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A large number of claimants came into the suit, and after decrees had been rendered in the lower court the case went to the Supreme Court of the United States where three questions were presented : first, that arising out of the claims of the heirs of James M. Marshall and the heirs of former Chief Justice John Marshall, to the ownership of the entire bed of the Potomac River within the limits of the improvement; second, that involv- ing the validity of the United States patent to the tract known as Kidwell's Meadows above the Long Bridge; third, the validity of a large number of claims the determination of which was
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dependent upon the decision of what constituted the legal water front boundary of the city of Washington.
The claim of the heirs of John Marshall rested upon the charter granted by King James II of England to Thomas Lord Culpepper on September 27, 1688, granting to Lord Culpepper the so-called "northern neck" of Virginia lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, to which the claimants set up their claim as successors to the title of Lord Fairfax, the heir-at-law of Lord Culpepper. The Court held that the title to the bed of the Potomac River could never have been included in the Culpepper grant because it had previously been granted by King Charles I on June 20, 1632, to Cecilius Calvert, second Baron of Baltimore, and first Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maryland.
The claim of the heirs of James M. Marshall was based upon the grant to Lord Baltimore, but the Supreme Court held that the Lord Baltimore title to the bed of the river was a trust in the hands of the Proprietary for the common use of the new community, which upon the Revolution passed to the State of Maryland and was, by the cession by that State to the United States of the territory included in the District of Columbia, vested in the United States.
The claim set up under the Kidwell patent was rejected on the ground that the Land Office was without authority to issue a patent to the lands overflowed by the tides as were the Kidwell Meadows.
The third and most interesting question determined by the Supreme Court arose out of the contention made by numerous claimants that riparian rights were annexed to the title to the lots and blocks in the city lying adjacent to the river front.
In determining this contention the Court went deeply into the history of the establishment of the city and concluded that from the outset the city was intended to be bounded on the south water front by a street to be known as Water Street, which cut off any claim of owners of property abutting thereon to riparian rights or to rights in reclaimed land lying between that street and the river channel. The Supreme Court laid great stress
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upon the Dermott or "Tin Case" Map, the history of which has been given in the chapters on the establishment of the city, which the Court held to be the official map of the city, and on which the designation of Water Street for the first time appeared.
An interesting dissenting opinion was written by Mr. Jus- tice White wherein the view was taken that by the conduct of the original proprietors, the Commissioners who laid out the city, and the early purchasers of water front property, it was plainly indicated that riparian rights were deemed to attach to all property lying adjacent to the river front.
The story of the organization of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia is told in the minutes of the organization as follows :
"Room 28, National Hotel, Washington, D. C. Tuesday Night, May 23d, 1871.
A number of the members of the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia having met at the above named place and time, a meeting was, upon the motion of Mr. Stanton, organ- ized for the transaction of business, and Mr. Merrick was called to the chair.
Upon motion of Mr. W. Y. Fendall, Mr. Stanton was chosen secretary.
The chair then stated that the object of the meeting was the formation of an organization of the members of the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, with the design of elevating the tone, increasing the influence, securing and main- taining the rights of the profession, and of regulating the pro- fessional intercourse and relations of the members of the bar, with each other and with the court.
After an interchange of views and expression of opinions on the part of several members of the profession present, it was upon the motion of Mr. Mattingly, Resolved
"That the Gentlemen present form a Bar Association."
Upon motion of Mr. Payne it was resolved
"That a committee of five be appointed by the Chairman to prepare and report a plan or organization."
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The Committee was upon motion increased to seven, and thereupon the Chair appointed Mr. Davidge, Mr. Carusi, Mr. Payne, Mr. Coombs, Mr. Totten, Mr. F. Miller and Mr. Perry.
The committee, after consultation, presented through Mr. Davidge the following resolutions, as a preliminary report :
"Resolved. That the title of this association shall be 'The Bar Association of the District of Columbia'.
"Resolved. That the members of the bar now present in person and represented by proxy viz: present in person, Messrs. Walter D. Davidge, Richard T. Merrick, Joseph T. Coombs, Nathaniel Wilson, Frederick W. Jones, Christopher Ingle, Enoch Totten, Eugene Carusi, L. G. Hine, R. F. Morris, James G. Payne, F. B. B. Sands, Robert K. Elliot, William Y. Fendall, James Hoban, William J. Miller, Francis Miller, Benjamin G. Lovejoy, R. Ross Perry, Richard Harrington, and Edwin L. Stanton.
