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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
By John CIoeett Proctor

ison, he built the house at 205 I
street. On the adjoining lots to the
east, similar houses had just been
built the center one for Senator
Henry M. Rice of Minnesota and
the one to the east for Vice Presi-
dent John C. Breckenridge. Gen.
Breckenridge, in the Battle Of Fort
Stevens, July II and IL, 1854,
fought with Gen. Early on the Con-
federate side.
Houses Became Hospital
All three Of these houses became
Douglas Hospital in December, 1851,
and in October, year later, st.
Aloysius Hospital was founded. But
to avoid taking the church itself for
war purposes, the Rev. Bernard F.
Wiget, then in charge of st. Alloy
sius Church as we'll as Gonzaga
College, offered to build hospital
for the Government, and therefore,
THE plan was made for three
buildings, each "a feet wide and 200
feet long, the keys to be delivered
in eight days. The Government
agreed to supply as much lumber as
would have been necessary to floor
the church, but should battles be
fought and wounded brought in dur
ing these eight days, then the
church would have to be used. On
the 18th preparations were made,
the people notified, the site for the
building was selected by the med
ical authorities, northwest of the
church on the next square, K
street"
For the alertness and good judy
ment exerted by Father Wiget at
this time, President Lincoln soon
appointed him chaplain of the hos
pital, with an annual salary OF
81 800, and as a further compliment
to him, named the hospital for the
church over which he presided.
Sisters Started School
One of the interesting institutions
to have its beginning in the vicinity
of st. Aloysius Church was the Sis
tiers of Notre Dame de Namur,
whose mother house Is in Belgium,
and who came to Washington some
time prior to January 81, 1871, when
the group was incorporated here.
their object being ito afford relief
to the poor and necessitous women
and children
Poor women were to be employed
by the day, getting wages and two
meals, and their children were to be
cared for during the day by the
sisters. To accomplish this, the
sisters opened our industrial school
for young girls, and also were to
take charge of the parochial school,
This arrangement received the ap-
prevail of the Right Rev Bishop
Bayley and the Very Rev. Father
Keller, in whose parish, st. Aloysius.
the sisters were planning to locate.
The first deed of land recorded for
their benefit was made by Benjamin
F.. Gilbert, founder of Takoma Park
to st. Alyosius Relief Association
dated February 6, 1871, then headed
by Mrs. Ellen Ewing Sherman
wife of Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman, who was married to Gen
Sherman in 1850, in the old Blail
Mansion, 1851 Pennsylvania avenue
where Senator Thomas Ewing, Mis-
Ewing,s father, was residing with
his family. Guests included at the
wedding were President Fillmore ano
cabinet, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay
and others. Mrs. Sherman was an
enthusiastic Catholic And 1t was
but natural that when Minnie Sher-
man. daughter of the same Ellen
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looms which carried a big punch in

toons which carried big punch in
a small space.
There is one sculpture, Henry
Kreis' little terra Gotta, Friends, p"
and one print, King" by Sue
Fuller, an exhibition of whose ex-
perimental printmaking with UNI
usual textural effects, was shown at
the Smithsonian Building a few
months ago.
Chatham Mill Pond" by C. Law
Watkins, Is a more important work
than the charming little watercolor
his widow first presented. Paint
ings by the artist-donors of the
original group which I like best in
clude Alice Acheson's Cleaning
Up" Margaret Gates May Day.
prize winner some years ago in
Society of Washington Artists
annual; Robert Franklin Gates
Oyster River" Girl Resting" by
Harold Giese; Marjorie Phillips
Queen Anne's Lace" Aaron So
piers pen and wash drawing, "Shal-
linger Exhibition; Mary Watkins
large landscape with horses and
Harold Westons alert little girl,
Barbara"
Artists Caricatured
A lively group of more than 20
portrait caricatures of American
artists by Aline Fruhauf is on view
in the west wing of Watkins GAL
lery, also through next Sunday.
These were done from life, some in
gouache and some in black and
white. The subjects are nearly all
nationally famous or well known,
and represent a number of arts
painting, sculpture, music, the
dance, and there is even an art critic
or two. Miss Fruhauf, a native New
Yorker, lived there until few years
ago (she is now Washingtonian
and knew them all. She used to be
an Illustrator for the New York
Times, Vogue, the New Yorker, the
New Republic and other journals.
She has had solo exhibitions here
(at the Public Library, in New York
City, Baltimore and elsewhere. She
frequently contributes to group
shows here, generally landscapes
and other paintings.
I found nearly all Of her carica-
lures entertaining. and of those
whose subjects I have seen, I
thought the most telling captures
are Raphael Soyer, Emil Ganso,
Walter Pach, Rachmaninoff, Peggy
Bacon and Adolph Dehn. An en-
pertaining touch in Miss Fruhaut S
caricatures of painters and sculp-
tors is the inclusion of their works.
She has done particularly fetch
ing take-off of a painting by Max
Weber
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Auxiliaries

