Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 81

ILLUSTRATED FEATURES Part 7—8 Pages MAGAZINE SECTION The Sunday St WASHINGTO! " FICTION D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1928 AND - HUMOR Washington Showed Keen Interest in Development of Capital BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR. HAT there is entirely too llulcl patriotism being taught our cml-‘ dren today is a growing impres- | sion. Gradually the beautiful ' character-building stories which | filled our school readers a few years back appear to be growing less and less. until there seems to be danger of elimi- | nating them entirely. Of course, those | ®ho feel that this will eventuate may be entirely wrong. but. neverthele: there is unquestionably some justific: tion for the belief. | It would be more in keeping with our tradition to teach to the young. now. | the heroic deeds of our ancestors. rather | than wait until war is upon us and then begin to broadcast the exploits of | the great men of the past. | Education is upbuilding. uplifting and | elevating, and tends toward good citi: zenship. That our people may enj the full happiness and benefits of Amer- dcan freedom. it is strictly necessary. ‘We should teach to the rising genera- | tion the glories and triumphs of Amer- ica’s great men and women, and what they stood for when our country needed brave and loyal men to support and de- fend it. ‘What nobler man could we speak a2bout today than George Washington, the greatest of all Americans—with his natal day but a few davs off> A man whose sterling patriotism was proven in every way. IF we were to hunt the whole world over for a more nearly ideal man. we would not find him. It is said he did a lot of things he never did. but if he did all the unfavorable things it is said of him, he still would be America’s example of what a truly great man | ought to be. Those who speak unkindly | of him would probably speak the same | way of any man; it is a habit with| some people to traduce the great. For- | tunately, Washington's achieved at least a hundred and fifty Yyears ago. and no one now living in this generation. or who will follow in any Succeeding generation. will be gre: enough 1o tarnish the luster of his bril. liant reputation. | If there is one place more than an- | other that should glorify jand hallow | his name and fame. that place should be the National. Capital — the city of | Washington—the place that bears his llustrious name. Instrumental in plac- ing 3t here on this very spot. he took a | most active part in all the details lead- | ing up to its selection. and even lived to | see the Capitol and White House well | eS Was n, covered the entire 10 miles square for the pur- Pose of observing the best places for the | more prominent Government structures. | His correspondence regarding the terri- | tory. selected under the act of July 16. 1790. is quite voluminous and deals with all of its early phases. | After appointing the commissioners | i * o ox % of the buildings. etc.. ha | her:nlfmselr from the it to Monday. the 28th of this month. | 2t which time, #f no accident inter- venes. I shall expect %o meet th: - BIRTHPLACE OF GEORGE \\'ASHINGTON, fame was | An Old Print From Harper's Magazine. WASHINGTON'S HOUSES ON NORTH CAPITOL STREET. Suter as, junior warden. The lodge did being assigned by | survi Yasningion io Maj. Pierre LEnfant. " heinops *%33 ASHINGTON had every confidence in the Federal Capital, and only By appointment the President |8 little more than a year before his #!% met there Thomas Johnson, Daniel Czrroll and Dr. David Stuart, the three men whom he had selected as commis- sioners of the city, and the next day they rode together over the site of the new city. It would be difficult to fix the exact £pot in Georgetown where Suter's Tav- ern was located. W. B. Bryan, In his “A History of the National Capital,” seys it was wi avenue near the Virginia ferry. Christian Hines, in his “Early Recollections of Wasthnglon City,” tells us i was @ one-story frame on High street (Bow Wisconsin avenue) between Bridge (now M street) and Water streets and a little ezst of the canal bridge. Hines, who speaks from per- sonal recollection, relates that the elec- tion between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, vesulting in the choice of Jef- ferson, was held at the tavern According o “Heads of Familiess” feenus of 1790) John Buter had at that date seven sons and four daughters and four slaves. His son, also named John, was one of the signers of a petition, in 1995, w the Grand Lodge of Masons of Maryland for a charter to form a Jodge in Georgetown The warrant was grant- ed with the title “Columbia. No. 19" and_went into commission_with John death purchased lot 16 (now lot 39) in | square 634, it being on the west side {of North Capitol street between B and | |C streets. Upon this land he soon | thereafter began the erection of two | | houses, which were not quite completed | |at the time of his death. Prior to this, | {in September, 1793, he purchased four ! 