Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-21

follows, the numbers given, as you
must know, being the "old style
numbers: DR.. Henry E. Woodbury.,
399 Twelfth; Eliza Baker, grocery,
Fourteenth and U; Christopher Cam
mack, Jr. (Cammack & Sons, tailors),
2l2 f street; Rufus II. Speake. archi-
tect, 324 G.; Robert S. Wharton, bro
ker 4S3 Twelfth; Maurice Reidy, 31S
q; Thomas Fitzgerald. timer 316 CT;
Robert 4. Clokey, carpenter, 314 CT;
Samuel Clokey, carpenter, 3I4 G.; An
drew jackson, plasterer, 316 q: John
5. Cooper, 452 Thirteenth; william
II. Mason, shoemaker, Thirteenth near
G; Theodore Brooks, 800 Twelfth ::
Samuel H. Plat. $50 Ninth; Henry
Clay Stewart, wood and coal, II near
corner of Twelfth, house 355 l; John
D. Clark, lawyer, SIS Twelfth, house
4O3 H; John H. Yeatman, 43s
Twelfth; Lemuel- f. Clark. paper
hangings. 24s Pa. ave. (Thomas Rus
sell & Coz, house 41s H; C. ]. Burch,
tailor, 3SS H: Annie Mcknight, wild
ow. 463 Twelfth; Mary Preston, widow
OF Anthony, sol Twelfth; John r..
Lehman, 400 l..
4 MONG the residents of the neigh
later were James Gilfllan, Treasurer
OF the United States; Thomas Bivens,
long time captain OF the Columbi
Athletic Club; DIR. Kimball, singing
teacher, whose son was a judge Of
the Municipal Court for years; J. Hall
Semmes, grocer, and DR.. Il. H.
Barker.
One OF the neighbors was John
Stiles, who came to Washington from
-, - LA
editors OF the National Republican.
His son, Charles C. Stiles, was con-
nected with Wallis auction rooms.
and another son, H. C. G. Stiles, man
ager of the Joyce Engraving Co.
Another neighbor was Howard
Wilson, now with the Lincoln Ma
tional Bank. Then there was col
ored man-Banket was his name
who had a little whitewashed cabin
at'735 Twelfth street and whose front
yard in Summer was gay with
towers.
The Rambler has hunted up the
names Of property owners in the
square in which William G.. Metzerott
lived, which is the square bounded by
E and F, Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, and has treated the matter
as he has the Droop square. Mr..
Metzerott owned four lots in that
square, three facing Twelfth street
and one + His home faced Twelfth,
No. SIT Twelfth. and Metzerott Music
Hall, later the Columbia Theater, COW
ers it's site.
The Rambler has not the space now
to go into the deeds, assessments and
names of property owners in that
square, but with the permission of the
Sunday editor he will do that next
Sunday. l will hand you the fol-
In Nc nf MafyH-ntf'S
death. which was printed by The
Star, Monday. June Q, 1884:
Mr. William Gustave Metzerott
died Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock
at his home on Twelfth street. His
death removes from the community
one of the most valuable citizens.
He was born December 81, 1881, at
HIlburghaussen, in the Duchy Of Meln-
engen, where his father was noted for
great skill as an engraver. Unlike
his elder brother, who acquired re-
nown in his fathers art, William
early gave evidence of exceptional
musical talent and was apprenticed
to a celebrated piano maker of the
locality, to be at the same time thor
oughly trained in music. His father
recognized the limited scope of Hill
burghaussen for so promising a
youth, and decided to let William
emigrate, when but little over 1S
years old, to America, the promised
land of his ambition. Arrived at
New York with the best of recon-
mendations, the energetic and accom-
plished young man soon enlisted the
interest of Mr. Frank Bonneau, then
foreman Of the celebrated piano man
ufactory of Bacon & Raven, where
he was at once engaged and worked
for number of years side by side
with the Steinway brothers, then I'M
known to the fame they have since
attained. Here was formed the life
long friendship between Mr.. Bon
neau. the Steinways and Mr.. Metz