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The Old.Fashi0ned Boy . Thing Of the
Past.

From the Boston Herald.
Dear, 0ld-tashioned boy, we were one Of you,
but you have disappeared. You are q thing of
the past, and will live no more, except In
memory and song. We can see you now In your
summer costumes-in your blue cottonade
pants buttoned to "a short shirt Of the same
material, and in your little white wool hat, the
crown OF which had grown to point and re-
sembled q miniature church spire. Yellow
clay mingles with your unkempt locks, show
ing that you have been swimming in the horse
pond and driving your head into the mud, but
withal you are better looking, stronger healthier
and more manly than the modern boy whose
mother keeps him in fine clothes and white
linen, and who knows not the Joy of going bare
footed and wearing stone bruse on his heel.
His smooth and pale cheeks aud delicate stock
Uncovered legs may compare oddly and more
favOrabiy to your brown, plump and bare
calves and freckled, tanned and warty face and
his manners may be easier and more refined
than yours but We will bet on you on the gen.
eral outcome every time. You are the old
fashioned boy that made good men, as evolved
into the Websters and Calhouns of this country
but, alas! you have mizzled. Your respectful
votion, modesty and blunt truthfulness
have gone. The bicycle-riding, whistling, noisy,
impudent and precocious modern boy, with
modern ideas and habits, has crowded you out
of existence and taken the place you once SO
nobly adorned. The cows come home at milk
ing-time, but you, with your rawhide whip and
"bed-ticking" suspenders, are not there. You
are nowhere. You are only sweet memory.
dear, old-fashfoned boy.
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A Mimic War.
THE NATIVES OF PACIFIC ISLAND ATT
A BRITISH VESSEL.

THE NATIVES OF PACIFIC ISLAND ATTACK
BRITISH VESSEL.
Advices from London from the Solomon
islands, via Queensland, report Q desperate
conflict between tho crew Of the recruiting
steamer Dick and the natives of the island OF
Malayta. The natives used spears and hatchets
and in a few minutes fve white men were lying
on the deck hacked to death, while Mr.. Pop.
ham, the agent, was killed in his cabin, his
head being split in two and then hacked from
the body. Finally some OF the crew managed
to escape to the rigging, where with firearms
they killed about q dozen OF the attacking party
and drove Off the remainder.
The government man-Of.War Opal was headed
for the island. The village from whence the
attack was commenced was shelled. All the
people who came in sight were killed and
the houses burned. The Opal then proceeded
to Sendara Island and demanded Of the VIII
layers the murdererS Of Capt. Howe and bis
mate, who were killed in January of last year.
This village was destroyed three months after
the murders. and as the Inhabitants still re-
fused to give up the criminals, the place was
again Ghelled.
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Parson Downs Bombshell.

DEACON STORY INDICTED FOR COMMITTING
ADULTERY WITH MRS. ELTON.
Lawyer COffey, Parson Downs counsel, In
Boston ON Thursday, demanded the right to
put before the grand jury the evidence back OF
the parsons bombsheli Of last Sunday, when he
accused Deacon JOSEPH Story of committing
adultery with one Of the sisters Of the Bowdoin
Square church. District Attorney Stevens al.
lowed him TO put in his case. and the woman,
whose confession was read on Sunday by Par.
son Downs, appeared and testified.
Her name is Elton, and she told substantially
the story contained in her confession. The al
legged crime, she said, was committed about
three years ago. Her evidence was unsup-
ported. and the district attorney had no idea
an indictment would be found. It was said late
this afternoon, however, that the grand jury
had indicted Mr.. Story. MIR. Story is about
sixty years old, and has always borne a reputa-
ton in the social, business and religious world
as clean as that of any man in Boston. He lives
at the Commonwealth hotel, and his place OF
business is on State street.
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BALTIMORE, Mn, August 7.-Virginia SKIES con.
SOlldated with COUPON SS: past due coupons, 90: do
ten-tortes Ala; do new thrses. % Il bid to-day.
BALTIMORE. ND, August 7.-Cotton quiet and
drp-niddling. 04sa9as Flour steady and quiet.
Wheat-southern steady and fair western higher and
No. Maryland. SO; No 2 western winter red spot,
S516aS51a August, S4aS41h: September S4lsaS41s;
October, S5aAaS511. Corn-sOuthern nOminal western
hrmer aud dull: southern white, 5xA55: southern
August. 4Sa.aA9l4; September, 49asa6O; October,
6Oa52 Oats lower and dull-sOuthern, 3Oa3 q western
white, 37a30; western mixed 34a37 Pennsylvania
3Oa37 kye firm, 56a6O Provisions steady. PetrO.
leum lower and dull-refined, 64. Sugar-cOpper
refined refine quiet y,2aaG WHISKY steady, llssi "a
steamer dull-cotton l1-64d.; hour, la6d: grain,
2a2Ad. Recelpts-d0uf, 2,2O5 barreG wheat So 500
bushels: corn. $500 bushels oats, 16,2OO bushels;
rye, LOO busheis. administrations, 8.S70 barrels
wheat, LA, 600 bushels; corn II 600 bushels
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO LII, August Z, HIS a. sn-Wheat
vanced to 167s. Corn active and easier-September,
49, Oats steady-September, 2S7s Pork stronger
September, 077ae Lard strongeT-Ssptember, 100.
RANGE OF THE THERMoMETER-Thsf follow
ing were the readings at the signal office today
q. m, 81; q. m, 66 IL u. m, SO; D. M, 50;
maximum, 20; minimum, 65.
Two EXECUTIONS YESTERDAY.-Kit Ross q
smith, Ark, yesterday, Ior tine murder of JON
athan Davis, white man, at Dechoteau, In
dian Territory, the Goth of last December. Jno
+. Smith was hanged At Galiatin, NO., yester-
day for the murder Of VIM. p. Gleason, on Dec.
9, 1885.
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I'd EDITION
--latest kilograms to The Star.
THE ALEXANDRIA CONVENTION.
A Combined Assault Made Against Gen
Lees Majority.

