Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-05

children. That one who survived was
young lady in the court society Of that
day. His son John made the address at
the cornerstone laying Of city hall IN
1922. Father and sons were supporters of
the Unitarian Church. now the Police Court,
and John Quincy Adams described
John Laws funeral sermon which was
preached by Mr. Little. who had
OF Mr.. Laws bishop brothers. Thorn
as Law received him with kindness;
subscribed $500. says Faux, to build him a
church, and had him preach IN the Capitol
from the Speakers chair
The sum Of matrimonial disagreements
probably lies in some violation of natures
choice, and Mr.. Law, the soul of honor,
acquitted his wife of any other error pub
fishing, in answer to Faux's low book.
exploited in the Tory Quarterly Review:
NO elopement took place. SO far from
X, that although separation did unhappi-
ly ensue, originating in disagreement
in disposition, Yet I have always paid the
tribute correctly due to Mrs. Laws purity
| of conduct. which L never did impeach''
This was published many years after their
separation, when he sixty-five. His
grandchildren almost adored him. She
was social and he made the mistake or
had the necessity to desert society. He was
poet and loved retirement and males
Makes Purchase of Land.
Mr.. Law came upon the ground so early
| that he raised the crazy expectations of the
| owners and found 1t more difficult than
now to buy land. He purchased upon
| the slope from the Capitol to the
| middle or Buzzard's point. where the
CAROLS had an abortive town. Up
| this slope the Capitol materials were
! teamed and the deepest water was at its
wharf. There now the foot OF New Jer-
sey avenue lived Mr.. Law, when described
by Twining in an unassuming house with
a row rows of small houses for mechan-
les behind it, sugar warehouse and
barge upon the water, which was then the
best road to his mother-in-law in Virginia,
to his sister-in-law in Georgetown, to the
Calverts up the Eastern branch and the
Washingtons at Mount Vernon. The only
! Episcopal church was nearby. Mr.. Law
looked to commerce and manufactures, the
! last things the politicians and society folk
were and are thinking about. This globe
trotters mind designed to import sugar
from India raised by the cheap but free
labor he had home Staked and compel West
India to emancipate her sugar slaves. A
tall sugar house was built and can be seen
upon some of the early pictures OF WASH
inston Other Englishmen and India ship
pers were concerned with him. l have
talked to old men who remembered that
sugar house and its pans and molds, and
they say it was pulled down piecemeal
The city did. not receive the government
for six or seven years after Mr.. Law set
tied here. He extended his operations
nearer to the Capitol, and there still re-
mains the Law building, In which he prob
Edmund Law Rogers. altered this building
| to the Varnum Hotel While Vice President
here for some nine months and while the
electoral dispute proceeded In the incom-
piete Capitol. Thomas Jefferson was a
bcarder in the range of buildings formerly
occupied by Mr.. Law, about zoe PAGES from
| the Capitol In New Jersey avenue leading
| from thence to the Eastern branch says
the advertisement In November. 1900 1.-The
| two houses are spacious and convenient,
| one of which is designed for stage passen-
gers and travellers the other for the
| commoda ton Of boarders; stabling sufficient
| for sixty horses"
| Conrad and McMunn, to whom Mr.. Law
| rented his houses. were sold out by him in
| the fall of 1901. or he disposed Of their
| furniture. Upon March 20 it was an
neunced yesterday the President removed
/ from Messrs. McMunn and Conrad's to the
Presidents housekeeping time to the
Adamses to remove.
Mrs. Law liked serenity and withdrew to
one OF the rows Of houses near the Presi-
dents and finally lived at Peter Park.
| Georgetown, opposite Oak HILL where La
fayette visited her.
Extends His boundaries.
Robert Morris was in the East India
| trade and senator till 1875: his failure
threw much real estate upon the market
and his assignee. in 1895, was VIM. Mayne
Duncasson Of the East Indies. for 450, GOO
| square feet. Thomas Law bought 1911 600
square feet and came up to the Capitol
building, where now Is the granite coast
survey. Philip Burton Key, uncle OF Francis