N. Y. Political Scene Gov. Dewey's Decision to Run Again Has Changed Picture for Both Major Parties

By Gould Lincoln The political picture in New

York changed almost beyond recognition in the last week.

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, regarded as the strongest candidate the Republicans could put forward, has been renominated. He will be opposed by little-known Rep- resentative Walter A. Lynch—who for 12 years has represented a

Bronx congressional district in the House. To many, the nomi- nation of Mr. Lynch for Governor appeared suicidal for the Demo- crats. However, Mr. Lynch is a

consistent New Deal-Fair Deal Democrat, acceptable to organized labor and to the Liberal Party in New' York. Further, as an Irish Catholic he helps to “balance” the Democratic ticket, which will have as its candidate for Senator • Jew, Senator Herbert Lehman.

Gov. Dewey’s nomination was the result of a real draft—one of the few in political history. He had announced last June 17 his decision not to be a candidate— and had it not been for the Ko- rean war. he would have stuck to that decision. But the war— with a threat of a wddely ex-

panded conflict—brought a tre- mendous demand that Gov. Dewey permit himself to be re-

nominated. as the most experi- enced executive the State could have in a time of crisis. He yielded to the demand only last week, and any contest for the Re- publican nomination for Governor was all over. If on November 7 he should be re-elected and serve out his third term, Mr. Dewey will have occupied the Governor's chair in Albany longer than any other man—12 years. Alfred E. Smith served for eight years as Governor—four terms of two years, and Senator Lehman served almost 10 years as Governor and resigned to become head of UNRRA in 1942.

For Senator, the Republican State Convention in Saratoga nominated Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley —whom they originally had planned to nominate for Gover- nor. Mr. Hanley, long-time mem- ber of the State Legislature be- fore he became Lieutenant Gov- ernor, has been widely popular upstate. He is a hale and hearty 74-year-old. But the question of age is not likely to enter the sen- atorial contest, for Democratic Senator Lehman will be 73 next March.

GOP Springs Surprise Earlier, there had been a

plethora of Democratic possibili- ties for the gubernatorial nomina- tion—all bearing widely known names. There were, for example, Oscar R. Ewing, Federal Security Agency administrator—chief ad- vocate of the President's compul- sory national health insurance program; James A. Farley, for- mer Postmaster General and for- mer national chairman of the Democratic Party; Justice Ferdi- nand Pecora of the State Supreme Court; Averell Harriman, former Secretary of Commerce and now » special United States Ambas- sador; Democratic State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, and finally young Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr„ who bears a name—inherited— more widely known than any of the others. In the pinch, for one reason or another, the Democratic State leaders discarded all these and turned to Mr. Lynch—and they did not go for Mr. Lynch until after they had tried out Judge Albert Conway of the Court of Appeals and had him turned down by the representatives of the CIOs Political Action Com- mittee. All of which 'has not j helped the Democratic picture in the Empire State.

The Republicans’ selection for the senatorial nomination is a

•urprise, too. There had been much talk of a Catholic from New York City for that nomina- tion, and a long list of names had been mentioned. Instead, the nominee Is an upstate Protestant,1 a former minister. But then Gov. Dewey hails from the city, and has a substantial following there. Also the Republicans have placed on their ticket for Lieuten- ant Governor State Controller Frank C. Moore, another Prot- estant. But for controller, they have nominated State Senator J. Raymond McGovern, from West- chester County, a Catholic, and for Attorney General, Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein, a Jew. Like, the Democratic ticket, the Republican is "bal- anced.”

Lehman’s Job No Snap The big name on the Demo-

cratic ticket is that of Senator Lehman, four times elected Gov- ernor of New York. He will have to do some real running, however, to pull the Democratic ticket through to victory. He himself may be in danger. Mr. Lehman has not been signally successful in the past when he ran against a ticket on which Mr. Dewey was a candidate. In 1938, when the Roosevelt New Deal was stronger than horseradish, Mr. Lehman was Governor. He was opposed for re-election by the youthful Tom Dewey, who had made a name for himself as a racket- busting district attorney. Mr. Lehman, with the full blessing of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who personally de- livered a speech for Lehman), won by about 60,000 votes. The Com- munist Party, which had been in the habit of nominating candi- dates for Governor, failed to put up a candidate that year—and while Mr. Lehman is no Com- munist, the measure of his vic- tory over Dewey was just the eise of the usual Communist vote in the State.

