Evening star., 1939-01-22
leigh Riding Avenue Motor Period Presented Spectacular
Drivers Won Local Fame
With Their Equipments
History Made Near Stables
In Old Days, Especially
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vember IL. 1870, and he received
every degree to and including
the 33d.
TT has been we'll said of Mr.
Nailor that he was particularly
faithful to every obligation devolv-
ing upon him by reason of his con-
nection with any social or fraternal
organization, and only absence from
the city or illness caused him tc
miss meeting.
| Mr.. Nailor was an honored men,
ber and president of the Oldest
Inhabitants Association. He was
nearly 6 feet in height and always
carried himself erectly, being thus
distinguished among his fellows. He
was Democrat in politics, but took
little interest in the affairs of his
party. AS he many times expressed
1t, he was happily defeated after
ne mad been nominated as delegate
In the days of the Territorial Leg
lslature, the only time he ever stood
Tor election before the public.
Mr.. Nailor was a great hunter,
ana his home contains many tro-
phles OF the chase OF all the many
fields of activity into which his in
chnations led him, the deceased
never embraced anything with
greater ardor than the opportuni-
Ties which came to him occasionally
IN his younger life to pursue and
capture big game. Col William Cody
Buffalo Bib and Mr. Nailor were
lifelong friends. and he was one of
Codys chosen companions in many
a Wild adventure on the Western
plains or in the mountains. There
are scores of other characters in the
great West who may not hear of
the death OF Allison Nailor in many
months to whom the news will be a
great shock"
The reference to Mr.. Nailor being
president of the Association of the
Oldest Inhabitants calls to mind the
occasion when he was elected to
this office at an Independence Day
meeting OF the association at Alton
Farm, Sligo, Md, the country estate
OF Crosby S. Noyes, in 1905.
1t was at this meeting that the
president of the organization. S.
Thomas Brown, had the secretary
read a letter in which he resigned
his office due to failing health, and
Mr.. Nailor, then vice president, was
elected president of the association
unanimously. and continued as such
up to the time of his death.
Mr. Noi1Or o,1,, - .,+;,.
OF Washington, but a product of the
city in every way, for it was here
he gained his early education in the
local public schools, with a subse-
quent course at the Baltimore Com
mercial College, and much of his
life included an active interest in
commercial pursuits in addition to
his principal interest. for many
years, in his livery stables, which
occupied considerable frontage
along E street where now stands the
District Building, between Thirteen
anda-half and Fourteenth streets.
The livery stable of Allison Nailor
was started by him in 1856, and in
1884 it included a frontage of 200
feet by depth of the same, and
employed 25 men, one of them a
veterinary surgeon. a graduate of
the Royal Veterinary College in
Prussia.
Adjoining Mr.. Majors stables was
his coach shop, where his repairing
was done. Here was also his harness
mandatory and his blacksmith
shop. About this time the Quincy
cabs were becoming popular, and
Mr.. Nailor paid $4,000 for the right
to use them in the District. OF
these he had so, and he also had
II hanson cabs, while his fine stock
of horses numbered 225.
This popular proprietor enjoyed
the patronage of all the Presidents
from Buchanan to Arthur, and, no
doubt, probably others who followed,
and many leading officials and dis
tinguished guests who visited WASH
ington while he was in business.
One of his patrons, who proved quite