Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-26
ALEXANDRIA.
Reported for THE EVENING STAR


>. CRY CouNcrI--The council last night held
It's regular meeting. An order for deed to the
Portner Brewing company for a lot sold at tax
sale was agreed to. An order was given to insti-
tute suits for money due on tax sales and the
settlement of some old tax bills by compro-
mise was directed. report was made that
the Georgetown River and Harbor Improve
ment company had been employed to dredge
the fsh docks at Is cents per cubic yard The
check OF the Pennsylvania Railroad company
(S492.SS) for Cameron street work, 6c., was
received and ordered to be turned over to the
collector. An inquiry by Messrs. Critcher 4
Barley OF Washington as to the price at which
the city would sell the ground on which the
Arlington brick yards is located was referred.
Councilman Morgan Davis was appointed to
supervise the lowering of the curb on Alfred
street between Princess and Oronoko streets.
An order authorizing the crossing by railroad
of the Union street sidewalk into the prop
erty of the Chemical Fertilizer company was
adopted. A bill Of $40 for machine belts, re-
covered by the police from thieves, but not re-
turned to Messrs. Agnew Il Harlow, the own
ers, was referred, and the committee on streets
were authorized to fill the Office of city sur
veyor by an appointment ad interim.
The PROPOSED New STREET CUTs.-A new
departure is now about to be made by the city
authorities in the matter of the drainage of the
northwest section of the city. Under the sys-
tenn now adopted there hundreds of lots will
have to be filed up and many thousand loads
OF earth used for the purpose. That section
OF the town is skirted on the west by huge
grounds and it is now proposed to cut Queen,
Princess and Oronoko streets through these
elevations and Use the earth dug out of them
to fill the low lying lots on the east of them. 1t
is said that the chain gang can do the digging
and that the lot owners will pay for the haul
ing and filling, SO that the streets will be
opened without expense to the city. Whether
the plan can be carried out is not now known.
The committee on streets has the matter in
charge,
MUs1cAL---A brass band is to be organized
here by some gentlemen familiar with the use
OF the various instruments. In the past num-
Der of bands of this kind have been gotten MP
in this city, had an existence of few years
and then dissolved. The cOlored band of
Logan, the revolutionary drummer, made the
early martial music here. Afterward Plants
and Garcia's bands furnished the .'sonorous
metal breathing martial sound" Since the
late war Clarkson's band has begun and ended :,
and for several years the drums and flies of the
Alexandria drum corps have made music in the
streets on festive days. That corps has just
attached itself to the Alexandria light infantry
and SO has a permanent home. The present
outlook is that both the drum corps and the
new band will become permanent Alexandria
institutions.
SALE OF GUNsToN.-Among the land sales in
this neighborhood at the close of last week was
some 300 acres of the Gunston farm once the
Virginia bill Of rights and was a contemporary
and associate of Washington. The land was
sold at a bid of 1915 per acre, the whole
amount to be paid for the fee simple of the
land being $500. Col. Ed. Daniels was the
purchaser. The estate is named after Gums
ton HalP' in Staffordshire, England, the seat of
Gerard Fowke, the father-in-law of one of the
earlier Masons.
DEDICATIoN.-The Frederick Douglass library
association, made up of about one hundred
and fifty colored people, dedicated its new hall
at 803 West Madison street, on the north edge of
the city, Monday night Mr.. Bruce of Washing
tor, W. A. Carter, Weston Green, X. B. Robin
son, NJ. Holland and John Bolts delivered ad-
dresses and Rev. Scott Akens offered prayer.
After the exercises were concluded q lunch was
served.
NOTES.-The F. and M. bank receiver gives
dend before July will be barred. Among
those interested in the matter are some Wash
ingtonians.--Ou the fire drills at the public
schools Monday the buildings were cleared
in from two and half to five minutes.
Howard has been sent to jail by the mayor for
thirty days for an assault upon Lucy Grayson.
-Messrs. G.. W. and S. b. Fisher, w. Lind
say and W. p. Woals have bought for 81 800
the two acres of building lots bounded by Payne,
West, Oronoko and PendletOn streets, on the
edge of the town.-The Georgetown dredges
are at work deepening the water in front of
Fishtown.-The subscriptions to the new
shoe factory have now reached about SIS, 200,
and further subscriptions are expected this
week