davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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on the south side. in 1850. lived Mat
thew Butler. baker; Edmund Burke.
editor of The Union; George W.
Crawford, Secretary of War; William
Flaherty. shoemaker: c. S. Fowler. who
had a china and glass store on the
east side of It'll between D and e;
George S. Gideon, printer. and r. w.
Latham of the Exchange Bank, on the
west side of 7th between Louisiana
avenue and D street. Gustavus Waters
kept a woodward at the southeast cor
ner of 7th and f.
On the north side between 9Th and
18th w. H. Brereton kept grocery
store at the northeast corner Of 18th
and F, and among the jewellers in the
block were John Boyd. confectioner;
Thomas Cormack, halter; William De-
main. tailor: Thomas w. Dickens. Ann
Greason. widow; J. F. McCarty. school
teacher; Moses Poor. clerk in the Navy
Department.: Nathan Rice, clerk in the
War Department, and S. T. Radclin.
who kept a grocery store on the east
side of 7th betweenI D and E and lived
at the corner of 6th and F.
The Rambler has complied what he
believes to be fairly, satisfactory list
of the inhabitants of F street in 1850.
The numbers of the houses will be con-
fusing to any other persons than those
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store and residence; 29S, wallace Elfot,
drug store. This brings one to 18th
street.
Number 500 F street was Harriet
Wilson's boarding house and among her
boarders in 1860 were Tobias Purring-
ton. Jacob Prince. plasterer. and VIM
NJ Gouge, a Treasury clerk 500 was
Patrick Kesty's grocery store and up
stairs lived Charlotte Crawford. dress
maker. sos was the home Of Edward
NJ Roach. register of Wills 500 was
the home Of Lafayette C. Loomis. who
conducted the Lafayette Institute. 312
was the home Of ]. P. Ellicott 313 was
VIM. H Kettler's home and for some
time VIM. NJ. Gait. of the coal and wood
firm OF Thos. J. and VIM. N. Gait. board
ed there. Peter Castor kept a grocery
store at 314. and 315 was the home OF
Mrs. Sarah Hayes. the widow of Robert
Hayes. 316 was Louisa Kings board
ing house and living there were Sam'l
C. King. a clerk in the Post Ofdce De-
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the Washington viewpoint what good
could come from such an assemblage in
the present circumstances. Originally,
the plan was to hold the conference in
December last, then there was a post
ponement to April, and then came the
announcement of an indefinite post
ponement.
Another evidence of the unwilling
ness of the Argentine government to be
put In the position of showing I'M
friendliness to the United States and
the allies was the treatment given the
Mexican mission. This mission was
headed by Luis Cabrera, President Car
r;-nza's right-hard man. Senior Cabrera
had been in Washington negotiating for
the removal of restrictions on the ex-
portation of corn and other commodi-
ties. as well as of gold, which the
United States was enforcing. as part
of necessary war measures.
Quite suddenly Senior Cabrera left,
and with him went several other Mexi-
cans. who. it was said, were delegates
to the proposed Buenos Aires confer
ence, although no date had been fixed
for it to meet. Whether or not this
Mexican mission was manipulated by
Germany the future may disclose Its
purpose at least was everywhere
thought to be pro-German.
The Argentine government met the
situation squarely. Senior Cabrera and
his associates were received as distin-
guished citizens of another country,
and as nothing more. There was moth
ing in their reception to encourage the
pro-German elements. 1t was stated
that arrangements had been made I'M
der which they would purchase some
corn for Mexico, and Mexico needs corn
badly, since the United States has not
been able to spare enough from its own
supply to take care Of the Mexican popu-
lation.
Dispatches further Indicated that Se-
nor Cabrera and his associates were
travelling about quite extensively. Ar
gentina is a large country. larger than
Mexico. and much time is required in
order to travel over all Of It.. At last
accounts Senior Cabrera and his asso-
ciates were still travelling. Yet u is
not likely that they can travel long:
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bier Writes of Residents Of Street During the Year 1860

Charles Leman. baker; 2s1. sylvanus
Benson, clerk of the Senate, and John
Colbert; 233. Lafayette House; 259.
William Bergman. shoemaker. board
ing house; Stephen Helmuth, william
Lippett, Frederic kMueller and John c.
Mueller, shoemakers; $40. John Luc-
cirani, statuary: 241. DR.. Charles IL.
