Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 97

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, NOVEMBER 29, 1925—PART 5. -8 - Old Deeds Throw Additional Light [Washington Hebrew Congregation . On History of the Queen Family] Will Celebrate 70th Anniversary Rambler Discourses on the Writing of History and the Handicap of Tackling Subject “Week of Weeks” Announced for Those Who Worship at the Eighth Street Temple, With That Has Never Previously Been Presented. Get-Together Party and Review of Past History. HE Washington Hebrew l'\m‘ ASK vou to stick by me while I | work out the story of the Queen | family, Queen lands and Queen | Chapel. "I believe this request would be better received had I * Dhrased it thus: “I crave your in Sulzence, ey @ 1 may tres Pass upon ye . while T pu Eue the history of the Queen family, eic. Readers have a Tor swelling, roaring language, and a Writer who “takes liberties™ by put- | 1ing down a sentence other than two anillion writers have done it is apt to &et in bad. The chief difficulty for the Rambler 3n writing a history of the Queer family is that nobody has done i The histarian who will try to write gomething that has before is rare a plan of a h —is 10 rewr gregation, with its home on Eighth street between H and 1, having rounded out 70 y¢ S of progressive religlous ser-! vice and helpful civic organization, is preparing to celebrate the anniver- sary and the achievements of this Jewish community center in an ela borate yet dignified manner, with an l-one-big-tamily atmosphere and in- spirational features. The celebration, starting tomorrow and closing Tuesday, December \.’ Jooks forward to the dlamond jubllee celebration five vears hence, when it | i the beautiful dream of the leaders to have a magnificent new Temple erected on Columbia Heights which | will compare favorably with the other | great religious editices crowning the | heights along Sixteenth street | The spirit of this occasion is well illustrated in the announcement just sent out by Joseph D. Kaufman, chai man of the publicity committee, as follows. | Hello Everybody: It's coming! It's | almost here! It's the 70th anniver &Y appetite it been writ rash. The u rfan—or an histor! of @ pre Yious historfan. and if the binding on hiz book is good, he is sure of a place in literature. If he should have sense enough o find errors in the other his k. be ill-natured enough to it. and then substitute rs for those he complains of. he will be denounced an icono sary celebration of the Congregation clast. Then no man who belongs to a of ‘the Washington Eighth Street select club wi » have a Temple. Mind you -it's to be the big drink, and no woman ® Dractice Dews w » makes a he society L cocktail te shall mis rd for him to wch a work wre careful of their reputa. letimes a4 man will try to £est, most eventful, most joyful week the congregation has ever known' | “A big family-—sisterhood, brother hood, alumni—members in general in a great get-together party . November 30, sisterhood | dance, have a good time. December 4, special ser- | | vices. Doctors Woolsey, Rosenan, without a pu and will AT *!‘-: N Bk 5 Stmon will hark back to the good ok and pa h price o IR R S T R R R S old days of 1855—and carry you right it printed. e seems to {on through—you can’'t afford to miss 4 time givir hed ST. FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH. THE SITI-ZVOF QUEEN'S CHAPEL. | iends who never - — aturday and Sunday, December e : Ofpart \of said tract conveved: foi]calleion. by James Qusen | Mary GhEr e nd 6, special children's services Itory of the Queen lands |1y pjel Stephenson, then with said |(Queen) Gardiner, Manham = Queen, |James Queen, who moted to Kentucky . Kronman and the Sunday School {he Rambler finds it hard to make | pare heing run and laid down by di- | Ann Edwardson Queen, Eleana Queen, | before 1802, was a son of Richard Idren in a dual role. Children of Pis use complete. He would lke to]rection of Joseph Queen with two de- | Gerard S. Boarman fof self and wife, | The relation of the heirs named in the ages up to ninety expected and frage the title