The Washington critic., 1888-04-18
WEST WASHINGTON.
A Great Improyoment.


a great improvement is being made on
the lots at thecorner of Thirty-ffth and
o streets, and the old rookeries that were
for so long time an eye.sore will now
give place to seven two-story bricks, with
back buildings and two stores, and to con-
tain six rooms and all the modern inn
proyements. Atthe corner of the row,
Thirty-fifth and o streets, will be erected
handsome building for the yNIetropoli-
tan Railroad Company. This building
will contain four rooms, one of which
will be fitted up as o waiting-room for
passengers. The work is being done by
Mr.. ]. w. Read for Charles b. Pearson,
the brother of President Pearson of the
Metropolitan Railroad. The buildings
will be finished about the middle of June,
and will cost $4,000.
Presbyterian Church Fair.
A fair will be given by the West Street
Presbyterian Church on Monday and
Tuesday April % and "a, in one of the
rooms of the Linthicum Institute build
ing. The fair is for the benefit Of the
church, and the ladies having it in charge
will make success of it beyond doubt.
The Hand Rail strengthened.
The hand.rail of the Free Bridge, about
which so much has beon said, is being
strengthened by a very substantial angle
brace, p by 3 inches, placed on the out
side of the rail where the present brace is
now. The work was begun this morning.
This makes the railing doubly secure and
avoids all possibility of any accident.
A force of workmen are also employed
this morning painting the iron work of
the structure, the color of which will be
deep red. The work will occupy about
seven days, and Is being done by .Messrs.
Nicholson 4 Peake.
Grain Market.
Three thousand six hundred bushels of
wheat 400 bushels of corn, and tons of
hay arrived to-day on the boat David
Knode, consigned to j. G. & j. NJ.
Waters. Twelve thousand bushels of
corn sold yesterday on Change at &c
Messrs. Tenney & Son and M. W. Gait
were the purchasers, and one boat of
yellow corn was sold to Alexandria par
ties. Wheat brought 96lc. on q rising
market. There is an active demand for
corn, and the market tends upward.
The following sales of cattle took place
at Droyers' Rest yesterday: 35 cattle up
and sold, Best, 5@5 15100c; good, 40
5c medium, 4@Rc; common, 34ic.
l2S sheep and lambs-Sheep, 52@6ic;
spring lambs, ,0@123c; calves, 590lc. Ten
COWS and calves, $25@s45. Market brisk.
Notes About Town.
Mr.. Thomas Il. Waggaman has opened
his art gallery under the auspices of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society, for the bene-
fit Of the poor of Washington. See adj
vertisement
Emery Il. Crash, car driver on the
Metropolitan Railroad line, was arrested
last night by Officer Hawkins, charged
with assault and battery ON w. Il. Car.
ter. The cause of the fight was an old
feud of long standing. Crash left $40
collateral.
The Grand Jury yesterday found an
Indictment for manslaughter against
James Johnston for causing the death,
by driving over her, of Mrs. Catherine
O,Neil, on the Green Spring road on
March H.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature ana condition of water
at q, m. Great Falls, temperature, "a;
condition, 20; receiving reservoir, tempera-
ture 54, conditional north connection, IL;
condition at south connection, 0; distnb-
utiiIg reservoir, temperature, SO; condition
at intluent gatc-house, 8; condition at ef-
fluent gate-house, S.