Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1935, Page 40

SQUALID CAPITAL OF '0'S RECALLED Civil War Resident Amazed by Changes in Recent Years. Washington at the beginning of the Civil War was “a squalid, unattrac- tive, insanitary country town infested by malaria, mosquitoes, cockroaches, bed bugs, lice and cutdoor backhouses #nd secessionists, surface drainage, muddy or dusty streets, stirred up by soldiers marching through and camp- ing in public buildings, and no end of houses of ill fame,” the Fine Arts Commission has been informed by & veteran telegraph operator, now (ving in Maine, Thomas H. Sherman of Gorham, Me., recently was looking through th:e pages ot the National Geographic Magazine and admiring the photo- graphs of the new Washington. Re- calling the city as he saw it as a young man, from the beginning of the | Civil War until 1889, he noted the “vast improvements in architecture | and beautification of the surface.” He was moved to write Chairman Charles | Moore about it and contrast the Washington of his day with the fast- Tising metropolis of today. Van Ness Mansion. “For instance, southwest of the | White House a large tract reaching to | the Potomac was sparsely coverea.” | gaid Mr. Sherman. *“The only puild- | ings that I recall were small struc- | tures connected with the old canal and the rough cottage of the wan (Burns?) who sold to Washington a large section of the site for the city, and a fine mansion nearby it built by Van Ness, a member of Congress from New York, who married Burns daughter, a belle of that day. One of Booth's schemes at first was to kid- nap the President and secrete him in this mansion, as probably you know. “On Meridian Hill just north of | the city boundary stood a large water | standpipe near where I bought some i house lots. Over this hill, just west | of Sixteenth street, I think I locate | the Walter Reed Hospital. I cannot place the Cathedral, for ‘Mount St. Alban’ seems new to me. Penitentiary Site. “The War College I seem to see on | the site of the old penitentiary (?) in which the assassins were tried. | “There are other spots that puzzle | me, but these menticned are most in- | teresting.” | The veteran telegrapher told Chair- man Moore that he was called to Wash- | ington at the oeginning of the war. | “It took two days and more to get | there from Bangor by fastest routes with seven or eight changes from train to bus, 10 ferries, to trains,” he wrote. Washington of that day he found far from (he “city of my dream.’ ‘ “Perhaps there are but a few who saw Lincoln ‘close-up’ as I saw him, | and who sat in the theater the night of the assassination,” he observed. Mr. Sherman asks the Fine Arts Commission to send him a detailed map of the city so that he may com- | pare the metropolis of today with that of his vouth. The commission pro- poses to grant tnis wish. | TUBERCULO_S.IS HOSPITAL IS 90 PER CENT OCCUPIED 133 Cared For at Glenn Dale in February, Dr. D. L. Finucane Tells Welfare Board. At the beginning of this month the Children's Tuberculosis Sanatorium at | Glenn Dale, Md., was occupied to 90 per cent of its capacity, according to a report yesterday to the Board of Pub- lic Welfare by Dr. Daniel Leo Finu- cane, He said the facilities for white boys were 97.3 per cent occupied, for white girls 94.7 per cent, for colored boys 83.7 per cent, and for colored girls 86.4 per cent. The average number of patients | cared for during February 133, as | compared with 128 in January. | The institution was opened last | Beptember and construction of addi- tions to this building now are under way. ALUMNI OFFER LOANS Duke U. Group Sets Up $200| Fund to Aid Washingtonians. The Duke University Alumni Asso- | eiation of Washington has set up a | loan fund of $200 to help Washington | students who hope to attend Duke, it ‘was announced yesterday by Miss Jane Elizabeth Newton, president The fund is to be perpetuated and will be available year after year. Last October the association offered two $100 scholarships that were won by Charles C. Stauffer and Robert S. Doyle, both freshmen at Duke now. Bonn Gilbert, also of Washington, and a senior at Duke, is another recipient of a loan from the Washington alumni. Ring Found After 33 Years. Thl;cy-three years ago, while play- ing with her two children on a swing close to an old apple tree outside her Denbigh home, Mrs. Evans, now of Colwyn, England, lost her wedding ring. The other day the tree was blown down, and, while it was being removed, the ring dropped from a small hole at the base. — 230 Seek Three Jobs. For three positions of stenographers at central police office of Dundee, Scotland, 230 applications from men have been received. QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION That is the joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physi- cian for 20 years, and calomel’s old- time enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating pa- tients for chronic constipation. . Olive Tablets do mot contain calo- mel, just a healing, soothing vegetable Iaxative safe and pleasant. No griping is the “keynote” of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored tab- lets. 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