Evening star., 1894-02-26
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Elaborate improvements in Prospect on
the College Campus
The Low Price OF Wheat Causes Con-
sternation-SnOw as q Friend
of Farmers.

The campus at Georgetown College is to
be extensively improved. For a long time
its enlargement has been contemplated, and
now the project is taking definite shape. A
part of the money necessary for the press
ing of the work has already been collected
and the changes to be made definitely set
tied upon. The old-fashioned dwelling to
the rear Of the present field will come down
and the elevation 1t occupied leveled back
TO the line of the south wall of the George
town Convent. The dirt taken therefrom
will be filled in the declvities on the west
of the present field. and the campus widen
ed as well as heightened. 1t is the inten-
ton Of the movers in the project to also
erect grand stands and otherwise thorough
ly equip the field. When all the plans in
contemplation are carried out the George
town campus, it is said, will rival in excel
lence that of any college in the country.
The proposed erection of a magnificent
900 athletic structure at the college is
still being considered, and work toward the
contamination of the project silently done.
Ten thousand dollars toward the necessary
fund, 1t is said, are at any time at the COM
manC Of the college. This amount repre-
sents voluntary contributions from old boys.
But very few have been, as yet, acquainted
with this proposed Improvement The new
gymnasium will be equipped with every
conceivable athletic appliance and be
''startler' to those who do not keep pace
with the rapid strides of this branch of cul-
ture. Georgetown has determined to be out
done in no branch of learning, even by the
colleges of the oldest standing.
Wheat Stin Falling.
Those interested here in the sale Of wheat
say that for weeks it has been a drug at
prices unprecedented. The larger dealers
report that it has sunk below all low
marks and refused. to respond to the in
f1uence of boomers. 1t is even said that
the grain has gone begging at a price
known to be under the actual cost of pro-
duction. Some say that they believe the
good old days when 81 a bushel was the
usual price received will never come again
and that IS cents may be looked to as the
top notch figure. With wheat selling at
less than the cost of production, as some
claim it is, farmers will not be long in
turning their fields to other uses
One raiser of Montgomery county is said
to have fed GOO bushels of the grain this
| season to his cattle, deemng that more
profitable than selling it at the low prevail
ing figure.
Saturdays wheat brought 62 cents.
Advantages of Snow.
The country people say that the snow
acts on their grass and grain fields like
coat of fertilizer, and assists materially in
the pulverization of their plowed ground.
And the canal men say that the snow in
the mountains on the upper course of the
Potomac, through its sinking into the
ground. and slow but final outlet into the
streams, wards Off low waters in the Po-
tomac during the hot spells of the early
summer much of 1t not succumbing to the
sun until the hottest season of the year
arrives. It's an i'll wind that blows no one
any good.
Short Paragraphs.
John Leetch has sold to William A. Leetch
lots 1893 and 104, in Leetch's sub Of square
112. being the block bounded by Q and u,
goth and 31st streets
The remains of the Rev. Jacob Ross
thar vx-nr fnrd0 hr.r.f fnT1
Mt. Zion graveyard. The attendance was
large. Several societies which the Rev.
Mr.. Ross had been either directly or in
directly connected with showed their re-
spect for the dead by following the remains
through the disagreeable weather to the
graveyard.
The character of Clara Manners in the
pair of Lunatics," presented by the
Linthicum Students. which was formerly
impersonated by Miss Hammack, now of
Hackett's Private Secretary" Company.
National Hotel for the benefit of the East
ern Dispensary by Mrs. aCudworth of MIL
waukee, Wis, now stopping temporarily In
the CITY. Mr. T. o. Pulizzi will do his old
DIR. j. Gregg Gibson of Shepherdstown.
on the canal, a physician of extensive
acquaintance died on Saturday night after
a few hours illness. DIR. Gibson was a
gentleman of splendid attainments cul-
tured and refined. He had reached his
seventy first year
deputy f. +. watkins or the George
town custom house has made formal ap-
pfcaton for the position of collector of
the port of Georgetown.
The Star was told this morning that
the receipts at the custom house last
week were too small to mention in print
This afternoon the Commissioners will
give a hearing to those Virginians who
haze been seeking a right of way for a
railroad over the Aqueduct bridge.
Judging from the informal talks that are
being INDUCED in it looks If the George
town Gas Light Company WILL at some
early day, be made the defendant in a
strong plea to the proper authorities for
a reduction in the price now being received