Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-24
Alb OUT GEORGETOWN,
Some Real Estate Sales and Proposed I'm.
provements.
The Prospect Avenue Question Again
The Talked Of Electric Road to
Rookvills-OtheP Matters.

Jeremiah Tickling and Geo. E. Fleming,
trustees, have sold to John s. winship for
A,OO0 lot II, In Ashford and Ridout's sub,
In square H.: A. ]. Houghton has sold to
Alex Burns the west 1-2 Of lot PIT, Beatty
and Hawkins addition. square los. being
on the south side Of street between SD
and 34th streets. Christian Heurich and
wife have sold to Henry NJ. Newman part
OF the tract known as Friendship" con-
tanning q .S76 square feet, at the intersec-
ton Of the Georgetown and Rockville road
and the Murdoch Mil road. Washington
Danenhower and John T. Arms, trustees,
have transferred to Irving Boswell for
$500 subject to a trust for 8, 900, sub lot
214. square IS. with improvements thereon,
and William d. Norriss sold to Geo. H.
Gordon for 5000 lot ~ in Otterlys SUBJ
square east of 93.
Mr.. j. c. Hurst Is engaged on the con-
struction Of four houses on the Conduit
road. near the distributing reservoir, three
bricks and one frame. Gator and Spates
have been awarded the contract for build
Ing two new houses for Mr.. William A.
Custard.
The Prospect Avenue Question.
Relative to the controversy about the
ownership Of a certain part of what has al
ways been regarded as Prospect avenue.
the officials Of the college say that their
south as the middle Of the street where the
Usage bush hedge formerly stood. They
state that their fence on the south was
never put up on their south boundary, but
nearly thirty feet back. and was intended
not as part Of an inclosing fence. but to
serve as q backstop for the base ball
players.
The Georgetowners. those interested par
ticularly in adjacent property, are equally
confident that the college officials are Ia
mis-
heads say. though, that they will take the
case to court II the citizens persist In the
matter They would not object to the ex-
tension II II were made all the way through
to the Foxhall road. The proposed extern
sion is but from seth to Ssth streets.
Lives Only for Others.
william Miller was arrested yesterday on
a charge Of begging in the streets. He
claimed to be a representative Of the
Coxey army from Cleveland. Ohio He
was not begging for himself alone. but for
all mankind. he said. As for himself. he
has had enough of life. though he felt 1t
his duty to keep himself up in order to be
Of service to his fellowmen. For his I'M
usual devotion he was locked up at the
station. "vagrancy'' was entered opposite
his name. "Unselfshness." he was heard
to mutter. as he marched back to the little
private apartment entered through barred
doors, has become a crime"
BY Electricity to Rockville.
Though the Rockville turnpike has been
surveyed and the plan of Improvement
thoroughly mapped out. no actual work
has yet been done by the syndicate, who. 1t
Is said. contemplate making other improve
ments along its line. The main pike it is
proposed to cut down to the level of the
two side roads. thus making an amply
wide driveway from a point near Bethesda
to Rockville. 1t is said to be the ultimate
intention Of those interested in the improve
ment to extend an electric road along the
old pike.
Bethesda Park will be opened on May
and run as a first-class suburban resort by
Messrs. McCobb & Mullin Of Tenleytown.
The theater will not be run regularly, as
last year, but only opened on special occa-
sions.
Ex-Assessor F. L. Moore and family. who
for some months have been in Florida and
other southern states, are expected home
tomorrow.
Rev. Ed. Elliott is again on the rad to
recovery after having suffered slight re-
lapse.
The arrangements for the celebration OF
the seventy-hfth anniversary Of the es-
Enlistment Of the Dumbarton Avenue
Sunday school have been almost perfected.