247, James H. Hamilton; 249. Richard
Burgess, claim agent. and Charles
Burgess; ESQ. Mrs. Anna NJ. Cochrane
and Eglatine Coke; 252. Senator Will
liam ii. Bayard: 253. John T. Cochran.
clerk in the Indian office; 254. Samuel
NICK. King and william W. King.
clerks in the land office: 255. Matthew
Byrnes' porter house; 256. Henry
schoolcraft. author; PSI. Francis R.
Mays exchange office; 262, Ellen Sulli-
van. dressmaker; 263. Louis Beland.
tailor: 266. Mrs. Philip c. johnson: 267.
Adolphus T. Keickhoefer OF Riggs &
Co., and A. A Keickhoefer. bookkeeper
with Riggs & Co.; 270. Emily S. Belt.
widow of Benjamin NJ. Belt, and Ed
ward c. Dyer, Avenue merchant; 272.
Benjamin F. Peasants. chief clerk
solicitors Office, Treasury; Charles T.
Peasants, clerk in the Treasury, and
Rev. Mason Noble; 273. Joseph H. Hill
ton, boarding house; Representative
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familiar with the way OF numbering
previous to the introduction OF the
present system of one hundred to the
block. Then the numbers west of the
Capitol Increased from west to east,
wheneas now they run from east to
west Beginning at 18th street and go
ing east. the house numbers and occu-
pants were: -.....s.-
2O9, James H. Causten. notary: 210.
George Neale, colored. eating house;
212, Christopher Cammack. ST. and jr..
tailors; 213, Nicholas Callan. notary,
and Frank Callan; els, Col. John Lee.
U. S. A.; Lieut.. James f. Morton, U. S.
A.; John Oliphant, clerk in register
office. and William Hogan. clerk in the
Treasury; PIT. Mary A. McQuillan.
boarding house; Gen. George Gibson.
q. S. A.; Capt. Alexander Shiras. U. s.
A.: 21s, James McClery. James F. r.
McCIery, clerks in the Treasury, and
]. C. Gardiner. go. Robert Cruitt; 22s'
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Peter c. Love of Georgia and Madison
Clarke; 274, Ashbury Dickins. secretary
Of the Senate; 275. Abraham Butler and
Capt. Edward P. Boutwell,. U. s. N: 277,
Fox and John Fox. bakers. boarding
house: John Hess. baker; Frank. Rec
side and John Parsons. bricklayers;
$50. Mary E. Allison. widow Of John
Allison: 281. Ann J. Blair. widow of
James Blair, boarding house; Thomas
S. Jessup. quartermaster general, U. S.
A.; 2s2, John F. Ennis, lawyer; 2s4.
DR.. Henry w. Brent. James Caden,
James c. Caden and Joseph c. Caden;
286, Louisa McIlvaine. widow Of Henry
McIlvaine, and Mrs. Clara Nesbit.
widow of Michael Nesbit: 28S, J. Daw-
son James, note clerk. Bank of the
Metropolis, and Edwin James. lawyer;
2S9, William Burchart. shoemaker; $50.
William Finn. Navy agent; 291, Mary
W. johnson and office of De Bows Re
view: 296, Jacob Russell. confectionery
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of fuel Argentina has no coal of her
own. In normal times she requires
about 3,500,000 tons for her shipping
and for industrial and domestic pur-
poses. The bulk of this coal came from
Wales. Argentina paid for it in beef
and mutton and wool and wheat.
When the shipments from Wales
began to fall off. due to England's
war necessities. the United States was
able to afford some relief. but the I'M
portations into Argentina have been
growing smaller and smaller. In 1918.
the year of peace, they were 3.660.000
tons, and in 1916, in the midst of the
war, l,SS5,0o0 tons. Last year they
were less than soc. 600 tons, and in re-
turn for what she contributed .Eng-
land insisted on having wheat
The oil fields of what is known as the
COMMODORE Rivadavia district in the
south have been able only partly to
meet this deficiency. The quantity now
produced is three times what it was
in 1914, but it is still trifiing addi-
ton to the fuel supply.
With coal lacking, Argentina has
turned to wood as fuel, and this is
helping meet the deficiency, although
the price is high. In the north thers
are vast forests of what is knownnas
quebracho. This is the tree whose
bark furnishes the extract which 10
used for tanning. 1t is something like oak.
Argentine statistics describe quenfa-
cho in terms of weight instead OF
measure-that is. in tons rather than
in cords. In 1916 about four and
half million tons of quebracho were
consumed. The railways used it, to
meet the coal deficiency. and nearby
2.000, 900 tons were utilized by them.
Last year the quantity marketed was
in excess of that of 1915.
But Argentina still wants coal for fuel.
