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viii be held in respect by all who
knew him.
In the four brown and small pages
of The Evening Star in which the
Rambler read the above obituary he
read other things which carried the
mind back more than so years, and it
win not delay long the Rambler's story
Of Mr.. Causten and his farm.
Weston, on which a part of Wash
ington Is built, to pass to you the fol-
lowing bits from The Star of October
Is, 1874:
The steamship Panther of the Phil
adelphia. & Reading Coal and Iron Co.
arrived at Guinand's wharf last night
with 825 tons Of red and white ash
coal. The ships automatic arrange
nlent by which the coal is unloaded
will repay any one IA visit. The time
allowed TO unload is three days"
THE first grand arch, forming a
truss TO adorn the roof of the North
ern Liberty Market, now being erected
on Fifth street between K and l., un-
der direction of the architect, Mr..
James FL. McGill. has been put in po-
sition. The roof will be one of the
longest. il not the longest, supported
entirely on outside walls without in
terror support ever erected in this
country, and it's magnitude, grandeur
of proportions and simplicity Of de-
sign attract much attention.
Among the amusement advertise.
ments one reads that Mrs. r. w.
! Lander was appearing as Lady Teazle
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in The School for Scandal at Wallis
Opera House. The paid advertisement
calls 1t "Ford's Opera House. but in
the reading notice it is Walls Opera
House" which means To the Rambler
that John T. Ford had not long taken
over Wallis Opera House and that our
people were still calling it by the older
name. The Union Square Go. of New
York was playing Jane Eyre" and
The Geneva Cross" at the National,
and at the Comique several renowned
artists, Cogi and Cooper, Mile. Zitelia
and George s. Knight" were perform
ing. Mile Aimee was coming to the
National under Grau 4 Ghizzola, di-
rectors, and Bayard Taylor was adj
Vertised to lecture al Lincoln Hall on
Ancient Egypt" 1t was advertised
that Prof, Etienne Lambert will give
two free lectures on the art OF speak
ing French fiuently on Friday (tomor-
row. at Marini's Hall" The Southern
Maryland and District Of Columbia
Agricultural Association was about to
hold tournament, To be followed by
a grand ball. at Wilson's Station, on
the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
The Evening Star at that time was
printing long report each day of the
safe burglary triaI--the trial of
Hiram G. Whitley, Richard Harring
ton and Arthur Il. Williams, charged
with conspiracy In connection with
the alleged safe burglary in the dis
trict attorneys office A good deal of
space was given to the Jersey City
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Georgetown decided Weston to NilliaI1
c. Hill of Washington for S23, 900, Hill
and his wife, Alice S.. giving a trust
deed to secure a balance of $14, 900,
with John T. Arms and Osceola G.
Green as trustees. Josephine Caus-
ten Young and her children. Eliza and
Rebecca. in 1881 gave a trust deed of
Weston to John Creswell Head to Sc
cure a debt to Matilda or Matilda w.
Stanton, and in 1882 they gave a trust
deed to Jacob FL. kengla and Edward
l.. kenSla TO secure a debt to George
NJ. Kengla and Charles X. Kengla.
The deed from Mrs. Young to vii.
liam c. Hill. after giving the ancient
metes and bounds of Weston gives
its acreage as sc. In the deeds back
to 1900 I followed to lines. but did nos
see the number of acres of Weston.
This is to tell you that the rand
bought by Mr. Causten i'm 1S43 passed
from the Causten family in 1884.
That was about the time of an ex-
tracrdinary up-swing of realty values
IN Washington and somewhat of "a
boom in the neighborhood of Weston.
1t was about that time that President
Cleveland bought the houses and
tract we called RED Top" and that
William G. Whitney bought the tract
we called Grasslands. 1t was Il
bullying time in country property i'm
the northwest part of the District
When and how Mr.. Hill disposed of
Weston | have not traced / think
he sold the land and that the buyer
renamed Weston. Ruthven Lodge.
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purposes. For the last four years we
have been engaged in cooperative
breeding with the Agriculture Depart
ment. We have built up the herd on
grades. In fact, all of our cows are
graded. with the exception of two full
bloods which we bought this year. the
first full-bloods We have ever had"
Perhaps 1t will be asked why they
don't have q full-blood herd at ST.
Eliza beth's Hospital instead Of grades.
