Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1925, Page 91

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 4, 1925—PART 5. 'New Yorkers Observe Centenary |[Rambler Finds Mausoleum Square of. Completion of the Erie Canal] Is Among Capital’s Historic Areas Event Was Originally Celebrated With Pageant Which Traveled From Buffalo tojResearch Produces Much Family History Associated With Development of New York City, Following Course of New Waterway. » Property Which Is Now in Business Section. HE opening of the Erie Canal,, HE story of Dr. J. W. Bischoff | 100 years ago this month, was | R - r and his association with the an event which historians have | - : % T 4 A First Congregational Church set down as one of the great- | 4 - ey | prompts the Rambler to tell est in the commercial progress | ¢ 3 4 you a bit of the history of of the New World. Remarkably § 1 Mausoleum Square, the square be- enough it seems to have been ade. tween Ninth, Tenth, G and H streets. auately esteemed by those who par- ticipated in it. That square invites interesting recol- lections and, without further general- ization, let us dip Into our bag of facts. Some authorities, it is true, have at tributed the extensive celebration 3 . You have been told that on January which inaugurated New York's great : 8, 1866, Pauline Bentevoglia Middleton, inland waterway to political motives | |3 2 - - e % widow of Arthur Middleton, whose mther than exceptional historic:l| - first wife was the daughter of Marcla foresight on the part of the populace. | 1 Durness-Van Ness, and Angelina C But whatever may have been the| Middleton, child of Arthur Middleton cause, the fact, remains that there i by his second marriage, deeded four was a celebration of unprecedented | " b g = lots in the square bounded by Ninth, proportions; that DeWitt Clinton, the ' £ > ” Tenth, G and I, to Joshua Francis moving genius behind the canal, re Fisher of Montgomery County, Penn- cefvedt alll honor and’ credit for. bie sylvania. Fisher and his wife deeded accomplishment; and that the achieve. those lots, May 7, 1866, to Gen. O. O. ment was almost universally hailed Howard of Washington and Alfred as_epochal. 4 Barnes of Brooklyn, N. Y., under For years certain canal enthusiasts, ; 1 ® / trusts to repay $13,550 to the Congre- | headed by DeWitt Clinton and Robert 5 g 4 gational Union of ‘the City of New ‘ulton, had Iabored against consider. s g - L, 4 2 York and to bulld a Congregational able odds for the construction of a| § s 2 Church. Three lots were acquired | canal to connect the Hudson River ¢ 3 g later, but when, the Rambler has not | with the Great ke: It was difhi f ¥ B Y learned ) cult to convince many of the feasi- e : & X The deed of the widow Middleton bility of the plan to link a river with i ¥ A iand her daughter Angelina to ol Kehen: the, Gairaistior one g . 7 3 {did not define the lots but transferr was 350 feet above that of the ot 2 % ! 3 7 5 all their holdings in the square except Vinally, after much debate, | ing parts that had been sold by Arthur | York State Legislature authorized the | Middleton. construction of the “Grand Canal” Ly | Examination of early transfers &n act of April 15, 1817. The act then | the square will reward you. The fir went before the council of revision, | is from John P. Van Ness of the D) which, after a stormy session, passed SE ot Soumbis ol EThUnIdHIehn; it by the narrowest possible margin— 1ir., “late of South Carolina and now one vote. {of " this city, heretofore intermarried Breliniinacy work: suchias survest| with the beloved daughter, Ann Elber- ing, started mmediately, hut the ac | tina (since deceased) of the said John tual excavation did not begin until P. Van Ness and Marcia, his wite. after a formal inaugural celebartion That deed is dated April 10, 1833, SHIch)accokalnei toiihe pubtor. o tho and it runs: “Witnesseth that the said { | i NORTH SIDE OF H STREET FROM TENTH STREET. - e = et Times, was held on Independence day. Rome ¢, was the scene of the ceremony, Gov. Clinten, who turned the shoveltul of earth was the chief actor Even after the gigantic task was well under way it met with opposition fr numerous qu ers. A large vercentage of the people were frankly skeptical as to its ultimate success #nd even its most optimistic sup porters joined in the mmon say- fng, “We shall never ltve to seet it finished, but our children may. Perseverance won, however in the surprisingly short timy- of eizht vears “Clinton’s Big Ditc as it was de risively called by its opponents, was completed one section at a time, and 4% unit after unit became fnished, the attacks upon the scheme wilted away. October, 