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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Svabek vynalezl novy druh
padaku.

Baltimorsky slovensky kra-
jan Juraj G. svabek, bytem v
els. 2202 vych. Eager ul., W.
nalezl novy druh padaku, po-
mocf nehoz bude pry mono
spustiti Sc bezpecne S letfciho
aeroplanu. z dosavadnlch
zkousek Sc pry jizs seznalo, re
Svabkdv vynalez je 1plne bez-
pecny. Pocne pry Sc v KRAFT
KEN case jeho vyrobou.
Svabek je slovenskym roda-
KEN z Trencfnske zupy, je cle-
mem nekolika slovenskych spoil
XII v Americe a vzdy Sc hlasil
"a Slovaka.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Spolkovy vsstnik.

Oznamuje sc clenGm
spolku sv. Petra a Pavla els. 20
K. D., ze prfst1 nedeli Sc bude
odbyvat rocnl schdze. Volba
spolkovych dTednlku zastup-
cu do Statnf Rady K. D. a jine
dGlezite jednani vyzaduje pfi-
tomnost vsech clen1. Vacl
Hradsky, Pfedseda; JOS. j.
Wallis, tajemnik.
Oznamuje Sc cleniim
spolku sv. Vojtecha re Sc bude
odbyvat radna mesicni schdze
pffsti nedeli, Is. prosince urci-
te We 2 hodiny odpoledne. JEST
zadoucno aby byl 'kazdy Glen
pr1tomen skrze d1lezite jedna-
nj.
Vaclav Kozlovsky, preds.
Josef J. Viktor, tai.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Varuje pred zaskrtem.

V tydennf zdravotnf zprave
varuje komisaT pred zaskrtem,
ktery teto dobe hrozi. Ia
skrty udava komisar, da Sc
predej1ti. Rodice mali Sc po-
starati, ably dftko jejich chra-
memo bylo pred MIN poradenim
Sc lekaTem.
V tydnu zemfelo v Balti-
more meste ZIG osob. Ma "a
skirt zemTelo jedno dftko.
Hlaseno bylo ctrnact osud-
nych nehod, ctyri sebevrazdy
til zabitf. Srdecn1 wade po-
dlehlo 40 onemocnelych, ledvi-
novym nemocem 80, mrtvici 20
couchotinam 18, rakovine 13
atd.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Strelil milenku a sebe.

We stTedu Paul Rossmark,
33lety, v hadce o podobiznu
strelil milenku svoji, Eugenii
Mueller, 22letou a sam pax
vpalil 81 kuli do lebky.
Mezi obema, kteri pred ro-
KEN pTijeli z N6mecka do Bal
timore, ably zde 81 usetrili neja-
ke penize pax Sc wall, doslo
pred nejakym casem ku nedo-.
hode. Kdyz We stredu dfvka
vzala fotografii, ma niz oba We
die sebe vyfotografovani byli
tuto roztrhala, Rossmark
strelil il a sebe. ~Oba nebez-
pecne zranen1 dani do nemoc-
nice.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Tri mesice IA usnrceni
Leriana.

Charles E. Lloyd odsouzen
byl ma tri meslce do vezenf u
sweden byv, re truckem zavi-
nil smrt Waltera Leriana.
Lloyd truckem, ma nemz roz-
vazel zbozi prirazil Leriana ku
zdi ma rohu Fayette a Mount
ulice poslednlho rijna, kdyz
truck vrazil do automobilu
Augusta C. Meyerse.
Soudce rozhodl, re Lloyd je
vinnen, Meyerse propustil &C
koliv zaloba udavala, re Lloyd
hnal sc velikou rychlost1 a My
ers nedbal zakona zastavenl
u boulevardu.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13

