Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11

vous for the boys of that section. Msnv
an exploit Of the gang was planned at
Stewards pump. little south. acroes
nth street flowed the Sluice run from
Franklin Square, and In the thirttee the
frame chapel Of the Tabernacle congrega-
ricn of the Methodist Professionals VAS
erected south of the run. This in after
wears MAS the school of Wethebec %
Push.
When nth and Is streets we're graded
in $40 a hill Of gravel twenty feet hiEh
was left northeast. Here had been erect
ed by Mr. Garrett three small frame
houses, which were occupied by Mrs.
Chase. George Johnson and another coll
hill lessened the depth to water. for the
pump was placed on the new grade anu
the well was used by the congregation
of Asbury Church. the Posey family in
the northwest and Mrs. Turtons store.
L. Fl. Bates and others. south.
In the forties from the northwest cor
ner of Massachusetts, avenue and 18th
street the neighborhood was supplied by
Wilkins pump and ii continued In serN-
Ice for sixty years, noted for both the
quality and quantity OF its water.
About 1858 a we'll and pump were de-
manded on the north side OF l. street be-
tween 18th and 18th streets. though but
few families had settled near this point.
Fred Siousa. a plasterer, afterward n
messenger of the Bank Of Metropolis.
was the first settler. and Charles Baker or
the adjutant generals office moved from
the southwest corner OF 18th and l.. and,
building near the pump, his name att
tached.
Pettitt's Pump Here.
y. the northwest corner OF 10th ana
X streets the pump was known as Pet
tits pump from the strenuous fight made
by the late c. w Pettitt against Its re
moval. Mr.. Pettitt lived on Massachu-
sets avenue from the forties till his
death, in his octogenarian days. few
years ago. He drank this water ca
clusively and ascribed his health and
scant settlement when 1t took the place
of the spring on the square east, and ic
is supposed that 1t was from the same
font.
bank twenty or more feet above grade
on the summit near 18th street, small
frame buildings appearing subsequently,.
Soetl of street. how YER resided W
G. Goddard of the treasury Watcn'
Aaron Gartrell. a butcher. ,apt. ". y.
Steele. q matchmaker: Thomas +. Harh-
ness. tailor, and others
From the southeast corner of 9th and
X streets the neighbors were supplied
with pump water for about forty wears,
among them Thomas and Michael French.
shoe makers. Charles Croggon. shoe
maker. and Thomas Muslin, fifth auditor
of the Treasury.
Henry Greer early in the fifties erected
a row of frame dwellings on the north
side of NJ street and opened q grocery ac
the corner of 9Th street. A pump was
soon erected at the corner and its con-
venience induced further settlement, and
1t did service nearly fifty years
Midway between n and 0 streets. on
the west side of Sth street. In the fifties.
pump was set which suppl ed more
truck gardens than dwellings, and helped
to irrigate the former. Ii was in service
until a few years ago.
From the southwest corner Of 10Th ana
NJ streets. not far north Of the little gro
cerr of J. Russell Barr, the neighborhood
tied here George Vonderlehr. stonecutter:
George Dice VI. r. Coombs and Others
William Durr. we'll known carpenter
was at the northwest corner.
Another pump at the southwest corner
of 18th and NJ streets. opposite Robert
Farnham's. was an incentive to settle
ment in the forties. Near the corner on
NJ street was Arthur McIntire of the
patent office and on 18th street Edward
Murphy In typical country home. with
garden attached; and at the northeast
corner Mr.. Barr In the flftieS erected n
three STORY frame residence and removed
his grocery from 10th street. The pump
there was among the last removed.
Incentive to Home Building.
About the corner Of 18th and NJ streets
by 1s45 Giles Dyer of the sixth auditors
Office was the first settler. Late in the
fifties Leroy Edwards erected the brick
build ne at the southwest corner OF those
streets, esta blishing a grocery, and with
the convenience of the pump south and
west homes were erected. EDWARDS
pump was appreciated for half q CEN
tury.
Kings pump at the southwest corner or
18th and streets supplied the colored
settlement on the east side of 18th street
in the fifties and was handy to Morri-
sons large garden on the square north OF
street. and until Shout 1900 It's water
was the .favorite drink for many.
On Ciassaway's Hill about 10th and ~
streets the pump at the northeast cor
ner about the year 1850 supplied num-
Der of colored families, albeit some pre-
ferred the water of Jerry Crowns spring
in the square south.
Dickinson Nailor by this time had
erected two-storied frame building and
pump was put in at the corner, which
was ever after known by his name On
the west side of 10th street above =
street the square formed the garden Al
ia ched to the residence Of William y.
Nourse erected some years before. bur
north and east OF the pump there were
some small frames. Before the civil war
pump was called for on the same
SQUARE located on the east side or loda
street. midway between the cross streets.
and this for years was a rival to the
corner pump. JAMES Sho1rON-