hack: tol thelconming | reeh ana thixty milniites a5 an Sllow || Sar il GUEor. ar AR AT Qtlsan T | IDAEEII5 OF the ipravesty. s Nt Ale | invited | of Columbus or the Vikings. thelance for variation, North fifteen de-|the heirs of Joseph Queen, to divide |closed by records in the recorder of | “Tuesday, December 8. a glorlous| o yiore than 40 were full members. | spired the confidence of all the luw-| one of st sig 1 o e e the records ate kept| yrees and 45 minutes East.” Then |the lunded estate of the laie Richard [deeds office, but I belleve the distribu- | dinner dance and banquet at the | 7ot Jiore than 40 were full members | spired Diesenti THE shnpis Fnihtut - &t the City Hall will not permit this. | foliows a description of the bounds in Queen and Joseph Queen, the same [tion of the lots was the result of a ; Washington Hotel. One speaker and | 1855, and then H. Mela, and the wisdom harn inuar It would be desirable 1o trace the|perches, degrees and minutes east = laid off into lots, have agreed [suit of partition ahout 1801, and it | one speaker only. The most brilllant. | (o' AU then J Mg and O ¥ s signed metnbe tirle to the earliest Indians who hunt-[west, efe. In the deed is this: “This us follows, the said lots being laid off | might pay us to look into that | dynamic, forceful and captivating of | {00 City Hall, f car z was i e se lands, but Rambler the tract conveyed to Mr. Geor Fenwick. Manham| The Rambler's werk of getting rec- } the vounger school of American | ohr & 3 ind then transferred tc I < reputat enracy., now the pr of | Queen ave wood Jot No. 6)ords he has quote was greatly | Rabbis—Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver of | i coutioner torome ot < nd D y fastened on would suf s per acre and|lessened Ly ‘refe given him | Cleveland. An evening to linger 10ng | o/1.ojs . " hi pick out an oak tree | in District lot No. 2 valued at three[by the District Company. Tolin your memory. No solicitation for | *'""'* £ i85 bl s becamie vl ok quereisie hose | records 18 o it follows o e e President Frnest L. Schmidt 4 many. | funds of any kind. Innennagy s ] e W S Kesimi th rings give its age as 90 years, | “At the req \ Queen the follow the lots assigned to the | vears friend—f'ex mes remercie. | “Folks—it's to be a ‘week of weeks' | Pursh accepted t Bl e i i i 5 - write you something | following de ed the 19th f Richard and Joseph Queen. |[ments et ma re tssance, and to|-—don’t miss a ‘trick'—attend every|1® came from B i : : : o 7 . the spreac [day of November, 1801, to Samuel Queen was assigned wood lot | Vice President > O'Connor—My | function. You're one of the family, |#Uehor of a learned s o sch and Joseph Silverman. The S monarch of the forest | indenture made the 11th day of No-|(uncleared land) No. 7 valued at 12| Cousin Caruse gne is pro{and we can't do without you. Yours|historical treatise < n ation’s minisiry - g four centuries ugo King | vember in the vear of our Lord 1801 | pounds per acre and cleared lot No. | comitate. [ for a happy time.” | The f revised « t fer, f < R Hei ‘ 1 ';‘;;:”4:' ‘H‘v»h\ ¢ 4"‘1»*, v — - rme s i Charles A. Goldsmith, president of 1 a8 dbm 1 1 blus; { th congregation, gives the further 1 ¥ golden bob v of Jim | information abouf the celebration pro ; ; one of our hardy pioneers | gram that on Frlday evening, Decem 5 ul there would be nothing I ber 4, for the firs: time the new Rogers B i that. Too many authors | al service will be utilized; on ; many—have told the same | Saturday morning, December 5, there it innocent ouk trees, will be a children's service with ser T e ambler would like to give !mon by Rabbi Kronman, the new 2 “ sou pho! aphs of the men and | junior rabbi, who came to Washingtc Women » owned these lands two !in September, and on Sunday morn y Ired years ago, but he does not ing, December 6, the religious school now where to get ‘em. Spirit photo | will hold fts special anniversary ex raphs might bLe had, but the Ram | ereises ¥ ers Sxperience with those photo | One of the outstanding features of e 1 thay dre the celebration will place emphasis on people than ofl portraits of