Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-06
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Elaborate Arrangements for Dumbarton's
Sunday School Anniversary.
An Experiment on Underground Wires
Notes of General Interest.

The Dumbarton Avenue Sunday school
board, composed of the officers andteachers,
met last night for the first time since the
coming of the new pastor and made further
arrangements relative to the celebration of
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the estab-
lshment of the VI. z. Sunday school now
known as the Dumbarton. There were six
new committees appointed to help manage
the affair, to be known the committees
on finance. decorations, Invitations exer-
cises, receptions and collations.
The celebration comes off on the Sd of
June. being the first Sunday Of that
month 1t is the intention of the leading
spirits in the movement to invite all the
old pastors and superintendent now living
TO take part in the exercises. The living
pastors are as follows: Reverends Little
ton F. Morgan. William Taylor. Bishop OF
Africa; John Lanahan, W. H. Chapman,
James A. McCauley, John H. Dashiell, B.
Peyton Brown. Richard Norris, J. Mcken-
dree Kelley. Wm- ]. McKenney. W. s.
Edwards. NJ. F. B. Rice, Edwin Amos and
George Elliott
There are but five Of the old superintend-
ents living. namely. Mr.. Charles Stocking
Mr. Julian Soper, now a missionary in ia
pan; Mr.. A w Eastlack, Mr.. ]. Henry
Wilson and Prof. Edgar Frisby. The Sun
day school. now in it's seventy-ffth year,
was originally established on the west side
Of Jefferson street near the canal Later
services were held in an old building on
Both street below Gay. and then again in
the old 18th street school building. At the
meeting last night the new pastor of
Dumbarton presided A surprising amount
Of interest is being manifested in the pro-
posed celebration, and the attendance of
Old Sunday school pupils will be very large.
On Sunday, the principal day. there will
be exercises morning, afternoon and even
ing mostly of a religious character. though
Informal reunions will also take place.
Monday, the following day. will be given
I'D to feasting and more substantial en-
joyment and on Tuesday the members of
the present Sunday school will pay par
ticular attention TO themselves.
The Rev George Elliott. Dunn barton's
late pastor. who has been lying ill at the
church parsonage since the giving up of the
Georgetown charge. was visited yesterday
Spring Garden Church, Philadelphia. Yes
tsrday he was not so we'll as on the pre-
SOus day
Those Canal Claims.
There is a good deal of talk in Cumber-
land. the head OF the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, to the effect that the governor Of
Maryland is hesitating about signing the
canal claim bill, for the reason that there
Is under contemplation the sale of the
states rights in the waterway to the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad for 100000. 1t is
said that the purchase OF the canal by the
Baltimore and Ohio will practically end the
existence of the canal as waterway, and
turn it's towpath into a railroad.
II such a deal is consummated, the old
creditors of the canal Will, no doubt, be
forever cut out Of the payment Of their
Claims, which under the Lamar bill is pro-
yided for.
An Experiment..
On a side track Of the Bethesda railroad
near its junction with the Georgetown and
Tenleytown tracks. experiments are being
made with an underground trolley system.
with which is connected a series of caps
or lids. which open and shut as the trolley
passes thereby preventing the excessive
entrance OF refuse matter and snow. The
caps Will also prevent the entrance of car
Rage wheels, which in unprotected slots
are often caught and damaged. The system
BENG experimental with is known as the
King system.
sOtcs.
The remains of Prof. Pierre q. Jouy. the
Smithsonian naturalist who died on March
q. in Arizona, were inferred yesterday at
Oak Hill
The seventh precinct officers are now
being caily drilled by Acting Sergeant Hall.