Evening star., 1932-01-31

D. Skeer and Cecil Moyan, Macon, Ga, and
Anna M. Mosher New York, N Y"
At the same time the occupants Of square
324-immediately to the south of the Post Office
site-Were given as follows: Robert Connell,
William H. Hammersley, Edridge Scott, John
A. Silence, John Hamlin, Bessie Durand, Lula
Burke, Thomas w. McKneW Charles~J. NC
Goblin, Henry Browne, John Simmons, Thomas
Dowling. William Miller, George c. Sucro,
Robert hewitt, Peter DAILY, Edward S. Schmid,
Frank Schmid, Louis Schmid, the Independent
Ice Company. Dennis Crowley, Frank Candoto,
George L. Sheriff, Louis Menikheim, Horace
Ropp, Charles c.. hopper, William P. Nicholson,
George F. Fogle and Andrew Wood"
A r much earlier date we find the following
reference to square 1928:
The square now covered by the Post Office
Building was valued at cents per square
foot in 1912 and lad appreciated to double
that amount in 1920 In 1904 Masonic hall,
valued at $1,000, was erected on lot ID, for
which $75 paid by Federal and Columbia
Lodges. This was used by them and other
lodges till 1926 when the hall at Four-and-a-
half and streets, opposite the City Hall be-
came the headquarters Of the fraternity The
old structure was long after used by the Wash
fngton Library and public schools and coored
Odd Fellows, standing till the land was con-
demned for the Post Office About 1905, besides
Masonic Hall, there were on the square the
properties of George Moore. assessed for s40o;
William Fletcher $500; ]. Anderson, $3.50;
John sessford $3.50; P. Deary, $500, and W.
Fitzgerald sl4O In 1924 the valuations were:
Masonic Lodge, $500; properties of John Sess-
ford $3.50: Thomas Given, 81 600; G.. Moore
5000 J. S. Stewart, $3.50: j. Killer, $4,000; F.
Coyle, 81 800; P. Deary. $4,000: John Sessford
$500 w. Stewart, $3.50: j. Withers, $l.l0O:
Mrs Jackson, colored at Twelfth and c
streets was assessed for the same amount.
Mr. Appler's tavern building was assessed
81 800 On the corner of Eleventh and c streets
Ingle and Lindsay hardware merchants OF
Capitol HILL had branch building valued az
STO0. G. N. Bayy and William Steward hFed
on Eleventh street near the T1ber, and josiah
Simpson resided at Twelfth street oeio~ Y
street.
I'm the 30s there were on c street the
tavern Of Jonathan Appler and the homes OF
Hezekiah Langley, T. H. Hooper and George
Gibbons nearby. The valuation OF the ground.
which in 1902 cents, had increased 10
10 cents per foot III 1920.
The shop Of II. Aulb 6 Co, 1t the canal
and Eleventh street, IN 1920 was assessed Tor
$3.50 and the home of L. H. McPherson 1o
$500"
Mr. Crosgon tells us: The corner Of
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue later
IN the 3o's was owned by william ]. Stone
and here were the buildings Of Jacob Hilbus
organ builder who founded the house OF
HtIb,s g. Hitz now represented by E. F. Droop
d Sons: Theodore Barnard, printer; Edwin
Green, cabinet maker P Emmerich, who con-
Quoted the European Hotel; The Evening Star.
for a number of years and Cooper 81 Latimer,
auctioneerS.'
nACK in 1902, when The Star celebrated its
y fiftieth anniversary it referred to its old
home which stood for so many years at the
southwest corner of Eleventh street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, just to the south OF its
present location, saying:
September go 1854, found The Evening
Star duly installed in another home. this time
in three-story- and attic building of brick
at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Eleventh street, where the present
massive granite structure of the United states
Post Office Department now stands. The build
ing was erected by William J. Stone, an
engraver in the late 2Os. The property was
known as lots IL and II, in square 323, of the
official plats of the city, and was included In
the original grant of the farm of David Burnes
in 1892 by the original proprietor to the COM
mEsioners to lay off the Federal city.
THE building was one of the largest in the
city at the time it was built. Mr.. Stone carried
on the business of engraving. and was engaged
to considerable extent in Government print
ing and furnishing maps in addition to his
private work. This old building which was the
home of The Evening Star until 1881, was
possessed OF much historic interest. 1883, When
Washington was invaded by cholera epidemic
which carried off hundreds, especially from
the laboring classes who employed on the
Washington city canal and In improving
PENNSYLVANIA avenue it was used temporarily
as a hospital Few there living today who
remember that scourge which caused terror
and apprehension among the people of the
young and struggling city. Many patients we're
treated within the walls of the building. The
older employees of The Evening Star recall
vividfy the stories that were told of the cholera
scare in the days that The Evening Star made
its home there.
Stone needed only portion Of the building
for his own business, and before The Evening
Star moved there it had been the hcme of two