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The Detroit times., 1914-10-27
BOARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit, Oct. 2s. 1914.
NOTICE-STREET OPENING
ASSESSMENT

Notice OF street Opening Assessment
Roll No. 26s. for opening
OWEN AVENUE.
from Oakland avenue to Russell street,
where not already opened, as a public
street and highway.
To Cloyd Annkst.. Clinton q. Asher.
Aranauskas;
DAVID Barron. r. Il. Briggs, Gather
Buby Bold. Fl. T. Barnard. A. o. Bar,
sky, w. Bellran, Otto X. Beenian, Her.
man NJ. Battset, II. Byene, Boden Re-
slsy cG RkSks soi T5sn h.
Barnett:
d. L, colwell, w. Carr W. W. Chaplin,
ealissan x eampbsi c g. coru.id
Gambler;
can, J. Dewolf. r.. Domashewich. +. E.
EIchen. Ralph c. Eming. b. Esquaniter
W. 4. Ellington. Edward Evsrson.
Joseph v. Finn. Margaret Falconer
John ]. Ford, Sam freedman, William
Fox M. Fried. +. Fisher. B. Ferdinan-
o.ors. oalslatS. Alfred Grower
Paul Grunwaid. a. Gulyai. A. Gold.
berg, George ooodson. Christian CLAM
William Gsst Alfred ooiicki;
&. r.. y. Hunter, John Heenan, w c,
Hartwich, .. w. Hooper. n. Hurwitz
George NJ Howe, Harry J. Howe. Jos
eph Haas. Henry Hosbach, }. l.. Hud-
son Co.. John Hirfchman;
B. t, Jaeo. ,. A johnson. E. Jsrdsn,
A. Kate Il. Kaiser. Andriu. Ke.nen.
czius, Andrine Keshenfus. Walter C.
keibling. Michael Krzeminsky. NJ Ko-
wslski:
r. Q. Lamsreeh,. Il. LAns. >. a Tam.
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NOTICE
Notice Is hereby given that general election win BE-
Tuesday, November 8. 1914

trict officers: b = i,
General.
Districts.
Senatorial Districts
/ foIIov Chor<or Au.ou drnart su
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The following Charter Amendments W

DO You favor the establish meut OF d
CommissiOn 60 be known N ssThe
Recreation C0mmissions of the City
OF Detroftt
Do You favor authorising the Common
Council 20 N the eompe nsat ion OF
certain elective and sppointive OLA
GERS OF the City Of Detroit within
certain limitationsJ also 20 m the
compensation Of the subordinates OF
such 0fncialsf
shall all bonds hereafter Issued, for
the payment OF which the City of
Detroit is obligated. bear Interest NJ
rate not exceedins ave per cent
per annumf
An amendment to Section Ten
authorizing the State to issue bonds
Improvement Of the public wagon RI
An amendment to Article Eight
adding new section thereto, to stan
authorizing counties TO issue bonds Il
asad
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Deeds
Members Of Board Of Estimates
the Board Of
each OF the eighteen
uict of said /. fES6 ~ ~.
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YARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit, october rs. 1914.
DTlCE--STREET PAVING
/ ASSESSMENT
! Paving Notice No. 1850.
MONROE AVENUE.

70 John Weldon, John Henderson,
aries Seauin, Charles Kopp, q. r.
rdue. Frank St Amour, j. q. Arm
onr. Emil Dole, Charles Theis:
uis Voss, J, Haley. NJ. Belanger, ana
All other persons owning, occupying.
otherwise interested in any Of the
\ and premises fronting on Monroe
snue I'M, said City OF Detroit within
:, limits hereinafter mentioned
rhe Common Council of the City OF
troit. having ordered so much OF
,nroe avenue. from the east line o,
nton avenue to the west curb line
Helen avenue. to be graded and
we'd notice IL hereby given that an
sessment has been made upon all
, lots and premises fronting on said
,nroe avenue, and liable to be as
,sed for said Improvement under the
pvisions of the, City Charter. and
A a roll OF said assessment ls now
Epieted. and will remain at the As
..ors' ONCE, in the City. OF Detroit.
,n, the date hereof until November
iei4. for the inspection OF all per-
Re concerned therein.
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
BY Daniel l.. Dilworth,
ose President.
