Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-19
AT F AIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Foot Ball Enthusiasts 20 re Local
Volunteer Team
Another Piece of Electric Road About
Ready for Use-Other Local
Notes of Interest.

ne AieNdnQrld volunteers Foot Bali
Eleven Will go to the Episcopal High
School tomorrow afternoon to play a match
game with the Towards of the school. The
Volunteers will line up as follows: Wildt,
center rush; Gordon. right guard; Smith,
left guard; Chase, left tackle; Lucas, right
tackle; Butler, right end; Graft. left end:
Bridges right half back; Lannon. left half
back; Lackey, full back. and Kauss, quar-
ter back. This is an excellent team and
should win. The Baltimore City College
team beat the High School eleven in a
match game on Saturday, the score being
AZ to D.
While James H. Reed was driving out
Washington street his horse fell near the
corner OF Princess and broke its leg. Later
the animal was shot.
Miss Lille Smith, who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Robert h. Knox, has re-
turned TO Philadelphia.
MIR. Lee Moser OF the Theological Semi
nary held services in the Meade Chapel on
Columbus street yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Walter u. Buckner of the seminary will
hold services in the chapel next Sunday.
Misses Mai and Annie Uhler have re-
turned from Washington. 20, .s.... 49,. o.,
A new train, known as the New York
and Florida short line, was put on the
Southern railway yesterday for the first
time
j. Stanley NeaIe of the Alexandria
iftieth birthday by entertaining a num-
Der of his friends at his home ION Payne
street.
The trolley wire for the electric railway
on King street between Columbus and
Payne has been strung, and as soon as the
iron and ties have been gotten in position
the work on the roadway will be begun.
Cars were run on the Driving Park extern
sion OF the road for the first time yester-
day. The road to the Driving Park is of
necessity rough, as the management have
OF had time to ballast 1t.
DR.. Samuel Staples and Walter r. Sta
pies of Roanoke are the guests of j. f..
Cox. ~
Mayor Strauss says he will not allow any
more boxing matches or sparring for
points in this city while he Is mayor.
The police raided a house on Fayette
street between Queen and Princess streets
On Saturday Eight and captured Daniel
Simms, Lorenzo Hall, Henry Johnson. Sal
ly and Martha Fox, all of whom are col
cred. The articles found in the house were
a pack of playing cards, large bunch or
keys and a pair of brass knuckles.
Willard Faulkner, brakeman on the
Southern railway, who recently moved to
this city, was quite badly hurt by falling
from freight train at Manassas on Sat
urday night. While passing from one car
to another his foot caught in a guard rail
and he slipped and fell to the track be-
tween the cars. The wheels of the car
passed over his heel and the heshy part
of his leg. He was attended to by Dr.
Iden at Manassas, and later brought to
this city, where DIR. Nj. w. OBrien, the
companys surgeon, looked after his in
juries.
The committee on light of the city coun-
ell has ordered the laying of three thou
sand feet of gas mains in the northwestern
section of the city.
EighIy-one dollars and fifty cents was
the amount of the fines collected in the
mayors court on Saturday, the bulk OF
which was assessed against negro en-
.,In of he iu1nprtinencp
and insolenCe, and Interference with the
officers Of the police force while on duty.
The arrests grew out Of a disturbance at
a ball given at the Colored Odd Fellows
Hall on Friday night. -.s ...s..
A particularly handsome headstone for
the grave of the late Rev. Father O'kane,
formerly pastor of st. Mary's Church In
this city, was shipped to Chapel. Point
Md, on Saturday by the Alexandria mar
BILE works, to be placed at the grave In
St Charles Manor, in Charles county,
Md. The stone is the gift of the members
of ST. Mary's Church. % 49,, - -....,
Yesterday was another quiet Sunday.
The congregations in the various churches
were not so large, owing to the threatening
look of the weather. Large numbers or
people took the electric cars during the
afternoon for the Driving Park, and many
rode over the Mount Vernon route.
Representative E. E. Meredith has been
formally notified by Mr.. McCaul, the de-
feated republican candidate IN this, the
eighth congressional district, that his seat
will be contested. Mr.. Meredith says, how
ever, that he has no fear as to the result.
as the worst that can happen would be to
have another election, and in that event
he (Meredith) would receive larger ma
jority than before.
The funeral of Thomas. the infant son Of
Thomas NJ. and Alice E. Lynch, who died
on Saturday took place this afternoon at
o'clock
The commissioners appointed by the
Alexandria county court have condemned
for the use of the Washington, Arlington
and Falls Church Electric Railway Com
pany about half an acre each of the lands
Of Mrs. Susan B. Fletcher. 8. Charlotte
and l.. Drain fixing the amount of damage
at $40. The balance of the land necessary
has been dor ated to the railroad company,
and IL the court sustains the action Of its
commissioners, the projectors say the road
will BE- built at Cnce.
Pere Jerome Calaofower, who a few
weeks ago was removed from the Driving
Park to the Alexandria Infirmary, was Oh
Saturday removed to private house, so
that he could have mere attention. His
condition Is said to be critical.
Two young men in q buggy yesterday
did the foolhardy trick of driving through
the Wilkes street tunnel on wager
The tug Eva Bell Cain is being repaired
at the Pioneer Mills wharf under direction