The answer to this query is that the
Government will not authorize the
expenditures necessary for a full
blood herd for which two testings
month are required This means
that testers have to spend several
days every month making the re-
CURED tests; they must be paid for
this service and fed. The Govern
ment will not authorize this expense:
the dairy farm itself has no authority
to make such an outlay of money.
The economy with which this farm
has been manag ed is one of it's out
standing features, for during a period
of is years the entire amount spent
on its cows comes to $4,000, not a
very heavy outlay of money fo" such
unusually heavy returns on the in
yestment.
At present they are trying TO grade
up the herd TO large cows-the larger
the COW the more it will eat, the re-
suit of which will be d greater pro-
duction of milk These new full
bloods just purchased this year, one
weighing 1850 pounds and the other
1000 pounds. are excellent specimens
of the type Of large cattle desired.
The entire herd at present numbers
1863. of which 1876 are milking cows.
The calves seem to thrive on mix
ture of powered skim milk with warm
water.
1t has long been recognized that
milk may carry bacteria which can
cause disease in human beings and
that these bacteria may come from
the cow or the mixer. or from other
sources on the farm. Eea izing this
fact. those in charge of this dairy
farm have made cleanliness their OBJ
iective at every turn. and although
cleanliness is not an absolute pre-
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With this map before me, l ran
my eye east from the TenleytoWn
road to Rock Greek, believing that
might see something to give you
pleasure In II bend of the creek
which is within the Geological Park
is the name DR. j. Holt" His house
stood on a hill, and east of his prop
erty was the Friends Burying
Ground. / believe that the gray stone
administration building of the Zoo
was DIR. HAIRS house. am not
backing that belief with bond, but
am just telling you what think.
Though YOU know Washington well
you might get lost on this map of
the District begun in 1886 and fin
ished in 1889 If you doubt this, go
10 the District Building and the Dis
trict surveyor. Melville Hazen, or
Jack Armstrong will let you see
Boschke's map.
East of the, Friends Burying
Ground is the property of Mrs. $. K.
Hobbie and east from Mrs. Hobbie IS
place runs road marked Taylor S
lane which / identify as Columbia
road. That lane, after leaving the
Boundary, led northeast TO Four
teenth Street road, and the names on
the map are J. b. Kibbey fl. Will
lard, j. Corcoran's heirs, j. Little, j.
Eslin and j. p. Kraft. The Eslin
house was near Taylor's lane (Colum-
bia road and Mount Pleasant street,
and krafft's place was at Taylor's lane
and Fourteenth Street road columbia
road and Fourteenth@etreeU West of
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! south side Of that road are tracts
/ marked DIR. Busey, l.. Thomas, Mrs.
! A. f. kervane and II. t'rench's heirs.
| On the west side of the Tenleytown
| road, opposite st. Adams. are tracts
| Of land owned by n. Homiller and
J. Duvall, the Duvall land being across
| from the church Half a mile north
| west Of the road which was later
/ named Woodley, and on the east side
! Of the Tenleytown road. is property
/ marked Mrs. NJ and r. Nourse."
/ The NourSe house iS three-fOurthS of
q nile northwest of Woodley road,
| The first road north Of Georgetown
| leading east across Rock Creek was
| Peirce Mill road. which led from Ten
| leytown over Rock Creek ut Peirce's
! Mill and on TO the Fourteenth Street
/ road. ON the Tenleytown road at
| TenleytoWn and extending east on
J the south side of PIERCE Mill road the
| land is marked with the name j. o.
| Harry, and a tract east of Teniey-
/ town and south Of PIERCE Mill road
| il marked with the name Mrs. A.
! Lyles. The land in the sharp angle
| of the Tenleytown and River roads,
| which for years was called Gloria
| Point (named for young lady
| Gloria, is marked on the old map
| -. Marshall" South and west of
| the River and Tenleytown roads
| large tract is marked A. II. Tough
| borough, and south of the Lough-
| borough land is a large tract marked
| w. ID. G. Murdoch These tracts
/ were reached and crossed by the
| Loughborough and Murdoch Mill
roads, and on what seems to be the
! Murdoch Mill road about a mile south
| Of the ,Nourse place on the Tenley-
| town road is the tract Of w, A. j.
/ Maddox. Sou beast of that on a road
| leading TO the Washington Aqueduct
are tracts marked j. l.. Carbery, p.
