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

Wy aT C:sAssl. was the only mode of
land travel. The writer
'iS,'eo washington more than sixty years ago.
arriving at Browns Indian Queen Hotel by
e.aee' and says these coaches were always sup
Pied with niue teams of horses and ran in and
OUT OF the city at full speed. Arriving at the
inoian queen, which was. he says, designated
Wy d long swinging sign of Pocahontas painted
III brilliant colors, the landlord, Mr. Jesse
Drown, came to the curbstOne to welcome the
coming guest. He was a native ofHavre de Grace,
VINO mad served his apprenticeship to tavern
heePing at Hagerstown and Alexandria. glance
'he passengers as they alighted and were
ushered by him into the house enabled him
.nen'any 10 assign each one aroom. the advant-
ayes OF which he would describe ere sending
us destined occupant there under the pilotage
VI acoiored servant. When the next meal was
ready the newly arrived guest was met at the
uoor OF the dining room by Mr.. Jesse Brown,
wearing large white apron, who escorted him
seat ana then went to the head of the
taoie, where he carved and helped the principal
oisn; The excellence of this-fish or flesh or
nowl--he would announce as he would invite
NOSE seated at the table to send up their plates
lor what he knew to be their favorite portions,
ana ne would also invite attention TO the dishes
on other portions of the table, which were
carved, AID helped by the guests, who then
knew what was before them without elaborately
printed bills OF fare often containing the names
OF dishes that have no existence EXCEPT in the
imagination of the caterer
TREES ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
This visitor says: There was a proup of small.
shabby houses around the navy yard and the
marine barracks, another cluster on the river
bank just above the arsenal which was to have
been the business center of the METROPOLIS
ana pennsylvania avenue was lined with houses
many OF them with shops on the ground floor
These extended nearly to GEORGETOWN and on
the streets adjacent to the avenue there we're
some few houses. but scattered and irreguarly
bullt PENNSYLVANIA avenue-the Appian Way
OF our republic-was graded while Jefferson
was President at cost of $4,000 he person.
ally experimenting the planting of four rows
OF Lombardy popars along that portion of it
between the Capitol and the White House,
row along each curbstone and two euui-
distant rows in the roadway which was thus
divided into three parts, like Inter der Linden
at Berlin. In the winter and spring the driveway
would often be full of mud holes, some OF them
axle deep. and some OF the cross streets would
be almost impossible beds of red clay worked
by passing horses and wheels into a thick NOR
tar. On one occasion, he says, Mr.. Webster and
friend undertook to go to Georgetown in a
hackney coach to attend a dinner party and the
vehicle got stuck in a mud hole and the driver
had to carry his passengers, one at a time,
to the sidewalk, where they stood until the
empty carriage could be pulled out. Mr. Web
ster used to narrate this incident years after
ward and laugh over his fears that his bearer
would fall beneath his weight and ruin his dress
suit. John Randolph used to call Pennsylvania
avenue 1.-The great Serbonian bog" and des-
cant on the dangers of a trip over it to and from
the Union Hotel in Georgetown in the large
stage with seats on the top, called the Royal
George Within my recollection the rows of
popiars extended the length of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue from the Capitol to the Presidents
grounds, bsfore the Treasury Department was
built to the corner, shutting off the entrance
to the Presidents grounds When the avenue
was first improved by being macadar,i lied the
trees were cut down and the work OF breaking
the stone for that pavement was done BY many
hundred Germans, who had recently landed in
this country and wore their quaint costumes,
Men and women did this work and during the
cholera many OF them died from exposure
TRAVEL BY STAGE.
Before the Baltimore and Ohio railroad had
entered Washington the rival stage lines of
BeltzoOver and Stockton and Stokes made a
great display in driving up the avenue, and the
passengers were met at the different hotels by
the representatives Of the hotel As rcmem-
Der, Gadsbys representative was Edward
Wyer, the Indian Queen represented by
DR.. Haw and Fuliers by Edward Fuller
Edward Wyer was the most successful in his
capacity, in obtaining guests, as he was uni
yersally known. and for years he was resident
at Gadsby's as maj domO. He was elected
sergeant-at-arms OF the Senate, and ON being
congratulated on his success he said he was
| ruined, as now his creditors would expect to be
paid. Before this some friends suggested that
he apply to Mr.. Adams when President for an
office, and he did SO, and friends waiting his
return to learn what resulted from his visit to
the President. asked II lie had seen Mr.. Adams
| and if he had given him an office, and were an
swered mo! He gave to misery all he had
"a tear" Mr.. Adams had always weeping eyes
from some cause.
THE TIBER CREEK.
l found in old tract book which was
formerly in the possession of Mr.. Seaton the
origin of the name of ..Tiber," given to the
| creek flowing through the city. II was thought
| in vanity when the city was laid out, and Moore
made it one OF the subjects of his satrical lines
on washington, written III 1874. And what was
Goose creek once is TIber now" and in foot
note informs his readers that it is "a little
stream that runs through the city, which, with
intoierablo affectation, they have styled the
Tiber. 1t was originally called Goose creek"
| In this ancient record the surveyor says: "June
| the 5tb, 1868, layed 'out for Francis Pope Of
this province, gentleman, a parcel of land in
Charles county called Room, lying east side Of
| the Anacostia river, beginning at a marked oak
standing by the riverside. the bounded tree of
Captain Robert Troop. and running north by
| the river for breadth the length OF 200 perches
to a bounded oak standing by the mouth Of a
bay or inlet called 1iber." This deprives
moore y satlre OF lts severity, Tor II seems Tor
one hundred and thirty-seven years before this
city was occupied by the government as its
capital the classic name was given the little
stream.
NAMES NOW FORGOTTEN.
find in On old directory of fifty years ago,
compiled by Anthony Rented that the street
| from 18th street to 18th street was not always
| known as Pennsylvania avenue, but he says
| there we're doubts in the minds of the city
fathers as to its name; some said it was g street
| and others Pennsylvania avenue, and in the I'M
| certainty an appeal was made to the matrons
| of the city and they decreed it should be called
| Executive way" and SO it appears in this di-
| rectory. The same confusion existed about
| the street in the rear Of the Presidents house.
| and that was named at the same time Sylvan
| Way. The compiler says il there be any one
who doubts these facts, by calling on him they
| can see the original CT the detailed proceed
| ings. The first insane asylum was on e street.
the building had been the Jail, but that was re-
moved two squares back more retired and
| the old building was altered for the asylum
| The compiler Of this directory is unsparine in
denouncing such q building for the unfor-
| tunate. The same building had been used a. a
| hospital for some years after the Jail
had been built in the square beyond
This old directory conjures up the past
with wonderful power. John Tyler was Presi-
dent, Abel p. Upshur, Secretary Of State.
which then had only fourteen clerks and
three messengers. Henry L. Ellsworth was
commissioner of patents and had twelve clerka