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Early Georgia Avenue
By John Clagett Proctor
GEORGIA AVENUE from Rock Creek road to the District line is particularly
Interesting because of the men who once owned residences and estates
along this thoroughfare, including three Mayors, one Governor and others
prominent in the affairs of the District. Originally this artery of travel
was called the Seventh street turnpike, then Seventh street road, and later it
became Brightwood avenue, before it was changed to its, present designation.
It was not here when Congress and the Government departments moved to
the Capital City in 1800. Some time between 18Q» and 1810 its construction was
authorized, but the Columbia Turnpike Co., chartered to build this and other roads
around Washington, delayed the work,
and the project was finally taken up by
the Washington & Rockville Turnpike
Co., of which Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
was president and John Carrol Brent
secretary.
Sessford, in his “Annals” for the year
1822, says: “The turnpike road leading
from Seventh street to Rockville has
already become of great utility to this
ward and the city generally,” and from
this statement it might well be assumed
that it was a new road at that date,
but it was certainly not completed to
Rockville until 1829, when toll gates
were erected. It must have been a mud
hole in wet weather, and extremely
dusty when it was dry, for it remained
unimproved for many years.
About 1850, the Maryland portion was
improved with a plank road, and in 1852
the District part was covered with hem
lock planks, 3 to 4 inches thick, with a
width of 8 feet. Just what two teams
did when they met can only be surmised.
Road Widened Twice
In Last Half Century
It was a narrow road, within the mem
ory of many, and has been widened at
least twice within the last half century.
As might be expected, the plank road
did not last long and remained in bad
shape for a long while, until graded
and macadamized by the Board of Pub
lic Works during Gov. Shepherd’s ad
ministration. It happened to be one of
those improvements which were ques
tioned by the committee which tried to
find something wrong with everything
that Mr. Shepherd did. However, in its
improved condition, it made a fine road
for driving for some time, and in later
years, when bicycling became a craze,
it was used by enthusiastic wheelmen
as one of the better roads around the
city.
As the writer recalls it, many years
ago. it was similar to any other country
road in this part of the country—fined
with overhanging trees of various native
species, and with holes in it large
enough to make a driver stop every once
in a while in order not to break a wagon
spring. Occasionally there, was a spring
to the side of the road, around which a
half barrel had been placed, and a coco
nut dipper or a rusty tin can with which
the weary traveler on a warm summer’s
day refreshed himself with genuine
aqua pura.
One of these natural fountains—
known as James White’s spring—is still
recalled in particular by the writer, since
it was the most copious, so far as he
knows, along this pike. Incidentally, it
now empties into a sewer. A few of the
trees which once surrounded it are still
standing, recognized only by those whose
memories wander back into the distant
past.
On both sides of Georgia avenue, up
to the period of the Civil War, there was
little else but farm land. Between 1857
and 1860, few persons lived and owned
property on what was then a turnpike
road.
Farm Called ‘Petworth’
Bordered on Road
However, the first estate on the east
side of Georgia avenue to the north of
Rock Creek Church road, which it also
bordered, was the large farm of Col.
• John Tayloe which he named Petworth,
as has been said, “for the English town
of that name." Prior to this we are told,
the property belonged to a Capt. Balch
and as part of his estate, it was sold to
Col. Tayloe after the former’s death,
about 1803.
At this time, Col. Tayloe improved the
farm by erecting a line of posts and a
rail fence of cedar along the Rock Creek
Church road side for about three
fourths of a mile. The rails, according
to an old item, after being hewn, were
planed, the work being done by slave
labor. According to an item written
in 1865, the rails were then in a good
state of preservation. It was further
stated that when the fence was erected,
there was no road up Seventh street,
which now means Georgia avenue.
Another family that settled in Bright
wood at an early date was that repre
sented by Enos Ray, who first came
into the neighborhood in 1830, when he
farmed for several years a tract of land
to the north of Petworth owned by
Theodore Mosher, and later by Marshall
Brown, son of Jesse Brown, who con
ducted a hostelry on Pennsylvania ave
nue, called the Indian Queen. This tav
ern -was later operated by his sons,
Marshall and Tillstson, when it was
generally known as Brown's Hotel, and
later as the Metropolitan.
