Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. ae PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDA’: AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1161 Peaas-!¥=2ia Avoins, Jor, Lita 3h, by The Eveninz Star Newsvaver Compuny, . H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Tew York Offce. 49 Potter Building, The tar fe served to subscribers ta the ay . OG thelr own accoust. at 10 cents per Week. o- 44 per monta. Copies at the r 2 cents By mall—anywhere in the ‘tates or Canada—pestage prepaid—60 coats B Ay Qrirtunte Sheet Star. Dostage added. $3.08. ed at the Post tice at Washington. D. 0. $1 per year, with ‘nan application, The regular permanent family circulation of The Evening Star in Washing- fon ts more than 4 that of any other paper, whether pu hed im the morning or in the after- noon. An a medium fer up Jectionable advertixements it therefore stand tbe pratt in advance. | now of the r R. HARRIS & C Se t 3068 52 o Ke H © ERE ® St ' oO 3 ° Feo F nagnificent faciliti nal O., 1 we 1, as diamond importers and setters, that we can 5 Saif ABIES } have This Grand $5 * q u Wil $ n't be elsew here t less than $5. Here Mon. dit, at ork ow Rocker, pm fortable $2.88 = The Easy-going, Straig PEER Seniors Elect Officers. + of Howard law . Vice R. L. secre ard of District of Ce eretary; J. A. Cobb of If R. Carter of Vir s up- h the tes and the District of Colum- cers W y evening x being sen: A. B. rk, pre 3. Thomas htfor Steve eth Ww. octal Cl iit evening. presiden and W. J. 7th street no The | somely | Toas: jarmy in the war amid ringing cheers. ff net Bargains, | P. J. Nee, 7th & H, Credit How . a recently tion, held its first st 1 officers for the ensuing year, at its offic treasurer. tion w The roo ed with the national colors, ed to the heroes of the se. Rie Saye yee organ- and in- . Thank: J. cre- After Ss served, fol- Ss Were hand- » It, 8 eute anish-American ASHINGTON, D. C,, SATUR DA Y, N WESLEY boss ca bulatie he (a) LPL cdr ‘HAPEL, REVIEWS THE PAST! os Grace M. E. Church Celebrates Its | Thirty-fifth Anniversary. — HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION —_+-____ List of Those Who Have Served as Pastors. MEMBERSHIP —. -fifth anniversary of Grace M. ch, corner of 9th and S streets being cclebrated this week, by the member- ship and friends, assisted by the Wesley congregation, through which organization Grace Church came into existence Nove ber , IS It is an event of more than ordinary interest, not only to the tion, but to the people of that section dents of what was for many years known as Goose Lev side from a few | houses on tt side of 7th street and rth side of R street, ther hi n homes within Ind 1 radius i, some of the streets It was, however ning of the ington and ¢ nd car of haifa otk and the had en ope the or Wi h stal times, of line railw the h petus to th the employe 1 of 7th sire ng ad given some im- he es, largely for then to recommend this | for church S to numbers. Open stream: ther in R str reaching th 1 of the Ny the 8. Sunday | hborh © ty he ir thi un. ply ng about th ad of Sch street Was a ind it so happe } the | and here the non and Weech are deceased. Dr. Hagey Was in bad health during iS pastorate and professorship in Grant e, where he died. Mr. e wife died while he was pas- ubsequently married one of the mem- He died a few years ago in Alex- andria while on the superannuated list. Mr. Hobbs found a wife here during his pastor- E ". McPheeters. the last of the mis chers, shortly after Mr. Rice su ceeded him tendered his resignation as government clerk to take active work the Oregon conference. Mr. Peter C. Dilt om pr a in went out from this church in 1896 and en he Nebraska conference. Mr. Ezra n, Whose grandfather was one of ministe and his father and active in the ministrs t the seminary to folloW in their foor- . William Lynn, a young lo- er, is contemplating an entrance ive work. y, is now study- It was during the pastorate of Rev. M. F. B. Rice, whose appointment to the charge had been use of his reputation as a church buil at the ere jon of the present structure was determined upon. Grace Chareh, The frame building Joining Jot, and there in the regular services while the ew building was rolled to an ad- was no intermission work on Owing to the scarcity of funds on containing the Sunday school, infant cl: and chureh ¢' rooms—was completed con worship for seve ment ailed on egation was content 1 years. is improv the congregation seve! to thousand dollars indebtedness, for which one of the members, Mr. J. R. Riggles, be- came personally They, how- struggled aged to gradually redu An Among them in the neighborhood, an arrangement eformed that as an | was made to partition off several school Toles AL OaH Ee on on the second floor ef the church » a good idea to establish a Sunday and for several years in the 70's for no ott n to | Secular instruction was dispensed on week the laine boy. gestion Was | as well a struction on seconded ve the others, alter confer- a some achers and many ring with the children, a under | of the pupils participating in both. Was ap} or the | There are yet in the church some whose y afternoon. ig a number of tea met thirty-five