Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-22
ANACosrIA.
c1T1zxNs' ASSOCIATION MEETING.

CITILENB AbSOCIATION HITTING.
Inclement weather was responsible for the
| meager attendance at last nights session Of
the Citizens Association. So few members
postpone formal action till Tuesday night on
| petitions incorporating certain streets in the
| estimates for 1928. The meeting was in the
nature of an informal chat and the time
Vice President King thought the District
should buy ground and erect . suitable police
station and thus escape the rental which il now
pays The present quarters are inadequate
and the rent $500 per year. The subject Of an
engine house, engine and horse cart was con-
sidered. There is no provision in Anacostia
against fire and 80 per cent of the houses are
wood Mr.. John NJ. Koenig spoke warmly upon
the unprotected Bridge street grade crossing.
Two gatemen, he said, were required, one for
day and one for night duty. The present at
tendant, Mr.. Thomas Roberts, is night and day
Waterman and freight agent. The streets that
are to be recommended for improvement are
Harrison from Monroe to Minnesota avenue,
Navy place from Nichols avenue to the Balti-
more and Ohio tracks. Pennsylvania avenue
extended, Minnesota avenue from PENN
sylvania avenue to Benning, and Jack
son street extended. Tho residents on the
south side OF Harrison street are rampant for
the removal Of the decayed eight-foot wooden
Avalon terrace and the substitution of brick
pauement. On the north side from Minnesota
avenue east the people want any kind Of foot
walk they can get Mr.. King had seen Capt.
Rossell and that official was reported as saying
that the Anacostia and Potomac River railroad
would be compelled to repavs its part Of Bridge
street.
QUIET WEDDING.
The marriage of Mr.. Charles F. Beers and
Miss Carrie Steinburg occurred Thursday even
ing at the parsonage Of st. Joseph's Church,
Washington. Father Thomas B. Hughes, pas
tor Of st. Teresa's Church, Anacostia, lied the
knot. Miss Ida Redd Of Anacostia was the
bridesmaid and Mr.. Albert Beers, brother to
the groom, best man. Miss Steinburg, who is
an exceedingly pretty young lady and in her
teens, was becomingly clad in a walking dress
OF blush gray. Miss Itedd was robed in a street
costume of dark material. Those present were
the immediate friends and kindred Of the con-
tracing couple.
Last Wednesday there were 224 pilgrims to
the Government Hospital for the Insane. This
is about 100 beyond the average attendance on
visitors day." The ratio Of women to men
was twenty to one.
Col. A. B. Frisbe will leave tomorrow for
Cleveland. Ohio, as delegate to the national en-
campment OF the1pnion Veterans Uniono from
w. s. Hancock Command Of Washington. Col.
Frisbie is sanguine that Washington will be Sc
lected as the place for holding the next ma
tional encalnpment of the U. v. U.
The New Orleans Commantiery Entertained.
Col and Mrs. Murrell entertained Hercules
Division, No. 4, X. Of p, Of New Orleans, La,
at dinner last evening at their residence, 921
street northwest. Most prominent of those
present were Col R. B. Baquie grand cham
ceiior Of Louisiana; State Senator VIM. W.
Carter and W. W. Carter. j.; Rev. A. A. Lott
Editor N. Sprange, john H. Smyth ex-minister
to Liberia; Commander H. NJ. Smith, K. OF p,
ID. C.; /. Classic and W. II. johnson of Con-
cordia, La.
Col. Baquie, in responding to the toast
progress Of the negro" said that the south is
the place for the negro, for his progress there is
wonderful. "He is fast accommodating property,
and In the crescent city," said he, 1--WE have
four universities which will compete with any in
the country" Col. Baquie is the leader of
the opposition to a separate or new department
OF the q. A. r. in Louisiana and Mississippi,
and won q splendid victory at Detroit. Col.
Baquie is also prominently connected with the
Masonic and Pythian orders.