them fin | gregation during the last 20 Possession of their descendants 1 the various steps being: C anization would like to show you photograph of the Temple Sisterhood in 1905, or of the settlers of tw hundred years ganization of the brotherhood, organi- | Azo, not only because it wouid | zation of the alumni, purchase of the hit T have o often heard called “a { building next door to the temple for < feat of journalism,” but because I {the Sunday School, recuctton of the . belleve the pictures of those persons mortgage from $50.000 to 50 ! would more embellish the pages of a | coming of Assistant Rabbl Hares L. newspaper than ¥ portraits you Kronman, growth of the congregation | have to Jook at. from 225 to 600 families, increase of | There is disurbance in my mind the religious school, which now has nselve about the name “Queen I have found the names Richard Que Joseph Queen, Samuel Queen, Walter Queen, et alii. There seems to be some confusion of gender. But, if we have Mary King and Sophie Prince perhaps it is all right that we have Joe and Sam Queen. I have no doubt 1 many ladies of the Queen family deserve the name. So many of the Queen family have been excellent per sons that the name must have been, at first. Quinn. Another point in favor of the Queens —and one that I lay before vou with pleasure—is that all members of the far I knew | ere Democrats S T S “The first deed to a Queen in Distr | records is one made in 1794. To spare | etween Dar iel Carroll Brent, Mar.|1. That cleared lot was the tract on | Neyy Sounding Machines. shall of the myself the work of briefing it and to t which Queen Chapel stands and in i ¥ OF LeRdIne Ta s |the one part and Joseph Queen of |that part of the Queen farm, Richard | nTiw electricallv-drive S ading | Vo irding law BN | prince Georges county In the State | Queen by will, April 55, 17 PV ciectically duiven/s mounding) the request ,of Joseph Queen |V Maryland of the other part.two ac to Bishop John Carroll for machines which have been per. Deed wa -orded the 20th of | \Whereas the said Daniel Carroll Brent [ church use. This partition of the|fected by the Coast and Geodetic Sur- | N 3 = by virtue of writs of Fieri Facias|Queen ate was to TY out a pro | March, 17 vey fd the ra determination of issued out of the Circuit Court of the | vision of the will of Richard Queen. of Fehmumna i e ade the 21t da¥ | District of Columbia for Washington |T have not found that will and it seems | the depth of the ocean and the nature | The Hontrahte Al ity DSLWeeN | County * * ¢ to wit: One Elizu. |not to be among District records, but | of its bed, as well as of its water at | ting | Pet Dovle use of John Darnall jone finds references to it. For ex ot depth e D8 | i ainst Walter Queen, William Fergu- |ample this Parious copun of the one part. and Joseph Gueen of | 501 and Richard Jameson, and the| ° the request of Samuel Queen|sounc Prince Georges County in the said | Other against Robert Ferguson, John | the following assignment was record-|be taken in only one and one-half | State atithe uther pert. Wi tmesseth O o Tt was |l oa ty oL Tty 102 WChowihours) savs|Scieritinc Arterican | RABBI LOUIS STERN. THE OLD TEMPLE. FROM 1863 TO 1897, RABBI HARRY 1. KRONMAN. B Car R o e, itend Benon! Hamilton Wade |as 1. James Queen of the State of | The new machine consists of a rect e g i se of Henderson, Ferguson and Gib- | Kentucky, wwfully and justly | having a diameter of a little than Hanson, lisquire, Chanc on behalf of the State ¢ ire so efficient that ng of 3 miles deep may now | one-quarter acres of land Iy ' m > fe e . S hotstno ’ 2 teac ition to the high | vears the membership was practically | offering prayer in the House and Canzre f i icree ol sland li3ing | son against Walter Queen. did enter | entitled to certain sums of money, |2 feet, driven by a twohorsepower _{“,,"};’,‘,flffl\f‘.,'},d,‘."dd" i 5% | Stationary, RALGIADh SUnon tHe Diekenbaarinn e X et heirs and the afore. |4nd take possession of part of a tract | lands and other propérty under and |electric motor which obtains its sup- {an 8 s. WL ot o e i feyel o ket Tydcatmen e fore | Called “The Enclosure’ the property | by virtue of the wills of my father|PIV of current from the ships gen- | * % % x An interesting event, written large o : jon nen N said Joseph Qu ecame the pur- |called Lo ; iy yintue fQ iis y fo o G Sel 15 wonn 00 iy occurred | 2ccorded the conrtesy in hoth House P e State of Maryiar the sum of &3 |tzin about 188 Acres on or about the thyidivcoff RIS SO ids EE e e el 5= g Bn s Y Sl S RiEl ovar - * ce Yo SSER e i e R ot ool i vhe i) E SR Tor Bhie Tiira 193 anahdin)| iod hard-drawn steel piano wire of | Hebrew Congregation also will ("l party feeling ran high over T S S g 4 10 an act of the Assembly passed No- [ District marshal advertised the land | of my brother Joseph deceased bear-| N0- 21 Brown and Sharp gaug S | attention to the fact that this is the | slavery a ion_ K las 1859 a rupture occurred . : an f the sem passed No. tri i ‘ | size of wire is t half the diam-|,_ S Sri s Z il two months prevented the elect regation and an independent = vember Session 1784 as by the ¢ sale and that Joseph Queen, being date on or_about the b aay | 58 OF the averape pencll ledd, yet It | 270tk anniversary of the readmissionil B¥0 WMORIRS Proventes the elcction of eEa o ot s L e i ahayoc 1 shest bidder, bought it for $1,150 November, 1801, Therefore ajieter of y cll lead, 3 5 . S i . se Of | “Shul” held services at Ninth stree SLe cate of sale lodged in the land 1e highest bidder, bought it for $1 November, 1801, Therefore 1, the | 200 @ 0 By B & Stross of | of the Jew into England and of hi Representatives. In desperation, or | and Market place, near the commission | 17 1€ D as for the term of six months Biefore these transactions shown by | said James Queen’ for and_in'con.|Tust be able 1o withstand o | coming ‘to America. A strong colony | (i (e thaueht that e el M Sptan s comu s 867 by R I ! Qaveat appears Now ibis i District records, Richard Que Alionior the: sumiiot4as poundall Sy ik 8 fee of isuch small Fwiza s this | o€ Jewsilived hers asieacly ias ms7 | IR CLE 0, BUL (At Digver avalleit |istores aving elected Rev_ & iWeilias | 1 Ja 70 5 s : witnesseth that the said A father of Joseph Queen, owned a larze | four shillings and two pence cur Sevaral slyaniasos which: vy | ravstly youns men clerking in stores | 30¢ i Isiuel, the Epeaken then ar The ight @ burial plot jon, and two ¥ a Gontee Hanson, Ghancellor. afotesaigitractiin thodDistict, emdiion thatdract inentemones Fof SVawland o ame in e demonstrated by an account |and goink to Baltimore for the main | FEFRTI A PHEREAN G T TR 4 y 7 |eumbeney, cut s by v and in consideration of the prem- |Queen Chapel (St. Francis de Sales hand paid by the said Samuel Queen e ey A Ao | ey Aarvine s T e s i e ; I i Sl ises that the chase money | Churel) stands. 1f you will follow of Prince Georges county (etc) have) 7 el ‘“:1 paell gh it is 70 yvears since the!?tely e St o ’1:‘{ ol After a lapse of several months. | I} g : . hath been fully paid to the Treasurer [these lines with the intelligence of | granted (etc.) to Samuel Queen all “"4"\‘“"“‘:_”_;','\"‘h“'“w “:Mj:y":l;m for | congregation had the distinction « “';l“"'“\'; -*“m‘y'.‘jr“"I““‘y“‘_: ‘:lf_"’L‘fl’_"':,: € hyh cong "--4“‘”"’l'*”v‘-""1 that co-{ .o mple fo o Rt the Western shore (etc) hath |which I believe vou capable.you will | my interest in the estate of Richard | jotf COIRRITY SRy WASH MSed (08| Lelinng ita charter from Congress, [Tt the congregation's minister to operation ‘was preferable. A “union | Femble fotiows i ; ) part of 1ct of land [see how the matter is proved. Among | und Joseph Queen. 1875 by wire. Nevortheless: the wire |vet the Washington Hebrew Congre. | pffer praver. Owing to Mr. Lans |was effected with Mr. Weil as char. | (08 50 ddox Hills lyin Prince | the District vecords is a deed of which |~ Richard Queen, who owned large | 13738 0¥ WIv. Severine ess, the wive |0, 18 o™ organized three vears | HE T o ROCs ”\v‘ inglish | zan of the united congregation. Under Again i re s v county and contained within | the following is part parts of the tracts patented as In-| %0 W MSep 10 G0 08 WAICE TR 9 | o rller. For preservation of these his- | A: 8. Solomons secured the services|the ministry of Rev. Mr. Weil, e Rl 4 S = S ? st - | diameter, for it had to be strong | ) 5 fon is in.