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(D Home of Columbia University (now George Wash.
ngton Unversity) erected 1884 the southeast
of and Fifteenth streets. Note old house right and
ground to left. (2) New York and Fif.
eenth street in 1885, 3 New York Avenue Hotel after.
ward the Clarendon and still later the Hotel Oxford Site
of the Union Academy, Fourteenth street and New York
avenue, erected 1851 N Grocery store of c. c. Bryan
1413 New York avenue in 1885. (5) Y. NJ. c. A. Build.
ing 1SS3.lS95 Formerly at 1409.14l1 New York avenue
erected by the Washington Club in 1872 Later Cham.
berlns Club and Restaurant 6 Business house of John
H. Magruder, l4l7 New York avenue, in 1884.
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June %, 1852. and here it continued
to remain until the building was Sc
verely damaged by fire on July "a,
1895.
Many of us feel we know great
deal about this wonderful organiza-
ton, its purposes and its aims, the
good work it has done and is still do
ing, but recently the writer. in glanc-
ing over the Washington city direc-
Evening star., 1935-11-17

tory Of 1853. came across a brief state
ment Of just what it stood for 81 years
ago, and what every good citizen
knows it has lived up to ever since.
The following is the statement pub
lished:
THE Washington City Young Mems
Christian Association Is a union Of the
young men of all the evangelical
churches Of the city, for the moral,
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that he recently ran down In the early
city directories. particularly regarding
the ofncers, Of which Alexander II.
Lawrence was the first president, and
then came zalmon Richards, the
pedagogue, whose address at that
time was given as Fourteenth street
and New York avenue" where stood
the Union Academy, Of which he was
principal.
Mr.. Richards was still! president In
1855, when the vice presidents in
cluded william Ballantyne, william
@. Force, Peter Keller. Samuel H.
Latimer and Charles W. Schreiner.
William J. Rhees was elected presi-
dent December /, 1856, and was still
serving in this ONCE in 1883. r. T.
Morsell was serving as president in
1850: Mitchell H. Miller. 1862: Henry
Beard, 1858; William Ballantyne, 1854;
William A. Thompson, 1865: A. K.
Brown. 1857, and Gen. o. o. Howard.
1869. o. c. Wight. r. J. Magru-
der, j. II. Bradley. jr.; Frederick D.
Stuart, B. H. Steinmetz. Francis II.
Smith, william stickney. Edward NJ
Gallaudet and Thomas p. Morgan
were also, most likely, presidents prior
to 1881. From 1881 20 1900 John G.
Ames, Brainard H. Warner, Charles
Lyman, John w. Foster, John G.
Ames. william B. Gurley. L. Cabell
williamson, Charles z. Foster and S.
Walter woodward served as presidents.
One early inhabitant, in his remi-
niscences, records when, in 1920, the
only building In this fiatiron square
stood where Is now the woodward
Building, and where formerly was
Columbian College, now George Wash
ington University, and says that all
the rest Of the block was vacant
ground.
Coming down to more recent date,
we ind living on the north side Of
New York avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. DR.. George N.
Acker, who had his ONCE and resi-
dence at No. 1908, back In 1880. c. G.
Bryan, who sold wines, brandies and
cordials besides groceries. was for
many years at 14l3, while Jacob Fus-
sells was at 1877; and James B. Lam
bie's hardware store Is the only old
business house still remaining on this
side Of the avenue, II we exclude the
National Savings & Trust, at the
corner to the west.
Across the way. at the southwest
corner Of New York avenue and -Four
teenth street, was for some time
around 1885, Frank J. Tibbet's Palace
Market, where he sold philadelphia
Evening star., 1935-11-17

