Evening star., 1945-09-06
Foggy Bottom in 'SOs
Recalled at Meeting Of
Oldest Inhabitants


Can you trotq" was the war cry
IN Foggy Bottom in the old days.
1t boded Ill for the unfortunate
youth to whom it was addressed
With sticks. stones and fists the
Foggy Bottom boys would spur his
"trotting" back across the bound
ary over which he unwarily had
wandered. In the 70s and '80s no
sane upland Washington boy will
fully crossed the Foggy Bottom
border alone.
Foggy Bottom was the largely
undeveloped area between H street
NV. and the river and west of
Twentieth street to Georgetown.
Nearly all the older members of the
Association of the Oldest Inhabit-
ants remember it, they showed last
night, although none Of them act
ually lived In it.
In the part Of their September
meeting reserved by Acting Presi-
dent John Clagett Proctor for
Remarks, "reminiscences, Eulogies,
Etc" they peopled the Old Union
Engine House at Nineteenth and n
streets NV. with legendary heroes
of the border wars.
Hare-and-Hounds Game.
Vice President Charles H. Bates
recounted the sad story of a hare
and-hounds game, organized by
hockey playing students of 1.-THE
Barracks" school at Twenty-second
and 1 streets NV. Crestfalien hares
ambled back into the clutches of
the hounds. Their flight had car
ried them over the border and
they had been set upon by Foggy
Bottom boys and robbed of all they
possessed. Even their chewing
tobacco" said Mr.. Bates.
An erstwhile Georgetown resident
rose to whittle at the Foggy Bot
tom giants. 1--WE Georgetown boys
used to 'trot' their delegation right
back home" he said scornfully.
Acting President Proctor topped
the legends with remembered boy
hood hero. This character was
youthful blacksmith of hghthearted
ways. His favorite brawling imple-
ment was fence-post, which he
welded with awesome effect. 1--WE
used to have real scraps then"
chuckled Mr.. Proctor, an adept at
understatement.
Inquiries concerning the health of
absent President Theodore w. Noyes
and Secretary James F. Duhamel
opened the meeting. Brief talks by
Mr.. Proctor, Fred H. Emery and
William P. Martin memorialized two
members who died in August, Henry
w. Draper and William Wallace
Clark.
New Members Approved.
Two new members were approved
by vote. They are j. Martin Scran-
age, 1709 Rhode Island avenue NV,
and Harry Caleb Brooks, 1926
Thirty-fifth street NV. Member
ship applications from Angelo
Rockelli, TIT Third street NE; Jesse
C. Smith, 2036 F street NV; Isadore
Turoff, 1872 Buchanan street NV,
and John j. Garland, 1904 Prospect
avenue NV, were referred to the
Membership Committee.
Three new members were intro
duced, E. H. Bailey, sr., 421 Emerson
street NV; Robert r Hoy, Houston
Hotel, and Edward C. Wilcox, 1343
Meridian place NV.
The members gave a rising vote
TO the inclusion in the minutes of
prayer of thanksgiving for peace
composed by Mr.. Bates. A resolu-
ton was passed to indorse local
efforts to bring the 194S Olympic
games to Washington. Mr.. Bates
called attention to the forthcoming
annual dinner of the association, to
be held December at a place not
yet set.
Business over, the Foggy Bottom
campaign broke out anew. As the
meeting ended, Marshal Harry A..
Burr was quelling skirmish after
skirnaish In an effort to clear the
traditional meeting place before
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