The next time Mr. Lehman ran when Dewey was a candidate on the Republican ticket was in 1946. Dewey was a candidate for re-election as Governor and Mr. Lehman was making a try for the Senate. In that election Dewey carried the State by the largest

majority ever given a guberna- torial candidate and Mr. Lehman lost to Senator Ives. Republican, by 250.000 votes. Mr. Lehman ran far stronger, however, than did former Senator Mead, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor.

This year the election is com- plicated still further for the Democrats because the American Labor Party is putting in the. field candidates for both Governor and Senator. When Senator Lehman was elected last November, defeat- ing Republican Senator John Foster Dulles by less than 200,- 000 votes, the ALP refrained from putting up a candidate for Sen- ator, who would have drawn votes from Lehman not Dulles. If the ALP ticket should pull 200,000 to 300,000 votes next November, the election might go very hard for Mr. Lehman—and indeed for the whole Democratic ticket.

Mr. Lynch, the Democratic nominee for Governor, is 56 years old. He is spoken of by his col- leagues in the House and the Ways and Means Committee as a ‘‘swell fellow,” and that goes for Republicans as well as Demo- crats. They like him personally. The Republicans, of course, can- not swallow his New Dealism. but admit he has ability. They don’t believe for a minute, however, that he can defeat Gov. Dewey. His Democratic friends are still trying to catch their breath over his nomination.

The new Democratic nominee for Governor is a graduate of Fordham University and Pordham Law School. He is, of course, a

lawyer. At one time he was a city magistrate in New York, and he was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1938.

Elect Outstanding Men The handicap Mr. Lynch labors

under in his race against Mr. Dewey is that he is practically unknown outside his own congres- sional district, and there are 43 other congressional districts in New York. He has less than two months to make himself known to all these people.

New Yorkers have a tradition: They vote for able men for Gov- ernor of their State. That goes for Democrats as well as Repub- licans and for a large number of independents. The consequence is, that over the years, there have been outstanding men serving as Governors of New York. Four of them became Presidents of the United States, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roose- velt. Several others were candi- dates for President—Samuel J. Tilden, Charles Evans Hughes and Alfred E. Smith. With Gov. Dewey's record as an able ad- ministrator and Governor dur- ing the last war in the balance, the odds seem to favor the Re- publican over the Democrat in this face.

There were those who hoped that Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., son of the late President, would be the nominee for Governor. There was, indeed, an incipent boom for him. But Mr. Roose- velt, a member of the present House of Representatives and a candidate for re-election, after a talk with hard headed Daniel P. O'Connell, leader of Albany County, decided not to press the issue. Had he entered and been defeated for the nomination, or had he been nominated and de- feated by Dewey in November, his political future would have been dim. to say the least. As it is. he will be re-elected to the House fn a heavily Democratic congressional district and will have an opportunity to build him- self up as a political figure.

The Democratic State Conven- tion, in Rochester, did what the New York City leaders wanted. They nominated Mr. Lynch over Oscar Ewing by a vote of 762 to 67. Former State Supreme Court Justice Walter Bliss received 8 votes. New York City casts most of the Democratic vote in the State, and it is rare that the up- state Democrats can rule the roost. New York City is to hold a mayoralty election November 7, which is expected to bring out a big city vote and help the whole Democratic State ticket. The Democratic city leaders have giv- en the nod to Justice Pecora of the State Supreme Court for the nomination for Mayor. This mayoralty election is regularly held in years when there is no presidential or congfessional elec- tion. But Mayor William O'Dwy- er recently sacrificed himself for the cause—and resigned as Mayor to accept appointment as Am- bassador to Mexico. It is Just possible, however, that this ma- neuver may go wrong as other moves the Democratic leaders this year have already done.

Representative Lynch. —AP Photo.

