its books. ‘The art of obtaining pictures by means of the sun's rays was then in its infancy, and was known after the discoverer, Daguerre. There were two galleries here at the time, one conducted by Plumbe cn the avenue near Brown's Hotel, and the other by Dan- {el Wolfe, over Stott’s drug store, the first ccming down as a photograph gallery to a very recent date, keeping pace with the Progress of the times. The ready-made clothing business was then in its infancy, at least in the District. but few stores being devoted to it. These were run by Wm. B. Lewis, on Pennsylva- nia avenue above lith street; C. Hunt, on the west side of 7th street, above Market space, and Hugh Henney, on F street be- tween 14th and 15th strects, the latter also carrying on the same business in the first ward. Merchant tailors were quite numer- ous, and among them were Young & Steer, Enoch Tucker & Son, J. H. Daniel (the late professor of music), Drew & Ste- vens, Godfrey Eckloff, Duvall & Brothers, J. W. & Tucker, all east of 7th ; Tabler & Co. and Christopher Cammack. Familiar Namen, A large gilded fish, marked O. Fisn, nov far from the effigy of an Indian queen, in front of Brown's Hotel, was the sign at the door of Stevens & Emmons, successors of Mr. Fish in the hat and cap business. Mr. F Mattingly rried on a like business above Odd Fellows’ street. Robert Keyworth, vania avenue and 9th stre 3d street; S. Masi, n th treet; J. Lv, above . Galt, near 9th street, were the best-knov.n jewelers and watc makers. In the boot and shoe line, Andrew Hoover, between 6th and 7th streets; Wm. Mann and George Burns & Co., near 41% street; John Mills, near 6th street, and T. B. Griffin, between 9th and 10th streets, were the principal avenue places. Dougias Mocre, S. P. Franklin and Mrs. E. F. Al- exander, on the avenue, and John F. Webb, on treet, and Ja: 7th street, were among the paper hang- 0 soap and candle manufacturers, Bates & Bro. and P. &. T. Donoghue, the first on G street between 6th and 7th streets, and the other between 4th and Sth streets, were in business and continued for half a century. The principal hardware firms were Campbell & Coyle, John W. Baden and E. Wheeler, on the south side of the avenue st of 7th street, and for smaller hard- were and varieties George Savage, on the avenue near 9th street, had a large trade. vere auite a number of printing Job Printing” being a familiar Jaceh and Geo: S$. Gideon had an ce, w! 1 T. Towers, 6th street below , and T. Barnard, Pennsylvania nd 11th stre The liver: on Nailer were on E street and 12 carried on ‘the ccachmaking and ran a line of omnibuses. Ha: lup & Weeden were in the same busine: [ith-street and the avenue, The large. paint and oil store was that of Olive Whittlesey, on C stree: st of 7th. There were numerous wood and coal ards (the dealing in coal somewhat lim- ited at the time, its use being experimen ; of in thi ), and many of them heart the at the southw stree: Gu gi ast corner of 7th and I (site of Federal buildir J. B. Bos “th street opposite Marsh market; FE. Wa- ters, Ith and C str street and canal. Some Queer Customs, In stoves and kitchen utensils there were but few dealers, Woodward & King, on D street between Wth and 11th streets, and James Skirving, Pennsylvania avenue and 10th street; F. Y. Naylor, Pennsylvania avenue near 3d street; John T. Tonge and ifarrover, ou 7th street, being the principal dealers. The water supply being almost exclusive- ly through pumps and springs, pipes con- ducting water only to the Capitol and the executive departments, and gas not having been introduced, plumbing was unknown. The business of architects was represent- ed by but few, Robert Mills among them. There were, however, many carpenters, bricklayers, painters and other mechanics, and custom giving the general supervision of building operations to the first, they were known as carpenters and builders. Among the principal carpenters we Baldwin, Indiana avenue and 3d street: F. Mohun, 11th between G and H streets: B. Ww F street between 9th and 10th streets; James Towl 8th between E and F streets; Joel Downer, 13th and EB streets; Robert Barr, 12th street above E. These stly had their shops on the street: some in close proximity to first-class resi dences. The principal painters were John P. Stallings, corner of 12th and E streets: M. T. Parker, Louisiana avenue near 6th street; James O’Bryon, 13th street between Pennsylvania avenue and E street, and C. Sengstack, Pennsylvania avenue ‘between 2th and 13th streets, The funerals were coriducted by cabinet makers, and almost invariably the coffin had to be made after the death of the subject. Samuel Kirby, 8th street above the avenue; Lee & Espy, avenue near 33d street, James Williams, 4% street near the avenue; W. McL. Cripps, on 11th street above the avenue, and Edwin Green, 11th street and Pennsylvania, were the leading cabinet makers. It