Porota v Belair osvobodila v
patek Franka v. Brady z OBJ
zaloby, re zavrazdil detektiva
A. A. Morrisona. Osvobozeni
provazeno bylo potleskem
zvlast9 zen naslouchajlcich
soudu. Morrison zastfelen byl
v noci. 80. zarf v Havre de
Grace. Byl detektivem Pinker-
ton agentury a pridelen touto
ku strezeni zavodiste v Havre
de Grace. Pc zastrelenf zat-
cen byl Brady, jenz popfral vi
nu. Jedine doznal, re videl
Morrisona v noci, nfz tento
zastrelen byl. Tvrdil, re pill v
noe tn a re kolem pGl noci ulo-
I'll Sc ku spanku v dome Mollie
Farr, kde bydlel, a spal pry az
do 6 hodin do rama. Kdyz
vstal, vrazde pry zaslechl.
Brady, pri kf1zovem vysle-
chu doznal, ze neupfral vinu
svoji v zastrelenl Morrisona,
ponevac pry prisel k nahledu,
"ze by mu to nepomohlo.'
Detektiv lieutenant Itzel 2
a serif Hartford o.
kresu, Dewey Bowman, sved-
cili proti Brady.
Edgar Murray, cernoch,
porotou v Baltimore, uznan byl
vinnym ze zavrazdeni Henry
Stecka.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Diva Baltimorane moci 1radu
pfi prepadu banky " York, Pa.

Statn1 policiste uveznili v u
terry 25 rokI stareho Harry M.
Sprague a 18leteho Ralpha
Warda, oba 2 Baltimore, kdyz
v York, Pa, prepadli vypomo-
cneho pokladnika v Seven Val
leys bance v 1tery v poledne,
oloupili banku o $10,515 a pr
chli.
Dopadeni byli ukryvajice Sc
ma farme Johna Messersmitha
nedaleko Yorku. Penfze MALE
zeny byly schovane bandity
pod prkny v garazi teze fanny
Oba jsou znami policii v
York okresu, kde odbyli 81 ne
kolik kapitulaci We vezenf pro
dovazen1 koTalky z Baltimore
do York.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Automobily skonfiskovane
prodany.

Ctrnact automobile a truck1
bylo vladimir odborem proda-
no We vefejne drazbe v Balti-
more.
Vzaty byly svym casem oso-
BAN vezouclm v Mich llhoviny.
Ia ne dostal vladnl odbor cd
SIS do $3.50.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Prcti podarovani vyssich
nizSimi.

Mayor Broening zadal v u
terry vsechny predstavene mesb
skych odbor6, aby dali svym
podflzenym ma vedomi, re me-
mali svym vyssfm davati Va
nocn1 darky.
Mlsto toho radil mayor
Broening, aby vyssf spojili Sc S
nlzslmi a pomohli tenn ubohym
ktefi pomoci skutecn6 potre-
buji.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Spadl $ vyse druheho poschodi
do ulice.

Charles M. Urban, 43lety ci-
site oxen z {. 948 N. Chester
ulice, ztratil pTi cistenf okna
ma druhem poschod1 depart
mentniho obchodu ma Howard
a Clay ulicich rovnovahu a
spadl do ulice mezi osoby jdou
ci po Howard ulici. Padem
prerazena byla mu ruka.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Byvaly prohibicni agent od-
souzen pro podvod.

Harry c.. Wimbly Wash
ingtonu odsouzen byl ma Is
mesicG do Marylandske kazni-
ce pro zfalsovanf checku, W.
daneho ma jmeno jeho svagro-
We, Emmy Frances Dickerson 2
E. Biddle ulice. Check byl ma
ST, ,37O.93 ma pojistku splatnou
po lmrti jejiho manzela, vete-
rama re svetove valky.
Wimbly byval prohibicnim
udavacem.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13

Vasfcek, K. Praus. Dale 1cin-
kuji nasledujfcf dftky: - L.
Zavoralkova, G. Cincibus, M
Zahradkova, M. Kubinova, j.
Zahradkova, H. Zavoralkova,
M. Kr1zova, B. Mrakova, j.
Vasfcek, j. Svec, e. Henny, A.
Cincibusova, mi.
Upozorneni! Jelikoz sc oce-
kava velika navsteva, zadame
by 81 kazdy lfstky opatfil pre-
dem ma znamych mistech v
Delnickem Dome. Dop.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Sedm poransno We srazce elek-
trickych kar.

