Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18

| Tickets to be had at Mr.. Duport's snun ware
| house and at Crawford's bar.
Mr.. Crawfords cotllion party for the 9th
| of January is postponed on account OF Signor
Pucci's concert
| Here follows an advertisement Of
| one of Washington's very early dane
| ing teachers:
! Mr.. Gcneres presents his respects to the
| ladies and gentlemen Of Washington city and
Georgetown that he will have ball at Mr..
Tomlnson's Hotel Capitol Hill. on Monday.
| the 4th Of January.
| Tuition--Mr Generes' dancing school is kept
| every Monday. Wednesday and Friday at 10
| O'Clock in the morning DR.. David Otis
apothecary shop on Pennsylvania avenue. In
addition to different dances taught at his
| school he will introduce the shawl dance, which
| is we'll calculated to give grace to young Ia
! dies it being composed Of elegant attitudes.
passes and steps.
Here is the advertisement Of one Of
Washington's early music teachers:
Thomas Essom respectfully informs the pub
vocal music at Christ Church near the navy
yard on Tuesday. the 9th instant april, 1879,
! and on Thursday. the 9Th instant. at the West
and at the usual plac" IN Genrgetow on Sat
urday evening. the 10th instant.
An old recruiting advertisement
shows the inducements which the
government was holding to men in
1873 The second war with England
| was in progress The recruiting no.
| tice tells debtors that in the Army
! they will be safe from arrest by the
civil authorities The advertisement
| follows:
| Attention. Young Men Of Bravery and
| Patriotism. who are DESTROYS Of serving their
/ are invited to Join the 14th Regiment U. s.
! Infantry. commanded by Col W. II. Winder.
! Recruiting rendezvous are open to receive
| such at Baltimore, Annapolis. Georgetown.
| Alexandria, Fredericktown, Hagerstown. head
Of Chester. West Nottingham. Wilmington.
Del, and Lancaster Pa.
| of excellent clothing and good living and offer
you the liberal sum Of SO per month. In ad-
dition to these you will receive SIG bounty
on entering the service and on your discharge.
three months pay, which Is $24. and 16O acres
! Of valuable land. which in retirement will af-
ford not barely a subsistence. but with pru-
| and independence for you and the girl Of your
heart and the numerous offspring who will rise
and liberty and supporting the honor and in
dependence Of their happy country.
TIMOTHY DIX. Major. 18th U. s. Infantry.
Superintendent the Recruiting Service for
said Regiment, at Baltimore
| " B.-Those who have the misfortune to
be embarrassed with debts will, enlisting.
| be free from all civil arrests. and the law
| for inficting the degrading punishment by
/ stripes is abolished
Edmund Law offers for sale "a
| building close to the Eastern Branch
and on the banks of the canal. calcu-
lated for warehouse or manufactury
and originally built for a sugar house
and which is ~ feet long, 46 feet
deep and eight stories high" 1t must
have have been a remarkably tall
building for that period. and espe-
Land in Montgomery county near
Peter Kemp's mill. fourteen or fif-
teen miles from Washington. and
owned by Solomon Myers is adver-
tised for sale. and at Capt: Williams
Tavern at Dumfries. Va. the land OF
fered for sale" Oliver Barron OF
Prince Georges county. living five
miles from Bladensburg on the An
napolis road. offers for sale 1.-TWO
| likely negroes. man about twenty
one years old. and the other a boy
in the Seven Buildings. will accom-
! modate a few gentlemen with excel
lent board and lodging" N. L. Queen
auctioneer. will sell on the 18th in
woods wharf 100 barrels of shad and
herring on a liberal credit" J. w.
Collet & Co advertise that tho
Washington Brewery, at the bottom
Of New Jersey avenue. is now ready
for the delivery of malt liquor"
! One Of the steamboat rambles was
given over mainly to a discussion of
! the operation of a steamboat on the
Potomac river by James Rumsey in
| 1887. The Rambler got that date from
a descriptive card on a model Of the
| Rumsey steamboat in the National
Museum. In connection with the
| Rumsey matter the Rambler has re-
ceived the following letter from Eu-
| gene E. Prussing. lawyer, of 1927
| Rhode Island avenue:
! "Apropos of your article on 'Poto-