11ots in what had been the town site of | | Carrolisburg. the location of which to have been on | would be about from Third street south- | ¢, | west to Pirst street southeast and from | |N_ street south to the Eastern Branch | The following year he bought the west ’hz!! of square 21, bounded by Twenty- | Afth. Twenty-sixth, D and E_streets | | northwest, and subsequently he also | | purchased the remaining half of th | square | Regarding this project he wrote from Mount Vernon to Dr. Willlam Thornton under date of December 20, 1798 “Dear 8ir: Inclosed 1s a check on the Bank of Alexandria for 8500 to enable Mr, Blagden, by your draft, o proceed in laying in’ materials for carrving on | my buildings in the Pederal City. i | “I saw a bullding in Philadelphia of | about the same front and elevation that | are W be given to my houses which | pleased me. Tt consisted also of two ! houses united—dnors in the center, a pediment in the yoof and dormer win- | | THE WORLD’S MATCHES. ‘ T has been estmated that we of pillion matches snnually, and that ours & larger match bill than that of any other nation In the making of the match it s manufacture. Nearly every company own peculiar use and employs processes discovered or devised by its own chem- | ists and mechanics, which are kept as | trade secrets. Ome of these machines dow on each side of it in front, Sh"! |lights in the rear, | | _“If this is not incongruous with rules | of architecture, I should be glad to have | | my two houses executed in this style. Let me request the favor of you to learn from Mr. Blagden what - ditional cost will be.” When the British burned the Capitol in 1814 these two houses were among | destroyed, the private property partl; the reason assigned b!g‘a‘ t{m. Govern- ment property was stored there, This seems to have been in a way true. Fortunately, however, many of rec- ords placed there for safekeeping were removed before the houses were burned. For many years these houses were oc- upled as a residence by Commodore Charles Wilkes, who owned and lived | {there from about 1840 to 1850. Later | they were combined and used for hotel and boarding house purposes, a business that for about 20 years, from 1876, was | conducted by N. J. Hillman under the | name of Hillman House. An announce- ment in the City Directory for 1883, and on other dates, contains the star- tling and impossible news that the place was bullt and occupied by Gen. Wash- ington “about 1776." Here is the ad “Hillman House. & O “Former mansion of George Wash- ington. Bullt and occupled by him about 1776. Remodeled and opened as a 1 by N. J. Hillman in 1876. Pifty new rooms added jn 1882 In 1899 and subsequent dates it a) pears under the name, the Kenmore, a name assoclated with the Washington family. In one of these houses the nelebrl'tél ihe United Btates consume a billion | has machinery especially adapted to it | o000 SO0 0 Wit WOCU R0 BEUE D, E. N. Bouthworth, was born, and only | in recent years the city was shocked by the killing in the Kenmore of a George- town University student then residing | WASHINGTON'S LAST BIRTHDAY AT MOUNT VERNON And the Marriage of Nellie Custis to Maj. Lawrence Lewis. One square from the Capitol and B.| Depot. ROBE USED AT CHRISTE ING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Now in Natiol including Robert Morris, financier n(i the American Revolution; John Nichol- | son and James Greenleaf, bullt about | all the places which were in readiness for the Government when it came to | ‘Washington in 1800. If there 1s anything to the saying that true love never runs smooth, then Mr. and Mrs. Law must have been quite fond of each other, for their married life whs a stormy one, and toward the end of their lives they lived apart. Another grandfather of Mrs. Wash- ington, whose husband was interested in property here during the life of the first President, was Martha Parke Cus- | tis, who married Thomas Peter, son | of Robert Peter, first mayor of George- town. According to Christian Hines, Robert Peter erected, about 1797 or 1798, six houses In the first ward for that many sons, namely, Thomas, Rob- ' ay | nephew (Thomas Peter) his escort, the ert, David, George, Sandy and James. They were all on K street, and in groups of two houses each. Two be tween Twenty-third and ‘Twenty- fourth streets, two between Twenty- | fifth and Twenty-sixth and two be-| tween Twenty-sixth and Twenty- seventh, all on the south side of the n | nal Museum. landed at the lower bridge, at the foot of K street north, and stopped with his nephew, Thomas Peter, Exq. I saw him the last time, I think, in the year 1798, when he crossed the Potomac in a ferry boat near Aqueduct Bridge. On each side of Water street, from the foot of High street, George- town, to the bridge, the citizens were ranged on either side while Gen. Wash- ington walked between them, uncov- jered and bowing to the people as he passed along. 1 recollect the George- town College boys were all formed in a line on the north stde of the street, and nearly opposite to where I stood They were dressed in uniforms con- sisting In part of blue coats and red walstcoats, and presented a fine ap- pearance. They seemed to attract the attention of the general very much After he had crossed the bridge, and he approached the house of his volunteer companies of Georgetown, fired a few volleys, and then all dis- persed. 1 had no opportunity of see- t; his face distinetly on account of the crowd, but I remember he was a large and tall man" P ¢ 10 obtain the best grade of has been known to turn out 177,926,400 A o “sapmend, knotty of cross. | mitches in one day, boxed and Iabeled grained tmber is utilized by the hun- | ready for shipment creds of factories in this country that Certain kinds of matches are shaved ere busily engaged in wrning out this ) With the grain from sawed blocks, others tele The nDecessity for the best 8re cut both ways by saws. In still Cnier rengers it imperstive thst many | further varieties the blocks sre boiled zeny W x| 10 make them cut easily. By some ma- sgents be employed o #erch Gul U Cholest trees and W see that none but | Chines s boiled or steamed log is re- wood goes U feed Lhe machines s reason @ statement of the num- ber of cubie feet of wood actually con- verted nw m ir® cach yesr would wive but inedequate dea of the Lumber of trees consumed by e in- Gustr ‘nrcoratngly the mateh manufarturers are, es 8 elass, 88 mMUch concerned over imber supply as sny other whos 1e depends on the employment of oducts A 1t 1 not W be sssumed that, by rea- of the smaliness of matches, the the mysterious polsons with which the mekers Unereof never ulilize scraps or | Borgius mude away with Lhelr enemies vite of woud left over. The contrary is O . strange thing about these poisons b w. Matches sre not hy-‘wwwu was that they worked in such subtle #0 1o pered by the malch mukers fashion that even physiclans could not W othe Ly-product establishment, | state with positiveness that any had w08 of Wieow by-progucts of the match been employed. 1L now seems certain sy be mentioned some, such | that the Borgius used two polsons, one duors und sashes, that in some in- | dissolving slowly snd stealing gradually ®lances form sn industry s mportent | through the system, while the other 8¢ e match industry stself |was & soluble preparation of arsenic 11e1e wre meny methods of manufec- | working instantaneously. Both prepara- tong matches gnd there sre many 4if- tions were unguestionably srsenical in Lrenece employed W such | composition the thickness of a mawh, s cut round and round. This shaving is at the same time cut invs match sticks, It may be sald that there is hardly a limit o the varieties of methods employed. Round mutches are made by forcing them through dies For t d . The Borgia Poisons. FRENCH doctor, Jagot, clalms to have discovered the prnciple of machines volved on 1ts own axis and a shaving, | there, and by & woman also making the | place her home. Prosecution followed, the detalls of which are no doubt fa- miliar to you, and the defendant nequitted. A few years ago these house | were razed as s part of the Plaza im- | provement plan . | PR ABHINGTON'S relatives were also early purchasers of real estate here at the beginning of the ecity, | Thomas Law, who married one of Mrs | Washington's granddaughters, Elizabeth | Parke Custis, having been a very heavy | Investor, He was the son of the Lord | Bishop of Carlisle and the nephew of | Baron Ellenborough, end prior to com- | Ing o this country hisd been the ruler of a populous district of East India, | where he had accumulated quite a for- tune. He bullt the house at 1252 Bixth | street southwest, where he was living in | 1795, About 1708 he