Three Decades of Political History at Capitol

Louis J. Ludlow. Kenneth McKellar. James W. Wadsworth. Adolph J. Sabath.

By Paul J. McGahan Washington Bureau, Philadelphia Inquirer

The approaching demise of the 81st Congress closes three dec- cades of colorful political his- tory in American life. They have been decades of war and peace, depression and prosperity, mir- rored nowhere more indelibly than in the minds, memories and minutes of those who have moved through the stately halls of the Capitol building, that magnifi- cently imperturbable command post of democracy.

There have been great changes in American life in these 30 years and a great flow of new faces in the halls of Congress. But there have been other things which have not changed—the American love of freedom and our devotion to the parliamentary processes which exist in such lusty fashion in the old Capitol building. And there hav;e been Individuals, a

surprisingly large number, who have throughout all these 30 years participated directly as or observers in this making of his- tory.

In the 66th Congress which came in on March 4. 1919, the House of Representatives con- sisted of 435 members and the Senate of 96 members, as in the present 81st Congress. In 1920 the congressional press gallery' consisted of 217 correspondents! representing the news services and newspapers. Today the con- gressional press galleries have a roll of 771 correspondents. Then 217 newspapers and press associa- tions were represented. Now 470 newspapers and news services are represented. In addition the pe- riodical press and the radio have press galleries which are apart.

Many Still Active The newspapermen have a

better longevity record than the congressional group. Still active on the press gallery list are 20 scribes who covered the Capitol in 1920, while only 13 congressional figures have withstood the march of time. One other scribe played both roles during the period.

In the House of Representatives Adolph Sabath, Democrat, of

: Illinois heads the list of the seven

; members of that body who were i serving there 30 years ago. Mr. Sabath came to the House on March 4, 1907. In the Senate, Kenneth McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee is the sole survivor of the Senate of 1919. But three of his colleagues, Tom Connolly, Democrat, of Texas; M. M. Neely, Democrat of West Virginia, and Carl Hayden, Democrat, of Ari- zona, were members of the House then. In this same category is Vice President Barkley, Demo- crat, of Kentucky, w'ho is now Vice President.

Other House members of the 66th Congress, now in the 81st having served continuously are Representatives Robert L. Dough- ton. Democrat, of North Caro- lina; Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Democrat, of Texas; Carl Vinson, Democrat, of Geor- gia; Daniel A. Reed, Republican,: of New York. Two members then, but their continuous serv- ice interrupted, are Roy O. Wood- ruff, Republican, of Michigan and Earl C. Michener, Republi- can, of Michigan. Representative James W. Wadsworth, Republi- can, of New York was a mem- ber of the Senate in the 66th Congress.

Press Gallery members still representing the same newspapers now that they did at the time of the 66th Congress Include: Walker S. Buel, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Mark Foote, Booth News- papers of Michigan; Jay G. 'Hay- den, Detroit New's; Arthur S. Henning, Chicago Tribune; David Lawrence, of David Lawrence As- sociates; Gould Lincoln, The Washington Star and the Boston Globe; John Lorance, the Spring- field (Mass.) Daily News; Paul J. McGahan, the Philadelphia Inquirer; Lorenzo W. Martin, the Louisville Times; Hal H. Smith, the New York Times; Stanley H. Smith, the Daily Traffic World; Bascom N. Timmons, the Houston Chronicle, and Paul Wooten, the New Orleans Times- Picayune. Ludlow Seated

The newspaper veterans of the 66th Congress now in the presa gallery but representing other newspapers are: George Rothwell Brown. King Features Syndicate, then of the Washington Post; Sam * Bell, the New York Herald Tribune, then of the Philadelphia Public Ledger; George W. Combs, the Baltimore Evening Sim, then of the Lynch- burg (Va.) News; Winifred Mal- lon, the New York Times, then of the New York News; William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, then of the International News Service; Lewis Wood, the New York Times, then of the Columbia (S. C.) Record, and James L. Wright, Buffalo Evening News, then of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer.