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NOTICE--STREET PAVING
ASSESSMENT
Paving Notice No. 1549.
MACMILLAN AVENUE. l.

To H. Krolik, L. W. Hamlin,. Ira os.
borne. J. c. Presich. A Herrpick, A. J
Smith, August Lauter, A. Huard. A. II
otto wandrie, l.. II. AlmdInger. NJ. Lau.
YER " Robarge. Jr.. Charles Redcap
Board OF Education. A. smith. Georg'
Hamilton, q. VI. DeCouIsey, J. sarbow.
ski. r. w. Kent. a. Krolick. ALFRED
Laurean. N. Kfoiik. J. G. Schmidt, l.
Dempke. l. Skodda. G. Krause, N
Voishi. NJ. c. welsch. n. Ransier NJ
Helms. q. schaddact. G; +. schaening
Frank Lux. y. Schatenbrandt. Victor
q Lipshitz. A. Campbell. r. q. Hough.
ton. r.. Braebeau. e. weidman. M. OIL.
bert. e. &. Will. George Hamilton, T.
n Mullen. Jos Glrard. c. p. smith
Frank Wardeli. Catherine VI. schmidt
y Robinson. Cassie q. Ryan. Evelins
T. Forester. Anthony oabler. J. J. Null
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DO you favor increasing the pensions
Are department. OF the City OF De-
trottf
shall the terms OF ofnee OF the Mayor.
City Clerk. City Treasurer, Aldermen,
COnstabies and members Of the Board
OF Estimates be for years instead
Of 2 N now provided BY laws
Do You favor the abolition OF the
BOARD of Estimates OF the City OF
ed BY lawr
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BOARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit, October 26. 1914.
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BOARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit. Oct. 26. 1914
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RoARp OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit. Oct &c, 1914.
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THE POLLS WILL BE OPEN ON TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 8, 1914


election follows:
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An amendment Section One Of Article Three
relative the while
legislature,
Ten. providing Fratcrnal Societies
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BOARD OF ASSESSORS OFFICE
Detroit. October 2s. 1914.
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BOARD or AssEssoRy OFFICE
Detroit. October 20, 1914.
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Shall each of the Ctvn servsee Ceuman-
sioners be paid an annuaI saIaBy -
not 90 exceed e3,O0os v.
Also the following So
BOARD OF EDUCATION ACT:
shall the aet previdi.k for rexuessso
cation a.d their eIecties ~ lsrgs -
adopteds W ~ q INI
tAt the time OF printing this netleS tho
above question n before the SuDromo
Court for ruling ~ 90 iss subnlsoeoosD
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Do you favor vesting the Mayor with
the power 60 appoint and 20 remove
all OF HIS aDpointees st his will and
pleasure. except the members Of the
Civil Service Commissionf
Shall the Common Council be denied
the power TO grant special privileges
by Auditing LOT ownerss
Do You favor dividing the territory OF
the City Of Detroit into n wardss
Do you favor Increasing the forced
paving provision, so-called. of the
City Charter from eSO0.OOO 90 soOO,OO0
w$aRY
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said, "Blenheim HeighG.' he came to
little cemetery. which a chance acquaint-
ance on the road informed him was called
Evergreen cemetery. Many of the graves
were recent and some were SO fresh that
grass had not grown over the red clay,
but at one side of the little graveyard
near a ruined brick wall which inclosed
what no doubt was a burial lot, there
was line of gri mand hoary headstones
and the inscriptions on them were these:
In Memory of William Mauduit Who
Departed this Life the Tth Day of Sep
tember 1I49, Aged 20 Years and Months:
In Memory of Mercy Garvey Who De-
parted This Life the 10th of September
NO. Aged - Years Months and II
days:
In Memory of Jasper Maudit Who De-
parted This Life the 18th of May 1875
Aged 42 Years:
I'm Memory of Mercy Chew Who De-
parted This Life the 9TH of November
1775 Aged 81 Years"
Not far from Bostock and in a sandy
meadow between the Eastern branch and
the main east and west roadway of the
village is curious. picturesque and we'll
preserved stone house evidently Of great
age. The owner and occupant is John E.
Bowles. He has lived there for thirty
wears. The Rambler could learn moth
ing of the early history OF this house. It
is blocked off from view from the main
streets of Bladensburg by newer struc-
lures. and traveller is apt to overlook it
unless he passes along the Marlboro road.
