THE LAST RUN: Horse-drawn firefighting pumper reenacted on Capitol Hill
LINCOLN PARK NEWSLETTER: Hundreds gathered in Lincoln Park to commemorate the last time the city used horse drawn carriages to respond to emergencies. PLUS: Silence on the Lincoln Park slaying
REPEATING A HISTORIC EVENT
1925 - 2025
FROM WTOP
Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill on Sunday to commemorate the last time the city’s fire department used horse-drawn carriages to respond to emergencies.
One hundred years ago, on June 15, 1925, the DC Fire Department held a ceremonial Last Run of the Horses. The purpose of the event was to commemorate the service of the great fire horses. The Last Run of the Horses honored the fire horses who were no longer needed due to the creation of motorized fire trucks.
Sunday’s event, organized by the DC Fire and EMS Foundation along with the Friendship Fire Association, marked the 100th anniversary of the event by holding a reenactment.
“They’re (department members) very proud of the long history of the agency,” said Amy Mauro, executive director of the DC Fire and EMS Foundation. “How far it’s come over the last 150 years of being in existence.”
Residents, firefighters and paramedics lined North Carolina Avenue in Southeast D.C. between the William H. Rumsey Aquatic Center and Lincoln Park to watch the horses trot by, carrying the exact same horse-drawn steam fire engine used 100 years ago.
THE SHOCKING LINCOLN PARK SLAYING: IS THE SILENCE RACIST?
The cover-up of the Lincoln Park murder continues.
THERE HAS BEEN radio silence from police, the media and our local politicians, who are captive to special interests in the District.
DC media have ignored the slaying of a 25-year-old Marcellus Smith on East Capitol Street SE on Lincoln Park. So have local politicians. The Capitol Hill media, which don’t publish anything without the endorsement of the powerful local councilmember, ran exceedingly short articles.
Did they all ignore this shocking murder because he was a Black man? Is this a racist reaction to crime in the District? Oh, well, another Black man murdered. Who cares. Move along, citizens. Step over the shell casings and the blood on the brick sidewalk. Don’t muss up your Guccis.
What was the response of the Ward Six Councilmember? To hold a Town Hall on violence? Well, not quite. It was the expected response to breathtaking gunplay in a quiet, leafy neighborhood across from a federal park. Why of course it was his budget priorities and rallying opposition to a new stadium at the old RFK site.
Because what’s the most existential threat to the District of Columbia? Gangland style homicides? Or a sports-entertainment, housing, retail complex?
Well, obviously, a stadium is a bigger threat than gunmen on ATVs and scooters running rampant through the city. Get your priorities straight. Just ask sycophantic, Brickie award-winning media on Capitol Hill.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘Terrifying’
As a long time Hill resident at this point, 25 years, I appreciate your ongoing coverage of activities and events that impact Lincoln Park and the neighborhood. I was reading in my upstairs bedroom the evening of the shooting and it was so loud I almost hit the floor. And I'm on 200 block of 9th Street NE. I can't imagine how much louder and terrifying it was for the residents along the park!
Thank you again for keeping us all up to date with the goings on. I am most appreciative.
Wendy Perry
9th Street NE
Debbie dancer attorney
EMTs are not generally permitted to make pronouncement of death. So the victim died on the sidewalk but it’s accurate to say he was pronounced dead later at the hospital. Now the issue of why it took so long to get him to the hospital- well that’s not MPD’s responsibility. Do your research.
Debbie
Attorney, dancer, animal lover, proud Capitol Hill resident
Editor’s note: The police report, obtained by Lincoln Park Newsletter, also contradicts the news release. “After all life-saving efforts failed, the victim was pronounced dead at 2219 hours by Dr. David Vitberg.”
Lincoln Park violent crime is now seen as normal
At least nine bullets were fired by a bunch of people riding mopeds and/or ATV's, killing an individual (targeted or random still unknown) and also damaging two cars.
I repeat: One or more persons riding through our neighborhood fired multiple shots killing another person. They fired them with no concern for injury or damage beyond their intended victim. It is absurd to write this, as if it is OK to only murder their intended victim. Walk to the location at the corner of Kentucky and East Capitol. Take a moment to find the yellow circles of the bullet casings on East Capitol. Look at where the victim was standing (corner of the treebox) and give some thought to where those bullets could have ended up. You could have been walking your dog or parking a car on our street. It was not that late —10:08 p.m.
Discussing listserv etiquette with such intensity, in light of the bigger events that triggered it, is baffling. Perhaps it is an indication of how we have normalized and accepted violence in our city and neighborhood in the past 5 years.
In the meantime, I dread parking after dark, usually a block or two away, I worry about my daughters riding the metro from school and walking from Eastern Market to home and I hesitate to take a walk on a nice evening (the nicer the evening the more likely that bad actors are out there too).
Yannis Labrou
ADOPT-AN-URN TO MARCH IN PARADE ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
Lincoln Park urn gardeners and others who have canine companions plan to march as a group in the Barracks Row Capitol Hill Independence Day Parade. Plan to meet at 9:30 a.m. under the freeway overpass on 8th Street SE on July 4.
We will need marchers, a loudspeaker, a play list about dogs and flowers, decorations, dog treats, silly costumes and more.
SIGN UP HERE https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vuwtwJXz0bkWFOkqdWHhYPk6w7V2Z4A26m-e6026tyA/edit?usp=sharing
The best costume will win the annual GOLDEN WATERING CAN AWARD given every year by Friends of Capitol Hill Parks, the largest volunteer group serving Lincoln Park.
https://www.capitolhill4thparade.com/
Here’s the urn map
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1VAZgfCet1HjsOZBS8_WRa9vYzJILYqlRLcaXCnOL7Lw/edit?usp=sharing
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