Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-02

OLDEST INHABITANTS MEET
SEVERAL NEW MEMBERS ADDED
TO THE ROLLS.
Discussion Of the orthography Of Sub
urban Village Name-General
Business Transacted.

meeting Of the Association Of the Old
est Inhabitants Of the District Of Column
bia, held last evening In the rooms OF the
association was well attended. Mr.. ALI
son Nailor. the president, called the meet
Ing to order shortly after 7:30 o'clock.
after which Mr.. B. w. Reiss read the
minutes of the last meeting, which were
afterward approved az read.
President Nailor read the draft Of let
ter he had sent % the Rough Riders.
thanking them and stating the acceptance
Of the invitation to the unwilling of the
Rough Riders monument. He was glad
to say that despite the weather and the
there was fair representation present.
A letter was received asking for In
formation Of q Mr.. Willard. Frenchman.
who years ago was a surveyor In George
town and Washington; also one from In
dependence, Mo-, making inquiries Of Mrs.
Sarah Champion, who resided here in 1857.
A. H. Ragan presented resolution from
the committee on memorial services pro-
viding that at the June meeting, and an
nuaIly thereafter, an hour be devoted to
reading memorials of deceased members.
He stated that the committee had dis
that such meetings be held in some church
or hall was deemed impracticable. The
resolution was laid on the table.
B; w. Rsiss, the secretary; reported the
Casey on April 8; Francis Miller, April
4. and R. M A. Fenwick, April 10. and the
illness Of A. L. Schultz. g. g. c. Simms
and Baldwin Drane. The latter, who lis in
his seventy ninth year. was run over by an
automobile Friday last and severely in
jured. and is In the Casualty Hospital.
Resolutions expressing sympathy were
A. K. Paris. J. F. Wallace and O. ].
Suter were elected to membership AID the
applications OF George Gibson and Thomas
p. Stephenson were received. President
Nailor announced that he would leave
about May 10 on a trip abroad and would
be absent several months.
Vacancies in the list of officers were
filled by eiecting John T. chauncey a vice
president and Louis p Seibold. treasurer.
An Invitation of H. A. Willard to lunch
at the New Occidental, 1411 Pennsylvania
avenue, at O'Clock Tuesday, May II. was
A letter as received from Rev. DIR. Wal
lace Radcliffe accepting honorary member
ship and returning thanks.
orthography Of Name.
T. v. Noonan read some extracts from
The tSar and one an to whether the settle
ment above Georgetown should be called
Tenaliytown or Tenleytown caused some
discussion. J. n. McCarty said some years
ago. when on the Chronicle he had prepared
and published an article on the subject. In
which 1t was shown that there were more
good grounds for calling II Tenleytown.
C. n. Robinson stated that the board of
geographic names had had the subject be-
fore i. and. nosw s, n,a the grounds
board adopted the shorter name OF Ten
ieytown.
Dr. J. T. Howard. Major Armes and the
president followed. claiming that the short
name was the correct one.
DIR. J. r. Howard said he had lon@ useu
the term TeNsy; Maj. Armes remarked that
for twenty-five years the people Of that
section used the term Tenley: PRESIDENT
Nailor. who had known the place from boy
hood. had seldom heard the place called
Tenallytown, and T. E. Clark was OF the