Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 50

10 GROUPS EFFECT PATRIOTISMUNION Federation Formed Here to i Celebrate Fittingly All National Holidays. Delegates from more than 70 patri- otic, clvic and fraternal organizations met in the District building Friday afternoon at the call of Commissioner Rudolph and organized the District of Columbia Federation. for Patriotic Observance. While the general object of the federation will be to bring about city-wide observance of all national holidays, the immediate undertaking is to arrange a fitting ‘program for George Washington's birthday, Feb- ruary 22. Brig. Gen. George Richards, presi- dent of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, was elected chairman of the federation. The-only other action_taken was a resolution authorizing Gen. Richards to appoint an executive committee of 25 to formulate a plan for Washing- ton’s birthday and submit it to the full body of delegates. Capital to Show Way. Commissioner Rudolph called the assembly to order with an address in which he voiced the opinion that the people of Washington should. be- cause of their pre‘ence in the tion's Capital, be most active in p ing homage to the country’s heroes. “It seems to me” Commissioner Rudolph said, “that the creation of an organization which would have for its object the planning and ex servances of such events would be not only a duty and privilege, but would also increase the prestige that Wwe, as citizens of the Capital, now 80 conspicuously enjoy. 1 am sure there is in this room now abundant material for the permanent formation of a body thoroughly competent ade- cuting of proper and dignified ob- | Inquiry into an item tucked away in the recent annual report of the chief of engineers of the Army, referring to the occupancy by “certain unauthor- ized persons” of a tract of land along Rock Creek, near Twenty-eighth and K streets, and adding that suits in equity now are pending against these persons, has disclosed an interesting bit of history in connection with the Government's efforts to develop the mouth of Rock Creek into a beauty spot. More than 12 years ago there was filed in the local courts a suit in equity, known as the United States vs. the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co., the Barber Asphalt Paving Co., Willlam J. Knott, Raleigh H. Moler. John Shore, Mary B. Hughes and Andrew Lewis. The suit declared that the defendants were claiming title to property belonging to the Government, and prayed that the court might oncé and for all con- firm_Federal ownership of the land involved The suit dragged along from month to month and from year tp year. The original defendants continued their occupancy in peaceful quiet and, one by one, passed from this life. Their children took up the “fight,” which by this time, however, had simmered down to what appeared to be a per- manent armistice. * Occupancy Given Up. Today that same suit still is pend- ing “in’ the District Supreme Court. The papers are yellow with age | Qusty. All but ome of the quately. t meet all such. require- ments.” The form of celebration for Wash- ington’s birthday was not definite worked out.” It probably will be de- cidetl to have a-huge patriotic rall in which the members of all the or- ganizations represented Thursday take part. Do Your Shopping with an Ever Ready Charge Account | the THE . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SUIT, VIRTUALLY DEAD OF AGE, ™~ Wilderness Stands in City Block, While Most of De- fendants in Case Have Died or Moved Away. defendants named in those papers have moved voluntarily from the dis- puted territory. Even the one re- ferred to, the Chesapeake 7# Ohio Canal Co., seems to have abandoned active occupancy of the land When the suit was filed, r_q® than a decade ago, the tract boasted half a dozen residences, a blacksmith shop, an asphalt plant and one or two other bulldings. Today It is a bleak und barren sort of place. The only re- maining house feebly bucks the ele- ments. Its roof sacs and is per- forated. Wooden panels have fallen from - the doors. Sashes are goae from the windows. Inside the place is a shambles. Little remain of the floors, and from beneath broken boards scurry large field rats. The house once was the home of Mary E. Hughes. It stands in_the shadow of the big gas tanks of West Washington, hard by the mouth of Rock Creek. Virginia avenue, If ex- tended, would pass nearby it. A few hundred yards up the bapks of the creek, near the K Street Bridge, are two more tumble-down structures. One is what remains of the old black- smith shop. Adjoining it is an old building used by the Government in | days gone by for storage purposes. Now n Wilderness. All else is a wilderness of weeds, dumped trash. broken street curb- ings (mute evidence of many a reck- less driving accident in various parts of the city), bottles and the inevitable rats. Uncle Sam hopes some day, to transform this unsightly place ifito beautiful parkway. But it can't go ahead until that court case Is settled in a legal way. The papers filed In the case reveal history of this land. The Gov- ernment claims that it gained abso- lute title to the property when Mary- land ceded its portion of the District of Columbia to the United States. It contends it obtained ownership of the “land and land under water in the District of Columbla, under and ad- jacent to the Potom: iver Rock Creek, Including shoresand submerged or partly submerged land, las well as the bed of the sald water- ways,” and elso. upland immediately adjacent thereto, including made lands, flats, marsh land, to which aforesald defendants claim title ad- verse to:the United States.” ° The land is bounded, briefly, by Rock Creek, I street, Twenty-elghth street and K street. To this land, the complaint de- clared, the defendants “have assert- ed, are assertlng and threaten to continue to assert claims of right, ti- tle and interest, the basis of which is not known to your plaintiff, except that plaintiff is informed, believes and therefore avers that defendants pretend the said alleged clglms arise out of transactions incident to - the connéction of the Chesapeake and Ohl Canal with the: waters of Rock Creek and the Potomac River and to the construction of an extension of sald Chesapeake and Olio Canal from its terminus in Georgetown into and through the original city of Wash- ington.” Clatm Lamd Reyernion. It s stated, further, that -“the United States made /mo other, if any, grant to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company than a permit to use %0 much of the land and land under water” as was necessary to opera- of the canal. The proposed ex- of the canal through the city d. it was asserted, and conseque the land and land un- der water, Involved was not used, or necessary. The license given the ca- nal company to use it, “if any,” has ceased and the land automatically reverted to the Government, the pa- pers declare. | In the reply of the Knott interests | to the suit it was pointed out that | nearly half a century ago, when Wil- il‘am Knott settled on the land, it was used “by Cammack & Decker |as a limestone wharf." This firm undertook to fill up the land in ques- t then below water. Knott did the flling, the court was told, putting a layer of made ground 20 feet deep over that section. Later Knott re- ceived title to tne land from the firm, it was asserted Rock Creek Novigable Then. In those days, old timers say, Rock Creek was navigable as far as P street, and ocean-going ships landed their goods at a wharf near where A Handsémé Silk Necktie for Men! A Lovely Dressed Talking Doll for Women and Children! BUTLER offers you credit this Xmas! or Xmas gifts for friends and loved ones. Have anything you want in smart attire Pay after Xmas in small unnotice- s tanks now stand. The lime- stone .wharf .mentioned was an ac- cessory ‘of a lime kiln once operated on_the premises, * The “"threats” réferred to in the Government's ‘sult’_fig-“ longer seem very alarming.‘ In 12 years the ernment appears not to have prei the case very .strongly. action in the case, a technical one, took place in 1916, Meanwhile the Grim Reaper has scratched from the original complaint the names of John Shore, Mary Hughes, Raleigh Moler, Willlam Knott and Andrew Lewis. Their children have scattered and some of them also have died. It would take more than A A A A A M S OPEN EVENING‘S UNTIL XMAS EQAUSE it has beauty, because it has>permanence—that’s why our jewelry is so highly desirable as Christmas Gifts. 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