"Represented by proxy : Messrs. John C. Kennedy, James Hughes, Walter S. Cox, Thomas J. Durant, A. G. Riddle, Charles F. Peck, Robert Leech, Nathaniel Carusi, Bland Washington, John E. Norris, Mahlon Ashford, Hugh Caperton, John F. Ennis, William A. Gordon, William D. Cassin, John C. Wilson, Arthur Fendall, Reginald Fendall and A. S. Worthington, are hereby declared to be members of the Association.
"Resolved. That the initiation fee shall be twenty dollars."
The Constitution and by-laws were adopted at an adjourned meeting held in the same place on the evening of May 30, 1871, at which Mr. Walter D. Davidge was elected President, Mr. Richard T. Merrick, 1st Vice-President ; Mr. Walter S. Cox, 2d Vice-President; Mr. B. G. Lovejoy, Secretary; Mr. William F. Mattingly, Treasurer and Messrs. Enoch Totten, Nathaniel Wil- son, William B. Webb, James G. Payne, and Joseph J. Coombs members of the Executive Committee.
Soon after organizing, the Bar Association began the accu- mulation of a library. A large number of books were contri- buted by various members and paid for as funds became avail- able. In a few years the Association had acquired one of the most complete law libraries in the country. Arrangements were
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made whereby two large rooms on the second story of the City Hall were put at the disposal of the Association for the accommo- dation of the library, which has ever since been kept there for the convenience of both the members of the Association and the Courts.
Even since its organization the Bar Association has been an influential factor in the legal affairs of the Capital. It has shaped needed legislation, obtained many reforms in procedure, established rates of minimum fees, brought about the require- ment of an examination for entrance to the bar and done much to raise and maintain the standard of ethics in the profession.
INDEX
Academy, Georgetown 322
Academy, The, theatre 510
Accident, railroad 403
Acquirement of territory for Capital City 23, 41, 61
Act of Establishment
33
Acts of Cession, Maryland and Virginia. 25, 31, 32
Adams, John, Administration of 206, 207, 323
Adams, Mrs. John, Description of Washington 223
Adams, John Quincy, administration of, 338-9; death of . 350
Adams, Mrs., Memorial 525
Adelphi, The, Theatre 501-2
Adoption of Site 21
Adoption of site, prior to 9
.71, 76, 9
Agriculture, Department of
509
Alden, Isabella, writer
51
Alexandria County 572
9
American Capitol, 10, 73, 172-3, 319, 326, 366, 433-5, 481; material for, 179; work on, 181, 213; criticism of 201
American National Bank 563
American Theatre . 500-1
American University 409
9
"Ana" of Thomas Jefferson
29
Anacostia Bank 567
Anderson, Alexander D., writer 496
Appropriations, public 216
Arlington
462
Army medical library 455
Army war college 456
Art collections : Catlin's 482; Marsh's 482; Stanley's 482; Harriet Lane Johnston's 483; Freer's 483; Evans' 483
Art galleries: King's 481; National 483; Corcoran 483, 485
Arthur's administration 394
Art in Capitol 485
Art, Literature, Music and Drama 481
Assassination of Lincoln 375; of Garfield 393; of Mckinley 401
Auxiliary guard 234
Axican, Indian chief 10
Baltimore and Ohio track removed
.265, 344
Bancroft, George, writer
491
440
Agreement with lot owners
Albaugh's Theatre
494
Alexandria
Algonquins
Analostan Island, site of Indian village
586
History of the City of Washington
Bank clearings
430
Banking
540
Bank of Columbia 191, 540; grants credit .198, 205
Bank of Commerce and Savings 567
Bank of Metropolis .541, 549
Bank of U. S. . .540, 545-8
Bank of Washington . 542, 549-50
Bar association
582
Barlow, Joel, writer
491
Barnard, Henry, writer
492
Barrow and Decatur duel
329
Barry monument
525
Beall, Thomas, mayor of Georgetown 58; trustee.