Sedm osob poraneno bylo,
kdyz druhy VIZ elektricke ka-
ry Sparrows Point linie vysko-
Gil v patek z koleji ma Eastern
avenue a Oldham ulici a vrazil
do jine kary, jedoucf smerem
opacnym po druhych koleifch.
Poranenl dosli lekarskeho ose-
trent mestske nemocnici.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13

Ohen znicil v nedeli v Glyn-
don hostel, faru a mistnost Ne
delni skoly methodistskeho
kostela. Skoda odhaduje Sc
ma $4,000. Ohen povstal v
mistnosti Nedelni skoly. Cd
horicfho kostela chytil Sc tez
dun bankere, G. w. Arnolda.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Kongresnik narGen.

Kongresnfk Frederick N.
Zihlman, republican, narcen
byl Sc sesti jinymi rediteli F.
H. Smith spolecnosti pro zneu-
ziti posty S 1myslem podvodu.
Dan byl pod zaruku $4,000.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13
Pankhurst proti modernistIn.

Christobal Pankhurst 2 An
glie, jejlz matka byla svetem
znama bojovnice pro zenska
prava, recnila v nedeli v Balti-
more. V reci mluvila proti mo-
dernistnm, kteri chtej1 nabo-
zenstvi odstraniti V pravde
nedovedou mic lepsfho svetu
dati v nahradu "a nabozenstv1.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13

bit byl a jeho syn, sestilety Yer
mon, tezce zranen ma lebce,
kdyz zasazeni byli automobi-
lem v nedeli vecer jdouce po
Eastern Ave, nedaleko North
Point road. Automobil, jenz
nestesti zavinil, ujel bez po-
skytnutl pomoci. Kolem jedou-
cf automobilista ujal Sc nestast
nych obetf zavezl je do NEST
ske nemocnice. Policie obdr-
zela cfslo automobile.
Zraneny hoch zemfel v pom
deli v nemocnici. Nesvedomi-
ty ridic automobile, jenz zavi-
nil smrt otce a syna, zatcen
byl. Jest Jim Andrew Myskie-
wicz, % rokG starry z Essex.
Noe stravil ma soru S bratrem
svym Stepanem. Zatcen byl v
automobile, v nemz jel bra
trem svym do mesta. May po
leta byl hrobnlkem ma Oak
land hrbitove. Automobilem
zabit byl, kdyz vracel Sc doma
u kostela.
Ma automobile Polaka bylo
pfednf ochranne zabradli po-
skozeno. Toto hned ukazalo,
ze nejaka nehoda automobi-
lem sc stala.
- Zat1m CO policie hledala
vraha Maye pondelf rano,
cernoska zabita byla v auto
mobilove srazce ma rohu Bal
timore a Bond ulic. Truck, ma
nemz jela, byl ukraden kratce
pred srazkou. Cernossky RI.
die trucku, Robert Hawkins
|vylezl trosek tohoto dal Sc
We tine ma 1tek. Utikajici chy-
cen byl policistou ma rohu
Broadway a Spring ulice.
- V dobe te ma Turkey
Point road u Back River Neck
silnice nalezeny byly dve zeny
a vzaty automobilisty do NEST
|ske nemocnice. Jedna z Mich
zranena byla velice tezce. Po-
raneny byly, kdyz AUTOMOBILE,
v nemz jelly, vrazil do stromu.
Til muzi s mimi jedoucf zane
chali zran6ne jejich osudu.
v nehodach nedelnfch zal
znamenano krone techto dva-
nact jinych nehod a zraneni.
Nezjisteny muz zasazen
byl pTi pfechazeni Patterson
Park avenue Baltimore ulice
automobilem Charles Nickel
mus. Zraneny byl Jim zavezen
do nemocnice.
- Wesley Hooper Ravens
wood avenue zalovan jest pro
neopatrnou jizdu, pro neza-
stavenf AUTOMOBILE ma mfste
melody a pro jfzdu ma opacne
strane silnice. Hooper vrazil
automobilem svym do dvou il
nych ma Washington boule-
ward. V prvnf nehode poranil
George Strobecker, jemuz pre-
razeno bylo rameno. Kdyz
couval Hooper cd automobile
jeho, vrazil do druheho, jenz
patril Williamu Greazer. Vse-
chny tri automobily byly slime
poskozeny.
- Josephu Shacks, 62 roxy
staremu, jedoucfmu ma trucku,
rozbita byla lebka, kdyz truck
srazil Sc S automobilem ma
Reisterstown road.
- Asi "a hodinu po srazen1
SVEN automobile ma Hamburg
ulici, 74leta Lena Engles, po-
dlehla zraneni v nemocnici.
Truck, jimz srazena byla, roz-
bill il lebku. Rfdic trucku Sc
vymlouval, re starena vesla
mu do cesty.
- Ctrnact osob usmrceno
bylo automobily v uplynulem
tydnu We statu Maryland. z
tohoto vypada ma mesto Balti-
more sest zabiti. Pocet tento
jest dosud nejvysslm We smut
mem tomto rekordu.
Ma pokutach autOmObiliste
zaplatili v Baltimore $2,057 a
w okres1ch SIS, 100.
Triceti dvema vzata byla Ii
Gems 27 suspendovana ma cas-.
Tricet devet zadatelu O licens
bylo odmrsteno.
Ma Hartford avenue u
Biddle poranen byl pri pre-
chazeni ulice osmilety Buddie
Jones automobilem. Ma Fair
mount avenue tehoz dne pora-
nena byla osm rokn stara Ina
Rosenfeld. Obe ditky vZaty
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-12-13