Oficers installed In Columbia
Heights Auxiliary were: President,
Mrs. Louise wilkins; vice president,
Mrs. Helen Mitchell secretary, Mrs.
June Long; treasurer. Mrs. Lillian
Murphy; parliamentarian, Mrs.
Blanche B. Van Poll; historian. Mrs.
Marjorie Wydro; chaplain, Mrs.
Ruth D. Patsos.
The installing officer was Mrs.
Ruth D. Patsos. national officer.
She was assisted by Mrs. Ailene
Neiman, sergeant at arms, Mrs
wilkins and Mrs. Wydro we're both
presented with a gift from Mrs.
PatSos.
Founders Post Auxiliary met at
the clubroom, Twelfth and E streets
N. w. Tuesday evening. A joint
meeting later was held with the
post. M. r. Brownlee, chief Of
special services at Mt. Alto Hos
pital. was a guest speaker. The post
voted to adopt a ward at Mt. Alto
Hospital.
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Art
Seven Local Artists
Present Work at
Whyte Gallery
By Florence S. Berrymon

The Whyte Gallery, which has
been co-sponsoring exhibitions at
United Nations Club since last
.prjng. has just inaugurated a new
series Of shows in its own home,
with the opening OF an exhibition
of paintings by seven local artists.
The gallery plans to display more
paintings by artists of Washington
and vicinity in accordance with its
policy Of nearly a decade. Franz
Bader, director Of the gallery, said:
AS our gallery and bookshop
grow through the cooperation of
the Washington public and local
artists, it is only fitting that we
should provide artists Of this city
end vicinity with opportunities to
show their work"
In accordance with its belief that
there is a generation of new artists
coming along who do not get enough
recognition and encouragement,
the gallery plans to have at least
two shows each season, comprising
works by artists on the thresholds
Of their careers.
Each artist is represented in the
current show with two to four
paintings. John Gernand's Field
Near st. Faustin" is one of his best,
and along with his River in Win
ter" confirms the impression I have
had for some time that his work
is gaining in substance without
losing its poetic mood. Prentiss
Taylor shows that paintings with
surrealiStic touches, that of harp
ist and violin cellist taking on Ger
tain characteristics of their music
is especially engaging.
Mitchell Jamieson's two large
landscapes epitomize winter in the
country. Edward Rosenfeld's some
what sketchy Walk in the Woods"
has the tang of autumn. Bernice
Cross has contributed two paintings
In her familiar whimsical manner.
Sarah Baker. in four canvases, dis
plays the most variety; liked best
her most illustrative one, THE New
Look" Robert Gates has not done
himself justice in his water colors
Of beach scenes. This show will re-
main through February %.
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r. UST where was Swampoodl