218
Bell, Alexander Graham, writer 494
Bell & Co., bankers 563
Bench and Bar 572
Berrett, James G., mayor 230
325
Blaine's death
396
Blake, Dr. James H., mayor
227
Blodget, Samuel, 161-7; writer
489
Blodget Hotel
327
Board of Charities 302; of education 407; of health 251, 259, 304;
of public works 248, 251, 254, 257, 266, 274, 283, 286; of trade. .431
Bolton, Henry C., writer . 496
Booth's escape 376; capture 378
519
Boundaries of the ten miles square
82
Bowen, Sayles J., mayor
231
Braddock's defeat
20
Bradley, William A., mayor
228
Brent, Robert, mayor . 226,
319
Bridge Rock Creek
187
Briggs, Emily Edson, writer
495
British invasion
$24
Brooks, Noah, writer
494
Bryan, Wilhelmus B., writer
490
Buchanan administration
369
Building regulations
. 121, 122, 335
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, writer
496
Burnes, David 63, 82
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, writer
495
Burroughs, John, writer 491
Busey, Samuel C., writer 496
Butt and Millet memorial
526
Cabin John Bridge 239
Cabot, Francis, purchasing agent 180
Calhoun, death of 35.2
Camp Alger 399
Campfires and tepees 9
Canals: Potowmac 27, 39, 333; Tiber Creek 215, 243, 254; Wash-
ington 239, 255; Chesapeake and Ohio 244, 333, 360 364
Canterbury Hall 505
496
Barton, Clara, writer 168,
Bladensburg 51; battle of
Botanical Gardens 467; fountain in
587
History of the City of Washington
Capital City: acquirement of territory for, 23, 41, 61, 110, 103;
boundary, 100; platting of, 87, 91, 101, 121-2. .. 215
Capitol, American, 10, 73, 172-3, 179, 181, 201, 213, 319, 326, 366, 433-5, 481 Capitol square 464
Carbery, Thomas, mayor 227
Carnegie Institution . 448
Carpenter, Frank G., writer
496
Carroll Charles, interviewed by Washington
41
Carroll, Daniel, commissioner, 47, 49, 114, 194; "Daniel Car- roll's Case'
130
Carroll Hall
507
Carroll statue
526
Carrollsburgh
65-6
Carusi's saloon
502-3
Catholic University
409
Catlin's art collection
482
Catlin, writer
491
Cemeteries 462
Centennial anniversary 400, 468
Central Bank of Georgetown 543
Central National Bank .542, 559
Cession of Maryland .25, 31, 167
Cession of Virginia
25, 32
Chamber of Commerce
431
Chariots 421
Charter (1804) amended 319
Charter, first, 225; of 1802, 225; of 1820, 225; of 1871, 251.
247
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal .. 244, 333, 360, 364
Cholera epidemic
342
Choral society
508
Christy's Opera House
505
Chronicle, The
536
Churches
.336, 367, 390, 410
Cilley and Graves duel
346
Circuit Court
572
Circuses
503
Citizens' National Bank
559
Citizens' Savings Bank 568
City Commissioners, 232; Dennison, 271; Ketcham, 271; Blow,
272; Phelps, 273; Bryan, 274; Dent, 282,284; Twining, 282;
Lydecker, 283; Morgan, 283; Edmunds, 284; Wheatley, 284; West, 284, 295, 296; Webb, 284; Douglass, 285; Hine, 285; Ludlow, 285; Raymond, 286; Robert, 286; Ross, 291, 293; Parker, 291; Truesdell, 291-2; Wight, 291-2; Macfarland,
291, 294-6, 299; Rossell, 292-3; Powell, 293; Black, 293; Beach, 293; Biddle, 293, 295; Morrow, 295-6; Cosby, 295-6; Judson, 295-7; Rudolph, 296-7; Johnston, 296-7; Newman, 296, 298; Siddons, 297-8; Harding
City Hall . .240, 251, 255, 354 297
City Hall ring 251
City Post Office 415 City Seal 232
City of Washington, official name and map of 121
Civil War matters 373, 374, 375, 380, 381 Clay, Henry, death of 368
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Clay and Randolph duel 338
Clemmer, Mary, writer 494
Cleveland administration 395, 397
Coaches, mail 365
Coast survey
454
College of Georgetown
322
Colored Schools . 322, 388
Columbia Institute
357
Columbia National Bank
559
Columbia Theatre
510
Columbian Academy of Georgetown
322
Columbian College 356, 408
Columbian Library
496
Columbian University
409
Columbus monument
524
Commerce
332, 358
Commercial National Bank
.566, 569
Commission Government, Permanent
277
Commission of Fine Arts
470-1
Commissioners, first, naming of, 46; commission to 75; 93, 99, 113-5, 120, 192-3, 196, 193-5.
Commissioners' salary 115, 277
Commissioners' office abolished
208
Compensation for Maj. L'Enfant 122-4, 146-8
381
Congress, first session in District, 221; protection of.
229,
346
Congressional discussion on site
27
Constable, High 324
21
Continental Trust Co.
