Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-09
GEORGETOWN,
The Break In the Canal Soon to BE Fixed
Many Interesting Items.

news has come down the canal from dam No.
that two small breaks have appe AIRED in the
banks of the waterway at that point. As they
| are not of much consequence traffic will hardly
be delayed day, as Engineer Nicholson already
has his repairers on the scene. 1t will not be
long before the canal is itself again. The tide
of trade flows on evenly and everything is quie,
along the line. The break near Hancock was
not serious as reported. The schooner
Sycamore is due.
Boats to arrive on May 5 were as follows
Barge F.. Flanagan, Capt. Moore; barge No.
l2l. Capt. j. knode: barge E. Mertins. Capt. S.
Dodd: barge No. 129. Capt E. Bowers: barge
Ollie ", Capt. T. Bowers barge Frederick
Wieland. Capt. T. Bowers: barge q. s. French,
Capt. R. Sorrell; barge d. W. Sloan. Capt NJ.
| Smith. Sailed on the same date: Barge Tn
expected, Capt +. Miller.
Boats to arrive on May were: Barge W. E.
Grove, Capt W. Dolby; barge Consolidation
No. 20. Capt T. Shives: barge NJ. Mertins. Capt.
j. Tice: barge Consolidation No. Is, Capt. c..
Fox; barge NJ. j. Adler, z. Reynolds.
To sail on the came date: Barge Consolida-
ton No. Is, Capt. d. Coffman.
Boats to load at Cumberland on the 9th we're
! To Meredith, Winship & Co.-Barge No. 124,
| Capt. NJ. E. Stevens, lis tons; barge Isabella,
capt. Stevens. III tons: barge Detroit, Capt
j. Prince. 100 tons; barge McIane. Capt.
Prince, 1l9 tons; barge G. NJ. Win>hip. Capt.
Judge Douglass. Capt. Bowers, l13 tons; barge
A. J. johnson. Capt. r. Eaton ll9 tons; barge
A. H. Brodt, Capt. Alex Roof lis tons.
BUGGY SMASHED.
spirited horse belonging to E. Vanhorn
and attached to dayton wagon yesterday
afternoon collided with buggy owned by John
Russell at the corner of 32d and NJ streets and
delivery wagon of John Beck orth short dis
lance below. The buggy was smashed and the
wheels OF the delivery wagon sprung.
GOOD SANITARY CONDITION.
DR.. Walters, Philadelphian. was in George
town yesterday. He strolied about the town
in company with local friends and expressed
him elf to the effect that Georgetown was safe
from serious visitation of cholera.
He thought that many of the streets and
alleys might be better paved and otherwise i'm
proved, but on the whole he thought the sani-
| tary condition IT Georgetown first-class. The
district between 3O,h, SD, NJ street and the
canal seemed to be about the most favorable
place for germs.
BUILDING ASSOCIATION MEETING.
Atthe regular monthly meeting of the Citizens
Equitable Building Associa ton held last night at
| the hall corner 32d and NJ streets, there was
sold Is, 5S4. being thirty-one shares, at about
$50 per share Retired of the first series ten
shares at the stock value. Quite a large num-
Der Of shares in the new series were subscribed
| to- Last nights meeting was the one hundred
and twenty-second
THE CATTLE MARKET.
At the Arlington cattle yards Yesterday the
| following stock was sold: Fifteen cattle-Best,
to SIC: good, ~ to &c.; medium. 3sl to
! $40; common, 2 to SIC One hundred sheep
and handspring lambs. 6 to SIC; fall. s to
| 7c.; sheep, 8 to &c. Calves, S to SIC. Fifteen
COWS and calves, 500 to $45. Market brisk
WORK OF THE POLICE.
The unkept condition Of Georgetown streets
| is burning subject with the police of the sew
enth precinct Papers. store sweepings and
general rubbish cast into the streets in vio-
lstion of police regulations. Merchants have
an Objectionable habit of placing empty boxes
at their doors are inviting the BOYS to help them
selves. These boxes are then broken and scat
tered. The country people will make a pur-
chase. leave the store become seized with a
| desire to look again at the newly bought arti-
Gle, stop on the sidewalk aud tear off the wrap
ping. Lieut.. Swindells this morning issued
| appropriate orders to his men.
The efforts of the police. directed against the
| evil OF fast driving in this region, seems TO
| have been successful. The men on the bea is
most affected by the sometime horseman re-
| port tina; they are having much less trouble
! than heretofore. All officers with whom The
| STAR reporter has talked say that Georgetown
is less afflicted with speak-easies and other dens
than any other thickly settled part of the Dis
| trict.
DOCTORS DISAGREE.
! The reporter for The STAR has talked with
most of the physicians Of Georgetown on the
| question of the local health. There is marked
| division of opinion. Some declare that the
| sanitary condition is dangerous, and others say
| that the town is clean. II there is a part of
| Georgetown which requires attention from the
health department it is the east end and the
canal district.
Measles are not so prevalent they were a
week ago. The disease appears TO be subsid-
ing.
| REAL ESTATE MATTERS.
Jacob P. Clark and others have sold to
Samuel Pine for $3.50 lots 8 and IA, block /, of
White Haven. and the purchaser then trans
! ferred the same to James Dundon. Richard
Augh also sold property in White Haven, deed
| ing lot 10 and the west half of lot IA to Samuel
| II. Pine.
| Archibald Greenless contemplates the cree
ton of two houses on Linthicum place
William A. Leetch is building fine residence
on 3lst street.
Officer Cotter's houses are nearing compile
! ton.
Civil Engineer H. B. LOCKER and party are
surveying for the branch which is to connect
| the Chevy Chase and Glen Echo railroads.
made almost daily.
| E. c. Cutler has sold to NJ. F. Miller lot No.
| As in Jones subdivision.
! H. A. Campbell has boush. Of Charles A.
Baker and wife lot No. IL, square 10, Reno;
consideration, 5000
| John r. Fellows has bought of ". P. Lock
wood for $1,000 lots l, 2, 4 and 49, Wesley
Heights.
| Messrs John E. West and E. A. de Schwiretz
are building houses along the line Of Rockville
| road.
Little Falls Church adjacent to the Chain
| bridge, where Brother Bradbury. assisted by
local preachers, has been laboring of late. is
growing into a center of religious influence.
| Rev. Mr.. Osborne frequently assists there.
larly attend 20 the duties of supervising prin-
! cipal Of the Georgetown public schools.
The flower and vegetable garden of station
| No. continues to thrive. The opposing fac
! tions have walled up the bloody breach and are
hoeing and tending their respective ends of the
| lot.
Mrs. Anne Littleton. an aged colored woman
| fell near her home on the Conduit road yester-
| day and received II scalp wound.
| Nine out of ten Georgetowners with whom
the reporter has talked pronounce the Conduit
road the kon- doo-it road.
hawk was captured on Sunday near the
| Aqueduct bridge. 1t has a vicious temper.
Capt. VIM. Beagle, who slightly injured
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