The colored American., 1902-03-01

this city first-class restaurant and buf-
tet, ttted out in the most modern fash
ION, with appointments and service equal
to representative cafes in New York and
Philadelphia. Ladies of high standing
mad no place to go for luncheon while
down town shopping and gallant young
men were at loss for means to entertain
their fair friends with a choice oyster
, supper after the theater. Gray and Cost
ley invested their money with a lavish
hand and spared no pains to answer this
lOng-telt want. They opened an elegant
place at 1913 E street northwest, adioin-
ing the National Theater-a location
never previously leased to Afro-Ameri-
cans. They shut out all Objectionable
elements and as result the best citizens
rallied to their support and they have
been growing in popular esteem ever
since. Not long ago the diningroom was
entirely refurnlShed and newly decorated
at cost of nearly ST, 900. The walls are
series of French plate mirror panels,
and the paper is of the richest quality
and tint. An imported carpet covers the
floor and carved oak tables, upon which
the best ware is used, complete the mag
nifcent outfit The cuisine is up-to-date
and these gentlemanly caterers, handling
as they do, everything in every style,
never fail to satisfy the most exacting
epicure. They merit the success that is
theirs.
We do not know that any one has ever
called DR.. Edward D. Williston a faith
curist"-but that is what he really is
Not that he defes the code of ethics set
out for the guidance of the allOpathic
! schoo1-not that he dispenses with the
/ 'R' piece of paper and its cabalistic
| Latin charaCterS-nOt that he does not
draw upon the strongest and fartheSt-
reaching drugs known to the materia
medica; he does all these things-and
more. He is prompt TO respond to a
call, patient in treatment and enters per-
Sonally into a patrons life and peculiar
tiles with the sympathy of a brother.
| He is capital StOry-teller and effects as
many cures, perhaps, through gaining the
confidence of his patient, and ettuslve
good nature as by the conventional
| channels. He can make a morbid, dis
gruntled, going to- die-sure" fellow get
well IN twenty-tOur hours by a hypOder-
dermic injection of funny yarns and a
prescription of 5-graln capsules OF hope.
He understands that faith in a physi-
clans skill is 90 per cent. of the healing
art, and his heavy practice amply demon
strates that his spiritual methods take. 3"
Dr. Williston'S area has never been ac-
curately surveyed but the Man-on-the-
Corner has seen him heading for Tako-
ma Park in the morning, in Georgetown
before noon, in South Washington at
lunch time, coming from Anacostia in
time to catch q o'clock department folks
after having made several short calls
through the fashionable center, all the
way from L.eDroit Park to FOggy Bot
TOM How he covers so much ground
no one but the Doctor and his famous
charge Horse" can tell. The Doctor
is a native of North Carolina. He is
quite a young man. He is graduate of
Howard Medical School, working his
way through largely by individual efforts.
He is now an honOred member of the
faculty there, and enjoys the confidence
of physicians and the public. He was
prominently mentioned for surgeon-ln-
chief of Freedmans Hospital after DR..
Curtis resignation. No one can now tell
how high DR.. WilliSton may go before
he cries enough"