Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-27

Society of New York" for debt of 81. 900. and
an urgent appeal is made to prevent the sale.
ADVERTISEMENTS THEN AND NOW.
The advertisements in the New York papers
arc announced from the New York Gastte FOR
the last seven days to be. Of the whole city
press. LIS. of which the Gaset.e claims the
largest number. 2lS, and publishes from the
London Times, the number in one day. $50 ad-
vertsements; making, as they say, 81 500. How
does this compare with the advertising of the
present day and especially Of The EVENING
STAR?
Gen. Weightman was then mayor Of Washing
ton. and l find the names OF Jesse Brown,
Richard wallach. Andrew Coyle. Walker Clarke
Peter LenoK and other commissioners for i'm
provcments. These names ingcr on the memory
OF those to whom they are almost legendary.
Gen. Cass, il is announced, has left the District
for the far west to make treaties with the In
dams The names Of the visitors to West
Point are published officially and among them
Mr.. Van Buren,, Rev. and Prof. Edward Everitt,
George Bancroft, Rev. Obediah Brown
OF Washington, John 7. Skinner, Gen.
Hugh Mercer. John Forsyth and Rev. Dr.
Dewey. Proposals for the building of the Co
lumbar Museum is advertised, with Peter
Lenox. John p. lngle and Hanson Gass,way AZ
commissioners. / cannot recall that museum.
II 1t was built il has entirely escaped nay mem-
ory. The only museum ! remember
Pauley's, and that think was in a wooden
building on the reservation on 18th street
built by Mr.Nanderlyn. tho painter of the en-
barkation OF the Purtans in the rotunda of the
Capitol for panorama. At this early day the
project Of a canal to connect the
discussed in Europe, and a movement for
JOINT survey was inaugurated. One of the most
conspicuous merchants at that time and for
years before Was Mr.. Raphael Jones. He was
the only Hebrew in the city. and man of very
extensive learning and universally esteemed.
vislf tn ha NJ ha
National Intei,iGencer and friend of M.
GALES, who regarded him as n very eXtraordin-
airy man. Not long since gentleman in
qulred of me if 1 remembered a person
named Raphacl Jones, rs he said his
family. making some repairs to the family
vault found IN it a coffin with that name upon
1t and none of them could remember any rela-
tve or friend OF that name. 1 cannot remem-
Der when he died. but it must have been forty
or fifty years ago. The remains were in the
vault Of the KcSworth family and have no
doubt Mr.. keyworth and Mr.. Jones were
Trends, as they were contemporaries in BUSH
ness.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
There are several advertisements inviting
proposals for building sections Of the national
road, the project which was one of Mr.. Gays
advancement and upon which he delivered
several speeches in advocating the measures Of
internal improvements by the general govern
ment. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal was
then being pushed. and the commissioners were
Samuel Harrison Smith. the president of the
branch Bank of the United States and the orig
lnal proprietor of the National lnteligract1,,
Anthony c. Casanova of Alexandria and Glenn
cnt Smith Of Georgetown.
On the S0th June. 1925. the theater, then on
Louisiana avenue near 9th street, was opened
for a brief season with the grand spectacular
and musical drama of der Freyschutz," with
selections from grand opera. The prices of
admission being: Boxes. 81: pit, 90 cents. The
management was under Mr.. Joseph jefferson,
ST., and subsequently find bill announcing the
comic duet of Polly Hopkins" Master Tisonp-
ktns. Mr. Jefferson, ST., Polly Hopkins, Mr.. ].
Jefferson and the bill for tie celebration Of the
Fourth Of July. 1925, was the fairy spectacle
OF Cherry and Fairstar,' the scenery painted
by Mr.. j. Jefferson. the father Of the present
Joseph Jefferson; sailors Hornpipc, by Mr..
Durang; Home. Sweet Home from the opera
of ''Clari. the Maid of Milan.' by Mrs. Ander-
son, and a military gun hornpipe, in the char
actor Of a Washington Guard slMr. Seaton' o
company, by Miss Hathwell.
Over a column in the National Journal is
occupied with an account Of the presentation
by the state of Virginia of sword to Gen.
Scott at the state capitol with imposing parade
and ceremonies, and the trial Of Commodore
David Porter, the father OF the late admiral
at Porto Rico in violation of inter-
national law. letter dated from
Meridian Hill, where Commodore Porter
resided, having built the old mansion
OF which but little remains, asked a suspension
OF public opinion until he has been heard,
through his counsel. Gen. Walter Jones.
There were innumerable lotteries in those
days, and Yates Mcintire, who were sue
ceeded IN business by Mr.. John W. Maury, ad-
vertised the Washington Canal Lottery" In
one OF these lotteries the late DIR. john H.
Blake drew prize of $1,000, and it was for
some years before the courts here. the doctor
having sued the corporation for that sum.
JOHN +. CoYLE.