Rambler Writes of James Who Lived on F Street The wrnif Thorn¬ Man, Architect, by a« for time past ha* lately tikm up BN the sketch of Dr. William auch delicacy that he will not hold intercourse ton last Sunday the Rambler men¬ with or Submit . the Superiority of Mr. Hohnn, the Principal. On explanation we have parted, tioned James Hoban as having he was on n liberal appointment hut refuses t» among the early residents of give up the Plans and Kssays of Plans as you'll been aee by the inclosed. From llallette's disposition, . P street. The home of Dr. Thornton as disclosed in this transaction we expect )>. stood on the site now occupied by No. will run out all proeeas before he'll jive out tha 1331 F, and Mr. Hoban owned two of papers. of Philip Barton Key. to whom the eorh- the original lots on the north side missioners applird for aid against Hal- F between 14th and 15th streets. It lette, was an uncle of Francis Scott is necessary to say "original lots" be¬ Key. Kverybody in the District is are much smaller familiar with the name. "Wooflley cause the present lots lane." and it takes its name from than the lots laid off in the first sur¬ Philip Barton Key's home, which h<» vey of the city. The following is taken called Woodley. It was a tract of 2T»0 written in 1794: acres which Mr. Key s<>cured ih 1704 from a narrative out of the larger tract called "Rose- now into 1.236 lot* owned The city is apportioned lot dale," by Mr. Key's brother-in- for building, and which are for sale. Each law. Uriah Forrest, one of Washing¬ contains for building three or four houses, ground be observed for ton's generals, a large Georgetow n according to general rules to merchant with making them uniform. The deepest lots are 270 in partnership Benja¬ feet bj seventy. fronting the street. A square min Stoddert and later clerk of ths has from twenty to thirty lots in it. The value Circuit Court of the District of Co¬ of each lot is from 40 to 200 pounds sterling. lumbia for the <-ounty of Washington. It was in 1700 that Forrest and Stod¬ lots were the third and Mr. Hoban's dert acquired a tract of 090 acres north fourth from the corner of 14th street. of Georgetown, between Bock creelc As early as 1802, and probably several and the Georgetown-Frederick road. were with Four years later Gen. Forrest bought years earlier, they improved Stoddert's interest, built his home on two brick houses. Lot No. 3 was valued this land and calb d it "Itosedale." at $450, and was improved with a and lot 4, * dwelling assessed at $1,200, * valued at $700, was improved with a * _house assessed at $2,000. These were The will of James Hoban is amonf among the large houses of F street at the records in the otT:ce of the register that time. Which of those houses was of wills. It bears date D-cember K, the home of Mr. Hoban the Rambler cannot determine at this writing, but 1831, and was recorded December 28, he will hazard the guess that it was 1831. He bequ"aths to each of his chil¬ the twelve-hundred-dollar house on the dren. Edward. James. Francis P.. Ann. street. third lot west of 14th and "an share, or It was a coincidence that Dr. Thorn¬ Joseph Henry, equal ton and Mr. Hoban. who had so much portion of all my estate, real. p< rsonal to do with the building of the Capitol, and mixed, to them and their heir* shot/id have been neighbors. It was Dr. forever." He asks that Rev. William of the which Thornton's design Capitol of St. Patrick's was approved by President Washington Matthews, pastor* and the commissioners appointed by Church, act as trustee for Kdward's him to set up the public buildings and SOUTHWEST CORNER OF 5TH AND P STREETS. share. to get things going in the new city of before the transfer of the trol of the building passed into the li^nd* of vantageous Terms: and hope if his industry and sioners at George Town (the old form Mr. Hoban willed that in case his Washington James Hoban. who. as surveyor of the public liouestj- are of a I'ioce with the specimen he has of from r should die C/ithout i£su« seat of from Philadelphia. spelling that name) September NORTHEAST OF 7TH AND F STREETS. daueht- Ann government works, had been previously connected with the given of his abilities he will prove a useful man 22 to 25, 1793, and on the 23d they ad¬ her husband, Stephen C. Ford, should * construction of the building- lioban was a and a considerable addition. Hoban: CORNER the vviil He be¬ settled in Charleston. dressed the following to Mr. was to inherit under $l..vsn. * * native of Ireland and had * was the captain. It organized Hoban was instructed to set him 1802 and for several years before and to bis brother-in-law. Mr. S. C., Just aftej* the revolutionary war. His The Commissioners direct that