565
Conveyance, forms of
93-4, 103
Cooke, Henry David, Governor
.249, 252
Corcoran Gallery of Art
450, 483, 485
Corcoran and Riggs, bankers
555
Corcoran Scientific School
409
Councils
225
Court of Appeals 573,
576
Court House
240
Coxey's Army
398
Cranch, William, commissioner
195
Crane, Paris & Co., bankers
563
Criminal Court 575
201
Critic, Washington
536
Cupidity of land owners
61
Curry, Rev. J. L. M., writer
496
Curtin, Jeremiah, writer
494
Curtis, William E., writer
496
Custom House
439
Daguerre memorial
522
Daily Patriot
535
Dalton, Tristram, commissioner 195
Damrosch's Band
509
Confiscation Act
21
Congress' hostile attitude
Continental Congress, resolution of
Criticism of public buildings
589
History of the City of Washington
Deakins and Stoddert, secret agents 62, 63, 66, 70,86
Deakins, William, interviewed by Washington, 41; treasurer ... 187, 189 Debts of Revolutionary War 29 Debt of District 431-2
Decatur and Barron duel 329
Deeds of Conveyance, 103, 111-2; authorship of 108, 109
Delano, Judah, writer 490
Dermott's plan, objectors to 227
Descriptions of early Washington 222
Destruction of trees 465
Dewey's welcome, 400; sword presentation 400
Dickens' visit
348 -
Dime Savings Bank 567
Dinwiddie, Robert, Governor 19
District government, permanent form
235
District or Municipal building 293, 306
District National Bank
563, 568
495
Dorsey, Ella Lorraine, writer
493
Douglas, Frederick, writer
493
Downing memorial
525
Drake, Charles D., writer
493
Dredging
359
Dutton, Clarence, writer 496
Dupont monument
520
Early fires 224
Early newspapers 530
Early parking system 465
321
Early settlers
10, 13, 17
East Washington Savings Bank
568
Election riot
369
Electric lighting
414
Ellicott, Maj. Andrew, surveyor, 57, 93, 117, 122, 161; map of, 148-50, 215; trouble with 151-161
Elliot, Jonathan, writer 490
Emancipation monument 518
440
Epidemics
342
Establishment period, conclusion of
193
European loan, efforts to obtain
197
Evans' Point
97
Evening Star
535
Exchange Bank 566
Explorers, white
10
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank 543
Farragut monument
520
Federal City finance plan, 79; official name and map 121-2
Federal National Bank 563
Federal Territory, survey of, 93, 150; boundary line, 100, 150; official name and map of 121
Fillmore administration 368
Emery, M. G., mayor 231
Engraving and Printing building
Early schools
Dorsey, Anna Hanson, writer
590
History of the City of Washington
Financial problems, 188, 196-8, 204, 207, 210, 213; solution of .... 198, 200 Fine Arts Commission . 470-1
Fire boats 421
Fire Department matters 235, 362
Fires
.224, 235, 392
First charter
225
First commission 50
First English explorers 11
556
First Spanish settlement 10
348
First white explorers
10-1
Fish and Fisheries 461
Fleet, Henry, fur trader and explorer 15
494
Fletcher, Robert, writer 496
490
Force, William Q., writer
491
Ford's Theatre, 505, 509; catastrophes
397
Foreign labor importations
183
Forms of conveyance
93, 103
Foster, Sir Augustus G., writer
496
Four Mile Run, site Indian village
9
Franklin monument 521
Franklin National Bank .566, 570
Frederick the Great statue 457, 525
Freedmans Savings and Trust Co. 557
Fugitive slaves 350
Funkstown 65
Gallaudet, Edward M., writer 494
Gallaudet monument
521
Gannett, Henry, writer
496
Gantt, John M., Sect., 115; trustee, 168, 218; clerk.
171
Garfield administration, 392; assassination, 393; death, 393; monument
521
Gas .239, 348, 353
Gales, Joseph, Jr., mayor
227
General History
319
Geographic Society, National
449
Georgetown, 319, 321-2, 330, 332, 344, 352, 356, 361, 367, 383, 388; incorporated, 317; social center, 323; commerce, 332, 358; part of the Federal Capital, 405; residence of commission- ers, 196; manufactures
364
Georgetown Academy
322
Georgetown College
322
Georgetown University 357, 408
94
George Washington Memorial Hall
448
George Washington University 409
Gill, Theodore N., writer 496
Globe, The 532
Gobright, Louis A., writer 494
Goode, George Brown, writer
496
Government, permanent, 235; date of transfer 220
Grade crossings 417
First National Bank
First telegraph line
Fletcher, Alice C., writer
Force, Peter, mayor, 228, 252; writer
Georgetown and the Federal City
591
History of the City of Washington
Grand Opera House 509-10
Grant administration, 382; monument 526
Grants by Maryland and Virginia 187
Graves and Cilley duel 346
Great Falls, source of water supply 238
Greely, A. W., writer 496
Greenleaf contract
.162, 206, 210, 212
Greenleaf and Morris, lot purchasers .191, 206, 210, 212
Green monument
.518, 519
Gross statue
522
Grover's Theatre
.505, 506
Guarantee bill
199, 204, 210 .