is said that one of the old-time undertakers as an herb doctor treated the patient, as a church member Tead and prayed with him, as an under- taker made the coffin and directed the funeral, as a minister read the burial serv- ice and as sexton of the church and grave- yard dug the Brave and buried him. ‘The growth of the “city” portion had not yet forced the brick-making to the out- skirts, though a brick yard on Irish Hill, near 3d end C streets, a few years before = Cazenave, 10th had ceased operations. On E street be- tween 24 and 3d the yards of Mr. John M. Wilson and J. O. P. Degges were then in operation. Changing Neighborhoods. ‘There were three marble yards here, each facing our principal thoroughfare, the monuments reminding the public of the un- certainty of life. One of these was that of John P. Pepper, at the corner of the alley opening on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between 3d and 4% streets, which gave the rame of “Marble” to the alley. Another. that of Thomas Berry, adjoined the ruins of the National Theater, and a third (Jeremiah Sullivan's) fronted 15th south of F street. A fair simple of an old-time Washing- ton neighborhood was that east of the treasury; a book and periodical store, a marble yard, a gun and locksmith and bell hanger, two grocery stores, a broker's office, agents’ offices, a saloon, a bank, a major ‘general's residence, bearding house, where lived senators, representatives and foreign ministers, a greenhouse and two or three private dwellings fronting the two departments—State and Treasury—while on New York avenue #/ahd H streets, car penter shops, lowly tenements, private residences, saloens-@nd shops could be found. “p34 fe “It will. doubtless, surprising to -many to learn that. thers :cGon which many are now seeking to contained then as few questionable sharacters as any Section of the city. So: of, our first-class citl- thg?residents and more than one of our,fity’fathers hailed from what is now thd’ “Difision.” Then there was much businéss catfied on in the south- ern portion. a aor change. Then zens were amen, it was regarded ‘as amorally healthy lo- cality, but in recéit yWars the reverse. ‘'soctak: RUpiicrry. Pegiaary People Who Say One Thing in One Place and Another Elsewhere. From the Boston Tréhseript, The Listener whs ina group of people the other day where the conversation turned to the spread of the practice of re- porting oneself not in when one is in, and the question was raised wheter a truthful and conscientious Person could do this. ‘The prevalent opinion was that while the practice might be carried on with a good conscience, probably it couldn't be carried on truthfully.’ In society some lies can be told with a pretty good conscience, simply because they are necessary. Some one said that he could not resort to the practice be- cause It was French, and the French “were all such liars.” From the shelves some one turned up an old book, and somewhat irrel- evantly read this story, told by Coleridge of Mme. de Stael: He (Coleridge) was one day sitting tete- a-tete with Mme. de Stael in London, when her man-servant Chtered the room and asked her if she would receive Lady Davey. She raised her eyebrows and shrugged her shoulders, and appeared to shudder with nausea, as she turned to him and sald, “Ah, ma foi! Oh, mon cher ami! ayez pitie de moi! Mais quoi faire? Cette vilaine femme! Comme je la deteste! Elle est vraiment insupportable.” and then on her entry, Mme. de Stael flung her arms around her, kissed her on both cheeks, pressed her to her bosom, and told her that she was more than enchanted to behold her. So much for French feminine social du- Plicity. But it was urged in the French wo- man’s behalf that since she was bound to receive the insupportabie Laoy Davey an: way, it did re haim to embrace her; on tie contrary, tt made Lady Tavey happy, and the happiness that was thus induced in the object of her distike might well make her more attractive, which might reduce Mme. de Stael’s contempt, and make Lady Dave more supportable next time. The French woman having thus been in a degree re- habilitated, the person who had read the story said there was another in the book, which went to show that the French wer not the only liars in the world. The story was also one told by Coleridge, and it re- lated tnat he, with Wordsworth and Dora, was traveling on the continent, and whea in Haarlem they were asked by a waiter at the inn if they wished to go with a party and hear the celebrated organ played “Oh,” said Wordsworth, “we meant to hear the organ; but why, Col we go with strangers?” It wa that the o t would not play than twelve guilders, and t it was cus tomary for people to go in parties and re the expense betwe them. “Ah, then, I think I will not go,” said Words- a tired.” “Phen you and I will wered Coleric m, lc worth behind them, reclining