Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
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of them claiming that had they received q
few hours notice they would have removed and
taken their chances at a stand in the new
sheds; but it is they win neither take stands
in the sheds nor remove their goods, but will
sue the board for damages.
''Mr Plowman this morning submitted the
following report to Mr.. Shepherd. vice president
Of the Board Of Public Works: Having, agree
able to the above orders from the vice president
of the Board Of Public Works, removed the
Northern Liberty Market House. am pushing
to completion as rapidly as possible the market
sheds on Corcoran Square where will have
removed, without expense to the parties, their
benches and other fixtures, and viii be per-
sonally present to locate them in their new
stands from and after this date with as little
delay and inconvenience to themselves and
the public as possible.
THOMAS PLOwNdAN,
Architect in Charge"
IF you were to ask some old washingtonian
the location Of the block once known as
Corcoran Square, he would probably be unable
to give you a correct answer. But to charge
this up against his intelligence would surely
not be right, for after all, SO far as the writer
knows, this was not an official name at all,
being probably merely so called because at one
time it belonged to some one named Corcoran-
and naturally a good guess would be the illus
trious W. w Corcoran, who was large holder
of property in the District of Columbia.
This square was also public property, and
during the Civn War, so we are informed, was
used for Government barracks, The old Gen.
trail High School and other buildings now
occupy this block.
But here the market people were soon in
stalled and were prosperouSly engaged and ad-
justing themselves to their new quarters At
least that is the conclusion one would draw
from the following write-up in The Star Of
September 5, 1872.
The Northern Market-The excitement &C.
caSioned by the demolition of the Northern
Market is fast dying OUT, and today parties
who have been doing business there are not
near so loud in their denunciations of the
Board Of Public Works. The workmen are still
among the debris and the walls viii be level
with the surrounding pavements by sundown
The work on the temporary sheds ON Corcoran
Square Seventh street between o and p
streets) IS being pushed TO completion rapidly
and Mr.. Plowman, assisted by Mr.. Perkins,
expects to have the stands ready for occupancy
tomorrow morning, when the first sales will
take place
Sidney Mcfarland, the clerk Of the North
ern Market, is on the ground at Corcoran
Square today with his Office furniture assigning
stands to those who held stalls in the old build
ing, and IS or 80 stands taken, some of
them by dealers who asserted yesterday that
they would not go near the new sheds Very
few of the butchers have thus far made selec-
tions Of stalls in the new sheds"
a ND again on September The Star says:
THE New Northern Market Corcoran
square occupied by the dealers
Last night the felt roofs Of the sheds
erected IN Corcoran Square as a temporary
market were completed, and also two wide
plank walks to the o street pavement Mr.
G. w. Goodan introduced gas, and by o'clock
all the burners were lighted and the carpenters
were able to resume work. The sheds this
morning were ready for business, and nearly
all the stands In the building which were ready
were taken up at once by dealers The buck
Sters generally occupied both sides of the pave
ment on o street between Sixth and Seventh
while some stands were erected in other places.
Inside the sheds the first three rows are as
signed TO the sale Of butter and eggs and
cakes and candies. Among the dealers in place
on the butter benches today were Oyster, jr;
Driley, Schlegel, Pearson. Eicher, Keller,
Crown, Coburn, Dix, Ruth. WheatIey and
Caldwell The bread, cake and candy men In
place were Seitz. Voneid. Schneider, Kaiser
and Varlander. In this part of the market the
rival tin merchants. Herzog and Rasher are
located, but considerable distance now inter-
venes between their stands and consequently
there will be less Earring between them in
future. The butchers stands came next occu-
plying four or five rows. and among those who
took possession today were Hunt, Hoffman,
Elliott, w. H. Hoover. Click, Grouse weuick,
John Rupert Berry, Stewart, Crown, Bllstaer,
Steubner, MehaIing, Morganthel NJ GartreII,
Botbonlly, Solomon and Ebert. with them
Messrs Stinzing, MiIlers Butner and ySchroth
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