Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-11
ALEXANDRIA.
TEE GRAVE SIDE or ALEXANDRIA

TEE GRAVE SIDE OF ALEXANDRIA
Amid all the Blooms and activities which are
carrying Alexandria forward in the race OF
progress at . rate unknown here before since
the century begun, people still die here. and
there II no probability that the undsrta
will 20 out Of business. The larger the
city the more graves. Then. too, even
when the town did not increase the area OF the
graves videned. the more out Of proportion
because Of the 50, 900 residents Of Washington
whose families at some time lived in Alexan-
dria- There are many who still retain their
family grave lots here aud bring their dead to
Alexandria cemeteries for burial At first the
sloped to the marsh between Royal and Pitt
streets. Then there were burials around the
old chapel Of Case near Princess and Pitt
streets. and sfterward when Christ Church in
l7ss-l77l, and the First Presbyterian
Church, in III. were built the church
yard yswued and graves received their
dead in the neighborhood Of the churches
A graveyard also existed At the old church
built about 1900 on Fairfax street Just south
Of the present Potomac shoe factory. and
street between Washington and Columbus All
the used cemeteries are now beyond the cor
poration line and burials within the city
have been forbidden since 1S0S. Most of the
ten church cemeteries on the city's edge are
now filled. even the Union cemetery, opened in
The new Bethel cemetery is fast filling up.
The Catholic cemetery, extended some thirty
yearsago is now to be extended again. as to use
the south portion of '.Yeates garden" Ivy Hill
has still ample room for the dead in Its glens
and hooks, hills and wales. but it is too distant
for most funerals and the visits Of pedestrians.
Only one Alexandrian has been cremated One
graveyard only. that Of the church on
Fairfax between Prince and Duke streets.
has been emptied Of its dead to give
place to the living. The new Bethel, Ivy Hill
and the extension Of the Catholic cemetery,
with the unused grave lots of the old cemete-
ries, will serve for some years to come. but at
an early day new corporation cemetery for
free interment must be purchased.
THE UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION THIS WEEK.
At Washington public school building on
Thursday next the examiner appointed by the
University Of Virginia to test the work of
academies and hign schools. called secondary
| schools in the university statutes. will begin
the examination of number of pupils of that
school and Of st. Johns Academy cadets who
have entered for the examination. The ex-
animation will extend through Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday Of this week.
FUNERAL OF Mr.. PETE WISE.
The funeral o; the late Pete Wise took place
at noon today from his late home, 1920 Prince
street. Rev. DR.. Rice oficiated. Mr. Wise was
Of Alexandria ancestry for four generations.
His father long conducted the City Hotel.
served = term as mayor and with a firm hand
abolished the saturnalia which for half
century before had each spring
made Fishtown q disgrace to tine District Of
Columbia. The deceased has been connected
with banking and real estate business all his
life. His widow is the daughter OF the late
Maj. VIM. d. Mutt, who before the war was a
prominent Official of the Treasury Department
with wide circle of Washi agton acquaintances.
THE CORPORATION COURT.
The corporation court, Judge Norton has, on
its probate side, probated the will of the late
Ann r. Washington. R. C. Smith qualifying as
executor. The estate Of the late Daniel Pat
terson was committed to the city ser
geant for administration. In Old Dominion
Building Association us. May, administra-
tor. the commissioner report has been con-
frmed. In Citizens National Bank VS.. Ca
wood, Executor Cruppers accounts have been
referred to commissioner, and in Burke,
trustee, VS.. Kent the time for taking testimony
has been extended.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Mr.. NJ Fannan, q well-known and esteemed
old citizen, slipped on banana skin on King
and Royal streets about IL o'clock this morn
ing and was severely injured by fall in which
he struck his head and, it is thought, fractured
his skull.
VISITED THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Superintendent Kemper, with Mayor Strauss
and Trustee Chapman, visited the public schools
this morning and were well satisfied with the
evidence Of progress shown by the classes.
NOTES.
The Double Sacrifice" OF Mr.. P ]. Murphy
was rendered at the Catholic Lyceum Hall last
night by an amateur company. The hall was
Gro yded and the play we'll recs,vad The act,
ing Of Miss Annie Lyles was especially com.
mended.
The Alexandria Light Infantry has recently
added some twenty new recruits to its ranks.
At the meeting last night the invitation to take
part In the Hampton dress drill was declined.
THERE will be mothers meeting addressed
by Mrs. Gillen OF London at Wimodaughsis
parlors on Wednesday, the 18th, at pm.