~ w. WllClC Wdo oWoAhPoOAAei
This is a point upon which
many may differ. But 1t was
y certainly within the boundaries
OF G and K north and Second street
east and First street west, and those
who knew of this locality back as
far as 1850, in writing of this part OF
Washington. never had the slightest
idea that they would live to see this
part of the city improved and look
as 1t does today.
One early writer tells us that on
the eastern slope Of Burch's Hill,
there was but one solitary habita-
ton about 1920. This place was
so-called because near the inter-
section of New Jersey avenue and
II street stood the residence Of
Capt. Samuel Burch, principal clerk
in the House of Representatives.
One of the first important i'm
provements to come this way was in
1856. when Cornelius Wendell erect
ed his printing Office at the south
west corner of North Capitol and
H streets. This building was then in
truly suburban section. Until
then, H street, from North Capitol
street east was only on the map
and had not been extended the
entire distance to Florida avenue
or Boundary street, as it was then
called. 1t was probably due to the
fact that the printing office had
been placed there that H street was
graded and graveled from New
Jersey avenue to North Capitol
street in 1857.
Tiber Greek Had Floods
The old Tiber Creek ran but half
a block away, entering the area
between North Capitol and First
streets NE. An idea may be
had of the size of this creek by the
statement of an old chronicler, that
during the sos a tavern built on
New Jersey avenue close to the
stream, and known as Foy's Hotel
was washed away during a flood
At a much earlier date the same
authority tells us that John Logan
operated a mill on this creek at
about L street; this being most
likely the one referred to by DR..
Busy as Pierce's mill, and which
that author locates in the neigh
borhood of First and N streets NV.
Though the two Washington
houses were erected on North Capt.
tol street, between B and c streets,
at very early date, and other
houses were built here and there
in this general locality, yet it was
years after the old Government
Printing Office was erected that this
section became built up. st. Alloy
sius Church was not dedicated until
1859, though some Of the buildings
associated with 1t probably were
finished a year earlier.
There may have been a busline
to help get the employees to and
from their work, but the H street
carline did not come into being for
more than two decades later, and
no doubt "shank's mare" was the
popular mode of travel. For in
stance, in 1870 the Ninth street car
line had it's terminus at M street
north, and the Fourteenth street
carline only extended to S street.
Prior to this, in 1851, when Ste
phen A. Douglas was about to enter
his second term In the Senate, he
bought two squares of ground on
each side of I street between New
Jersey avenue and Third street NV
On the south side of I street he
built a home. Some four years later
after he had taken as his second
wife Adele Cults, the grand
daughter of the sister of Dolly Mad
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Nero Graphic Artists


The exhibition of graphic arts and
drawings by American Negro artists
in Howard University's art gallery,
briefly mentioned here a few Sun
days ago, will remain on view
through this month. 1t is a fine
show, comprising about 10 prints
and nearly 20 drawings in various
media, representing more than 50
artists, the majority of them con-
temporary. Several earlier artists
are included, giving the exhibition
something of an historical develop.
ment. Prof. James v. Herring, head
of Towards art department, VINO Is
on sabbatical leave this year, has
written a comprehensive foreword to
the catalogue. pointing out the
shows many facets.
Patrick Reason, the earliest artist
worked more than a century ago
as indicated by the dates on num-
Der of engravings used as frontls-
pieces Of pamphlets and small BOOKS
on such subjects as Truth Snall
Make You Free" and Am / Not a
Man and a Brother" most of which
belong to Howard University, also
the elaborate certificate of the
Grand United Order of Odd Eel
lows.
Henry o. Tanner (born 1880, the
foremost American Negro artist IN
the late 10Th and first two decades
Of this century, and Annie E. A
Walker of the same period are rep
resented by large charcoal drawings
of women, beautifully done in the
academic manner.
Dox Thrash, working under the
Federal art project in the 193os, dis
covered the carborundum process in
print making, a flexible medium
capable of great development. I,
has much beauty, as seen In six Of
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Mrs. Dietsche and all unit re-
chairmen will serve re-
freshments tonight to the patients
at Mount Alto Hospital, after a va
riety show.
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Auxiliary
Rehabilitation
Meeting Saturday