on a cou They had not been long in tae chure Eavon, listening to the difterent which the organist w to the greatest adyanta sion of a cold current 0 building. He turned hfs head to cause, and, to his amusement, descried his gentle friend noigelessly closing the door and furtively making His way behind one of the pillars, frpm\ which he could hear without being seén, ald thus escape pay- ment. Before the organist had concluded his labors Wordswerti had quietly with- drawn. On the return of his friend and daughter, he asked them how they had en- joyed their visit to St. Bavon, but said nothing of his own! This left the honors at least easy between the two nations, if the balance of odium were not, indeed, on the side of the great Englishman. ———_+e+ A Little Defense. To the Faltor of The Evering Star: In The Star of Jast Saturday I was sur- prised to find, tn an article by Mr. H. M. §. Jordan, written in glorification of the onion, a paragraph of some length, pur- porting to be a verbatim quotation from one of my ancient lectures. I utterly ¢ claim the authorship of said paragraph. In letter it is untrue, and in it unjust. It opens with an extract from Artemus Ward's famous letter to the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his marriage to the great show nding with the sig- now you're ma Then Mr. Jor- Lippincott (Grace Greenwood) pro- ed to take the humorist quite in one of her lectures, and ber soundly as a type. of th st of men who selfish enough to prefer their own enjoyment to the happin of their wiv: “Abstemious dd polite enough before marriage,” she says, “and careful not to give offe no sooner is the noose slipped over the poor woman's head than 1). to do things to her infinite di hey smoke up her parlor curtains, not only with cigars, but pipes, they insist on cuspidors in the I!- brary and dining room, and above all, they corae home frequently from their clubs at night reeking with a beefsteak anc fried onion supper. It is shameful, cried Mrs. Lippincott, “how so many men treat their wives in this way. Now, for the slight foundation for the above statements and the quotations (so- called). In a lecture on “American In- terlors,” after depicting: the happiness of home life.in the first home of a loving, newly wedded pair, I said: “Alas, why cannot this continue? Why must the pride, the joy, the tender af- fection so often fade with the new carpets and hangings, suffer defacement with new furniture, be hopelessly broken up with the china? Often the sad change comes through the mere sense of absolute and secure possession. The young wife be- comes a little careless of pleasing. She does not dress so daintily or smile so sweetly or strive so hard to keep her tem- per sunny and her complexion pure. Her ‘market is made,’ she says—poor thing. “The young husband, who as a suitor had touched the very ideal of gracious and magnanimous manhood—co rate, deli* cate, tender and unselfish—assumes an air of superiority and indifference—often for- eign to his feeling—honestly thinking it the proper manly and matrimonial style. He says: ‘Courtship, with its romance and poetry and all that spoony sort of thing, las gone by. Marriage is a prosaic affair, with no nonsense about it. Who shall a man be free with, fo act out him- self, if not with his,gwn wife?’ “That profcund phifosopher, Artemus Ward, understood this sentiment, and in the cclebrated leiter ‘he addressed to the Prince of Wales—to’ congratulate his royal highness on‘ hig marriage, and to give him some ativice as to the manage- ment of Princess Alexa}dra, founded on his own experience with tsy-Jane—he says, it: a burst of syfmpatietic exultation: ‘Of course, now you @te married, you can eat onions. Chairs Now this is thé ‘oi member ever to have made from Artemus Ward. I certainly, n¢Ver “berated” that most delightful of hngiorists for anything. I never scored hi inds in general, for smoking good cigars, or even pipes, in parlor, kitchen or hill, though after a smoke, I am careful (> air the premises. As for the excellént anti-scorbutic vegeta- ble in question, all proper respect pe inat great Hidalgo, for it, esvecially “the Spanish onjgn,'" sweet and almost odorless. As for ‘the nore common sort, I allow it tox be cooked and eaten in my house, ad libitum. I occasionally eat it myself, on rainy days, when no affectionate callers are expected. I even favor it, when sliced up and served raw, pardoning it for all the tears its acrimonious essence causes me. I have been cut up myself. That I should be so cruelly misrepre- sented both in my attitude “toward the vast majority of men,” and the estimable cnion family here in my own city, makes me realize a fuct which I have often sus- pected, that “On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.” GRACE GREENWOOD, 218 New Jersey avenue southeast. January 13, 1898, —_>—— Patrice—“I don't think you will find ara husband like mine in the whole world?’ ot Patience—“The world must be getting better, then.”—Yonkers Statesman, quotation I re- pr EDUCATIONAL. 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White of Selborne mentions how in his time and neighborhood the poorer c'! s stripped the rushes in summer of the rind, leaving a regular even rib from top to bot- tom to support the pith, and dipped them in scalding fat. Also that a good rush measuring two feet four inches and a half, being mounted, burnt only three minutes short of an hour. Thus something like regularity might have been attained. But always with exceptions, for the consistency of the grease not being the same—the pro- cess of refining fat not being known—some rushlights must have burnt fast, some slow. However, these tapers or rushlights seemed to have been from this time up to that of Edward the Confessor the only generally known precursors of clocks in England. Not until the reign of the latter monarch were hour glasses used to any ex- tent, though here and there in monasteries and houses, the owner of which had trav- eled intelligently, specimens probably ex- isted. 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FAST LINE—Pullman Roffet Parlor ‘ar to Hatrisburg. — Buffet Paglor Car Harrisburg LOUIS EX ashing ms Chieage Sleep arrisburg to - EXPRESS—Potl- Washington to Pittsh EXPRESS Pullman § Canandai Rochester and yt Sinday except M Rot. Canandaigua, R SIONAL LIMITED."” th Dining Car frei Baltic oo (ining Car), 8 Exprens 4 P.M Week days, DOA 00, 9:09, 10-00, M . 11200 AM., 00 Limited), $:20; . 10:40 and 11:59 P.M. For Pope's Creek Line, 7:50 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. daily, except Sunday. For Annapolis, 7:00, 9:00 A.M., 4:20 and 5:40 PM. ‘ally. ‘umday. Sundays, 0:00 A.M. Atlantic cn Atlantic Coast daily; For Atlantic rail route), Wharf, and te at S12 A.M and way static bur if Ticket offices, Richmond onl; Atlanta Special, via Richa 2, SOUTHERN Schedule in effect All trains arrive and er xtation « corner Fifteenth and G Coast Line—Express for Florida and points . 4:30 AM, 10:37 AM. 246 PM y. . Week days, 11: streets, Sixth and BR atreets, ‘king of baggage te and residences. “HHENSON, RAL s 1887. Jeave at Pennsylvania paw Local for Dy ‘onnects at M. isonburg and n, daily ex Sunday, and at Lym the ‘Norfolk and Western daily A.M Daily — THE UNITED STATE: Carr li Si N and Washingt e, with bar, SION leave All trains fflmminat Philadriph For East, week Mining Care) 2:01 night, tional traf 8 p.m. way Dining Car TRAINS ON WASHINGTON 3 sday and Saturday to Sau F Was! Wash) W 3 R21 PHIL, days, sleep s for 12 cept Sunday Raggage called for a0 residences: by THROUGH AMERICA CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RATLWAY. Buflet Shee at W AL TURK L.S. BROWN, Gen ” Vesil LINE. ting at A paler) Connects at arg with « for Lexington Ns v eper on Richie n for Alken, an! tisters on daily y ashingtou §:26 a.m. and MM. 7:06 a.m. daily, ex- a.m, daily, except m the sonth arrive at Wash- nd 9225 pam. daily pau. daly, except Charlottesetiie. ervation and informa- th ost. mw.. SIT onssivania railroad Snpt. Ge AND OHIO it Louis . 5. x10 30, x7. nm m.. 1:15 pam and Hk days, Sam Sundays, 9:00 am. 1-15 and war poln dave 5, 4:33, 5:85. 705. 1143 pan 1:15 10:15 p.m. June way pe 9 am, For NEW YORK ADELPHIA with Pintsch light. ww York, Bi 8.10 n.m.. 12 1% Dining Cari AND Jor Cara on all day trains. m., 12:05 noon, 1:15 avd 9 a.m. Sundays, 4% noon. xExpress trains. checked from hotels and ster Co Ivania w . and at Depot. D.R. MARTIN, Mer. Pass. Traffic, EST SCENERY © S VESTIBULE: STEAM IN DING B STREETS. Schedule in effect January 5, 1898. 2:20 P.M. clai—Solid train for Cin to Cincinnatl, and St DAI nati to Chicago 11:10 F. for reception man compartment cart without change, Tuesdays, Daily da: Cincinnati t |. DAILY —F. F. for Cincinnati. 0 Chik Lexington, Loute’ without change. Pullman sleepers Lexington and Louisville without change. of passengers at 9 Cincinnati and St. pers Indisnapolis nor ears Cinc V. Limited—Soll train to Cincinnati, pan. - Virginia Hot Springs, Thursdays and Satur- connection for the Springs. Sleepe.s o and St. Low 2:26 P.M. DAILY—For Gordonsville, Charlottes- ville. Stauston and for Richmond daily, Sunda; except 10:37 A.M., EXCEPT SUNDAY—Paror car “a8 and C. and 0. railw: ington to Richmond and Richmond to Ol Point—only rull line, via Penna, RoE. and P and P. aye. Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and 0) offices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania nvenne, and at the station. apl7-384 H.W. FULLEI General Passeuger Agen v Agent. WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA AND MT. VER. PROM STATION G34 STRERT ND . AND PA. avi in errecr Nt won AVE For Alexandria, week 8:00, 8:35. €x., 6:30, 7:06, 83 For Alexai 11:35 A.M. 45, 4:30, ndria. Su 12:00 NOVEMBER 14, 30, ao