Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24

people, including the one belonging
to DR.. Hall, who later sold it to L. II.
and Chris Schneider. The old HALL
Schneider mansion now forms
part of the main building of Gar.
field Hospital.
Used as War Hospital.
To the west of this was the home
of the widow of william j. Stone,
used as a Civil War hospital from Z
1862 to 1865. This mansion was
later the residence of Gen. John A. :
Logan, who gave it the name Calu-
met Place, and here he died. When 7
William Jennings Bryan was Secre-s
tary of State he leased this old ,
home, which then stood at the ,
northeast corner of Thirteenth and
Clifton streets.
Mr.. Burroughs was some distance
from old Columbian College, which &
stood on the top of the hill to the
west of Fourteenth street. Not far
to the west of the college. near
where the old Standpipe used TO
stand, was the Porter home, and if /,
there was not too much timber in
tervening maybe he could have
feasted his eyes on the heights OF
| Washington.
Old Use Recalled.
The difficulties encountered by =
John Burroughs when he built the :
house on land once used for burial
purposes might well have been met :
with in a number of blocks in this
vicinity. One such plot, which took !.
in the whole block where is now the
Children's Hospital, was called the ;
Young Mems Cemetery, and until
1877-78, when the central, or adj,
ministration buildings, and also the
east wing of the hospital were
/ erected, there was mute evidence of
the use to which this square had
] formerly been put, such as mounds,
! gravel walks, cedar trees and monu-
/ ments.
The establishing of this hospital,
according to reliable source, began
with DR.. Samuel Clagett Busey, who
! was in charge of the department
of diseases of infancy and childhood.
established in 1869 by the Columbia
Hospital Dispensary. Soon realiz-
ing the inadequacy of the dispen-
Sary, DR.. Busey, in March. 1870,
| succeeded in interesting DR.. Francis
A. Ashford in the project of a chill
dren's hospital. They, in turn. in-r
terested Drs. William B. Drinkard-
and William w. Johnston, and also
the Board Of Lady Managers of the
Washington City Orphan Asylum.
For the purpose of cooperating
with the physicians in the UNDER :
taking, the Orphan Asylum desig- !
mated the following members of its
board: Mesdames L. P. Lee, j.,
| Zeilin, w. Stickney, J. c. Hark-
ness, A. G.. Brown. A. E. Perry, H. P.
Reynolds and Miss Margaret WASH
ington. A conference was held at
the home of Mrs. A. j. Brown, where +.
| Misses Virginia and Sally c. Miller
and Miss M. l.. Thompson also were
present. DR.. James c. Hall, Thomas
Miller, c. H. Leibermann and Graf
| ton Taylor were also interested, but
most active in perfecting the or
ganization was DR.. william P.
Johnston, according to DR.. Busey.
Served Leaders.
DR.. Hall bore an excellent repu- 4
tation as a physician. Indeed, we
are told he was family physician
of every President of the United
States from Jackson to Lincoln; for
many years attended the family of
every justice of the Supreme Court,
through many administrations the
family of every cabinet officer and
for long series of years every ,
foreign legation resident in Wash.
ington, and every prominent Sen.
ator and member of the House Of
Representatives, the heads of de.
partments and many honored citi. :
zens. He gave large requests to the :
Washington City Orphan Asylum
and to the Children's Hospital"
OF course, the Washington CITY
Asylum did not fare so badly when :
its Fourteenth street property was
| sold in 1927 to James L. Karrick for
sum in excess of 100000. At the
time of the sale, the purchaser an
nounced plans for the razing of the
structure and the erection of a three /.
or four-story building for the usa
of an automobile concern. But this 9
it seems, was not entirely carried
through, and the exterior Of the
building, with the exception of the !,
front, looks today about as it did
when occupied by the asylum. q,
| The directresses of the Washinp-
ton City Orphan Asylum from thu
beginning in 1915 include. Mrs :
James Madison, Mrs. John p Van
Ness, Mrs. Lear possibly Mrs. Tobia.
Lear, Mrs. George Bomfard Mrs 4
William Hawley, Mrs. Richard g ,
Coke, Mrs. S. Philip Lee. Mrs WI"
liam Merrick, Mrs. z. r. Sower.
Mrs. William Van Zant Coz Mrs. !,
Douglas Putnam Brine, Mrs. Hustor /,
Thompson, Mrs. Rudolph MAJ
Kaufman, Mrs Fernando Cuninsr-
Il and the present directresE 10.
Julia Fiebeger.