Evening star., 1940-12-08

So 1t happened that my father
came to Washington in October,
l847, first leasing MI Tayloe's hotel
property and soon afterwards pur-
chasing the same.
During the absence from the city
of President Tayloe Vice President
Peter GraySon Washington usually
filed that Office He was the son
Of Lund Washington. who took care
of Gen. Washington Mount Yer
non estate while the First President
was serving III the Revolutionary
War. and incidentally. according TO
the latter made a mess of il when
he entertained and furnished the
enemy with provisions TO save Mount
Vernon from destruction. However,
when Gen. Washington learned Of
this he wrote to LunG. saving:
1T would have been d less painful
circumstance TO me TO have heard
that in consequence of your non
compliance with their request they
had burnt nv house and laid my
plantation in ruins You ought to
have considered Yourself as my rep
reSnntatlye. and should have re-
flected on the bad example of COM
municatinG with the enemy and
making voluntary offer of refresh
ments to them, with a view to pre-
vent conAagration
Early Officials.
Lund Washington. who was not
closely related TO the President be-
came postmaster of Washington in
1896, and quit under fire in 1879.
His son, Peter Grayson Washing
ton, served as auditor of the treas
ury for the Post Office Department
and at one time was the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
William A. Bradley was Mayor of
Washington from 1884 TO 1885, and
Peter Force followed him in this
Office
In the line of presidents, DR. James
3. Blake followed Mr.. Tayloe. Then
came Maj S. Jenkin Thomas,
George A. Bohrer, John Marbury.
S. Thomas Brown. Allison Nailor,
jr.: John Edward Libbey and the
present incumbent, Theodore w.
Moves. who was unanimously elected
vice president April i, 1908, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
his father Crosby S. Noyes, who
died February 81. 1908, and president
of the association May g. 1908, the
position to which he has been unanl-
mously reelected each year ever
since. And it is interesting here to
note that the life of the first presi-
dent and that Of the present one
overlap, and between them the entire
period of the life of the Nations
Capital is covered.
Intensely interested in his native
CITY. Mr.. Moves has always been
foremost in every movement that
/ tended toward greater and bet
ter Washington, and. in performing
this duty, he has appealed to others
to do likewise Indeed. he once
said: May we. the Washingtonians
of today. so play our parts as de-
voted citizens of the District and
| loyal Americans. that the president
of the Association of Oldest Inhabi-
tantS in 1865 may point with pride
to as wonderful a development OF
the Capital and of the Nation in the
intervening years till then, as that
wrought in the years already passed
since its organization"
Sought Vote for District.
In this connection he has given
largely of his time and energy in
working for and urging the passage
of a constitutional amendment that
would give to the people of the
District of Columbia national repre-
sentation in Congress and their
equal rights in the courts with the
residents of the States.
As the name of this organization
would indicate, many of the men
who belong to it have passed the
meridian of life, and yet this does
not necessarily follow. since many
take advantage of the minimum
age of so years and join then or
soon afterward. Yet some members
are lowering around the century
mark, as is Christian Heurich, who
has passed his 98th birthday, and
yet he still has two years to go to
reach the age of Dr. william Starr.
who died in 1908. and nearly six
before he can reach the unusual
age of nearly 104, attained by Mai.
Willard S. Sexton, who died only
a few years ago.
The present officers Of the asso.
citation are: President, Theodore
Williams Moves: vice presidents.
John Clagett Proctor, Christian
Heurich. Charles A. Langley, Fred A.
Emery. Joseph I. Keefer, John B.
Dickman, Elra c. Palmer, Walter e.
Allen, Jesse C. Suter. Anthony
Denekas, DR.. Hugh M. Smith, L. e.
Breuninger and Charles H. Bates:
recording secretary treasurer, John
B. Dickman, sr.; corresponding Sec
retary, James F. Duhamel; financial
secretary, Lemuel A. Carruthers:
marshal, Harry Arnold Burr. and
chronicler. John Clagett Proctor.
Mr.. Duhamel and Mr.. Suter are the
delegates to the Federation Of Cit.