Evening star., 1920-05-23

Few owners Of craft, though large and OF
fine construction. were as proud of their hold
ings as was the owner of the Mattano- She
stand on the dock at which she landed hour
after hour on the days she was due to see her
come up the Washington channel sailing like
a muscovy duck He was a great admirer Of
the steamer Sue Of the Weems line. and he
was wont to hold UP his forefingers some inches
mot the Sue but little Sue''-one built along
the same lines. but smaller.
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Among the officers of the Mattano
during her service here were Capt.
Harry Byles, who married a daughter
of the late James Guy. one of the
pioneer captains on the Potomac; Capt.
William l. Skinner, Capt William D.
NOVEL;, whose son George commands
one of the Norfolk steamers. and
whose son William is captain in the
revenue service; E. E. Howes, T. NJ.
Milstead. Ed OwA1s. Russell Dean.
John Bailey, now with the Mount Yer
non line; Bailey Reed. now command
ing the st. Johns, and others. Capt.
Norfolk boats. was a pilot of the
Mattano under Capt. W. D. NOVEL;
Among the pursers of the Mattano were
w. H. Kllinan. E. E. Howes, James
Posey. S. B. Greenland and George W.
William D. white. Charles 4. Bailey.
Jack White, genial Pat O'Donnell and
Tom Tenneson. Charlie Bailey was en-
gineer of the Express. when she was
lost in gale in the Chesapeake. Jack
manded the George Leary. and Pat
ODonnell for long time was engineer
OF the Macalester. and in that Office
many thousands Of Washington peope
came to know him. Tom Tenneson be-
came engineer of. The Star building
Glen T. Jones was the Mattano's gem
eral passenger and freight agent for
twenty years. excepting one, in which
he served the Inland and Seaboard
Coasting Company as cashier and gen.
son of the Mattie's owner George L.
sheriff.. were the executors of Mr..
Sherif's estate and ran the Mattano
several years after Mr.. SherIn's death
They finally entered into an agreemen,
with competing interests and the mat
tano was sold to Capt. E. S. Randall.
who wrecked" her. Her skeleton lies
in the mud on the Alexandra water
front.
George Guest, who was for some time
purser on the Mattano and for a long
time was purser on the Samuel J. Pentz,
has reminded the Rambler of an in
cident in the career of the Matte which
has also to do with the history of Colo
the first party of Washington people
for the opening sale Of lots in the SUBJ
division which has come to be the city
of Colonial Beach. AS far back as mans
memory goes the point on the Potomac
which is now Colonial Beach was called
White Point. Sometimes it was called
White Point Fishing Shore. The first
owner of White Point and adjacent land
whom George Guest recalls was a man
named Hickcock- In the midseventies
he sold to New York man by the name
of Henry Kintz, and Kintz. in the early
eighties sold to another New Yorker
Albert Clark. Clark made the subdi-
vision and at the first sale of lots the
Mattano carried down party of spec
tators and prospective buyers. Among
the purchasers of lots at that first sale
were DIR. Chaplin. John Chancey. Charles
Burton, clerk in the Treasury: w. D.
Swami, also a clerk in the Treasury;
William Yates, who had dry goods
store on Market space; ]. B. Hammond,
lumber merchant. and c. W. Walcot,