Hochu pferazenc rameno pTi
hire.
PTi hire footballu prerazeno
bylo ctyTi roxy staremu, Jas.
Ryan, rameno.
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unable to appear in the Senate for
nearly four years thereafter.
At his H street residence, where he
died, March II, 1874, were many por-
traits of celebrated men, engraved by
masters of the art of engraving, to
which he would sometimes call the at
tention of his visitors, and after speak
ing of their artistic merits would pro-
coed to give biographical sketches of
the originals, together with brief his
tories of the times in which they lived,
thus making each picture the text Of a
historical and biographical discourse,
to which it was both pleasant and in
structive to listen.
His love for children Is said to have
been prominent trait of his character,
and few men possessed happier
faculty of inspiring their confidence
and winning their affection. His influ-
ence over them is believed to have been
truly magnetic.
Other residents of the Sumner home
were Walter @. Gresham, Secretary of
State under President Cleveland. whose
remains now lie in Arlington National
Cemetery, and Henry c. Payne, POST
master General in RooSevelt's Cabinet.
Adjoining the Sumner residence to
the west was the home of Senator
Samuel c. Pomeroy of Kansas, another
enthusiastic Republican. Some time
after the Arlington Hotel was built
these two residences were combined
and formed the H street entrance,
though they were not a part Of the
main building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

Of the present Senator Bayard from
Delaware.
Next to the Shubrick-Bay home.
to the west, is a modern one-story
building. Next to this is large double
house, now used for business purposes,
but which was once the home of Judge
Bancroft Davis. The house which for
merly stood on the west side of the
alley, previous to the erecting of the
large Office building here, was the home
of the historian. George Bancroft, who
served as Secretary of the Navy under
President Polk and as Minister to Ger
many from 1867 to 1874. 1t was in the
garden attached to this home that the
American Beauty rose had its birth.
Bancroft, the story goes, was a great
lover of flowers, and particularly OF
roses, which he delighted to cultivate
and experiment with. John Brady was
his gardener, and the historian is said
to have had many fine varieties which
he had secured from France, Germany.
Belgium and England. Among these
was a rose which had been developed
from the La Madame Ferdinande
Jamin, a French flower which had been
transplanted to Germany. 1t did not
thrive in the H street garden, and
Brady took it to his own lighthouses at
915 Twenty-fifth street northwest,
where some success was attained.
Later plants of this variety were sold
to the Fields brothers-George and
Thomas-who then had their lighthouses
where now stands the Interior Depart
ment Building. Gradually cuttings and
plants found their way into the market
and into the hands of expert rose
growers, who developed and perfected
it under glass until it became the beau
tiful rose we see today.
George Fields was for a long time
the White House gardener, and for a
number Of years subsequent to assisting
in developing the American Beauty the
Fields brothers had their greenhouses
and their home at 3507 Georgia avenue
northwest
After the American Beauty rose be-
came almost a national flower. a con-
troversy arose as to whom credit should
be given for its developing. However,
no one has ever questioned the fact
that Mr.. Bancroft brought the original
plant to this country, and that it was
first grown in his H street garden.
And when we consider what this must
mean to the American florists we can
not help but think how unfortunate it
was that such a historic site should
have been destroyed. in addition to the
fact, of course, that it was the home
Of the GREAT historian bancroft
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

