Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-25
ALEXANDRIA.
The City Council Nee

The City Council Meeting ROoms,
Workmen are now engaged in the repair
and Improvement Of the chambers of the
board of aldermen and common council
Inc afdermen's chamber is situated at the
northern end and the common council
chamber at the southern end Of the market
poiioins These chambers are moderate in
size but quite lofty. the ceilings being near
~ as high as those in the court rooms in
the city Hall at Washington. Around the
ceiiins Is a heavy cornice, which is now
becoming loosened from the wall. The
seats of the councilmen are Just under
these cornices. and their fall, during a
session of the board. would give a first
class item to the reporters and probably a
number Of funerals to the undertakers
me eouncilmen are naturally averse to
taxing part in funerals of this kind, and
the cornice is now being taken down dur
ing the recess. Other improvements will
make the chambers more comfortable. The
first city council met at what was called
the town house. erected by lottery, at the
corner Of Fairfax and Cameron streets.
where the court house now stands. They
held their first meeting there in 1867; after
l.S they met in what was called the new
court house. where the gas Office
and the commissioner OF revenue are: then
In 1917 the meeting place was removed TO
the center OF the Market building under the
town clock. Once during the war the
council assembled at the Washington and
ONO depot to receive and decline the re-
QUESTION Of Gen. Wilcox for quarters for
the troops at the occupation of the town.
AFTER tne Tre winch destroyed the market
building the council met for several months
at the old theater building on Cameron
street. and then removed to Concordia
Hall on Fairfax street opposite the market
square.
Nocturnal Marauders.
The western part of the city seems to be
infested with active trespassers upon other
peoples property. Besides the attack on
Mrs. Bland and on Miss EngaIhart, as
heretofore reported in The Star, several
persons in that section have reported to
the police the depredations OF nocturnal
marauders. Mrs. Charles Cox, at the
Railroad Hotel. on King and Fayette
streets, discovered an intruder on the roof
of back building last night, but she gave
an alarm and he hurried OF.
Notes.
Andrew Clark, a stranger here, claims
| that his wife is living at a house on Prin-
cess street, formerly kept by Capitola
Crossman. He has made a number of at
| tempts to see her and has been repulsed.
| She denies that she is his wife and claims
| that her husband lives in South Carolina
CLARK was held to answer for threats and
the woman sent out of the city by the
| mayor.
strong effort will be made by the peo-
pie of Alexandria county to secure the
passage of the bill mentioned in The Star
for improving the government road from
the Chain bridge via the Aqueduct bridge.
| The city electrician claims that much
of the trouble with the electric lights here
is occasioned by the failure of the city 10
compel the cutting Of trees through which
the electric wire passes: II is said that the
| contact of the wire with the trees puts out
| the light kills the tree and burns the arma-
ture at the electric light works.