Evening star., 1936-02-16

Is still conducted at 1926 @ street.
The firms books contain entries Of
goods sold to the great Of every gen.
GRAFTON since the founding Of the busi-
ness and are regular storehouses of
historical Information In themselves.
Miss Katharine Dcugal, 5000 p
street, Is also q descendant Of the
Revolutionary patriot. She recently
presented to the Peabody memorial
room Of the Georgetown branch of
the Public Library little trunk to
hold writing materials made by John
Lutz for his little grandson, Morris
Adler.
daughters. Miss Mary Katharine Lutz
and Edith Virginia Lutz, who is Mrs.
Robert Stanley Mathews, and the
mother Of Bobby. Five sisters share
with John A. Lutz their Just pride
in their patriotic forbear. They are
the Misses Clara and Gertrude Lutz,
Mrs. william F. Lemon, Mrs. Bruce
e. Clark and Mrs. r. w. Boiling.
Has Rare Collection.
John A. Lutz's collection of WASH
ingtoniana is interesting. In the front
hall Of his home on either side Of q
beautiful and rare mahogany top-tilt
table with q Tyre base are two fine
lithographic copies Of Gilbert Stuart's
portraits Of Martha and George Wash.
ington. When he was q child they
hung IN Mr.. Lutz's bed room.
Covering the entire wall space over
the mantel is beautiful and valuable
representation in color of the paint
ing Of Washington With His Gen.
erals" It has that black enamel
mat upon glass next to the picture
which is SO rare and so lovely. AS
much priced by collectors as the pic.
ture itself is the key which Mr.. Lutz
ran down many years later. Each
person represented in the picture is
supposed to be true portrait. It was
fascinating to locate the young Ha,nil-
ton, in cape thrown over his uni
form, acting as his generals secretary,
with his arm stretched toward a paper
that his chief might require. Gen.
Won Steuben is shown as q most
handsome blond, stalwart and curly
haired. Interesting, too, are the de-
pictions of Nathaniel Greene OF
Thomas and Charles Pinckney and
Of a score more.
IAN old Currier and Ives print In a
walnut frame with the gold inset next
to the picture shows the Surrender
of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga, N. Y,
October II, 1777."
The collection Of family Bibles in
Mr.. Lutz's possession is an unusual
one, dating back to one owned by
John Lutz, II, son of the Revolution
ary soldier. On the fly leaf, in his
handwriting, we Judge, because 1t
exactly corresponds with that on the
copy of the Metropolitan and George
town Commercial Gazettes. Is this
caption, Holy Bible, Mr.. John Lutz,
George Town" The Bible is most
interesting in itself. Leather bound,
it was Printed for Mathew Carey,
Market street, Philadelphia, October
81, 1902" and is 'No. 118" of series.
Fine old steel engravings illustrate
the text and after the Apochrypha
comes a list of the subscribers to 1t.
some 2,814 in all. Two supplementary
lists are also appended. If the first
subscribers did not take up their
rights, we judge the next lists had
their turn alphabetically. In a box
shaped inclosure is this citation: "This
book was purchased Ammo Domnini
1903 by John Lutz of BENZ. Ogle."
Son Born I'm IT'S.
Among the entries is this one:
"Jno Lutz, born in IT'S, Montgomery
County, Md, in month of June"
This was John Lutz, the son Of
Revolutionary John Lutz The founder
Of that famous business house which
bore his name, he was also one of
the original trustees of the Foundry
Church in its original location at
Fourteenth and G streets. across the
street from where the Hamilton Bank
stands.
Another interesting Bible is a hand
somely bound one in red Morocco
leather which belonged to Francis As
bury Lutz, I'd, son Of Francis Asbury
Lutz, an original trustee of the Met
ropolitan Church at Four and a Half
and C streets. Long lost, we found
among its pages a certificate of Mr..
Lutz's graduation from Sunday school