Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

and there are spots tEat truCn1uly,
do not do credit to the National Capital. How
ever the way the Federal municipal and pri-
vate Improvements are b1i3g MADE, the time is
net SO far distant when Washington, inside and
out. will more than justify the title, Wash
ingGon the Beautiful.
Very few people are familiar with all sec
items of the city. Indeed tl,e wri -er must con-
fess that few GAYS ago he travelled
ground down in the extreme southwest that
he does not recall ever having visited before
He went there particularly for two put poses
one to see the outlay of the Cornthian Yacht
Club-that located at Buzzards Point last
Spring. after the place at the Virginia end Of
the Highway Bridge was taken by the Govern
ment for inc approach to the Mount Vernon
Boulevard, now in course of construction-and
the othsr to see an old Carrollsburg homestead
built about 1900 by Joseph johnson.
OF course, the name Carrollsburg was not
new to the writer nor the fact that there was
such place. but he really did not expect still
to find farm land and trucking land perhaps
within a mile OF the Capitol Building itself
But he did, and he found the old house he
was looking well as the Corinthian
Yacht Club, 4 has selected beautiful spot
just where t old James Greek Canal formerly
emptied intc NE river. The canal itself Is no
longer, hs bsen filed in as far as the eye
could see ar / only part of the old wall was
left TO nd one of the useful but nasty
stream once flowed into the river here and
separ: Greenleafs from R'IZzards Point.
o. 0LLSBURG subdivided into build
- ing lots by CHARLES Carroll jr.. before the
~ OF Washington was laid out, and, like Ham,
z or Funkstown, over toward Foggy Bot
l. never developed as the original owners had
Jected. Carrollsburg, or what was generally
lown by that name, did, however. come into
considerable prominence right after the city
was laid out, when some fine buildings were
erected there but the city did not go this way,
AS some had expected and hoped, and even
today the lower part remains to an extent un-
developed.
This subdivision extended from street south
to the Eastern Branch, and from the James
Greek Canal on the west, TO First street south
east on the east First street southwest ex-
tends almost all the way to the river, and Is
lined with as beautiful bower of elm trees as
one would want to see or could find anywhere
Some of the streets planned for the lower
part Of Carollsburg can be found only on the
map and in some cases just ordinary country
roads, lighted at night apparently with gas
lamps. afforded the traveller to find himself
over what some of the early spectators tried
to make the people believe would once be
Washngtons paradise.
The streets here are not all arranged as they
are north of the Capitol, for there is Half
street east and First street west The blocks,
include from N street south, squares 500 to
613. 652 to 667, and 702 to 708 Block 745
locks as though it might extend into the river.
The plat book shows that all these blocks are
divided irto building lots, which in some parts
one would never suspect, for much OF the place
is covered with growing crops and vegetables
for the market, some of those living there hav-
ing stands along our market font.
The ground at lower Carrollsburg is said to
be wonderfully fertile, but vegetation here was
suffering from the drought. just it has else
where when the writer CHANGED that way. Still,
the people here seemed to be doing just little
better than the other fellow at that.
NTELL the old house the writer was looking
w for was a very short way from the water,
and 1t was in very good condition, considering
its 100 years more or less. 1t was on T street,
lust to the east of Half street west, and its
occupant was a MFR. Day, who very kindly told
lis what little he knew of the place or had
leaned in the 80 years that he had resided
there He said that, except for the removal of
an adjoining building erected at later date
and a slaughterhouse on the premises, the old
house and its surroundings. as far as he knew,
were about as they were in 1900.
He said he was reared in the neighborhood,
and that during the years before slaughtering