Mr. James under the laws of and very work." after that date, lot No. 1, 2S9, queaths Mr. Hoban, in 1792, was chosen by * * Hoban take on himself the Maryland, square Stone, and to his Nancy and principal work was designing and constructing general superin- early Is found of its musters * that being the northwest corner of 12th daughters. President as surveyor of the President's mansion. His connection witn The commissioners. Thomas Jefferson, tendenee of th*» Capital and that the work mention Martha, "three acres of my farm near "Washington thereof be conducted to the orders on President's Square, which has notv * * and F streets. The corner was not built the Capitol continued for ten years, or until in a agreeable this c»ty. on which they reside." and the public works in the new federal which as David Stuart and Daniel Carroll, and directions which may be given from time been highly developed by the landscape This Dermott Roe was one of the on, but on that square, the north side 1802, during period George Hatfield, architect and which is called ho left them *4o made of sound bricks-and Mr. Artillery probably there also. sesors and clerks have written it in the and William Hoyle. He that won the medal offered to art students strong request old accounts mention the of a salute of Columbia." directed Henry mer of 1793, until 1802. The southeast the Dublin of Soon care." dealt with the need of getting Iloban to provide with that flevr so that there firing books so that it appears as Dermottroe, In the summer of 1794 there was C. Neab-. George Sw«eny and Jatnea corner stone of the Capitol was laid by Society ^rts. may b*> no stop or for want of such by artillery at the corner stone laying. trouble between the stone cutters and after becoming a citizen of Charleston workmen for the Capitol and mentioned delay Dermottree and McDermottree. In 1802 Kearney, "all of this city, shall value September IS, 1793, and a brief but bricks. Thf* facing of the falls of these build¬ Mr. Bryan, basing his statements on "Bernard MeDermottree" was the own¬ stone setters at the Capitol and Hoban and estate." .James Ho¬ account of that cere¬ he designed a new etatehouse for South Mr. Hoban. Following is an excerpt ings are to l>e made of free stone and the and Roe. The apportion my satisfactory and was also the architect of the recollections of George Watterson, er of lot No. 1ft. the third lot west of Dermott commissioners ban. and Thomas Cartw-rv were the mony has been preserved. One should Carolina necessary provision is to be made in Time for sent a letter to Collin William- jr.. a number of the homes of Charleston. from that letter: that purpose. printed in the National Intelligencer 14th street on the south side of F be- strong executors, and Henry C. Neale. Na¬ bear In mind that the southeast We have taken the Measures most as August 26, 1847, says that the proces¬ tween 14th and 15th: "Owen McDermot- son, the master mason, that "while we and H. W. Whar¬ corner of George Washington, writing from likely thaniel P. Causin C. atone the Capitol is in the the wc to succeed for the Introduction of for¬ Mr. Hoban was one of the important sion to- the Capitol on the occasion of troi's" heirs were the owners of lot are happy at all times to receive any ton the witnesses. southeast corner of that little Mount Vernon on July 23. 1792. to judge actors or Aquia of and eign Mechanics.the number we have attempted participants in the corner¬ the corner stone laying formed at No. 6, Vthe sixth lot west of 13th street information from those engaged in the Kdward Hoban. son of James Hoban, freestone structure between the rotun¬ "commissioners public buildings we stone On a silver of the city of Washington and is greater tlian we want, shall probably fail laying. plate depos¬ President's Square and marched to the on the north side of F between 13th public service and their terms of work. died in 1836. His will was signed da and the white marble wing on the grounds of some of them, and if all should come the only ited in the stone is this inscription: Capitol, not along the Avenue, but and 14th, and "Cornelius McDermottroe" we can never countenance a riotoute and and November the District of Columbia," acquainting will !*» our August ."i. 1S33, probated south occupied by the House of Repre¬ possible bad consequence distressing This southeast corner stone of the along F street over a new of of lot No. 22 (Morris Lambert disorderly conduct." They further* said ex¬ them with his opinions on a plan for no Plain i*tone-cutters Capitol probably part 1. 