Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-13
GEORG ETOWN.

VT TX StHONLS-.NsFffNV OF no T~gs-
tees Last Ereaif'g.-The Board OF Trustees OF
Georgetown schools held regular meeting YES
terday afternoon. Mr.. j. %. Wilson. superin-
tendent, submitted his second annual report.
which shows that there are 665 seats provided
for pupils in ten schools. The total value Of
property Is SS5, 100; number of teachers, ID; av-
ersge number OF pupils in daily attendance.
Or; total ordinary EXPENSES, 81, $50; cost per
pupil, s22-42. The increase in the value OF
school property was $1,000; in the number of
teats provided for pupils, 65; in the number OF
teachers, :, IN the whole number of pupils en-
rolled, To-; in the average number enrolled,
lo4; ana In the average number in daily attend
BY an act of the Legislative Assembly. an
proved June 70, 1873, provision was made for a
large central school building; and the trustees
OF the pubic schools OF Georgetown, with the
Governor of the District of Columbia a. char
man or oficio, were constituted a building com
mittee, charged with the duty of purchasin.
site and experimenting the erection OF the
building The committee is authors ed 10 ex-
pend $4,000, and the Governor is authorized
10 borrow such amounts as NAV he required for
the purpose. The site has been purchased for
the sum of $4,000, and contains 80, - square
feet. IL is located in the square bounded by
2d, Sd, High and Market streets; aud when Po-
tomac street is extended TO "a it will border
upon three streets as follows :-l22g feet on ID
~ feet on Sd, and 100 feet on Potomac street.
The building will have a front of - feet on
I'd street, depth of q feet on Potomac street,
a basement, three full stories and a Mansard
story. It will contain egh. large school rooms
room for the Linthlcum institute, = room for
the Peabody library, and a hall of Sufficient
capacity 10 seat nine hundred persons, besides
ample play rooms and apartments for the
jaDitor in the basement. The principal build
ing materials are Seneca stone, brick, and iron;
ard the building will be heated by steam. The
contract price for erecting the building il
S61 ,ll5, and the work has already progressed
nearly TO the completion of the second story
walls. 1t is confidently expected that the build
ing will be finished and ready for occupancy by
September !, 1s1i.
The rooms set apart for the Peabody library
and the LinthiCum institute was specially de-
signed for their respective uses; and, by locating
these Institutions Ina this building, the two
educational benefactions upon which they are 10
be fouLded-the former amounting 20 spa, 600
and the latter TO SEC, 000-can be made to sup
plenent the usual course of instract.O fur
nisbed by public schools; and thus the beneyo-
more effectually than they possibly could If the
funds were used Independently. When these
plans are fully carried out Georgetown viii
oher TO her citizens educational facilities IN
surpassed by those OF any city Of its size.
TIE ANNEXATION OF GRoRGRrosN TO
WAsRINGToN.-The proposed annexation of
our town TO Washington is not new project as
some suppose. Petitions to Congress were cir
culated here a few years before the war, and
were signed by the most prominent business
men Of Georgetown. At that time there were
some reasons for opposing the anal Gamation of
the two cities, but there are none now. We
then had two municipalities, and were il fact
two separate and distinct corporations. Now
we have but one distinct gOyernme at, and are
IN every particular one, except that the two
western wards of the city are called by the OH
name of Georgetown. We understand tbs the
necessary memorials TO Congress will be circu-
lated in a few DAYS praying that the old name
of Georgetown be dispensed with in order thst
the annexation may be fully completed. From
the tone of very large majority of our capital
lists and business men it will doubtless be signed
with but few excepuonsl by the entire com
munity.
late administrator OF the Arch Diocese of Balti-
more, will preach a charity sermon tomorrow
at ii O'Clock a M, in Trinity (Catholic) Church,
and his eloquence will no doubt ensure large
attendance.
MASONIC ELEcTIoN.-At the annual conclave
of Potomac Commandery, No. 3, Knights Temp
lar, held at Masonic hall, Georgetown, last
evening, the following officers were elected TO
serve during the ensuing Masonic year: Sir X.
W. Handy, emil commander; Sir G.. f. Cor
son, generalissimo; Sir IL. Seligson, captain gem
eral; Sir and Rev. John Trimble, jr., prelste;
Sir b. s. Hedrck, senior warden; Sir WIN. Lud-
gate, junior warden; Sir James Dickson, treas
urer; Sir CT. Shekell, recorder; Sir John Lynch,
warden.
REAL ESTATE SALRs.-w. l.. Wall & Co,
auctioneers, sold yesterday afternoon, on the
premises, the private residence called "Ever-
NAV" on the heights of Georgetown, to Il. W.
Mcpherson, for Sis, 900.
COAL TRADE.-The coal trade for the week
past has very much decreased and may be con-
sidered at an end for the season. The receipts
VIII soon entirely cease, but as there is a sur
plus on the wharves the shipments will con-
nnue as long as vessels can be procured TO load.
The receipts at RAYS were 1881 tons, at the
new Central wharf $50 tons, making the total
receipts for the week only 2, 297 tons, the other
two companies having ceased to load. The
shipments were, from Rays wharf, 2,js1 tons;
from the new Central, 200 tons; from the Con-
solidation docks 600 tons, and from the Bor-
den Mining company $50 tons. Total shipments,
5377 tons.
RELIGIoUs.-The Sunday afternoon discourses
of Rev. DIR. Atkins at Christ church on the his
tory of the Episcopal church attract much at
tention.
SToLRN.-on Thursday evening while the
stable door of Mr.. Vim. Marbury of this city,
was standing open, some thief walked oil with
his buggy harness valued at $50.
On Dit, that the marriage of Mr.. John NJ.
Waters, of the firm OF j. G. & y. NJ. Waters 20
Miss Mollie Z. Myers, all of this city, will take
place early in the New Year.
RIVER NEws.--The steamer +. G. Knight
cleared yesterday for New York with 800 bols
-four and Il, 400 lbs tallow, and the New York
cleared for Philadelphia with a miscellaneous
cargo. The steamer Express cleared for Balti-
more, ana the Lady OF the Lake arrived from
Norfolk, and the schooner ID. K. Wolf arrived
with 1o,000 feet OF lumber for the Whestley
Brothers.
GRAIN TRADK.-The schooner Kitty Ann ar
rived from Alexandria with 400 bushels wheat
for Hartley & Bros, and canal boat Z. +.
Waters with 200 bushels wheat for j. G. & j.
NJ. Waters, which was sold at slI0. T. q.
Wheeler received 400 tons wheat by rail, and
stored for higher prices.
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