President Benjamin Harrison and
Gen Joseph Wheeler made the Airing
ton their home, and when Dom Pedro,
Emperor of Brazil: President DiaZ of
Mexico, King Kalakana of the Hawaiian
Islands. Ii Hung Chang, Chinese states
man: Henry Irving. the actor, Adelina
Patti. the noted diva, and Gen. Bou-
LANCER visited Washington they made
this hotel their headquarters.
The Arlington as originally built was
seven stories high and had frontage
Of 100 feet. 1t was in front OF this
building that the first asphalt pavement
in Washington was laid, in 1870, and
it is said to have worn better and lasted
longer than any pavement laid since.
X X y
WHEN the Arlington Hotel was
w erected it was considered an up
town hotel, and, indeed, judging from
the following description of the neigh
borhood, made by George Alfred Town
send as it appeared in 1865. we might
even be justified in calling it suburban.
Mr.. Townsend in speaking of the aSsas-
sination of President Lincoln and the
attempt made upon the life of his Sec
rotary of State, William H. Seward,
says: 49,,
Vermont avenue was such a sluice of
desolation that in 1865, after stabbing
Mr.. Seward, the assassin. Payne, gal
Hoped half block and disappeared out
this street among the stables, shantieS,
dumping piles and bitches which
pressed close up to Lafayette Square"
Christian Hines dates his recollections
back to a much earlier period when he
tells us that in 1900 there were in this
block two 2-story brick houses. called
the 1.-TWO Sisters" one Of which was
occupied by Capt. Andrews and the
other by a Mr.. Middleton as cabinet
makers shop, where some OF the first
mahogany desks were made for the first
house then to the north was a one
story wooden farmhouse, half mile
away, occupied by Thomas Dove.
Next to the Veterans Bureau on the
H street side of the block, facing La
fayette Park, is a large double man.
sion, built by Matthew st. Clair Clarke,
clerk of the House of Representatives
from 1922 to 1894. Subsequently 1t be-
came the home of Joseph Gales, editor
of the National Intelligencer, and later
of Lord Alexander Barring Ashburton,
when the webster Ashburton treaty was
drafted defining the present Canadian
boundary. This treaty was later signed
in the old State Department, which
stood at the north end of the Treasury
Building, the site OF which was recently
marked with a bronze tablet by the
Kiwanis Club, under the auspices of the
Permanent Committee on Marking
Points of Historic Interest in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The house was also the home of the
British legation while Lord Dalling,
otherwise known as Sir Henry Bulwer-
Lytton, was Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United
States, 1849-1852. There his talented
nephew and secretary, Edward Robert
Bulwar-Lytton, later Lord Lytton,
whose pen name was owen Meredith"
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began his celebrated poem Lucille"
It was during Lord DalIings term of
office that the Bulwar- Clayton treaty
was negotiated between Great Britain
and America, in which j. M. Clayton
represented our own country, and which
pledged the two countries to respect the
neutrality of the proposed ship canal
across Central America.
John HelSon, Attorney General under
President Tyler, resided in this house
in 1843, as did other persons of note.
Later it passed to member Of the
Coleman family.
The walls of this house are veneered
with stucco, painted with remarkably
close resemblance to brownstone, and it
seems to be in a good state of preserva-
ton, though lowering around the GEN.
fury mark in age.
Much has been written about St.
Johns Church. which completes the
buildings in this square.
The block to the west Of the Veterans
Bureau, between Sixteenth street and
Connecticut avenue and facing Lafay-
cite Square, has been entirely changed
in the last few years, and all the his
toric homes here replaced by an apart
ment house and the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building.
Beginning at the corner of Sixteenth
street was the home of John Hay, poet
and historian and one of the private
secretaries to President Lincoln. 1t was
designed by Henry H. Richardson of
Boston, who also designed the house
which formerly stood next to it and
in which lived Henry Adams, historian,
who died but short while back. 1t
was he who erected the famous Saint
Gaudens bronze statue in Rock Creek
Cemetery to the memory Of his wife,
who died in 1855.
The house which also formerly stood
next to the Adams house was probably
first occupied by Thomas Ritchie. PreSi-
dent Folks editor. 1t was later occu-
pied by John Slidell, Senator from
Louisiana, from 1853 to 1861. when he
withdrew to join the Confederacy. His
arrest while on the high seas by his
former neighbor, Commodore John
to France for the Southern States, is
international history. After Slidell
gave up his H street home 1t was taken
over by Gideon Welles, a Connecticut
editor, appointed by Lincoln in 1861 as
Secretary OF the Navy, position which
he continued to fill throughout the adj
ministration of Andrew johnson.
The Slidell home was subsequently
the residence of Daniel S. Lamont, pri-
vate secretary to President Cleveland
during his first administration and
later his Secretary of War. Russell
A. Alger, McKinleyS Secretary of War
during the Spanish American War, also
lived here. Walter A. Wood, inventor
and manufacturer, followed Secretary
Alger as tenant of the home which once
stood upon this site.
X X
THE Webster house, which was later
the home for many years of w. w.
Corcoran, and which stood at the north
east corner of H street and Connecticut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
Famous Hotel Was Home of Diplomats and Other Men
BY JOHN CLAGETT PROCTOR.