1SH6. Mary Ann Hohan was the* sentatives. No account of the break¬ friends in great, degree. .»f the United States of in the of road that in the the other on that "had been well informed that a submitted a Turner, we most want, and have l>een our America, City post followed, papt, owning part), the south they ecutrix and Charles H. W. Wharton, ing of ground for the Capitol has come Capitol, by Judge they principal Washington, was laid on the 18th day of of land which F street street there are several of those who are at who for a time seemed likely to win Object, without a good many we shall be at a Sep¬ ridge high along side of F between 13th and 14th, George Stettinius and William Dough¬ under tire Rambler's notice. In the be in tember. 1793. in the Thirteenth Year of Ameri- was surveyed. "A short distance west the second lot west of the corner of work at the Capitol who have iss«ed the prize, said: stand. Wherefore if it should your way can Independence, in the first year of the sec¬ erty the witnesses. Rev. William "Doonmentary History of the Capitol," we wish to forward an immediate increase. of the Capitol," says Mr. Bryan, "the 13th. The .name in various forms is threats against Mr. Hoban and Der- I have no hesitation in that 1 am you ond term of the Presidency of George Wash¬ Matthews did accept the trusteeship the most exhaustive work in relation declaring We are we are told in procession reached the banks of the often encountered in the old assess¬ mott Roe and that the latter has been more agreeably struck with the appearance of it strong enough Carpenters. ington, whose virtues in the civil administra¬ requested by James Hoban. to that majestic building, there is no has been to Mr. Hoban is to Kndeavor to g»-t a good Brick- tion of his country have been as conspicuous Tiber, and there, at the fording place, ment books. There was also a Dermott at his own safety compelled to take In these Hoban wills the on than with any other that presented maker from We have a looking up mention of the day which the first you. There is the same defect, however, in this Philadelphia. may goad and beneficial as his military valor and prudence the regular order was broken, while family in old Washington, and in 1802 out warrants against them." Rambler came upon one made by Minty of earth was turned. which many Negro Laborours. have been useful in establishing her liberties, the individuals composing" the proces¬ the heirs of James Dermott the same summer the rela¬ spade plan as there is in all the other plans and in the owned lot During Hoban. a colored woman, which im¬ Mr. Hoban's most popular claim on have l*en to namely, the want of President Washington, writing from year of Masonry 3793, by the Presi¬ sion crossed, either by means of the No. ., square 376. that the tions between Hoban and Hallette, presented you. dent of the United States in concert with the being pressed him as being a strange paper. remembrance seems to be that he was an executive apartment, which ought if possible the executive residence at Philadelphia. rude bridge formed by a single log or northwest corner of 9th and F streets, on which seem to have been strained for It contains this to be obtained. The dome which is as Grand Lodge of Maryland, several lodges under paragraph, preceded the designer of the plan and the archi¬ suggested July 17. 1793, to the commissioners, said its jurisdiction and No. 22 from Alex- a little way above by a few large which the Model Hotel was built and some time, came to a climax and the by the word "Item": "I will and be¬ tect of the White House. Edward an addition to the ceDter of the edifice will in that "according to the desire expressed in Lodge stones. later Masonic John commissioners let Mr. Hallette resign a and to the ar.'dria, Va.: Temple. Dermott, queath that my daughter. Henrietta Clark, architect of the Capitol from my opinion give beauty grandeur your letter of June 30, I called together Dr. Thomas Johnson. David Stuart and Daniel In progress on the Capitol lawyer, had his office in his home, on Light is thrown on this in a letter Steward, alias Henrietta and Pile, and might be useful for the reception of May, 17ftA, in Hoban, 1865 until his death, in 1902, writing of clock, bell, etc. Thornton, Mr. Hallette, Mr.. Hoban and Carroll, Commissioners: Joseph Clark, Kight not being all that was desired, the com¬ the north side of F between 13th and which the commissioners wrote her child, Minty Ann Magruder. shall his in that office.Stephen a judicious undertaker (contractor) of Worshipful Grand Master pro tempore; James to Tet contracts 14th streets. to Barton Key, their predecessors Hoban and missioners concluded June, 1794, Philip be free from slavery in every respect James Hoban, George Hatfield. In this letter, expressing himself on this place, Mr. Garstairs. chosen by Dr. Stephen Hallette. architects; Collin