Also, she wants the allies. includ&nE
the United Staes, to supply her with
more than she has been getting. Thde>
is one of the economic considerations
which has some bearing ON the po11ff-
cal situation and on Ambassador NaoFI,a
return TO Washfuxtou. -
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their respective warships. and thus
each visit the others territory.
All South America was looking
forward with intense interest to this
prospective meeting of the two execu-
tives. although it received little at
tention in the United States or Eng
land and France. The South Ameri-
cans in this country were wondering
whether the result of the meeting
would be that Argentina and Chile
a manner that might isolate them
somewhat from the rest of South Amer
lea. or whether they would put them
selves on the same footing with Brazil
against Germany. Speculations on this
subject were suspended for the time
being by the announcement that the
meeting of the two presidents had been
This is the present situation in Ar
gentina as it relates to Germany and
the allies. Am basador Naon's return.
1T is said, has been delayed until April.
making further progress in bringing
his government to adopt pro-ally
policy. Argentina has nothing to fear
from Germany either during or after
the war by arrayfng herself unre-
servedly on the. side of the United
States and the allies. - 49,
The economic situation has some
bearing on the political situation. Dur
ing the first two years of the WARMTH
good crops and with sufficient shipping
to carry her products abroad. Argen-
tina was fairly. prosperous Then Came
the crop failures and the interruption
of commerce due to the Increased SCI
verify of the war and the measures
taken by England and France to re-
strict trading. At the same time the
Argentine government decided that it
would not seek to renew or extend
the sfort-term loans which had been
made by New York financfers because
money market here. These loans were
replaced by Internal loans, and this put
a heavy strain on the national finances
since revenues were decreasing both
through decreased shipments of Ar
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partment, Chas. King, George Beall.
clerk in the land office. and VIM. A.
Duncanson, or as the name sometimes
appears. "Dunkinson."
No. 317 was shop occupied by VIM.
D. Crampsey, halter, and Eliza Cramp-
sey, corset maker. A shoemaker, Thos.
Fowler. had little shop in the build
ing. 318 was the tailor shop Of VIM.
H. Kettler, who lived at 313. 319 was
occupied by Daniel Harrington. Henry
Meyer. tailor. and Thos Murphy. 800
was the shoemaking shop of two colored
men. Henry c. and Henry J. Harris.
Columbus Alexander's house was 1926;
3e8 was the home of E. Moran, a clerk
in the Bank of Washington; John A.
Clark of the land Office lived at $50:
George Birch, plasterer, and Thomas
Birch, carpenter, lived at 331; DR.. Ham
iiton P. Howard. at 1872: John Burch,
musical instrument maker. at 333; Hugh
B. Kerrick. a Treasury clerk, at 33s;
Anna G. Slater. widow Of David Slater,
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scendants. so were there all kinds of
ancestors. There were ancestors who
had a habit of getting into the jails at
st. Marys City. Port Tobacco, Upper
Marlboro. Rockville. Fairfax, Colling-
ton. Dumfries, Brentsville and King
George Court House. and there were
other ancestors who would have spent
more of their time in those jailS but
for fortunate circumstances and their
own shrewdness.
The Rambler finds many ancestors
for those readers who follow his mar
ratives, and he does not Willingly mis-
represent any of those ancestors. He
cannot make it appear that all ances-
tors were bankers, senators or idle
rich. because there were so many thou
sands of ancestors who kept a grocery
worked at the carpenters bench and
who earned their bread by the honor
able work of laying brick.
The ancestor who worked and whose
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time for more than a few issues of the
newspapers to. arrive. Their comment
was somewhat reserved, the leading
journals apparently not desiriug to en-
barrass President Irigoyen's admins
tration until it became known just
what it was going to do. A hint of its
intentions was given in the cable state
ment that after comforting with, the
foreign minister it had been decided
that Ambassador Naon should return to
Washington
Other evidepces were afforded Of the
Argentine governments anxiety not to
embarrass the United States and the
allies: year ago an international
American conference at Buenos Aires
had been proposed with a view to defin-
ing the position of the South American
countries collectively. if that could be
done. 1t is not known that the United
States officially made any suggestion
about the inadvisab ility of the confer
ence. though it could not be seen from
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enough to. wait for, the international
American conference which they ex-
pected to attend.
A hint of joint action, or at least of
identical action, in regard to Germany
by Argentina and Chile was given in a
dispatch saying that the. President of
Argentina and the President of Chile
were to meet at Punta Arenas, in the
Straits of Magellan. to discuss matters
of common interest.
