Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-09
ALEXANDRIA.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ooMpANY's ruRSprKl

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the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is the
Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Com
pany. which, in the early part of this century,
| constructed one of the best pieces of roadway
| then known in the country to connect Alexandria
| and Washington. Its projectors were more
than careful. for in the sanguine mood of that
| day they expected that within twenty wears il
would be street built up on both sides. In
| 1905 Its officers were leading Alexandrisns,
Jonah Thompson, Edmond 1. Lee and Jacob
Hoffman, who had charter for con-
| structng road from the town of Alex
andria to Bridgeport, on Alexander
Island, opposite the city of Wash
| ington. At the same time leading citizens of
| Washington, Robert Brent, Daniel Carroll
Frederick May and others, had a charter to
build a bridge cover the river Potomac be-
tween the city of Washington and Alexander
Island" and built the Long bridge. Now the
| Pennsylvania company is in possession of both
| the road and the bridge, and when the Alex
andria and Washington Turnpike Company held
its meetings at the little Pennsylvania depot here
| il was not at all to represent the real company
| or the work which it was chartered to create,
but simply to so through some technica. eiec-
| lions needed to preserve the title Of the Penn
sylvania company to its roadbed between ST.
Asaph junction and the Long bridge The
| proxies OF the Pennsylvania company elected
Messrs. Wilkins, Cassell, Hewson, Jameson
| Kerr and Rea directors, Mr.. Rea being made
president.
BAPTIST CHURCH REoPENING.
The Washington Street Baptist Church,
which has been under the hands of the work
men for renewal and repair, reopened for
service yesterday. Rev. Dr. Hippo, former
pastor of the church, delivered an appropriate
sermon on the occasion. The Baptist Church
here was established in 1896, Mr.. W. Wescott
| and others obtaining permission for its services
to be held in the old court house, which
stood on the northwest corner of the mar
ket square. Most of the other churches
Of the city have centennial occasions and
otherwise had their histories written but the
Alexandria Baptist Church is as yet without a
chronicler.
DEATH OF coLoRED SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Sarah A. Gray, long the principal of the col
ored female public schools here. who has been
sick for some time, died last Saturday night.
She was a native Of Alexandria. but was edu-
Gated by the Oblate sisters in Baltimore, and
since her return here some thirty years ago has
been engaged in teaching at first in private
school, but since 1871 in the public schools of
the city.
CORPORATION COURT.
The Alexandria corporation court, Judge
Norton, opened its January quarterly term this
morning at the market house court room. The
grand jury was sent out and now have in charge
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by restaurant keepers in the sale of liquors.
NOTES.
spreading fire discovered and extin-
guished at Curtiss & Butts foundry on Satur-
| day night. A passer by saw some of the planks
on fire and quickly notified Superintendent
Robey, so that the flames were put out before
any serious damage was done.
| The remains of Peter Harrington formerly a
conductor on the Washington and Ohio railroad.
were brought here yesterday from Baltimore
and carried to the residence of his brother on
Royal street, whence the funeral took place.
Workmen are busy today in clearing ice from
the electric railway track on King street.
The Woman's Anthropological Society.
The Womans Anthropological Society held
| its one hundredth meeting on Saturday at the
Columbian University. Besides a full attend
ance of resident members, there were MANY
guests, the collegiate alumnse and other la
| dies interested in the work peculiar to the So
ciety. Miss Alice C. Fletcher, president
opened the meeting with a short sketch Of the
work Of the society in the sections and subsec-
tions, especially its original research in child
| life and the investigation of womans place in
| the directive forces Of society. She was fol-
lowed by the secretary, Mrs. Mendenhall, who
| gave a statistical account of the society, il
| Illustrated by a map showing the rise and fall of
| the attendance. the number of members at diff
ferent periods, eliminating in q steady and
healthful growth The paper Of the day was
by Miss Annie Tolman Smith, 1.-The Genetic
Development Of the Woman's Movement" Miss
Smith made this dry-sounding subject a matter
| OF deep interest to her audience by her lucid
| and philosophical style. She traced the origin
Of the mental and moral growth of women,
which has streamed up 80 splendidly within
| the present century. from the primitive days
| when woman was the weaver and the spinner as
well rs the mother of the race always the con-
| servator-down to the present The subject
was then thrown open for discussion, Mrs. J.
r. Hill leading She selected rs her two points
| the necessity Of concentrated attention and Of
study and preparation. She followed by
! others in a brilliant and animated discussion,
| in which there was q mixture OF keen intellec-
tual question and answer, clear statement Of
| facts and a parliamentary skill in debate.
Two men wrenched the lock off q letter box
| in Salt Lake. Utah the other day and apuro-