of the work, and in¬ At this point it is convenient to the legal to have him take on Hallette, Williamson, master mason. for sections they representative, immediately my decease." The will Benjamin Latrobe. Charles Bullfinch the selection of Mr. Hoban as superin¬ Thornton as a competent judge of the formed Collin Williamson that they Rambler to tell that James Hoban, in measures to recover from Hallette cer¬ was recorded March IS 1*3*. and and Thomas U. Walker, said of Jfr. Ho¬ tendent of the public works. Washing¬ objections made to his plan of the Cap¬ The first militia company of which "had closed with Dermott Roe's propo¬ addition to the improved lots which he tain papers relating to the Capitol. Thomas Edmonston, John Drudge and ban: ton wrote: itol for the city of Washington." . the Rambler has seen a record was the sitions for doing it by the piece, and in owned on the north side of F between They said: George Drudge were witnesses to the Upon the retirement of Mr. Hallette the eoa- I think you have engaged Mr. Hoban upon ad¬ There was a meeting of the commis¬ Washington Artillery, and James Hoban consequence of this determination Mr. 14th and 15th, also owned, in the year Mr. Stephen Hallette who has been employed fact that Minty Hoban made her mark. Significance of the Revival of Greece as a Factor in War Brain Surgery Reaches a High Mark as Result of War Work %Y CHAKLES M. PZPPEB. Saloniki Instead of the western front, be satisfied by access to the sea If Greece makes good and the allies SURGERY had attained not a few times driven into the brain. In these ed upon be Bent to »«e After his recital of these events the or whether the allied troops under Gen. through Albania and the ports on the are successful in the near east in block¬ notable achievements before the cases an operation is imperative, and b£l h°spltaI°,^aimmediately. The opera- surgeon took an X-ray picture of Pri¬ GREECE comes to the fore¬ the Grecian Adriatic. This assumes that the allies maintain that ti. vate K. showed no again Guillaumat, supported by ing Germany's path to the Persian gulf, war. Certain celebrated expert surgeons expe¬ dressing station near the This skull fracture, front. The of active army, will undertake an offensive with will be able to restore to Serbia her some of her statesmen expect more great rience has shown that in such cases a ®"°®seen. at,an-vactivities would have to be which the surgeon had expected to see, possibility the view of Mace¬ and her full cases were discussed as for °.' near occupying parts of territory sovereignty. than the retention of Saloniki and surgical patient's chance recovery varies in- base in all but under the old head wound were military operations in the now While the States has no direct hospital, donia held by the Bulgarians, may United Macedonia and the adjustment with remarkable, not only among members versel> with the length of the tract ft1*so " is necessary small pieces of shell and many frag¬ east is one reason. The at¬ be disclosed within a few weeks. interest in these territorial Serbia. made the bone nr£hthm» very ments of bone. adjust¬ They look forward to the dream the medical but among by fragments. for a-i r!ify' to have a short rest be- These, however, seamed Whatever the move may be. or ments, American sentiment of dreams.that as of profession, In the battles of patient not to bother him at all. tempted mutiny of two or three regi¬ public is, Constantinople out¬ Ypres, during the and a one Private K. whichever side initiate Greece manifests itself as for Serbia an international balance many of the laity also. Since the earlier of the case after case longer was retained for a as it was and the of may it, deeply balance, the days war, after th« °Pe,rat,ion-is over. a local while, ments prompt punishment is finding the opportunity which she as for Jielgium. There has been a man¬ being between Greece in Europe and break of the world hostilities the emi¬ was brought from the field which, upon °.rdeai Only thought he might develop symptoms who fomented it also have anesfhlJ used in a Kreat number of the officers Jost when Constantine and his pro- ifestation in favor of the creation of Turkey in Asia. This would be the nent leaders of surgery have had end¬ examination, gave evidence of shrapnel 'j future trouble. Hut he grew so German were able to make the under which of balls buried in the skull of the of * surprisingly short much better and so directed attention to the developments following Jugo-Slav kingdom, realization the historic aspiration. exercise their patient. i, appeared perfectly the blunders of the allies an excuse the Slavs of southern would There are in less opportunities to skill, The record case was a time aff;^" brain1 operation the patient normal in that he was final¬ in the Hungary many thousand Greeks reported when st.e.,i t every way Aegean. for Greece not to aid be to Serbia. When President and in all sur¬ and results have been noteworthy in¬ noted as as Intelli^ence and is able to ly sent home. the coming the of joined Constantinople the military surgeon many five The Venizelos government, under Serbia, as she had bound herself to do Wilson stated that the dismemberment rounding regions both in European and deed. shrapnel balls in one brain. These take food * cases themselves are com- * protection of the allies, is in full con- by treaty. In consequence of the pro¬ of the Austro-Hungarian empire was Asiatic territory. Greece has, there- Progress had been their watchword, became rarer and rarer as the a but re¬ hfgh explosive shells grew in popu¬ niritiv»peraJlonssimple. though they recjiiire Still another soldier was under .troL There is king, nobody has been so rapid and ad¬ thJ V lm of ski" and the clearest put improvement larity with the enemy. Today ''shell Mie after from what is members his name. vancement has been so continuous that fragments are said to be the missiles of ,!!] If sur«e°ns had failed to X-ray suffering Ex-King Constantine, in his exile in which do the brin^ rh"?nt' up to ltK Present high known as a "gutter wound" in the head. the suffering peoples of the earth gaze greatest damage. st r,KWork would lie full of with a few of his nL. the world The helmet he was wearing when Switzerland, royalist hopefully upon one great good gleaned * Paralyzed men, as paralysis * * . struck had not served him and pro-German supporters, still seeks from the wreckage of war.a trium¬ fniT. wound in countless to protect Th from his arrival to maintain the monarchical preroga¬ surgery. Shefl shock is caused by the bursting ciies exact nature of the afTection. wholly injury.* Upon phant of <1e"endsf entirely on the part of it the he declared himself tives and court Newspaper men these powerful shells. The shells . hospital splendor. Several decades ago had entered therh, tl ^ are and hram injured. .fit," and he was ale~t and intelligent, dispatches not long ago told of the a vast conflict of such savagery and shattered fly at terrific speed who was wounded in the in all . though it was observed that he»sulTered fourteen automobiles which were neces¬ subjected themselves so recklessly to directions. Soldiers are actually .I?r'vatc taken ;o ,he nearest hos- for Constantine and his suite the of death-dealing shrapnel r'nrown out of trenches, flung violently nitrr T ^'aSsatisfaction could be paired slightly from aphasia. Two days later sary perils ';,tt!e He showed not the he recreation vis¬ and high explosives, the probabilities yards away or completely buried by he had epileptic attacks, these seizures whenever sought by who came under the sur¬ slightJJl" interestP?tle"t- in his story, nor anv are that those earth as a following each other closely. The iting the theater. knife would not have left the result of the explosion. If fnwIUinclinationf to talk and it was difficult- geon's failed to show a fractured Funds for keeping up the ex-king hospital as perfectly "patched up" as they are still nearer the murderous and doctorE to 'earn anv par¬ X-ray skull, now. °I.rrsr He was Patheticallv which the surgeons thought must be at undoubtedly come from Germany. The they do shell when it explodes they may even v°m disclosed Particularly is this true of patients be donS listless. Examination 'he seat of the patient's trouble. An kaiser was greatly outraged when the head wounds. Brain has killed by the frightful concussion, d"i' " hi"h besan at ^e with surgery operation was performed the same day. allies put forth a strong hand in Athens become an art. Surgeons who wish to though a subsequent examination fails ton o?»h. headvP ^OU"?and ran toward the tem¬ his but it is ,Y?f Li sev¬ and ousted brother-in-law, perform operations of this nature at to reveal any injury from a shell frag¬ ple. The attending surgeon advised The wound was not serious, and only likely that the German money spent on the front are first requested to thor¬ eral days rij^t, as the poor chap seemed skin-deep, but near one temporal lobe an exiled Con3tantine is insignificant ment, the body being quit^, untouched. from hard and oughly prepare themselves, to famil¬ fighting a cavity was found filled with badly in comparison with that which has iarize themselves with the latest meth¬ Individuals who survive the blast, jangling nerves as anything else. a*>- but who are be brain substance. This was im¬ been spent in Greece in trying to upset ods by specializing some months at an s^jd to suffering from