District of Columbia, 1871-73: Sena-
tor Zach Chandler. Francis P.
Blair, jr.; S. H. Kaufman, w. F.
Mattingly. John G. Moore, New York;
j. L. Marvin, D. w. c. Wheeler, New
York; John Hitz. Lewis Janin, New
Orleans; S. w. Johnston, John L. Kid
well, Col. Enoch Totten, Gen. o. E.
Babcock, D. L. Bartlett and Robert
Garrett, Baltimore; John I. Davenport.
New York; Hester Clymer, Charles v.
Farwell, S. B. Elkins. Thomas Fitch,
George C. Gorham, Senator John P
Jones, S. c. Lylord, United States
Army; Senator Alexander Mcdonald,
Gen. William Myer, Gen. A. j. Myers,
Senator j. w. Nye, Gen. R. B. Marcy,
Senator B. F. Rice, Judge Thomas
Sunderland, Gen. w. H. H. Terrell,
John M. Van Buskirk, Col. W. D.
Whipple, James r. Young, William C.
McMichael, T. j. Hoyt, New York;
j. j. McElhone, Crosby S. Noyes, Ma
thaniel Wilson, S. P. Brown, c. j.
Hillyer and Lewis Clephane.
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IN 1880, after the Washington Clul

IN 1880, after the Washington Club
= had vacated its New York avenue
home, John F. Chamberlain opened
up a club house and restaurant on
the premises, which became very
popular place of its kind, being few
years later removed to 825 Fifteenth
street, where it gained even more pop
ularity. In September, 1852, title to
the building was vested IN the Young
Mems Christian Association. the local
branch being founded in this city on
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The picture Of the uniform
worn by the Washington Light
Infantry and printed on this
page In last Sundays Star a. a
1898 should have read 1899.
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Oxford Hotel, Located for Years in
Square Bounded by New York Ave-
nue., 18th and 18th Streets, Where
Union Academy Was Conducted
by First School Superintendent.
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CONTINUED on Twelfth Page0
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
ACHIEVE QUOTA

The sheaves we're we'll bound, the
dropped grains we're cleaned from
the field; in harvest they did not
waste an hour but put off their rest
days to finish it quickly and avoid
loss through a change in the
weather. Those who did not want
to rise earlier and sleep later were
shamed into better ways by the ex-
ample of the majority. Our col
lective involved them all"
This kolkhoz finished its harvest
by Oct T. made its grain deliveries
and paid its debts before the time
set, and then sent % of its best
workers to assist two other collec-
tives that had not done as well.
81 am 81 years old, but I have
lived seventeen years under the So
Wet Power and feel that this makes
me seventeen years younger" she
declared, and ended by calling for
cheers for "our dear comrades
Lenin and Stain, for the Soviet
Union and for Voroshilov, leader of
our splendid Red Army"
zakhevheva is anothe-' typical
Soviet congress delegate. There
are many more, and especially there
are nearly thousand workers from
the factories, mills, railroads. mines
and other working places - I will
describe some Of them in another
| article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

the Volga. He told us of the great
interest among these Germans (de-
scendants of colonists who came
here many years ago. in the con-
gresS. He had received letters from
farmers who told him they heard
all the speeches and reports over
the radio as we'll as you did, and
we feel that we are participating in
the congress too"
The change in the constitution of
the U. S. S. r. proposed by the
Communist Party will be welcomed
by the German speaking citizens of
the Soviet Union, Chapayev thinks.
He told how the Germans had reso-
lutely repulsed every attempt
of Nazi agents to stir up dis
satisfaction among them, to in
troduce racial chauvinist theories,
to prevent the children from study
ing the Russian language and SOW
dissension between Germans and
Russians. Nazis went so far as to
send sums Of money to the best
udarniks Of the volga Republic.
evidently hoping either to bride
them, or failing that, to cast sus-
picion upon them in the minds of
other Soviet citizens.
All these tricks have failed-the
German Republic is today as solidly
behind the Soviet Government and
the Communist Party as ever before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
FAITH IN LEADERSHIP

zakhaccheva began her remarks
by bringing greetings to Our Lenin-
ist Congress" from all the collec-
tive farmers of her vicinity. She
went on to develop this theme, say
ing that all see that the congress
and the country is firmly following
the path marked out by Lenin and
Stain, and that through this they
have gained great victories and will
gain more. She touched on the
threats of the class enemy and
brought to the congress the pledge
of all who elected her that they
will rush to the defense of the coun-
try, which does not want bloody
war but may have to fight one if
attacked I'VE grown men and
women, she said. will say like the
Pioneers, Always Ready!'"
She told how in her vicinity the
assassination of Kirov, which the
class enemy thought would bring
CONSERVATION. brought only sorrow,
and hatred for the countrys foes,
but no weakness.
I'VE heard with Joy the words of
the wise Stain. To make all the
kolkhozes Bolshevik. and all the
kolkhozniks well to do and in an
swer we carried out our sowing and
harvesting in udarnik way"
She described how, as woman
and as an elected inspector of
quality. she won the women also tc
| full activity in the common work Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
PROBLEM OF GERMANS