children, Th Wesley Sunday school, May interest in the matter to tormally org the terminus of v. John Riggie took a lesding part Visited from ho: r shi unday s < 2 held, Mr of the local ministe t \ ccnducting the preaching s Mr. Mark R. Woodward served intendent of the school, mittee had r of the | members of t 31, takirg a liv Appoin 1 co. “near “ment, and iter th room in and som whee Ss super- August 30 subscriptions of ol. Then it was | lot and erect . Burr, J. Riggles, I S. Perry and Henry Bai- sis f r the use to ined Me PLtINgs, building, EL ¢ wer pointed a committee to pur- a site and erect a building. Receives a Donation Th ention of Mr. Georg: W. Ri was called to the subject by Mr. Riggles, he being the owner of cons Ne real estate in that section. Mr. s er- | ously donated th: present s nd when it | Was suggested that the u clause in ureh deeds limiting the use of the land | to religious purp might operate agains the church in case an attempt made | to obtain a loan to improv the property, | he directed the deed to be made uncondi- | tionally With this generous donation, worth over $800 at the the committee soon had sufficient funds to Luild the mission chapel, and improv the lots, G by 03 feet. Work was at once com- menced, and the building, a plain frame 30 40 feet, ed Thanksgiving day, November From that time on meetings of h and Sunday school | we regularly Sundays, and pra | meetings during wi the Sunda school, numbering a hund Messrs. Riggle > pulpit committes, on the srectton of the with the collection of $60 on the y Gedication, paid off all obligations, and had a small sum left, which was de- voted to the purchase of the addition to the Sunday school lib’ After Mr. Riggl tin as a starter, | held the then over , Burr, Latham and others Rev. George W. Shreck acted as pastor for some time till the fall of 1 Rey. James G. Henning, a for- mer itinerant of the Baltimore conference and then a clerk in the War Department, took charge, November 11, 1866, and ser till the ring of 1870. Rev. L. Dobson fol- lowed, serving till August; then Re Wm. MePheeters, another government clerk, oc- cupied the uipit, continuing until the spring of 1872, when the mission, having pald moderate salaries to the ministers, ap- to the conferenc> for a minister and | ‘ame a full-fledged charge, under the} name of Grace M. E, Church. At this time there were probably 130 members, with a growing congregation and Sunday school, and it w found by the of the conference, Rev, M. n full working order—all de- ing well organized. n it was the scene of a num- ivals, and numbers of person were taken into the church, some of whom e yet on the rolls there, while others, hav- ing oved, are to be found in ‘other charges. ‘he revival spirit of those da hase shown itself from time to time, and the rea 1W} converts in the mission have been added to under the regular appointees of the conference. ‘The Pastors. have been Mr. Rice, G. W. Hobb: Rev. Harry S. France, Rev. John W. Smith, two J. C. Hagey, one year; Rev. nee, for a second term of three re who served two years; Rev. for th three ve rs; years; Rev. W. T. L. Weech, three years; two years; Samuel Shan- Watson, Case, two ars; Leech, two years, and Edward George V. L, Watson, who was appointed last March. Messrs. Riggles. Henning, Hagey, Shan- | tion stricken out of the de | ble to us | fices, | George S. Gib: parents were married by the preacher and they were baptized, educated in day and Sunday school were ‘converted and have wotshiped in the same building. The wisdom of Mr. Riggs and the origi- nal trustees, in having the religious condi- d, made it pos: part of the building for the pub- nd the revenue derived from ed the Httle band to tide over neial troubles. not done without some sacri- however, and {t was not until the sos that the upper portion of the building was completed, when a parsonage was also erected. mission lie schools, the rent ena their fina This w This improvement was y due to Mr. Diller B. Groff, who had become a mem- ber, who made large contribution Still there is considerable dness on the property, which it ired to reduce in the confident belief that with the loan paid off the church’s usefulness will be in- creased. Indeed, in anticipation of so happ: an event there a 24 2 omen for the future in sition to branch out sions and aid in the e: or churches elsewhere. Record of Sunday Schoo!. The Sunday school, which was th? foun- dation of this charge, was superintended first by Rev. John Riggles, and he was fol- ment of mis- lowed by Mark Woodward, S. A. Terry, L. Bugbee, J. R. Galliher, Lincoln Gr n and is now under Mr. ¢ liher. From the first {t has b2en a suc ful school, an object of interest to many of the dents of the section and the nui ery of the church, the membership now be- ing nearly 300, Ever since the days of ‘‘ >ap” Henning, with but short intervals, Grace Chur has had a choir—Me W. H. Tucker, W. H. Pope, George Galliher, W. G. Tome author of “God Be With Us Till We Me gain;’ Charles T. Chase, well known as n organist; Prof. Stephens of Howard Uni- versity and J. R. Galliher having ieces- ‘ively filled the place of leade When the present pastor, Rev. E. L. Wat- son, succeeded