Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

ward a. LOLnrOpS StOIe. by tlo
following year he had moved his
business to GA Louisiana avenue
NV. and was managing the Miles
House, 1910 F street. In 1880 ne
was engaged with Charles G. God
frey in operating the Bayard House,
1000 E street NV, as before stated.
Capt. Randall not only owned the
Mary Washington, which first took
excursionists to Occoquan Greek and
White House, but several other YES
sells, including the Pilot Boy, which
he first ran to River View, later
substituting the Samuel J. Pentz on
the run. He early bought the John
w. Thompson and changed its name
to the Harry Randall. The Randall
Line also acquired at one time the
Wakefield and the T. v. Arrow
smith, both well-knoWn Potomac
River steamboats,. Some OF his boats
he named for his children, and be-
side the Harry Randall he operated
the LOWE Randall and the Estelle
Randall.
Lowe Randall, whose marriage
name the writer has forgotten, died
some years ago. Estelle Randall is
Mrs. J. F. Carlin and probably still
resides with her husband and
daughter on the old Snowden estate,
a short distance below Alexandria,
Va. Capt. Harry Randall, the son,
died about year ago at his home
at Sligo Springs, Md. Capt. E. S.
Randall died quite a way back and
is buried in Holy Rood Cemetery
on Wisconsin avenue.
Close to the southwest corner of
Tenth and E streets, or where what
was numbered 1905 E street, was a
comparatively new building, prob
ably erected by the National Univer-
sity for its medical college, which it
used for about two years, from 1885
to 1887. However, much earlier
medical school was begun in this
block, on the west side of Tenth
street just north of D street, by
Columbian College (now George
Washington University when its
School of Medicine was established
in 1926 But it did not remain here
very long.
Emergency Hospital.
In 1888, on the east side of Tenth
street. about where is the Office of
the Washington Gas Light Co., the
Central Dispensary and Emergency
Hospital was located, and next door.
at an earlier date, was the fifth
police precinct, with 1t. Austin in
charge.
The building formerly at zoos E
street, before referred to, later be-
came the home of Washington
Lodge, No. Is, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and here this
organization met from about 1896
to 1909, when its headquarters were
established at its present address,
919 H street NV.
The Washington branch of this
order was established here on Feb
ruary IL, 1882, and The Stars write
up the following day said:
Washington Lodge, No. is, Be-
nevolent Protective Order of Elks,
was instituted yesterday with inter-
eSting ceremonies at the knights of
Pythias Hall, corner of Thirteen
and-a-half and E streets. The work
was conducted by Frank Girard of
New York City, deputy exalted
grand ruler at large, who came at
tended by large delegation of
members of the order from New
York. After the initiation was con-
cluded the following officers were
elected for the new lodge: Exalted
ruler, Justus R. Rathbone; esteemed
leading knight, John T. Ward;
esteemed lecturing knight, Daniel E.
Cahill; esteemed loyal knight, Jake
Budd; secretary, William A. Ander-
son; treasurer, Frank K. Ward;
tyler, Frank Cardella; trustees, Will
liam Dickson, Charles w. Leon
narda and Joseph E. Rawlings. The
following appointive officers were
chosen: Esquire. William D. Mack:
inner guard, Henry j. Ennis: chap
lain, William A. West; organist, w.
E. Shafer: Finance Committee,
Frank H. Findlay, William F. Far
IRISH and j. Brad. Adams The fol-
lowing Committee on Bylaws was
appointed: William Dickson, John T.
Ward and Daniel E. Cahill.
I'm the evening, the visitors were
entertained at a banquet at the Ma
tional Hotel Toasts were responded
to by Exalted Grand Ruler Girard,
j. j. Tindall, deputy exalted grand
ruler of New York; A. c. Mordaunt,
grand secretary Of the Grand Lodge;
Dannel Kelly, past exalted ruler Of
Baltimore Lodge; Daniel E. Cahill
Of this city, John Ryan of the New
York Lodge, William Dickson of this
city, George Nashman, Baltimore;
Alfred Stemmel, Philadelphia, and
George Schlesinger, Boston"
Many Changes.
Fifty years have made many
changes in the neighborhood in
which this lodge of Elks was formed.
At that time, there stood on the
southeast corner of Thirteenth-and-
a-half street plain three-story
brick building, one of the upper
floors of which was used for lodge
purposes, and here met Friendship
Lodge, No. 8, and Harmony Lodge,
No. 81, Knights of Pythias. About
this time the first floor was occupied
as plumbing establishment, and
around the same period there was
q saloon on this corner.
While the Elks were still occupy
ing its E street home, which stood
on a part of the space to be occupied
by the parking place, 1t cele-
brated its 25th anniversary, and The
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