Somebody else came up and in
troduced him all around: Arkady
Chapsiev, son of THE Chapaiev
the most famous guerilla fighter OF
the Civil War, towards the end of
his life one of the most famous
corps commanders who took part in
the smashing of Kolchak's White
Army.
Arkady Chapaiev is a delegate to
the All-Union Congress of Soviets.
He talked readily enough. He is
friendly to the friends of the Work
ers' State. He has the same nervous
energetic gestures that the actor
who impsrsonated his father in the
Chapayey, son of the Chapayev,
He began Immediately with what
was most on his mind, the appear
ance at the congress in the near fu-
turs of delegation of workers and
collccav' 7-Tc~5 from The C-r--a7n
speaking autonomous republic on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Atlanta Workers
Ask Protest
Ry . Worker CORRESPONDENT


ATLANTA, Gave here at the
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills have
been locked out ever since the
General Textile last September.
We have fought back in spite of
the sellout of German and the ter
rible conditions forced on us by
the owners.
We are in a fight to the finish,
but we need the support of the
Communists everywhere. Because
if we lose then, all is lost. Dozens
of families defled the boss and the
law and are living in company
houses for which they are unable
to pay the rent.
They began throwing us out with
disposses warrants but We managed
to get a bill Of injunction which
stopped the bosses from kicking us
out of our homes.
But we must beseech the COM
rades to rush to our rescue. We
are rot asking you for money, we
ask you comrades to sit right down
and write a letter of protest to the
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, At
lanta, Ga. Demand that they give
us our jobs back, drive the scabs
out. and not charge us for back
rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
BY VERN SMITH

study of his fathers campaigns,
which he now discusses 'in a mill
tary manner" He made certain
corrections in the book, but said
the film, as far as he knew or could
find out. was true in spirit" and
quite accurate in fact.
After his father was killed. there
was period of famine and to some
extent of disorganization in the
Volga regions. Chapayev's wife, this
boys mother died, he, another
brother and his sister lived in a
village with grandparents. mo one
knew who we were" he said, and
only when the children grew up
did Frunze. Chapaiev's old com
mander in the Civil War, find them
and persuade them to move to the
city, where the children went to
school, Such things could not
happen now, of course, when the
Soviet land has become a country
Of telephones, newspapers, radio
and with schools everywhere, coun-
try as we'll as city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

Mayor, NRA, Union Officials
Join to QuelI Lowell Strike

no discrimination, and that they
were to go to work at p. m.
The leaders came out and said
the same thing, urging the workers
to accept and saying the Laganas
Shop had also consented to start
negotiations with the union. Then
the representative from Washing
ton came and told them that he
had the power to have the shoe
code reopened, that till then his
sympathy had been with the work
ers, and that to prove that they
were law abiding they should go
back to work, so that when he goes
back to Washington he will have
clean hands.
The workers, believing what they
heard, agreed with very little OPP
position to go to work Thursday,
Friday and Saturday They over
looked entirely the fact that in their
contract with the manufacturers it
is stated that under no condition
were they to work on holidays or
SATURDAYS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Care Is Refused
To SickVeteran
By a Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO, I'LL am a veteran
who enlisted in 1917. At the front
in France I contracted influenza
while in the NJ D., administering
aid in the great epidemic.
I have never been in fair health
since and was a patient at the Ed
ward Hines Hospital in Hines, Ill
A week ago, I had another attack
of Illness. AS I was in great pain,
my wife telephoned our veterans
hospital and they told her rudely
to wait another day or to call the
patrol wagon at the police depart
ment which would take me to the
Cook County Hospital.
knowing through the experience
of others who have been stalled off
and neglected by the Illinois
Emergency Relief. was assisted to
the elevator line for a painful jour-
ney to the Hines Hospital in Hines,
Ill.
When I applied for admittance, I
was asked why I didn't go to the
County Hospital
I answered that the county hos
pital was oyercrowded to the ex-
tent that even the Railways are
filled with patients and I felt that
I had the perfect right to choose
our" Veteran Hospital.
was refused admittance, and
instead they took me down and
gave me a superficial examination
Soon three big guards came and
led me away. AS they did SO, !
cried so that every one could hear,
80, it's the dungeon instead of
disqualification that my government
offers me! Was it for this that
men like me volunteered to fight
to set men free?"
"Our country is beautiful and
wonderful one, but it is in the
hands of the enemy" I concluded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
By a Shoe WOzer Correspondent