1t perhaps was not the abode of any Of
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be. 1t is realized that the real COM
petitive field is in the far east.
Japanese commerce In tho prize. Some
diversion OF traffic Ia likely to result.
Yokohama IL 1880 miles nearer to New
YORK by way OF Panama thnia by way or
sues ana at least twelve days may be
saved. For the ports south Of Now York
the shortening Of distance il even
greater. it is not unlikely that the
petroleum., exports from the Cnited
Atates viii be diverted from suez to
Panama, Some other commodities which
go out from the Atlantic ports to suez
will also take tbs Panama route and
these arc likely to include iron and steel
products and machinery.
Suez traffic also may be lessensd by
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a whole. the freight rate upon the prin-
cipal articles shipped to the Atlantic
coast ports via SueZ was less than half
that for the rail and water route. Cen
orally speaking. therefore, Suez Is going
to be much less affected by Panama
competition than the transcontinentai
railways Of the United States. As to the
American products. the Yokohama cham
Der Of commerce after a thorough invesu-
CATION reached the conclusion that the
shortest and cheapest route for the cot
sissippi to New Orleans, or from inland
points to Mobile and other southern ports
and thence to the Pacific through the
canal. AS it is now only very small
proportion Of American cotton goes out
to Japan through Suez.
x i;
The opinion was also advanced that the
various sorts Of iron and steel manu-
factures which Japan obtains chiefly
from the Pittsburgh and Chicago dis
tricts, as well as those from Alabama.
would find their cheapest outlet through
Panama 1t was stated that the products
of the eastern and southern parts Of the
United States, which constitute approx
mately 70 per cent of the total Japanese
imports from us, would take advantage
of the Panama route. American consular
officers after fun investigation reach sim
liar conclusions. So it does not appear
that in SO far as relates to the CONNER
cial currents between the United States
and Japan the Suez canal is going to be
seriously affected.
What little traffic Japan now has with
the eastern coast of South America will
be diverted from Suez to Panama, and
this will include the immigrant traffic
with Brazil. But all these items are 30
small in comparison with the general
Japanese trade throug gh Suez that they
may be ignored.
Japanese steamship lines through Suez
have received government subsidies, and
government to subsidize the line which
will utilize the Panama canal for COM
merce with the United States. Later
there may be a subsidy for line to the
eastern ports of South America, but a
very heavy subvention will be required
to keep such a line going.
China, through Hongkong. will have
the benefit of Panama competition with
Suez, but the distance between Hong
kong and New York will not be short
ened more than $50 miles, so that this
in itself is not likely to be controlling
sufficiently favorable to encourage COM
petition with Suez
Hongkong traffic covers not only the
products of South China, but those or
the strait settlements. Java. some parts
of India and the South Sea Islands.
fair proportion of the exports from these
countries for the eastern part OF the
United States go from Hongkong and
the immediate ports via Suez. Yet, not
withstanding the advantage of the Suez
route in respect to distance and all water
transportation, large quantities OF com
from the East Indies and the places be-
tween the East Indies and HongkonS
take the transpacific and transcontInen-
tai route. The diversion of this Uahc
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house which he called Sunnyside. Blen-
helm was destroyed by fire a good many
years ago and a new house was built on
the site. Mr.. Volland lives there. You
can see the grove of old cedars in which
the house stands from here. Sunnyside
was also. burned to the ground. On its
site Is that new house you see there, oc-
cupied by T. Howard Duckett.
i.
Why Christopher Lowndes built Ben-
helm and sunnyside while he lived at
Bostock do not know. but the inference,
of course, is that he built them for sons
or daughters. I know that some Of the
LoWndeses are buried in the churchyard of
Addison chapel Ninety-three years ago
Bostock came into possession of the
Steven family-and please do not write
that name Stevens-but Steven. During
those ninety-three years the property
changed hands number of times, but al
ways by inheritance. with. l believe, one
exception
Bishop Pinckney. young man, had
charge of st. Luke's Church in Bladens-
burg-the old buff-colored church you see
over there-and he used to board, or at
least he took his meals. with the Lowndes
family The Rambler forgets whether
MFR. kyner said that Bishop Pinckney
took his meals at Blenheirn or at Bostock.
