Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

T n near the o Street Market, I'm the 1890
block, the business people included: Efel-
erfck A. Stier, John H. Aue John Oberheim.
H. Gales ONeal, Otto Volland, WillianS DtEeh-
ring William H. Eberly, Ernest WILMER, SolO-
mon Conn, B. Rich B. Son, Max RoginSky jacob
Hirsh. James B. Hollidge Eliza r. Thorpe Mary
F. West Anna B. Holt, Thomas B. Towner
Eliza Duguid, Anna e. Hodges, Hanna Kauf-
man, Hannah Louis Louis Cohn, Walsh Sc
Ryan, John L. wilkins George Tobin, Selma
LuerSSen, John Barry and Charles Baum, per-
haps the same who sold hoopskirtS, corSets and
ladies' furnishings further down the street at
408.
Charles Baum, though out of business for
many years, and perhaps dead, is still recalled
as one OF Washingtons most upright merchants
Anything that came from Charles Baum'S was
all 1t was represented to be- and the writer
feels that many an old-timer will agree with
him in saying that this merchant set an ex-
cellent example for strict honesty.
The school block between o and p streets
where John Saul once had his nurseries, and
where the market later stood, to be followed
by the school buildings, was never used for other
purposes. and little business, aside from the
present market and few modern stores, was
conducted on the west side of the street until
within recent years.
THE old Thyson House, on the northeast corr
ner OF Seventh and P streets, now occu-
pied by the Salvation Army, is one of the land
marks in this section. AS a farmers hotel It
always bore good reputation. In 1873 it was
being operated by Francis Brandner who had
previously been the proprietor Of the Richmond
House, at Eighth and streets northwest The
next year w. Frank Thyson tried his hand at
running the hotel and advertised that the
Seventh Street and Belt Line cars pass the
door"
Mr.. Thyson held on but one year when viii
Ham p. Cole became the proprietor, and con-
tinued such for many years At one time
there was considerable space adjoining this
building, where the farmers would put I'M their
teams for the night OF course, there was the
liquid refreshment counter within, and alto
gether it was very lively place in ye olden
days.
The writer has received a letter from mrs.
Margaret Simonton, who before her marriage
was Miss Joyce. It refers to the old Western
Market, but evidently Mrs. Simonton is think.
ing Of the more recent market rather than the
one the writer referred to as being on PennSyl-
vania avenue between Twentieth and Twenty.
hrst streets since that market was removed be-
fore Mrs Simonton's day. The other reference
printed was quotation from Albion X. Paris
Here follows Mrs. Simontons letter:
'Dear Sir:
Il notice in your article of Sunday, january
IL, that you or an article you quoted have
made slight mistake In the location Of the
old Western Market. It was In the middle of
x street between Nineteenth and Twentieth.
, and was built of corrugated iron passed
through It every morning on my way to school,
and some OF my spelling (still nothing to hraG
Old was acquired from the homemade SIGNS in
this market. One remember announced that
picknick' would take place in the near future
I was one Of the nrst scholars ct the Franklin
Building when it first opened, having watched
ats erection while passing to another school
They we're not so conveniently located in those
days
MY teachers there were Miss Augusta Evans
q have often wondered If she was the popular
fiction writer Of that period), Miss Fanny Hoo.
yer. whose male relatives were butchers, hay-
ing their own abattoir and owning considerable
land In and near Washington. They had stands
in all the markets. Another was MRS. Florence
hewitt, whom you spoke of in an earlier article
I also remember very well Prof. Daniels BIZ
weekly welcome visits, which made such pleas
ant break In the monotony Of school life All
Of these with most OF my contemporaries have
passed to the Great Beyond"