Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-08
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Suburban Roads Pretty Generally Blocked
by Snow.
The Soup House Dispenscs Comfort to
Mnny-NOtes of Local and Gem
eral Interest to All Citizens.

A number of wagons were abandoned last
night on the roads about town, countrymen
unlocking the attached horses and leading
them home. The snow drifts made the
country thoroughfares impossible. On the
Tenleytown electric car line the snow was
piled up in several places to the height of
six feet. Transportation was impossible,
and all cars were turned in. AS fast as one
drift would be cleared away another would
take it's place. Car men suffered in trying
to keep the road open to the public. The
line runs through country that offers no
obstruction to the drifting of snow.
The Bethesda line shared the conse-
quences of the storm with the Tenleytown
road. So did the Glen Echo. The latter
will probably be longer inactive than the
other two, owing TO its position between a
line of hills, and the size and number of the
drifts. 1t will require work to clear the
Glen Echo tracks.
On 18th street this morning, about $50
o'clock, two children got caught in drift
near the corner of S street. They got
themselves so deep in it that a step could
not be taken either forward or backward.
They screamed and colored man came to
their assistance. So binding was it last
night that a gentleman residing on the
Ridge road, some distance above the New
Cut, in walking home, wandered off on the
Conduit for full half mile before he
located himself.
Georgetown telephone and telegraph wires
were injured by the storm.
The Soup Houses.
The demand for soup at the dispensary
here has called for the setting up of
another kettle Mr.. John Blundon attend
ed to the matter this morning. Tickets for
soup have been left at the office of the
First Cooperative Building Association
and at other prominent offices in town.
ThSre the WOrthy get them
application. While tickets are not neceS-
sary to Obtain. soup, the system has been
adopted to largely get rid of the buns"
who take advantage of soup diSpenSarieS
when possible. Two boilers and kettle
will now be made up full of soup daily.
Keeps Going.
For the first time In many months there
Is no regular transportation to the keno
shops west of the aqueduct. The passen-
ger boat has been locked in at her wharf.
In spite of this, though, and the conse-
quent discomforts the gambling head
morning for business. Players went up on
foot to hazard their money and their
nerves on the game of chance.
Fenrs for the Dam.
Apprehension is felt for the safety of the
Golfer dam about the fourth aqueduct pier.
1t cannot help but be injured on the occa-
sion of the thaw that will follow the break
ing up of the ice and its forceful dash
down the river, old citizens say. Its de-
struction is certain IL the hills and noun
tains of the Upper Potomac send down any
great quantity of water on the thawing of
the snow and ice that now covers them. A
jam at the aqueduct will bring positive
destruction. A very gradual thaw and
very gradual passing off of the ice and
water will alone permit the dam to remain
intact, some say.
Notes.
Miss Helen Dunlop has gone to New Or
leans for a two NOR this stay among rela-
tives.
Mr.. John Kreuger of the Foxall road. an
aged man, was yesterday sent to the
Washington Asylum Hospital on the rec
ommendation of DIR. Birdsan.