In 1835, Mr. Ray bought an exten
sive acreage of property east of Georgia
avenue on old Milk House Ford road,
later changed to Magnolia avenue, then
to Shepherd road and now, for some
distance, to Concord avenue. The Mar
shall Brown tract extended northward
to the stream known as Plney Branch.
The old Marshall Brown mansion will
be Trailed by many as once the home
and course of the Columbia Golf Club,
later known as the Columbia Country
Club, organized September 29, 1898. The
old home was located about at Dela
fiei^ street, between Georgia and Illi
nois avenues.
Piney Branch Park
Made From Old Farm
The country home and estate of
Richard Wallach, who was Mayor of
Washington from 1861 to 1867, was on
the west side of Georgia avenue, about
opposite the Marshall Brown property.
It contained 80 acres and’ was known
as Maple Grove farm. On May 22,
1854, this farm was purchased from
Mayor Wallach by the pioneer John A.
Saul, and here he kept his nurseries
until his death. The Wallach home was
a modest one and Mr. Saul added a
central portion to the structure, and a
wing to correspond to the original
dwelling. After the death of Mr. Saul,
May 11, 1897, the Saul property was
subdivided into building lots, and be
came Saul’s subdivision, its name later
being changed to Piney Branch Park.
The country home of the late Mat
thew G. Emery, mayor of Washington
during 1870, and until the territorial
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Entrance to the country home on Georgia avenue of Gov.
Alexander R. Shepherd. * ,
government was ushered in on Febru
ary 28, 1871, still stands on Georgia
avenue in the _ large estate between
Madison street and Concord avenue.
It is one of the few buildings remain
ing in the vicinity of Fort Stevens that
was there during the Civil War, and
is certainly of sufficient historic im
portance to warrant its preservation.
It was occupied by Mr. Emery and
his family at the beginning of the war,
but finding it to be of strategic military
value—being one of the highest points
around Washington—he early gave it
over to the Army, which used it as a
signal station, and many messages were
transmitted between it and the dome
of the Capitol. Depressions, still visible
near the house and raised plateaus of
earth indicate where soldiers had
erected tents on the grounds.
The Emory tract contains about nine
acres of land and, with its many beauti
Civil War home of Matthew
G. Emery, last Mayor of Wash
ington.
ful old trees, forms one of the most
attractive of the few remaining avail
able park sites in the District.
Carbery Home Stood
On Hospital Site
Still to the north on Georgia avenue,
where Walter Reed Hospital now
stands, was once Norway, the country
home of Thomas Carbery, the sixth
Mayor of Washington, who served the
city as such from 1822 to 1823. He was
a man of many activities, charities and
honors, and, in addition to serving as
Mayor of the city, was collector of the
port of Washington, a member of the
commission to erect the City Hall (now
the Courthouse) and member of the
first Board of Prison Inspectors. When
the citizens of Washington undertook
the collection of funds for- erection of
the Washington Monument, and when
the Washington National Monument
Society was formed, September 26, 1833,
with Chief Justice John Marshall as
president, Thomas Carbery was selected
as one of 13 members of the Board of
Managers. He was a justice^ the peace
for more than 40 years. He was also
prominent in financial circles and was
president of the Bank of the Metropolis
(now the Metropolitan National Bank)
from 1855 to the time of his death, in
1863.
Mayor Carbery owned considerable
city real estate, including his home at
Seventeenth and C streets, where oc
curred the celebrated miracle to his
sister, Mrs. Ann Mattingly, earlier de
scribed in one of these stories. He also
had an interest in the historic home of
Notley Young, an original proprietor,
in the Southwest part of the city. He
also owned about half of the block where
now stands the Woodward & Lothrop
department store, between F and G and
Tenth and Eleventh streets. This site
formed an interesting part of his reli
gious benefactions.
