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as an International creed. But when
the German socialists placed their
country above internationalism and the
French socialists did the same. and the
Italian socialists joined in the agita-
tion to force the government into war
to get back territory lost to Austria.
the international basis of Spanish So
cialism disappeared. 1t may be,
though, that the attempt is now max
ing. through German influences, to re-
vive it as means of peace nesotia-
tions. just as the attempt was made for
rapprochement between the Russian
and the German socialists.
In the meantime Spain's trade suf-
fers in some ways on account of the
war, and gains in some ways. The
output of the Bilbao iron mines is
limited, since the krupp works at Es-
sen. which drew part of their ore from
the mines they owned at Bilbao, are
kept from transporting it on account
of the British blockade. Copper from
the great Rio Tinto mines is also shut
Oft from shipment to Germany. The
German submarines. on their part have
been able to sink some of the vessels
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co,a,S .aro,+r ,o,,. .nd a.,;yars +ba
h.st of .a,ar. ta ~ ,aa,Ia az a cos,
70 ~ ,;tv of .to,,t cats nar thom"
sond .,,io,s w. ,'.,,ar r,..;nS ,ra "a
Sill 49,. 80 ~ n,,i,s,,,,n.io,, of
r,tnr 10 ,,eor., ~. so oon nnn ,ts1Inns a
- rb,s.a .hnia ,ste,,,s o9 ,,,.,t.r
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"ha,,t son ona ooo ,,,, .ha,, -, ,,t
aov,r ,h Isovno,91'' at1 pa' fra,,, 'nrs ,han
.rn,., - l,a ,ie,.,.' uea'n n"'t ..a, a,r I"sa
49, PC 'a a,,, ath
ei.i' enty PEI "a. u." . .
r3le ol Whiles Is loWeE man ll'.e .! VI
Amos, az aisy o,ner s'ts y. ane woi,d, IL IL
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an orator and of his influence in MAX
ing Spain a republic.
While Castelars advocacy of reDub-
lican principles undoubtedly advanced
the cause of republica in the Latin
countries of Europe, he was too much
of a thinker and of a closet philoso-
pher to implant the experiment in his
own country. The republic of Spain
was of very brief duration, and the re-
action was to absolutism. with occa-
sional reversions to liberal political i'll
stitutions.
During recent years the republican
tendencies among the people have
found vent in socialism. The Spanish
socialist leaders belong mostly to the
intellectuals. and here again is the
weakness of the movement. whether
considered as a means of giving Spain
a republic or of 1iberalizing her politi-
cal system under monarchical form.
Some of the intellectual leaders among
the socialists headed straight for philo y
sophie anarchy. while others expended
their energies in building castles III
the clouds.
The substantial socialism of today,
however. is based on the workingmen s
movement. Before the outbreak of the
great war the tendency was to affil-
late with the groups in other countries
of Europe which advocated socialism
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ing a tavern on the north side of Mary
land avenue near the Long bridge, and
A. Fuller was conducting Fuller's
Hotel. otherwise the American Hotel,
on the northwest corner OF Pennsyl-
vanta avenue and 14th street II was
this hotel which was previously called
Strother's, or the Mansion House.
4 y
At this time. 1s30-35, John Gadsby
was running a hotel at the northeast
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 9Th
street, and although the proper name
-eFthe house was the National Hotel, it
was almost universally called simply
"Gadsbys." but sometimes the RAM
bier has seen it referred to as 'Gads-
by's National Hotel" There was a ho-
tel called the Fountain Hotel. run
by man named Baker. on the east side
OF 10th street between D and r. On the
south side of Louisiana avenue between
AZ and 9Th streets, close to the Wash
ington Theater, there were two hotels,
one called the Shakespeare Hotel. run
by E. Guttschlich. and the other the
Theater Tavern, run by ]. NJ. Farrar.
While Mrs. Black was running the Long
Boat Hotel on 7th street between the
Avenue and street, Thomas Lloyd was
running the Steamboat Hotel in the
same block, on the east side Of the
street.
There was another Steamboat Hotel
run at this time by Thomas ]. Martin.
close to the steamboat wharves. at the
corner of 7th and NJ streets southwest.
and the building standing there today
the Rambler believes to be that of tho
old Steamboa Hotel. In 1880 John Nc
Keown's Hotel or the Citizens Hotel.
was on the east side of 9th street be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and u
street. Mrs. J. Sweeny was keeping the
Star Tavern on Capitol Hill. south of
the Capitol Square, and George Smith
was running the Farmers Hotel. on the
east side of Sd street near the Eastern
branch. While Bakers Fountain Hotel
was on the west side of 10th between
D and Z, there was "the Fountain Inn"
at the northeast corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and 18th street. kept by
John Douglass. In earlier days this
had been David Appler'S tavern.
