Evening star., 1925-08-23
THE OLD sOUSA HOME HOUSE AT LEFT.

have made a show of prosperity for
a good many years, and who put OH
dress coat at o'clock and eat din
ner by lamplight, who are willing t."
fall on q mans neck with friendly
greetings If they think he can be
worked
Perhaps even If the Rambler should
knock down a million dollars and il
should be gossiped on Fifteenth stree
between the Avenue and Fl that ''he
has made somewhere between twentl
and thirty Millions d great. manE
men / never saw. or at least who
never nodded TO me, would come down
! to the office, fork over a cigar and
say, Harry, I've known you since
boyhood and have always felt the
deepest affection for you"
Perhaps a delegation Of gentlemen
with silk hats, manicured finsernails.
and without a single corn on the
/ hand, would sCrape their feet on the
doormat of the little home and say.
I'VE are proud TO inform you of your
election to membership in the Tip
top Club. the most exclusive golf and
high ball association in our city,
Nothin' doinM The Rambler has been
told several times that he might i'm
prove his social standing by putting
on dumb and diSnitied air. saying
y
a certain line of talk.
Mrs. SouSa would not even agree
that the old house be torn down and
a new one built on its site. So John
Philip and his fine old mother com
promised in this way: Some remodel
ing, but not much, should be done 10
the interior. and brick walls built
around the old frame house. Look
at it today and you will set down
in your notebook that it is a brick
house with good deal OF ornamental
brickwork. Any Of the old neighbors
Will tell you that inside the brick walls
stands the old frame house of An
tonic and Elizabeth Sousa.
Looking at the assessment book
for 1854, the Rambler took the fol
lowing names of lot owners in the
stands: George Edwards. Francis
Prospect. John NJ. Roberts, Martin
King, Thomas P. Venable, W. :.
Venable, Charles II. Venable, ". 4.
Carrico, Samuel Armistead. r. \.
Boarman. r. y. Peake Edward Evans
Samuel Miller. Edward Watson, W.
D. Acken, John Robinson, Travis
Evans, Hugh Mccormick, James Bury
James Kealy and Francis II. Elliott.
The 1859 assessment shows the lot
owners as follows: George Edwards
Francis Prospect, John NJ. Roberts
Samuel Wilkinson, Samuel A. II.
Marks, c. Ivey, Jane Moss. George +.
Ruff, A. L. Seedner, John D. NIilstead,
John F. .GereCle. W. B. CarricO, j.
NJ. Carrico, Pauline Tyson. Antonio
Sousa, Salvador AcCardi, James NJ.
Dreen, r. \. Peake, F. Esputa.
Charles Prospect, John .Esputa, VIM.
F. Sheets, Edward Evans, John
Bayne, VIM. ID. Acl;en, Frederick
limerick, John Robinson. Hugh Nc
Cormick, Marie Byington, James
Healy. William Guinand and James
Howard.
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nEAR READER, even though you
have only the sense of an average
reader, it ought not to he necessary
to tell you that not all these persons
lived in that square and that not
all the persons who lived there are
recorded in the list. Those We're the
property owners in the square. Com
pairing the list of property owners
with the city directory of 1859. one
finds that a majority of those named
lived in the square. Some Of the
owners lived in the fashionable neigh
borhood of Missouri avenue between
Third and Sixth streets and others
lived in the brick kiln district around