Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25
Bacon's Grocery on Corner.

been established. and it was continued
there by his sons, Samuel and Peter.
during the greater part Of the past GEN.
fury. North OF the Avenue the Widow
Cana, and Rapley and Avery were locat-
ed in the grocery business. The Hughes
grocery was few doors east of Ba-
cons, and south of Bacon's corner was
Mrs. Myers boarding house and the gro
ceries of John Conway, NJ. Mcdaniel
and Thomas Murray.
East of 18th street subsequently became
known, when tavern and eating houses
were established there, as Cat Tail row.
In the neighborhood was Mrs fuckers
boarding house. where Saks' store is now
located; Rumpf's City Hotel and the Ma
tional Intelligence office, on the south
side of the Avenue, opposite Keowin's
Hotel, afterward Davis, which in 1919
became Browns Indian Queen Hotel, and
is now the Metropolitan. The stores of
]. S. Clark, dry goods: Isaac Clark, dealer
in hats, and Walter Clark, dealer in
shoes, were near by.
So far as draining the adjacent grounds
was concerned. the canal did not in it's
then location (B street, until it struck the
line of Pennsylvania avenue, midway be-
tween Az and 9Th street. thence to Sd
street,. accomplish it's purpose, and the
public generally, as we'll as the cor
means for more effectually draining the
grounds. AS result, in May. 1922, bill
was passed by Congress authorizing the
corporation to agree with the canal COM
pany to relocation of the canal
An agreement was made by which the
public grounds reclaimed were to be sold
by the corporation and the proceeds used
to improve the canal and the grounds.
This commission was composed of
Thomas Carbery, Gen. r. c. Weightman.
Adam Lindsay, and they superintendent
the work. had the ground subdivided into
building lots and disposed of the same.
Course Is Changed.
The course was change from the cor
ner of B and 9th streets south to a line
in the center Of the Mall, thence east to
Sd street and southwark to Canal street.
1t is needless to say that these lots soon
were disposed of and the section became
the site of an important part of the city.
The building lines were extended on the
south side of c street from I'd to AZ
street; on the north side of the Avenue
to AZ street and on the south to 9th
street; Maine and Missouri avenues were
laid off, the new divisions being known
as reservations 10, IL and II and squares
A, B, c, and D.
The depot Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was located at I'd and the Ave-
nue., from 1885 to 1852: business and
boarding houses sprang up along the Ave-
diiu cohiCf 1oI udy,
residences were on the adjacent streets
Interspersed We're the st. Charles Hotel
northeast corner of Sd and the Avenue;
William Gabdys, on the opposite corner
Beers Temperance House, northward;
the United States, west of Gabdy's, and
the National. at the corner of 9th street.
The Adelphi, Odeon and Atheneum, on
the Avenue, and the Olympic. on 9th
street, were theaters or places Of amuse-
ment. The Olympic, about 1910, became
John P. Towers printing office, and later
was occupied by Buell. and Blanchard,
publishers of DIR. Bailey's National Era.
Michael McDermOtt, near Sd street, and
John Young, near AZ street, operated
coach factories.
On Missouri avenue, facing the canal
were mostly dwellings, but at the cor
ner of 9Th street was Browns livery
stable, which was destroyed by fire in
the forties East Of this S. T. G. Nor
sell had a carpenter shop early in the
forties. On the opposite side Of the Mall,
Maine avenue George F. Rider & Co.
had an iron foundry and machine shop,
and oher manufactures sprung up near
by.
The canal company continued in DOS
session until the corporation. under the
act Of January 3, 1881, purchased all its
rights and property for $4,000. This act
provided for a width of $50 feet between
18th and 10th streets. so feet to B street
south and 40 feet to Virginia avenue and
for the deepening of the same to four
feet.
About this time the branch of the Ches-