Evening star., 1938-01-09

street, had large garden with some
fine old trees growing in it, especially
q beautiful oak, which was bought by
Samuel Kirby when the place was sold
and made into furniture. Mr.. Taylor
was regarded as an unusual character
by those who knew him.
"An exceedingly charitable man."
We are told, "he hated to have his
good deeds known and was deeply Of
Tended If thanked for his liberality.
1t Is related of him that he had given
very literally to the church he at
tended. Some one, not understanding
his popularity, got up IN church and
publicly thanked him. He never could
be induced to enter the church again,
nor did he again contribute to its sup
port.
He began sending turkey every
Christmas to the Washington Orphan
Asylum on H street between Ninth
and Tenth, next to the Van Ness Maui
soleum. AS the number of children
increased, so did the number of tur-
keys, until at last a barrel full was
needed to supply the demand. Year
after year the barrel was sent Christ
mas eve. One year no barrel came.
At the very last minute the matron and
manager had to hustle around to get
up Christmas dinner for the children.
When asked why he had not sent
the turkeys as usual, he said that
women never could keep a secret that
some OF the women, with their long
tongues, had told all about the gift OF
the turkeys, and he didn't mean to
send any more. In this case he was a
little unjust to the women, the secret
having leaked out through the market
men. A barrel Of turkeys is a good
deal for private individual to buy
and would be apt to cause comment,
but I never heard that he sent any
more turkeys at Christmas"
A FTER the removal of the Taylor
house, the Lincoln Hall was built
on the site, and when this building was
destroyed by fire the Academy of
Music replaced it and is there today,
though maybe under different name.
Many years ago the Spencerian
Business College occupied quarters in
the Lincoln Music Hall, and quite a
number of Washingtonians recall with
pleasure attending this college, which
had a very fine reputation. This
building was also at one time the
headquarters of the Grand Army Of
the Republic and the first home Of the
Lincoln National Bank.
On the northeast corner of D and
! Ninth streets was, at an early date,
the home of Thomas Donohoe, who
was connected with the National In
telligencer. At later date here was
for a number of years the cigar store
Of Joseph w. Reed, who was related
to the Reed family lost in the Wa.
waset steamboat disaster. On the op-
posite corner, to the south, still stands
Pearsons Printing Office, established
over century ago. and here MET the
Grand Lodge of Masons and some of
the subordinate lodges prior to the
building Of the temple at Ninth and F
streets.
D street between Ninth and Tenth
streets was in its day quite a place
for the publishing Of newspapers. and
here were, in 1884, at No. Oil, the
Gazette. and on the northeast corner
Of Tenth street, the headquarters Of
the National Republican and the
Washington Post.
HERE on this corner, at an earlier
period, was once the home and
garden of Peter Force, one of the
Mayors of Washington. His garden
extended nearly as far east on D
street as Frank Wards Aiderney
Dairy Building, which is the tallest
building in the block. Regarding this
beautiful garden an early writer has
said:
1T contained some stately old
trees, beds of wild Strawberries grew
at their roots. The garden was inter-
sected by gravel walks, bordered with
box. Tall white lilacs nodded their
graceful heads and threw out sweet
perfume. Great beds of gay tiger
lilies famed in the sun. The spicy
Glove pink, the moss rose, marigolds,
great beds of lilies of the valley, with
their tiny bells and sweet perfume;
lilacs, larkspur. lady's slipper and
four o'clocks all grew in this dear
old-fashioned garden
The Frank Ward Dairy Building
at 929 and 93l D street looks about
the same today as when it was built
in 1884. Mr.. Ward, whose business
enterprise made the erecting of this
hI1i1Hinp rnccih1o in, hic ~, y,,o
hood served as a private in the Signal
Service, and when he left the Army
he engaged in the milk business. Hav-
ing only limited amount of capital,
he at first drove his own milk wagon
and made his own deliveries about the
city. Then he conceived the idea Of
dairy lunchroonl and under his
shrewd management the idea proved
to be good one and he thus became
the originator of a line of business
that rapidly grew into large propor-
tions.
Soon he had several lunch rooms
In the heart OF the city. as we'll as
a large number of wagons peddling
his milk around town, and no old
timer will ever forget the clang Of
the large bell that each wagon was
supplied with and which could be
heard for blocks away. His teams were
all similar, and he probably sold to
the public as much milk as all the
other milk dealers combined.
His prices, too, were attractive even
In those days, and he sold butter
milk for 20 cents a gallon, sweet milk
for cents quart, and skinned milk
for less.
Frank Ward was kind and generous
and was subscriber to nearly every
fund raised for charitable and civic
purposes. and his friends were count
less. One day, however, perhaps in
q fit Of insanity, he shot and killed
q young man in the Marble Saloon,
He was tried and acquitted, but the
incident preyed on his mind and q
few years later he met a tragic death.
believed by some to have been planned
by himself