1819, saw the first vart, that between Rome and Utica, opened for traffic The first boat to travel hetween those two towns bore the canal com- missloners and was drawn by one horse. No speed laws were broken. By June of the next year, 95 miles of the canal were completed and in use. In 1823, water was let into the stretch between Rochester and Sche- nectady, and a few months later the first boat passed from the canal into the Hudson at Albany. By this time, the tolls on the partially finished thoroughfare exceeded the interest charges and augured well for the future financial success of the project. * % % ¥ ARLY in 1825 it was learned that the “Grand Canal” would be com- pleted from end to end by October. The corporation of New York City felt | that there should be come fitting cere- mony to mark the event, and accord- ingly sent two aldermen to Buffalo to arrange a triumphant procession THE MARRIAGE OF THE WATER jevery village. Triumphant arches, illuminations, jubllant processions, 5 I-‘RO\! AN OLD PLATE. i eliminated this procedure and the resi-| cannot be painted in language: and dents of the city in 1825 were unable flowery eloquence, elaborate food, and | to foresee its growth. Governor Clin- drinks and toasts awaited them in each settlement. From time to time they were joined by other boats which fol- ton's only welcome there came from the hands of the “Colle Guards” o Union College, “who did the honors of | swed them on their way to the Hud-| the rainy d ‘n. At Rochester they were met by !*“a fine boat, The Young Lion of the West, which bore the Rochester Canal committee and followed the pageant to New York Rome, wh 1 been the scene of the canal vpening eight vears bef hud experienced a change of heart and was one of the towns that did not wel come the officials so eagerly. Dissatis faction seems to have arisen over the | fact that the Erie Canal did not fol- low the route of an older waterway, the Western Inland Lock Navigation - oo T boats passed through the final locks of the canal and a short time afterwards arrived at Albany. They set sail from the State Capital the| next day in tow of several steam. boats, the first being the Chancellor | 9 | tatton Livingston. Noah's Ark with its In dinn: nd other products of the West” had apparently proved such curiosity to the Inhabitants en that its progress was delayed a did not arr Albany In tim 10:30 the following morning the | those who had not that happines: must content themselves with the as surance that the best endeavors of the | writer to convey them an_adequate idea of its grandeur will fall The poet, by giving full sway to his imagi- | nation, may perhaps partially succeed | in conveying the impr ions imbibed {123 feet to the pl John P. n Ness, for and in con- sideration of natural love and affec tlon and in further consideration of the sum of $3” confirms to Arthur Tiddleton, jr.. all of square No. 375 iled Mausoleum Square,” excepting certain parts. The first of the excep. jtions is this: “Beginning at the south line of North H street at a distance of 104 feet from the northeast angle {of the square, then running west on said line 210 feet, south 123 feer, thence east 210 feet’ and thence north of beginning, the said lot having been conveyed in trust on the occasion, and some detached parts of the scene might posstbly be | used to ndvantage by the painter who unites sklll with genius. But we re-: peat, that the narrative, in humble | prose, will fall short of Just represen- In spite of such handicaps the au hor continues and gives a rather | vivid account of the day's evenis “The grand fleet arrived in waters from Albany and came (o a chor near the State Prison. The roar | of cannon from different points, and the merry peals of numerous bells greeted the sun as he arose in a cloud less sky. In a few moments signals | were given by the flagship and the various banners, flage, and other deco- | rations were run up as if by a mugi- clan. Shortly afterwards the new and | superb steamboat Washington bore down on the fleet. She carried the great banner of the Corporation. The | Washington was an entirely new boat, | chartered for the occasfon, ‘of. larg dimensions, beautiful model, and su perbly fintghed throuxhout. “She ran alongside the Chamcellor Livingston, and a committee of the | Corporation, with the officers of the | Governor's guard, came on hoard to tender his Excellency thelr congratu- lations on his arrival in our waters | for the benefit of the Episcopal Church, and the Mausoleum lot about 50 feet or thereabout fronting on said H street, und the lot of 60 feet front conveyed to the Washington City Orphan Asyluni, the last two of which re respectively inclosed by brick ccording to their true lines.’ iscopal Church was Ascen sion Church. With the description aken from the deed of 1883, yvou can, by pacing or using @ foot-rule, set ourself right as to the sites old scension Church, the Manusoleum and he brick building long the home of shington City Orphan Asvlum. Another exception mentioned in the deed from Pauline Bentevoglia Middle- ton to Joshua Francis Fisher was land in the square which Arthur Mid- dieton sold to wder Shepherd and others. Arthur Middleton and his wife, Pauline Bentevoglia Middleton, deeded, February 1844, a block of Jand in that square to Alexander Shep- herd (niddle initial not given), Syl anus Holmes, George S. GideonT, James W. Shields and Jacob B. Win erd, trustees. The deed shows that for $2,000 Arthur Middleton sold ir square 375, “commonly called Mauso. on Ninth street by 100 feet deep. The beginning of that lot was 275 feet leum Square.” u lot fronting %0 feet | 7 Burnes, his father, lived at a point on ' the property, and this was done by his year. Her death was the cause of his farm close to where H and Tenth streets cross. The Burnes' farm, on which @ large part of downtown on is built, was patented as wild land in 1703 by Ninfan Beall, a Scotch Presbyterian immigrant, living at Upper Marlboroug that Ninian Beall was the first White man to lay claim to the land but he wis the first to perfect @ patent to it. Land west of Washington was patent ed in the second halt of the'seven teenth century, and it is not likel that level land crossed by se branches, part of it fronting river, would be passed over until while land in the Great Falls Seneca regions was patented in 1660 1690, The Rambler has come on instane were patent for wild land has been {applied for, the patent voided for non fultilment of its terms, and a patent issued to another man, who, fulfilling son, David Burnes, fn 1774 family and 1t they dled ey were buried ground was close to their house, near When xood and gentle Marcin Ness suffered n the death of h and grandchild, Marcia Helen, and where she and her husband would have their the mausoleum the commons, in a place wh numerous public xpressions of mourning. iHer husband, John Pete &S, died March 7, 1848 Tie ) Washington as a member of Congress from New York, and -d to Marcia Durnes on wentfeth birthday, May 9, 1802, Ge Van Ness was four times mayo Washington, one of three con missioners o st the reco: struction or repair of pu c buildings damaged by the British in 1814, presi dent of the Branch Bank of the United State 1t Washington, and first presi dent of the Bank of the Metropolis now the Natlonal Metropolitan Bank The mausoleum, witl s relles, was removed to Oak Hill « t - in th pring of and is there. Its re moval had beer discussed Joshua Franels Fisher property in Mausoleum Square th he deeded to the First Congregatio Church_and subdivided his holdings March 5, 1866, as per plat in the Dis trict Survevor's of A X run east and west t} ugh the sq and un act was passed by the 56ih Washington Council, 67, a | thorizing the ma t 1se the alley called Grant place to be gradu |ated according 1o the accompany: plat of the city surveyor, date 21, 1867.” and directing that ¢ | stones he set and gutters pave Grant place and other parts of the uare were built on, and residents came to think of Mausoleum lot asg drawback on realty values. * x % DLEUM lot was sold st pub | 1, June S, 1872, under 2 Ao |cree of the District Supreme (o | The decree was the rest {in equity filed May 4, 18 W. Philip, Madalena \s |8, v and Christian D’Aule | which should journey between the two | s : ' : 3 . 3 | from those of Lake Erie {from the northeast corner of the ward Van Ness, (' s W, Va citles hy way of the canal. That these | g | *This duty having been perfopmed | square. The deed says that the lot Julia Van Ness, Henry Loney, Ann M. two men and other backers of the {and there being an hour to sparé. the sold upon the trust “to hold the| & . Harry Hutton, Meta Hutton plan were entirely successful in their 4 E several boats entered their respective | same as a place of public worship | & P. Van Nest zene Van enterprise is attested by the fact that | [ : . | docks or came to anchor. where God's Holy Word may be ex iy 3 nd Helen Van' Ness inst the detafls of the festivities which - > 5 s oY Bl | At 8:30 o'clock tfle corporation and { pounded for the use. henefit and a 3 “atharine Hill, Elizabeth s they arranged have heen recorded in i X | their invited guests assembled in the | vantage of such inhabitants of these » Smith, Julia Van Ness, Washington several hooks. on room of the City Hall, and at ! United es as ave at the present ’ Tl 3 {I. Van Ness and Ann Gertrude Van The inaugural fuuctions began in 5 proceeded to the steamboats | time, or from time to time hereafter | : ; % fesss \ i Buffalo on October 26. 