butlt & row of | three houses at the northwest corner of | New Jersey avenue and C streets south- | east Later the corner house of the group hecame the bosramng house of Conred & McMunn, and from it Thomas Jeflerson walked 1o the Capi Wl to take the osth of office in 1801, in stead of riding there in democratic fash- om and hitehing his horse to the paling fence, us 18 8o frequently stated. Indeed, Thomas 1Lew snd Daniel Cai L 1oll of Duddington snd the syndic Figuratively speaking, rarely are men | glven their flowers untll it s too late for them to appreciate the beautiful bloom jor to smell the fragrance with which the Great Creator endowed them. Not 150 with Washington, however, for even his birthday- the anniversary of which | now approaches —was celebrated long | before he passed away, and, logically as it should be, first by his native State Virginia street. ‘The two between Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth strects were destroyed by fire before they were com- pleted. One of the remaining_groups s now numbered 2006 and 2508 street, and here lived, in 1815, An- thony St John Baker, charge d'af- faires of Great Britain, and later G, C Anthobus, who succeeded him in that office. At 2618 and 2620 lived Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peter, and when Mr Peter built Tudor Place, at Thirty- Ciradually all the States have passed first and O streets, he rented the K |acts making kmuu-ril 22 a legal holi- street property to three British Min-|day, and the United States Congress isters, Anthony Merry, Francls James has made provision in this respect for Juckson and David Montague Erskine, | the Territories and insular possessions successively, It was while Mr., Merry In the District of Columbia it is & legal resided here that “Tom" Moore, the hollday by act approved January 31, Irish poet, was his guest in 1804, | 1879, It is not only universal in our In Clen. Washington's diary for No- | OWD country, but there 15 a growin vember 9, 1799, he mentions having ' tendency to celebrate it abroad, nol visited here both of these granddaugh- ':,"‘"x" "’Y Americans, but by forelgners ters of il C ell. 18 Of Mre. Washinglon, The' reoord | A SICLLL) o Nakiaiia Ouplial vesiae slates: “November 0 * * * yiewed my|Desr and dear to the heart of the be- bufldings In the Fedl. City—Dined at |loved Washington, and although appre- Mr. Laws—and lodged at Mr. Thos, | ©18ting, as he undoubtedly did, the great Peter's.” honor of having it named for him, yot his extreme reserve and modesty pre- "WO of Washington's last visita to # vented him from making any display l over it at all, and ut:un only one occas the embryo capital are recorded |slon was he known (o have even refer- by Christian Hines, an eyewitness, and |red to the city by the v here is what he tells us: the Commisstoners. ‘That sing! "1 belleve I only saw Clen, Washing- | tion s contatned in his dia: ton twice in my life, The first time [0, 1700, when he sald. “Col was when he came up In & boat and'and Mr. Nelson set out for th CR ker 1. Wall he Olty of WASHINGTON'S U; First President Was Instrumental in Placing City on Potomac Site and Aiding in Arrangement of Government Buildings. He and Relatives Were Early Purchasers of Real Estate in District—Birthday Celebrations. NIFORN In the National Museum. SUTER'S TAVERN From an old print in !Wlshlnglou after breakfast” He wes { here speaking of Col. John Walker r. Hugh Nelson, who had arrived at i Mount Vernon on October 4 ‘The laying of the corner stone of the United States Capitol on September 18. 11793, was an event he gladly partic pated in. The Masons upon this occa- sion gave him the post of honor in the line of march and otherwise paid him every conceivable honor, though he was only a past master of the fraternity. P ‘HERE was never any intention to make the anniversary of his birth other than a day of prayer and worshin, as will be seen by the following pro Inmation issued by President John Adams after the death. in 1789, of the beloved Washington “A Proclamation “By the President of United St ' of America | _“Whereas the Congress of the United | States have this day Resolved, ‘That it be recommended to the People of the ty-second day of February next, in such numbers and manner, as may be con- {venient, publickly to testify their Grief for the Death of Gen. George Wash- ington, by suitable Eulogles, Orations and Discourses, or by Public Prayers' 110 issue & Proclamation for the Purpose |effect.” Now Therefore, 1, John Adam: {tea, do_hercby ¥ o ly. | ‘m\‘il::f:‘\ under my Hand and the Seal of the United