Guiteau trial and execution 393
Hahneman memorial 523
Half and half plan .246, 280, 293, 301
Hamburgh 65
Hancock monument 522
Harmony between Washington and Jefferson 38
Harris, George E., writer 493
Harris, William T., writer 493
Harris, William Torrey, writer 495
395
Harrison (William Henry) administration
347
Hay, John, writer 494
391
Henry monument
520
Herald, Washington
538
Herzog's museum
509
Herzog's Ninth Street Opera House
509
Higgington's Island quarries purchased
High Constable 179
234
Highways system 412
Home Savings Bank 568
Hostile attitude of Congress 346
House office building 442
Howard University
408
Ice manufacture 431
Importation of foreign labor
.183, 185
Inauguration of Jefferson, 323; Madison, 323; Monroe, 325;
Adams (John Quincy), 338; Jackson, 339-40; Van Buren,
345; Harrison (Wm. H.), 347; Tyler, 347; Polk, 349; Taylor,
351; Fillmore, 368; Pierce, 368; Buchanan, 369; Lincoln,
371, 374; Johnson, 382; Grant, 382; Hayes, 391; Garfield, 392; Arthur, 394; Cleveland, 395, 397; Harrison (Benj.), 395; Mckinley, 398, 401; Roosevelt, 401, 402; Taft, 403; Wilson.
404
Indian fishing ground
10
Indian portraits, Catlin's collection 482
Indian village site 9
Irish and Scotch settlers 17
Iron Hall assembly rooms 503
Harrison (Benjamin) administration
Hayes administration
Herdics 422
592
History of the City of Washington
Jackson administration, 339-40; equestrian statue 517
Jackson, Richard P., writer 492
Jails 384
Jefferson's "Ana," 29; administration, 323; quoted, 29, 41, 73; memorandum by, 73; notes on, 48; Sect. of State .. 37
Jefferson and Washington in harmony 38
Johnson administration 382
Johnson, Lewis and Co., bankers
562
Johnson, Thomas, commissioner 47, 49, 114
Johnston, Elizabeth B., writer 493
Jones (John Paul) monument 525
Jurisdiction and right of soil 25
Kelly's Army 397
Kendall Green 357
Kernan's Lyceum Theatre 510
Key, Francis Scott, writer
490
Key and Sickles duel 370
Kosciusko monument
522
Labor troubles 186
Lafayette visit, 330; square, 465; monument 521
Lafayette Square Opera House 510
Lancastrian School .243, 321, 334
Land Office building 345
Land owners proposal, 44; cupidity, 61; refusal to sign deeds. 94
Langley, Samuel P., writer 496
Lanman, Charles, writer
492, 495
Larrainzar, Manuel, writer 496
Lear, Tobias, writer 489
L'Enfant, Maj. Pierre Charles, surveyor, 58, 59, 122; map by, 215; first report, 82; compensation, 142-4, 146-8; plans of, 101, 103, 116-8, 136, 148-50; trouble with, 125, 129, 132-5, 138-9, supported by the proprietors, 140; "references," 463; re- mains at Arlington 145
Lenox, Walter, mayor 230
Liberation of slaves 381
Libraries 229, 400, 441, 450, 496-7
Lighting of streets 239
Lincoln administration .371, 374
Lincoln assassination, 375; death of 376
Lincoln Hall 508, 509
Lincoln monuments 517, 518, 526
Lincoln Park 464
Lincoln National Bank 561
Literature 489
Loans 197, 200-2, 207-9
Lockwood, Mary S., writer 496
Logan, Mrs. John A., writer 496
Logan monument 523
Long Bridge, site Indian village, 9; burning of 327
Longfellow monument 525
Longitude 335
Lot sales 81, 115, 120-1, 124, 161, 189, 191, 212
.162-7, 193, 215, 241, 243 Lotteries
593
History of the City of Washington
Lovejoy, Benjamin J., writer
493
Luther monument 521
Macfarland, Henry B. F., commissioner, 291, 294-6, 299; writer 494
Madison administration, 323; letter to Monroe 31
Magruder, Dr. William B., mayor 230
Mail coaches 365
Mall, The
465
Mallery, Garrick, writer
496
Mansion, President's
222
Manufactures.