1t Is interesting to note that Pinckney
chapel In HyattsvilIe grew out of st.
Luke's at Bladensburg. But let Mr.. Kyner
continue:
When the British came down that
road. the Marlboro road, in August 1914,
Gen. Ross rode out on the top of the
hill just there in the rear of the house
and with his field glasses located the posi-
ton of the Americans on the other side
of the stream. A British battery was or
dered up there and began firing. Now l
viii tell you who knows all about the
history of Bostock and Blenheim and
Sunnyside and the Lowndes and the
Steven families. They are descendants of
those who lived here for so long. You
go and see Mrs. La. ender and her moth
er. Mrs. Jackson. They live in large
brick house on Massachusetts, avenue
near Thomas Circle
Mr.. Kyner and the Rambler were stand
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the barn, and would the Rambler
please go out there and see him?
The master Of the place was feeding
In the barn. After few introductory
words the Rambler obtained from the
present owner of the place. whose
name is James H. Kyner. this story:
The name OF this place is Bostoek--
been, written. Christopher Lowndes
and brother came here from England
before 1746. Their family home was at
Chelsea ~ which is now q part Of Lon.
Bostock. hence the name of this house.
I do not know the name of the brother
Of CHRISTOPHER Lowndes. but l have no
daubt that with your patience for
discover il.
Christopher Lowndes was rich
merchant here. He was also planter.
So. too. was he a shipowner. or had in
terests in ships, as was the custom
with many merchants of that time
These ships use to come up to Bla-
densburg. and down in that field (point-
ing toward q bit of lowland bordering
the Eastern branehJ you will see re-
mains of the wharf at which those
ocean-going vessels used to be rnoored
He brought over in those ships q good
deal of European merchandise for the
American colonia1s and shipped back
wheat, -four and tobacco. The out
going cargoes were heavier and more
numerous than the incoming cargoes
and often the ships came in ballast
The ballast was brick with some stone
I do not believe more than you do in
this often repeated story Of manor
houses old churches and old barns
built with brick that came from Eng.
land. but in the case of this house it
is reasonable. Though there Is clay
land not far away where brick might
have been made, yet many Of Lowndes'
ships came in ballast with brick and
stone. and in the foundation of this
house is stone which is not found In
the vicinity of Washington.
Some time after building bostock, Chris
topher Lowndes built another large house
on the hill over yonder which he Called
Blenheim, and down there just across the
Marlboro road he built another great
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The news of the affair had gone over
land by horse and man to washinstoa
and a government tug was sent down the
river to meet the 1de. The meeting took
place at Alexandria and Heroid and the
body of Booth We're transferred. The
tug steamed back to the navy yard ana
Booths body was placed on the deck o.
the monitor Montauk old boat whlc'
laid there for many years after the war
Herold, in irons. was put down in the
hold of the vessel.
At half-past ] o'clock in the morning
an autopsy was held by Surgeon General
Barnes and other military surgeons on
Booths body. removing a part OF the
injured vertebrae near the base of the
skull The Rambler has been told that
this was long an exhibit in the ARMY
Medical Museum which soon after the
war was installed in the Fords Theater
building and which he has also been in
formed is now a private exhibit in the
same museum in its new building
Booths body was taken from the Mon
tauk soon after the autopsy and tnefe
seems always to have been some mystery
connected with the removal of the re
mains There is no doubt though that
the body was carried from the Moneauh
in a boat to the arsenal grounds. IN
which grounds stood the old penftentlarY
The remains We're placed in gun box.
one of those long pine boxes IN winch
muskets were shipped.
At that time some of the cells on the
ground floor of the penitentary were used
for store rooms. They were fioored with
stone tagging The tagging was taken
up in the floor of one Of these cells
probably in the same one in which the
pine gun box was procured. and the
grave was dug there. the body inferred
and the stone Tagging replaced Tne
BODY remained there nearly four years
1t was in February. 1863. that Edwin
Booth. the great actor, and a brother OF
John Wilkes Booth. obtained from Presl-
ident johnson permission to remove the
remains and the next month, March, the
bones were taken up and reburied in the
Booth family burial lot in Greenmount
cemetery, Baltimore. In the middle of
that lot is handsome Booth family
monument and near the base of it, a
little to one side and unmarked is
mound under which all that is mortal
of John Wilkes Booth rests.