L 1lC AlCd II OlOlA SoAA-
ference of the American Legion
Auxiliary will convene at 2 o'clock
Saturday at the Statler Hotel with
Mrs. Helen N. Jeffries of Culpeper
Va, presiding.
Speakers will include Mrs. Laura
Goode, national rehabilitation chair
man, Portland, Greg, and regional
Veterans Administration officials
A panel discussion on Claims, Hos
pital Service and Medical Program
will be led by G. E. Heller. Reha-
Utilization chairmen Of the auxiliary
departments of Area "B" will be
submitted at the Sunday morning
session. Mrs. j. Florence Dietsche
District of Columbia department
rehabilitation chairman, is in
charge of the Registration Commit
tee, with headquarters at the
Statler Hotel.
Members of the auxiliary will par
ticipate In the Child Welfare Con-
ference, under the auspices of the
American Legion, which will open
on Friday at the Statler Hotel.
Unit chairmen of Child Welfare
are requested to register at 9 am
Friday with Mrs. Margaret E. Car
roll, who has been appointed as gen.
eral chairman by the department
president. She will have her head.
quarters at the hotel.
Mrs. Dietsche and all unit re-
Mobilization chairmen will serve re.
freshments tonight to the patients
at Mount Alto Hospital, after a va.
riety show.
A change in the meeting place OF
United States Department of Agri-
culture Unit for the February 10
meeting has been made necessary
because of hotel reservations. The
unit will meet Tuesday night at
the Annapolis Hotel. Mrs. L. Es-
telle Stone, president, will preside
The regular monthly meeting OF
Police and Fire Unit has been post
poned until February 20.
James E. Walker Unit will conduct
initiation on Friday at the Y. W.
c. A. Annex, 17l9 Thirteenth street
NV. A program on Americanism
also will be presented, with Mrs
Mabel Coleman, Americanism chair
man, in charge.
Mrs. Lena Fletcher, activity chair
man, asks that returns be made for
the Curtyce Louise Archer recital to
be held at John Wesley Church on
February II.
Members of the auxiliary are in
vited to attend the annual exercises
at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:1s
pm. Thursday, under the auspices
of the Military Order Of the Loya
Legion.
Meetings this week:
Sunday-V tary Hosplta
Workers, Mount Alto Hospital, 9 am
to 5 pm. Department Rehabilta-
ton Variety Show, Mount Alto Hos.
pital, 1850 pm.
Monday-Kenna-Main Unit, 121(
Good Hope road, Sc. 8 pm; Wood
ridge Unit, 2031 Rhode Island ave
nue., NE, 8 pm.
Tuesday-Lincoln Unit, home Of
Mrs. Edna Sheriff., 5000 Connecti'
cut avenue, 8 pm; United State
Department of Agriculture Unit
Annapolis Hotel, 8 pm; Capita
Transit Unit, Legion Club, pm
Wednesday-James Reese Europ'
Unit. 1914 Vermont avenue, NV
Is pm; Fort Stevens Unit, 5S2
Georgia avenue, NV, 8 pm; De
partment of Labor Unit, Legion
Club, 8 pm. .
Friday-James E. Walker Unit
1719 Thirteenth street, NV, 8 pm
Saturday - Volunteer Hospita
Workers, Mt. Alto Hospital, II
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Print Show in Alexandria

Print Show in Alexandria
A small exhibition of prints and
water colors by Eleanor Modrakow-
ska is on view through today al
Fairfax Gilpin House Studio, LOG
Prince street, Alexandria, sponsored
by Jeane F. Roberts. 1t is open to
the public. The artist is a member
of the Society of American Etchers
and other professional organizations
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Watkins Memorial Show

The C. Law Watkins Memorial
Collection, on view in the Watkins
Gallery, American University
through next Sunday, is larger and
better than it was when it had its
inaugural display at the universlty's
galleries at Nineteenth and F streets
IN December, 1915, before the Wat
kins Gallery was opened. Obviously,
1t is not size alone that has I'M
proved the collection, but some good
selections, and also a very important
policy followed: Exchange OF bet
ter works by some of the artists
for paintings they originally pre-
sented.
It will be recalled that shortly
after the death in 1945 of c. Law
Watkins, who had been influential
on the staff of Phillips Memorial
Gallery and in American Unlver-
sity's art department, group OF his
artist friends donated their own
paintings to form a small collection
in memory of him. Since then,
other works have been donated or
purchased with proceeds OF spe-
cial fund, and the collection is now
about twice the size of the original
group.
Among the later additions are oil
paintings, Nantucket Dry Dock, "
by Margaret Appich, strongly SIM
plif1ed composition Of angular forms
an admirable work; Frank Geb-
hart's Moonlight Bathers," an in
teresting study of faint illumination
of nude figures on beach at night,
and Max Weber's semi abstract,
Turkish Jug" one of the first pur-
chases. Jean Charlot's Toilette,
a watercolor, is typical of his paint
ings of Magyar mothers and chill
dren, square and solid in shape; this
one depicting a progressive combing
of hair, is a trifle closer to nature
than most of his paintings. The
Entombment," by Boardman Robin
son, is a wash drawing, small but
powerful, recalling some Of his car
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Senate Group Advances
Two District Church Bills

Two House. passed bills dealing
with church affairs here were re-
ported favorably yesterday by the
McGrath subcommittee Of the Sen
ate District Committee.
One would permit the Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation to
increase the number of its trustees
from IS to 80. The other would
establish the Catholic Archbishop
of Washington, the Most Rev. Pat
rick A. O'Boyle, as a corporation to
handle church business affairs in
the archdiocese.
Chairman Miller of the Health
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee announced his group
will meet at 10 am. next Wednes-
day to consider bills to extend Gov
ernment aid to hospitals not par
ticipating in the Washington Hos
pital Center and to assure Govern
ment rights to collect bills from
nonpaying emergency cases who
are compensated for their injuries
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Senate Unit 10 Weiqh
Nomination Of Tamm
AS Justice on Monday
By Harold B. Rogers

