The morning times., 1896-11-27
City Brevities

&, is being graded.
Mr.. Douglas Rollins Of 127 street
northeast. has gone on u hurting trip i'll
Maryland.
Hon. Joseph K. Hickey. who has been in
New York for the summer, has returned
to the city.
The boilers in the ba sement OF the Capt.
toi. Senate wing, are being overhauled
for the winter.
a granolithic pavement is being laid on
c street, bctw cen New Jersey avenue and
North Capitol street.
Air. Il. y. Coffin. the artist and cartoon
ist, is lying dangerously i'll at ms apart
| Inents in the Garfield Flats.
Turkey en- hash will be on the bill of
fare at several boarding and private houses
during the rest OF this week.
The sidewalk on d street southeast, be-
tween Secoud street and New Jersey ave-
nue, is in dangerous condition.
Mr.. E. II. Hood, who has been very i'll .
with pneumonia at his home. 2Oi Twelfth
| street southwest, is convalescing.
Capt Isaac b. Dodge OF Massachusetts
avenue. near Seventh street, has gone to
Nashville, Tenn, on Il business trip.
The party, which accompanied the Fort
Monroe team to the city, returned home
yesterday afternoon on the Norfolk steamer.
Tie lovely weather and the holiday
combined secured tO the Zoo a large pro-
portion OF the suburban travel yesterday.
All the fire engine companies that took
part at the big fire or Tuesday night spent
yesterday in cleaning up the engines and
hose.
Mr.. Reuben Harlowe Of / 81 Parks Place
northeast had several friends from Cui-
pcpcr, Va, spending Thanksgiving at his
home.
Thurman Mitchell, age 13, was locked
up ut No. station yesterday by Police
man Arnold, charged with being di s.
orderly.
A ten-foot spre is being put on the
Bcwly-constructed Trinity Methodist EI4S
copal Church. corner of Fifth and streets
southeast
Mr. Nj c. Hodgkins Of East Capitol street
gladdened the hearts of his six employees
by the gift to each OF plump Thanks
giving turkey.
One of tie most enthusiastic of the par
ties at the c. A. c. football game yesterday
took in the proceedings from the upper deck
OF a taliy-ho.
Laurie White, an appr entice in tie
machine shop at the Washington navy
lathe Wednesday afternoon.
The fair at St AuSustine's Church was
attended by an unusually large crowd
| last night. Rev. Father Paul Griffith
has charge Of the arrangements.
man VINO gave the name Of Thomas
| Macy received "a GU head and sundry bruises
as result of IA fall from his bicycle at
the corner OF Nineteenth and n streets last
evening.
Work on the street trunk sewer has
reached Fourteenth street and the work
men Were yesterday engaged in digging
for the erection of the elevated railway
across the thOroughfare.
Water was pumped into the Georgetown
reserve reservoir on Thirty-second street
last night to supply the withdrawal re-
Gently made during repairs 10 the dis
tIibuting reservoir on Conduit road.
An attraction at tie Ice Palace that
| few OF the visitors see is a horse kept
| behind the scenery at the stage end of
| the hall. The animal is used to draw
| about the new ice shaver invented by
| Manager Towers.
! The search light of the dispatch boat
| Dolphin has attracted considerable at
| tentlon during the week in the southeast
ern section Of the city, as the nIanipulatUrs
| directed itg piercing beams here and there
| on the dark skies.
| Mary Harris, a cOlored woman, was
| found by Policeman Brennan yesterday
| PROSTATE and unconscious in an alley very
| near the corner of seventeenth ana II streets
| northwest She was sent to the Emergency
| Hcspilalin the Third precinct patrol wagon.
A slight blazein an old, unoccupied frame
| house, in the rear of 329 Eighth street
| northeast, caused local alarm to be
| sent 10 engine company No. 10 last
| night from the Ninth precinct police
station. Citizens eXtinguished the liam mes
| before the arrival of the iiremen.