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[[strikethrough]] in the summner at [[/strikethrough]] about twilight, and by "a person who went around to each light (in his territory) and push up the light with a stick and in the morning at six o'clock, he would repeat the same performance by lowering the light with the same stick. The lamp lighters as they were called, were always done by foreigners, so I am told, never by blacks.

The streets were cleaned by foreigners who worked from 6 o'clock, a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Of course this was still the horse and buggy days.

[[strikethrough]] This house we entered, which we was to be our home for the next 70 old years. [[/strikethrough]]

This Italianate house which was of red brick was built around 1875 on land which was formerly owned by Columbia College, now George Washington University. [[strikethrough]] It was a [[/strikethrough]]