Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 3

4 Tablet Marking First Post Offiee . Sitein D. C. Is Formally Unveiled Department Began in 1800 at 9th/ and E Streets N.W., With Three Rooms in Dwelling. Past and present of the Post Office swine were banned from the thor- j Department were contrasted in ad- dresses yesterday afternoon at the unveiling\of the tablet erected by the committee on’ historic sites at Sth and E streets northwest com- memorating the site of the first home of the department and the Washing- ton city post office. On the E street side of the build- Ing at the northwest corner of Sth and E streets the bronze tablet was unveiled by Miss Suzanne Bradley, in the presence of Commissioner Ru- dolph, members of the committee on sites and scores of others who at- tended the ceremonies, which began at 2 o'clock. Addresses telling of the removal of the Post Office Department to this' city from Philadelphia and of the marvelous growth, by the depart- ment, the postal service of the na- tion and the National Capital since that day were made by John Clagett Proctor, historlan of the committee on:sites; John H. Bartlett, first as- sistant ' Postmaster General, and Henry E. Davis, former United Slu(esl district attorney. Army Band Plays. While Miss Bradley slowly pulled the rope that drew up the shield and flags coveridg the tablet, the Army Music School Band. under the leader- ship of Willlam J. Stannard, played “America,” the audience standing bareheaded. The tablet bears the following in- E““\R‘Pton: thy nt was re- Vhen e governmel - moved to Washington, in 1800, the Post Office Department was assigned + ‘three rooms on the second floor of a dwelling then occupying this site, the s post office being given one room #n the first floor. Subsequently it was | he residence of Joseph Gales, editor £ t National Intelligencer.” Bradley, who unveiled the tab- a great-great-granddaughter of Abraham Bradley, first assistant post- master general under President John Adams. The family have resided in TWashington ever since First of Four Tablets. Allen C. Clark, chairman of the committee on historic sites, preside introducing the speakers. In his i troductory remarks Mr. Clark said| that the tablet to be unveiled was the first of four tablets to be erected by ihe committee. He thanked Franklin V. Killian, owner of the property, for the courtesy of allowing the tablet to * be erected upon the building, and paid | tribute to Frederick D. Owen of the office of public bujldings and grounds ; o, for arrangements made for the un-| veiling. Mr. Proctor's address contained in- teresting word pictures of the early days of Washington, wien creeks ran through what s now the downtown Yusisess cection of the city and when SPECIAL NOTICES. 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THE ANNUAL M NG OF THE SHARE- holders of the Egq ble Co-operative Buil ing Association will be held at the office of e amoctation, 915 F ¢ nw., Washington, . C.. Inesday, the 7th day of November, 2t 4:30 o'clock p.m. e FRANK P. REESIDE, Secretary. oughfares after a hog had killed a man who was leaving the post office. : Mr. Bartlett, as representative of the postal system, told of the great growth of the system, from its total force of seven clerks in 1800 to its presont personnel of 300,000 employes. Tells of First Bullding. Mr. Davis gave ‘personal recollec- tions of the old build ng_which ac- tually housed the first Post Office Department here, declaring that It was a blueish-gray structure, part of the old David Burns holding, and that it gave way to a grocery store before the close of the civil war, the present bullding being on the site for the past sixty years. - Mr. Proctor traced the early days of the postal service, its removal here from Philadelphia, ‘when the entire pe~sonnel consisted of seven clerks and the Postmaster General and the first assistant postmaster general. He paid tribute to Abraham Brad- ley, the assistant, declaring that he proved to be “an alert, aggressive official.” Mr. Proctor continued: D. C. Population 3.210. “There were then in Washington 3,210 persons and 372 buildings—109 of brick and 263 of wood—or about nine persons to the building. So it can be seen the new-comers did not have an easy time finding desirable and satisfactory accommodations in the already overcrowded city, small as it was then. Mr. Bradley upon his arrival in the city on May 30 found the quarters previously selected by him not ready for occupancy, and, be- sides, inconveniently situated. Thus he was forced to secure quarters else- where. “There are very little data to be found, written at the time, regarding the removal of the government to Washington. but fortunately two let- ters written by Mr. Bradley give some interesting information in this connection, especially as to the lo- cating of the Post Office Department. On June 2, 1800, he writes: “‘We arrived here on Friday last, having had a pleasant journey as far as we traveled by daylight. Capt. Stevenson, with whom I agreed for a house before my arrival, was not ready to give possession, and the house was not convenlent for us. I have therefore taken a large three- story house within a few rods of Blodgett's Hotel, which will accom- modate the office and my family and the postmasier's office. It is about equidistant from the President's house and the Capitol.’ Praises City's Sttuation. Nine days later in another letter he says: “We have not been able to open this ce and commence business until this day. I left Philadelphia Wednes- day, May 27, and arrived on Friday evening, the 29th. The President left Philadelphia the 26th and arrived at | Georgetown June 1. The situaton of the city is extremely pleasant, and it iwill probably become the greatest ity in America. We have taken Dr. Crocker's house i for this office (close by the Great Hotel) and for my family at $600 a year. The apportionment of the rent I shall leave to you. It appears that $200 a year is as much as I ought to pay for a house. Our office is kept on the second floor, which contains one largo room and two small ones. The largest room is 27 by 17 feet, and the smallest rooms are each 15 by 14 feet. The front room on the first floor was prepared for Mr. Monroe's office, with an apartment for blanks. Only ! half the floors were lald when we took the house, and only four rooms were plastered. The owner allowed | us to expend $300 of the rent to make it tenantable. The carpenters are now at work, and we shall complete, as far as our money shall permit, by | the last of next week, at which time | i Mr. Monroe will move his office here.” | Traces Other Movings. i Mr. Proctor then traced the subse- | quent movings of the department, un- | {til_its final quarters at 1ith street | and Pennsylvania avenue were occu- pied. He contrasted the postal rates . of that day and this, and the speed | of transmissal of letters, the size ofi more than i the postal establishments of the re- spective eras, and declared: | “Looking around today at the hus- | tle and bustle of business right here in the heart of Washington, now cov- | ered with its massive buildings, and ' viewing its congested thoroughfares, | one can easily see that it would re- | quire a most active and alert imag- | ination to conjure up an impression of Washington in embryo—the Wash- | ington of most magnificent distances. | One traveler who passed through here over a centuyy ago said it was then | oo young for a brewery. If he could return now I have no doubt but that he would change his opinion, much to the gratification of a large number, of persons. When Cattle Ran Free. “Today it is the practi¢e to dodge | the automobile—those of us who are . glven a chance. Then the people ! < HOTEL INN: b o e 604-610 S¢h St. N.W. 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SELECTINOF .6 AS CAPTAL RAGED Gaillard Hunt Begins Series of Lectures on History WASHINGTON, D NOVEMBER 4. 1923-PART “But I do not see,” he added, “how any American can come back with- lout an instinctive feeling of self con | gratulation that we are not directi | involved in -their deep secated Aiff | culties, though it ought to be coupled |with a consciousness that civiliza tion itself is threatened and tha sclfishness as well as philanthrop: urge us to give assistance if we ca: clearly see when and how it will be permanently effectiv Mr. Gillett expressed belef 4ha all the shipping board vessels shouid be turned over and operated if pos sible by privaté American capital. of Washington. ; Gaillard Hunt, told of historic and epoch-making events in the federal city in opening a series of leotures, under the auspices of the Washington Study on the history of Washington, at the Highlands apartments yesterday. Beginning with a description of the origins of the democratic and republi- can parties he related how the necessit: for a neutral territory for a Capital of the United States became apparent. Hi told how the Congress had been at- tacked while meeting in Philadelphia, and of the varlous discussions and events which led up to the final selec- tion of the site of the District of Co- lumbia for the Capital of the nation. P e e John Clagett Proctor (upper left), John H. Bartlett (center left) and Henry E. Davix (lower- left), s me of the Post Office Department in the District of C northwent corner of 9th and E streets northweat, occupicd June 11, 1500. Lower right: The tablet. the unveiling ceremony. Upper right: First dodged the cattle and stock permit- |sald that Benjamin Franklin, the first ted to run at large. Now the auto \postmaster, often paid money out of his does Its deadly work; then the hogs own pocket to meet the deficits of the had their innings. An instance of the |se latter kind occurred as late as 1536, | “The annual pay roll for postmaster when a citizen coming out of the post |that Benjamin Franklin made out and office, then in the second block to the |paid amounted | ar to about ®ast, encouptered a full-grown hog |$6,000 to conpel the venty-five Tlght on the pavement. The pedes- |postmasters handiing the mails at that trian was thrown down with such | time” Mr. Bartlett said violent force that he died two days| “The annual pay roll of postm: later. A law was afterward enacted | today amounts to more than $4 prohibiting hog: from running at]000,” he continued. The first assistant Targe south of Massachusetts avenue. |declared that the air service was first Verily, life is just one thing after an- | suggested in 1522 by the editor of a other. | Pennsylvania e, Who, in a letter to “Where The Star office and the Hotel | the Postmaster General, then advised Raleigh stand, there was & brick yard, |that it might be possible to carry the and in the block just to the south of [mails by the use of “fiying ships™ this site, "there wis but s single one- | — story dwelling. Over in the block be- | 2 fween D and 1 and Sth and 9th streets, | English as She’s Spoke. stood three frame houses. Where the | From the Burlington Republican. general land office stands was the Un- | A woman from Neosho Falls drop- jon Pacific Hotel, commonly referred to 4 as Blodgett's Hotel, where Congress met | ped into John McCallon’s emporiwmn after the bur;"uy‘l’g o‘f( the cahpum in 1814, | vesterday and-inquired: and In which biock, on the 7th street this a second-hand store?” side, S. F. B. Morse later opened and ‘.’P w:“ s Jo;: . Zpatated “thorATst UBIICTEMETADh 0L | ~erwall sald, the'lady, “1 want one “All north of G street, in this vicinity, | Seimyimaer was then woods and farmlands.” 5 First Assistant Postmaster General | Bartlett, contrasting the postal estab- | lishment of 1800 with that of today —_ Autumn Flowers. roses, carnations. Superb. 1212 F.—Advt. Y. 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