|of Rev. Dr. Raphall of New York.|and substantial progress was made : o ; ing metes and bounds Viz At the request of James Queen and | closure and Hadduck Hills, was the | RS (00 16 180 (0, b SHORE orical facts the congregation is in | 0f Rev. Dr. Raphall of New York ) : 5 esheliE IR R UL einning i rs the following division of prop: | father of Joseph Queen who bought | CHVER, R FITAC (86 SERIGRR, NEEIC | jebted to Rabbl Abram Simon, who | W 0y oupearing’ in dien mien | by the congregation from 184 to] ; mntzed : (perches) on the was recorded the 17th day of [ Walter Queen’s land, sold by the Dis "'\" o HEathat tHaivates Tiicting oo | Dot onti thate “alhardyband vor | Withs becaming allith fandtcan, Hin= (Continue 2 1 t being 1846 o 1e subsc wrs be tric arshal. e at Joseph | = g P bt X > and spir| i , poor in | Hil eing We the subscribers being | trict marshal. I e that Joseph | {prics SRS LI N e and of tha | voung and spirited pioneers, poor in . 5 isleoD ch In the pride | weight itself. the world's good but rich : Jater the detachable sinker was in. | of their religious heritage, and anx e e pulling both wire | fous to maintain the rights of their and sinker up after the sounding had | faith, met on April 25. in the home of been made, the sinker automatically | W. Jacobi on Pennsylvania avenis | drobs off when it strikes the bottom, | between, Nineteenth and Twentleth detac g device effecting E streel o vory Smpls. The maker e e | *For about two yvears the Jewish | course, thrown away forever, but it | services were held, first, in the homes | has little value. The wire alone may |of H. Lissberger and M. Lully: then then be drawn to the surface com.|over the home of L. Cohen, corner of paratively rapidly without danger of | H street and Pennsylvania avenue, being broken. between Lighteenth and Nineteenth The reel now used holds 24.000 feet | streets; then in a rented room on of wire, and when it is seen that each | Four-and-one-half street and Mary- turn is weund with a tension of 100 {land avenue southwest, and then on pounds it is evident that the total com- | Seventh street near D. In those early pression on the drum, when all the |days members of the congregation wire has thus been wound up, is about | took charge of the services. 1In 1854 Therefore, the reel must be | Sam Herman came from Baltimore ¢ construction. Its rim [and was the first officially elected is 515 inches wide and 3 inches thick, | chazan, serving also in the capacl of which a part must be cut away to | of secretary for one vear. During this permit of reeling the wire on it. vear the services were held in the 1t is interesting to note that this cut | home of the president, Isaac Herz- for retaining the wire on the reel is | berg, on Pennsylvania avenue between only 4 inches wide by 115 inches deep: | Third and Four-and-one-half streets. | vet' it suffices to hold the entire Then came the “red-letter” day for | miles of wire. This conveys an im-|the Washington Hebrew congregation pression of the small size of the piano [when in December, 1855, the Thirty- | wire used. fourth Congress acceded to the In making a sounding to 18,000 feet ' strong petition, under the leadership depth one-half hour is required for the | of Capt. Jonas P. Levy, and granted descent of the sinker and one hour | the original charter, which now for reeling in the wire. It has been | hangs in one of the anterooms of the found that the electrically driven ma- | temple. This charter is signed by chire reels in the wire about 30 per | Nathan P. Banks, Speaker of the cent faster than the older type of reel. | House (on December 3, 1866); by J. = s D. Bright, President of the Senate Sir! pro tempore (on June 2, 1856), and 3 approved in duplicate and signed by “Yes, my dears, the lace on this is | Franklin Pierce, President of the 60 years ol United States. “You don't spy! Did you make it| There were about 60 names on the ? \ congregation’s books at that time, but