Punta Arenas is the southernmost
tip of the continent. The town is in
Chilean territory, but it is close to
the line which divides Argentine Pata-
gonia from Chilean Patagonia. The
intention was, however. that the presi-
dents should proceed in warships.
which would anchor in the straits. and
any questions of delicate nature re-
garding a visit to foreign territory
could be settled without going ashore
at Punta Arenas, since the two execu
tives could interchange visits from
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Mackall of Georgetown had an office in
the square, and the banking house OF
T. W. Pairo was at the corner of 18th
and F. On the south side, between
14th and 18TH were Nicholas Callan, con-
veyancer. notary public and commits
sioner of deeds: J. n. Causten, notary.
and George Gibson. commissary general
of the Army. The f Street presbyterian
Church had not become Willard Hall.
The Department of the Interior had Of
fees in the old Corcoran building, at
the southeast corner of 18TH ana r, ana
the office of the board Of commissioners
Bushrod Washington Reed kept a
grocery store at the southwest corner
of F and 18th.
Between 18th and 14th on thu north
side William Davey kept grocery.
The home of DIR. Robert King Stone
was at the northeast corner of 14th and F.
Among the other dwellers. in the
square, some of them boarders. were:
John NJ. Clayton. Secretary OF state;
John Cullum,. an engraver; Eoward
William r. Lowndes. painter; Mrs.
Ridgewell. who kept a boarding house:
Albion K. Paris, second controller OF
the Treasury James Moss. George
Mckay and William W. King, a clerk
in the Interior Department. On the
south side were James E. W. Thomp-
son, cabinetmaker and undertaken;
Abraham Butler and the Union Hotel,
Absalom p. Clark, Francis A. Dick
ms claim on agent Mary M hehn
field. tailor: B. obermyer: shoemaker,
and o. S. Peck, lawyer. Elexius Simms
kept a grocery store at the south
east corner Of 18th and F. Between
J. Bowen. claim agent. had his Office
at ,the corner of 18th and F. Nc.
Clintock Young, who. had been chief
clerk of the Treasury, and Ashbury
Dickens, secretary of the Senate: lived
in the block. John J. Joyce had a
and DR.. A. H. Lee lived on one OF
the corners, but which one the Ram
bier does not know. On the south side
Bill Campbell, a colored man, kept an
fectory," and in the block lived
Thomas S. Jessup. quartermaster gen
eraI of the Army: Lieut.. Thornton A.
Jenkins of the Army, John Ferguson, .
clerk in the, Post Office Department.
and Edward Cabell.
At the north corners of F and 18th
were w. Egan & Sons dry goods
Mrs. Kirkwood and Mrs. Wilson kept
boarding houses on the north side be-
tween 18th and 18th, and some of the
other residents were George Ennis, w.
n. Dietz, Richard Colt. chief clerk of
the War Department; John Morris and
Thomas Adams, turner. Between
10th and 18th on the north side were
Mrs. Kings boarding house. at the cor
ner of 18th; Highly & Harbin's shoe
store, Dr. F. Towards Office and c. G.
Hopper, shoemaker. On the south
side between 9th and 10th lived Susan
Bell, John Burch, musician; Mrs.
Crampsey, corset maker; H. T. Harvey,
carpenter; G. Langley, cabinetmaker;
DR.. N. B. Melvin. Benjamin Evans, clerk
in the land office; James H. Lowry.
clerk in the War Department. Edward
Speaks and James Whitman. shoe
maker.
On the north side at the northwest
corner of 9Th and F was Henry Eek
harl's confectionery store and west of
it Was Alexander Adams grocery store.
Living in the block were James Highly
of the shoe firm of Highly & Hardin,
and Anne Brooke, a widow, who kept
boarding house. Between 9Th and 7th,
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gentine products and through decreased
imports of commodities subject to cus-
toms duties. e~.-s
handled with conseryatisr and fhe
government has shown it's ability to
continue thfs policy. 1t appears. how
ever, that the embarrassment is NOT
entirely over. since lately the state
ment was made that Spain had offefed
to take an Argentine loan. The otter
was declined with thanks" No hint
was given that the proposed Spanish
loan was looked upon as a disguised
German loan, but the Argentine gov
eminent was well aware that Spain is
not a creditor country, and SINGER the
opening of the great war her own
finances have required her to be beF-
doubt as to SPANS ability to make Q
loan on her own account. sas
One of the causes contributing to the
economic distress has been the lack
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gun. The front end or nose Of the shell
is rounded into cone, and the tip con-
sists of a brass cap containing the fuse.
