Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-15
District government Affairs.

tI'nhre was nothing received on Saturday 10
special assessments at the Office Of the tax COL
lector neither cash nor per cent coupons
case OF smallpox was developed to-day a
No. Q Foundry alley, and will be sent to tn
hospital this evening. 1t is a child two year
old.
Messrs James P. Willett, NJ. W. Gait and An
thony Buchly, have purchased a billiard table
for the purpose of presenting 1t to Fire Engine
Company No. 2, and have asked and obtained
permission of the District Commissioners TO
present the gift. It is a duplicate OF one re-
Gently awarded to Company from the LignU
Infantry fair.
issued by Inspector Entwisle: NJ. ]. Altee con-
Struct three two-story dwellings, II, between
18th st. and Vermont avenue NV; :, 500 VIM.
c. Hill, construct a three-story dwelling. north
west corner 10th ana n SITS. n.w.; Sc, 800. WIN.
Heine, construct four two-story dwellings, H. l.
avenue. between 5th and 9Th stS; 80, 600. II.
Kraak, build brick stable, alley between ~
and 9th sts and pennsylvania avenue anu
StS. NV: 800.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IMBRot aIo-WAsH-
tSGToN, HS ID: D: C., March 10, , lS~mi columns
Of your paper to make = short ssase- ae-
MING STAR OF Saturday last, signed J. T. MuiS-
ray duplicating me in conspiracy to inJure
the character of Thos. L. Hume, ex-fire commits
sioner, and Martin Cronin chief engineer Of the
fire department. ! denounce the statement
made by this man Murray as a falsehood from
beginning to end. 1t is miserable, desperate
u
Murray is well known, and why he was dis
missed from the fire department. l propose at
the proper time and place to make Data to the
falsity OF such a statement. and show to the
publjc whose character has been injured I'm this
fire department imbroglio.
Very respectfully. &C, THos. C. QUANTRILL.
Eifos SrWpermit me. aifT through iln the col
umns of your paper, to reply to the state
ment Of Jas. 4. Murray, published in the Satur-
day evening STAR, duplicating MIR. Thomas
Oulntri1l and mySpif In e0pSDiraPv IN 1niura
the character of Thomas L. Hume. an eX-mem-
Der of the fire board, and Martin Cronin, chief
engineer of the fire department.. 1 deny the
statement as false and malicious AS to the
letter published in the Sunday Capital, on the
l1th Of January, 1850, written by this man Muir
ray, | will make oath that the letter above
referred to was written and handed to me by
Murray few days after he was dismissed from
the fire department. believe 1t was some time
in September last about the 2sth, this letter was
written by himself voluntarily and without any
assistance or dictation on my part whatever,
and l further state Mr.. Thomas Quantrill never
saw nor read the letter until it was published in
the Sunday Capital, and further state that Mr..
QuantIill had nothing to do with the inveStiga-
lion or charges against Chief Cronin. l, myself,
courted the investigation. j. w. SPRINGMAN.
THE ANALosTAN BOAT CLUB held its annual
meeting Saturday night. The following Officers
were elected for the ensuing year: President,
Mr.. George A. McIlhenny; vice president, Mr..
John W. Corson; corresponding and financial
secretary Mr.. George H. Clarke; recording sec
Howard S. Nyman; captain, Mr. William A. Nc
Kenney; first lieutenant, MI. r Z. Pairo; second
lieutenant. Mr.. F. W. Page; financial commit
tee Mr.. E. s. Maunder, MI. Med. Douglass, Mr..
Il. B. Wilkins, jr.; membership committee Col.
s. N. Benjamin, Mr.. J. Rush Marshall, Mr John
L. Robertson. MIR. II. B. wilkins, on behalf OF
Mrs. Gen. Ricketts,, presented the organization
with handsome silk barge nag. Resolutions
of respect to the memory OF w. d. Postal, for
merly member OF the club, were adopted Mr..
[. b. Stevens, retiring president, who is about
to leave for Mexico, gave the members fare
well supper.