Evening star., 1942-12-06

A snort time elapsed, Wnen LC. Peter,
who was Of the opposite party, undertook
to furnish a man to fight Shtpley. So he
sent for one of his enlisted soldiers,
named Lovejoy, who accepted the cfal-
lenge and appeared ready for the fray.
He was very large man, well propor-
toned and stood about feet high.
Shipley was nearly the same height and
very bony and muscular, but not so
stout as Lovejoy
"The crowd having formed ring, the
combatants went into the fight with a
will, those in the crowd occasionally
cheering and otherwise encouraging
their choice of the men. In those days
the practices of gouging, choking and
biting were very much in vogue among
the bullies, and when one would succeed
in getting the other down, the first thing
he would do would be to feel for his
antagonists eyes and there insert his
thumb or finger, and, if possible, force
out an eye
"If he could not succeed thus in max
ing his opponent cry enough, he would
seize him by the throat and choke him,
when, If he would signify that he had
enough, the bystanders would separate
them
IN this case, however. Shipley and
Lovejoy pounded each other awhile,
then closed and wrestled until one Of
them slipped and they fell in the mud
together. Shipley proved too active for
his adversary. and succeeded in getting
on top of him, when he instantly felt
for Lovejoy's eyes, which he smeared full
of mud. The crowd then parted them,
raised Lovejoy up, and proceeded to
wash the mud from his eyes and face;
but, alas! Lovejoy was a blind man for
the remainder of his days. Since then
1 have seen him led about the streets of
Georgetown by boy. With Shipley, who
was tailor, and lived in Georgetown, I
was we'll acquainted"
On Jeffersons first Inauguration,
March 4, 1901, the President-elect left
Conrad & McMunn's boarding house,
then on the northwest corner of New
Jersey avenue and c street southeast
and proceeded to the Capitol to take the
oath of office, and the military COM
panies then located in the District Wed
with each other in showing honor to the
third President.
How City Looked Then.
Just what Washington looked like
when jefferson arrived here November
27, 1900, to take up his duties as Vice
President, it would be difficult accurately
and fully to describe at this late date
The population then of the "city" was
3,210 and there was probably not side
walk outside of Alexandria and George
town. Traffic from Georgetown to the
Navy Yard section was largely by way
of the street bridge, much of Pennsyl-
vania avenue then being impossible.
In Hines Early Recollections OF
Washington City" that author tells US
that in 1899 or 1900 he remembered but
one house on the Avenue between the
Capitol and the Invite House, and this
was Jones coachmaker shop two-story
frame which he locates on the north side
Of this thoroughfare little east of
Second street. The Commons where
the Avenue is he states, from the foot
Of Capitol Hill westward, was almost
impossible for vehicles of any kind; in
deed it was difficult for person to walk
in some places, on account of the mud,
bushes, thorns and briars, and more par
ticularly on the south side, where the
clumps of thorn bushes in some places
were so thick that. I believe, they were
cut down with scythes. so as to enable
the workmen to make a footway to Fiji
teenth street.