States, at Philadelphi the sixth day of January, in the vear of our Lord one thousand "‘f‘" hundred {and of the independence of said States the twenty-fourth, JOHN ADAMS “By the President “TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.” On_ January Proclatim the same ac- 14, 1800, the Senate of {the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | passed & similar resolution, which was concurred In by the House of Repre- & tatives and aun\n‘m the same day by the governor, s QU lution set forth: “That the leutenant governor, the Council and its branches of the General Court will, in compliance with the reconmmendation of Qongress in their resolve of the 30th of December last, ‘testify our grief for the of Gen Qeorge Washington' public solemn worship Deity Inthe churoh Battle street in Hoaton on - Sat- urday, the 22d day of February next, At 11 of the clock In the forenocon * ¢ ¢ and will thon bow in humble adoration and prayer before the Su- preme Disposor of All Eventa * * ¢ “And we have confidence that our fellow citizens of all denominations throughout the commonwealth — will then unite in like service, so that the whole people, with one heart and one volee, may at the same time duly exs Press their sensations on this occasion” death h{ uniting of this 1 United States to assemble on the twen- and ‘That_the President be requested | ‘of carrying the forgoing Resolution into | President of the United States of Amer- | This reso- | The Evening Star. If the people felt this way about his birthday 128 years ago. it does seem we might well emulate their reverence for him and attend one of the several serv- ices to be held in his honor on mnext Wednesday v birthday. which Washington's last 1 was celebrated at Mount Vernon nearly |a year before he died, was probably one |of the happiest, for upon this occasion | his adopted daughter and his wife'’s | granddaughter. Eleanor Parke Custls, | was married to Washington's favorite ! nephew, Maj. Lawrence Lewls. the son lof his only sister and Col. Fielding (Tewis. In Washington's time they did |10t leave things off until the last min- {ute. and so, a month before the wed- |ding. he records that he had been to Alexandria to authorize the issuing of the license, he being Nellie Custis’ guard- {ian. His marriage gift to the bride was a harpsichord. ordered from Lon- !don at a cost of $1.000. This instrue ment is now on exhibition in the music room at Mount Vernon. Shortly before | Washington's death this union was !blesved with an issue, and the event is known to have given him much joy. s N the United States National Mu- seum there are many reminders of the life of Washington. Perhaps the most interesting is an infant’s robe used on the occasion of his It is of white brocade sil old rose China silk. It measures 36 by 37 inches and is from the Lewis collec- i Nearby is the suit worn by him when he resigned his commission betore Congress as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at Annapolis. Md., December 23. 1783. A view of these and other reminders of the first Pres- ident—who was pre-eminently “first in war, first in in this great storehouse of historic knowledze will add renewed patriotism to the souls of all loyal Americans, whose devotion is necessary for the perpetuation of the principles for which he fought and f died. And some day when you are driving through Virginia mobile stop over at “Waki moreland Coun! Va. | home is not there. but “the scent of the {roses hangs r ind it still” and your h- -t will throb just a few beats faster being on the ground the birth of the man vers of true liberty glory in e Father of His Country.” College Gowns. JL’ST before the commencement ex- ercises of one of our great umiver- sities, two gradu stood apart from the crowd of gowned men who were assembled ready to march. The men in gowns were of all grades of distine- tion. frum young bachelors of art to doctors of philosophy. “What is the significance of all those stripes and colors. anyway?"” asked one. “Really. I don't know." was the re- ply. “and I have scen them every year for nine years.” 