! Caharty's heirs, j. fl. Kings heirs,
i l.. Wetzel and ~--- Hodge. Near the
! Receiving Reservoir and between the
| Aqueduct Conduit road and the
canal are lands marked J. z. Shoe
| makers heirs, Mrs. ]. w. Baker
and Mckenney and Hunter. South
| of Mount ST. Alban Church, south
west Of the TenleytoWn road and
about one mile from High Reservoir
! Georgetown. are the lands of II.
: Kengla. j. @. Dashiel and j. Britt.
| Along the Brookvile road leading
| from TenieytoWn to what you know
| as Chevy Chase are the lands of D.
/ jackson. G. Giles Dyer, NJ Burke,
/ ID. Shoemaker and Col. G. K. Belt.
81 y Il *
/ A QUARTER of a mile south of
Tenleytown, and through which
! Ridge road tnow Nebraska avenuel
| ran, was land marked III. Blunt. !,
For a mile west of Tenleytown on
| the road to Rockville the only names
| the old map shows are B. Shoemaker
M. r.. Boyer and G.. Conrad On the
| River road for a mile from Tenley-
| town the only name on the map is
w. Phillips. 1t is not to be under
stood that this topographic map car.
ries the names of all landholders, and
some of the names given were not
those Of large landholders.
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that time there has not been the
slightest trace of it.
There is no greater field of use
fu,ness than the production of milk
for human food Recent investiga-
tons in nutrition made by Gov
eminent scientists show that milk
contains certain dietary factors, call
ed vitamins, which are essential for
the proper growth and health of the
human body.
To be most profitable, dairy herd
should be well bred. properly fed and
most carefully managed. Upon these
three points hangs the fate of any
herd. Building up a herd to the best
advantage necessitates definite poll
cies, vigi,ant guarding against dis
ease, the keeping of records and eco
nomical management. Unless the
dairyman be well acquainted with
these points, a herd of dairy cows
will not give maximum return. The
dairvmen at st. Eslizabeth's Hospital
realize this and consider it their duty
to themselves and their community
to keep only healthy cows, supply
them with wholesome feed and keep
them in clean, comfortable quarters.
Obviously there are two ways of
obtaining a highproducing herd OF
dairy cows One IiElIOd rs W Quy
them, the other is to breed them. AS
a general rule, purebred cattle produce
more than grades. surprising them by
almost 900 pounds of milk and 80
pounds of butter fat. Purity of breed
ing does not always insure q greater
production, however, for there are.
many herds Of carefully selected grade
cows that produce as well as, or better,
than many purebreds of the same
breed. over 80 per cent of the dairy
products of this country are produced
by grade cows; nevertheless, the fact
that it is the blood of the purebred in
the grade cows that makes them the
high producers they are cannot be
overlooked.
This dairy herd at st. -Elizbeth's
Hospital, which is entirely made up
of grades, is one of the exceptions for
grade cows, it's milk poundage being
more than twice that of the average
herd in America This outstanding
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/ the Boundary and Taylor's lane the
map shows the names of Prof. G.
Jewett. Mrs. J. Kali, Reynolds and
Fletcher and r. Lyons, who ran a
mill on Rock Greek north of the
Street Bridge, and whose house, set in
fine garden, stood in the Valley OF
Rock Creek, near and on somewhat
higher land than the mill.
[ showed you the will Of James II.
Causten last Sunday He wrote.
THAT within six months after my
death my farm, called Weston, stu
ated quite near and north of George
town on the Tennallytown turnpike
road, shall be sold at public or private
sale. as my executors shall elect. -
He bequeathed his property to his
daughter. Josephine G. Young; his
son. Manuel C.. Causten. and the sur
VlV1ng children of his daughters, Hen
r1etta j. Shriver and Mary C. Car
Yaiio. by cOdicil ne modified the
direction as to the sale of Weston and
left the time and manner of the sale
to the discretion of the executors,
Josephine c. Young and Manuel c.
Causten.
Going through the land record in
deX, | found that Manuel G. Causten
and 1sadore e. Causten executed a
trust deed to Jones & Friebus in 1876;
that the trust was released by Frank
w. Jones and others in 1878, and that
they executed deed to Isadora Caus-
ten, widow, in the same year. On
March IA. 1884. Josephine c. Young
Eliza Young and Rebecca r. Young of
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Presbytery sea ndal in which the
plaintiff was Miss Mary Il. Pomeroy
and the defendant the Rev. John $.