The boarding houses and the boarding
house keepers in Washington in the
1s0o-1S3O would make list which the
Rambler could not print in the course
of several 'rambles." but some time he
nent boarding houses. And at this
moment the reflection occurs to him
that the name Congress boarding
house" was very popular. There were
at least four of that name in Wash
ington in 1880. One was the Congress
boarding house. kept by Eliza Peyton,
at the northwest corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and AZ street, the Fritz
Reuter- corner. The second was the
Congress boarding house, kept by
Elizabeth Blake, at the southeast cor
ner of Pennsylvania avenue and AZ
street. The third was the Congress
boarding house, kept by Mrs. H. ".
Hungerford, at the northwest corner
of 9th and E streets, and the fourth
was the Congress boarding house, kept
by Mrs. Denny, on the east side of Az
street between G street and the city
hall.
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Lovelrs purchase that corner was va
cant. Lowell sold this lot, described as
running back from Pennsylvania ave-
hue to Tiber creek to Benjamin
Grayson Orr of Georgetown. He seems
to have again come into possession of
it. for on November II, 1902. it is re-
corded that STANLEY Byers stands LA
BILE to the executors of Motley Young,
deceased. as indorser for William Low
ell for $3.50
Lowell, in order to secure Byers.
decided the Howard House corner. then
in tenantcy and occupation of Henry
Burford," to George Andrews, in trust
for Byers. The witnesses to this deed
of trust were Robert Peacock and John
Evans. In September, 1903, Lowell
leased this lot to Thomss n Beale of
Washington. In October of the same
year Lowell sold the lot to Robert Tn
derwood. and it would seem. from the
record, that at that time John Gardi-
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streets, and the lot faces on 14th street
near G. The price paid was cents
per square foot. A late plat book of
the city shows this lot covered by the
Lawrence building.
A few days later Lowell bought from
the commissioners, at the same price. lot
No. II. adjoining on the south the lot
he had previously bought. The price paid
was the same, but on both of these deeds
there was the condition that Lowell should
erect two brick houses in conformity with
the building regulations. In April, 1903,
Lowell sold lot No. 13 to Christopher S.
Thom. Lowell also became the owner
of a lot in the square bounded by d, Z,
10th and 18th streets, and in June, 1902,
he sold part of lot 7, which is ON the
east side of 11th street. between D and f
streets. to Thomas Given. The considera-
ton named in the deed is $3.50. How
long William Lowell lived in Washington
the Rambler does not know. There is
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selves into it and drag ii out almost in
the wink of an eye. In the ordinary
cotton warehouse large part OF the
cost of handling is in getting out the
lots of the various consumers. Here
any number of bales can be taken out
on demand. and that at practically no
expense and within a very few minutes.
The machinery is worked by electricity
and the pressing of button is about
all the eXertion required.
. *
Both the cotton warehouse and the
grain elevator are fed by the Municipal
Belt railway. so that the cars of any
system can come right to their doors
On the other side of them flows the
Mississippi river. with such docking ar
rangements that the cotton and grain
go by machinery directly into the holds
of the ships. which carry them to New
England. Europe South America and
other parts of the world.
About one-half of the cotton of the
United States is now raised in the
country tributary to New Orleans. and
this warehouse means a great increase
in the amount of shipping that will
come to the port. AS it is. New Or
leans has a commerce of about seven
million tons per annum, and 1t is only
surpassed by New York In the amount
of It's incoming and outgoing shipping.
The people here look for an enormous
they have created facilities of ware
housing and docking which will enable
them to take care of the trade Of the
Mississippi valley, no matter how much
it may grow.
In order that might describe the.ex-
tent of the docks the commissioners of
the dock board sent me on the fire tug
up and down the whole length
of the water front, allowing me to make
photographs on the way. We steamed
leisurely from dock to dock and from
to warehouse, covering q
distance of something like twenty-fiye
miles. FRANK q. C-ARPENTER.
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side of an alley between 14th and 18th
streets. and Lowell agreed to pay Ho-
ban an annual rental of $14S, payments
to be made semi-annual1y.
Lowell figured in quite a number of
real estate transactions between 1900
and 1903. He was the first buyer of the
Howard House corner, Pennsylvania
avenue and 9th street. That parcel is
described as lot l, square 461. and on
January 20, 1900, Lowell got a deed to
it. signed by Commissioners William
Thornton. Alexander White and iris
tam Dalton, the consideration being
$905O4. In the deed was the usual con-
dition that Lowell should abide by the
building regulations At the time Of
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The First Duty.