Orphan Asylum Built
With Carbery’ Funds
About* 1825 the St. Vincent's Orphan
Asylum was built here. A history of
St. Patrick’s Parish says the first build
ing for the orphan asylum, which stood
on the west side of Tenth street be
tween F and G streets, was erected very
largely through the munificence of Capt.
Carbery. The asylum was incorporated
by Congress in 1831, the incorporators
being the Rev. William Matthews, the
Rev. Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Schrie
ber, Thomas Carbery and William
Hickey.
When Mayor Carbery died he left an
estate estimated at $200,000. He be
queathed $2,500 to each of his sisters,
Ruth and Catherine, together with the
city family residence, and made minor
charitable bequests. The rest of the,,
estate went to a “charity fund.” How
ever, the heirs contested the will and a
compromise was made.
Capt. Carbery came in possession of at
least a part of Norway upon the death
of his aunt, Mrs. Sybilla Carbery, widow
of Henry Carbery, a Revolutionary sol
dier. Thomas Carbery, sr., brother of
Col. Henry Carbery and father of Mayor
Thomas Carbery, located in or near
George Town about 1805, and of him the
Mayor has this to say: “My father,
Thomas Carbery, died in the City of
Washington on the 12th of July, 1812,
and in the 67th year of his age. His
whole life was marked with peculiar
energy, piety and virtue. He lived and
died in full communion with the Cath
olic churcH.”
Thomas Carbery, sr.. married Mary
Asonath Carbery, who died January 2,
1819, in the 64th year of her age. Their
11 children included Mary, John Bap
tist, Martha (Catalans), Ruth, Ann
(Mrs. Mattingly), Joseph, Catharine,
Thomas, James, Lewis and Ignatius
Henry. Thomas, the Mayor, is buried In
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
After the death of Capt. Carbery, the
Norway property seems to have gone
into the hands of his sister Ann, who
married John Mattingly, and then to
their daughter Mary Susan, who mar
ried Richard Lay, an official in the Post
Office Department, and who was likely
the owner of Norway at the time of
Early's raid on Washington. Hi's son,
Theodore Albert Lay, who married Mary
Blanche Selden. was living at Norway
when he sold the property to Senator
Cameron and Col. Myron M. Parker,
who in turn sold it to the Government.
Old House Was Target
For Artillery in 1864
Theodore Albert Lay and his wife,
Mary’ Blanche Selden, had the following
issue: Theodore Albert, James Selden,
who married Lillian Lockhart; Richard,
Blanche Selden, married Henry Waters;
Julia Walker, married Edward Perry;
Augustus Selden. married, first, Elsie
Boyle and after her death Helen Jukes.
Mayor Carbery got his military title
in the War of 1812. He was commis
sioned a captain in the 36th Infantry,
April 30. 1813, and honorably discharged
June 15, 1815.
Just how warm a reception the Con
federate soldiers were given in the Fort
Stevens engagement of July, 1864, one
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How About Those Atom Bomb W aves?
By William H. Shippen, Jr.
Aviation Editor of The Star.
THE subsurface atomic bomb test probably will create the world's biggest water
fountain, but its ocean waves will be mere ripples if they ever reach an
inhabited coast.
In answer to anxious questions arising from as far off as ChHe,
oceanographers for the Army-Navy task force have been repeating that
the tests will be purely focal in. effect compared with the seismic disturbances
that spread destructive tides ashore in Hawaii and California last week.
However deadly and far-reaching a natural wave may prove, the experts are
positive no one need fear those to be created at Bikini.
Surface reactions to underwater earthquakes or landslides along the vast
Aleuthlan Trench were thousands of times stronger, oceanographers say. than
any which can be expected from the bomb to be dropped at Bikini Atoll in July
or the subsurface blast scheduled a month later.
Destructive waves probably will be confined to the coral-contained beaches
of Bikini lagoon. It is possible, but not considered probable, that lesser waves
may radiate from the island as a result of bomb-loosened landslides down its
cone-shaped underwater base. It is doubtful, however, if such waves will be
large enough to be felt on nearby
Kwajaleln or Eniwetok.
