Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 54

SOCIETY. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MARCH 7, 1926-PART 2. SOCTETY. : NEW BOLIVIAN HOSTESS E T T T e INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN A 0 ALEXANDRIA SOCIETY| Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wilkins have return.d from Charlottesville, where they were the g of Mr. and Mrs. B. Lee Hawk sted at the silver weddi Free Automobile Parking W. D, Moses & Sons Established 1861 F Street and Eleventh 65th AnniverSary Sale F. B. Perry, in Orange, Va. Celia Conners of -Markham, | ' Linens Upholstery Furniture Carpets s home from a umbus of Phila- and SENORA DE LA BARRA, K | Wife of the new first secretary of the Bolivian legation, Senor de la Barra. of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, O. B.|H. Sutart, Mis ancy Lee Ta " | Allen r home in Wil |" Hammond of 3 of | F muel Bu: Real Parisian | Beauty Parlors ént Waving French Oil Process Mi Bobbed Wigs, Transforma- ||/ tions, Covabobs Real French Bobbing in n nehes of Make your appointment. || Ritter, in Winchester. Mrs. B. K. 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EETWEEN F AND G STREETS The Shade Factory o L= 0dd Fellows Hall, Housing the First W. B. Moses Store in the Year of 1861 HISTORY Conscientious service to the Public, a vigilant iniegrity, artistic as- sistance in buying and a belief in the value of goed quality have united to bring us that prosperity and long life found only in organizations built on these principles. 1861 Sixty-Five Years 1926 In 1861, with the dark war cleuds hovering over Washington, on January 1st, Mr. W. B. Moses, a Phifadelphia Merchant, moved to Washington and es- tablished a furniture store. The Capiizl was in sore need of a store that would give the utmost in service and carry at all times the finest furniture procurable. The first location was on D Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets Northwest, and at this location on January 1st, 1861, was opened the first unit of the W. B. Moses & Sons organization. At the opening of the store, three carloads of furniture had been ordered, but before this furni- ture could be placed on display every piece was sold. While waiting for the second shipment of furniture, the store was moved te 508 7th St. N.W., the space occupied being the three upper floors of the building. Finding this location inadequate in floor space, the business was again moved to the Na- tional Intelligencer Building, lecated at the coiner of Seventh and D Streets. The business remai2d in this location until 1869, when the Old Avenue House (a hotel) was rented and occupied. This building was lo- cated at the corner of Seventh and Pennsylvania Avenue. The suites and rooms of the hotel were utilized in a rather novel fashion at that time. They were furnished complete as small apartments, or suites, and this enabled the customer to see just how the furniture and draperies and furnishings would appear in their own homes. This method of show- ing furniture instantaneously created very favorable comment. The busi- ness remained in the Old Avenue House from 1869 until 1884 when the prop- erty at the southwest corner of Eleventh and F Streets was purchased and a new building erected. The building was seven stories in height and base- ment and sub-basement, making a total of nine stories in 21l. At this time Eleventh and F Streets was considered quite a ways uptown and the ma- jority of the business men in Washington thought this a rather foolhardy move on the part of W. B. Moses & Sons. However, the far-sightedness of the move was proved by the fact that three years later it was necessary to build an adjoining building on F Street, and two years later a second addi- tion on the Eleventh Street side, and in 1898, a 10-story fireproof warehouse and manufacturing plant was erected on the Eleventh Street side. The store today might well be called W. B. Moses & Sons and Sons, be- cause since the foundation of the firm in 1861, the business has always been under the personal direction of Mr. W. B. Moses, his sons and grandsons. Purchases forwarded prepaid to any shipping point in the United States INQUIRE ABOUT OUR DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN