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Evening star., 1950-01-15

The old First Ward, which en-
braced all that part of the City
of Washington west of the center
of Fifteenth street NV, included
in 1900, as residents, Mr.. Har-
baugh, an architect; a Mr.. Shaw,
a stone cutter: Joseph Wilson, Mr..
Sandiford. Mr.. Wirley, a pump
borer named Matthias, Thomas
Peter, Mr.. Luca, Richard Elliott,
Mrs. Pratt, Thomas Smith (col-
ored), Thomas Taylor. sr.; Mr..
Stevens, Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Willard,
who kept Wizards Spring Garden
on the square between c and D
and Twenty-first and Twenty
second streets, and William King.
The King house. which stood on
the block between E and F and
Twentieth and TIVE n t y-first
streets, was later owned by Joseph
Forest and a near neighbor was
Mr.. Farrell, school teacher. A
brewery was conducted in the
square between B street and the
Potomac and Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets-noW covered
by the temporary buildings-by a
Mr. Cunningham. Mr. Smoot, Mr..
Williams and Mr.. Clark lived in
the vicinity.
Christian Hines, author of
Early Recollections of Washing
ton City" also mentions standing
at that time the Tayloe mansion
at New York avenue and Eight
eenth street and the David Burnes
cottage which stood at the foot
of Seventeenth street bordering
the old Tiber Creek, where Marcia
Burnes was born.
To the north of the Avenue in
this ward, at this early date, lived
la Mr.. Houseman, a Mr.. Pollock,
Samuel Mcintyre. Mr.. Middleton
and William Waters. William
|ONeale at that time 18oo) was
selling coal and wood and con-
ducting a coopering establish
ment on I street, between Twen-
tieth and Twenty-first streets, in
a three-story brick house and had
as his next-door neighbor Joel
Brown, esq.
The Franklin Hotel
These two houses formed the
nucleus of what later became the
Franklin Hotel, where the charm
ing Peggy O'Neale met Senator
John H. Eaton of Tennessee, who
soon afterward became her Sec
ond husband. Suffice it to say
that the imprudence of Peggy al
most disrupted President Jack
sons first cabinet, in which Gen.
Eaton was then serving as Secre-
tary of War. Senator Eaton sub
sequently held other Federal posts
of honor. He died in Washington
in 1856 and was buried in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
Among the other prominent
men who lived at the Franklin
House was George Clinton, Vice
President of the United States
from 1905. and until his death
at O'Neale's on April 20. 1872.
For nearly a hundred years his
distinguished remains reposed in
Congressional Cemetery, but in
1908 they were taken to New York
and reinterred in the First Dutch
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Early First Ward Residents

years before the city became the
Federal Capital. Funk was q
gunmaker of Georgetown during
the American Revolution, and,
after leaving this locality at an
early date, laid out the village OF
Funkstown. three miles this side
of Hagerstown, Md.
The city's first race course. laid
out in 1898, was also in this ward.
extending, we are told, from Sev.
enteenth street to as far as Twen-
ty-flfth street, the exact limit
depending upon who is writing the
story. BY some, the judges stand
is placed at Nineteenth and F
streets, and the buildings and
stables used in connection with
the race course where the Young
Mems Christian Association Build
ing now stands. Anyhow, the first
race course was somewhere in this
vicinity, if not exactly just where
it is said to have been, and SO was
the old Western Market at Twen-
tieth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and the engine house close by,
now the meeting place Of the As
sociation of the Oldest Inhabitants.
Progress is severely cutting in
on the old landmarks OF this
neighborhood, though quite a
number still remain to show the
once seclusiveness of the old first
ward.
Timothy Caldwell's house at
2O17 I street still stands. 1t was
here that James Monroe resided
while serving as Secretary OF State
and even for a short while after
he was sworn in as President.
Cleveland Able. who inaugurated
the daily weather reports, also
lived here. This old mansion Is
now the home of the Arts Club Of
Washington.
The last home Of Jefferson
Davis in Washington was at 1875
I street. Only a few doors away
was the residence Of Charles Good
year at 1923 I street. Mr.. Good
year made rubber tires possible.
Another historic home which
once stood in this neighborhood,
at ITO H street, Is where Lord
Lyons, the British Minister, lived
when he entertained the Prince
of Wales (afterward King Ed.
ward VID on October 5, 1860.
Later Admiral David D. Porter
lived at this address. and it was
here that the District Of Columbia
Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, was organized on
April 19, 1890.
At the northwest corner Of
Pennsylvania avenue and Nine
teenth street stands one Of what
was early known as the Seven
Buildings, erected in 1900. This
corner structure is now occupied
as a drugstore. Here, however,
in 1901, was the State Depart
ment, when John Marshall was
Secretary of State. 1t was also
used by President and Mrs. James
Madison from October, 1915, to
March, 1917. And here, also, re-
sided Vice Presidents Eldridge
Gerry and Martin Van Buren, and
Secretary of the Treasury Robert
j. Walker and other distinguished
people.
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Local Ben Hur News

Mckinley Court will have in
stallation of officers Tuesday in
Pythian Temple.
Congressional Court will meet
Wednesday at the home Of Elmer
Johnson.
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Other Lines Encouraaed

Other Lines Encouraged
That wasn't quite fair. for the
job was made relatively easy for
the domestics by four-engined
land planes then becoming plent-
iful and with big airports that
appeared overnight in Africa, on
Pacific islands. in South America
and in the Arctic, airports whose
construction costs were prohibitive
before the war. That is why, in
many parts of the world, Pan
American was forced to use flying
boats, lagoons and harbors pro-
viding the only landing bases.
Also, four-engined, long-range
land planes did not come into
production until early 1912 when
the first Douglas C-54 transports
began to flow out of the factory
to the Army and Navy.
But the domestics developed a
strong appetite for postwar inter-
national flying and in the spring
of 1914 the CAB gave them tre-
mendous encouragement when II
suddenly published its conception
+ postwar international air trans
,ort routes and invited bids fol
anne!
The eager and ambitious domes-
les pitched into this opportunity
and Pan American accepted the
challenge and dug In for what
looked like a fight for It's survival
Seventeen United States domestic
airlines organized special COM
bat team to fight Mr.. Trippe and
Pan American.
The CAB, to facilitate handling
the flood Of applications for for.
eign certificates. divided UP Par
Americans exclusive world ints
four areas and labeled them NORTH
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Art and Artists
Guild 0 pens Exhibition at American u;
Works Are Drawn From Many Sources
By Florence S. Berrymon

The first major exhibition by
the Artists Guild of Washington
since December, 1947, opened al
the Watkins Gallery. American
University, last Sunday, to re.
main through January 20. Un.
restricted as to media, it includes
predominantly Oil paintings, with
a few works in sculpture, also
water colors and tempera paint
ings, and such esoteric combina-
tions as Julia Eckel's montage o1
woodblocks On a mirror cFigure
With Fruit"). The show has ap-
proximately so exhibits.
The guilds membership includes
traditionalists as we'll as esthetic
radicals. hence the exhibition has
considerable range, with work
which will be easily enjoyed by
the layman, and other items
whose significance and merits re-
quire mental and emotional effort
on the part of the beholder.
Instead of contemplating the
exhibition wholly from the stand
point of approach and subject
matter, found it interesting to
note the many sources from
which works have been drawn: The
art faculties of American Uni
versity. the Corcoran School OF
Art and George Washington Uni
versity, Howard University, the
Phillips Gallery's curatorial staff,
the Division of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Institution; Wash
tngton Workshop, and number
Of independent artists. Certainly
the guild has a widely representa-
tive local membership.
American University's art fac
ulty is the most experimental, in
personal modern idioms, as re-
vealed in William Calfee's large
tempera, 'Fates"; John Galloway
Rose Plant" Robert Franklin
Gates Fallen Tree" a dark
near-abstraction, and Sarah Bak-
er's restrained, spacious "Still
Life" Margaret Gates alone rep
resents the conservative view
point with her Patriot and
Pines" Ward Circle.
Eugen Weisz' handsome "Still
Life in Gray and Rose" coax
leaves, pears and draperies), Rich
ard Lahey's delightful landscape,
Spring Evening"" and Heinz
Warneke's wood sculpture of a
burgeoning plant, with something
of the quality of the much magni-
fed plant forms photographed
some years ago by Karl Blossfeldt.
give an ingratiating account Of
the Corcoran School faculty.