331, 353, 364, 431
Map of Federal City and territory
121, 148-50, 218
Map, "tin case"
218
Marine Band
510
Markets
232, 255, 265, 344, 352, 363, 383
Maryland cession, 25, 31, 167; grants
187
Marshall monument
520
Mason, Gen. Stevens Thompson, owner of Analostan Island.
41
Maury, John W., mayor
230
Mayoralty government
225
Mayor's salary
232
McClellan monument
523
McGee, Prof. W. G., writer
496
Mckinley administration, 398, 401; assassination
401
McLachlen Banking Corporation
570
McMillan memorial
526
McPherson, Edward, writer
495
McPherson monument
519
Medical matters .
. 235, 357, 412
Memorandum by Jefferson
73
Memorial Continental Hall
451
Mendelssohn Quintette Club
508
Mendenhall, Thomas C., writer
496
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank
569
Merchants National Bank
556
Meridian Hill
475
Merriman, Florence A., writer
496
Metropolitan Police
234
Metropolitan Savings Bank 559
Metzerott Hall 507
Mexican War
350
Millet and Butt Memorial
526
Molina, Senor Filipa, writer
496
Monroe administration
328
Montrose Park 475
.354, 511
Morris, Robert, lot purchaser
191
Morris and Greenleaf
191, 209, 210, 212
Morris and Nicholson . 209, 210, 212
Municipal or District building 293, 306, 416, 443
Municipal suffrage .309, 317
Museum, National, 447; old
481
Munsey Trust Co.
.565, 570
Music and the Drama 497
Monuments
594
History of the City of Washington
Naming of Commissioners 46
Name of City and Territory
121
National Bank Act 570
National Bank of the Metropolis 556
National Bank of the Republic
556
National Bank of Washington
542
National Capital Bank
558
National Capital site 9,37
National City Bank
556, 559
National Gallery of Art
484
National Geographic Society
449
National Hall
502
National Institute
481
National Intelligencer
227, 530
National Metropolitan Bank
542
National Republican
535
National Safe Deposit Co.
558
National Savings Bank
558
National Savings and Trust Co.
558
National Telephone Exchange
414
National Theatre
.507-10
National Theatre, The
500-1
National University
409
Naval Hospital
461
Naval Observatory
454
Navy Department building
319
Navy Yard
457
Negotiation with proprietors
46
Negroes, regulations concerning
.233, 313, 316-7
Negro suffrage
.313, 316
New Opera House
505
"New Scotland"
17
Nicolay, John C., writer
494
Nordhoff, writer 493
568
Northern Liberty market house destroyed
265
Noted trials
577
Nott, Charles C., writer
495
Observatory, Naval 352
Octagon House
327
Odeon, The
501
Official name of city and territory
121
Ohio National Bank
562
Ohio and Potomac headwaters, nearness of
27
Old Capitol building
327
One hundredth anniversary
400
Organic Act
282
Organization of first commissioners
50
Orphans Court 572
Orr, Benjamin G., mayor 227
National Museum 447
Newcomb, Simon, writer 496
North Capitol Savings Bank
595
History of the City of Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue lined with poplars
319
Page, Thomas Nelson, writer 493
Pan American Union 452
Park commission
467, 469-70, 417
Parking system
216, 299, 465, 467, 469 568
Park Savings Bank
392
Patriotic Bank
Patrol boats 419
519
Penitentiary
456
Pension Office
438
Peoples Savings Bank
567
Peoples Theatre
503
Permanent Commission Government
277
Pierce administration
368
Pike, Gen. Albert, writer, 492; monument
523
Philharmonic Hall
504
Philharmonic Society 508
Plan of Federal City 122, 148-50, 217 79
Police Court building
445
Police, Metropolitan
234
Police, Supt. of
233
Polks administration
349
Pope, Francis
18
Population 319, 330, 344, 352, 361, 367, 383, 405
Poore, Ben Perley, writer
493
Post Office .. 334-5, 345, 438-9, 415
536
Potomac, first explorers of
10-1
Potomac Flats cases
580
Potomac Navigation
29,
359
Potomac and Ohio headwaters
27
Potomac Park
229, 479
Potomac Savings Bank
568 9
Potomac site
Potowmack Company 27, 39, 332
496
Powell, Maj. J. W., writer
496
Powhatan
9
President's House. . 73, 101, 172-3, 181, 201, 213, 222-3, 319, 326, 435-6
Press, The .
