The Washington times., 1908-09-27

n voiced, raised on breakfast
food. always-with-us crouch.
Fact is, something Ike this has allied
the burg for some time, but only re-
Gently did the pain become so acute as
to permit of definite diagnosis. Now
the aiIment has beeh called by its first
name, everybody in ,Anacostia knows
about it and everybody else will agree
that a crouch is a most handy thing
TO have about tie house-when you've
been treated like Anacostia has.
For instance. how would you feel il
you owned a town and had named the
streets for all the Presidents (as long
as the streets lasted, from Washing
ton TO Grant anu had gotten used TO
them, and knew just how 20 go home
In the dark; I say. how would you feel
If a bunch OF Unsympathetic men call
co Congress and another lot called the
Commissioners, none of whom ever took
trolley and came over your way.
should suddenly decide that you had no
right TO your street names, anyway,
and forthwith change them?
Wouldn't 1t make you peevish.
wouldn't you give an occasional intima-
ton Of a dyspeptic and wouldn't you
want to fight something. if nothing
more than an Eastern branch mosquito?
OF COURSE YOU WOULD.
Most likely you would, unless you
lived at the Home for the Aged and
didn't give cuss for civic matters
anyway
Well, that, together with number Of
other things, is the latest 10 happen TO
Anacostia. Since the memory Of the
Oldest inhabitant rUnneth not To the
contrary, Anacostia has prided itself on
its high sounding street names. George
Washington. John Quincy Adams.
Thomas Jefferson. all OF them were
there.
When you told the grocery man TO
deliver a pound Of butter at 41144 Wash
ington street. the delivery boy sang
verse Of the 'Star-Spangled Banner"
repeated To himself the story of the
cherry tree, and the butter was forth
with brought to the back door. Same
way with the physician. the mail car
rier, the ardent swain, the cop and the
real estate man. Everybody knew
where everybody else lived and how TO
get there, and. consequently there was
much visiting and an weHs happy
Just a short time ago. after declining
To reclaim the AnaCostia flats. after re-
fuslrg 70 establish a city dump, after
nceIec,ing 80 build q new police sta
ton. 20 provide more paved streets
an5 electric lights. TO better the car
service 70 do anything in fact that
Auacostia wanted, Congress decided TO
go foraEl2g after dirnihed street names.
CONGRESS TAKES A HAND.
An. na.-' said Congress. heres a
bunch q high-soUnd.ns statesmanlIke
names in use out there at Anacostia-
What = thcy have been doing business
for about sixty years and are "A little
shop-w0rn. Wen transfer them over
20 1It. Pleasant, our thriving fashion
able suburb, and send a bunch OF letters
and figures over Anacostia way 70 be
distributed wherever there's an empty
space"
Following which ukase. a benevolent
ladder climber from the District build
ing came over and tore down William
Henry Harrison. James Monroe. Martin
Van Buren,, Willard Fillmore. and a
few others, and decorated the lamp
posts Is, II. ". X, Y. h OF any other
old letter he drew out OF the bag.
Which painful process made Anacos-
TIA "southeast' and spread the germ
OF discomfort that later developed a
certain crouch aforementioned. Now
father has lost track Of son. swain Of
sweetheart, milkman Of customer and
real estate man Of his 'surest Inlns
you know" while CONSERVATION and