, 1873-04-09

boat near tho prosont Aquoauot bridge and walked
dewn Water stroot aoorgot,ow throngnh h6sS 1owa
| to thom ns ho passed on.. The Georgetown Col
logo boyn woro aiI formed IN u limo, ~ uniforms
Of blue onnta aud rod waiHtcoatH. Washington
md az llo crosi1'od nook Crock bridge, to ontor
tho house Of his nophow, Thomaa Potter, tho vol
,lntcera frod complimentary yolfccya. At nnothof
timo, Mr. limos ronlombora Washington coming
up tito Potomac In aai-hoat, and disonibarlsiug
| In Hock Crook, wllero tlioro wore sc1nl-ciro.ar
stops lending up tho bank to retor'a house,
whore lo made htH homo In tho city, md Which,
| IL still standing. Mr.. 1iinc3 remembers
| JOHN ADAatB
| Il, lino Of men aiding 10 pnYB buckets OF waor
to and fro from tho burning Of tho iirst Treasury
building. uo Remembers
horse through tho city, woarlng his Int
down over Ills eyes an'M witt = blue"
Duriug Joiforson's arat tor,n, fresl,ot in tho
Potomac, mud q sudden torrent OF rain, wliici,
lasted whole dny, so ro',aod tho Ilbcr Greek
that 1t flooded Pennsylvania avcn,,o from tho
tho Ho,itll sdo Of tho Avonrlo. Lnborora on
Tho Capitol building, wishing to got to thoir
llomoa, attempted to wato THIS torront, md "ero ,
atroam where tl,oy caught iii tho brhl,es md
branchoB Of trecs, n!ld hold OIL perllonaly through
tho whole night Mr.: JofforAon rode down to
tho spot on horseback, and offered 2l5 head
LUZ oaSn an 'a naoo t1o vnntura to roH
~ a.,e tynT,, VA" "~
Mrs: Hines remembors
| with lila latr powdorod on all occasions,
saDe ssato f1pm fap iil'' Lis on '0' 70 tho
/ White House, whore he kept his ofIico. Ho re-
members
| MR. MONROE
walking from the ,yestorn part Of tho oity TO the
White House, while goeretary of State mplng
10 remembers tho aonoral poat- oi1lee WHOM IT.
was kept in tho War-0fico building, alollg with
tho patout Onlco; and haa soon Air. Gideon
Granger onter His hoarding"house IN tno ''so'on
In 1858, Christian Hines, and ata brother,
Matthew Ainos, took advantage OF tne la1iors
confinement to his house, to 1ot down toSoshe9,
rom their nnltod momores ~ lhe cary aoasea ls
aud families IN tho Capital. matthew Limos aloa
in 1862 and his brothor, with pioue lnaahtfS' fo'
corded their "reminiscences.
;, THE FIRST ROADWAY , ,,o
ado on tno Ayonue i Mas ytha ~ fss n Ioc, carin
gravel, chips Of froeatono. and refuse
from tho new buildings to make .
tootwny To fe f90tways tvs W9sG 1s ,n ao 1oS
olod afterward, until tho wl,o!o resomblcd ono Of
tho ar1ny-roads made in Virginia during tho War.
-Four rows Of treca were planted down tho Ave
tloro. looking at an old man named Buntin sot-
ting u,lk tho Loubardy poplars. Jefferson was
fon2l Of going to tho spot whoro all tho improve
monts wore made, and his poplar-trees LATED for
wonld not procreato, bong fomale troes only.
ia relnombers the forost-trccs growing in boatl-
tiful clusters on tho sito Of Wclckor's rcstau-
iiuss n rarioua nnrta Of tiio city'
! rftr TIMER GREER
now a1n,ost entiroly filled in, was thon large
p1,eot of water clear and deop,-great syca-
ntoro frena cxfen1inr thoir roots be-
nonth fin banl.u: ind lo has soon
scnrs 1olon w;tI, mnrble mud Limestone towod
, IN tho eree1k and fastened to tho roots Wild
ducks would settle whore tho Co,.tro Marriott now
w tones at thou and he has soon dat
hottomna hoats at lrh-tIdo, towed across part Of
Z, tho Presidnnt;s rrou1dp: aid, at such times,
i DAVID nunNs'
r | 5a1,,ro ar W;nau i,onn NOT CLEARLY recolloct
0 t%at 'c ovor snv Dayy Burns, tho ownor Of The
forn, ~ ~ ,xcl, tic most }nportant part Of
0 Wnah;noton wan laid out. He is satisfied, how.
+ a',ar f9nn, honrinr ponplo talk about Burma
Il es,.,o. ssna, aorat;on fSnt tx ind boen moor aud
. i;1lo Tn minority of tho paeplo of tho region
. 1roa fnnfl nf ardont spirity, and often took TOT
. 1nueh regularity to Georgetown to be filled will
J.. whisky aud thta faot lod to much utlnctgh
q borly comments, wllon, after somo years
o tho farmers tino daughter. Marcia, 5oa9 love oyo
; farm extended from the present Van Ness maj,
Il zion 10 tho Mausoloum whero 10 WaH attor"nrd
buried ION II street, noar NINTH, md thence 7
tho Co,itre Market, on tho Tibor. It therefor
included the rite Of the new STATE pep@stmeRt t
!. White House, tho Troasury, tho moRt yaluabl
+ lands nftorverd built oyor BY corcoran an
Il othors, tho Centre Markot-Houso, Willard
10 Hotol, and thomoBt valuablo part OF tho Avenns
LOCALITIES.
:. Mr., Hines remembers tho execution Of M<
ID uirk wife-murderer, at the foot Of capit<
10 Hill, curly in Jonerson's Administration an an
10 ho attended, tho first play oyor actod u tue city
y, 5yhcre Jogeph Jetferaon and Junlus DrutuH loot
ID acquired much Of their art. Tho play was give
20 in thu aholi Of BlodgettB unfinished hotel l,-th0
D. Hogott WHO had pFoncsoa to Jefferson IT., to hsni pad
H. Oaico hi,]. in 1902 Inos and tho boys suckc
fhcir wuy uto tho hotel by gctting into tho bas
O. mont. and removing looso Boards from tho foo
Ii Inskod tic old gentleman to toll mo how IL