Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

James on 18th street; Fowler, Whit, g and
Rice on E street; Tanning on 1872 street;
Burrows and Gassaway on B street; Bill
lings on H street; Brown Massachu
sets avenue; Bright, Kicker and Sherlock
on street; Gandret on G street; Lackey,
Milford, Shepherd and Murray on 9th
street; LepreuX and Luckett on Sth street;
Morehead and Perry on 18th street; Dyson
10th street, and some grade of boarding
house could be found in almost any neigh
borhood.
When Mr.. Fillmore was the nations ten
ant at the White House his secretaries were
mostly housekeeping in this city Mr..
Thomas Corwin of the treasury lived on
II street north of Lafayette Square; Mr..
A. II. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior, on
c street between Sd and Az streets; Judge
Charles NJ. Conrad Secretary of War. on
+ street between 18th and 14th streets; Mr..
]. P. Kennedy of the Navy Department on
H street west of 18th street and Postmaster
General Hubbard the avenue west of
Riggs Bank. The leading military and
naval men, with others were to be found
as follows In the old D'Menou, Chain
House. on H street between 18th and 14th
streets, General Winfield Scott. who a few
years after moved on 10Th street opposite
the treasury: General Thomas S. Jesup was
on F street between 18th and 18th streets;
General Totten was in GAdsby's row on |
street between Goth and 21st streets; Cen
eral Rodger Jones. on 9th street north of d
street; General Cooper, F and Goth streets;
General Towson. 18th and F streets; Sur
geon General Lawson, Goth street between
E and F streets; Colonel H. K Craig, on the
avenue between 10Th and Goth streets; Col
onel j. j. Albert, on | street between 18th
and 18th streets. Among the naval people
were Commodore Morris, living at 10Th and
l streets; Commodore Shubrick H street
and Connecticut avenue; Commodore Joe
Smith, 9th street near L street; Commodore
Sinclair, at Mrs. Kellers. on Lafayette
Square and Commodore Skinner, at 18th
and H streets, and Commodore Louis War
rington Pennsylvania avenue between 10Th
and Goth streets
Mr.. Seward then lived on street in
Union row; ex-President Adams, on F
street between 18th and 18th streets; Cen
eral Weightman, on Louisiana avenue near
9Th street; ex-Mayor Lenox, corner 9th
street and Louisiana avenue and a number
of our citizens prominent in the government
service could be found in almost every sec
ton, not excepting neighborhoods which
now have unenviable regulations. In fact,
scattered were the residences of our lead
ing men, and SO interspersed were they in
the community and neighborly were their
relations. that it may be said the Wash
ingtonians, with the public men of the day,
formed well ordered. easy-going commu-
nifty.
There had been many papers established
attempted to be rooted here since the
days of Benjamin Moore, and his Gazette,
published in 1896. the corner of Sth
and E streets. Of these had survived the
old National Intellgencer, a great WING
organ, published in 1900, then located at
the northwest corner of 9TH and D streets,
of which Joseph Gales jr., and w. w.
Seaton were the editors and propretors,
with Captain w. w Moore in charge of the
mechanical department. and Mr. William
A. Rnd and the late Colonel William G.
Moore among the writer's. The Daily
Union, then published in the three-story
brick buildings adjoining the National
Theater on the west, E street between 18th
and 14th streets the exponent of democracy.
Major A. ]. Doneso and Robert Arm