Lois Jones of Howard University
Is showing a picturesque Noun
tain Street in the Pyrenees." Jack
Perlmutter washington Work
shop teaching staff has rung a
new change on one of his pet
themes, wash hanging on clothes
lines between tenements. Claire
Fontanini, head of Catholic Uni
versity's art department, is repre-
sented by a white marble Bird"
much simplif1ed. with long, clean
lines and contrasting textures.
Andrea Zerega's "And a Red Car
nation" adroitly painted, has a
ready appeal, but is somewhat
"thin."
Other good things in the show
are Eliot O'Hara's streamlined
architectural "Voss, Norway;
"Wingdale Quarry" by Prentiss
Taylor (president Of the guild ;
Herman Marils met and Shore, u
the first romantic painting I have
seen by this Baltimore artist
whose hallmark is usually an aus
tere economy of means; Norma
Mazo's winter Children" bum
died up against the snow; John
Gernand's Summer Fields" a
simple landscape naturalistic save
for its eerie illumination; Fran
ces Ferry's very feminine "Stu-
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Constant Adventure

Benjamin Abramowitz, whose
paintings and prints have been
seen in group and one-man shows
in Washington for several years,
is currently honored with a dis
play of recent paintings at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art through
January 20. This is the eighth
in the gallery's contemporary
American Artists Series"
Mr.. Abramowitz' work SO i'm
pressed Franklin c. Watkins, not
ed Philadelphia painter, who was
one Of the two judges for the
Corcoran's area exhibition last
autumn, that he recommended
the young artist be included in
the series Of one-rnan shows. In
the introduction to the catalogue,
Mr.. Abramowitz says in part, "the
exhibit represents my equation
In painters forms of contempo-
rary living" He also says:
"For you who look for a mean
ing in things, much will be found
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Midwestern Regional

Paintings by i've artists Of
Washington are now hanging in
the 18th annual New Year show
at the Butler Art Institute,
Youngstown. Ohio, through jan
uary 90. They are Samuel Book
atz, Leonard Maurer, Eliot O'Hara
Anthony Qualia and Edith john
son Qualia. Their paintings were
among 204 accepted from a total
of 1920 works submitted by artists
of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia
and Washington. Cash prizes
totaling nearly 81, 900 were award
ed to 16 artists.
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Spanish War Veterans

Meet1ngS thlS week.
M n d ay Admiral George
Dewey Auxiliary.
Wednesday - Gen. M. Emmit
Urell Auxiliary.
Friday-Gen. Henry w. Lawton
Auxiliary.
Sunday - Department visit to
Soldiers Home Hospital.
Monday-Col. John j. Astor
Camp.
Saturady-Gen. M. Ernmit Urell
Camp.
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some of her work seen hereto
fore; Alice Acheson's October
Yellows," Mary Watkins "Flirta-
ton" (deer in a decorative land
scape). Carl Nyquist's vital por-
trait of a girl, Airline Fruhauf's
self-caricature, New Baby; Har-
old Giese's "zinnias," with its
charming color scheme, and Fish
Bait" by Anderson, a .diverting
little genre work.
Sarah Silberman's little walnut
sculpture, 1.-TWO Figure Group"
displays her usual careful work.
manship. Alice Decker's bronze
life-size portrait bust of Catherine
Bauer is admirable. Maxim Elias
is still making things with odd
shaped pieces of wood, in the
present instance, an abstract,
Man on Bench"
Also on view at Watkins Gal
lery is large show of photo
graphs from Life magazine, en-
titled THE Medieval World" a
well-integrated and labeled sur
vey of architecture, decorative
arts, customs and other phases,
which will remain through next
Sunday.
'Bauhaus Viewpoint
The Division of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Building, reveals i'm
peccable impartiality in its an
nual programs. In the course of
a year the gallery visitor sees
work by artists of right, left and
center. and degrees in between.
Last month we had Hugh Bolts,
comparatively naturalistic; this
month, Josef Albers at the other
extreme, pure abstraction.
