Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-08
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
Doings Among Students at the Col
lcge and Other Notes.

Doings Among Students at the Col
lege and Other Notes.
Father Fulton has charge of the post
graduate literature class at Georgetown
College now. Father Cavanaugh having
given It up to devote his time exclusively
to rhetoric
The Riggs Library has been recently
equipped with handsome desks and a cod
venient catalogue cabinet, the gift of the
ibrary's founder. The Riggs Library now
contains over GS.OOO volumes, 1900 maya
zines; 5000 pamphlets and many manu-
scripts. The arrangement of everything ID
model Of perfection and accessibility.
The six selected debaters who, through
the Observation-Disclosures disagreement,
nave had no chance to display their pow
ers OF argument will shortly appear in pub
nc debate, three pitched against three
The subject has not yet been announced
The stage in CASTOR Hall has been en-
larged and improved with footlights and
other theatrical accessories, and the NOV
aole benches have given place to handsome
screwed ash chairs. The old temporary
gallery will come down this summer 1t IL
proposed to make the hall in the near
future a perfectly equipped little theater.
the college will be held out of doors. Many
Of the northern institutions have held their
closing exercises In the open air for years.
1t will be novel and pleasant. Only in case
W
Hall take in the crowd.
On Tuesday the examinations in phil
osophy come on at the college.
Carion and ODonnell. two Of the most
prominent OF last years graduates have
doubled up In the law business at Chicago
whence the report comes that they have al
READY made big hits in several important
cases. They are both forceful men, and
ODonnell for several years previous to his
graduation devoted the regular election
ing.
Death of John Coon.
Mr.. John Coon, son Of John W. Coon
OF 32d street, and universally known in the
West End as Johnny" Coon. died on Sat-
urday at his brothers home in Tenleytown
or typhoid pneumonia, after an illness Of
but two weeks. Deceased, though deform-
ed, having met with an accident in early
youth. was always energetic, and through
his pleasing manner made many friends.
OF late years he has been in the employ
or Stohlman, the 32d street confectioner
he was conspicuous figure in George.
town, always meeting with a pleasant
smile and nod. He had been unwell for a
month or more before he took to his bed.
but unusual fortitude kept him on the go.
Not unit! his physical strength entirely de-
serted him did he resign himself to his
bed. Johnny was a conscientious and re-
ligiously true man.
Notes.
Mrs. Margaret Henry, mother Of Mr. NJ
c. Mitchell Of Georgetown. died on Satur-
day at Cariin Springs, Va. The funeral
was held there today.
The coffer-dam work has excited so
much interest that officers were station
ed on the AQueduct bridge above the
construction yesterday to prevent the
crowd pressing against the railing of the
bridge to its destruction and their peril.
Last Sunday the crowd SO pushed against
the railing that 1t was knocked out of
plumb.
Contractors Mccartney and Pearson are
about to begin the construction of q 40
by 10O-foot brick barn for the Visitation
Academy sisters. The old frame barns
built by John Threlkeld. one of the found
ers of the town, will be torn down. They
have been used up to this time.