This is an intricate piece of mechanism
which may be set by the gunner so that
it will ignite the powder within the
shell at just the right time after firing
and that in such a way that the cap
will blow off and the hundreds of bull
let's within pour forth in a. shower on
the enemy.
The steel shell is the projectile. 1t
does not burst during the firing. The
shell might be compared to a gun shot
the bullets within going off only when
1t reaches the enemy. The range of a
three-inch shrapnel shell is more than
three miles. 1t goes out of the field
gun at speed of 1900 feet per second.
and flies from twenty-one to twenty
five seconds before it drops to the
earth. When still flying the fuse bursts
forth. and the bullets pour out in a
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great cone covering a space about as
street running through it, The effect
is to make of single projectile a
flying mine, which showers something
like 300 bullets, any one of which can
put man out Of the fight, and which
covers a radius which is sixty or more
feet in width and $50 feet long This is
supposing that the fuse be set to go off
the gun from which 1t is fired.
During it's retreat from Belgium to
Paris, the French army in one week
fired about 100000 rounds of shrapnel,
and that shrapnel alone is said to have
cost over $15.000.000. The amount be-
ing used on the western fronts is many
times as large as that used by the
French during their retreat. The first
shrapnel sent from America to France
SIS apiece. The cost is much greater to-
day.
*
But come with me for walk through
this great munitions plant and see
something of how these deadly projec-
tiles are made The great buildings are
of two stories. They cover acres and
they are largely made of steel and
glass. The walls are almost all glass
and the shops are as light as day. They
are OF enormous size and each is a maze
of; machinery with men and women
working at and among it. Every ma
chine and every person Is speeded to
the fullest capacity. The most of the
operations are done by the piece, and
the greater the output the greater the
pay.
The arst thing made is thessh it.
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T9N the story Of n street and its early
people tho Rambler has pointed
ont the ancestors Of many Wash
- ingtoniAnA As q rule. these an
eestors have been satisfactory to their
descendants. and II the ancestors could
be consulted on this matter they might
express satisfaction with their descend
ants-that is. perhaps they might The
Rambler makes this observation at
random, with the hope that It will be
pleasing to the descendants. No guar
antee goes with the observation.
There Is n great demand for an
cestors. While there are. very many
quiet and orderly persons who know
their ancestors and are on good terms
with them. there are many other per-
sons occupying prominent places in
current annals who have so little in
common with their ancestors that
probably they would not invite them to
dinner. They would quarrel with their
ancestors for not being more. aristo-
cratic. In some cases descendants have
SO far outgrown their ancestors that
they have done their best to forget
them. There are also many persons
who. because of some happy turn of
fortune, develop a craving for an
cestors. They feel that they must have
ancestors. even II they have to invent
them. and it is fact that some an
cestors as limned by portrait painters
or described by genealogists are inven-
lions. -
Descendants seem. very hospitable
to- an ancestor, who had ten thousand
through the foreclosure of a mort
gage. but as an original grant from
King Charles 1 or II or at least from
Lord Baltimore or Berkeley, the royal
governor of Virginia
The average run of ancestors were
with their hands. They lived in
homely way. died poor and were laid to
rest in the burial. ground of their
mark their tomb The majority of an
cestors were poor Even those who
had title to land were often in trou-
BILE. The record of the sales and
chancery sales will prove this. There
seem to be few parcels of land in.
Maryland. Virginia and the District
of Columbia that have not at one time
or another been sold for debt To say
that all ancestors were not rich,
noble, gallant. brave and handsome is
no doubt discouraging and disconcert-
ing to many descendants, but the
Rambler cannot change the facts and
ne reels that perhaps millions Of an
cestors smile. II ghosts do smile. when
they hear the wild and fanciful stories
their descendants tell of them.
But there were ancestors who worked
hard. had calluses on their hands. wore
gray yarn socks instead of silk stock
ings and chewed tobacco instead of
shining snun, who enjoyed the esteem
and respect of their fellow-men in a
greater degree than some ancestors
who sat for their pictures in an atti-
tude to reveal the 1uff1est amount of
ruined shirt front. The Rambler knows
that there were numbers of rich an
cestorS who were somewhat too shrewd,
and avaricious to have a good
name among their contemporaries. These
gentlemen are more respected as an
cestofs than they were as neighbors.
The court records of Maryland and vir-
ginia show that many prominent an
cestorS were other than kind and gen.
tie toward their fellow-men.
Just as there are all kinds of de-