Thus of the 20 newspaper folk working the Capitol run in 1920, 12 still represent their original papers, while the eight others have changed jobs, but have un- broken gallery service. Mr. Brown

I of King Features is the dean. He became a gallery member in 1902.

The one newspaperman who played both the role of corre- spondent and of Congressman dur- ing the 30-year period is Louis Leon Ludlow, now back in the gallery representing the Indian- apolis Star after 10 terms as a

William J. Donaldson. James D. Preston. ~AP., Harris-Ewing Photos.

member of the House, represent- ing the 11th Indiana congres- sional district.

Mr. Ludlow was the first news- paper correspondent to go di- rectly from the press gallery to a seat in the Congress. He was first a Washington correspondent in 1901, and until his election to the House, which he entered on March 4, 1929, he represented the Columbus Dispatch.

Mr. Ludlow is a former presi- dent of the National Press Club, a role he has in common with sev- eral of the 30-year veterans of press gallery service. He served in 1927. The others are Bascom Tim- mons, president in 1932; Mark Foote, president in 1934 and 1935, and Paul Wooten, president in 1946.

Among the graduates from the press gallery to politics are two of President Truman’s secretaries. Charles G. Ross, formerly of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is now secretary to the President, han- dling the press relations. The other presidential secretary is William D. Hassett, who 30 years ago represented the Washington Post.

Previously three members of the press gallery of the 66th Con- gress _

had become presidential secretaries. These were Judson C. Welliver, who represented Echo de Paris and later served with President Harding; Theo- dore Joslin, then of the Bos- ton Evening Transcript, who served with President Hoover, and Stephen T. Early, then of the Associated Press, who was secre- tary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is now Deputy Secretary of Defense. Three Became Diplomats

Of the press gallery group at least three became American dip- lomats. These were Leo R. Sack of the Cleveland Press, who was Minister to Costa Rica; John D. Erwin of the Nashville Tennes- sean, who was Ambassador to Honduras, and Charles C. Hart, of Boise News, who was Minister to Persia.

Of the congressional group of the earlier period, Senator Walter E. Edge, Republican, of New Jersey became Ambassador to France; Alanson B. Houghton. Republican, of New York and Frank B. Kellogg, Republican, of Minnesota went to the Court of St. James as Ambassador, and Senator Miles Poindexter, Repub- lican, of Washington served as Ambassador to Peru. Earlier the doughty Senator George H. Moses, Republican, of New Hampshire had been Minister to Greece.

Thirty years ago the indestruc- tible William J. Donaldson was— as now—the superintendent of the House press gallery. Holding forth then as superintendent of the Senate press gallery was the practically inexhaustible fount of information, James D. Preston. Now Jim Preston is installed as registration clerk in the office of the secretary of the Senate, in the confines of which he has spent practically his entire life- time.

Thirty years ago when the 66th Congress held sway, the American public very largely relied on the members of the congressional press gallery members for their news about national affairs. The gallery membership and news- papers and news services repre- sented have increased tremen- dously, but the character of their service to the public has remained basically unchanged.

Radio press galleries of both branches of Congress have come into being and today 150 radio broadcasters and news commenta- tors, representing some 78 radio stations and network services cover what transpires so that all who hear can listen. Women Make Gains

Another addition to news cov- erage has been the creation of the periodical press gallery, whose membership of about 200 man and woman writers chronicles the hap- penings and gossip for the coun- try’s leading magazines and trade publications. In this gallery are two veterans of former newspaper service who were in the press gal- lery itself 30 years ago. One of these is Carter Field of the Mc- Graw Hill Publications, then of the New York Tribune, and a for- mer president of the National Press Club. The other is Mr. Sandifer of the Penton PublK#- tions and then with the Inter- notional News Service.

The distaff side of the picture in both the press galleries and the Congress develops an interest- ing picture of the manner in which the women folks have come Into

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the foreground. There were woman members of the press gallery long before women attained congres- sional dignity.

