The Washington herald., 1908-04-20
WHY GEORGETOWN SHOULD HAVE APARK:
NEED ELOQUENTLY SET FORTH BY WOMEN

Mrs Giles Cook lane. 800 Q street northwest.
Washington
Mrs. J. Johnston Dickinson. i57 Twenty-niBth
street.
Mrs Edmund K. Fox. 1873 Taentg-ninth street.
Washington
Mrs. Dosns L Wilson, 1911 Twenty-ninth street.
Washington
The Misses Abbot. n8 street. Washington.
MTs. NeEc0mb. l60 P street
Mrs. Thomas c. Bailey, z2l 2 street Washington
MrS Robert ". Mcpherson, l2ie Nineteenth street.
Mira Bernard Il Johnston. lda Nineteenth street
MFs G. NJ Matthews. 1903 ThiTtieth street.
Miss Emily G. Mltthews 1903 ThiIfieth street.
Mrs. Henty 7. Matthess. i2tl Thirtirth street.
Claudia Stuart Coles Cooke plscs northwest.
Mrs John j. Mccarthy 50l5 Cambridge place.
Mrs II. J. Gorman S0l5 Cambridge place
Mrs @. d. Pennebaker. S0ls Cambridge place.
Miss Emma J. Nourse. 223 Q street northwest.
Washington
Mrs Henristta Wilson. Washington
Mrs r II. Bates Washington
Mrs = l. Nourse. 2325 Q street, Washington,
Mrs l. r. Johns The stoddert. 200 Q street.
Washington
Mrs William D. Orms EvsTaay, Washington,
Man Murray lockwood EyeTmay. Washington.
Mira RaWlins Hume. BEermay, Twenty eighth
street
Mrs Thomas Hyde 158 THenty-eighth street
AIns Robert Y Peek. ISIS p street
Mrs. w + IApgsitt. zB street.
Mrs 81. 4. Gtlbert 39i4 L street.
Mis- Albion K Paris. 5lz P street
Mrs Richard D. simms slss o street Washington.
Mrs Carl B. Keiersfein. isOa Eighteenth street
Mrs Lloyd B. Wight, lS21 Twents-ninth street
Mrs Howard S, Burbank. 1874 Twsuty-nintb street.
Mrs. E. II. Taylor, ls2s Twenty-ninth street
Airs. Nsseta W. Wagsr 28is street.
Mrs Edward W. CTeecy. 1918 Fwenty-eighth
street
Mrs. G. n. McCsrtney slss Dumbarton avenue
Ms Philip T. Berry. 3lG DumhsTien avenue.
Mrs samuel C. Palmer l&as Thirty first street.
Anna ?. Thomas. 5las street.
Hetty 5. Graves. 500 Q street northwest
Roberta HaTueT. 500 q street northwest
Mrs, Marion ], Edmonston, 1915 Twenty eighth
street northwest
sirs. Charles R. Daw. sft P street northwest
Airs. Thomas r. Young 2sl3 P street northwest.
MTs. Jesse II. Wilson 2sl4 street northwest.
Mrs. +. s. BaTbarin. Es6 p street northwest.
Mrs William d Cassin. lfl3 Thirtieth street.
The Misses Cassin. Hls Thirieth stree.
Nlrs. Thomas J. Stanton, SOS 0 street
Louise Stanton. sos street
The Misses Cassin, ifls ThiTtiett- street
Mrs. James II. W. Blake. ISIS ThiTty-fiTst street
Mn. Frederick =. HUWden SO o street.
Mrs. John ]. Amy l0ls Vermont sTenRs
Mrs. James Mcmillan ul4 Vermont avsHBs.
Mrs. BENJAMIN AlTOrd. z Cooke place.
Mrs George Du B0is 2905 Q street
Emily Y Mason 105 Z street northwest
Mrs. William Henry. s2ii \ street.
Mrs. W. ". Curtis 1901 ThiTty-fFst street
Miss Helen A. Beall i4al Thirty-aTst street.
Mrs. F. ". Moaat l602 Tweuty-eighth street.
Mrs. Thomas Bradley lSa TRgnty-eighth street
Ms. J. Eakin Gadsby. Sil4 stfest
Mrs. George L. Traett, 1901 Thirty-first street
Mrs. William T. Hill. 300 Q street,
Mrs. p. r. Carr. Z55 street northwest
Ms. S. J. Radcliffe, G1 street northwest.