1f college men do not know what the students in our universitiss hings academic of wider and wider importance. University gowns are diJerent in i indeed. all over the English world certain distinctions hold. fundamental distinctions may be pomted cut as follows: k with pointed sleeves Iy of serge or some other ick stuf. The master's gown is lixe it in that it is plain black. b the s'seves are different, being maat with lcng pendants shaped not unlike fishtails and hanging from the eibow nearly to the bottom of the gown. It may be made of silk. as also may be the bachelor's gown. It may be wom by a man of kong academic standing who has nappened to receive no higher not display himself in silk. Many dociors gowns., especially England and Scotland. have boods that give them distinction and mark in the difference of color. one kind of a doc- torate from another. Some years ago a commission was ed 10 establish a regular system mu perican universities. The effort was somewhat successful. and this in gen- eral is the resuit their attempt o cod ¥ of learning ocolor round tters are repre- thealogy by scaret, philosophy by bive, by goid-veliow. fine arts bdw music by pink and medicine by green. In some mstitutions these colors are displaved i bars scross the sleeve This is true at Harvard, where few of the gowns have The depariment or fac is shown the hood. Ars and sented by e, aw by sc DUELING LADIES. lT is reported that, not long ago. on being sworn in as members of the municipal board of moving picture cen- sors, four women of Texas took the an- tiquated oath of oftice prescrided by the State. which includes this declaration “I have not fought a duel. received or accepted a challenge to fight a duel carried a challenge or acted as second in a duel” This sounds odd. Nevertheless. in ,the old dueling days women occasion- ally did all those things There are only dubious instances of combats De- tween women {n American dueling an- nals but there are some strange, dis- turbing stories in French histor In 1772, for example, two ladies of Qu: | Mlles. de Guignes and d'Aigutllon. hav ing quarreled upoan a point of procedure at a dall, retired to an adjacent garden and fought with knives until neither could fight any longer. A more notable battle was that de- tween the Marquise de Nesle and ihe Comtesse de Polignac, for that was not impromptu, but formally and correctly arranged and carried out. It grew out tof a scene in which the two ladies, tivals for the attentions of the Duc de Richelien, had mauled and scratched At a grand ball? | Mme de Nesle was the original ag- | gressor, having finst endeavored o anateh off the countess' diamond neck- lace and then to cuft her with her own {rosss the next day. The aggrieved countess sent ker second with a chal- lenge The two met at 8 o'clok tn the | morning with thefr seconds, two noble- {men of distinction, and fought with PiStols. Thelr first shots missed and | the seconds strove to prevent further { hostilities, but the ladies would not hear {Of 1t They blazed awav again, and {the Marquise de Nesle fell dangerously ! wounded, while the avenging Comtesse | de Palignac escaped with merely a touch | on the ear. Those are not pretty e odes. nor | are the encounters tn whic! the temi- [ nine duelist pitted herself often vie- | [ torfously against a man less repellent But theve are at least two duels i Which the woman combatants really do | compel our adwmiration. When the Chevalier de Belmont, vain- Iy defendi Weak position was taken prisoner his wife remained upon the S Or i L the ocoupying forces took up his quar- fers in the casile and she ‘3 ance sent Alm A courteous note of puoiest, Mo and pulled each other's hatr, and that | have secmes werve ter de S d the lady. weartng a suit o s clothes, met hum on the drew their swords and after a few skilltw ¢ lady neatly disarmed her op- ponent, whom she then addressed with a grack le fis ou that you were htig W you your Iy Deg you [ pay from the scene other du tnguished herselt ooe cient English ramily of Ho The head of . with a genil Abdout & prece of lan agreed 10 meet o 0L the spot in dispute tter by A duel o day How od DY an attack of go daughier Agnes, father should su - property mounted his steed Ringsdale. Thev fght, dut she won, onent, unhorsed. rolled on the ground A her feet. she siwoped over him and m onder to joould render. and lfted her lng hat | fowed about her she T this day ihe Mo which e mareied. dear for o heraldic crest the helmetsd head of & waman, with hasenad throat-laich and & shower of ringlets Cables for Ships. 'I‘Nl Sreal rease M the sive of OCRAR-ZOINE steAmers Das Decesads fated taprovements m the manufecs ture of cables by which W moor and {tow them, and of chains tor the mighty anchors at which thev ride. In & tee cent istance the cably provided was 22 Wches I clreumtervice, 338 feet R and 3600 dounds I weieht. Some SteAIMErS Dow under Qonsiruction will Call for cables of event greater sue and | welght than this Such a cable woull have [ the mariers of 3 vears age, and W e satiars of Cohumbus® tms 1t wouddh [4