Rey. Dr. G. V. Leech, who, fter about fifty years of active s2rvice, ook a supernumerary relation last March closing his active work in his native city, he found about 185 members on the lists, and since he has received ninety more (ten Sunday last), and a like number is expected tomorrow. A mission has been established at Cropley, Md., about three miles from Cabin John bridge, where ‘the pastor preaches at 8 o'clock every Sunday to a membership of thirty, with a Sunday school of sixty. They hav? also the prospect of opening a work north of the ‘city. There is an Epworth League of eight-five mem- bers, a Junior League of s2venty-five, a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, a Home Missionary Society, a ‘Try Society for young,women and five classes meeting reg- ulury; and next week a kindergarten will as oo in the basement of the church. oe Death of Thomas Hill Tolson. ‘Thomas Hill Tolson died of Bright's dis- ovember 21, at his home, 1424 Argyle avenue, Baltimore. He was born in Prince George's county, Md., fifty-eight years ago. His father was the late Dr. Geo. Semmes Tolson and his mother was a daughier of Thomas Hill Jones of Black Hall Castle, Ireland. Mr. Tolson removed to Baltimore when a lad, and upon the outbreak of the civil War was appointed second lieutenant in the 2d Maryland Confederate Regiment and served throughout the war. He was taken prisoner at Petersburg, after the sur- render of Appomattox, and was confined for a time in the old Capitol prison in this city. Afterward he was trans- ferred to Johnson's Island. ; After his re- lease he returned to Baltimore and en- gaged in business, in which: he had ever since continued an active relation. He was a Scottish Rite Mason and also a Knight Templar. He was @ member of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Con- federate States in Maryland. He is sur- vived by @ widow and two daughters. R 26, 1898—TWE REAL ESTATE GOSSIP eS Extending City Railroad Systems Into the Suburbs. SOME NEEDS OF A GROWING CITY Property Values Advance With the Increase in Facilities. NEW Bou 2a DIN Gas fe The announcement made during the week of the purpose of the Capital ‘Traction Com- pany to run the cars of its 7th street line out the U street branch to the bridge over Rock creek at the Zoo, as soun as the lat- ter section of the road is equipped with the derground electric system, was re i with a good deal of interest in real estate cireles. The reason why the various phases of the development of the street car tems of the city have not kept pace with the demand is not difficult to understand. It is apparent to every one who has given any attention to the progress in the material growth of the city that the growth of popu- lation for some 3 past has been beyond the old limits of the city. The need for more room is emphasized in such a variety of ways that the tendency to meet it is unmistakable. It is not claimed that all the building e within what w formerly known as ihe ¢ of Washington, before the latter becam terminous with the District of Coiurcbia, i i occupied; neither there any Ikelihood that it will be for several y ; yet that fact will have no influence in determining | = people in the choice of the selection of a site for their home: The Suburban Movement. Thirty years ago, when the city proper was but sparsely built, there was started probabiy the first of the suburban move: ments. This was the laying of the ground where Mount Pleasant is now lo- Following their cwn tastes and in people went out there and made es, although, as stated, there was then plenty of room in the Now the line of suburbs out is n settlement has pushed out twice as far from the center of population as Mount Pleasant was thirty years ago. But the presperity of the sec tion Where that village is located, in the opinion of a good many, did not fairly begin until the street street, allroad was built out 14th residenis there were nc submit to the discomforts Ived in getting out of the avenue and boar: the to be hauled up the 14th and thi t wonderful growth of Co h hts seems to illustrate the ad- of the continuous street car line fare from the business center to burban points. Modern Street Car Systems. It is considered that the proposed ch by the Capital Traction Company, which will push the northern terminus of its 7th nge street line north toward the old city 1 ; is In harmony with the modern develop- ment of the city, and especially of the street car servic As soon as the City and Suburban r + formerly the Eckington, can be + with a modern mot em, wh = expected, will be nes ing, it e4 possible to ride from the heart of the city | % to the bounds of the District on the line of | ¥ Rhode Island avenue extended wi + rs nd, of cour for one fare. me time the Columbia Rail- changing c About the ets road Company will have completed tne building of the eastern extension of the road along the Benning road, and thence to ome the as the the District line, and when that is residents in that locality, as well citizens generally, will enjoy the of a continuous ride for one fare from the Treasury Department to the District line. It is expected that the change in the own- | ership of the