Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03


Smith.
The interment will be made at Harmony
Cemetery. Hundreds of the friends of the
deceased called this morning to view the body,
and there were not few who shed tears. The
funeral exercises will be conducted in the large
parlor opposite the Sumner parlor.'
MR.. ISRAEL also mentions the Dolly Madi-
son house, on the southeast corner Of II
street and Madison place, and the United
States surgeon generals Office, west OF the
Riggs Bank, on the Avenue side, and next TO
this the Freedman's Bank Building, later occu-
pied by the Department of Justice
Regarding the corner where stands the Union
Trust Building-the site of Wormleys Hotel
MIR. Israel says that this corner belonged TO
Samuel Hooper, . Representative in Congress
from Massachusetts,, who also owned the north
west corner After increasing his holdings by
the purchase of the Conkling house, Mr..
Hooper had the entire property remodeled into
a hotel, where he established Mr.. Wormley IN
business. The latter had previously served as
head waiter at Wizards Representative
Hooper died in Washington February IA.
1875, and Is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
In 1891 the west side of this square-the
Madison place side-included the old Rodgers
or Seward, dwelling (where now stands the
Belasco Theater), the Ogle Tayloe house, the
home of Col Robert G. Ingersoll, the residence
of Secretary Of the Treasury William Window.
and at an earlier date the residence Of Dr..
James S. Gunnen, erected in 1891 and where
he was living when he made the city
postmaster This site is now occupied by the
Treasury Annex.
There was, indeed much history connected
with the old Rodgers residence, erected about
1881 by Commodore John Rodgers, for here
lived Roger Brooke fancy when he serv.
ing as Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet
of President Andrew jackson. James X.
Paulding later occupied it while serving as
Secretary of the Navy during the administers
ton of President Van Buren,. Still later 1t
became a club and the sidewalk in front
occurred the Sickes-Key tragedy, just preced-
ing the Civil War. Subsequently it became
the residence of Secretary Seward, and it was
here that his life was attempted on the night
OF the assassination of President Lincoln. In
later years 1t became the home of James G.
Blaine, and here that great statesman died
January 81 1898, at the age of g.
Much has been written of the Ogle Tayloe
house, which stands on the north side Of the
alley that separates the building and grounds
from the theater property 1t was begun by
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, son of John Tayloe, in
1928. He took up his residence there about
1880. In later years it became the home Of
Senator Don Cameron. and afterward Vice
President Hobart resided there, followed .
short while later by Senator Mark Hanna, dur
ing which time it became known as the Little
White House." The building and grounds now
belong to the Cosmos Club and in the rear
the club has its lecture room.
Returning to the Fifteenth street side Of this
square, we also find that Samuel Harrison
Smith, founder of the National Intelligencer,
established his Winter quarters about midway
of this block in 1928. the site being at about
734 Fifteenth street.
THE most famous place on the east side Of
Fifteenth street between New York avenue
and H street John Welker's Hotel. which
then included numbers 72S-727 Fifteenth
street. and here lived, according to Mr.. Israel,
Richard Irving, the credit Mobilier man, and
Samuel Ward, the king Of the lobby, brother
of Julia Ward Howe. and classical scholar"
In his Events Of the National Capital