Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

street lots passed from the Funkstown peo-
pie to various parties. and the mention OF
w. Kings house. In part lot Q. on New
York avenue Is made In 1903. About
1851 some leases appear.
There is record of Improvement under
the corporation In the carly years of tho
last century. but by the books of 1880
Maitland is taxed on small amount for
improvements; Thos. ]. Taylor on sums OF
S41osoo and 800. and H. Suite on 1870.
On the north ride of street. facing the
glass house, was the home of Lewis Frank.
and assessed at 500.
The Glass House Property.
The square known as the glass house
property would appear to have been In the
heart OF Hamburger. for In 1871 there were
conveyances of city burg" lots made. and
some English names appear In place OF the
German names. Before $500 G. A Thomp-
son. W. NJ. Beall. Jacob Meyer. F. Karty
and G. French had property In this square.
as also Henry Seer. who claimed the square
south to the channel. There may have
been improvements early In the last CEN
fury. but their Is no written evidence. Tho
records show that In 1913 Andrew and
George Way purchased two lots and subse-
sequently three others. and there establish-
ed the washington Glass Works, which, Tor
twenty or more years, were operated under
the management OF Mr. George Way. John
Taylor, bookkeeper; l.. Frank, foreman:
F. Brown, foreman, were some of the force.
Quite business was done In the manu-
facture of glass. as was evident by tho
frequency of vessels loading at the old
Hamburger wharf.
The Ways disposed of the works to John
Rogers in 1893, and I'm few years there
after, owing to the depression I'm business,
the works shut down and the place was
abandoned. 1t was a brick building, por-
ton being of two stories over a hundred
feet In length. and over thirty feet In
xxft.1 In, 81. H..
came vertable glass paths from the de-
bris deposited there While for some years
II was abiding place for any who chose
to live there Il was put to home mission
airy uses before 1870. Mr.. David NJ. Will
son. the agent of the Washington City BIZ
BILE Society, about 1899 gathered In one OF
the rooms some children from that end OF
the city and formed union Sunday school.
which met In the afternoons. Now and
then some minister would be found to
preach.
The result was that frame building
was erected south of Virginia avenue, near
22d street, where church services were oc-
casionally and Sunday school regularly
held for several years. 1t is believed that
this enterprise played an important part
I'm the organization of the Western Pres
byterian Church. of which William VIII
son was an elder.
Near the Observatory.
In the squares south of f street, skirting
the east wall of the observatory grounds.
the original valuation OF the ground was
cents and cents per foot, and improve
ments were slow. On f street, 2ist
street, the house of 4. Evans was valued
at s4oO and in 1880 he paid on 81 800. In
the square south Christian Hines was as
sessed 500 each of two lots, and south
of New York avenue Emanuel Selwis paid
on 5000. H. Eckert on 5000. Thomas Smiths
heirs, $500; w. McMurray and ]. Crawford
500 each.
Basil waring. clerk in the nth auditors
office, afterward In the solicitors Office for
many years. lived New York avenue
near 18th street; John NJ Lovejoy, revo-
lutionary patriot and employed in the treas
ury his son. John n. Lovejoy, jr..
for many years, was residing nearly hum
bred years ago in this neighborhood.
In the forties John o Neale lived on New
York avenue between 18th and 18th streets:
Mr.. Joseph B. Peasants conducted SEMI
nary near him; Mrs. Tayloe. wife OF Col
Taylce, still occupied the Octagon house
at 18th street; Capt Carbery, MIR. Lewis
and Gen. Van Ness were occupying the
same houses as formerly; Mr.. Warning had
moved to near the corner OF / and 18th
streets and Mr.. Bergman had removed
elsewhere. Capt. John Peabody. father or
ex-Fire Chief J. ]. Peabody, lived on 18th
street between and ID streets
Some of the early settlers of the glass
house nefghborhood were Henry Suite, a
gardiner; Isaac Lucas and J. /. Thomp-
son, carpenters; Owen McGlue and Mrs.
knoDlOck and TnOmaS Taylor. Tne latter.
It is said. when the city was young did much
work in clearing the land and was perhaps
the pioneer wood merchant Under tina
corporation he and his son filled the posi-
ton of wood corder for nearly third of
a century He is well remembered by few
citizens for the pertinacity with which hd
stuck to the old style OF dress-knee
brooches. shad-bellied coat, ruffies. cooked
hat, etc.
Changes Noted.
Within a score of years following the ex-
tension of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
along the river front to the mouth of the
Washington City canal at 18th street the
closing down of the glass works made some
change in the aspect of the section. Most
OF those named had left the neighborhood
and others came In. On Goth street between
New York avenue and E street lime ldlna
were established by Messrs. Dove & Stott:
at Doth and E streets Edward Waller had
a grocery and Michael Shanks, whose china
and glassware store was at 9th street and
the avenue had erected a residence at the
corner of E and 18th streets. Though
toward the river there was little improve
ment, the fact that seminaries schools
were to be found readily betokened an In
terest in education which would be expected
in section composed in part of leading
people. These were the schools acad~
emies of Prof. Michard 10Th near f street.
Miss Mead, G street near 21st street, Miss
Stone street near 10Th, and Prof. Pleas
ants New York avenue near 18th street,
and Miss Young, 18th street near G.
In the forties Mr. George p. Marsh
representative in Congress from Vermont,
was living on 18th street between + and G.
streets Mr. Marsh was afterward minister
to Persia, Turkey and other countries, and
became prominent as a traveller and lee
turer. Lieuts. ]. c. Walshe and J. T. Nc
Laughlin, u. s. N; Maj. w. Turnbull and
Capt. A. J. Swift u. S. A, and De La
Barca, the Spanish minister. lived near by
JAMES CROGGON.