Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-15
Covered Market Baskets Unknewn.

Covered Market Baskets Unknown.
$ 1t was common report that back in the
thtrtiese covered market. baskets. were, -ur-r
known here and buyers aif Knew what their
,neighbors were laying In, and that when
the first covered basket appeared the own
er was so jeered that when his family
Learned of his reception the cover was cut
off. From 1905 till 1916 August Sierra was
market clerk, then Joseph Wilson for
few years and next Peter Lerttle, who held
the position for forty years. Just north Of
the market the apparatus of the Anacostia
Fire Company was located for thirty years
In a simple frame house just large enough
for the apparatus, the absence of a hall
being overcome by holding the meetings
elsew here. In 1889 the house at the south
west corner Of 9th and K streets, recent
ly replaced by a modern structure for the
District fire department, was erected by
the company and used until the volunteer,
system in 1854 was relegated to the past.
: The square east of the market between
K. l., Market alley and 7th street. number
Ss1, was in the Prout tract. and plated
for fourteen lots in 1907. Morris and Mich
olson that year took those. vested in the
till 1901, when John Templemen bought
lots l and ii, corner It'll and L streets.
James Fry leased the corner of Market
bought lot on L street. w. 8. Chandler
bought on 7th street south of X street in
1902 and the following; year s. Parry had a
lease Or property on Il Street, ana Jesse
Brown owned lots and T. the southwest
corner Of the square. In 1904 James A.
Burford, John Hall and Adam Lindsay
owned in lot /, corner. of It'll and L streets:
Nicholas Vass, lot Is on 7th street, and
John Vent the corner of X and Market al
ley. Joseph Costfgan, Thomas Crandale
and DR.. John Bullus In 1895 owned lot 1
and the next year William Radcliffe, gro
Ger. had a lease from Fry at the corner of
Market alley and l. street. William hewitt
bought in lot IS on It'll street: Motley Mad
dox lots 10 to IL on X street, including the
corner of 7th street. and George Cox, a lease
In lot @ on 7th street and Market alley. In
1902. at the time of the first valuation,
lot l. at the corner of 7th and L streets, and
four years later DR.. John Bullus was on
the lot with s., 500 Improvement. On lot
3 was Joseph Fry in a $3.50 house, and later
". Radcliffe grocer, was assessed on $500.
James Green 500, and later 5000, and
George Green $500 on lot 5, W. Rutherford
$500 on lot 8 and Motley Maddox $1,000 on
lot II.
Some Valuations.
George Collard in 1903 had a lease on the
store property at the corner of Market alley
to James Young, and in 1917 with other
property, lots and 4, including a brick
house, to Israel and Peter Little. The i'm
Peter Little, 81 eco; Israel Little, 81, 800. In
1909 John Law owned lots IL and L. at the
corner of X street, which were transferred
to VIM. Prout, with two frame and brick
houses. and Dennis OConnor obtained a
lease on lots and 6, opposite the market.
In 1911 Mathew Wright bought lot 10, on
7th street, on which a 5000 house was
built In 1890. In 1912 ]. Cridde took a lease
opposite the market, and in 1914 J. Bra
shears and James McKim and a man