Anacostia road will resuit in | % that line being equipped with modern | 9 motive power, and then there will be rapid nd easy communication between the tion of the District lying beyond the ern branch and the heart of the city. Trackage Arrangements, There will then remain but two seci of the District with street railroads having stub ends at the borders of the city, and where the patrons of the lines are c} pelled daily to change ears and pay an z ditional fare when they enter the old its of the city. The sections referred to are the Brightwood and the Tenleytow It is expected there will be some judicial settlement of the qui m a to whether m- the law which requi trackage arrange- ments between these roads aud the con- necting and intersecting city roads can be carried out. The matter is now pending in the courts, having been brought there at { payments. Bradbury—Sweetest toned Piano made. 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A consultation with our refractionist costs noth- ing, but may prove invaluable to you. If vou have a suspicion of eye trouble consult him immediately. Don't delay. EXAMINATIONS COST NOTHING. A graduated scientific refractionist of years of ex- perience and the best equipment of instruments in any optical office in the country (including the w« electric ophthalmometer) are here < If you need glasses they'll cost you that little can be paid 50 CTS. A WEEK. CASTELBERG, 935 Pa. Ave. Baltimore Store, 106 N. Eutaw St. your servic little- and Reliable Jeweler a Scientific Opt engentetenteteteteteteteseseseeieeeenbaentnntntedededededeted the instance of the Brightwood Rail , which asks the court todeter- trackage arrangements to be made h the Metropolitan company, as it has n found impossible for the two roads to ch an understanding. A Row of Four Houses. A row of four three-story houses is be- Ing built at the northeast corner of 17th and I streets for Mr. John Cammack. All the houses will front on 17th street, and the fronts will be built of stone. The build- er is Mr. John Nolan. ttish Rite Temple. The work of erecting the proposed addi- tion to the building of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, southern jurisdiction, at the southeast corner of 3d and E streets northwest, is to be begun soon. Some time ago, as stated in The Star, the property adjoining on E street was purchased by Col. R.I. Fleming for the council, comprising two houses, with a total frontage of forty four feet. Plans have been prepared by Col. Fleming for the building which is to be erected, and which will provide the ad- ditional room which is so much needed, not only for the fine library, but also for the better accommodation of the members. The exterior design will harmonize with that of the present building, and the tmprove- ment will make the home of the council one of the most complete of the kind in this country. The contract for the erection of the structure has been awarded to Messrs. Emmert & Heiley, builders. es Music and Stereopticon. A program illustrated with stereopticon views was given last evening at Epworin M. E. Church, 7th and A streets northeast, under the auspices of the third department of the Epworth Leagve, Miss Alice Ying- ling, chairman. ‘The stereopticon views were under the direction of Mr. F. G, Mur- ray. ‘The church was testefully decorated, the league colors, yellow ard white, pre- dominating The following program was rendered: Pizno solo, “The Palms,” by Prof. Beatt; recitation, “Robert Brown- ing Orders a Tomb,” by Miss Sadie Trum- ble; vocal solo, “Angel Land."’ Ciro Pinsuti, by Mrs. Moffatt. “Holy City,” “Abide With Me,” “Where Is My Wandering Boy,” | First Shipment of 99 Models Domestic Sewing Machines. | The largest shipment of Sewing Machines ever sent to Washington, by the bye. Drop in | and see them. They're beauties. They are the outcome of thirty-five years of steady and con- Hill] stant improvements, and are nearer perfection il than any other machine made. Finished in all Ut kinds of wood. Some specially attractive ones "i are the New Combination Desk and Sewing | Machine, the New Antique Oak Cabinet Grand, the New Automatic Drophead. uetion free In a pita Postal, WI] 10c. a day wil) We repair all | at your residence | bring one to you \ ex of Sowiy | oy some od lee east ee | beet ee a) the | makes of 8 wig competent lady dou't have veegrarcabiegsices banecregerst pepe | teachers. | buy. for delivering. | sonabl> prices. Cc. AUERBACH, General Agent, 7th & H Sts. N.W. Branch, 1815 14th Street. “Rock of Ages” and “The Ninety and Nine” were sung by Mr. V: Potter, with illustrations. Recitation, ‘The Chariot Race,” by Miss Linton; viclin solo, “The Evening Star,” from Tannhauser, by Prof. Youndt, accompanied by Mr. Kimball, and vocal solo, “For All Eternity,” by Miss Riechenbach. Music by a male quartet is to be one of the features of the Sunday afternoon serv- ices at the Church of the Covenant. members of the quartet are Messrs. McFir- land, Turpin, Reeside and Nolan. Masic by Male Quartet. be a change from the acti. heretofore prevailed at this servi cal music having been gez by a female voice. (acer If you want work read the of The Star. The ant columns This will