Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-18
GEORGETOWN.

THE DIsGRACEFUL POLICE STATION HOUSE
HERE.-"The Senate amendments to the Dis
trict appropriation bill do not provide for a
new police station for Georgetown" said a
policeman to a STAR reporter this morning.
but before the next Congress meets the
present building will be III the canal. The
Old building was erected before the war and
was for the accommodation of only a few men.
Now she officers sleeping III two-story
hunks and still the accommodations are in
sufficient There are cracks in the walls" he
continued, (which are steadily growing wider,
and some morning there will be number Of
vacancies on the police force and Georgetown
Will have a number of widows and orphans TO
look after The citizens also complaining
OF the failure of Congress to provide suitable
accommodations for her policemen, aud think
it singular that Georgetown should be so
sighted by Congress while the other sections
are well provided for"
KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE.-Potomac
Commanderv, Knights of the Golden Eagle
organized last night with about 100 members.
The following officers were elected: b. +.
Shanks. captain: A. l.. Ward, first lieutenant
financial secretary and treasurer; q. Z. Doer-
ing, second lieutenant and recording secretary
a HUNGRY PLAsTERER FROM THE HUB.-Last
night about 9 o'clock an old man entered the
police station on High street. He poorly clad
and his scant clothing was soaking with rain.
He gave his name John II. Thomas and said
he was plasterer from Boston. He asked Officer
Golfer to send him to the work no use and said
he was nearly starved to death. The officer
thereupon gave the poor man his lunch and
went hungry himself. Thomas was stranger
in Georgetown. but his face was familiar about
the Police Court. where he has received many
a work house sentence. He was given twenty
DAYS.
BASE BALL.--But five innings were played
yesterday afternoon between the Lafayette
College and Georgetown University teams on
the grounds of the latter. The score was 10
to IN favor of the Lafayette boys.
A WARNING TO RED BILLS GANG.-Judge
Miller said this morning that he was tired Of
wasting the time OF the Police Court on Red
Bills" gang from "Herrlng Hill, ;" and unless
they learned to behave themselves they would
soon all get IN prison, where they would have
to remain tor some time. These remarks we're
made in the case OF three small colored boys.
On account of their youth Judge Miller let
them go with a warning.
AUCTION SALE OF REAL EsTArE-Thomas
| Downing, auctioneer, sold at public auction
| yesterday for the Georgetown Real Estate
| Company to Charles ii. Tickling vacant lot
fronting 200 feet on 35th street with a depth Of
| $50 feet on r street for 81 cents foot
| STREET IMPROVEMENTS AT LAsr.-The appro-
| priatons for the improvement of streets in
| Georgetown which have been available since
| July last now for the first time being prac-
| tically expended upon 2oth and 29th streets
| above P, which streets have been long in need
| OF paving.
| MUSICAL AND LITERARy.-A well-attended
musical and literary entertainment was given
! last night at Linthcum Institute Hall by
American Grand Council, No. l, GUAM.
| "yAGs. john Williams. with an exteHsive
| police record, was found on the street drunk
last night by Policeman Upperman and was
| locked up as a "vag." He plead guilty to the
| charge when arraigned in the Police Court this
morning and was given twenty days on the
farm.-'Jake" Jackson, colored, has no visi-
BILE means of support and was unable to give a
good account of himself when Policeman Cur
| ran arrested him. and became boisterous and
profane when locked mp last night. This morn
ing when taken to the Police Court he was ar
raigned for vagrancy and profanity and twenty
| days was the sentence of the court.
| TEMPERATURE AND CONDITION OF WATER AT
| A.M.-Great Falls, temperature, So; condition,
&c. Receiving reservoir temperature, So Con-
dition at north connection, 81; condition at
south connection, &c. Distributing reservoir,
temperature Sc. Condition at inAueut gate
house, 26; condition at efiuent gate house, %.
High tide in the river today at 7:2S pm. Low
tide, 1:35 pm.