In the 65th Congress the first woman — Jeannette Rankin, Re- publican, of Montana—had been elected to the House, the first woman to be elected to Congress. But in the 66th Congress there were no feminine members, while the records reveal that the press galleries boasted nine newspaper- women. This group included Miss Winifred Mallon. The others were Mrs. Carolyn Vance Bell, News- paper Enterprise Association; Roberta V. Bradshaw, Buffalo Eve- ning News; Elizabeth Miner King, New York Evening Post; Mrs. Katherine C. Lacy, Newport News Daily Press; Annabel Lee, Chicago Herald-Examiner; Edith McDow- ell, Daily Oklahoman; Mrs. George F. Richards, Worcester Gazette and other New England papers who was the dean of women, and Cora Rigby, Chris- tian Science Monitor.

In the present term of Congress there are 85 accredited woman

correspondents in the press gal- leries. The White House News Photographers’ Association and the radio press gallery and the periodical press gallery have many more.

On the congressional side the women have made substantial gains.

The Congress itself has under- gone a very complete makeover since the days of the 66th Con- gress. It is now a decidedly more

efficiently organized body than it was then. But then, as now, it had its partisan difficulties.

The Senate of 30 years ago con- sisted of 48 Republicans and 47 Democrats with Hiram Johnson of California listed as Republican and Progressive. Today the Sen- ate boasts 54 Democrats and 42 Republicans. But the ailing Woodrow Wilson had just as mucij trouble with his lawmakers as

Harry Truman is now having witn his.

The House 30 years ago had 236 Republican members, 190 Demo- crats and four minority party Representatives. Today it has 263 Democrats and 171 Republicans, together with one American Laborite.

Three decades ago there were so

many committees in each body that a minority party member could be, and often was, a com- mittee chairman. The Senate boasted of 74 committees, with each of its 96 members belonging on from five to seven of these groups. Today it has been stream- lined to 15 committees, with each Senator holding membership on

two major committees and not more tnan an aggregate of three. The House, then, had 63 commit- tees, and some members belonged to four or five. Today the House has 19 standing committees, and each member, with a few notable exceptions, serves only on one committee. *

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The 66th Congress was notable among those in the history of this country. Both in the House and the Senate were members who have left an imperishable record in the annals. Tariff laws, revenue bills, treaties with for- eign nations and a host of other matters of importance came be- fore it.

Dean of the Senate was Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts, who then had been a member since March 4, 1893. The “baby” member was Carter Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, elected only two years before, j Among the Senators were William E. Borah, Republican, of Idaho; Porter J. McCumber, Republican, of North Dakota; Boise Penrose, Republican, of Pennsylvania; At- lee Pomerene, Democrat, of Ohio; Oscar W. Underwood, Democrat, of Alabama; James E. Watson, Republican, of Indiana; Francis E. Warren, Republican, of Wyoming; John Sharp Williams, Democrat, of Mississippi; Furni- fold M. Simmons, Democrat, of North Carolina and dozens of others of great renown.

Heading the House membership was the onetime Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon, Repub- lican. of Illinois, “Uncle Joe” of affectionate regard who had first come to the 43d Congress on March 4, 1873. He served 22 terms before he retired on March 4, 1921, with the expiration of the 66th Congress, and died some years later. Elder statesmen of the House included Frederick H. Gil- lette, Republican, of Massachusetts

and Champ Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, who came to Congress in 1893. Both became Speaker and Mr. Gillette also served in the Senate later.

The legislators who served in Congress 30 years ago and their successors through the three decades have left an indelible record in the annals of the United States. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall was the pre- siding officer of the 66th Senate, and Wilson was finishing out his term of office in the White House. On the House side, Joe Cannon and Champ Clark were basking in the past glories of 16 years previous that they had served as Speaker of the House.

Then House members were Mr. Gillette, who also became a Sen- ator; Nicholas Longworth, Repub- lican, of Ohio. John N. Garner, Democrat, of Texas, destined to be Vice President; Henry T. Rainey, Democrat, of Illinois. Joseph W. Byrnes, Democrat, of Tennessee, William B. Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama and Sam Rayburn were destined later to serve as Speaker of the House. Joseph W. Martin, Republican, of Massa- chusetts, the only other to serve as Speaker in the 30-year period, did not enter the legislative halls until the 69th Congress in 1925.

