Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
Activity in the Market.

The market continued active, and in 1911
Griffith Coombe bought in p and A. Camp
bell in 20 and 81, all on Sth street. Edward
NaysOn the same year leased in :, 3 and -
on G anG Sth streets, and James Berry in
4, and 6, corner of eth and G. streets. In
1912 Col. Wharton was in 90 and 81, and
Butler Cooke in IS and 10, on Sth street,
and Mr.. kyne in ], and 3, at the corner
of Sth and streets.
In 1913 Maj s. Miller owned lots II to IS,
the northeast corner of the square: Patrick
Kahn, II to 10, on sth street, and John
Davis had a lease from Wayson In lots ,,
8 and %. In 1916 w. D. Akin leases in
Is and 10, on Sth street. Samuel Miller in
1919 acquired interest in lots l to and
q, and /. S. Miller and James Spratt soon
afterward in lots l3 and ~. In 1872 lot y
was in the name of Elijah Coons and
the next year Davis assigned tease in lots .,
and % to Walter Evans. f. Wayson OBJ
tanned lease in IS and 10 and r. Taylor
in 2, 3 and %.
In 1925 the valuation of cents per foot
Of twenty years before was reduced to
follows NJ. Kyne, $500; w. D. Aiken,
$500; E. Wayson, 500; p. Kahn, $500; Eliza
beth Coons 500, on Sth street, and Shaws
heirs, l.. Popes heirs and F. May, 500 each,
and James Bury, $500. on street.
In 1928 J. H. Smoot owned lots 4, and
on 7th street, and in the thirties r. X.
Tracy, Timothy VIM, Mrs King and r.
Dodds were owners in this square.
and Sth Streets embracing fourteen lots,
stood in 1895 in the name of the United
States and two years thereafter passed TO
Dunlop and Carlton. In 1900 Commodore
Tingey owned lots and . and IA, which
the next year appeared of record in the
name Of Mr.. Prout. William Yeatman in
1902 owned lot l at the corner of and Sth
streets, and in 1907 Dunlop and Carlton
had title to lots and 4. In 1910 c. +.
kalkman owned lot l at Sth and E streets,
and in 1913 Robert King owned lot 4, corner
of 18th and streets. Two and cents rep
resented the value for early years. but in
the thrties cent per foot was assessed on
the ground and no improvements We're
listed.
In 1881 Mrs. Sarah Spratt owned lot l,
9Th and f streets, and the Bank of the
United States lot 3 on E street, and in 1877
Tunis Cravin. long a naval storekeeper,
had lots I to 10 in the northwest corner of
the square, and Mrs. NJ. G. I. Wingate lot
on 18th street.
Square 926 though Tunnicliff's Hotel and
the marine barracks fianked 1t north and
south, was long a neglected one as far as
records show. Twenty-Five lots were laid
Prout, who was assessed on a valuation of
8 cents per foot. This was reduced half
cent in 1907 and remained at that figure
until 1885. In 1922 James Spratt bought
In 1914 Gen. A. Henderson bought lots to
7 on Sth and G streets In the twenties
bEt one improvement was listed, although
Pritchett. John Goss and VIM. Smith
we're located by the directory of 1922,
The improvement on lot I, on sth street,
valued at $3.50, was the schoolhouse of VIM.
Smith. He was the father of James G.
Smith, popular Jim Smith of the forties,
who was afterward in the tobacco business
on 18th street northwest and later of the
firm of NJ II. Stevens & Co, hatters, under
the Indian Queen Hotel, now the Metro
politan.