Special Dtspatch to THE EVENING STAR
ALEXANDRIA, August THE afternoon and
convention did not break the deadlock. After
the 35th ballot, when Lee polled s,975 votes,
an overwhelming sense OF the need OF hating
his majority, which until then had gone on
session Of ali the managers for other candidates
and thenceforward the field combined across
Lees path to victory. His steady advance was
had been repeated and the failure of the first
movement towards the twothirds heights
would be fatal TO his prospects; but his steady
5000 yotes-did not retreat. Although un,
ape Ior awhile 70 push forward, they STOOD
like Ike. stone wall, and held ell they had At
night a banded host. First the flag of one
chieftain and then of another would be put to
me Mr1 ,5ont' ana In succession In the names OF
In the names of the imprOvised candidates,
SmoOt or Beavans. The entire opposition to
ity, that, always firm at 1000, rose twice above
5000 Once ION the 18th balloD Meredith
nearly reached the height on which Lees
S,lO1 votes TO Gen. Lees 9, 1874. Foster rose TO
1874, Hume to $3.50, Brent to 1896, SInoot to
1901. Bevans to 1884, but ut midnight Lee
sang truce" or, at least, the chairmans mallet
stopped hammering and the contest ceased till
morning.
TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
When the convention opened at 10 o'clock
this morning its first business was to select a
new chairman, vice Judge c. H. Ashton, of
King George, who was obliged to return home.
Chas. L. Pollock was chosen chairman, and
ballots from the S5th to the 1O4th were taken.
Lee $ strength fell on the 96th ballot to 1871
against Fosters $500, and after that Lee
never reached the vote OF Foster-the 1O4th
ballot standing: Foster 8,3O6, Lee 1859. A
recess OF an hour was then taken.
Collector Hedden's RumOred Resigna.
tiOn.
THE ACTING COLLECTOR DECLINES TO SAY
ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
NEW YORK, August 7.-Acting Collector
Arthur Berry, in reply to questions as to the
resignation of Mr. Hedden, said this morning:
II prefer to say nothing about 1t. You had
better ask Mr.. Hedden himself the President
or the man who started the rumor." Mr.. He'd
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The Presidens Expected To-Nlght.
At the White House 1t Is expected that the
President will return from New York tonight
but no Information has yet been received a. to
the hour Of arrival
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VoLuNrEERs FOR A MExIcAN W.

VOLUNTEERS FOR A MEXICAN WAR.-A dis
patch from Cleveland, says: The situation on
the Mexican frontier has caused much excite
ment among the iron-workers in that city.
Some days ago q company OF volunteers was
formed tor the purpose OF enlisting should there
be war. One ONelll, formerly a corporal in the
English army, Is in command OF the recruits
and drills them nightly. Men employed in the
neSday night and swore to volunteer Ten
young men of the Cleveland Mills started for
the southwest yesterday TO be on hand ii hos
tilitieS should begin.
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Reform school, Supplies. Etc.

DECISIONS OF CONTROLLER DURHAM.
First Controller Durham has decided that in
furnishing supplies for the reform school of the
District the Commissioners are required to see
that the appropriation is not exceeded and that
the money is apportioned properly for the sup
plies, but that the board of trustees
have the right to make the contracts for
the supplies. He has also decided that all
buildings to be constructed for school purposes
must have the supervision of the District
commissioners during construction, or of an
authorized agent, and that an acceptance OF the
work when completed is not sufficient. Such
supervision, however, is not required for build
tngs partially completed.
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A DUEL OVER SARAH BERNHARpr.-Sarah
Bernhardt continues to draw crowded houses
at BuenoS Ayres. The French and Italian
newspapers, which have been engaged in "a fiery
dispute relative TO the artistic merits of Sarah
Bernhardt, made some unfavorable remarks re-
gardlng their antagonists nationalities. The
result was duel between Senores Ceruti and
Hussier, both OF whom were wounded. 1t is re-
ported that more duels will take place.
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A dispatch from New York says: 1t is den-
nftely known that charges are to be preferred
against Mayor Grace next week. The Squire
Flynn contingent are engineering the move,
but the petition to Gov. Hill will not contain
the names OF any politicians. The signatures
Will be those OF citizens alleged TO have no AZ
nliations with any political organization and
not confined to party. Lawyer Richard s. New.
o0mbe, the counsel for q dozen and more of the
Doodle aldermen, is said TO be organizing the
onslaught ON the Mayor.
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SOLVING THE PFIsTER MURDER MYSTERY
The New York police are in . fair way TO solve
the mystery surrounding the murder Of Fred
Florence NJ. Soult young married woman who
was last seen in his company. made q state
ment to the police which they believe IL true,
She says Pfster WAS murdered In the wagon in
which his body was found. On the night of the
tragedy she says she went into the grain wagon
with Phster. Her husband discovered them
and came into the wagon. and Is he did so
Pister got up and they began TO fight Her hus-
band struck him In the face and he fell back In
the wagon, exclaiming "Ohg" He did not get
up again, and after she had left the wagon her
husband came AFTER her and told her not 70
mention what bad taken place. He said, 81
struck him, but did not mean to kill him."
Her husband u under arrest
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LEGAL Notes.