The Senate of the 66th Con- gress was destined to figure im- portantly in the national politics of the Republic in the ensuing years. From it’s ranks Warren G. Harding, Republican, of Ohio moved on the presidency. And Charles Curtis attained the vice presidency.

Some Moved Up On the House side, John Garner

and Alben Barkley were destined to become Vice Presidents of the United States.

Two Senate members of that period—Robert M. La Follette, the Wisconsin Progressive, and Hiram Johnson, alternately a Progressive and a Republican—were presiden- tial candidates in later years. And as unsuccessful candidates for the vice presidency. Charles R. Mc- Nary, Republican, of Oregon and •Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas took a fling at the Na- tion's highest office.

The 66th Congress produced six cabinet members in the succeed- ing years. Earlier, Philander Chase Knox, Republican, of Penn- sylvania had served as Secretary •jf State. Cordell Hull, Democrat, of Tennessee and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina destined first to become Senators, ended their pub- lic careers later as Secretary of State. Of the then Senators four oecame cabinet officers at later nates. Included were Albert B. Fall, Republican, of New Mexico, wno became Secretary of the In- terior; Frank Kellogg, who became Secretary of State; Harry S. New, Republican, of Indiana, who be- came Postmaster General, and Ciaudc Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia, who became Secretary of the Navy.

An astronomical number of words have been uttered by the Nation's legislators in debate and discussion in the Senate and House chambers. These are pre- served to posterity and the histo- rian in the Congressional Record.

But there is a trio of veteran ■‘official reporters of debate” who have listened to the oratorical flood for the past 30 years and are

still going strong. These are James W. Murphy and John D. Rhodes of the Senate group and Allister' Cochrane of the House contingent of shorthand experts.

Old Florida Avenue I Known for 100 Years as Boundary Street, Many Prominent Families Lived in Area

By John Clagett Proctor The surveying of the City oft

Washington proper was complet- ed by June 25. 1795, and a street 80 feet wide was laid out bound- ing the city from Rock Creek east to the Eastern Branch, and this was known as Boundary street for more than a, hundred; years, or until nearly 1899, when’ its name was changed to Florida avenue.

North of the northeastern sec- tion of Boundary street was the country seat of Joseph Gales of the National Intelligencer, pur- chased shortly after his marriage, in 1813, and this estate was from time to time enlarged up to 100 acres. It was carved out of the original tract of the vast Notley; Young holdings and which, from' an early date, is said to have ex- tended nearly to Seventh street road, on about where the old Bladensburg road was intersected.! Boundary street was its northern front, and here, within the city limits, was the ruin of a mill- race. Evidently the choice of Mr. Gales’ homestead may have appealed to him because of the proximity of Sydney, now a part of the Catholic University grounds.

Then came westwardly Mount; Pleasant and Pleasant Plains and the Hall estate, later owned and occupied by the family of Louis H. Schneider, and adjoining to the west the home of Christian Schneider, where is now the Cen- tral High School.

Early Residents Some early residents on Boun-

dary street, south from Garfield

Hospital to U street, included, on

the west side Harry White, musician, whose shack was the only building in the 2200 block for many years after 1871. He was

a picturesque looking man of the “Uncle Tom” type—head whitened with age and shoulders bent with years of work, friendly and kindly.

During my mother’s childhood days she had taken dancing les- sons at Carusi’s Salon, which bore a high reputation and which stood at the northeast corner of Eleventh and C streets NW. One day she recognized this old colored man as having been the one who played the fiddle for Prof. Carusi's pupils, and he was delighted when she told him that she remembered him.

Subsequently, in 1881, according to an early account, A. L. Barber & Co. opened up the estate of William J. Stone, to the west of the Schneider property between approximately Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, extending al- most to Park road. And at this time this tract was purchased for $200,000. This was the beginning of Columbia Heights. Lots were placed on the market and sold at 10 cents a square foot and up- ward, and plans were afoot for the widening of Fourteenth Street road north of the Boundary.

