Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28

as neighbors some very distinguished
persons. At the east end of the Press
Club 1t is said once stood the home of
Aaron Burr surrounded by a paling
fence, and in his garden was fine well
of water, which was sufficiently copious
to supply several of his neighbors be-
sides himself with aqua pura. John
Quincy Adams lived on the opposite
side Of the street, where is now the
Adams Building, and others less not
able lived close by. Mr.. Reed, the gro
Ger. then lived in the first house south
Of the Ebbitt on the Fourteenth street
side, next to which were two history
houses, also owned by him.
Next came the Farnham House, and
farther down the street was the Occi-
dental, which is likely the site of the
Willard Building, and has been occu-
pied for some years by the Bureau of
Public Roads Of the Department of
Agriculture.
THE Ebbitt House, as 1t was called for
so many years, or until 1t became
the style to add the word new" to
every hotel that made the slightest i'm
provement, was a historic old hosiery
For years it was known as the Army
and Navy headquarters, and here
stopped such men as Rogers, Farragut,
Worden. Candy, Thomas Porter, Wins
low. Boggs, Cass and Drayton. Presi-
dent Mckinley stopped here during his
entire service in Congress, and Speaker
Keifer and J. Proctor Knott kept him
company here Mark Twain, Bill Nye
and James Whitcomb Riley were other
guests who made 1t their stopping place
when they came to Washington
The old, oblong, crystal room, which
ran lengthwise along Fourteenth street,
is known the world over, and many
banquet took place there which no
doubt the reader will fondly recall, as
vel las the stairway which led to the
basement where other things beside
soda water were served.
One could not write a story about
the Ebbitt House or the site upon which
it stood without referring to Newspaper
Row, where In the days during and fol-
lowing the Civil War so many news
paper correspondents had their Offices.
These began with the Western Union
Building, then at the corner of Four
tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
and extended north on the block to the
Ebbitt House. In 1871 there were 10
outside newspapers whose correspond
ents had offices in Newspaper Row.
These included the New York Tribune,
represented by W. l.. White, E. v. Small
ley and H. j. Ramsdell and Mrs. Lip
pincott; New York World. c. w. Adam;
New York Independent. D. w. Bartlett
and Mrs. M. c. Ames; New York Times
L. L. Crounse and Justin E. Colburn;
New York Herald, Finley Anderson, j.
MacFarland and Mrs. McCa;ne; New
York Associated Press, l.. A. Gobright,
j. j. Gilbert, James @. Holland and D.
r. Mckee; New York Journal of Com
merce, w. p. Copeland; New York
Standard James r. Young and John P.
Foley; Cincinnati Gazette, H. v. Boyn-
ton; American Press Associated, w.
II. Clarke and r. X. Evans; Philadel-
phia Ledger. D. D. Cone and j. C. Proc
tor, the writer's father: Chicago Trib-
une, J. w. Knowlton; Philadelphia In
quirer, U. H. Painter; Savannah News,
Charles II. Pillsbury; Boston Journal,
Ben Perley Poore; Cincinnati CONNER
cial, II. j. Ramsdell; Baltimore Asso-
ciated Press, F. A. Richardson; Boston