The Critic and record., 1891-04-14
SOUTH WASHINGTON.

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Public opinion in this locality seems to
be unanimously favorable to the letter
carriers. The worst that any one will say
of them IS that there are loafers and inn
cOmpetents among them possibly, as there
are in every class of men; but if so, they
have not been discovered
Mrs. j.. Krackhardt, wife of the popular
Four.and-a-half street ieweller, is down
with an attack Of the grip.
The exercises at the Four-and-a-half
street branch of the Central Gospel Mis-.
sion have been temporarily suspended.
Tomorrow night at the jefferson
School Building the pupils of the Fourth
division public schools will repeat the en-
tertainment of last week. There will be
change of programme. The entertain
ments of last week were successful i'm
every respect, and no doubt this one will
out.do them, although that is more than
need be desired as hundreds were turned
away for want of hall room.
The hardy and able members of Fire
Engine Company No. 4, have thus far
escaped the grip.
Mrs. NJ. Il. Corroll led the exercises at
Rescue Branch of the Central Union Mis-
sion last night.
Mr.. Buckley will top off his four new
houses ON Third, between II and | streets,
within few days.
Mrs. Mary a. Smithson and her two
sons, Messfs Thomas II. and George w.
Smithson, who have been down with the
grip, are getting better. The illness of
Mrs. Smithson gave her friends a great
deal of anxiety, since She Is over 80 years
of age, and the attack was q severe one.
Mr.. G.. G. Smithson, the other SON. had
the good fortune TO escape.
The old sewer branch serving st. Domi-
nics Church has long been i'm bad con-
dition, causing unpleasant and incon-
venient overllOws in the easements of the
| church buildings. WOrkmen are now
engaged in remedying the evil.
The work of laying the electrc-light
conduts ,along Seventh street south is
| about completed.
The Smithsonian grounds now present
| a beautiful appearance, and an increasing z
| number of people take advantage of their
delightful semi-rural secluson during
| good weather.
1t is strange that such a thriving street
as Four.and-a-Half street south, whose
| boast is that il has out-distanced Seventh
| street south i'm the business race, should
| be without hall of some kind in which
| entertainments and meetings Of various
kinds might be held. The section is q
| thickly populated one on the west of -Four.
and-a-H Half street, and on the east is rap
idly attracting good class of citizens
| and there is accordingly no reason why
such an enterprise should not pay.
Since the managers of the Washington
and Norfolk Steamboat Line have ex.
| hibited so much that is commendablC
and public spirited by the introduction To
the travelling public and carrying trade OF
two OF the finest vessels that have ever
| graced our waters, it is to be hoped that
If at all practicable, they win make
day trips to and from Norfolk, through
the summer, for the benefit of theil
patrons who may desire a view of the bay
under its most advantageous and enjoy
able conditions.
The continual roar of big guns and
fusilades of small arms in the neighbor
hood of Four-Mile Run might lead citi
zens to imagine that Bull Run, with il
disagreeable sensations and unhealthy
procliyities had come again or that the
Italian fleet had opened fire on Fort Foote
The citizens are assured, however, tha
the ashes of Appomattox still slumber
the Duillo and other Italian sea monster
Of war still bathe their forepeaks in tht
Bay of Napes and that the roar of gum
only marks the continual slaughter o
inoffensive ducks of Dangerfeld's Poin
by the fowl-extirminators Of the south
west.
South Washington, from McCaffrey's h
the water front, was depopulated last eve
ming between the hours of 4 and G o. clock
and the Washington Baseball Club wa
the beneficiary. IL this thing continue
il would be advisable for South Washing
ton, with its railroad attachment ant
geological combination, to move out :,
Beyer's old park in order to save car fare