by ShOe WOker correspondent
LOWELL, Mass. - Last Monday
night the shoe workers in this city
decided by unanimous vote to de-
clare a holiday until the strike at
the Lagsnas Shoe shop is settled
They elected a committee of five
to take care of the strike situation.
They almost had clashes with the
police. This worried the mayor and
the manufacturers and they started a
campaign through the press to scare
the workers into believing that the
shops were going to operate on an
open shop basis, etc.
Finally, Captain Donovan from
the boot and shoe code was called
and between him and the mayor,
the union officials and the manu-
facturers had a meeting on Feb, 81.
While the shoe workers were massed
at a hall waiting for the outcome,
about IL a. m, his honor and Cap
tain Conovsn came over and told
the workers that the manufacturers
agreed to take back their help with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Lodi Ward Heelers Attack
Militant Dye Shop Chairman

the Daily Worker, who never at
tend meetings sober minded, who
act like fascist dictators.
The last meeting showed the
workers how some executive mem
bers railroaded through the ap-
pointing system for delegates to the
dyers convention, without putting
it clearly to the membership for
ratification.
The Lodi workers are slowly be-
ginning to understand who is fight
ing in their interests and are back
ing up their rank and file leaders.
The workers in Lodi are looking
forward to the coming Borough
Election to put their own worker
candidates ~ the field on labor
platform, instead of following the
capitalist parties. The members of
Lodi Local 1883 should endorse such
a Labor ticket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Steel Workers
Buy Daily
BY a Worker Correspondent

~ - NFNAANA correspondent
McKEESPORT, Pa.-The city Of
ficials haven't bothered us any since
we have started selling the Daily
Worker on the streets here.
The steel workers are a bit shy
on account of their jobs, but many
of them buy the papers. While SELL
ing the paper, some steel WORKER
saw the headline about the New
York elevator strike and said.
There are strikes everywhere, but
none here"
The Unemployment Council is
having lot Of trouble with the
welfare people here. They go around
and tell the workers that if they
quit the Unemployment Council
they will get more relief and back
clothes orders. They tell them that
it is a shame and disgrace to be-
long to the Unemployment Council
This week in Pittsburgh there
is going to be hearing on all relief
officials. 1t will take place in the
Court House. They have caught ur
on their graft. They were getting
checks for people that were not or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Shoe Worker Urges Vigilance
I'm Coming Union Elections

shoe workers is nevertheless at
tempting TO perpetuate its rule.
Rumors are spread that Bieden-
kapp will be taken off the ballot by
the Resident Board. The shoe
workers must be on their guard
against such moves.
The shoe workers who are in
terested in honest and sincere cleo
tions should take precautions
against repetltions of last years
juggling with the election ballots.
Every local should elect an cleo
ton and objection committee to
look the ballots over before they
are sent to the locals and super
wise the elections and not to give
anybody a chance to frame up can
didates. Shoe workers be on guard !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
By a Dye Worker Correspondent

LODI, N. 1.-THE same mislead-
ing Democratic ward heelers who
during the strike tried to drive the
Daily Worker Red Builders out of
Lodi, who opposed the admission of
5. Saller into Local 1888, are now
circulating petitions in Mill A to
have the militant and honest chair
man, Leo Courier, ousted.
This Leo Courtier was criticized
by a worker in the Daily Worker
some time ago, but now this worker
admits that he was wrong and that
Courtier is fighting for the workers.
The members of the local at the
last local meeting showed that they
were behind Courtier and not be-
hind such misleaders as Sail Lii
oascio, self-appointed chairman of
the Executive Board and Dominic
Paladino, who are bitter enemies of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
Joint Council Acts to Tie
Hands of Boston Stitchers