The general deficiency bill having been
approved the marshals office will, on Monday,
be enabled to pay Jurors, &c.
Messrs. Thomas and McNally have, for Mary
A. Thompson, filed q suit for trespass against
Mary A Shea, Changing 81 900 damages, in
that on August 9Th, 1885,, defendant entered on
her land and premises and undermined her
house and injured it.
Joseph Hall. the young man who stole the
wedding suit of Mr.. Albert Drane nom the
Cutler house and got married in 1t, pleaded
guilty before Judge Harper to-day and got 60
days In Jail.
Letters Of administration upon the estate Of
w. 81. Bailey were issued yesterday to Margaret
A. Bailey and James Wilkinson, and not
James Williamson as incorrectly published.
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ARMY ORDERS.-MaJOr f. Is. W1lllstOn, Sd
artillery, has been ordered from Springfield
Mass, to Troy, N. w. on public business. Leave
OF absence OF First Lieut.. II. j. Goldman
5th cavalry: extended three months for
disability. Leave of Paymaster A. B.
Is twenty DAYS
tended two months for disability.
MODIFIED TIMBER REGULATIONS. - Land
Commissioner Sparks has issued circular
modifying the existing regulations in regard
to cutting timber on mineral lands of the gov.
eminent, which allows timber TO be cut for
commercial purposes, with the limitation that
such timber is to be sold only to the actual
consumers, who shall be citizens and bona fide
residents of the state or territory where such
timber Is cut.
INTENDS TO REsIGN.-Mr. ]. S. Robinson, as
sistant solicitor OF the Treasury. who is now in
Boston on leave OF absence, has given notice
that he will resign at the expiration of his
leave, In order to practice law in Boston. His
retirement is entirely voluntary. He has been
In Office over twenty years.
MURDER OF A PosrMAsTER.-ThirdA Assistant
Postmaster General Hazen has received letter
giving an account of the recent murder OF the
postmaster at Niece, Florida, and the arrest of
Two men who are supposed to have murdered
him for the purpose OF robbing the office as
well as obtaining the money which it was
known was kept for some colored people who
live in the neighborhood. The post office in
spectors are investigating the case.
PERsoNAL.-Justice Miller, of the United
States Supreme Court, is visiting his daughter
at Milton, CommissionerWheatley has
gone to Atlantic City, to be absent until Mon.
day. Zimmerman, OF Cincinnati, w. w.
Van SAINT, of Philadelphia, and VIM. S. Smith,
OF New York. are at the Riges.-Civil Service
Commissioner Lyman, G. NJ. Ogden, w. c
Hauptman, J. NJ. Maiony, and F: H. Brownell,
of this city, were registered in Philadelphia last
evening.-Senator Blackburn will go to Cape
May for short stay, and thence to Kentucky.
Ex-senator and Mrs. Thurman arrived at
their home in Columbus on Wednesday even
ing:-Mr. Joseph Ninlmo, jr., formerly chief
Of the Bureau of Statistics, now residing at
Huntington. l.. l.. is in town Tor q short VISIT
s. NJ. Biddison and family, OF Chicago. Geo. F.
Bentley, OF New York. and A. w. Martin of
Frankfort, KY, are at the Ebbtt.-Mr. E. B.
Osborne, of the War department, is spending
his vacation with his father, Rev. Zenas Os-
borne, at Saratoga.-F. D. Curtis and A. NJ
Miller, OF Philadelphia, Bruce Camp, of Paris,
KY, and George Green and j. Z. Kellogg of New
York. are al Wiliard's.-Mr. Edmund Hud-
son, OF The Capital, will sail in few days for
EurODe.
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A LOVE TRAGEDY.-James McClain. of
Danville. n. Y. employed by the Beech
Creek railroad, went to Wallacetown, Pa, yes
terday and called upon Miss Ella Davis. Soon
after he had entered the house her mother
heard the report OF pistol, followed by screams,
and second shot. she hastily entered the
room, where she found that McClain had shot
and almost instantly killed her daughter and
then shot himself through the head, INJECTING
injuries from which he died In two hours. Jeal.
ousy Is supposed 70 have been the cause of the
tragedy. McClain was % years OF age, and
Miss Davis 10. McClain was Questionable to
her parents.
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Fay OF Promoted Army Officers.
DECISION OF CONTROLLER DURHAM AND AN
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
Last October the second controller rendered q
decision to the effect that army officers only
entitled to receive increased pay when pro-
noted from the date of their commissions and
their acceptance, and not from the date of pro-
motion, as had been the custom. When the
second Heutenants this year, the Secretary of
War requested the controller to reconsider his
decision.
The controller gave the matter careful recon-
sideration, but replied that he was constrained
to adhere to his former opinion.
The Secretary OF War has, however, directed
pay officers of the army to pay the graduates as
second lieutenants from July LIST, as heretofore
customary, and not from the date of their COM
mission
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FOUND DEAD IN A BoAT.-As q fishing
steamer was passing out OF New Haven har5or
bound for tue fishing grounds yesterday the
captain discovered cat boat about two miles
south Of the New Haven lighthouse. In the
boat was lying the body OF man. Three bull
directly over the heart and two over the rig ht
ear. The body was identified as that of q dis
solute crank and it is supposed that he CON-
mitted suicide.
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PROPOSALS.
vlkOPOSALS FOR UNIFORMS
Il DEPARTMENT OF METROPOLITAN Po

- DEfAkTAEN OF METROPOLITAN Police
" AsHINGroS, DC. August 9Th Iss;8
>,osAec Proposals for two hundred, more or less
AetrOPoli;an Police Uniforms, for the xtni.r -,
80 aud summer OF 1887. viii be received at
tSee headquarters, sol II NV up 10 TW III V =.
O'CLOCK NJ AUGUST TWENTIETH Isst 10 h.
asie according 10 Metropolitan Police reyu 3, ions On
ny IN TINS ONCE. Character of goods and wor M an,
SIP Will De taken into consideration AID the right m
any and all bids Is reserved Also proDossis for
Two hehdred more or less. Hats the same season
eccoft4ns 70 selected samples order under fhs
sshe festIlctons by which form bids are received
"a NAG ia4'Aiui performances OF contract viii be
HeSla"eu SAML U. WALKER
lt Major and Supt Met Poliaa 4, ~
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The Trial Trip OF the Atlanta.

From the New York Herald.
The officers who went on the Atlanta's trial
trip up the Sound say that she behaved admir-.
ably. A heated crankpin and bursted steam
joint caused some delay. The greatest speed
attained was ID $40 miles per hour.
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Another Reported Faith Cure.
From the Montreal Gazette August &