530
Prince of Wales visit 371
349
Proclamation by President Washington
52
Property titles
201
Property valuation
366
Proposal from land owners
44
Protection of Congress
21
"Public appropriations" 216
Public buildings .... 10, 73, 102, 112, 172-3, 179, 181, 201, 213-14, 224, 481
Public buildings and grounds .226, 306, 433
Public health affairs .236, 251, 259
Public library
299, 450
Patent Office, 354, 437, 463, 481; fire at
544
Peace monument
Plan of finance for Federal City
Post, Washington
Poussin, G. T., writer
Princeton accident
596
History of the City of Washington
Public grounds and parks 462
Public schools
243
Public Works, Board of
. 248, 251, 254, 257, 383
Railroad accident
403
Red Cross building
456
Randolph and Clay duel
338
Rapine, Daniel, mayor
227
Raymond, Geo. L., writer
493
Rawlings monument
518
Real estate and court record
539
Real Estate Trust Co.
565
Reintzel, Anthony, writer
491
Removal of government
.319, 322, 334
Resolution of the Continental Congress
21
Residence Act, 34, 36-8, 46, 51; amended
55
Retrocession 336, 349
Revenue sources 187, 196, 199, 204
29
Riggs and Co., bankers
555
Right of soil and jurisdiction
25
Riley, Charles V., writer
496
Riots
369
Risley-Seward, Olive, writer
496
Risley's Variety
503
Rivalry for location
40
Rochambeau monument
522
Rock Creek Bridge
187
Rock Creek Park
472
Rockhill, W. W., writer
494
"Rome"
18
Romero, Matias, writer
496
Roosevelt administration 401-2
491
Rush monument
523
Salary, mayor's, 232; commissioners' 277
Sales of lots . 81, 115, 120-2, 124, 161, 189, 191, 212
Sampson, George W., writer 492
Sarmiento, Senor D. F., writer
496
Savings Banks
567
Schlozer, Baron Kurd von, writer
496
Schoolcraft, writer
491
Schools
243, 255, 354, 363, 388, 405
School trustees
320, 363, 388-9, 407
Scidmore, Elizabeth R., writer
495
Scotch Irish settlers
17-8
"Scotland Yard" 18
Scott, Gustavus, commissioner, 193; death of
195
Scottish Rite Temple 453
Scott monuments 518
Seal of the City
232
Seat of Government, act of establishment, 33; attempt to re-
move
.391; 26, 41, 52, 220
Revolutionary War debts
Riggs National Bank
556
Royal, Anne, writer
597
History of the City of Washington
Seaton, Julia, writer
495
Seaton, W. W., mayor 228, 352
Seawell, Mollie Elliott, writer
495
Second National Bank 559
Secret agents
Security Savings and Commercial Bank 566
Senate Office building 442
569
Sewer system
243, 286, 300
Shepherd, Alex R.
251, 261, 265-6, 271
Shepherd monument
495
Sheridan, P. H., writer
524
Sherman monument .
523
Sherman, William T., writer
495
Shipyards
354
Shoemaker, William L., writer
493
Sickles and Key duel
370
Site of National Capital
.9, 25, 37, 41
Slaves liberated
381
Smallwood, Samuel N., mayor, 227; death of
330
Smith, Capt. John
355, 446-7, 482, 503
Social life. 322, 328, 369, 382, 392-3, 396, 399, 402, 403, 405
366, 459
Sousa, John Philip, band director
510
Southworth, Mrs. E. D. E. N., writer
493
Spanish settlements
10
Spofford, A. R., writer
492
Stage lines
366 491
Stanley, writer
Star, Evening 536
State, War and Navy building 438 Statue of Frederick the Great 457, 525
Statue of A. R. Shepherd
266
Steamboats and ships 343, 359, 365, 386, 419
Stephenson monument
524 12
Stith, William, quoted
Stoddert, Benjamin, interviewed by Washington
41
Storms . 273, 326, 392, 396-7, 399, 403
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, writer
492
Street improvement. .241, 254, 286, 288, 300, 352, 354, 361, 366, 383
Street lighting
239
Street car lines
366, 387, 481
Street names
.121, 413
Stuart, David, commissioner
47, 49, 114
Steuben monument
522
Suffrage, municipal
.309, 313-7
Supt. of Police, office 233
Surratt trial 379
Supreme Court, first session in Washington 221
Supreme Court (D. C.) 573
Survey of the ten miles square .56,93
230
Slavery
11-3
Smithsonian Institution
Soldiers Home
Springs
100, 237, 330, 352, 354, 463
524
Sheridan monument
61
Seventh Street Savings Bank
598
History of the City of Washington
Taft administration
403
Taggart, Hugh T., writer, 490; quoted 11
Taxicabs . 430
Taylor administration, 351; death of 351
Teachers salaries 321
