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''Franck Taylor bookseller, north side
Pennsylvania avenue between Four-and-
a-Half and Sixth streets: Taylor and
Maury, booksellers, north side of Penn
sylvania avenue between Ninth and Tenth
west"
Henson Taylor was an error of the
directory makers. 1t should have been
Hudson Taylor. The bookstore in which
Hudson Taylor was then interested was
Taylor & Maury. The directory for 1855
shows this: Hudson Taylor, 4Ss Ninth
street west--Taylor and Maury, bookshelf
ers, 334 Pennsylvania avenue-Franck
Taylor. bookstore. 400 Pennsylvania ave-
nue." The 1858 directory shows: "Franck
Taylor. bookseller 4O2 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., house ditto-Hudson Taylor (Taylor
& Maury, booksellers). 1874 Pennsylvania
avenue, house ditto-Hudson Taylor (Tay-
lor & Maury. booksellers), 1874 Penn
sylvania avenue; house, 4SS Month street,
corner of D."
Up to 1862 these names and addresses
continue without change, but in that
year Franck Taylor, though the number
of the bookstore is unchanged. his
house address is given as IT Indiana
avenue-no doubt the old number for
324 Indiana avenue. From 1862 to 1855
1857 the directory shows this: Hudson
Taylor, late bookseller, 48S 9th street
west-the Hudson Taylor bookstore
(Franch and Richardson). 334 Pennsyl-
vania avenue" So it was either in
1866 or 1867 that Hudson Taylor sold
his bookshop to French and Richard
son. In the 1864 directory is this adver-
tisement: Hudson Taylor. Bookseller
ton. D. c. First-class American and
French Stationery, Photographic Al
buns, Miscellaneous and Military
Books, Cards Engraved in the Latest
Style" In the 1857 directory is this
advertisement: Hudson Taylor Book
and Stationery Store, Established 1913
French and Richardson-334 Pa. Ave.
Washington. d. c. Manufacture All
Kinds of Blank Books. Lithographing.
Engraving and Printing Executed With
Neatness and Despatch"
The directory of 1868 contains simply
the entry "Franck Taylor, II Indiana
avenue" There is no reference to his
bookstore and the presumption would
be that he had retired from business In
1857 or 1868. The Hudson Taylor book
store was still being run by benjamin
F. French and A. H. G. Richardson. In
1869 F'ranck Taylor was entered as
living at II Indiana avenue, and from
1870 to 1873 as at 324 Indiana avenue
His name was not in the directory OF
1874. and in 1875 the directory con
tanned these entries: "Franck Taylor.
u. S. A., 324 Indiana avenue: Mrs;
Franck Taylor, 324 Indiana avenue.
These entries continued from 1879 TO
1882, inclusive, but the name MIS-.
Franck Taylor was not in the 1883 di-
rectory.
Although the Hudson Taylor book
store was established in 1S4s. Hudson
Taylor had not bought the property at
9th and streets. At that intersection
the northwest square is No 37s' the
southwest square 319, the northeast
square 407 and the southeast square
4os. In 1s49 the lot owners in the
square bounded by 9th. 10th, d and +
streets were:
Thomas Donohoo, Bank of Washington, lhom-
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value at all. Also. the three cities have
been stricken by war contributions and
fines for crushing sums
He speaks with studied tranquility. >.
This is the nature of the damages,
he said, three kinds
was astonished by his calm.
Have they not DESTROYED for the sake
of destroying?" l asked. Were mines
flooded and looms being carried of to
Germany? Have all the newspaper
presses and typesetting machines been
taken to Germany and all the plants of
metallurgical establishments cite
Douai, to be exact-and the boilers of
breweries, distilleries and sugar fac
tories?"
Il have said I will talk business.
was his answer. Those are details.
They might lead US into sentiment. Let
us talk business 1t is calculated that
ried away merchandise and raw ma
terial from the Department of the North
to the amount of between S2OO,0OO.000
and s350,00O.000. besides what they
have destroyed. Our bill for damages?
1t is not even sentiment, but war
plain war. l will talk business
AS he said it, so I give it.
Now, for reconstruction. The French
government has created, under the
presidency of NJ. Leon Bourgeois, an
interministerial committee for the re-
construction of the invaded regions. 1t
has studied the following questions:
81. The return of refugees to the re-
gions. You know, almost 100000 per-
sons quilted the regions and are scat
tered over all France. There must be a
plan for the return of these people
They cannot be brought back to their
destroyed homes in a day without ar
engagements for food and habitation.
80. The return of functionaries. ad-
ministrative employees. public services
etc, and artisans, workmen, shopkeep-
ers. etc. necessary to the local life
The return, you see, must be in two
parts: First. of the persons who will
make the cities, towns, etc, habitable
again, and then the mass of the inhabit-
ants.
"3. A section of the committee is oc-
cupied with measures of security
against non-exploded shells. torpedoes
etc. There are tens of thousands OF
them, excessively dangerous and pow
erful, scattered everywhere, in fields
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said. Now for the acquisitions. The
Germans operated acquisitions on raw
materials, on manufactured merchan-
disc particularly woolens and cottons.
two great staples of the north) and on
wood. iron, construction materials and
manufactured merchandise in linens
and st1ffs of all kinds. At Roubaix and
Tourcoing the buildings were respect
ed, but acquisitions were exercised the
same in all three cities.
For acquisitions made in Shops" he
went on, the Germans have sometimes
given receipts and sometimes not.
When taking from manufacturers and
wholesalers they have regularly given
receipts countersigned by the French
municipal authorities, but such receipts
seldom give a sufficient description Of
the merchandise laid hands on, often
bear an arbitrary value much below the
real and very often bear no price or
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gardens. roadways, cutters and ruined
houses. and the slightest shock may eX-
plode them. There are damaged houses
which may fall. There are contami-
mated wells and springs, and there are
dead bodies scarcely buried, which a
pillow might turn up.
"A. The reconstruction of houses.
This brought us to the subject of
American participation.
You have no idea.' l said, how many
Americans there are who dream of be-
ing useful by aiding to reconstruct. not
having money-making altogether as
their first object, but rather desiring
to participate in great historical re-
construction.
1 told him that / knew of a wealthy
and retired builder and contractor of
Chicago who talks of coming to France
with foremen, masons, bricklayers, car
penters, etc, in vessel freighted with
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Americans Needed i'm Rebuilding of Invaded France

he said. lit was deemed useful TO create
another organ, representing more
especially the populations interested.
for the reconstruction of buildings. SO
there has been formed free commit
tee for the reconstruction of the north
(Which although only one of the ten
departments occupied by the Germans,
represents one-third to one-half OF the
damages Its membership represents the
cities associations of architects, contractors
and builders, owners of buildingsand social
works for the improvement of working
mems habitations. 1t is notably the object
of the committee to study how foreign aid
can be brought to the work of recon-
struction. And while it is not yet able
to declare what should be the proper
tional importance of such foreign aid,
studies already completed for the city
of Rheims (found in state analogous
to that of Lille) prove that local en-
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problem of city-making. using the
Library as his place of study and the
city as his great object lesson"
Thus the Library. in addition to MAIN
tanning those great divisions which all
who come may see-its reading room
with 10000 volumes of reference books,
its stacks with all the copyrighted
books in the United States, besides
hundreds of thousands that have been
obtained by purchase or gift, its di-
vision of maps, manuscripts. prints and
it's valuable rare books, giving out in
formation and cards. publications and
bookS-is aiding scholars and investi-
gators and building up the library
spirit throughout the land.
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years granted them by the authorities
Of their universities-one golden year
in every seven for rest and recreation.
At the present time the Library of
Congress is the literary host of pro-
fessors of history, economics and law
in Harvard, University of Pennsylvania,
Northwestern, Smith College, Western
Reserve, the state universities of Ohio,
Minnesota, California and Wisconsin.
"a resident of Formosa is in Wash
ington engaged in the study of every
thing appertaining to sugar. including
the growth of the cane and the beet,
their refining and marketing. A resi-
dent of Stockholm is spending six
months in Washington engaged in the
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MAXINE DUCROCQ,
The French government omcial with
whom American inventors, contractors
and builders should get into communi-
cation. to participate in reconstruc-
ton of Invaded regions of France.
built on account of that explosion.
This in addition to the 1000 destroyed
by bonn bardment.
NO other damages to buildings at
Lille were committed by the Germans
during their occupation he concluded.
except the burning of the high school
and the city hsll. both completely de-
stroyed in 1916, the cause of these fires
being equally unknown
He told me these things in his pri-
waite directorial Office. in the second
story of the vast ministry OF agricul-
ture. Now and then, to verify a figure,
he would ring or telephone.
so much for the distinctions" he
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The French foreign Office referred me
to NJ. Maxine Ducrocq. director at the
ministry of agriculture and president
of the financial section of the COM
mittee for the reconstruction of the
north.
He belongs to the devastated region
and is himself notary of Lille. His
professional life has made him &C
Quainted with the conditions of prop
critics there. This French department
of the north before the war had a
rich and dense population conferred
round three neighboring cities-Lille,
Roubaix and Tourcoing. The indus
trious human agglomeration forming
this one manufacturing center may be
compared in number and Importance
with Philadelphia and surroundings as
far as Trenton. n. ].
start that he would say only what he
knew from exact information, without
exaggeration or feeling. He said: II
know exactly what arrived in my town
of Lille and the department of the
north / will talk business.
AT Lille the ombardment by the
Germans. in September. 1914, burned
1000 buildings in the center of the
.city-completely destroyed, RACED to
the surface" he continued. In 1915,
under German occupation. a great
depot of German munitions accumu
lated at the arsenal blew up without
. anybody being able to know the cause.
Without exception. it ruined everything
within SO great a radius that 1900
houses must be entirely or partially re-
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1t is related of Mr.. Taylor that early in
life-probably in the 30s-he organized
the Washington Cricket Club. which held
its games in the grounds now called the
Monument Lot, and the Monument itself
stands on part of that old ground. When
the first poorly equipped volunteers began
to pour into Washington in the spring Of
1861 Mr.. Taylor stripped his house on
Indiana avenue of blankets and offered
to take up and cut up his carpets for the
comfort of the soldiers. Soon after Mr..
Taylor's death a friend, writing in APP
probation of him. said: when doubt
and despair clouded our political horizon
Mr. Taylor took all his available funds
and laid them at the service of the coun-
try He was the first man in the United
States to take the loan, President Lincoln
being the second. and today in his house
hangs framed a letter "A. No. l. the first
Treasury note issued by the United
States"
The Rambler does not know the year in
which Franck Taylor opened his book
store, but the oldest Washington direc-
tory Immediately available-that for 1S43
contains this: "Franck Taylor. book
seller. north side Pennsylvania avenue
between Four-and-a-Half and Sixth. near
Sixth" The directory for 1850 contains
these entries Henson Taylor corner ID
street north and Ninth street west;
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Hudson and Franck Taylor, brothers of
Henry Taylor of Eveleigh. engaged in i'm
porting and publishing books in Wash
ington. were prosperous in a business way
and enjoyed the esteem and confidence of
many of the distinguished public men of
their time. Hudson Taylor lived in a
stately old house at the corner of 9th and
D streets northwest He retired from
business in Washington at about the close
of the civil war and removed to Pough-
keepsie. n. Y. to engage in the banking
business. When he determined to with
draw from Washington he had an
enormous old tree which stood in the
grounds around his house cut down and
its timber was made into furniture which
he carried with him to Poughkeepsie,
where it is now in possession of his daugh-
ter, Emily Taylor.
Franck Taylor. from before the outbreak
of the civil war until his death in 1873,
lived at 324 Indiana avenue. Several of
his children became officers of the army
and navy or married officers. Franck
Taylor's oldest daughter became the wife
of Admiral Robley D. Evans 1t was in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
VELEIGH" is a farm name
which is not familiar to
many washingtonians. and

CCII which is not familiar to
IT., many Westinghouse. and
q yet as the Rambler tells the
story of this farm and those who named
it he will recall to very many of the
people of Washington the memories of
two prominent characterization Tay-
Tor and Franck Taylor. They kept two
of the important book stores of Wash
ington during part of the first and sec
ond halves of the nineteenth century.
The lands of Eveleigh lie in that his
toric neighborhood above Chain bridge.
on the Virginia side of the Potomac.
neighborhood which has been the sub
ject of several recent rambles. Eveleigh
faces on the south side of the George
town and Leesburg pike. opposite the
ancient tollgate at Langley. 1t was
carved out of the tract of Salona, the
mansion house of which afforded
refuge to President and Mrs Madison
when the British compelled their retire
ment from Washington. and Salona. il
there has been slip in the Rambler's
researches. was a part of a tract OF
5000 acres in Fairfax county which was
granted to the Rev. Alexander Scott.
Scotch clergyman, who came to the
colony of Virginia about 1717.
The tract Eveleigh which the Rambler
has now in mind was bought in 1874
by Henry Crompton Taylor. brother
of Hudson Taylor and Franck Taylor,
sons of DIR. Robert E Taylor. man
of note, who came to the District of
Columbia early in the nineteenth CEN
tury from Bolton-le- Moor. Lancashire.
England. Henry Crompton Taylor gave
to the tract the name Eveleigh. the
name of home of one of his English
ancestors.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, February Is, 1917.
q HAVE tried to secure the most &C
curate information about ques-
ton that is already exciting uni
q versal interest and will become
palpitating for Americans the moment
peace is declared.
How are the parts of France where
German invasion and occupation have
worked such destruction ever to be re-
constructed?
What part are Americans to take in
that work?
My inquiry happened at the right
moment
From now on the French authorities
are ready to receive American cor
respondence.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
COOKED LIKE
A SHADOW
Aad Was Weak And Nervous.
Says Cardui Restored Her
Health.

