Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-23

| Gen Grant was then brevetted second lieuten-
ant; Gen. Taylor, colonel sixth infantry; Gen.
| Sherman, second lieutenant artiileryi Gen. Lee
captain engineers; Gen. Meigs, first Heute nant,
| with Beauregard and Isaac J. Stevens and Hal
/ leck and H. G. Wright and Newton and Rose
| Grams second lieutenants of engineers. The
Hon. Robt NJ. McLane, ex-minister to France.
was then second lieutenant typographical en-
gineers; Gems. JOS. E. Johnston w. II. Emery,
| j. c. Fremont and George Meade were lieu
| tenants in the same corps. Gen. Thomas, Gen.
| Ord, Gen. Bragg, Gen. Doubleday we're lieu
tenants Of artillery, as was also Gen. Van Welt
| In the regiment Of rifles ind many familiar
names to Washingtonians. Gen. Twiggs, colo
mel: Gen. Harney. lieutenant colonel; captains,
Ben. Beall, Lloyd Beall, Charley May and lieu
tenants W. J. Hardee, Henry II. Sibley, Ripley
Arnold, Bayard Clarke, afterward member of
Congress from New York city; Pat Calhoun,
son of John c. Calhoun. and Rufus Ingalls,.
brevet lieutenant; Gen. d. H. Hill. whose mon
ument is TO be unveiled in few weeks, was sec
ond lieutenant OF artillery.
NAVAL OFFICERS OF THE PAST.
The officers of the navy whose names l find
in this reminder of the past aud who are yet
with us are very few DUPONT and Farragut
are here In bronze. but OF those who at that
with them as commanders
] do not recall a single survivor; OF the cap
tain-not one. There are many of both grades
whose names are so familiar 10 the older resi-
dents of Washington-Aulick. Bolton. Cassin,
Morris, Parker, Shubrick. skinner, Smith,
Smoot. Stockton. Turner and Warrington. Of
the heutenants l can recall but Conn., Thorn
ton A. Jenkins, Admiral Lee aud VIM. ID. Por-
ter as alive, and the list contains so many ia
miiiar names-Almy. Bailey, Bergman,
Blunt (who married Miss Key, Boutwell,. Jun
Jus Boyle, Brent Overton Carr, Craven. Dahl
gren. Jack Davis (who lies in old St. Patrlck's
burial grOund), Ben. Dove. Dan DuaEy. j. Z.
and ). NJ. ellis, John Goldsborough. Herndon.
hnv how ~, thx.D nd
whose daughter was the wife of ex-President
Arthur, Emmett Hooe. Charley Hunter CAL
yarado), Gus Kelly, the best guitarist ever
heard. met him after the war and he had
lost a hand and had grown old. VIM. Z. Lynch
OF Dead sea fame, Matthew L. Maury, VIM. May,
David McDougal. who commanded the Wyo-
ming i'll the fight with the Japanese; Richard
W. Meade, Charles W. Morris of the CUnber-
land. Carlisle Patterson. Charles Poor, Admiral
Eadford, VIM. Ronckendorff, Admiral Sands.
Raphael Semmes, John ii. Sherburne. who
killed Passed Midshpman Key. brother of Bar
ton Key. In duel fought near Anacostia; Adj
miral Stedman and Admiral Alfred Taylor.
who died recently; Richard Wainwright, James
Watson. Max Woodruff. whose mamie always
recalls Gunsps Band and the Inauguration ball
o. Gen. Taylor. The surgeons and passed as
sistant surgeons / cannot recall one of them
rs being alive, but find very familiar names.
DR.. Clymcr, DR.. Foltz. DIR. Harris. DIR. Kearney.
