Evening star., 1942-11-08

very corpulent man; he wore ruined
shirt and was danditied In his manner.
His brother Thomas built the house in
which Gen. Sickles lived when he shot
Key. These brothers were rivals for pro-
fessional fame. The charges then
for bleeding and pulling teeth were so
cents, for attendance 81, and for OBJ
stetrical services, So"
Ewell's Pharmacy
Carroll Row, where was Ewell's phar-
macy. occupied the site of the Congress
sionary Library until 1887, when it was
removed. The row was of considerable
historic importance. It was in the house
occupied by DR.. Ewell that the British
soldiers injured in the arsenal explosion,
which took place at the time Of the in
vasion Of Washington, in August, 1914,
were taken for treatment.
In the late SOS Carroll Row became
known as Duff Green Row, named for
Its one-time owner, variously editor Of
the United States Telegraph, printer to
Congress and active politician. He built
large brick building for printing
office in the rear of the row. BY 184O
Mrs Whitwell, Mrs Frost, Mrs Sprigg
and Mrs. Mount were conducting board
ing houses here and one of the houses
was occupied by Mr.. Green.
The houses were we'll patronized by
the congressional set. Mrs. Whitwell in
the corner house, had under her roof
Senators w. L. Dayton and Jacob w.
Miller of Delaware, John Davis of Mas
sachusetts, popularity known as Honest
John," and George Evans of Maine;
also Representative Joshua F. Bell, B. r.
Young and Henry Grinder of Kentucky,
George Ashman and Robert c. Winthrop
OF Massachusetts,. The latter afterward
was Speaker of the House and was the
orator on the occasion of the laying of
the corner stone of the Washington
Monument, July 4, 1848. On the death
of Mr.. Webster, on October, 1852, Mr..
Winthrop was appointed and filled out
his term as Senator.
At Mrs. Spriggs table sat John Quincy
Adams, ex-President, and S. NJ Gates of
New York, in the 30s; Joshua R. Giddings
of Ohio, John Blanchard, A. B. Mac
Ilvaine and John Strohm of Pennsylvania
were here with Luther Severance of
Maine. The latter early in life was
compositor on the National Intelligencer
in this city and in 1925 founded the
Kennebec Journal whicr he edited until
1849. Mr.. Lincoln stopped at Mrs.
Spriggs' when serving in the House of
~
During the Civil War the row became
a prison for political offenders, and was
known as Carroll Prison. After the
assassination of President Lincoln, Mrs.
Surratt and others accused of conspiracy
in connection with the murder, were con-
fined there for a while.
The Bates Drug Stores
In this same section of the city, but
in more recent date, or shortly before
1850, we find John Edward Bates opening
drugstore at the northwest corner of
Seventh and L streets Sc, or ION the
Navy Yard" as it was called years ago.
Dr. Bates had learned the business of
chemistry and pharmacy under the we'll
known Georgetown pharmacist, John L.
Kidwell.
At that early date it was poor drug
gist that could not do bit of surgery If
called upon to do so, and being close to
the Marine Barracks we find him serving
as contract surgeon in the Marine
Corps, being stationed at the barracks
during the Civil War.
Toward 1866 he opened what became
his main store at the southwest corner
of Thirteenth and F streets, which be-
came a center for the doctors and sur
geons Of that period, one of his close
friends being Dr.. William Holland Will
mer. later principal in charge of the
Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins Hos
pital Subsequently, in 1870. the Bates
family moved to Eighteenth and K
streets NV. in dwelling later pur-
chased by Dr. Bates, and at this time
the store in the southeast section was
moved to Eighteenth and K streets, and
the business of the F street store was
relinqushed few years later.
DR.. Samuel L. Hilton, for many years
a well-known druggist of this city, and
still active, in referring to DR.. Bates, said:
IT we'll remember him, as boy of 10
years, at Seventh and L streets Sc, as
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