Except for theory, nothing is known
of the reaction of large bodies of water
to atomic heat, pressure and radiation.
To observe and record every phase of
the reactions, the Navy’f oceanographers
will be assisted by experts from the
Smithsonian Institution, the Universities
of California and Michigan, the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, the
United States Geological Survey and
Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Geotech
nical Corp., and the Navy’s Electronics
Laboratory.
From what is known, it is thought
probable that the second bomb, w'hich
likely will be set off at the depth of
an aveiage harbor, will blast a hole in
the water of the lagoon perhaps 1,000
feet across.
The hole might expose the bottom oi
the lagoon for an instant before it is
closed by inrushing water with force
enough to toss a fountain some 2 miles
into the sky.
Waves of destructive force undoubted
ly will roar across the lagoon, rising to
unknown heights when they reach the
shallows to curl on the beaches or sweep
over them. Whether the shock will
start landslides down the island's 40
degree slopes into ocean depths of 3
miles is a matter of speculation.
This will depend somewhat on the
Nothing actually is known of the reaction of large bodies
of water to atomic heat, pressure and radiation. The world will
have to wait for the atom-bomb test in the Pacific to find out.
But it is predicted that one result will be the biggest water foun
tain ever created, and, luckily, that the waves will diminish to
mere ripples by the time they reach an inhabited coast.
—Illustrated by Gib Crockett, Star Staff Artist.
long-debated point of whether the
typical Pacific atoll is a volcano cone
or a mountain peak leveled by waves
and maintained by coral growths.
Water reactions will be recorded in
multiple ways because many lnstru
merits may be destroyed. Two lines of
about 30 automatic pressure recorders
will be planted on the bottom of the
lagoon to measure waves passing over
them.
Sounding devices will be placed on
bouys and "guinea pig" ships to report
their movements in the turbulent water.
Some will broadcast the information.
Electric contacts will be set on piles to
measure water levels, and television and
still cameras will picture water move
ments from four towers on nearby
beaches. 0
Additional camera records of surface
upheavals will be made from three air
planes operating on a split-second syn
chronize^ schedule. These are expected
to show the heights, velocity and wave
length of the undulations.
Sensitive recorders will be set up on
surrounding islands to catch any un
usual movements of the water, accord
ing to Comdr. Roger Revelle, chief of the
oceanographic staff for Operation Cross
roads.
Comdr. Revelle, who before the war
was a professor of oceanography at the
University of California, is convinced
the tests will be a “very powerful re
search tool” for many branches of
science.
Por example, evidence of radio-activity
will "tag” ocean water for the first time
and allow its currents to be accurately
traced far beyond the danger point to
man or marine life.
Seven destroyers and six gunboats will
trace the water pouring from the lagoon,
as a security measure, and some units
probably will follow the drift as long as
it can be identified.
Resulting data will help to predict
danger areas for any number of atomic
bombs, it was said.
By coincidence, one of the most com
plete units ever assembled for studying
the motion of ocean waves and tides
was in Hawaii en route to Bikini when
the huge breakers rolled ashore at Hilo.
The party’s elaborate instruments,
however, were either in storage awaiting
shipment or undergoing alterations.
“There they were getting ready for
a manmade wave,” said a fellow scien
tist here, “when nature rolled a much
bigger one right up to their front doorl”
Congressmen Sidetrack Politics for Peace
By Casper Nannes
When an Arkansas Democrat and a
New Jersey Republican agree that 1s
something. The something is now be
fore the House of Representatives in
the form of a joint resolution calling
on* Congress to meet issues involving
national security and foreign policy on
a bipartisan plane, in peace as in war.
Authors of the resolution are second
»
term Representative Brooks Hays, Dem
ocrat, of Arkansas, and freshman Rep
resentative Clifford P. Case, Republican,
of New Jersey.
