Evening star., 1920-01-31
'FA|R-V|EW" HOTEL
REDUCED TO JUNK
Home of Quaint Signs and
Cartoons to Give Way to
"White CookShop."

'rair-View Hotel" Washington.s
quaintest hostelry, for many years
specializing in clans. and the scene of
Keit Sutherland's philosophic produc-
! tions on current and historic events,
today is a two-foot wall worm eaten
timber and mass of junk and tin.
Probably for the last time street
car patrons have looked from the win
dows of suburban bound cars at Eek =
ington place and Florida avenue
northeast. al gems of wisdom and
humor on whitewashed tin from the
! brown daubed brush of the sixty
seven-year-old colored proprietor
who quoted Scripture and history at
random. misspelling elongated words
in the effort to produce examples OF
unique logic.
of famous characters will be presented
to the public no longer unless the
privilege of using the ground is re-
i stored by the Washington Railway
and Electric Company. which has
! leased the plot. according to Suther-
land, TO "a white cookShoo.
Long Time Landmark.
=; The hotel was a landmark. For
more than Il decade spectators have
stopped to read signs telling of the
beneficial effects rendered upon the
human constitution BY the daily con-
sumption of 81. .049 be@ns to the plate. "
. "Yessuh." declared Sutherland today
II had to tear it down. I got to GO
over and get another load Of tin today
They rented the land TO n white cook
shop for $50 a month. Ny establish
ment would've helped the business, if
| could have stayed there. ] had some
hot stuff all ready, too. | got lot of
Every since / been six years old. its
been like this. I just naturally thinks
the things out. Have to write it down
nowadays, cause I'm getting old and
my memory is failing. But it's sure
| hot stun. rye got. Was going to put uI
J a lot more tin signs. too.
you know ! got the gift of second
sight and mind reading, some people
/ tell me. I dreamt about my brothers
death in Boston twenty years afore it
happened. and I knew he was going to
die singing about "breastplate. armor
and sword" twenty years before he
died.
II knew. President Wilson was 60
ing to have trouble three weeks be-
fore he was taken sick. Wish 1 could
see the colored feller I told about
that. / was a-thinking about putting
it up on the signboard. but l was
afraid of soaring people.
"Yessuh, 1 can dream lots of stuff" ="
Advertising Was Unique.
The "Fair-View Hotter idea of ad-
vertising was also unique. but to the
point. Signs would read: When
Uncle Jim and Aunt Eliza come up
from way down home. you must
/ bring them to visit Fair-View Hotel.
; Wait until the Car stops" Or. in ac-
| Acknowledgement Of fayoTs Keit would
write: II thank the gentleman very
much who treated me to the nice re-
frigerator. ! thought 1 would re-
ceive one soon-or-later May God his
/; soul ever bless. is Fair-View Hotel
proprietor latest request. May he be
lucky in all good wishes and make a
good living without chopping down
bushes
| Warnings regarding the manner OF
F.; living were published from time to
time with exhortations to remembe r
| the good effect OF eating 1.049
. beans One was a verse as follows:
IF 1t was not so much eating. peo-
pie would have more time for sleep
ing, If it was not for so much sleep
! ing, People would have more time
for eating"
/ Another rhyme" ran in this man.
/ ner:
"Fair-View Hotel may do well:
TT is little profit in what it sells.
| 1T makes me think of William Penn,
He gives to the Indian more than he
sell.
ITO the plate. 1000 and 40 beans.
"keit Sutherland. born in Chas Co.
Md. Friday December 9. 1853"