Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-01
Can't the Authorities Regulate These
HoOdlums?

To the Editor Of The EvESrsG SIAR:
would like, through your valuable columns.
TO call the attention of the proper authorities
10 the crowd of disorderly boys that gather at
the opening Of the alley on 18th street. between
B and c streets northeast, every Sunday after
noon from about 1 o'clock until dark. They
smoke cigarettes. play marbles and ball. throw
stones, quarrel. and make use OF the foulest
language imaginable. Last Sunday L counted
twenty-three at one time while | write 3
o'clock p. m, there are twenty-one, ranging
In age from seven to twenty years. This is
endured. in a measure. all the week but ON
the Lords dayI think We are entitled to little
rest An On SrpsCPRER
December 80, 1858.
ENTERTAINING Poor CHILDREN AT DIsSER.-
In the playroom of the Lincoln school build-
ing yesterday afternoon a dinner was spread
with holiday fare. a large dinner. gagged 70
the appetites of 200 poor children. who enioved
the hospitality of the teachers and pupils OF
the Lincoln and Giddings schools. PRINCIPAL
Nalle, of the Lincoln school. was master of the
feast and marshalled the hungry thrcng. at
O'Clock. to the tables. The dinner was the re-
sult OF contributions by the pupils and n num-
Der OF citizens. the list of which is headed by
the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Misses
Mason, Dyson, Alexander. Skimm. Darts
Berry, Lynch. Matthews. Chopper. Wheeler
and Summons acted as committee of comfort.
DoABskDiNG HoUSE--BcfOre Judge
Miller, IN the Police Court. TO-DAY. John Hogan,
colored. was charged with an assault on Charity
jackson, his relative. and also with carving a
revolver. The Young woIIan told the court
that Hogan came 10 her house yesterday under
the influence of liquor and she told him not to
come IN. He paid no attention to her. but
came in and assaulted her. When he went out
side be threw bricks through the window
Another witness testified that he saw Hogan
looking around the house with a revolver in
hal md lta Il.
sixty days III Jail for the assault. and imposed a
nne Of $50 or ninety days for carrying the
pistol
RoBBERIEs REPoRTED.-George B. Heinecke.
OF oO4 18th street northwest. reports a Youths
oyercoat stolen Saturday eyenng.-Patrick
ODonohue. OF S2l street southeast reports
the stealing of two dozen brooms from in front
OF his store Saturday evening". B. Williams
OF 40612 9Th street northwest. reports the lar
ceny OF a youths bicycle from the front of
house 927 street northwest.-Enoch Dover
OF 2lO4 street northwest, reports stolen from
his barber shop. on the night of the 25th
satchel, containing hair-clippers, shears razors,
and Ellis in money.
NINETY YEARS OLD.-Mrs. J. J. McFlhennev.
residing near Falls Church. received a few days
ago Christmas present of a beautiful patch
work quilt from her mother. Mrs. Katharine
Jones. of Pittsburg. She is in her ninetieth
year, and the guilt is all her own make.
TIE FUNERAL OF PRoF. CoMBs.-The remains
Of Prof. Paul Combs. of the MARYLAND Agri-
cultural college, who was drowned near
Leonardtown, Nd, on Thursday last. were
buried in St. Aloysius graveyard, Leonard
town, Saturday morning. Requiem mass was
said by Father Jennings. The pall-bearers were
Messrs. Lewis Ford, Chas. Combs, Jno. Key,
Jos. I. Cough. Benjamin Greenwell, and Geo.
Loker, all relatives of the deceased. Prof.
Combs was a son Of Hon. r. c. Combs, and a
grandson Of the late Judge Pobt Ford He
was graduate Of Charlotte Hall academy and
the Western Maryland college, and for two
years had been member of the faculty of the
Maryland Agricultural college.