1825. Goy. achington, Fulton and Providence, | may become, members of the Fourth 4 ~ ? |~ The plaintifts, except Louis Clinton and his staff, after a parade : o stationed at the foot of Whitehill | Presbyterian Church of the City of | {D'Auley, Henry Loney and H and several speeches, embarked on k . 3 e 3 2 ‘treet. At the same place was also | Washington.” . | Hutton. wers described as _he the packet-boat 4 rawn 3 i e toned the Commerce with the ele.| There is also a deed. November 20 3 . |law “of John P. Van All accounts of LA S Eant - barge, Lady Clinton. This | 1847, from Arthur Middleton and h . g {a widower and intestate the Seneca take care to mention two | S B e, ith the Lady Van Hensselaer, | Wife Paolin transferring a lot - in £ = |large amount of real es 3 paintings: “One presented the scene | had heen set apart by the corporation | Mausoleum Square, on the Ninth & ; - The defendants Julia Van Ness, which was at the moment being en- ad been set apart by the ; | street side. to John Boyle. The deed . ¥ Washington 1 ess and Ann L ugaen for the reception of the invited ladles | Stre . e. oty M Yess jand ann, acted—Buffalo Creek and the harbor, heir attendants. The Lady Clin. | Was Witnessed by Arthur Middleton 4 I Gertrug n Ness were descr as with the canal in the foreground and | and their attendants. o oo of |and his_wife, in Philadelphia, and_in ¥ * ants 21 vears, and : L i ton was decorated with a degree of : e A ) = the Seneca Chief moving awav. The | <te and clegance which was equally | the deed Middleton is said ; 1 ¥ > o e other presented Gov. Clinton as| taste and eleg: as * | South Carolina, now in the City ..(‘y Pa 3% : oy, ; Bl | and Louisa Smith were Hercules in Roman costume resting | :‘,‘:,'g,],',i,[,:‘.jq"»:}n{‘wlrr:‘:s:;:;erlflim-‘f;"i\v::J'mxmxon.nm SO {heirsavine of Rickard e g . the brow being en- | 5 s e The helrs desired that the p Of greater interest to present-da ¥ a bust of Clinton, tI : HE: Rambler has written of the | The h dired t v veaders aro the two kevs ot & 1rii| IR . 7 circled with a wreath of laurel and e ; i {be suld and procecds partic that had no acholic content, but which | B 2 [oses: EMEs. GLBION Wa s O L8 Mevetl John (P WVan iNeas, Ibut Mesthacimiot | e LA . & 5 el il nevertheless was regarded as the most | < which, though the party was select, |00 T~ Yo €08, UL 1e€ SHOE B8 % e y 3 d : s | fund for the purchase of a lot in a valuable freight on board the ship. | was much crowded. s forgot it, and there are 250,000 young : cerngier ,“"‘,‘ \”‘““.‘"l‘}v OE IS s Unbelievable as it may sound, it was | “A few minutes after 9 o'clock, the | 200 "4 newcomers in' Washing. | leum to'it. J in P 4.;n.u._‘"\\ <1 un water—plain water—from Lake Erie entire party being on board, the fleet |\, "\ih never heard of Mausoleum | 2 : | £l for the plantfrs ~Tudge Andrew that was 8o highly prized. Its value from Albany came around from_ the | it WO BE¥ ROt O irnes, and | Wylie appointed W as audito from hard labor. | can be appreclated when it is ex- plained that it was to be used in the forthcoming commingling ceremony with the waves of the Atlanttc in the North and proceeded up the FEast l’ River to the vy Yard, where salutes were fired. While there the flagship took on board the officers of that sta- many of them never will, though the Rambler break his fingernails in type- sands of persons in Washington who writing this story. There are thou-| {and in hearings be auditor Benfamin F. Morsell testified that the lot could not be fairly divided between {the heirs, and William Galt_testified that he had lived in the neighborhood GOV. DE WITT CLINTON, WHOSE EFFORTS WERE LARGELY RE- | 100 Of notrt e oo O e hand, | s o re of the Rambier, "It teems | [ - : : Several other hoats followed the SPONSIBLE FOR THE EARLY SUCCESS OF THE ERIE CANAL. The. offieers stationed at West Point, | unjust, especially to them, but the ; B ) L cight vears, and that for a year o Seneca—the Chief, the Superior, the & = S [ S with the celebrated band, having been | Rumbler will not lose appetite for a ; ] % S fol there iad baen talk of complain Comd >erry and the Buffalo. In|Company Canal upon which Rome had | start for New York with the rest of | received on board the Chancellor onsingle meal on that account. The m;;m-“”l\_ e e s additfon” there was a ship called | been built up. The citizens expressed | the processioh. the previous evening, were likewise | Rambler believes that we have some 0. 