The disputed nomination of
Edward A. Tamm, FBI official, to be
a District Court justice, will be
considered by a Senate Judiciary
subcommittee in executive session
at 3 pm. Monday.
Senator Donnell, Republican, OF
Missouri, subcommittee chairman,
said today he could not predict when
the group will reach a vote on the
nominee.
At the end of an all-day hearing
yesterday, the Senator announced
his unit will make a study of the
testimony submitted during several
lengthy sessions and will try to de-
eide where we go next"
Record To Be Kept Open.
/ The official record of the commit
tee will be kept open, until Satur-
day noon, he said, for submission of
fritten statements.
Other members of the subcommit-
tee are Senators Cooper, Republican,
of Kentucky, and Kilgore, Demo-
crat, of West Virginia.
Witnesses from Minnesota occu-
pied the stand all day yesterday to
describe how Mr.. Tamm was ad-
itted to practice law in that State.
They included Chief Justice c. A.
Losing Of the State Supreme Court,
which admitted Mr.. Tamm to prac-
tice in July, 1913; Philip Neville,
secretary of the State Board of Bar
Examiners, and Victor Anderson,
United States attorney at Mime
apolis. Mr.. Tamm also testified at
| length
Admitted to State Bar.
Judge Loring said Mr.. Tamm was
admitted to. the Minnesota bar on
the basis of evidence pointing to his
character and ability, and because
OF a letter from Mr.. Tamm, indi-
eating he intended to return to es-
tablish residence there in the State
of his birth.
Mr.. Anderson testified he had in
dorsed Mr.. Tamm's application to
practice before the United States
Supreme Court.
Testimony showed Mr.. Tamm was
admitted to the State bar without
examination, under a rule admitting
applicants who are law school
graduates or who stand high in their
senior class and who had joined
either the armed forces or the FBI
Evening star., 1948-04-29

until 10 am. May 13 by the Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board.
The church. it was pointed out
yesterday. opposes the license to
Myles Steak House, 1859 Columbia
road NV, because the establish
ment is only 286 feet from the
church.
Joseph A. kaufman, an attorney
Evening star., 1948-04-29

for Edward Myles, proprietor of
the restaurant, said the provision
forbidding a liquor license to
place less than 400 feet from a
school or church does not apply in
Evening star., 1948-04-29
Hearing on Church Protest
|0f Cafe License Continued

A case in which the First Church
Of Christ, Scientist, has objected to
issuance Of a liquor license to a
restaurant has been continued
Evening star., 1948-04-29
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. Alt


this the
that location long before time The
the rule set and has had contenion
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-05
Plane Wrecked a.
Pilot Lands in
Horse Heaven

Attempting a power landing on
a road in the Horse Heaven hills,
Frank B. Larson wrecked a Piper
cruiser Tuesday afternoon but es-
capped without scratch.
The plane, owned by Lee Lund
of Richland, was total wreck
with a loss of $500. A woman
passenger was also uninjured.
Larson, holder of a private fly.
ing license, was attempting to LAND
near his home in Horse HEAVIER
when the crash happened. The
propeller blades were ground clea,
of from whirling into the road.
Larson had about ll8 fiyins
hours to his credit. The accident
happened at $50 pm. Larson hae
taken of from the Twin City air.
port.
This was the second Pipe,
cruiser from the Twin City por,
wrecked in a week. Sunday morn.
ing Jerald Ware piled one up ir
the river at John Day, Oregon
also complete wreck. Ware es.
capped with bruises.
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Damage $500 As
Car Leaves Road

Pulling off to the right shoulder
of hte highway near Wallula to
avoid oncoming traffic, James
Graves of Kennewick lost control
of his 1948 car, which overturned
and incurred $500 damage.
The accident occurred at 2:30
am. Tuesday three miles east Of
Wallula when Graves was return
ing from Oregon. He said he was
coming around curve when on
coming lights blinded him. He
pulled over to the side, he said, to
avoid them, but when he tried to
return the car to the pavemn, the
car began to sway and skid and
rolled over. He was alone in the
car at the time.
In another accident at S pm. on
Monday in Kennewick, $3.50 dam
age was done to a car driven by
James w. Caraway when it ran
into a cab, driven by Peter B.
Clute, which was backing out of
a driveway onto Washington st.
The cab apparently did not stop
before it backed into the street,
near the intersection of Washing
ton and Tenth Avenue. Police
records show that 50 damage was
done to the taxi.