RsESIDENT JOHN GRIER HIBBEN
Is of Princeton listened patiently at Il
reception to a plan for trying the
kaiser for his life before an international
tribunal.
Very good" said DIR. Hibben. Every
good, indeed. But before we try the
kaiser wouldn't it be better to prose-
cute war;"
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contents of the docket were disappointing.
The heavy envelope contained only small,
ragged and yellow piece of paper on which
the following was written: Received Gath
of April, 1913. Nof Mrs. Barbara Estep,
Administrative of Lewis Norm, deceased.
8 dollars % cents, in full, for fees on the
administration. John Hewitt, register of
Wills There is no record of will by
NORM. The inference is that he died in
1913
was kept in 1900 by William Lowell on
the north side of Pennsylvania avenue
between 14th and 18th streets. In look
ing through the real estate transac-
tions of the early Washington, the
Rambler finds that on May Il. 1900,
William Lowell leased from William
Hoban lot 4, on the square bounded by
Pennsylvania avenue, F street, 14th
and 10th streets. The lot was improved
by two houses standing on the west
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nothing concerning him of record in the
of the deeds his wife appears and her
ia oiv E7liyu hot
Che " Iiio nO.Sis VI e<.iiy "Asi.ii'e .Oii'
and which enJoyea .he patronage OF prom
ueslsHallo.i was .ae Nlanslon 1ousS. ~
svIvania avenue and 18th street. its
site being covered by the old and the
new WlAara. II was famous 'oca! no
eari;er ee, Ne % The nronrsetnr vas iohn % Strnths
err and it was customary to call a hotel
after the name OF its proprietor rather
than the name Which the proprietor nad
panied on the sign AT tne front or tne
mouse: ihIs h9tei ,ater became funer
American no.eI. Slrothe, was ieassu
Dy tne G soSTIm,aen. H . itr .ne use phIa VI Ins
post Cluce DePIl uneh,' anu sue naioisr 81
mas IN ,te ,oes Na.ioai ~ ~in.ea.isenot III
Ianuafy, ie1-, .rs : ioiloMins m., ma',aS
Mansion House Hotel for Rent;
Ine ea.ens,se range o1 nntainss nsa On fenn n1.
oecmnied by the General Post Ofiice Department,
formerly known as the Mansion House, kept by
inrson It has BEEN % notied to the prep preporietor BY
the Postmaster General will be ready for occu-
nation as a hotel on the lst of January next
pprior to which the department has engaged to
mt the building in the condition required by
the lease-good and tenantable.
its location is well known. One prepared in ali
respects to keep such a one as the fremont
House. Astor House, Heads, etc. can rent, lease
or purchase the property on the most favorable
terms: pas...s;on IN h. .,v., -non .urrender.d hx
the Postmaster General Annlcstions to be-
made postpaid to Benjamin Oxie Toyloe.
* i.
,,i. oh.,t.u o,a hotels ~.
In ms iate caapteF OH oio holeis' .ne
Rambler wrote a few lines concerning
Longs Hotel. which stood at the south
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ambler Finds Records of Citys Early Hotels

east half of lot No. was owned by Mo-
rims heirs and the west half by James
NJ. varnum. The east half of No was
owned by William Cottman, or Coltman,
and the west half by Jonathan Appler:
the east half of lot 3 was owned by
James Bennett and the west half by Will
liam Cooking. Lot 4, extending from
Pennsylvania avenue to D street on 18th,
had been subdivided into four lots, which
were owned by James H. Roy. Jacob
Felius. John P. Davis and Gotlieb c.
Grammer. The Rambler has found very
little concerning Lewis NORM. In the
Index of Administrations in the Office
of the register Of wills, is the entry
Lewis Norm, Docket 1, No. 476.:" The
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Freedom Made in Germany.

ID REPRESENTATIVE BANKHEAD said
Nv at Y dinner in Jasper:
"The German idea of freedom of the
seas reminds me of old Uncle Ned.
"a gentleman travelling through Ala
bama was much interested i'll Uncle
Ned.
$50 you were once a slave. eh?' said
the gentleman.
"'Yas, sah.' said Uncle Ned
How thrilling" said the gentleman
And after the war ye got your free
dom. eh?'
mo. sah.' said Uncle Ned, gloomily
I didn' git nah freedom, sab. Arter
de war l done got married.