Mr.. Albers and his wife Ami
were the first teachers in the
United States, from the famous
Bauhaus at Weimar, forced by
Hitler to close in 1888. The AL
bers came then to Black Mountain
College, North Carolina, where
they taught for more than a
decade.
To the untutored eye, Mr.. AL
bers' prints appear astonishingly
simple, as If they could be pro-
duced by any one with a steady
hand and good ruler. But such
is not the case. Jacob Kainen,
curator of the division, said:
"To Mr.. Albers, the final print
is the result of individual study
through hundreds of preliminary
sketches, sometimes stretching
over a period of a year or more.
He believes that. like musician,
an artist should not approach a
performance without a complete
rehearsal" Commenting further
on these abstract essays in bal
ance and movement" Mr.. Kainen
said the lines of the patterns are
drawn mostly by mechanical
means.
The prints are all black and
white, comprising designs Of
curved and straight lines, usually
precise. In some of them are back
grounds resembling finely grained
wood. or the ocean with white
caps, viewed from an airplane.
It seems to me that one would
have to be equipped with a cold,
impersonal mind to derive endur-
ing reward from prolonged con-
temptation of these rectangles,
parallelograms. ovals and kindred
shapes, even though for initiates
they create interesting patterns
and the Illusion of advancing and
receding movements"
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to satisfy and disturb. For others
is extended the simple JOY of
sense pleasure.
1t seems to me that the large
majority of the public will find
these paintings disturbing. if not
abhorrent, with very little COM
pensating "joy." PORTRAITS of a
little boy and girl are appealing.)
Mr.. Abramowitz is an expression
ist, whose drastically distorted
heads and figures, emotional use
of color and smeary application
of it, are valid forms and prac-
tees today. Admittedly, he re-
fleets our unhappy epoch. But
the average persons conviction
is that we must work to improve
this wretched world. There is no
satisfaction in seeing it mirrored.
y X X
Primitive Modern
Sylvia Carewe, a native New
Yorker whose first solo exhibition
was held at the AGA Gallery,
New York City, in October, 1948,
is having her first in Washington
at the Barnett Alden Gallery
through this month. Some of the
paintings in the current show were
shown in New York.
A commercial writer six years
ago, she became an artist by the
accidental route of visiting an art
class with a friend, and discover
ing intense delight in capturing
color and form on paper, and later
on canvas. After three lessons
in a class. she has eschewed any
formal art training, preferring
complete freedom to develop her
own latent abilities.
She essays all types of subject
matter. is uninhibited in render
ing of forms, and bold in the use
of color, to the extent that there
are some very garish combina-
tions. However, her most recent
works are so obviously the best
in the group, that it is natural to
assume she has a future in her
career.
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Ka to choose, from day to day,
what age he would like to be. II
he felt like playing as youngster,
he would occupy the figure Of
the 10-year-old. If he wanted to-
be wise and rest, he could dwell
within the figure of the old man.
Biggest Attraction.
The biggest attraction in the
museum. and rightly so, Is the
section devoted to the findings in
King Tutankhamen's tomb.
OF all the tombs ever uncovered
King Tut's is the only one found
intact. No looters had entered
it. Actually Tut was a minor King.
taking authority at the age Of nine
and dying at the age of 10. One
wonders what glories would have
been available today if the tombs
of the really mighty monarchs
had been spared by the robbers.
But Tut's tomb yielded a breath
taking array. I envy those who
first opened the doors and saw.
stacked from floor to ceiling. the
beautiful things of the boy King.
1t must have been an overpowering
moment.
There is no use Of my trying
to tell you all that was found. It
would take six columns the size Of
this just to describe the jewels. e :.
distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Ine.C
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ported back to live, for two or
three hours, with the men, women
and children who worked, played,
suffered. and wondered about the
world centuries and centuries
before Christ was born.
Emphasis on Ka And Ba.
The assistant curator of the
museum was our guide and his
Interpretation of the ancient writ
ing, his explanation of the figures,
the reliefs, and the symbols, made
the relics of these long dead people
come to life again.
He briefed us before we started
the tour, with particular emphasis
on Ka and Ba. To the men of
long ago Ba was the soul that
went to Heaven. Ka was the rep
lica Of the departed man who lived
on and on. If the man had one
eye Ka had one eye. If the man
were short and fat Ka was short
and fat. If the man were soldier
Ka was a soldier.