.Leavenworth, Ind.-Mrs. Hattie
Curtis, Of this place, writes: Before
the birth OF my first child I was nerv-
Gus and weakly, had been from the
time of my marriage. was 80 frail,
I looked like q shadow, my skin was
sailow. I didn't weigh but one hum
dred and nine pounds. All were uneasy
about me and thought would get
down In bed.
had heard what q wonderful help
Cardui was TO weak women and de-
eided to try II. took Cardui four
months regular. I felt like a differ
ent woman. When my baby came,
had q right hard time, but my
strength seemed there to stay. for I
was strong and healthy and have
been ever since.
3 I now weigh 1877 lbs, and people
who knew me when l was so weakly
often speak of it And often people
do not recognize me, look so well. !"
Back OF Card.u-i, the woman's tonic,
stands the experience of thousands of
people--women. who have been bene-
fitted by It; physicians. who have pre-.
scribed 1t In their practice. with good
results.
II you suffer, as most women do at
times, from female ailments, Is not
such medicine worthy Of q triali
NCB-1t
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
By Divine Right.

Il am not responsible to my peo-
pie for my throne. | am responsible
to God alone" was the declaration
of Constantine. king of Greece Such
was doubtless the opinion OF the
Gar of Russia. both of whom now
find themselves without a throne,
and sol holds the kaiser who, while
he may not have made that decla
ration in so mapy words, has ex-
pressed himself to that effect on
many occasions, and every action
of that ruler is based on that pre-.
sumption.
Kings by divine right. they, OWING
no responsibility to the people over
whom they rule with power of life
and death in their hands, with the
power to make war, regardless OF
the consent of the people who must
not only do the 1ghtlne, out furnish
the money to pay the enormous ex-
penses OF war. who must suffer the
privations that war carries in its
train, with power to send millions
OF their subjects to the battle line
hundreds of thousands, even mil
lions, to certain death.
Think of it. although it would ap
pear that at this day and age Of
the world such a rule is unthinka'
BILE. an impossibility unthinkable
i'm possible, that any people on eartt
any civilized people. will submit &c
such rule. Think of pei pie, too
ruled by man mad with the lusl
for power. with an insane desire t.
rule the world, to fasten upon th'
people of other countries than hi:
own autocratic rule Think OF all thi'
and then think of what will b
the condition of the nations and tn
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Yesterday Is Dead.

It's over now. It's done Forget
it! Don't forever be rsking it up,
thinking it over, wishing you had
done differently. Forget i'll
What's done's done It's down in
the bottomless pit of the past Let
il bel Look ahead not behind
Think OF tomorrow, not yesterday
you can make something of tomOr
row: yesterday is beyond recall
Yesterdays as dead as a door nail.
as lifeless as a brick. as hopeless
and Interchangeable as wood Turn
away from ii!
Tomorrow's alive, pregnant with
beauty. radiant with power. bullying
with all conceivable possibilities.
Turn TO it! Forgetting the things
that are behind. and reaching forth
unto those things which are before
is the way one of the greatest souls
of earth described his attitude Fol
the past is death. The future is
life
From the past came up the
miasms of despair, remo,se, self
contempt, which sickly DER thes,
thought, until the tone of purpos,
is loosed. and the high star il
quenched in murky cloud Forge
IL, womaul you've sinned Our o
your weakness you have plucke,
loathiDe, and out OF our wayward
ness shame But its done. Loo
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Farmers & Merchants.
Telephone Company of Monroe City,.
Mo. will be held at the Office of the
Company at ten o'clock a. m, Sat-
urday. October 6, 1917, for the pur-
pose OF electine eleven directors to,
serve for the ensuing year, and for
the transaction OF such other BUSH
ness as may be desired.
Roy Mcfarland. Pres.
1 L. Owen, Secy 1916
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Christian H. Krummel Dead.