DR.. Bailey Washington, DIR. Wood. DR.. Max
L. l.
the pursers, as they were called in those days,
contains only one survivor. Gov. Rodman
Price of New Jersey. The passed midship-
men of that period have but few sur
viyors, Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale. Ad-
mirai Worden and Admiral Ammen being all
recognize, Among tie well-remembered
names on that list are Washington A. Bartlett
Of diamond wedding fame. James Blair the
brother of Gen. F. p. Blair and Mrs. Admiral
Lee. Catesby Jones. Lafayette Maynard, Louis
McLane. Alexander Murray, Thomas II. Pat
terson. NJ. c. Perry. John B. Randolph. C. II.
7. Rodgers. Thomas II. Stevens. Henry 4.
Wise, who married daughter of Edw. Everett.
l think. and wrote very charming book, Los
Gringos CD
The officers of the marine corps. as published
at this time. 1912, are all dead except Algernon
S. Taylor.
LATE HONOR TO L ENFANT.
There has been movement to repair a
neglect which has been allowed to exist too
long and one (which cannot be too speedily re-
moved l allude to the utter want of recognI-
ton of the services of Maj. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant the engineer who, under the dlrec-
ton of Gen. Washington. laid out the city of
Washington. and whose plans, with but slight
alteration. we're eXhumed from the dust of a
half century. under which they were buried in
the Office Of the commissioner of public build
ings and grounds. by Gov. Alexander r. Shep-
herd, and this beautiful city which is the pride
OF the country, is the creation of his mind and
genius. The remains of this distinguished Off
Ger, to whom we are indebted for our fair CITY,
lie with his grave unmarked by even a stone
within few miles OF Washington. the city he
designed. He died in the spring of 1925.
The family of the late DIR. James L. Morgan
are III possession OF some most valuable and in
teresting papers belonging to the old engineer
offclal-letters and other papers which would
be valuable acquisition TO the archives OF the
country. Under his directions and plans Fort
Washington was built, and after he had been
removed, because of some disagreement with
the owners Of tie Land upon whichthe city was
built, his plans were carried out by Andrew
Ellicott. whose assistant was a colored man
named Banenker, whose almanac was regarded
in that day as the most reliable published.
Maj, LEnfant was sent in 1884 to Paris by the
Society OF the Cincinnati to obtain the en-
craving and design Of the gold badge Of the
society, which could not be done here. He
sailed on one Of RObt Morris ships, and letters
from members of the society regretting their
inability to pay what was due him are in this
collection. Mr.. Monroe appointed him pro-
fessor at West Point. but he neither accepted
nor declined 1t, and for years before his death
his life was of obscurity from which he
never emerged. This cruel and shameful neg
lect of one whose genius has stamped on our
city all its beauty ctnnot be too soon repaired,
His remains should find a resting place in this
city ana monument raised over them. and
his name should be perpetuated i'll some promi-
Ient street or circle or square.
OLD TINE AND MODERN FIIEaEN.
was on my way to the Office of TIE STAR
on Wednesday morning last and reached there
to find it in flames. The confagration had OBJ
tanned such Roadway that the destruction of
the Office of~THE STAR seemed inevitable.
The flames were bursting from two or three
stories and smoke and creeping fame were
making their way under the caves along 18th
street to the avenue. For n time the firemen
did not seem to be making any progress
toward its extinguishment but as I watched
1T / saw wonderful exhibitions Of daring as
they fought the fierce element in its very
stronghold. When the ladders were raised
they did not wait for them to rest upon the
wall. but man after man rushed up and OBJ
tanning foothold somehow poured streams of
water into the vortex of fire and soon the
change was apparent-they had conquered.
had never seen the fire department
of Washington at work and my idea
of putting cut fires dated from
the period Of the fire bucket and the engine,
worked by strong and willing arms. In my
salad days was enamored of the Franklin"
but my fancy for the life of a fireman received
its death blow by running to Alexandria and
pulling the engine all the way. The fire began
in a hay press and was very serious one. We
dremen and our apparatus were sent up to
Washington on the Joe johnson and the Sur
prise the next day. l spent several days in
bed, literally piled with hot drinks and
rubbed with opodeldoc, and my ambition to be
fireman wassquelcheG. My admiration for