meeting used an old worn-out trick
and closed the meeting when 1t got
too hot for him, 1t was then that
P. salvaggio, chairman Of the Joint
Council, took over the chair, not for
the sake Of bringing harmony
among the workers, but in order to
complete the job.
The Executive Board, some real
honest rank and file elements among
them misled by the Kessners and
Rosens, pulled a cheap trick and
also resigned, thus playing into the
hands of the manufacturers.
The stage was all set and pre-
arranged for the attack. The Gen
eral Executive Board was there in
the person of the General Sec
rotary Treasurer Wilson and Rose
(CutthrosD Gautreau. The whole
Joint Council was there. There were
workers there from other depart
ments who had been urged to come
because it was going ITO be better
than circus"
A motion was passed by vote
Of 173 to 100 that the Joint Council
reorganize the local. This vote was
gotten through miscount and the
voting Of many outsiders.
The workers are thoroughly dis
gusted with these corrupt Boot and
Shoe tactics, and many rank and
filers who were passive till then
are now beginning to understand
the warning of the militant leader
ship and are determined to fight
against such brazen tactics.
Rank and file, demand that a
special meeting be called at which
nominations will be made for local
officials.
All shoe workers in the United"
must see in this attack on the
sitcherS' local an attempt to
smash the rights of every local and
a mighty protest must arise through
resolutions and other means to help
the stitchers fight back these Boot
and Shoe tactics and maintain their
local as before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27

Of the universities, run by the
Peoples Commissariat of Light In
dustry.
The bell rang, announcing the
opening of the next session of the
congress, and we went back into
the big white hall where over 1000
delegates were sitting listening to
Professor Droshkin of the Academy
of Sciences, an agronomist. Now
this Droshkin was once himself the
poorest, most overworked and I'M
deTpaid Gin the old regime) type
of agricultural laborer. He was a
sheep herder. Now, in a voice of a
man who knows he is an authority
on the subject, he was very ener-
getically campaigning for better
live stock breeding in White Russia,
that area over near the Polish and
Baltic border. He was outlining a
whole plan for replanting the
swamps and meadows of the White
Russian Republic with better fodder
grass in the place of the wild grasses
now growing there; he was giving
the names of collective farms that
by proper management, without
additional funds from the state
were raising two or three times as
many cattle as their neighbors, he
was proving that the potato is one
of the best hog foods, and that SO
and so many hectares of land in
White Russia now unused could
grow potatoes and raise pigs.
Professor DoroShkin is also one
type of delegate to this congress.
The very next person to speak was
woman named zakacheva, g.
years old, an active member of the
Kolkhoz First of May" in the
Saratov reZion. not far from the
Volga Cams and the home OF
! ChapaieY. zakacheya is inspector
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-27
By Shoe Worker Correspondent

By a Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. 49, The stitchers'
local in Boston is known through
out the union for the militant fight
it has put up against any form of
wage cut. 1t is the only local that
has unanimously rejected the State
Board of Arbitration and its wage
cut decision Only a short while
ago it was the first local to reject
the proposal of the Joint Council
for a 10 per cent cut. This had a
mighty influence on the rank and
file of the other locals which was
expressed in the referendum vote Of
800 to 300 against the cut.
The season is drawing to and end
and the manufacturers are demand
ing their pound of flesh" the wage
cut that was promised them all
along by the Joint Council and the
Resident Board. In order to open
the road for this wage cut they
we're determined to start their at
tack against this militant local.
A week ago Wednesday a regular
meeting was called which was sup
posed to take up the resignation
of the business agent. The bust
ness agent ran in the last election
on left wing slate and actually
tried to carry out the program in
fighting for better prices for the
stitchers. But the pressure of the
reactionary clique in the Joint
Council and the Resident Board was
too much for him and he gradually
began to accept the prices handed
down by the State Board.
He therefor came to the meeting
with a speech all written out for
him in which he blamed the Com
muniSts for the fact that the
workers threaten with stoppages
against the low prices and he
therefore demanded to be given full
I power to settle prices. He knew
that this the membership woulc
never accept and he therefore de.
msnded that the G, E. B, reorgan-
ize the local.
The Socialist chairman of the