The measure, which calls for the
creation of a "joint committee of the
Senate a»d House to investigate fully”
the forces needed to Insure our coun
try meeting "its full share of respon
sibility” for a peaceful world, was
Home of the Lay family, which once stood in the Walter Reed
Hospital grounds and which replaced the one destroyed in the
Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864. ,
can somewhat imagine from the fol
lowing official statement of what oc
curred in part in this engagement—
July 11 and 12. Says the report:
"On July 11, 20 shots were fired
from the guns of Fort Stevens—14
30-pound and six 24-pound. Of
these, five were fired at the Confederates
in a grove 1,050 yards distant, six 24- .
pound and two 30-pound shots were
fired at them in the rear of the old
target, one in the pike in front of the
target, two at 2,000 yards distance, one
at the skirmish line behind an orchard,
one at the Carbery house (Lay) and'
two in their midst at a distance of
1,254 yards.
“On July 12 67 shots were fired, 30
of them at the Carbery, or Lay, house,
which was set on fire by shots from a
mortar; 15 at the Reeves house (B. H.
Warner's house), 1,078 yards; 4 on the
ground at the right of the pike, 1,050
yards; 2 in the ravine in the rear of
the Lay house, 10 at the carriage shop,
2 solid shots at the old camp and 4 at
the coluriin en masse.” The destroyed
Carbery-Lay house was later replaced.
Gov. Shepherd Owned
Bleak House on Avenue
Alexander Robley Shepherd, native
Washingtonian, was the second of the
two Governors of the District of Co
lumbia, serving from September 15,
1873, to June 20, 1874. Gov. Shepherd’s
subsequent career after retiring from
office was principally as a resident of
Mexico, where he engaged in mining
from 1879 on. On July 16, 1887, when
he returned to the District, he got off
the train at Silver Spring and went*
direct to his country home, Bleak
House, which stood back from the west
side of Georgia avenue not far south
of the District line. This estate at one
time extended westward as far as Rock
Creek.
Quoting from an interview given at
that time, in regard to the vast improve
ments ire was responsible for in Wash
ington, the Governor said: “I fancy
everybody sees it now; some of us saw
it then. It was a question of national
pride, the beautification of tlje National
Capital." _
signed by 12 Democrats and as many
Republicans.
The two Congressmen started from
opposite sectional and political posi
tions to arrive independently at the
conclusion that party politics must
give way on these vital issues.
"Anything touching the national
security or which embraces our whole
foreign policy is a matter for bipartisan
consideration. The general pattern of a
majority determined to carry its views
with the minority doing its best as an
opposition, does not fit the security and
foreign policy situation,” declares Mr.
Hays.
Parallel Party Action
Deemed Best Service
He conceives of parties as "vehicles of
service and not as ends in themselves;
as instruments for building policy, to be
used frequently, not in opposition to
each other, but in parallel and sup
plemental fashion.” To this extent, the
Arkansas member believes “the majority
party should welcome the instructive
assistance of the minority and share the
credit for achievements with them.”
Mr. Case arrived at a similar point of
view because he is convinced "people
of the country as a whole want peace
and also want their country to do what
is right concerning its obligations on the
international scene.” The New Jersey
member feels the best of American party
thinking is that which makes it practical
for both parties to work together.
Mr. Hays is probably the best story
teller in Washington since Chauncey
Depew. He rarely tells stories on the
House floor, but his inexhaustible fund
of tales and ready wit makes him an
ideal toastmaster at banquets. His
hobbies are fishing and painting, the
latter being "strictly amateur” and
definitely in "imitation of Churchill and
not of Hitler.”
As a youth he campaigned for his
Representative
Clifford Case.
Representative
Brooks Hays.
father. Steele Hays, when this country
lawyer and school teacher ran for Con
gress in 1922. His father was defeated.
Tod|iy, he regards his election to the
same seat his father sought as vindica
tion of the latter's adherence to liberal
principles.
Mr. Hays, at 27, was assistant attorney
general of his State. Two years later he
ran for Governor and finished second in
a field of seven. In that campaign, his
opponents jeered him as the “Boy Scout"
candidate. The Boy Scouts of 1928 have
come of age, Mr. Hays now points out.