1819 Toa oW lieanaainted Noah’s Ark which carried the unique | their sentiments by a-burlesque on the| The 22 hours required to bring the | i1l on board. | citizens who have not heard that THE VAN NESS MAUSOLEUM . i Ce T cargo of “‘a bear. two eagles, two!triumphant procession. They had | boats down the Hudson proved un- Washington is on the Potomac River = i s i = e b Whe the ile: mhernt jor that the Capitol is dne of its pub- rustee to make the sale. t fawns, several fish. and two Indian |staged a parade on the 26th which had | eventful except for congratulatory sa- i o : s real : S s i R0t b bovs, all traveling under the title of sadly and slowly carried a black bar-|lutes received at several points, no- “THE wharves and shores of Brook- | it bulildings. the terms required by the patentor, | vevors had named square 375. She|containing 6,519 feet, was bought b I c : A = i : 5 the proprictary of Maryland. appears | probably knew where the Ji Jesse B. Wilson for $8,865. one-hait “Products - West.' el filled Wi ate e old|tably Catskill, West Point and New- lyn, The Heights, and the roofs Ibertina, only child of Gen. 2 % Ao e s aphears | probe : e e Iamesjideas c . Rkl e e neieotithe IWyest et rel flled oolth svater. I.r,?;,':xeéhtr: S burgh. ot and New- | @ any of the bulldings were crowded | roATT, Albertina, only ohild of Her.|in the land records at Annapolis &s the | Burnes burial ground was, and 1 have | cash and the balance fn notes matur- harbor of New York. s dematureor B boacs was tne first patentee. |the feeling that she built' the mauso-|ng in 6 and 12 months. Vouchers of cannon which had been placed at intervals of about 10 miles along the canal and down the Hudson from Al- bany to New York. The successive firing of these guns flashed the news to New York City in what was then | regarded as the sensational time of 80 minutes. When Manhattan had thus | heard the echo of Buffalo’s cannon, she sent her acknowledgement back in a similar fashion. Several of the pieces of artillery used in this “stunt™ were trophles of war, having been cap- tured by Commodore Perry at the bat- tle of Lake Erie. As Clinton and his colleagues were drawn eastward across the State they were met and feted at practically the Erie. Governor Clinton stopped but one hour in Rome on the 30th Schenectady w another town with a grievance against the canal bulld- ers, and when they reached there two hours ahead of schedule time on Tues- day afternoon, November 2, they found that no preparation had been made for their reception. Schenectady’'s dis- pleasure was _similar to that of Rome: both felt that the new canal | would prove their ruin. The growth !of Schenectady had resulted from the fact that the settlement had been the | terminus of a 16-mile overland portage from Albany, where most of the freight passing upop the Mohawk | ‘ansferred from | writes: “Those who saw the magnifi- wagon traiins 1o boats. The Eriel River had been A description of the extensive land and sea celebrations that ensued in and around ‘New York was prepared at the direction of the corporation of that city by Col. W. L. Stone, who was one of the canal’'s most zealous champions. Col. Stone called his paper, “Narrative of the Festivitles in Honor of the Completion of the Erie Canal,” a title which should pre- pare the reader for the florid language and reckless use of superlatives that are to be found in it. But in spite of those oddities—which were typical of the time—it is perhaps the best first- hand account of the occurrence. By way of preamble Col. Stone cent scene will at once admit that it with people to an extent little antici- pated and only exceeded by the thick masses of population which lined the shores of New York as far as Corlear’s Hook. The fleet proceeded to the east end of the Battery and Governor's Island. Vessels in the harbor were filled even to the rigging and tops. Loud cheers resounded from every direction and were often returned. “Everything being in readiness and every boat crowded to the utmost, the fleet, taking a semi-circular sweep to: ward Jersey City and back obliquely in the direction of the lower point of Governor’s Island, proceeded down the bay in the order detailed by the ad- miral, each boat maintaining the dis- tance of 100 feet apart. " “The sea was tranquil and smooth as a Summer lake. As the boats passed the Battery they were saluted by the military, the revenue cutter and the castle on Governor’s Island, and on passing the Narrows they were also saluted by Forts Lafayette and Tomp- kins. Then they proceeded to Sandy Hook at the point where the grand ceremony was to be performed. The