Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-09
OUR MARYLAND NEIGHBORS.
Wha is Going on i'm Rockville and vi.
cinity.

correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR.
ROCKVILLE, June 8.
Another public enterprise which promises to
be OF much benefit to the county has been in
angurated on the line near the District. On
FRIDAY evening a charter of incorporation was
submitted to Judge John L. Vinson at this
place, and after being accepted was filed in
the office of the clerk of the circuit court by
the Chevy Chase Land Company of Mont
gomery county, the object Of the company
being to buy, sell, mortgage, lease, improve,
dispose or otherwise deal in lands in Mary
land and partly lying in the District of Col
umbia. TIL company is composed of Messrs.
Albert W. Liousa of Baltimore, VIM. r. Schaeff
OF Hyattsville. Prince Georges county, Francis
G. Newlands of Nevada and Edward J. Stell-
wagon of the District of Columbia. In addi-
ton to buying and selling lands the charter
gives the company the right to construct. equip
ana operate a passenger railway within this
county and also to erect plants for gas and
electric lighting. The principal Office of the
company Is to he established at Chevy Chase.
the former country residence of the late Jas.
II. bradley of Washington. situated near Be-
thesda, this county. Tho capital stock of the
company is rated at 81, 200, 900 in shares of 300
each. The affairs of the company are to be
managed the first year by the incorporators
and the time OF the existence of the company
Is limited to forty years.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Last night about II o'clock a serious accident
happened to Mr.. Hezekiah Smallwood at the
railroad bridge on the England farm near the
depot at this place. He arrived here on the
ll:46 train from Washington and after leaving
1t at the depot attempted to cross the bridge
going III the direction of his boarding house,
n mile i'll the country. BY some mishap he
fell tlrOnDD an nnnnlnu in tho hrt1un CtrtEin1
upon the opposite track and then falling a dis
lance of Is feet to the stone-paved waterway
below. This morning his cries brought to his
assistance persons who happened to be in the
LOCALITY. a physician was summoned aud after
an examination he was carried to his home.
One of his hips was found to be dislocated and
his body badly bruised. He halls from the
nelghborhood Of Sandy Spring. is a coach
painter by trade and has for some time been in
the employ OF MIR. S. b. Haney of Rockville.
A HOP AT WOODLAND.
The gay season opened at the Woodlawn last
night with a fashionable hop, which was largely
attended and much enjoyed by the partici-
pants and their friends. Among those present
from Washington were the Misses Wilson, Cox.
Blunt, Stafford, ellison, Jones. Mitchell. Miss
Hattie Martin. Miss Isabel Lylvey, Misses
White and Meigs, Messrs. Trenholm. Dixon.
Field. IarZanes, Martin, Johnson, Brecken-
ridge, Davidge, Brum, Parker. Emerich, DIR.
Robinson. Mr.. and Mrs. Bates, MIR. and Mrs.
Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. Des Portes. From Rock
vile were the Misses Hodges and Lowry. Miss
Hogg and Miss Offutt, Misses Peter, Smalls.
Bradley, Messrs. Nelson, Hunter, Jones. Foote,
Anderson, Ninson, Bouic and Maddox. From
the county: The Misses Blunt and Hutton, Mr..
J. d. Blunt. f. G. Hutton and Aug. fancy.
Mrs. White received the guests. assisted by
Mrs. Geo. Bradley and Mrs. Bates. Excellent
music was furnished and at III pm. ice cream,
cake and other refreshments were served to
the guests. Mrs. Colley had the spacious
apartments of the Woodlawn tastcfuliy dec
grated and lighted for the occasion. These
pleasant hops will be a feature of this house
during the season.
Mrs. Margaret Ann Clagett died at the resi-
dence of Capt. Edward W.. Owen. in Olney dis
trict on Friday. in the one hundredth year of
her age. She was reputed to be the oldest
resident of the county.
Mr.. John L. Byrne, station agent here, who
has been dangerously ill for several days. was
sent this morning to the home of his brother,
near the Relay House. SAN.