Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 87

THE SUNDAY“WS-TVAR, WASHINGTON, D. .C, \FERRUARY 23, 1030. ents’; also the United States coat of arms and coats of arms of the various States. Over each gallery there were lines of burgees of every hue, and from the flagstaffs the United States colors floated. The neat little office building of the company, near Eighth street, had a plentiful supply of evergreens and flags out. “The American Hous2, on Seventh street, had its balcony handsomely draped. Selby & Mandain, R. Cohen, Roland and Burgess, Harmonial Hall, Bryon's Building, in which are the offices of the Critic and Sunday Chromicle, and Cumiskeys, tried to outdo the north side of the square between Sixth and Seventh streets, on which the balcony of the Metropolitan Hotel, the establishments of Messrs. Heiberger, Hirsh,, Nolan and the Richmond & FPredericksburg Railroad office handsomely trimmed. Be- tween Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets John Lynch, John H. Moore & Som, W. D. Wyville, Poole & Hume, John M. Young, George Kirk, P. and H. J. Fegan, W. S. Horton, W. H. and ©O. H. Morrison (plentiful supply of Chinese lan- terns, etc.); P. C. Boyle and Bachus vied with each other to make a display. About the center of the square a line of burgees was strung. The front of St. James' Hotel was decorated with American and other flags and burgees. The baleconies, the use of which were tendered the President and cabinet, were handsomely festooned with colors, etc. On & stand nearby the fuil Marine. Band was stationed. In place of the fallen arch across the Avenue at Sixth Wall's Marble Store, space underneath which later became the Marble Saloon, still standing at the southwest corner of Pemnsylyania ave- nue and Ninth street, where two nefed murders occurred, was ornamented with a varigated glass refleetor in the form of a large star and gas jets forming the word “Wall's.” The theater opposite was at one time run by Wall and called Wall's Opera House. Shepherd’s build- ing to the west, the headquarters of the carni- val; Rudolph Buchly’s, May’s store, Vondelier & Plummer’s restaurant, Harvey’s at Eleventh street, Blanchard & Mohun's, Sebastian Aman’s at Ninth street, Wall & Stephens and Boteler’s store, were all. decorated with flags and ban- ners, as:. were Harper & Mitchell's, Mrs, Cliteh’s, Oppenheimer’s clothing store, Teel’ Ellis" music store, May’s dry goods store, the Dickson House on Eleventh street, Hood’s building, Galt’s jewelry store and the Kirkwood House. X the Willard Hotel; the National Theater, Roose’s cigar store, near Thirteenth _street; 1] Br #bf EKE g — Business houses on the north side of Penusylmmiavwenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, back; and then there was & ‘carnival’ sure encugh. There were teams of all kinds, sulkies, open buggies, top buggies, phaetons of all kinds, closed carriages, open carriages and almost every - sort of vehicle ever seen in this neighborhood. “Among the teams out were George Waters and wife of Georgetown, with carriage and gray horse; William A. Young, with sorrel to sulky; Sebastian Aman, with clipped black to open ; John Price, with four-seat basket PP E & giki g 2jit {1l ] [ : g of & Co. - to an open phaeton, containing his family; John W. Thompson, with blooded bays to a top buggy; Dr. Verdi and wife, with two bays to a park phaeton; “Mrs. George Parker and daugh- ter, in open carriage with bays; John Angus, with sorrel to top buggy; John and Pete Welker, with bay to open buggy, with red running gear, and Willlam H. Godey, with the family gray and rockaway. uldllcrkec space before mouing to Eleveufh and F streets. Site is now oocupoed by the 3 o Ny CEuAM A goonda A 50 years ago. Houghton of South Whshington, tain’; Master ‘Sikesy’; Master Samimy Mundell ward, ‘Anacostia’; Master Pratt of Alex=" andria, Va., entered ‘Buck,’ a white and mixed, horns painted red and with black very fle turnout; Master E. E. King, Eagle’; F. M. Lazenby of Georgetown two goats unknown, Master Johnny Repetti Uniontown entered ‘Star, a fine animsl well trained; Willie Killian, first ward, ‘Bfll’; Master McDermott, ‘Red Eagle’; Master George Duvall entered ‘Major Richards’; Johnny Nay- ‘Brown Charley’; George R. Price, ’; Sammy Ingle, ‘Bill Nye'; Johnn Kemp, ‘Young America’; Edward Lynch, ‘George M. Patchen’; Charley Hood, ‘Lightfoot’; Albert Connor, ‘Brown Dick’; Frank Griffin, ‘Stonewall’; E. Hall, ‘The Heathen Chinee’; Charlie Heiberger, g. Bad g stand, corner Ninth street; P. M. B, Young, Charles Haight, H. D. Barron, third stand, between Eleventh and Twelfth Tl-lt picture that accompanies this shows & part of the north Avenue between Ninth and Tenth is most interesting because you the names of some of our ear substantial business firms. “:‘o the right—showing only By i ‘Rocky George Bell of the first ward, ¢