Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1930, Page 30

CAPTALS HISTORY TOLD FOR SOGETY From 1813 to Present in lllustrated Lecture. “The City of Washington; Then and Now” was sketched In speech and pic- ture by Allen C. Clark, president of the Columbia Historical Soclety, in his {llustrated lecture at the meeting of the society in the Cosmos Club last with a bfielkcéutune of the mow beautiful National Capital from its inauspicious beginnings, giving empha- sis to that development by contrasting, In his conclusion, the 6ld Potomac River ” with the stately Lincoln Memo- rial and its surrounding landscaping. first regular meeting place of lumbia Historical Society, Mr explained, was the residence of dent, Dr. Joseph Meredith ', 1445 Massachusetts avenue, while first meeting was heid May 7, 1894. Mr. Clark paid tribute to Dr. Toner for his careful re<"-~ch in historical data, & work whi~ “ad in the col- 3 bocks - and ; left to the diplomat, was the second president of the society, Mr. Clark said, while the third head of the crganization was Judge Alexander Burton Hagner.. Avenue in 1813. Following his discussion of the <his- torical society, Mr. Clark launched into a series of reminiscences and discus- slons which presented the Washington of yesteryear and today. He exhibited & sketch of “Pennsylvania Avenue in 1818" which Benjamin Henry Latrpbe, first surveyor of the city, had drawn. Prominent in the sketch was the inter- section of the Avenue and Twelfth street, at which point was shown the Post Office Building. One of two struc- tures shown then at Twelfth and D streets, Mr. Clark said, still is standing. Commenting upon the appearances of the city shown in the sketch, Mr. Clark sald: sald: “The designers of the city evidently concluded in advance all of the people were to be well off and none poor. The regulations provided only for wids brick houses, two or three stories in height. It was in the early period, the reverse. Mr. Latrobe says the appro- priations, capriciously made, for public ‘works gave good wages for a short time and t none for the remaining . Clark pointed out the guarters of mlvenlngposf.lr in the period be- in 1854, explaining that the bullding which he exhibited in conjunction wth the Latrobe sketch, was drecily opposite the present Star Build- ing. Oldest House in City. “The city was -gh 1if | o Egaf. Puircold Baby Grand Radio| | Balanced Unit Construction Big Set Performance Undistorted Tone . .. cording All-Electric. The Sets That Put Philco | in First Place have Grand America’s Radio @ more attrac- ;, I;lbmer‘L. Kitt Co. | . | city in the United States. Look at This—7 tubes (3 Screen Grid) ; Genuine, Built-in Electro- Dynamic Speaker; T ‘whose careers were sketch- in the lecture, i Roosevelt Houses Shown. Mr. Clark sho of several houses rn.‘v modmm Roosevelt resided while in various offices Showing a photograph of Pennsyl- vania avenue, Mr. rk. cited the progen its changing appearance repre- sents. “At the time Gen. Grant was first inaugurated,” Mr. Clark said, “the city was in a highly progressive stage. The general, while President, accelerated the rogress. The Board of Public Works, under the dominant direction of Gov. Shepherd, attempted to do everything all at once. Th's was from 1871 to 1875. One of our local historians has said: ‘Before the time of Gov. Shep- herd the city wes a straggling villay A mistake, Another historian has said: ‘Gov. Shepherd has transformed the city from a mudhole into the mostt beautiful city in the world. after a rain there were muddy places. After and to this date it is not agreed that Washington is the most beautiful ‘To those who have seen the cities in the creat.ve growth of the centuries in foreign lands, the remark is a pleasantry. Yet there is sufficient attractiveness in the City of Washington and its suburbs to war- rant the admiration of every one who belongs to the United States.” In conclusion, Mr. Clark™displayed a photograph of a site west of the pres- ent Pan-American - Bullding 40 years It showed pools of water, lands and a grazing cow. Quite near the spot where the cow stood, Mr. Clark explained, the Lincoln Memorial has been reared. ed ago. - 25 Railway Strikers Arbitrate. SAO PAULO, Brazil, November 19 () —Striking rallway ~shopmen and textile workers have returned to work while their grievances are being taken up by a board of conciliation. Communistic activities were blamed by officials for the strikes which af- fected 1,200 shopmen and 5,000 workers in 20'textile fectories. 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