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ner. or Gardner, was a lessee Of part
Of the property, for there is record
in which he makes an assignment of
his lease of Underwood.
By. an agreement made in Septem-
ber. 1902, Lowell rented from James
Hoban a lot of ground on Pennsylvania
north side, between the dwelling house
of the said William Lowell and the
frame tenement in occupation of Will
liam Blount, fronting on Pennsylvania
avenue" the yearly rental being $50.
In June, 1900, William Lowell bought
from the Commissioners of the federal
city lot 13 in square 253. That square
is bounded by 18th and 14th, F and G
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a NUMBER of the early hotels.
A taverns and inns of the District
@\ Of Columbia were recalled in a
& ~ previous ramble and, so far as
it Is now practicable to do so. their
sites were pointed out. Writing of one
of the old hotels, it was said: "a small
frame building was erected IN 1890 at the
southwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and 18th street and opened as a hotel
by a man whose name was Lewis NORM.
who was Baltimorean and who bought
the lot from the commissioners of the new
federal city,
In one Of the old tones in the Office Of
the recorder Of deeds OF the District is a
deed reciting:
This is to certify that on the e1ss day of May
last, Lewis Norm of the city of Baltimore pur-
chased of the Commissioners, appointed in virtue
Of the Act Of Congress of the United States
cntitIed '.An Act for the establishment Of the
temporary and permanent seat of government
OF the United states.'' lot numbered j: in square
the sum Of s5es. .75 subject to the terms and
conditions concerning the manner of buildings
the United States, and the principal and inter.
est Of the purchase money for said lot being paid
and TO 1ss ,hst e ssd
Norm, his heirs and assigns. are hereby entitled
the same lot In fee simple agreeably to the
acts of the assembly of the state of Maryland
in such case made and provided.
This instrument was Witnessed on Sep
1ember 9, 1900, and the signatures OF the
commissioners of the federal city. Gus
tavus Scott and Alexander White, are
subscribed Square No. 292 is that which
is bounded by Pennsylvania avenue and
ID. 18th and 18th streets, and lot NO. 1
is that at the truncated point of the
square at the Avenue and 18th street.
November is. 1901. Lewis Morin gave
mortgage on the lot and two-story
frame dwelling house standing on II TO
Mark Stockweu of Washington. This old
paper recites that Lewis Norm stands
bound to Mark Stockwell in the sum OF
s1.f50 with payment of s542.46. with legal
interest on or before November IL, 1S02,'
and to secure payment NORM pledges 'al
that part of the lot of ground numbered
in square 292. on which two-stOry frame
dwelling house is erected, fronting thirty
feet on Pennsylvania avenue and running
back the depth of said house to u street,
now in the tenure or occupation of him,
the said Lewis NORM, and used by hlm as
a tavern The witnesses were Thomas
Herty and Henry Tins release OF
mortgage from Mark Stockwell to Lewis
Iorin signed in the presence of Thomas
Herty, was recorded April %, 1904.
The records at the District building
show that in 1902 the lot at the 18th street
end of the square, owned by Norm, mad
improvements assessed at $500 Lots
and 4, at the 18th street end of the square,
were owned by William H. Dorsey. No
improvements had been made on this
land. Lot No. ?, just west of Morin's
tavern was owned by William Cottman
and James Calder. There seem to have
been no improvements on that land, SO
that Morin's frame tavern was the only
building on the square. In 1920 the
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was a prominent resort. and Solomon
Drew, the proprietor. advertised that
he informs gentlemen travellers that
he can accommodate them with good
beds and boarding, and with a variety
of liquors." that "a share of public
patronage is respectfully solicited" and
Dinners dressed at the shortest no.
tice."
proprietor of a tavern on the north
side of F between 14th and 18th streets.
A1exander's tavern stood on the south
side of the Avenue between Az and
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called taverns out of affection for those
times when the tavern was the only
thing which filed the place which the
hotel fills today. and many of those
roads of England and the American
colonies have had their names pre-
served in history. In 1920 there was
tavern kept by David Appler at the
northeast corner of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and 18th street. the Raleigh cor
ner, and one Jonathan Appler kept a
tavern at the southeast corner of 18th and
streets. Simeon Bassett kept a
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DESPITE Hiqh Prices.

SsNE,7 AR prices" said Mayor Mitchell
W at luncheon in New York
city. will scarcely stop our rich gour-
mands from overeating.
