Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
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MADE BY SPEAKER
Z Journalist Urges D. C. Voting
Before Association of
Oldest Inhabitants.

the District of Columbia for representa-
ton in Congress for citizens of the
Capital.
Speaking at exercises Of the associa-
ton at Temple Heights, Fred A. Emery,
journalist and a member of the organ
ization and who delivered the principal
address of the day. sketched the found
ing and development of the United
states, prophesied amazing future
growth and predicted:
Perhaps in the lifetime of some OF
us or perhaps between now and the
millennium, we may even see that day
when washington's judges shall be
Washingtonians, and when Wash
ingtonians, like other Americans
everywhere else, may have the right to
be represented in the Congress that
fixes their taxes and appropriates their
money"
Henry L. Bryan, vice president Of the
1.-THE Plea of the District" He declared
that on the Fourth of July when the
American people were con1mennorating
liberty throughout the land, celebrating
the occasion which gave the franchise
to the citizens of the country, 1t was
fitting and appropriate to call their at
tentton of the plight Of the District Of
Columbia. He thereupon read the text
Of an amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution which would bestow the fran
chise upon District residents.
Quartet Sings.
The exercises opened with business
meeting ct II o'clock. The invocation
was pronounced by Rev. Walter Frank
lin Atkinson, pastor Of Lincoln Road
Methodist Episcopal Church. The
Woodlothian Quartet, composed Of
Charles w. Moore, Howard Moore, Ho-
ratio Rench and Granville Leech, sang
several numbers and led in singing
America" ard Aud Lang Syne."
John Clagett Proctor read an original
poem. Luncheon followed.
The entertainment committee in
charge of the occasion included: Wash
1ngtor Tophan. chairman; Henry L.
. Bryan, Fred A.. Emery John Clagett
. Proctor, Percy B. Israel, Benjamin w.
Sunny and J. Eliot Wright.
In his address, Mr.. Emery paid a
tribute to Theodore w. Noyes, president
Of the Oldest Inhabitants Association.
The beauty and monumental develop
nient of present Washington was also
stressed by Mr.. Emery.
He declared this city was not only
''the glory that was Greece and the
grandeur that was Rome, but the mir
acle dream of them all, fulfilled
dream, the republic our forefathers
: founded and its National Capital today"
World Capital
/ He said that Washington, a world
capital, typical Of the glory OF the
{ greatest government on earth, might
. not have been, or at most, mlsnt nave
been bat a provincial capital, but for
( the patriotism and loyalty to liberty
and freedom Ct the people OF those
I earlv DAVIS" He described the trans
! formation of the city from the days OF
Duddington's Pasture, the Widows Mite
: and Jamaica to the city now rapidly
: growing toward the million mark l1
population.
"Our forefathers intended that the
home of the Federal Government should
be q world model" declared MI. Emery.
Independence was signed, Washing
ton was woods, meadows and pastures
Indians once roamed our hills and low
lands and camps and quarries. I am
aEhere We are meeting today. George
bwn had existed for a quarter OF
century when the Declaration Of indie
pendence was adopted So had Alexan.
dria, which for many years was part OF
the District of Columbia. Hamburg, or
Funkstown, on the Potomac front near
Twenty fourth street west, at the ap-
proach to the present Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge, was eight years old.
Carrollsburg, on the north bank OF the
Eastern Branch east of the Arsenal, had
been laid out half dozen years before
that historic Fourth Of July meeting IN
Philadelphia. Ships rode the channel
on our river front and passed up to
Georgetown or to Bladensburg with
ocean freight.
Strange Names Today.
"Washington then was Georgetown
and Hamburg and Carrollsburg. 1t
then, or up to 1892 comprised such
locations as Duddingtons Pasture, Port
Royal, Abby Manol, Bealls Levels, Hop
Yard, sherwood, Mexico, the Mill Tract,
Jamaica, the widows Mite and Mount
Pleasant. Strange names today, most
of them, but even the eminence where
the Capitol stands was then Jenkins
Hill. And when the first census was
taken in 1900 we numbered barely 1920
all told
what Of today and the future? We
have today approximately 0,000 popu-
lation, with probably 100000 by 1e45.
world. British Ambassador Bryce callsd
it the most beautiful city Of all diplo-
matte posts the world over
Besides the great public buildings
that have been reared in the past, we
are now in the midst Of program for
$115,000,000 of additional Federal build
ines, as part of the $3.50, 100000 public
whole, spread over a period OF years
We have Just laid the corner stones
of the S17,500 900 Department of Com
nnerce Building and Of the $10,000,000
building that will house the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
A New Bridge.
"Besides these there will be a new
814,500, 600 Arlington Memorial Bridge
completed before the celebration OF
1882, with approaches on both sides of
the river. and connecting with this
bridge will be a $4,0oo,o00 Mount YER
non boulevard. On the north side Of
Pennsylvania avenue in the coming
years will be development Of the n1u-
lficipal government buildings, for which
Congress already has appropriated $3.-
100000 for purchase Of the land. One
Of the old landmarks that will be torn
down there Is the National Hotel, once
famous as a mecca of the South.
1.-The Capitol grounds will be en-
larged into parkland, with beauti-
full union square at the foot Of the
hill. Across the plaza from the Capt.
toll will rise the Supreme Court Build
ing, to cost $s740,00o besides the ST.
100000 already appropriated for its
site. Where the Ben Butler mansion
stands will rear the additional House
Once Building, to cost 100000 more.
velopments in prospect. Washington
may well be called wonderful city
In the IMAGERY Of a greater capital
upltft.
America In the eighteenth century
created q new government among the
nations of the earth. In the nineteenth
century, 1t bent its brain, its energy,