~ My few years ago one of the
most sacred homes in this
country was so destroyed and
~ remodeled as to lose its iden-
tity entirely. This was the
old home of Francis Scott Key. in
Georgetown, the strains of whose beau
tiful ode after the lapse of lis years
patriotic fervor and spirit of the Aneri-
can people wherever it Is sung.
Other places. perhaps not so impor-
tant yet very interesting and well worth
preserving, could be mentioned and
pointed out as places which should be
retained for posterity.
Unfortunately what many regard as
progress in the end proves to be a
ruthless destroyer of landmarks and
Just few years ago, right in the heart
of our city, the Arlington Hotel gave
way to a modern office building, built in
1919, now owned by the Federal Gov
eminent and occupied by the Veterans
Bureau. Though the name Of the hos
telry Is retained and the structure is
called the Arlington Building, yet not
q vestige of the hotel building exists,
and only memory of the place and
such records as we can dig up. here ana
there tell us of this once important
tocracy dined and dwelt.
1t was built in 1869 by that eminent
Washingtonian w. w. Corcoran, and
for several years thereafter was known
as the Arlington House, subsequently
being simply called The Arlington"
though popularity referred to as the
Arlington Hotel"
Before the hotel was erected here
the site was occupied by at least three
dwellings, the first one having been the
home of such distinguished Americans
as Reverdy johnson, Senator from
Maryland and Minister to England, and
James Buchanan before he became
President.
This house faced Vermont avenue,
and was near the corner of I street. 1t
had as its close neighbor to the south
the home of William l.. Marcy, who
served as Secretary of War during the
administration of James K. Polk and
later as Secretary of State in the Cabi-
net of President Franklin Pierce.
Lewis Cass lived in the third house
south Of I street. He was man who
had achieved great honor on the battle
Gen. William Henry Harrison, who pro-
NOTED him to be brigadier general for
his past in the decisive victory over the
British ender Co. Proctor and the
Indians ucder Tecumseh. President
jackson macN him Secretary of War
and President Buchanan made him
Secretary of State.
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A T the northwest corner of Vermont
a avenue and H street lived Charles
Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts,
and one of the most ardent and active
anti-slavery members of the United
States Senate. 1t was during the bitter
discussion on the repeal of the Missouri
Sumner was assaulted by Representa-
tive Preston S. Brooks. a nephew of
Senator Butler of South Carolina, to
whom Sumner had referred in his
speech. So severely injured was the
Massachusetts, Senator that he was