A faith cure is reported from Cape Breton.
A New Glasgow young man who was q sufferer
from sore leg, and had to walk on crutches,
last Sunday was present at the Salvation Army
meeting. One of the believers went to him
and asked him if he believed God could cure
him of his pain as well as his sin. He answered
Eyes" "When?" said the believer. '.Now," re-
piled the young man. ''Then put up your
crutches aud walk and the young man be-
lieved and was cured, and from that day to
this he has not been otroubled with the COM
plant, although he was 9 great sufferer.
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A RENDEZVOUS OF SOCIALISTS RAIDED.-
The police OF Hamburg last night raided beer
cellar much freQuented by socialists while
q meeting was being held. 1t was broken
ing the fact that the place WAS a rendez-
vous of socialists of the most extreme class.
Documents were found showing tia existence
OF q secret society which had ranifications
throughout Germany, Holland and England,
and one of whose official headquarters in Ger
found affOrding a clue to q large proportion OF
the membership Of the organization. The po-
lice arrested eight of the socialists.
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How Mr.. II. o. THOMPSON DIED.-The friends
OF the late Hubert o. Thompson in New York
tional story that Mr.. Thompson committed sui
eide. Coroner Messemer said the story was an
outrageous one and that there il nothing what
ever to indicate that Mr.. Thompson had died
from any other than natural causes.
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WILBUR +. SToRYs WILL SUsTAINEp-The
APPELLATE court in Chicago yesterday morning
announced that 1t had affirmed the decision Of
Judge Rogers, in which he sustained the will OF
the late Wilbur f. Storey, edi.or OF the Chicago
Times. The will beQueaths TO the widow the
DaDor
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PHILADELPHIA. August IA IRE broke out
this morning in the shoe factory OF John Mum
dell & Co., 18th aud Cherry streets, originating
In the lasters' room on the rear of the 5th floor
In some manner unknown. The water soak ed
through the basement and caused considerable
damage. The entire loss 10 estimated BY the
firm 1t 81 OOO
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AND COMMERCIAL.

The New York Stock Market.
The following are the openin. and 800 D. m prices
OF the New York stock MarkeI to-day as reported Dy
special wire to II. II. Dodge. $50 10Th street:
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An ANARcHIsr ON THE STAND.-In the anas-
chists' trial in Chicago, yesterday, Fielden, one
Of the defendants, was placed on the stand. He
testified that he and Parsons went to the hay
market. spies vas In the wagon when Capt.
Ward gave the order TO the crowd to disperse.
He jumped down from the wagon and reached
the sidewalk a. the explosion occurred. He was
shot in the leg. He denied having . revolver.
He saw no arms among the citizens. He denied
that he ever advocated the use Of dynamite 70
Detective johnson.
TKRRIFYKD By A METEoR.-At Valcartier,
in Canada, Thursday, . blaming. meteor, proba-
bly, 10 ieet In circumference, descended from
the sky. After touching the earth IL assumed
q strange appearances, creating terror In the
minds OF the country people, many OF them
ward to the speedy dissolution Of the universe.
Just previous TO this occurrance the sky
lowered and the beasts OF the field sent up
distressing cries, bringing credulous persons
readily 70 their knees IN duplicating posture.
Within the past lev day. the nghtning has
been frequent
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Real Estat0 Salea

VIM. Lamborn has sold to Adeline N Chalker
and Jesse L. Pearce, for $2,447.65, a lot 80 ieet
front, and containing 9,79O.62 square feet, on
the north side of Princeton street, between 18th
and 14th streets, Columbia Heights. Julian
Thompson has sold to james McCOnville, for
$500, property fronting "a feet on the west
side OF 10th street, between = ana sts Julia
A. Thompson has sold to E. Is. Fox, for SO, 700, q
lot so feet front, and containing 1860 square
feet on the north side OF Clifton street,
between 18th and 14th Streets Columbia
Heights, and the latter has sold the same prop
erty to Sally L. Lamon for $7,9S7.5O. .. s.
Stearns has sold to Albert NJ. Read for SO, 600 q
lot 2212x1OO on the north side OF + street, be-
tween 9th and Columbia streets. Benjamin
Tilley has sold to Chas. N. Moore for $50 Q
lot 56x124 feet on the east side OF 23d
street, between street and Washington Circle
Edwin Greer has sold to Hugo Schulze for
$4,000 property fronting 1412 feet on the north
side of Pennsylvania avenue between 18th and
Cissell for $4,000 property on the east side
of Congress or 31st street, West Washington.
ADDISON NJ. Smith has sold TO Wickham HofE.
man, for - $50, property fronting 10 feet on
the north side of N street, between 18th and
18th streets George II. Plant, surviving trus-
tee has sold to the National Savings bank Of
this District, tor 30, 69376 sixteen lots in Mt
Pleasant, located on Laurel avenue and Oak
avenue, and the latter has sold to Fannie A.
Moore, Tor pa, 300, all the above lots In Laurel
avenue. James F. keenan, has sold to D. Wolfe
Brown, for $9,423.72, all of square 1904, with
the exception OF one lot 6Ox97 feet. This square
is between 18th and 18th, A and B streets
northeast.