Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 6

8 'PONEER BULDES 0FD.C. SKETCHED Oldest Inhabitants Vote to March in Fire Parade With Columbia Engine. The carcers of Washington's early | builders and financiers. Robert Morris, James Greenleaf John _ Nicholson, Thomas Law and Capt. Willam M Duncanson. were sketched for the As- sociation of Oldest Inhabitants of the Distriet of Oolumbia by Artemas C. Harmon, member, at its August meet- ing last night in the old Union Engine House, Nineteenth and H streets. During the business session which Freeedrd the reading of Mr. Harmon's engthy paper the association voted to participate in the firemen's Labor day ?lrld( by marching as a guard of honor or the old Columbia fire engine, pro- vided the parade committee furnish some means of hauling the relic in the line of march. Eliot Wright, secretary of the association, read a letter from Sergt. A J. Bargagni parades m: iaviting the organization to participate. | 1t was first proposed by John Clagett Proctor. s vice president, that the as- sociation take no part Need Men to Pull Engine. L. Harries, however, suggested Fred that the old engine be offered to Serm.k; butiding, i if he furnish the nécessary 16 men to pull it. or some means of trans- it. A cordon of association guard of honor for the engine. recalled that last year Sergt. Bargagni Baa isedt to supply 16 men, when @ reality only two presented them- geives for the duty. of a means of propuision be supplied should be obtained from the parade ecommittee before the engine is consid- ered for the march, Mr. Harries said, after declaring the task of pulling the eld machine is too great fol oSt ef the men of this associatios Mr. Earries. who has the distinction of deing the oldest volunteer fire chief of Takoma Park, will ride with the Takoma Park apparatus, he said. In his paper, “Pioneers of Waahing- ton,” Mr. Harmon told of the creation of a building syndicate by Morris, Greenleaf and Nicholson and its unsuc- cessful efforts to bulld large numbers of houses in the Federal City during its infancy. Greenleaf, who was born in Boston in 1765. came to Washingto! with a fortune and through the build- ing speculations of the syndicate, lost a million dollars before 1 Foll his financial failure he debtors’ prison. but was turn to his financial efforts. dy “honored citizen. in 1843, an Harmon showed a pen-and-ink sketch | of the Greenleal monument above the Put in Debtors’ Prison. Robert Morris. financier.of the Revo- Rutiopary War, launched the building of | the Arst full block of houses in Wash- , Mr. Harmon told the associa- , when he began construc- of a row of dwellings on South . ‘The houses were left when the building syndi- to pay its contracted were torn down years and John Nicholson, the of the syndicate, also the debtors’ prison. Public for the financier of the Revo- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, responsible for the Capital being located in Washington today, Mr. Harmon pointed out. When the British burned the Capitol Building during their oc- cupancy in the War of 1812 the moving of the Capital to Harrisburg, Pa, was being considered. Law. and Carroll, however, erected a suitable building at | First street southeast near Capitol Hill to serve as a temporary Capital until | the present buildi was occupled, Law died in 1834 in his home on New Jersey | avenue on Capitol Hill. Capt. Willlam M. Duncanson, who brought a fortune to Washington from Europe, lost his money through his ex- travagances, Mr. Harmon said. Duncan- son butld a “mansion in the woods” on what is now South Carolina avenue| between Sixth and Seventh streets; southeast. He later moved to & hum- on the Potomac River which he operated a ferry | a for 17 years, Duncanson | | died in 1812 without notice being taken in the papers, Mr. Harmon said. Reports on Houston Convention. James F. Duhamel, a member, gave | the association a brief account of his activity while attending the Demo- cratic convention at Houston and the trip back to Washington from the Texas city. While at the convention, Mr. Duhamel said, he was allowed one minute in which to plead for a District suffrage plank in the Democratic party platform. On his return to the n&_- tal, Mr. Duhamel stopped at New Or- Savannah, | leans, Montgomery, Al Ga.; Chamleston, S. and Raleigh, | viewing those cities’ museums ! Pembers. he e8dea toul march ss a | C0red to the face of bulldings which He | {ing. A letter A definite promise | &‘sfnr's grave in Congressional Ceme- | became premier in 1924, and Foreign , | of Infantry in the Reserve Corps of the N. and their collections of antiquities. The association voted to member- ' ship four candidates whose eligibility had been approved by the membership committee. They are William Jones Nicholson. F M. Ward, J. Martin Proctor and John T. Cuthbert. F. W. Downing, marshal of the reported that when efforis | tamper with the plates se- en made t “fire markers"—fron had old were insured against fire—he had re- moved them from the engine house wall and stored them within the build- ad by J. Eliot Wright, secretary, hows indicated curiosity rather t| theft was the motive which impelled intruders to tamper with the plates. A collector in Philadelphia appealed to the association to sell him one of the markers or allow him to make & cast of one. The association agreed a cast could be taken. 'HERRIOT WILL ATTEND GERMAN PRESS EXHIBIT French ,Official's Visit Believed Part of Conciliation | Policy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 2.—Minister of Public | Instruction Edouard Herriott has gone | to Cologne, Germany, to visit the press | exposition and the trip is regarded here as carrying out the French policy of conciliation toward Germany. M. Her. | roit set this policy going well when he Minister Briand pushed it along at Lo- carno. It is understood that Herriot | will talk of closer relations between | French and German intellectuals while in Cologne. President Doumergue is at Ram- bouillet, the Summer white house, and French officialdom is almost entirely absent from Paris. Andrew Tardieu, minister of public works, has gone to the Vosges for a rest. Louis Loucheur, minister of labor, is tous the country in tion for 2 bull campaign of of mod- } erate rental. Two D. C. Men Commissioned. J. Purcell, 321 She; street, R. 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