GIendenning. Judge Smell Was hand
ing out sentences in the Police Court
In the Washington market report it
was set out that two pounds Of
porterhouse steak could be bought for
25 cents pork, 10 to 20 cents pound;
lamb. s to 20 cents, and that plover
could he had for Is to 80 cents each,
canvasback ducks at 81 a pair, red
head ducks at $1,25 a pair and blue
wing and sprigtail ducks at ST a pair.
The Rambler forgot TO look up the
price Of oysters and terrapin, but
q Washingtonian with an ordinary job
could afford to eat them.
4 X X X
THE Rambler has told you IN other
stories OF old deeds To the tract
Weston, which James II. Causten
bought from Septimus Davis in 1913.
Edmunds, Fulton. Garfield and other
streets run through this tract In the
southeast angie of Wisconsin and
Massachusetts avenues and some dis
lance east Of Massachusetts avenue.
In the office OF the surveyor for the
District is a topogra phic map of the
District surveyed by A. Boschke in
the years 1856, 1857. 1858 and 1859.
1t was published by y. McClelland,
Blanchard 4 Mohun of Washington
in 1861 In reading this map, let us
leave the old streets of Georgetown
at High Reservoir, which stood in the
angle of the TenleytoWn road and
Road street, which is now X street.
In the northwest angle of those roads
and opposite (Westl the reservoir was
a tract marked wv. II. Dougal. =
North of Douglas land were the house
and farm of T.. Linthicum, and be-
, tween Linthicum's land and Oak Hill
Cemetery was a tract marked as
owned by W. NJ. Boyce on the east
side of the Tenleytown road and join
, ing Dougal on the west The map shows
M Adler" From that point Il num-
Der Of small houses stood along the
east side of the road to where that
road 0he TenleytoWn), running west
OF north, makes a sharp bend to the
northwest. That bend is shown one
nile west and north from High Reser-
yoir. quarter Of n mile westward
If that bend one comes TO the south
! line Of land marked y. Causte n,
which was Weston, the farm Of
James II. Causten. That farm faced
the Tenleytown road for about a quar-
ter of a mile, and the house and barn
are shown an eighth of mile east OF
the road. The west line of Causten's
farm joins the east line of the tract
en- which stands Mount Alban
Church. Northeast of the church the
map shows "a building on the church
tract marked Parish" and / suppose
| ii was the parish house. The spot is
at or close to the site of the cathe-
drai.
A road, not named on the map, but
which You can identify as Woodley
| lane. bounds the northeast side OF
T! the tract marked Mount Alban
| Church" and leads east till it dis,
appears In fields and woods, On the
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er Finds Famous Names Among the Causten Neighbors

JAMES HYMAE CAUSTEN died
October IS, 1874, at his town
house, 1923 F street northwest.
~ He was So years and one month
old, and had lived in the District
AZ years. He was d claim agent. The
duration of his sickness was one day,
the primary cause of death was car
diac valvular rightly and the imme-
date cause of death was pulmonary
congestion. These facts are written
on his certificate of death, which was
made out by his physician, DIR. Graf.
ton Tyler.
The Evening Star. Thursday Octo-
Der 20, 1874, contained this:
Death of James II. Caust en.~--A
venerable and much respected citizen,
Ar. James II. causten, died last night,
in the s1th year of his age Mr.. eau
stem was born in Baltimore September
%. 1858, and had been resident Of
the District for ~ years past. lie was
consul for the republics Of Chile and
Ecuador for a considerable period and
had been widely known for many years
as the agent for the French spoiiation
claims. the payment Of which he urged
with eloquence and indefatigabie en-
ergy. but which, Just as they un
doubtedly are, the country never found
1t convenient to pay, and he died with
out seeing fruition OF his long labor
Mr.. Causten served SIS "a soldier In the
war Of 1912, and he was one of the
stanchest Union men in feeling dur
ing the late rebellion. His memory
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ventive of disease. it Is a most i'm
portant factor in preventing contami-
nation. Milk which was not carefully
produced or properly pasteurized has
been the cause of countless epidemicS
Of typhoid fever, septic sore throat
and various other diseases. The lat
est scientific evidence indicates that
tuberculosis may be transmitted from
animals to human beings, chiefly
young children. by the consumption
of unpasteurized milk containing
tubercie bacili.- Many a case of tuber-
culosis has been traced through the
milk back to the dairy farm from
which it came, where tubercular milk
ers, as well as tubercuar cattle, have
been found.
