Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
Row Of Buildings Of Bureau OF
Pomology. 18th Street Southwest

oh. any how. they try to find out what
is the matter with the tobacco when there
is something the matter with II. that the
defec; may be remrded
y unique government building IL IN
18th street. now occupied a carpenter
shop 10y the Department or Agriculture
II is building that resembles a cross be
tween A barn and a dsused church Were
il rot for the front porch il would look en-
t!rel.' like a barn. As II Is. the front porch
deceives and makes the spectator inquire
Of passerby why they don't paint tn,
church or take the elaborate front of the
barn.
Barn" says the passerby. severely
barn church-CHERCH, Young man.
Won are evidently not Of these parts
This building has shed OF a roof which
slopes down and acts as sort OF awnina
10 the windows. Some Of the employees
grow enthusiastic from time to time and
call 1t a Gothic roof The pessimists refer
to II brutally as n d TOOL roof.
and the pessimists are in the majority.
II has two windows on the side and fou-
in front. to say not hing OF slit Of a door.
and the porch. That porch Is the pride OF
tn" department If II were not for the
porch. they say. somebody would havs
come along years ago and swept the whole
place up under the impression that il was
kindling wood.
Georgetown's Custom House.
The custom house in Georgetown is
quaint old building. II was erected years
ago and is now used by the Post ONCE
Department and customs authorities Let
tcrs are sent there to he mailed and
delivered, and goods are taken there to
he appraised and taxed. II is a neat
little place and is generally liked by the
people OF the community
There stands on 10th street near r
white-fronted building. large and with
very small entrance. that is used by the
adjutant generals Office of the War De-
partment. The building is eternally hush
ed and the men who work in II seem To
regard noise within its precincts as a
Ssacrilege
1t is the old Fords Theater-the thea
ter in which Lincoln paid with his life
for his devotion to principle. Nothing
Is IN there now to tell of the assassin
ton of an executive: nothing except per-
haps, the door from which the murderer
dragging his broken leg behind him. leap
ed to his horse and temporary safety.
1t has been almost entirely rebuilt since
the time o. the shooting Across the
street is the house in which the gaunt
form was laid lovingly on its death bed
where dying President prayed for the
reuniting Of a nation.
The old building was changed some
years ago. after the accident in June. 1Sc;.
IN which so many people were killed.
The accident occurred when the floors
gave way during the day, the building be-
crowded with clerks at the time.
The building will probably be used for
years to come, as it is still solid and
firm.
On 18th street southwest is a row Of
houses that look like the residences Of
some rather INDECENT citizens of the mid
die class. Each house is like its neigh
Dor and each is entered by a flight or
steps. These buildings are the home of
the bureau of pomology. The buildings
picked out as being nice and quiet.
and allowing the bureau to continue its
studies without any interference. Be
sides there was no room for the bureau in
the Department of Agriculture.
There has been 4 tendency. however.
during the last few years To replace all
of these old affairs by handsome
buildings. that ii is very proba bic
that before the next administ ration has
drawn to close all of the unique places
will have been abandoned and the Of
fees located in their new homes.
The Department of Agriculture has been
the chief offender in the past and is
also the one which is making the most
determined efforts to break away from
the old order of things. The new build
ing will he a magnificent temple do
voted to the farming interests of tho
country and on its completion all the
little accessory buildings which are now
In use will become things of the past.