parently. rest was what he needed badly bruised the provisional governmen of Venizelos. accredited school. After a period of in¬ shell shock, are afflicted in different for he brightened up in a few days. mediately cleaned and subsequently selos. ways Some become victims of severe tense study they are permitted to take * drained. For a short time the patient * their in Europe with medical * * * places \ms ill, but he recovered * units, where they undertake their dif¬ The sixth day after admission to the exceedingly The plan was similar to that follow¬ mission. fuily. This case was called a "whipping" ficult, delicate hospital, however, he had an epileptic ed with success in northern Italy. * of the temporal bone. No fracture was attack, which began in his rig!;t arm Resriments of the army remote from * * present, though th# brain beneath was de¬ and became general. Two hours after Athens were led to believe that Veni¬ The medical divisions of all war .severely injured. his recovery from this tirst attack he zelos had been ousted by a revolution partments are extremely wary about A rifle buliei penetrated the brain of most casual The suffered a second. He was lushed under and that Athens was seeking to make giving out the figures. one man. going in one side of th** head a of us¬ the .X-ray, and just three hours after peace with Germany. The propaganda enemy has disconcerting way and coming out tbe other. Thi.^ hap¬ to his own In the second seizure an operation was per¬ apparently was ineffective, since only ing figures advantage. pened in spite of the fact that he wore it was estimated that formed. Several hours after the opera¬ a number of the troops v.-ere led by 1916, however, a. heavy steel helm* *. ^he bullet is small tion he had a very slight at¬ their disloyal officers into mutiny. The some eighty thousand odd surgeons epileptic thought to have traversed the helmet. tack. From this time on lie reaction has been felt throughout ministered directly to the allied-cause, improved For a short while after the man had and the Venizelos he was from Greece, government working on a battle front extending no rapidly. When discharged been struck he lay, unconscious, hut consequently has been strengthened. the he walked well and h!*- This does not mean that there are no one knows exactly how many thousand hospital recovered sufficiently to m ke his way of Constantine left in PELION, WITH MOIST VOLO IX THB BACKGROUND. miles. In spite pf surgeons killed and right hand had won back a grip quite somewhat unsteadily to the .dressing supporters no that Greece, but it does mean that the Ger- wounded there is doubt but as firm and strong as that possessed .station from where he had fallen in this number has and of these The two on men intrigues have not accomplished spective developments, some, of the not one of the war aims of the United fore, legitimate interests on the Bos-' increased, the left. the trench. spots his head, Yet there are still Grecian Greeks are again dreaming" the dream States there was some mild criticism porus. just how many are brain surgeons it is by marking the entrance and exit of the anything. to The United States who had taken off his hel¬ were pacifists who, so far as they dare, set they indulged in at the opening of hos¬ over whrrt seemed to be the failure to When the Russian cycle of revolu¬ impossible say. \ eunner bullet, badly discolored. The of a Germanic erup¬ tilities. This is of a modern Hellenic the rights of the .1 tions and Prof. Miluoff, speak¬ Army has a surgeon with each one of met was in watching a battle whole scalp had it queer look, as if it forth the danger recognize ugo-Sinvs. began, its divisions. engrossed had been raised. tion. which will crush Greece as Serbia empire, somewhat like the ancient Hel¬ In addition to adjustment between ing for the first provisional govern¬ which was fiercely All men who are wounded on the bat¬ in the air waging Again th*4 X-ray was used, for the v hs crushed, unless the allfes are aban¬ lenic empire. Greece, and Serbia as to territory, there ment, declared that Constantinople still between two hostile aviators. The ailli". it and terms made with the central are some considerations of supreme was to be Russian, the feeling in Greece tlefield are given every consideration to in :iis surgeon believed extremely probable doned Americans who appreciate the dif- which are as soon as "ere also busy, and that bony splinters had bct-n This was the argument during importance to England and France in was deepened. Win n the next turn of they entitjed pos¬ in the driven powers. culties of England and France in the sible. As head wounds are known to deepdt.»
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