Being fully aware of all the harm
that has been done the world over
through tubercular cattle and I'M
heaIthful dairy farm conditions, the
st. Elizabeth's Hospital farm has
gone to every extreme to insure
cleanliness and healthfulness. The
first step toward sanitation is to keep
a rigid surveillance over the health
of the cattle and the health of those
who handle the milk.
x y x Il
Il LIE iiAhhllIS 2ilCFt, vi ISCOIu Vi Tie
amount of production on which
the mixers mark down the amount
of milk given by each COW at each
milking. is veritabIe barometer of
the cows health. In checking up on
the question of health, the dairyman
has only TO take one look down the
concrete cutters in which the feed is
placed, being able to note at a glance
if any cow has not eaten. Then. when
inspecting the milk chart. if he should
note that the milk production of any
particular cow is not up to the usual
standard and that that COW has not
eaten its feed. he knows Immediately
that that cow is i'll. The doctor is
notified and the COW removed from
the herd without a moments delay,
to the little hospital barn for obser-
vation and treatment. Should the COW
have any contagious disease or have
developed tuberculosis, the doctor will
have caught ii before it has been able
TO contaminate the rest of the herd
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DesOlate by Winds.

THERE lies between Formosa and
the coast of China a group of 2 4
islands. interspersed with innumerabic
reefs and lodges. which are called the
Pescadores Islands. According to the
investigations of certain biologists
these islands have suffered in a re-
markable manner from the northeast
winds, which blow with violence there
during nine months of the year. The
original area of the islands has been
greatly reduced by erosion. and their
surfaces are barren and desolate. SO
that the wind-whipped group forms ii
quasi-desert amid the green island
world of Sout hea stern STA
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production in the field of dairying may
be attributed to the scientific feeding,
progressive, intelligent breeding, and
general management of the herd, UNI
der the direction of DIR. Turner. Credit
for the success of this herd should be
given also to T. l.. McConahey, the
head Of the dairy farm. and expert
dairyman. who was especially trained
for this line of work at Pennsylvania
State College
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In explaining the growth of the herd
Or Turner said: "In 1908 and 1909
the price of cows went up and we
started raising our own cattle here.
We made no purchases, but bred all
the cattle we needed on this farm.
We began to raise our own heifers in
1910 and since then have raised about
so every year. When months old,
we send them to the hospital farm at
Goddingcroft, Md, where they remain
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until the first calf Then they are
added to our herd, which is OF the
Holstein Friesian family, and replace
older cows. which are sold to contrac-
tors for beef purposes Any farmer
can do what we are doing with the
expenditure OF very little money.
In 1910 we had 131 cows; now we
have 225. Our increased production
is due to the selection of animals from
large producing families for breeding
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Ournskr Podnn gAnmasa eliza 1apA hb
shin an VenIaho EtnM Attractive Bovine
TresAr eNtblF Room 1 Advantages
EG uo O CramD for
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BY DOROTHY e. FLETCHER.

w THIN the city limits of the
District of Columbia. mt St
M EliZabeth's Hospital, is TO
be found the largest and
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THE feed room where the ingre-
- dents for the days meal are stored
is unique in that it is absolutely rat
proof. Under the floors there has
been placed wiring which is turned
up at the corners so that the rats
may . not gnaw their way through
Here rat has never been known 10
make its appearance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-30
OFF THE TRACK TICKER
NO TRAFFIC JAMS

Never was Q crowd handled more
expertly than inside and approach
ing the Speedway this year. This
was due principally to the increase
in Speedway guards from 1000 to
3,400 and the opening up of a new
gate on the west side.
So swiftly were motorists and Pc
destrians dispatched to their proper
places inside the grounds that by
Z a. M, one-half hour after the gates
opened, the jam of cars which ex-
tended from a mile to two miles on
roads from all gates was broken. On
the Speedway Rd. cars had been
damned all the way from the Speed
way back to the Enrichsville bridge
before $50 a. m.
After o'clock the trafficmen had
things moving so we'll that it was
possible to drive within a quarter of
a mile of the gates before getting
into line. Then the procession
moved orderly on through the gates.