In all the tombs there were
peepholes from which Ka could
look out. There were statuettes Of
women washing, men threshing
grain, men making beer. girls
cooking a goose-all servants of
Ka, so that he would not want.
Also, there were statuettes Of the
departed man at 10, at 20, at 40,
and as an old man. This enabled
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maSterful job. Constantine Brown
These facts are reflected in
slightly more optimistic atmos-
phere in Washington's professional
military quarters, where it is now
expected, that American troops,
due to be reinforced by conting-
ents from the United States, may
be able to check the Reds drive
from the north.
Still Long Way From Task.
We are still a long way. how
ever, from accomplishing the task
entrusted to us by the U.N., which
is to push the aggressors back
to their frontier. A simple arith-
metical calculation shows the
problems which confront us in the
near future.
We have earmarked for the
Pacific area everything we can
safely spare in the absence Of
general mobilization. Under pres
ent conditions we cannot expect
to be able to throw more than
40 900 American troops into Korea.
If the Northerners had only man
power and lacked modern war
material, the American troops
would be able to do the job
thoroughly.
Instead of the 100 or more med
ium tanks which the North
Koreans were supposed to possess,
we now discover that they have
in action upwards of 1870. includ-
ing at least one stain land
cruiser" the latest heavily-ar-
mored 60-ton Russian tank.
The North Korean army until
last Saturday suffered only negli-
gible losses. Its strength is esti-
mated at between 100000 and
250.000 well-trained men. The
strategy and tactics used by the
North Koreans show concluSively
the hand of Sovet masterminds,
whom our own general staff re-
CARDS as sound military thinkers.
In addition to this force there
are at least 100000 Chinese Com
munist forces on or in the vicinity
Of the Observation-Disclosures border.
A conservative estimate is that
Moscow has mustered a minimum
OF 100000 men from the satellites,
ready to jump into action if the
six divisions of North Koreans
now engaged are threatened with
defeat.
Thus, even if we accept the op-
timistic idea that the Korean ex-
plosion is localized-a theory
which is not shared by most mill
tary men-we would be obliged to
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by Chairman Leon Keyserling of
the Council of Economic Advisers.
Mr.. Keyserling is today convinced
that the United States economy
is so strong and vigorous it is
safe to proceed slowly.
In a war trend, Secretary of In
terror Chapman moves up with
his public power, mineral and oil
development programs, all vital to
defense. It is in the war cards
that Secretaries Brannan of Agri-
culture, Snyder of Treasury and
Sawyer Of Commerce, will retreat
to their own departments.
Labor Front Problem.
The labor front is a problem.
John r. Steelman. the presidential
assistant who has advised him on
labor. has broken his pick with the
union leaders. They don't accuse
him of malpractice; they only
say he wants to please everybody.
Friends of Secretary Of Labor To-
bin. who has been in eclipse, think
he can do the job; the unions re-
serve judgment.
In the Defense Department, Sec
retary johnson is under heavy
fire for his pre-Korean super
optimism. In a recent reconnais-
sance of the Northwest, Demo-
cratic National Chairman Boyle
and Mrs. India Edwards, Vice
Chairman, were constantly pressed
on this point. The questions asked
them were frequently embarras-
sing and seldom easy to answer.
The President has not given
any indication of altered feeling
toward Mr.. johnson. However,
one change Is threatened.
Prior to Korea. Deputy Under
secretary of Defense Stephen T.
Early. who sacrificed his family's
security to serve Mr.. Roosevelt
in the last war, had fixed August
l as his date for returning to his
business. That date is out. but he
Is restive. r. T.
It is understood that Secretary
of War Frank Pace, one Of the
few wonder boys claimed by the
Truman administration, was be-
ing groomed for Mr.. Early's job.
1t would be a promotion, as under
unif1cation the Defense Undersec-
retary ranks the Secretaries Of
War, Navy and Air Force. But the
job consists chiefly of picking up
the Secretary's watch when he
drops it, which with Mr.. johnson
is more often than somewhat and
keeps the Undersecretary in a
more or less permanently stoop-
ing position. Mr.. PAGES friends
are shaking their heads no.