The Evening critic., 1882-08-30
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.
Potomac Manufacturing Company
Permits for Schools q @ n IA
school Mntters-Theatricai
Internationally.

MNttcfS-bVScDuls
Operations have been suspended at the
works OF the Potomac Manufacturing Company
in this city for some time past, giving the idea
that the hopes entertained of u manufacturing
boom here would not be realized. II what tho
managers Of the enterprise say is true or the
half OF II, the Idea Is erroneous. The company
has already, as previously stated, expended In
wharf improvements, repairs to the old Pio-
neer Mill, the erection OF furnaces, &C., over
$4,000, and 1t is further said that work has
not really been commenced yet. Captain
Archer the president OF the company, Is in
Boston negotiating for tho machinery for
rolling and boiler plate mill, which, according
TO n letter received here n day or two ago, is TO
arrive at an early day, when the manufacture
OF iron is TO be resumed. A tank of oil arrived
at the works yesterday, which looks like the
FURNACES viii soon be In full blast again. Mr..
that the enterprise Will prove q success, what
ever outsiders may think, and backs up the
assertion by the statement that one firm alone
has positively agreed to take 200 tons of the
iron OF the company. Mr.. Hadlcy, who is q
man OF long experience in the iron business,
regards the company as now on n firm aud
permanent foundation, having overcome Its
chief obstacle, that OF making market for Its
iron. Besides the manufacture of iron and
steel the com pany have already established a
ehipyard, and expects 10 build iron vessels.
Work is being pushed on tho new vessel now
being built at the yard with view TO getting
1t OF the stocks early in October, when It Is
thought there Will be some encouraging de-
velopments in reference to the latter work,
which is a part OF the original plan. Tho
ment OF about $4,000 on tho $4,000 wharf
property purchased by It from Messrs. ]. p.
Agnew 4 Co., and Is now negotiating with Mr..
William s. Moore for more furnace work. Tho
company has certainly expended great deal
OF money in Alexandria not to mean business.
The clerk OF the City School Board has been
engaged since Monday morning last In Issuing
permits to children to enter the public schools,
the sessions OF which are to commence Mon
day next Permits are issued to white chill
dren first, and over 600 have already been
mis to the colored children Will be COM
menced. Tho trustees OF Alexandria County
are making arrangements for the opening OF
the schools of that county ON the 11th OF Sep
tember. The prospects are that the public
schools OF the city and county Will have a
ganization OF tho system. Mr.. VIM. Flarne,
Tho new superintendent OF the city, is an advo-
cate OF the abolition OF the head tax OF 81 Inn
posod by tho city on each parent as a pre-
requisite for the admission OF their children
TO the school. He said at the meeting of the
school board, last Friday night, that the public
schools were intended TO be free, and the ex-
clusion OF children from tho schools because
their parents had not paid 81 into tho city
treasury was unconstitutional and restric'
tion upon free education. The board post
roned the matter for further consideration
Mr.. William A. Cave, the rev superintendent
Of the county at the meeting Of his sch9oi 90
importance OF recognizing tho colored ele-
ment OF the county, and recommended Wash.
@. Reeves, n respectable colored man, as a
trustee, which recommendation was ratified.
| These facts are mentioned TO show the changes
that are taking place In tho Virginia free
| school system.
The remains of Ed Lipscomb, tho eighth col
| ored man from this section killed by acct
| dent in the North during the past two months,
| which arrived hero yesterday morning from
| New York, were Inferred at Arlington yester-
| day afternoon. Lipscomb died from injuries
| sustained while at work blasting on the Hud-
son River last week. II is hard matter to get
| colored men 10 60 North TO work now, rs they
| have an idea that everything is not all right
| where colorod men alone are killed by acci-
| dent. The uncharitable attribute this disin-
| clination on the part OF the colorcd mon TO go
| away 10 work to the desire TO stay here 10 vote
| AT the coming Virginia election, but the fact is
| they are deferred by the frequent fatal nccl-
| dents their friends are meeting with I'm New
| York, Pennsylvania and other Northern States.
The Clara Scott Dramatic Company presented
| at Mmory Hall, in this city, on Monday night
| "Lucrctia Borgia" and ON last night "rhe
| Princess OF Bagdad." The audiences wero
only fair. The company left this morning for
| stauntOn, Va.
Georceanna Day, alias Nelson, was yoster.
day fined 80 by the Mayor for drunkenness
| and disorderly conduct, and last night she got
| drunk again and stirred Bu2zards' Roost 10 It's
very foundation. She has not yet been ar
rested.
Danwashington, the colored wlfe.beater, mon
| toned In Yesterdays Gds6tte, was fined S25
lie will probably so TO the chain'gang for siS
| mOnths,
Tho remains Of Edith, the infant daughter
of Admiral Fairfax, u. $, NJ, whose death oc
| cured In Geneva, N, Y, yesterday, arrived
here this morning, ana were Inferred In Iyy
Hill Cemetery, short distance from tho city
whero several other members OF tho Admrali
family are buried.
match game Of baseball Will be played II
thisl city this afternoon, between the AleNan
dria baseball Association and the Natlona
and tho wayorly nine, OF Washington, will
play,