Telegraph line, first
348
Telephones
414
Temporary Commission Government
271
"Ten miles square," survey, 56; boundaries
82
Terminal company
418
Territorial Government
226, 231, 247, 253, 271, 383
497
Thomas monument 519
Thornton, Dr. William, commissioner
193
Tiber Creek canal
215, 243, 254
Times, Washington
538
Tin case map . 218, 464
201
Toner, Dr. Joseph M., writer
492
Towers, John T., mayor, 230; writer
491
Townsend, George Alfred, writer
492
Traders National Bank 562, 569
Transportation
384-5, 416, 430
Treasury building
213, 224, 319, 326, 344-5, 436-7, 481
Treaty with England
204
Trees destroyed
465
Trials of note
577
Trust companies
563
"Twenty Buildings," The
211
Tyler administration
347
Upton, Harriet T., writer 494
United States Theatre
497
Union Bank of Georgetown 543
Union Trust Company
564
United States Trust Company
564, 565, 570
Union Savings Bank .566, 569
569
Union Station
416
Van Buren administration 345
Van Ness, Jno. P., mayor 228
Varnum, Joseph W., writer
491
Viewing lands for site
43, 44
Virginia, cession, 25, 32; Virginia grants
187
Virginia payments, tardiness of 188
Virginia, Smith's description and map of 12
12
Wallach, Richard, mayor 231
Wall's Theatre 528
Wall's Opera House 507, 509
Walsh, Robert, writer
491
War Office .
319
Ward, Lester F., writer
496
United States Savings Bank
Voyage of Smith up the Potomac
Theatres
Titles to property
599
History of the City of Washington
Ward commissioners 232
Warden, David B., writer
490
Washington, George, diary .75, 100
Washington, George, letters, 35, 36, 54-6, 58, 62, 64, 67, 70, 73, 84, 87-8, 98, 108-9, 125, 133, 139, 148, 177, 183, 216-7
Washington and Dinwiddie 19
Washington and Jefferson 38
Washington proclamation
52
Washington, surveyor, 20; visits Georgetown, 75, 101; takes sou- thern trip .93, 99, 187
Washington canal 239, 255, 289
Washington (city), early description of
222
Washington County
572
Washington City assembly rooms
497
Washington Critic 536
Washington Herald 538
Washington Library 496
Washington Loan and Trust Co.
560
Washington Mechanics Savings Bank
569
Washington monument, 354, 511; Greenough's statue of, 516; equestrian statue
516
Washington Mirror
532
Washington Post
536
Washington Safe Deposit Co.
559
Washington and Southern Bank
570
Washington Times
538
Washington Theatre
497, 504-5, 508
Walter Reed General Hospital
461
Water System
237, 286-7, 294, 300
Watterston, George, writer
Webster monument
Weddings at White House, 324, 329, 339, 341, 348, 383, 392, 395, 403, 405 Weeks, Helen, writer
492
Weightman, Roger C., mayor 227
Welliver, Judson C., writer 495
West End National Bank 562
West, Henry Litchfield, writer 494
White, Alexander, commissioner 194
White House 435-6, 481
464
White House Park
465
Whitman, Walt, writer
491
Wholesale trade
430
Willard's Hall
504
Williams, John S., writer
491
Wilson administration
404
Winder building
353, 439
Witherspoon monument 524
Wolf, Simon, writer 495
Y. M. C. A. 411
Zoological Park 477
.
White House lot
590 522
600
History of the City of Washington
ERRATA.
: The statement regarding the filling of the canal from Rock Creek to 17th Street, as on page 240, has reference to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, which followed bank of the river, as it then existed, from the Rock Creek basin to the 17th Street basin and entered the latter by a lock, the site of which is marked by the old stone lock house which still stands at the southwest corner of 17th and B Streets.
The financial statement in last paragraph on page 246 is not correct. The correct figures are given on pages 431-2.
On page 36, second paragraph, October 6 should be November 13.
Page 71, Benjamin Stoddard should be Stoddert; page 77, 13th day of March should be 30th; page 81, Mayor Brent should be Henry J. Brent; page 125, Sottish should be Scottish; page 211, 1794 should be 1793; page 227, Carberry should be Carbery; page 274, Ex-Repre- sentatives should be Representatives; page 405, 1900 should be 1910; page 422, date 1833 should be 1883.
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