Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26

as the post Office. or GdeOn's, pump was
the source of supply for fifty or more years.
When, about 1920, this pump was put
in, it was used not only by the employees
in the Post Office Department building,
which included the patent and other
offices. but by the occupants of McLean's
row, the families of Edward De Kraft and
others.
On the southwest corner of 9Th and F
| streets pump was convenient to school
there and the residents whereabouts. From
about 1920 to 1890 John Hoover, pioneer
butcher; David Shoemaker, jr.. a clerk !:
John Bailey, letter carrier, and others
were patrons of the pump at the north
west corner of Sth and c; streets.
On the east side of 9th street between
F and streets for very many years a
pump at the northwest corner of 7th
Hays pump, after Henry Hay, master
painter living near. Some sixty years
ago the pump at the northeast corner
| for time, in consequence of a piece of
| flesh being pumped out. The we'll was
thereupon cleaned. nothing foreign being
found. and until it was abandoned about
ten years ago. there was no complaint
as to the quality of the water.
At the southeast corner of H and 9th
streets the pump gave fine flow of
good water to a large constituency.
About 1910 James Towles had his dwell
| ing and carpenter shop on H street. A
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and two schools added nearly two hun
dred to the population. The pump was
one of the last to fall In the campaign
| against the wells.
Over Fifty Years Service.
The pump at the northwest corner of
10th and Fl streets saw over fifty years
| service, having been placed there about
1910, when Michael Sardo, grocer and
musician. lived at the southwest corner.
1t was taken up about ten years since.
On 18th street north of G street, near
| the home of Lewis Johnson, founder of
| the firm of l.. Johnson & Co., bankers, a
pump supplied water until a late day.
| Fine water came from the pump north of
Tweedy's, corner 18th and G streets, sup
posed to have it's source in spring
| northeast of it. This. too, was removed
a few years ago.
| On 18th street, on the east side, few
yards south of G street, a copious sup
| ply of excellent water was brought up
| by pump. 1t is said that the well was
| sunk about 1920 and that John Mcleod.
a famous schoolmaster, who erected two
large brick dwellings a little south of the
pump, was the leading spirit in having
| it SO placed. Mr.. McLeod's property
| was about the center of the 18th street
| front, and north, in 1925. the ST. Vincent s
| Orphan Asylum was established, and for
years the pump was called the asylum
pump. For fifty years or more it sup
piled the Immediate section. which was
| a growing one.
| At Site of Old Star Office.
One of the best known pumps was at
| the southwest corner of Pennsylvania
| avenue and 18th street seventy years ago.
and also in the days when Green's cabinet
shop and The Star office were there. At
| Depreux corner, Pennsylvania avenue and
| 10Th street, was another pump, said to
| have been located there in the beginning
of the last century, when Gen. Van Ness
| improved the corner south. Later it was
| regarded as an adjunct of Drews Tavern.
at that corner, and 1t quenched the thirst
of one of the earliest settled sections of
| the District.
Directly in front of the present first
precinct station, 18th street between c
and SIT Gets, in the thirties, what
was known as Ridgway's pump accom-
modated the neighborhood and public.
| which included boatmen and others from
the canal basin and the wood and lumber
wards below. JAMES CROGGON.