Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-16

been great benefit to your people and that 1t
has tended to attract the best class Of citizens
to become residents among you.
You may not expect to remain an isolated
long The contemplated extension !
Of the streets and avenues OF the District will,
before many years, be an accomplished work.
The Capitol will soon be the radiating point Of
q system Of streets and avenues coterminous
with the District line. Your post Office will at
an early date be branch of the Washington
CITY post Office and will have a city delivery OF
mail by carriers. Not more than one year need
elapse before the water supply from the Great
Falls Of the Potomac can be upon your streets
and in your houses, and sewers and street pave
ments will soon emphasize your complete an
nexatiOn to all the privileges OF metropolitan
existence. and your town hall will be the center
Of prosperous and happy community, which
will claim all the honor and demand all OF the
privileges which belong of right to citizens
domiciied in the capital of the United States
have referred briefly to these factors which
You share in others which belong alike to all
who live within tho District OF Columbia.
Some have expressed surprise at the marvellous
growth in values within the District Some
people cannot understand why syndicates COM
posed Of shrewd and calculating capitalists
come from California, Michigan, New York,
Pennsylvania and New England and invest
many millions of dollars in undeveloped land
within the District 1t IL not mere sentiment
which actuates such men. They know that the
city within whose expanding environs they In.
vest ia the Interchangeable political metropolis OF
republic whose strength and growth are almost
beyond computation. They know that that
political center must correspond to and keep
pace with the nation whose capital 1t Ii.
They know that life and property are secure
here against riot and insurrectlon as IN no
other municipality. They know that no Wild
col of avo r>f inhahtasl-
ness can prevail here without the concurrent
sanction Of the Senate, the House Of Repre-
sentatives and of the President Of the United
States. All Of these things tend to your advan-
tage and to the advantage Of all the people OF
the District Of Columbia I congratulate you
upon your public spirit and enterprise. May
your community continue to grow in numbers
and in intelligence and may you always share in
all the honor and distinction that may belong
to the District Of Columbia.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY M'ADoo.
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy McAloo was
then introduced and talked pleasantly Of the
advantages that hall of that character was to
a community and of the great advantages that
the people Of the District had over the resi-
dents Of any other city in the Union in the
| stability Of their local government, in their
| freedom from liability to increased taxation
and in the opportunity given them to study the
whole machinery OF the government VI this
great republic. He paid high tribute to the
energy and enterprise Of the community that
had erected that beautiful hall and Endorsed
| the remarks Of Bishop Keane in regard to the
purposes to which it should not be employed as
we'll as the objects to which its use should be
dedicated.
MR.. THEODORE W. MOVES.
Mr.. Theodore W. Moves was then presented,
and after referring to the fact that he wss
familiar in general way with the growth Of the
suburb Of Brookland from the fact that he was
| a summer neighbor, he said that while the
people were suffering at present from lack OF
| the improvements which those OF the city en-
joyed, the future Brookland. as well as the
| other suburbs, would possess the beauti-
full streets and avenues and reservations con-
| tinued on the same lines and plans those Of
| Washington proper with oil the other metropolis
| tan acconpaniments. bespoke ofthe three stagei
| Of the development Of the national capital; the
first in its gradual growth from the time it wal
planned by Washington and L'Enfant down te
| the period when II took its rapid stride under
the energy Of ex-Gov Shepherd. 80
The growth of Washington had in its las,
stage extended beyond the original confines Of
the city. aud those living in Brookland and OF
the heights which cncircled the city beyont
| Boundary street and the residents of thest
suburban subdivisions would be part Of IL,
| newer aud greater Washington, having all tn,
beauties Of streets and reservations Of the ole
city without its slums Tho I'M Justice OF thu
street extension law that while 1t recognized
the suburbs integral part OF the capital
through which its street plan must be ex
tended. 1t took the ground that the nation
obligation to the capital WAS not extended Il
them. La time. he believed, the national legs
lature would recognize and correct this injus
tice, and not make determinations between tn
integral parts OF the federal district.
He referred to the great institutions of learn
ing that would have an important influence
upon the inhabitants of the present suburbs G
Washington, speaking OF the Catholic Univer
sty that was already an accomplished fact; o
the proposed Episcopal Cathedral and It's at
tendant institutions that would be erected t
the north Of the city and Of the Methods
, University that would be built to the north AM
west of that. He Endorsed the views Of Bisho
, Keane as to the needs of the suburbs and close
, bv predicting brilliant future for the newe
aud greater Washington that should include al
the subdivisions about the city and whic
should terminate only with the limits Of tn
District of Columbia.
REV. r. r. WEST.
Rev. R. R. West, pastor Of the Baptist Churc
in Brookland, echoed the sentiments Of Bisho
Keane in regard to religious tolerance. and sal
, that he spoke for the older residents Of til
, place, referring to II e development that he Ia
/ seen in the past three years, and expressing th
| hope that the future growth would be nc
, only aa great in a material sense, but that th
: community would grow spiritually.
} OTHER BRIEF REMARKS.
Brief remarks were also maize by DR.. Fran
: T. Howe who spoke for University Height
saving that the interests Of the dwellers in tbs
+ subdivision were identical with those Of Brood
land and that they would insist upon holdin
: Commissioner Ross to the promise that he ha
: made in the matter Of improvements. and b
Mai. Green Clay Goodloe. who congratulate
, the people upon the completion of the hall an
!, | assured them Of his active sympathy and &C
| operation in any movement that had for its OF
iect the welfare Of the community.
The music by the Marine Band was fully u
Q | to the standard of that splendid organizatio
and the singing by the double octet was great
enjoyed by the large audience present. III
voices were well balanced and their work ind
= Gated the careful drilling they had receive
0 from their conductor, Prof. n. DuShar
| Coward.
At the conclusion Of the dedicatory servic'
!, | the speakers and few invited guests wore Ell
9 tertained at luncheon in the upper hall by Il
! ladies who composed the retreshment con
= | mittee.
. THE BALL AT NIGHT.
4 At night there was ball in the new hal
0 which was largely participated in, and this el
joyable event was a fitting conclusion to d.
that will long be remembered in the history
' Brookland.
J The committee, to whose intelligent and enc
: getic work the success of the affair was du
| wava folIovs.