He came to Washington as a member
of Congress in January, 1942. Twenty
three years earlier, he had come to the
District to work for the Veterans' Ad
ministration, after serving as a private
in the World War. He also studied at
George Washington University Law
School, his roommate and classmate
being Bolon Turner, now presiding judge
of the United States Tax Court.
Hays Had Reverses
In Arkansas Politics
He married while a senior in law
school. He had met his wife while at
tending the University of Arkansas.
They set up house a short distance from
their present Washington residence.
Mr. Hays and Attorney Turner were law
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"JnHAT Fightek was fameo fi»* His
partners in Little Rock, Ark., in 1928.
That year he received his early reverses
in politics. In addition to losing the
governorship, he was defeated for that
office in 1930 and for Congress in 1933.
He was successful, however, in his cam
paign for Democratic national commit
teeman in 1932, and was re-elected until
he resigned in 1939.
Sponsorship of the bipartisan resolution
is a natural evolution in his political
relationships. From 1936 to 1941 he
served as a member of the solicitors
office staff, Department of Agriculture.
In this position he had to work with
Republicans in Kansas and Wisconsin,
and quickly learned that party lines
could be overcome when men of good
will get together.
Shortly after coming to Congress,
}fr. Hays joined with Republican House
Member Walter H. Judd of Minn
esota to sponsor a bipartisan peace reso
lution providing for joint action by the
two major parties.
Calls Corporate Decision
Better Than Individual
Clifford Case came into Congress by
easy stages. A graduate of Rutgers
University and of Columbia University
Law School, he decided working for
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett In New
York should not interfere with his in
terest in Rahway, n. J., where he lived.
Accordingly, he ran for the city council
in 1927. He was elected and served three
years as ward councilman and two as
councilman at large before seeking the
State Assembly nomination in 1941.
Mr. Case lost in a close race, but was
elected the following year. He sponsored
a bill reorganizing the State civil serv
ice. Its subsequent passage and admin
istration by Dr. William S. Carpenter
of Princeton University, resulted in much
needed reforms.
Elected to Congress in 1943 to suc
ceed Representative Donald McLean,
resigned, he carried the concept of
bipartisan action on issues that could
best be settled that way. He likes the
idea of many persons sponsoring a
measure and insists “corporate decision
is a lot sounder than individual judg
ment.’’
The son of a Dutch Reformed minis
ter, he has a leisurely way of moving
that belies the fact he is a buzzsaw in
action. He weighs 145 pounds dripping
wet, and in college played lacrosse on
a team of football players who weighed
40 to 50 pounds more.
Mr. Case has been in the fore in the
fight against racial and religious dis
crimination. His maiden speech in
Congress concluded with this passage
that gives an insight into his basic
philosophy on these issues:
“Whenever we of the majority in
this country permit such sentiments to
go unchallenged not only are we guilty
of a wrong to the minority groups
concerned but we risk the greater dan
ger cf brutalizing ourselves.’’
In November, 1945, he wa sone of 39
first or second term House Republicans
to repudiate reactionary policies and
tactics of certain fellow party mem
bers. With Representatives Bennet of
New York, Adams of New Hampshire
and Heselton of Massachusetts he was
one of the prime movers.
Rutgers Names Case
As Alumni Trustee
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he
completed his law school course in two
and a half years and joined Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett in February, 1928.
He was named a member of the firm
in 1939. Last year he was elected one
of the alumni trustees of Rutgers for
a five-year term.
He studied the organ under Prof.
Howard McKinney and ’ later turned
these lessons to good account, playing
at nearby churches to help pay his way
through school. He still plays the
organ for recreation.
Mr. Hays and Mr. Case came together
quite naturally at informal meetings
in the Capitol. They and the other
men signing the resolution agreed that
while consultation among members of
the two major parties does not make
for dramatic news stories, it does make
for progress and accomplishment.
“Within our traditional framework
there is some way to do the Job that
has to be done,” Mr. Case explains.