Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

tervening woodpile that would have answered
for the funeral pyre Of an Homeric hero. The
picture forms. whitfield into mill privileges and
grOtesque images ascending from the center
backward, like the seats In the Coliseum, left
an arena in the center where youthful genius
commended for victory with foes as deadly as the
wild beasts with which the giadiators fought in
+ the ampitheater at Rome. The children who
were beginning their education sweltered in the
central heat on the floor below. while the big
boys and girls were sInivering in the bleak winds
that whistled through the superintendent venti-
lator in the walls"
THE FIRST school in which Prof Daniel taught
music as already stated. was located in
Judiciary Square This building was provided
for by the City Council On December 6, 1914
and the act in general terms called for the
erection Of a good and substantial schooIhouse
for not less than $50 pupils. on Judiciary
Square. at cost limited to $4,000.
Prof. Daniel then lived in G street, close by
but by 1860 had moved to 1913 Fifth street (now
IT'S Fifth street northwest. which is stir stand
ing and in fairly good condition. He was mar
ried three times. His flrst wife being Ann c.
Tabler; the second Mary Longworth Wheeler
and the third, Emily r. Werden.
OF hts IA children, only are now living,
Mrs. Percy B. Turpin, Frank c. Daniel prirlci-
pal of Mckinley Technical High School: Dr.
Robert A. Daniel of the Navy Department who
so kindly loaned the writer the picture Of
his father and helped him in other ways
and Mrs. Theodore C. Gayer of Danville Va.
One of his daughters, Miss Elizabeth Daniel,
taught music for many years at Mary Bald
win College, Staunton. va. Miss Tacie A.
Daniel, another daughter, taught music at
the Wesleyan Seminary. Macon, Ga, for many
years. His eldest son, william H. Daniel was
composer of music and was director of music
as well at St. Johns Episcopal Church. Six
tenth and H streets northwest, for nearly 20
years. during which period he directed the
music for the funerals OF Mrs. Benjamin Har-
rison and the wife and daughter of Benjamin
F. Tracy, President Harrison,s Secretary of
the Navy. 1t win be recalled that the Secre-
tary's wife and daughter lost their lives in
the Tracy fire on street on February 3, $780,
These funerals were held from the White House.
MI. William H Daniel, while at old st.
Johns also conducted the music at the we'd
ding of Mary Letter to Lord Curzon, and for
the wedding Of Miss Mildred Fuller, daughter
of Melville w. Fuller, Chief Justice Of the
United States to Hugh Campbell Wallace, and
led the choir upon q number of other notable
occasions. He was also for a while in light
opera. being the tenor Of the old Mccall Opera
Co., creating such parts as Capt. Corcoran In
"Pinafore" and the pirate king in the Pirates
Of Penzance."
ERNEST H. DANIEL, to whom the writer is
also indebted for information furnished him
for this story, IS the son Of William H. Daniel
and before becoming one of Washingtons popu-
lar business men was well known In local mJssi-
cal circles, serving for q number of years as
precentor Of the Church of the Covenant and
later as choir director at Epiphany and other
Episcopal churches. He is also interested in
school matters having served as q member
Of the school board from 1911 to 1918, when
he resigned for business reasons. For q while
when serving on the board he was tbs vice presi.
dent. zsasshs
Prof. Joseph III Daniel died on February 4,
1897, in his eighty first year and was buried IN
Glenwood Cemetery. About three weeks before
his death he had been taken III with a cold
that finally developed into pneumonia, and
few days before his death he became ulaeOns
scious.