NnrlSt1dn II. hrummel DSdQ.
Christian Henry Krummel was
horn near Palmyra. October 10,
1868 and died at his home in this
city September %, 1917 at 10
o'clock.
Mr.. Krummel had been feeling
very well until Friday the 2lst
when he began complaining of a
small pimple by his nose and from
that grew worse. The doctors pro.
nounced erysipelas that caused
his death. 4
He was married to Minnie EDgle.
hart. of Palmyra, November II
1909. To this union were born foul
children who with the mother sur,
vipe They are: HAROLD Frederick
Gerald. Zelma Christine and Hut
Christian Krummel. He also Leaves
five sisters and two brothers: Mrs
Tom link and Mrs. George link, o
C anton. Ill; Mrs. Mary Cary. Of Pal
m yra.; Mrs. Dora Abel, of Keokuk
Iowa, and Augustian Krummel. o
StoUtstville and R. j, Krummel. o
Keokuk, Iowa.
| Funeral Sunday were held Sun
day afternoon at ESQ o'clock at til
Methodist church. conducted b
Rev. H. C. Bolen and the remain
were laid to rest in St Jude
cemetery.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Attest:
Penn Brace. Judge of Probate.
Executor S Notice.
Administrator.

Notice is hereby given that let
tiers testamentary on the estate of
Olive Buchanan. deceased. were
granted TO the undersigned on the
2lst. day of September. 1917. by
the Probate Court Of Monroe County.
Missouri All persons having
claims against said estate are re-
quired to exhibit them for allow
ance to the executor within six
months after date of said letters or
they may be precluded from any
benefit of said estate, and If such
claims be not exhibited within one
year from date of this publication
they will be forever barred.
Dated this 2lst. day of Septem-
Der, 1917.
John S. Hornback,
Executor,
Attest.
Penn Brace, Judge Of Probate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05

people of those nations engaged in
war with Germany 10 case the war
lords OF that empire win in the
mighty struggle that is now iakir &
place
Austria, under the rule of anoth.
er ruler who is not responsible 10
his people, is and has long been a
dependency of Germany. forced to
do whatever she is told to do and to
refrain from doing Whatever she is
told not do. is an example Of the
iron rule of the Rohenzollerns.
Turkey is as much under the con
troll of the kaiser as though she
were a part of that rulers empire.
The Austrians and tie Turks do as
their master at Berlin bids them
DO the people OF this country
want to be placed in the same con
dition. or in worse one? Do they
want this nation to become de-
pendency OF Germany? Do they
want a rule that is in no way re-
sponsible to the people? Do they
want the hands on the dial of time
turned back a thousand years? II
not, then the thing to do, the only
thing to do, is to win the struggle
for the rights Of man, for every
man to do all that he may do, all
that he can do, even to giving uI
life itself to the end that we shall
win
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Administrators Notice.


Notice is hereby given that let
tiers Of administration on the estate
of Alfred G. James. deceased. were
granted to the undersigned on the
18th. day of September, 1917. by the
Probate Court of Monroe County,
Missouri. All persons having
claims against SAID estate are re-
quired to exhibit them for allow.
ance to the administrator within
six months after date of said letters;
or they may be precluded from any
benefits of said estate, and II such
claims be not exhibited within
one year from date Of this publica-
ton they shall be forever barred.
Dated this 18th. day of Septem :.
Der. 1917.
H. B. Mudd,
Administrator
Attest:
Penn Brace. Judge of Probate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-10-05
Potatoes.

| will have a car load of good
Colorado potatoes on the railroad
track in Monroe City about October
10. Anyone wanting potatoes write
or phone-H. L Yager, Monroe City
Mo