Evening star., 1899-03-25

book and stationery establishments kept re-
spectively by VIM. F. Bayly, for many
years an alderman; Mrs. G. Anderson and
Mrs. VIM G. Fischer. The two ladies dealt
also in music, instruments and fancy goods
and Mrs Anderson made a specially of
periodicals. Mr.. Bayly was large dealer
in blank books and office supplies The
building in which Mr.. Bayly was located
was once the tobacco store of Mr.. Lewis
Johnson, who afterward engaged in the
banking business and became the head of
the firm bearing his name.
Polk Made 1t Popular.
As before stated, the Irving House was
popular hotel. The site had been occupied
before by the old Madisonian paper and as
restaurant, and late in the thirties, after
the general post office fire was for time
used as the city post office. Early in the
! forties the hotel was built on the 18th street
corner. and before the inauguration of Pres
| ident Polk 1t had become quite popular
Mr.. Polk naviEg his rooms here when he
took his position in the inaugural process
sion, gave it still further prestige. Much
of the 18th and f street fronts of the square
were owned by a Mr. Monroe, a carpenter,
who lived in an o!d-fashiOned brick build
ing erected IN the early part of the century
about midway between the avenue and e
street. Above the hotel properly on 10Th
street were three three-stOry brick dwell
lngs, in one of which Amos Kendall lived
/ for some Years.
Other than a carpenter shop on the north
used by Mr.. Gautier in his business. with
| two small brick dwellings and the bakery
and dwelling of Andrew Noerr. there were
/ no improvements on + street. On the mort h
west part Of the square the ground was
| soft and marshy, and more than one at
| tempt was made to declare its condition to
be detrimental to health and a nuisance
! before it was filled in with earth. On the
| nth street front at Z street was the large
| three-storted brick of Andrew Noerr used
as his dwelling and bakery, below which
I al l.irlE.+ r.
| rooms of W. NJ. Cripps (who lived opposfte)
| and a frame building just north of eau
| tiers.
| City Post Office Site.
| On the site of the new city post office
building at the corner of 11th street was
the building in which The Star was long
! located. 1t was spacious three-story and
attic brick, once occupied by VIM. ]. Stone
t well-known engraver, and then occupied
| by Mr.. Edwin Green as cabinet shop and
| warerOoms. Adjoining on the west was a
| large open lot, on which Metropolitan Hall
was shortly after erected. About the mid
| Gle or the square was the plain old-fash-
| toned frame dwelling of John Sessford who
| FOR over half a century was intimately con-
| nectcd with the city government A plain
/ tWo-Storied brick, westward. once occupied
| by Mr.. Seuferle, was then occupied by Mr.
| George Glorius, a well-known bootmaker
/ subsequently j. Aigier lived here. and after
| ward he erected a three-story brick near
| the center of the square for his dwelling
| and confectionery. The modest two-storied
| box-like brick house on the northwest cor
! ner of the square had been the grocery and
iced store OF g. a. W. Randall, who a few
years later was succeeded by F. NJ Orme
| On the northwest corner of Pennsylvania
| avenue and 18th street, now Davis was
| the drug store of Mr.. Wallace Kirkwood,
who had removed from the 18th street cor
/ ner, the building being a two-storied brick
| with a garret.
At the 11th street corner was the book
QTod stl s-fT .cfI I1~tND
| a large old-style two-story brick, and north
was the dwelling and timing establishment
| or Daniel Hauptman, which Is still in the
| family. East of Mr.. Earnhams was the
| grocery of Presley Simpson, for many years
| a leading member of the Foundry NJ. L.
| Church, and father of E. F. Simpson. Mr..
| VIM. Orme succeeded Mr.. Simpson in the
| same business.
/ The southeast corner of 11th street and
| Pennsylvania avenue. now Harvey's, had
/ been years before a stone yard. and after
ward, in frame building on the site
! Squire John D. Clark dispensed justice and
| a MIR. Umberfield carried on the dyeing and
securing business. 1t was then in the pos
session of Mr.. James Skirving. who engaged
l in the stove and thinning business in a two
storied frame structure. On c street and
/ 11th street were the assembly rooms bet
! ter known as Carusis saloon tnow Ker-
mans Lyceum), and opposite was the
| Washington library building, diminutive
I structure.
The Stars Old Home.
| THE Star located on d street near 18th, I"
says Mr.. W. j. Everett, 'in the early part
! of 1853, IN the building used by my brother
/ and myself a coach building establish
ment for a few years. With Mr.. Simon Flynn
We leased the lot, "a feet front, in the fall
| of 1919. and erected the building on the east
| half, now the site of the engine house. and
when Mr.. Flynn and We separated he took
| the west half and built shop. We took a
| lease on the lot for term of years, with
! the privilege of purchasing the same for
| 1924. After the firm of VIM. ]. Everett &
| Bro. had carried on business there until
| early In 1888 We concluded to remove to
| Virginia. turning over our lease to a rela-
| tive, who placed it in the hands of Mr.
| Richard Smith for management The Star
| rented or leased the building soon after we
| left it. We had to make 1t a brick building
! and fer light we put in over the wide doors
| as many lights of glass as we could the
| sash reaching clear to the second floor
When We left the upper floor was reached
/ by steps TO broad platform in the yard
] the open lot in which Mr.. Flynn built then