boats were there formed in a circle around the schooner Porpoise, prepar- atory to the ceremony.” A last-minute request was then made of the Governor. It was to the effect that “a portion of the water used on this memorable occasion be preserved in order to send it to our distinguished friend and late visitor, Maj. Gen. Lafayette.” Mr. Clinton gladly granted the request. “Gov. Clinton,” continues the ac- count, “then proceed to perform the ceremony of commingling the waters Marcia Burnes, died November 22, 1823, about a_year after her marriage with Arthur Middleton, jr. Her infant, Marcia Helen, died goon after the mother. The Rambler has not seen a record of the burial place of David Burnes, father of Marcia, but when Mrs. Burnes died, the National Intelli- gencer, Februry 2, 1807, contained a notice that Mrs. Anne Burnes, widow of David Burnes, died on Wednesday, January 28, at the age of 67 vears, remains, attended by a number of her relatives and friends, were deposited in the family graveyard about b miles from this place.” I do not know where that family graveyard was, and I do not know that anybody has fixed its site, but I belleve that it was the family burying ground on the White farm, now part of the Soldiers’ Home Grounds. I have seen in some record that Mrs. David Burnes was Ann White, and measured,on a map line, it is about 6 miles from the Burnes /cottage, Seventeenth and B streets, diers Home. The graves and tombstones ot David Burnes, Mrs. Anne Burnes, and their son, John Burnes, are in Rock Creek Cemetery, and were moved there from a private cemetery. Perhaps the records of Rock Creek Cemetery would show the facts, but when I went there for them seven or elght years ago I did not get them. Before David Burnes built his t;ot» tage, near the site of which the Van Ness mansion was bullt and where the Pan-American _bullding _is, James ——————— noco, La Plata and Amazon of South of the lake with the ocean by pouring a keg of those of Lake Erie into the Atlantic. “Dr. Mitchell, whose extensive cor- respondence with almost every part of the world enables him to fill his cabi- nets with everything rare and curious, then completed the ceremony by pour- ing into the briny deep bottles of water from the Ganges and Indus of Asia, the Nile and Gambia of Africa, the Thames, the Seine, the Rhine and the Danube of Europe, the Mississippi apd Columbia of North and the Ori- America. “The head of the land procession, under Maj. Gen. Fleming, mar- shal of the day, had already arrived at- the Battery, where it was designated the whole should pass in review be- fore the corporation and the spectators on board the boats which lay near to shore. The Washington and Chan- cellor Livingstone ran into Pier No. 1 in the East River and landed the cor- poration in time to fall into the rear of the procession, The fieet then dis- persed.” and that “on Thursday evening her| where Mrs. Burnes died, to the Sol-j Ninian Beall named his tract Beall's|leum in 1824 where her grandfather | flled by the trustee showed that $2,280 Levels. James Burnes came to live on [and grandmother this land.g When, nobody knows, and | of the Burnes family were buried. perhaps the question is unanswerable. [ brick building for urnes and others was paid for the lot in Oak Hill, $4,500 A to Jacob Viehmeyer for removing an the Washington | rebullding the mausoleum, $100 to He m have rented the land from |City Orphan Asylum, of whith Marcia | Edward Clark for superintending its Beall, or his father may have been a | Burnes Van Ness was a founder and seltler on it, and unsuccessful paten-'the second president, was built in 1828- tee of the land before Beal! patented | it. That is all speculation. But|1 think that Marcia chose the spot 9 on the lot west of the mausoleum. | reconstruction, $300 to John F. Hanna for legal services, $160 to A. Schnelder !x‘lrr building the vault doors. $£30 to | Joseph Gawler for removing eight cof- Beall's Levels was resurveyed for|because it was the site of her grand- | fins, $5 to Edward Forsyth for James Burnes fn 1763, when there | parents’ home, or as close to the site | ning the lines of Mausoleum Jot, was no thought that there would be as the laving out of strects would|to Thomas Wagzaman, auctloneer, the City of Washington, and shows that James Burnes the thought of | Marcia Burnes died of Asiatic chol- and there were receipts for. adverti ing in The Evening Star, National Re- acquiring title from the Ninian Beall | era in Washington September 9, 1832, | publican, the Partiot, Sunday Herald estate. He did not perfect his title to | during the cholera epldemic of that!|and the Capital. 1m8 ‘ \a{'l