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

to-dae management. As men OF energy
and brains Scott ana shepherd were very
much OF q size. @
Barracks, Slave Pen and Old Jail
washington barracks was formerly the
Arsenal where gun carriages were made,
employing quite number Of men The dis
trict penitentiary stood near 1t. with John
NJ Brodhead as warden. He afterward be-
came second controller OF the treasury. He
was a Pennsylvania and a personal friend
of President James Buchanan.
washington city's slave pen once stood
at Maryland avenue and 7th street south
the Baltimore and Ohio station in exactly
the same style as they were marched to the
coast when caught by slave hunters in
Africa. From twenty to forty were usually
in a gang. A long chain ran from front to
rear Each slave was manacled, and a
short chain ran from his handcuff to the
chain. Once as a gang marched past the
Capitol, slave raised his fettered hands
and exclaimed Hail Columbia happy land
Our bathing place was near the WASH
ington monument. From two to three hun
bred people would be in at time 1 have
frequently swum to the Virginia shore-re-
turning on my back.
THE old jail was in e street between 4th
and 9th. 1t was Of brick. two stories nigh
and whitewashed. A high wooden fence
inals were imprisoned or executed there
and the guards and officers were, without
exception, as far as known to me, good and
efficient men. The jail was removed to the
corner of G and 4th streets where It was
located several years. Then 1t was moved
TO where 1t Is now.
Where New Masonic Temple Will
Stand.
1.-The property bounded by New York
nd
then tannery, several feet below the
grade established now. This fine property
has been bought by the Masonic fraternity,
and we to be given a new temple,
worthy Of the city and the craft. At the
same time l wish to bear testimony to the
courage and devotion of the brethren who
built the present temple. Not every one
knows the difficulty under which they
labored.
"A brick kiln where bricks were made by
hand, occupied the square bounded by I'd
and Sd and and f streets. Goose
creek afterward called the 'Tiber,' rose
at the junction of New York avenue and
the Boundary, and meandered down to I'd
street and Pennsylvania avenue. which 1t
crossed under a bridge After heavy rains
pig pens and chicken coops used to sail
down the Tiber. with their live stock in
them.
1.-The workhouse and poorhouse stood on
the north Of them were their garden and
cemetery. From 9Th and G streets north |
west large open ditch ran to Sd and e |
streets and thence to Tiber creek. The |
whole region from H street to the Bound |
airy, west of the Tber, was grown up with |
bushes. Blackberries were abundant, and |
the land intersected with open bitches. |
There good cunning here. One Thanks |
giving day 1 hunted this region over and !
got half dozen fed larks.
I'm the summer of 1888 large party of |
Indians visited the city. They boarded |
with Jimmie Mari the public gardener
whose house stood at 131s street and Penn
sylvania avenue, where the Mount Vernon |
cars now start from. His house was a
frame, with balconies all around
it. The Indians gave exhibitions on what
is now Franklin Square. They and the
new railroad made this a memorable sum-
mer.
A Period Of Depression.
From 1920. and perhaps before, to 1860.
the secession business was being worked
up. to the injury Of everything Ameri-
can, and it harmed this District more
than anything outside Of it. We adj
vaiced not over one-ffth as much as we
should have done. and never caught up I'M
til we got Boss Shepherd man, with the
people behind him.
II have helped to pace in power such |
men as John 7. Tower, Richard Wailach
and Matthew G. Emery men easily the
peers of those who have governed any city
In this country. Wallach stands out in my
as conspicuously great His ami
able, tovial disposition may have hurt the
estimate Of his greatness by some who think
that no one can be a genius unless he g
Sir Oracle but after knowing him for a
lifetime l fail to think Of an emergency in
civil life which Wallach could not have
met and overcome.
1.-THE District of Columbia has fully met
every civil and military requirement Of
good citizenship. company of good men, |
by excellent officers, went to
the Mexican war. A great many went to
the Indian wars, and far more than the
Districts quota into the Union army. I
still think that the contingent furnished to
the confederate army were mistaken, but
in courage and endurance they were not in
ferior to any.
Election in 1850.
1.-The republican headquarters in the cam
paign of 1860 were in the Era printing Office,
at I'd street and Louisiana avenue. We or
ganized a company OF seventy five picked
men. They elected me their pioneer.
ION the night when we received the re-
turns we had large crowd at headquarters
to receive the returns. AS soon as it was
certain that Lincoln was elected all but five
or six of went home. We who stayed In
the hall were sitting quietly, talking over
the election, when a large crowd marched
to the building and halted We bolted to
the roof, through the trap door, and pulled
the ladder after us. Then the mob leader
gave the command to fire, and the crowd
broke into the room, smashed the furniture,
everything 1t could and broke
every pane Of glass in the windows
when President Lincoln came to be in
augurated party met him six miles out OF
town with carriage took him quietly on
Of the train and brought him into the city
by a roundabout way. All other incidents
Of that time are too well remembered to
needs repeating !