Evening star., 1935-01-06

streets lived Lewis Cephane, All early Washing
ton family, and next door, going east resided
William Grier, Navy Department official. At
the southeast corner of Thirteenth and l. streets
was the Church of Our Father; still standing
in remodeled form. On the northwest corner Of
Thirteenth and L streets was the grocery store
Of Michael Green as early as 1860.
Edgar Allen Poe, author of the celebrated
poem, THE Raven" once lived, it is said, in a
house which formerly occupied the site at 1908
H street northwest.
At 1915 street northwest lived DR.. Swan
M. Burnett, and it was here in the front. third
story room that his wife, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy" about
1882. It was her home from 1878 to 1885.
OF course, none of us will fail to recall that
Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymn of
the Republic" at the old Willard Hotel, and
that Harriet Beecher Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin" was first published in this city In the
columns of the National Era during the years
185l-52 The Office Of this paper then stood at
about what would be 427 Seventh street, OPP
poste Odd Fellows Hall.
\A/ALT WHITMAN was resident of WASH
w ington for nearly 10 years. His name
first appears In the city directory of 1864 where
he Is given as walter Whitman, reporter" and
his residence as 1874 L street northwest which,
according to the present numbering, would be
1407 L street northwest In 1867 his
address is given as 364 Thirteenth street,
which was probably between street and
Massachusetts, avenue. In 1868 he becomes
walt" Whitman and was a clerk in the At
torney Generals Office house address not
given. He was similarly employed in 1869 and
resided at 472 M street northwest. The fol-
lowing year, through a change in the system
of numbering his address on M street became
1905, and his occupation had not changed. In
1871 we find him clerking for the Depart
ment Of Justice; home address not given In
1872, same. In 1873 he became clerk in the
Office Of the solicitor for the Treasury, and
still no home address mentioned. Apparently
he quit the Federal service about this time.
for subsequent city directories do not carry
his name.
II Mr.. Whitman ever lived on street
northwest, as has been said, it must have
been during the years 1871, 1872 and 1873,
when no address is given In the directory.
OF course, it Is always best not to be cocksure
of anything without positive proof but 1t SO
happens that In the writer's youth he lived at
the corner of Florida avenue and w street
near Ninth street,, and for while attended
school in the lower grades at the corner Of
Fourteenth and @ streets. This would have
been about 1875 and at this date there were
few houses between his home and the school,
which could be reached almost on direct
line and he does not recall the house on v
street in which Walt Whitman is said to have
once lived.
IN ONE of Mr.. Whitmans articles in his
Specimen Days he tells us of seeing
President Lincoln pass near his home, almost
nearly every day during the hot season. He
then lived L street, at 1907 and his in
teresting account, written at that time states:
Il see the President almost every day, as
happen to live where he passes to from
his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps
at the White House during tn, hot season,
but has quarters at a healthy location some
3 miles north of the city, the Soldiers Home.
a United States military establishment
II saw him this morning about $3.50 coming
in to business riding on Vermont avenue, near
L street He always has company of 25 or 80
Cavalry, with sabres drawn and held upright
their shoulders. They say this guard
was against his personal wish, but he let his