Evening star., 1935-06-16

civil engineers, who shall report. &c,
&c. And the said company shall con-
struct such draws as shall correspond
with those now in use on the said
bridge, and Of such model as shall be
determined by the Secretary of the
Interior, and which shall afford rea-
sonable facilities for navigation on
the Potomac River.
The company shall keep that por-
ton of the avenues or streets occu-
pied by their road in good repair and
provided with suitable crossways at
the proper places for vehicles and
wheeled carriages and for general
use: the track of the road shall be
laid as nearly in the center Of the
streets and avenues as may be with
out interfering with the water mains
or gas pipes, and the speed Of travel
shall be subject to such regulations
as the corporate authorities Of the
City of Washington shall from time
to time prescribe, under such penal
ties as the said corporate authorities
shall impose.
THE company may acquire and
hold such real and personal estate
as the practical use and working OF
the said road may require, under such
regulations and subject to such tax
alton as is enforced by law on similar
property located in the City Of WASH
ington."
THE city's church history shows that
l. South Washington"-as the
southwest section Of the city Is fire.
quently called-was one of the first
parts of the Capital to have o church.
the Methodist having as early as
1900 or 1902 held meetings at the
corner of South Capitol and N streets,
in one Of the Twenty Buildings, be-
fore moving to Carroll's tobacco barn.
The First Presbyterian Church had
an early home on the southwest cor
ner of South Capitol and B streets,
where is now the House effice annex.
Barry Chapel" or, correctly speak
ing, st. Mary's Catholic Church, was
on Half street, in the southeast sec
ton. However, all those mentioned
either soon disappeared entirely or in
o few years moved to other parts Of
the city, and from this time on a
number Of years elapsed before the
sunny southwest had q church Of its
own, or until Ryland Chapel of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was
erected, in 1914. Gorsuch M. Z.
Church came next, in 1850; then
came Grace Episcopal, 1851; the Sixth
Presbyterian, 1858; Westminster
Presbyterian, 1883: st. Johns Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran Church,
1858; st. Paul's Reformed German
Church, 1855; st. Dominic's Roman
Catholic Church, 1886: the Fifth Bap-
tist Church, 1857. and others followed.
Some Of these denominations wor-
shipped in private homes before being
regularly organized, as happened to
be the case with Grace Church, the
corner stone Of which was laid In
1851, but it would be considerable Of
q Job to trace each church to its be-
ginning, and at least one at time "a
quite SUFFICIENT.
The present pastor Of Grace
Church, Rev. Meade Bolton Mac
Bryde, with whom the writer re-
Gently visited the old parish church,
Of which he has been rector since
November, 1918, said that as early
as 1870 arrangements were being
made to provide q place of worship
in this section Of the city by members
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Residents Of the neighborhood Of this
faith, he said, then included Col. w.
b. Randolph, William M. Morrison,
Lewis Thomas, v. Willett, Jabez n.
Rocker, @. W. Henning, w. r. Riley.
Col. r. II. Ritter and william Bur
pnairng.