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Corbett, that he was travelling south with
the intention Of reaching Mexico.
The Rambler in that story confined
himself quite closely to Corbett. his ca
volunteers, his career from the time Of
his discharge from the army until his
escape from the Kansas asylum. the
course taken by Doherty's detachment,
which led to the killing Of Booth and the
capture of Dave Herold. and gave a
slight sketch of the movements of Booth
and Herold in their fight through and
concealment in southern Maryland, most
OF the facts for that part of the narra-
tive having been written by Thomas A.
Jones, the Confederate agent who fed
both Booth and Herold for a week in
pine thicket on the farm OF Samuel Cox,
in Charles county. and, finally. on a dark
and misty Friday night, exactly one
week after the murder of Lincoln, start
ed them across the Potomac river in his
twelve-foot fishing boat.
One Of the Ramblers friends, soon
after the publication of the story, called
to comment on the fact that the story
of Booth was dropped with the killing
it would have been more satisfactory to
follow the story till Booths remains an
Herold as a prisoner had been brought
back to Washington.
Inc troops ana detectives came upon
the Garrett farm just before dawn the
morning of April 26. The shot that killed
Booth was fired within few minutes
Of o'clock, and he lay first on the grass
before the burning barn and then on the
porch of CARROTS house. about hun
dred yards away, until about I o'clock.
when he was pronounced dead. Osborn H.
Oldroyd, the Lincoln collector in the sos,
made a walking trip over the route which
Booth and Herold followed. stopping
where they stopped and making num-
ber of side trips to find persons or their
descendants who had been in any way as
sociated with the case. He passed through
Anacostia, Good Hope. Silver Hill. Reds
Corners and Surrattsville. The Surratt
house there, in which Mrs. Surratts hus-
band kept a tavern and the post Office be-
fore Mrs. Surratt came to Washington
to open a boarding house on H street, is
still there.
At the time of the assassination the
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DREDGER AT ENTRANCE OF suEz CANAL.

the diversion of the Japanese exports,
but it is usually overlooked that the bulk
of this traffic is already trans-Pacifc and
that even the low Suez freight rates
have not been able to obtain much of it
because the cargoes are not bulky. Raw
silk is the leading commodity imported
into the United States from Japan. the
value in some years amounting to $5O,-
10000. After it comes tea. Nearly all
this traffic has been a transcontinental
traffic. year or SO ago the freight
charges on raw silk from Yokohama to
New York by way of Suez and London
was a little more than S1.2o per 100
pounds. as compared with fraction
under Sc per 100 pounds by the trans
Pacific and transcontinental routes
Taking the Japanese commodities as
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ing in the garden at the south end of the
house. The view stretched across the val
ley of the Eastern branch to the Veltcn-
Conn lands on the hill on which the
Boys National Industrial School STANDS
and to the Queen lands on which Is the
Blandensburg dueling ground-on tract
of the Queen lands called Turkey
Thcket." Looking up at the high, south
chimney of Bostock you can see IN Dig
black letters near the top Of the CHM
ney &c. l.. 1746" Mr.. Kyner put those
letters and figures there. for that was
where he found the old board with the
date of the building of the house. Against
the south wall a massive buttress leans
and in the base of this buttress are two
rooms in one of which was small door
of heavy oak still sound, and lattice OF
wrought iron bars.
"I have been told.'' he said. that when
slave became unruly he was confined In
there 1 have a theory that the brick
masons who put up the walls OF this
house were not pail much in wages, but
were plentifully supplied with rum. MY
reason for this belief is that the walls
are not true. When the walls were put
up and the carpenters were called on
to put in the window framing they found
that the walls were out of plumb You
can see that by looking at those window
frames and their relation to the brick
wall Then when they found that the
wall was not true they built that great
buttress against it for security.
NO, the roof does not leak. Sometimes
in a high wind a wagonload of shingles
will blow off. but it was so well built
that no water has ever come through
met man out here who helped repair
that roof forty-two years ago. 1t has
not been reshingled since then. I have
examined some of the shingles that have
been blown off. They are Of pine hand
made and perfectly sound"
After leaving Bostock the Rambler
again took up his course along the Marl-
boro road and q little way along after
passing a sign on Lowndes' hill, which