Evening star., 1933-12-10


No 10 was the old home Of Gen. Nicholas L.
Anderson, father of Larz Anderson. Later the
Boardman family, Arthur P. German and Sem
ator Dolf lived here. No. was the home Of
Col Henry r. Rathbone, who was in the box
with President Lincoln when he was assassi-
mated. No. was owned and occupied by
Franklin A. Dick, law partner of Montgomery
Blair.
Peter Parker lived in the corner house, at
Executive avenue and Jackson place; at No.
1851, to the west, is the old home of Francis
Preston Blair and later of his son. Montgom-
cry Blair, Postmaster General in the cabinet
Of President Lincoln. It is now owned and
occupied by Maj. Gist Blair. This building
Is more than century old, having been built
In 1920 by Surg. Gen. Joseph Lowell. It was
here that the command of the Union Army
was offered to Gen. Robert E. Lee. Rear Ad-
mral Lee lived in the adjoining house (1853).
THE big building the northeast corner
of Executive avenue and Seventeenth
street is the old Corcoran Gallery of Art
erected by william w. Corcoran, Washington's
millionaire philanthropist just prior to the
Civil War and taken over by the Government
for military purposes and not opened as an
art gallery, first planned, until 1871 from
which date it was SO used until the new build
: ing few blocks to the south was erected
An older building stands on the opposite, or
northwest, corner of Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. 1t was also used by the
Army during the Civil War and here was the
headquarters of Gen. Mansfield. by whose drec-
tion passes were issued to cross the Long Bridge
and through the Federal lines.
When the territorial government was es-
tablished for this city in 1871, the Offices of the
corporation were moved to this building, and
here the Board of Public Works first met and
organized in May of that year. 1t was at this
meeting that Alexander r. Shepherd later
Governor of Washington was chosen vice presi-
dent Of the board
Farther down Seventeenth street at is the
old headquarters Of Gen. Grant and nearby the
Winder Building, which has been considerably
enlarged since 1t was first erected. The home
OF Mayor Thomas Carbery stood at the corner
of c and Seventeenth streets, and between Con-
stitution avenue and c street was the Van
Ness mansion.
Mayor Carbery was born in st. Marys County,
Md, June 26, 1871, and was the eighth child
of family Of II children. He bought the
Seventeenth street property in 1913 and soon
began the erection there of brick residence
which was probably completed in 181s It was
while living there with his widowed sister Mrs.
Ann Mattingly, that he became mayor of the
city In 1922, and also served as such the fol-
lowing year. He died at his county seat, now
included in the Walter Reed Hospital grounds,
May %, 1863.
THERE are many people today who believe
in modern miracles, and there are equally
as many, or more. who do not give credence to
such matters. But the Carberys did believe in
the occult, for, according to a record made at
the time. Mrs Mattingly> was mysteriously re-
stored to health from a seemingly incurable
disease when the ailment had reached such n
stage that she was bedridden An old newspaper
clipping. before the writer tells of Mrs. Mat
tingly's marvellous cure, which is highly inter-
estlng, even If the reader may still be skeptical
and have his doubts. The story follows
The most noted miracle claimed to have
been performed in the United States occurred
In the city Of Washington on the 10th of March,
1924. Bishop England of Charleston who
ranked very high in the estimation of his breth-
ren, investigated this miracle, published an ac-
count of it, and appended to his narrative the
afhdaVlts of 81 persons, all of whom testified
to the miraculous nature of the event Mrs
Ann Mattingly, widow, aged 34 residing with
her brother, the mayor of Washington had been
afflicted for six years with hard and painful
tumor which four Of the leading physicians of
the city pronounced incurable and for which
they prescribed only palliative applications and
medicines. She suffered all that a woman could
suffer and live until she was reduced to a
skeleton, and lay at deaths door. From long
lying in bed, her shoulders and back were
liberated to such degree that it was torture
to her to have her linen changed Or to move
in bed.
I'm the fifth year of her illness the tidings
began to be spread abroad in America of the
wonderful cures wrought in Europe through the
prayers of a certain Prince Hohenlohe a ven-
Grated priest of the Catholic Church, and some
of the friends Of the afflicted lady besought
her to make known her sufferings to this holy
man, and beg his intercession in her behalf
The pastor of her church, with the consent of
I..I,z~
princely priest and many others did in all parts
of the world, asking his prayers for this lady's
recovery. The priest ascertained, however that
the Prince Hohenlohe had already made known