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

lnOSe days WITHOUT Spetldl ptTmlSSltll
were DR.. William B. Magruder, Thomas p.
Morgan John Wilson, William F. Bayly,
John 7. Towers, DR.. Joseph Borrows, Dr.
A Med. Davis, Silas H. Hill, John Writ,
b. B. French, president; Thomas Thonley,
James A. Gordon, George Page and
Ephriam Wheeler Mr.. E. j. Middleton,
who was elected in 1921, was still the sec
rotary, and served until 1859 The common
council was composed of Samuel E. Doug
lass. James Kelly, H. n. Easily, Nicholas
Callan. president; R. NJ. Downer. j. Rus
sell Barr Joseph Bryan, E. +. Queen,
Joseph w. Davis, John p. Pepper, Henry
Hay, George Burns, Samuel Hanson,
Thomas Hutchingson, John ]. Mulloy. Will
lam Morgan, A. w. Miller, James Gull,
Samuel Humphrey, w. R. Riley and John
Van Risyick. Richard Barry was the sec
rotary from 1927 to 1858. There was
school system, under three trustees, in each
of the four districts, with total of twenty
schools; board of health, of two mem
bers in each ward; an assessor two magis-
trates, two constables in each ward and
four commissioners of improvements for
the seven wards. The general officers, be-
sides the mayor We're William j. McCor-
mick register. from 1913 to 1870; Robert j.
Roche collector from 1851 to 1850; II. w.
Ball, surveyor, for the same period and
James NJ. Carlisle, attorney, from 1850 to
1881. The policing performed during
the day by police constables under a chief
of police, then Mr.. H. n. Steele. and at
night by the auxiliary guard, under Capt
John H Goddard. The police constables
were ]. II. Craig, Joseph Hilton, William
H. BarnaclO, William A. Boss E. g.
Handy, j. F. Wollard, r. R. Burr, William
Martin, John Davis, William A. Mulloy, j.
H. Wise, j. H Baker, J. a. Willett, Josiah
Adams. L. b. Mitchell
The Organized Police Force.
The auxiliary guard under Capt John
H. Goddard. was composed of Thomas Nc
/ Gill, solomon Hubbard, John +. Little
John l.. Fowler, Edgar H. Bates. Henry
Thomas, Joseph Goodyear, George H.
Grant, Thomas E. Williams, Mason Piggot
/ John Kelly, Washington Lewis, John
| Davis S. II. Taylor and William Cox
/ This force was uniformed in gray and
armed with heavy clubs with iron spikes
at the end, and was created by act of Con-
gress in 1872 The origin of the force was
the act of drunken man throwing stone
at the President during one of his usual
/ afternoon walks in the grounds Immediate
/ ly south of the mansion. The offender was
! at once arrested and carried to the central
guard house, but the President sent a re-
! quest to release the man. for his condition
was such as to make him irresponsible. He
! was discharged, and, strange as it may
| seem, the very man whose act had brought
| the guard into existence subsequently
| served as member of it. This force was
| paid by the government of the United
| States, the corporation providing its head
quarters with a lookup at the Center mar
| ket where court was held daily by JUS
tees Dom, Smith, Clark and others.
The board of health, may be supposed,
| had much to do with the abatement of
nuisances, and there We're many such, often
found in the more thickly settled parts of
! the city, in shape of stagnant ponds, dense
growths of weeds and thistle, the latter so
| great as to call for annual appropriations.
| 1his board kept the death register. and
though insanitary as the city was, the
| average death rate was but monthly aver
| age of eighty.
The coroner was Mr. Thomas Woodward,
long also a deputy U. S. marshal, and he
had the entire District as his field. 1t is re-
| membered that in many cases in those
| days when the finding of dead infant was
a sensation affecting nearly half the city
many verdicts, when death was sudden, at
-tributed the aecease to 1.-The visitation Of
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