The Misses Radcliffe. 233 street.
Mrs. Murray Addison. l7e5 y street
Matte L. Cropley. Sas street.
Mrs. S. Stockton NooThees. SlI8 street
Mrs. Frederick A. Miller, 2ol Massachusetts, ave
nue..
Mrs. John Deuhurst Pstten, 2Zl2 street,
Miss Juliet c. Patten. 2zls street.
Mrs. Z. G. Davis 22li street
AIyra Louise Davis 22ll r street
MTs. J., ". D. Craig. lSo5 Nineteenth street.
Ethel c. Davis. 2zll street
Blanche II. AIeline. 2234 & street.
Nlrs. H. H. Dodge. 2ol6 street.
Airs. William Henry Browne, 1is street
The Misses Dodge. 0ls street.
Grace DEMO Litchfeld. 800 Massachusetts, avenue
sIrs. Eugene Lyman lie Merle. ssli . street
Mrs Andrew C. Bradley. DIS street.
Ms A. L. Wcrthington. ol5 Massachusetts, ave
nue..
Mrs. Lenoz Simpson. 2Ssl O street.
Ms. Alexander Harrison Semmes 2as Q street.
Charlotte B. Loyett, 2l3 Massachusetts, avenue.
Ms. Thomas c. Cox. ls5 G street.
Mrs. Charles Hume. ls2S g street.
The Misses Smith i7E street,
Mrs Charles NeWbold i79i street.
Mrs. William T. Sampson, 1918 New Hampshirs
avenue
Ms. Theodore W. Noyes. To New HsmpshiT,
Sirs. George E Hamilton. ISL New Hampshir.
avenue
Mrs. Richard E. Pairo, 1914 street.
Mrs. Robert Anderson, l5G Sixteenth street.
The Misses Anderson. l5I Sixteenth street
jane A. Riggs. 1917 l street
Mrs. R. H. MeKin.. 1873 K street
Mrs. Samuel Franklin Emm0ns. IN Il street.
Mrs. William C0Tcaran Hill. l74 Il street.
Miss Mary 7. Turner and Mrs. Harriet 5. Turner
2l6S Florida avenue.
Alrs. Walter Ebbs, alf2 Florida avenue,
Mrs b H Warner. 200 Massachusetts, avenue.
Ms. Ben de Aiilt NilleT z7z3 2 street northwest
Mrs. Arl0 Augur Georgetown Heights
Miss Dodge, Georgetown Heights.
Mrs. George Townsend Georgetown Heights.
Mrs. Emily Mason. r street. Georgetown Heights
Louisa RittenhOuse. Georgetown Heights.
OF the residents here named. whose
names recall some of the oldest and best
families OF the Capital. twenty have
passed away. but the petition has been
revived in the hope that the House may
see how earnestly the park is desired, and
not allow the bill. which has passed the
Senate, again TO fail.
Accompanying the petitien was q short
sketch of Georgetown's history and a
further eloquent appeal for a park, as
follows:
When in l75l the legislature Of Maryland sp
pointed commissioners TO lay out town On the
banks Of the Potomac they chose the most beauti-
full site in what is now the District There hand,
some homes sprung up. and in l7s9 when George
town was incorporated and Robert Peter, esq. ap-
pointed mayor charming social life was already
established and fine mansions adorned the heights
On the 18th Of March. l7si the PROCLAMATION fxina
the scat Of government of the United States yss
issued from Georgetown, the concluding paragraph
q which important record reads:
in testimony whereof | have caused the seal q
the United States 10 be affixed by these presents
and sign the same with my hand Done st George
town aforesaid the Soth day of March, IN the yeal
Of cur Lord 1921, In she Independence Of the United
States the fifteenth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
''By the President:
THOMAS JEFFERSON
At this time, too. Thomas Tvining. noted
Engishman, visited Georgetown and wrote Of t.
His famous prophecy ia regard 70 the United
States has been fully realized. bat takes on new
interest in sae present Development;
The infancy Of America was sui of freshness
and yigu and had already discovered the gigantic
proportions Of her future stata Isse stars q her
constellation had but recently appeared above tbs
hoTizon but Increasing ID number. elevation and
spiendor, they viii hereafter shine 70 the most
distant kingdoms Of the earth. 1t is cuntrs
abogniing With genius. e1ergy, and enterprise
whose infant seaEs haFe pstdaced Washington. :