Evening star., 1931-12-27

dent. However, the Chief Executive did not
mince matters, when, under date of December
2, 1871, he wrote Maj L'Enfant in part as fol-
lows:
II have received with sincere concern the
Information from yourself well others
that you have proceeded to demoSh the house
of Mr.. Carroll Of Duddirgton against his con-
sent and without authority from the commits
sioners or any other person. In this you have
laid yourself open 10 the laws, and in a country
where they will haze their course. To their
animadversion will belong the present case
In future 1 must G.lic.ly enjoin you to touch
no mans property without his consent or the
previous orders Of the commissioners. I wished
you to be employed in the arrangements of
the Federal City. I sill wish it, bat only on
condition that you conduct yourself in
subordnation to the au hoIity of the commits
SionerS to whom By Law the business is en-
trusted and who stand between you and the
President of the United States-to the laws
OF the land-an1 to the rights of its citizens"
Daniel Carroll Of Duddipgton was somewhat
justified in objc-;ing to his residence being
torn down, since it WIS begun the year before
and at time prior to the land being taken
for public purposes However. tie matter was
adjusted so far he wcs concerned and
everybody but LLnfGrt seems to have been
happy.
Mr.. Carroll was pub'ic-. pirited man. and
was always doing somcthng OF value for the
city. In 1905 he began building hotel facing
the Capitol and which occupied the site of
the Congressional Library and which later
with additional structures. developed into Car
roll Row, and subsequently became known as
Carroll Prison, from the Contining there of
political prisoners dui ns the Civil War
This hotel building it is said was the center
of three 3-Story structures At first it was
occupied by Pontius D. Steele who remained
there until early in 1902 being succeeded by
Robert Long, who the lessee when the
inaugural ball was held there for President
Madison shortly afterward. Long soon gave it
up and it was vacant for a number of years,
when in 1916 it was leased by N L. Queen
and became known as Queens Hotel 1t con-
tanned SO rooms
In one of the building5 which formed this
row Abraham Lincoln made his home when he
came to Congress in 18t7. and many other men
of note resided in the block
CARROLL SPRING, located in the square
~ between and C. First and Second streets
southeast, bore the name of the original pro-
prietor of this section. 1t must have been a
large stream at time for the map shows
that it once formed a feeder of James Creek
and no doubt in the DAYS before the coming
OF the white man the Indians here imbibed
freely of the nectar that Jupiter sips for
James Mooney in a paper written on Indian
tribes OF the District of Columbia tells us:
While for the most part the village sites
noted on my map are at some distances from
the central part of the city, one small site is
marked just south of the Capitol north of
Garfield Park and between First and Second
streets southeast This was the old Carroll
place, and at the time of my visit in 1889 it
was unoccupied and the streets had recently
been graded. leaving the old mansion with its
surrounding grounds at the old level. The bank
exposure thus resulting on the west side showed
undSputed evidence of an old village site from
which I collected number of specimens Of
flint and pottery"
Apparently there was another spring close
by in the southwest corner of square 1872 be-
tween Third and Fourth streets and North
Carolina avenue and street, for, according to
Boschke'S map another feeder for James Creek
started from this point
Daniel Carroll was liberal and generous and
gave the ground upon which stands St Peters
Roman Catholic Church, and probably con-
tributed also toward its erection for we find
MIN, together with. William Brent, James D.
Barry and Ed Mattngly inviting proposals for
furnishing materials for the structure. When
he died in 18f9 the Daily National Intelligencer
OF May Is said
He made every exertion for the accommo-
dation of the first Congress in Washington by
the erection of numerous buildings He was
indulgent landlord and always generously
favored the wi6ow and other needy tenants,
yielding thousands of dollars rather than dis
tress them for his rents. He was a friend to
the poor and dispensed much private charity
from his own abundant stores; but, alas, the
mutability OF fortune deprived him of late years
of the means of giving to the poor"
TO return to st. Johns Church at Forest Glen
1t was cold afternoon when the writer
happened there, and unfortunately he found
the Rev. c. o. Rosensteel preparing to come
to the city, otherwise he might have increased
his fund of information about the church and
the cemetery. But, after ALL the reverend gen.
tleman was very nice and kind and delayed his
trip few moments while he pointed out the
more interesting spots in the Gods acre-the