No. despite war prices, the pauper
will still continue to worry over his
next meal, and the millionaire over his
last"
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9th. Joseph Beardsley's tavern was on
the south side of the Avenue between
18th and goth streets. William Berry
was keeping the Columbian Hotel, on
the east side of 9th street between Mis-
souri, street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Hotel. on the east side of 1th street be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and 3
street. A. Butler was keeping the
Union Hotel. which was opened in 1900.
on the south side of F street between
18th and 14th. Fielder Birch was keep
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are far below any that have prevailed
in the past. The insurance percentage
is about the same as that of grain and
about one-twentieth Of what the plant
ers have been paying. As it is now, At
the present high prices, the insurance
rate is less than IS cents bale. where
as in the past it was much ih excess of
So.
elevator and are making our way
through this great state establishment.
The cotton warehouse is a structure of
concrete and steel, running around i'm
mense courts, where the cotton is drop
ped when it comes in from the country.
The building has something like twenty
acres under roof. and when completed
it will cover more than 100 acres AS it
is. it can handle about 100000 bales
per annum. and it will eventually be
able to store about one-third, of all the
cotton raised in our country. When
completed it will cost more than $3,-
00Q GOO and it will be of enormous value
to New orleans and the whole middle
south.
We go to the warehouse in the auto
mobile of the dock board. sJust now, on
account of the war. the-cotton is guard
ed, and the only visitors admitted are
those who come by special arrange
ment. and that in the automobiles that
belong to the plant. On our way in We
pass motor trucks loaded with bales of
cotton. and we drive along the corri-
doris which line the courts. moving by
huge bales that have just come in from
the country.
We first stop At the press room. where
something like 5000 bales are standing
on end. The press room occupies more
than an acre and it's floor is covered
with cotton. 1t is where the cotton is
re-pressed before 1t Is stored away in
the warehouse. When it comes in from
the country 1T has already been pressed
and made ready for shipment, but the
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carrying iron ore to England. This
would be no net loss to Spain, since the
cargoes are paid for before shipment.
but the tendency is to discourage
shipments on account of the submarine
danger.
There has been an increased COM
merce of a general character. Spain
has been able to obtain raw cotton
FROM the United States without trou-
BILE since she had sufficient ocean-solng
vessels. The Barcelona mills have
utilized this opportunity, and have in
creased their shipments of textiles to
South America. getting some of the
trade formerly held by Germany. They
also have supplied general merchan-
disc at the expense of England and
France, because those countries could
not guarantee deliveries, on account of
their merchant marine being comman-
deered for naval purposes.
The Spanish population has suffered
from food scarcity, but no worse than
the inhabitants of other neutral coun-
tries. Spain has obtained wheat from
Argentina and the United States in suf-
ficient quantities until this year. Now
she is confronted with the same Situa-
ton that confronts other countries on
account of the worldwide wheat Short
age. Nevertheless. the masses are in
clined to hold the government respon-
sible. and this popular discomfort over
food shortage may react in political
affairs.
Whatever temporary inconvenience
Spain may suffer is nothing compared
with the enormous benefits she will
reap if she is able to remain neutral
until peace negotiations are inaugu-
rated. for she will have escaped adding
to her national debt. To enter the war
would mean heavy borrowing, for the
country has few recources for raising
revenue by addition to the present
sources of taxation.
There are reasons why the warning
countries the allied side should We
content to have Spain remain neutral
The figure of the Vatican as mediator
through neutral Catholic country is
always in the background, and Spain is
the only country which meets this re-
quirement.
The United States will contince to
take a friendly view of Span's neutral
attitude so long as it is not used as a
cover to aid Germanys war activities.
Spain took charge of the interests of
the United States in Berlin when Am
bassador Gerard was withdrawn. There
are not many Americans remaining in
Germany and some of them are not en-
titled to consideration as genuine
Americans anyhow: yet 1t is always de-
sirable for a country at war to have
some neutral country to look after it's
affairs in enemy country.
There was something of historic IN
terest in the fact that Senor Polo
Bernabe. the Spanish minister at Ber-
lin, who took charge of American inter-
ests in Germany, was the Spanish min
lister to Washington when war in be-
half of Cuba was declared by the United
States against Spain. He withdrew to
Canada until the war ended and then
returned to Spain.
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tavern in that year on the south side
on G street near 18th; James Dougher-
ty kept tavern on the south side of
F street between 18th and 14th streets;
William Bowling kept tavern on the
same side of F street between the
same streets; John Dumbleton kept
tavern on the north side of F between
18th and 18th streets, and Patrick De-
lany kept a tavern on the west side Of
18th between E and T streets.
Before 1920 the Columbian Tavern. on
7th street just south of the Avenue,