It was difficult for the pro- moters to put Columbia Heights on the market, for the only trans- portation was a bob-tailed horse- carline which ran out Fourteenth street, with which the patrons were in a state of perpetual feud. However, on April 29, 1883, the press carried the first advertise- ment of A. L. Barber & Co., John Sherman, trustee, in which was offered “homes for all—Four- teenth street and Boundary—we are now getting streets graded ready for building houses.” A New York syndicate promptly bought for $50,000 the entire square between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, immediately north of the Boundary, and three handsome and commodious resi- dences were erected there which long remained among the show places of the city, with extensive grounds containing a few mighty oaks that must have been part of the virgin forest which once cov- ered a large part of what is now Washington.

During the period of the Civil War the Stone dwelling was used for hospital purposes and when Gen. Logan returned to Congress in 1871, he made his home at 8 Grant place and remained there

^mtil 1873, when he moved to 209 A street S.E., after stopping for a brief while that same year at the Willard Hotel. During 1877 and 1878 he was practicing law in Chi- cago and when he returned to Con- gress in 1879 he took up his resi- dence at 812 Twelfth street N.W., in a building probably still stand- ing, where he continued to live until 1885, when he moved to No. 4 Iowa circle and shortly after- ward he bought the old Stone homestead, which stood for years at the northeast corner of Thir- teenth and Clifton streets, which he named Calumet place and where he died on Sunday, Decem- ber 26, 1886.

Washington, we find, figured greatly in Senator Logan’s life, for when nominated for the vice presidency of the United States, at Chicago, June 6, 1884, not only was he living here, at 812 Twelfth street, but James G. Blaine, the Republican nominee for the-pres- idency, was also residing in this city, at No. 22 Lexington place, in the residence later known as 22 Jackson place and occupied by Theodore Roosevelt during the remodeling of the White House in 1902.

The Blaine-Logan and Cleve- ; land-Hendricks campaign was a warm one and everything seemed to favor the Republicans until a

clergyman named Burchard, on behalf of that political party, tried his hand at coining phrases and then it was all off, for one of these in particular acted as a boomerang and killed the Republican ticket, resulting in the election of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hend- ricks.

Blaine, the “Plumed Knight," later served for three years as

Secretary of State in the admin- istration of Benjamin Harrison and died in the historic Seward mansion—site of the Belasco Theater—January 27, 1893.

Logan’s Sendoff Blaine had no military service

to commend him to the Grand Army, but Logan, of course, was

very popular with the old vet- erans, who regarded him as mili- taristically and politically in- vincible, and when, in July, 1884, shortly after his nomination, he left Washington for the Grand Army encampment at Minne- apolis, as the guest of the District delegation, he was given an es-

| pecially enthusiastic sendoff. The local veterans secured the Marine Band and escorted him to

j the Baltimore & Potomac depot, at Sixth and B streets N.W., where he boarded the train with Past Department Comdrs. C. C. Royce, A. H. G. Richardson. William Gibson and B. P. Hawkes; Delegates Charles King, H. S. Hunter and L. K. Browm; G. M. Husted (still living), National Council of Administration; De- partment Comdrs. Woodman of Virginia and Henninghausen of Maryland; Messrs. Christie, Stokes, Baxter, Roland and A. R. Grant.

Legan's reputation as a soldier was not gained exclusively during the Civil War, for he served in the War With Mexico as a second

\ lieutenant, and another thing about him is that he was not al-

i ways a Republican, having been an active Democrat until the Civil War and a follower of Stephen A. Douglas.

When the war commenced, In 1861, Logan was serving in the House of Representatives, but im- mediately set to w'ork organizing

The 31st Illinois Infantry, of which he was commissioned colonel on

September 18 of that year. Prior to this, on July 21, at the

First Battle of Bull Run, he had a novel experience of fighting in the ranks as a private soldier in the costume in wrhich he had been dining the evening before with a Union officer of his acquaintance.

Gen. Logan did not survive his defeat very long, dying December 26, 1886—two years after the presidential campaign. He was not ill very long, and until a day or two before his death, at Calu- met place, his condition was not regarded as serious, and his pass- ing away was generally unlooked for.

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