Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-11
Ante-Bellum Days in That Section of
District Were Succeeded by Period in
Which Boss Shepherd Turned City
Upside Down-Famous Names Linked
With Ancient Franklin Hotel-Van
Ness and Other Noted Mansions.

to the boundary of the city, shall con-
stitute the third ward.
Fourth ward-All that part of the
center of the canal, east and south of the
eastern boundary of the third ward and
west and north of line drawn north
from the center of the canal through the
center of Third street west till it inter-
Sects the center of D street north, thence
east with the center of D street north till
it interSectS the center of Maryland
avenue, and thence enthusiastically with
the center of that avenue to the boun-
Diary of the city, shall constitute Uls
fourth ward.
Fifth ward-All that part east AID
south of the eastern and southern boun-
dairy of the fourth ward and bounded on
the east and south by line drawn south
from the center of D street north
through the center of Sixth street east
to the center of E street south, thence
west to the center of E street south to
the center of Fourth street east, thence
south with the center of Fourth street
east to the southern boundary of the city,
thence westwardly with the boundary of
the city to the center of South Capitol
street, thence north with the center of
South Capitol street to the center of the
canal, and thence northweStwardly with
the center of the canal to the center of
Third street west, shall constitute the
fifth ward.
Sixth ward-An that part south and
east of the fourth and fifth wards shall
constitute the sixth ward.
Seventh ward-All the rest of the
city shall constitute the seventh ward"
FOR many years prior to and during the
Civil War the first ward was considered by
many as being Washington's best section. In
the early seventies, after BOSS" Shepherd had
turned Washington upside down-to its ever
lasting benefit-many costly residences were
erected to the north of street. and the older
part of this section remained substantially at
a standstill until some 20 years ago, when
it began coming back strong and today it is
being built up rapidly with large apartment
houses and office buildings
Though the writer never lived in this section
of Washington, yet family ties make it very
dear to him, for his mother was born at 1923
Pennsylvania avenue in 1889, his grandmother
at the southwest corner Of Twentieth street
and Pennsylvania avenue in 1911, in the same
house in which her mother died in 1927
When his great-grandfather, John Hines, moved
from Georgetown into the new city, before the
Government moved here from Philadelphia, hi
moved into the old first ward. His son, Chris.
tian Hines, speaks Of this, in 1866, In hi.
early Recollections of Washington City," when
he says:
MY father sold his property in George
town "a large two-story log house and q
frame attached to it, to a Mr.. Kalden-
bach and moved over to Washington In
December, 1899.
1.-The first house we lived in was an
old two-story frame on r street north,
between Twenty-third and Twenty
fourth streets west. This house is stand
ing yet, and Is now owned and occupied
by o colored man named Foster. At that
time Washington might have been truly
called the city of magnificent distances.
Our neighbors were few and far between,