The morning times., 1896-12-04
City Brevities

tan, Is TO nc reorsamZcd.
Ar. a. y. B.Li..I.,iG II Lcxing on, KY,
is isiting friends N this city.
The water main at Fifth and East Capt.
tol streets has sprung a leak.
William Morgan, of ~ d street. is
visiting friends in Baltimore.
new sewer is being put down in Third
street, near the corner ur northeast.
Mr.. A. NJ. Stabler has been elected presi-
dent of the Maryland Republican Club
Mr.. c. b., and Miss L. Fox, of Wimble-
| don, London, England, are in the city.
Rev O. +. Eldridge, pastor of Waugh n
L. Church, spent yesterday in Annapolis
Gas mains have been laid along Second
street northeast, between and II streets.
A Few semaphore has been added at
the street crossing OF the B. & o. tracks.
The soldiers stationed ut the marine bar
| racks are put through a two-hour drill
| daily.
Hon. John Rinaker, Of the Sixteenth
Ildunis district, arrived in the city yes
terday.
A fence is beins put around the ruins
| of Smiths planning mills. the scene Of rhe
recent fire.
| The cold weather has caused rush OF
work in the freight yards along the rail.
road tracks.
Mr.. George Anderson, OF 100 Eleventh
| street sont t.ieaSt, has returned from IA trip
to La Plata. Md.
a concrete pavement is being laid On {
| street on the suuth side OF the Baltimore
| and ohio depot.
| .he CHiren. has been turned into the
! heating apparatus of the Ninth and F
| street electric cars.
| Mr.. X. 4 Fenw!ck of Capi oil Hill started
yes erday for Massachusetts, where he Will
| remain several weeks.
The interior of the Atlantic Coast Line
! building. corner OF Sixth and Pennsylvania
| avenue, is being rcpainted
Mr.. Joseph HERNANDEZ. one of the most
popular commercial men on the road, is
| visiting relatives on street northwest.
| The first annual exhibition of the Wash
| ington Water Color Club will he opened
next Monday at the Cosmos club rooms.
Hon. W. ]. Hendrick ex-attorney y general
| Of Kentucky. is in the city on business
now pending before the Supreme Court
G street northwest, between Ninth and
| Eleventh streets. is Tiled with ugly rut>.
| inconvenient to bicyciists and drive rs
| alike.
| w. II. Harnay. a inachinist in the gun
| carriage shop al the navy yard. had his
finger chopped off by machine Wednes-
day evening.
Protracted revival services are being held
i at Hamiinc NJ. +. Church, Ninth and =
streets northwest. conducted by the pastor,
Rev. w. K. Stricken
A number OF the employees Of the Interior
! Department We're kept busy until late
| hour last evening, sending out the annual
| report of Secretary Francis.
| Mr. +. Preston Parr, OF Bedford, Va, is
in the city on business. Mr.. Parr is a
| manufacturer of tobaccn with large inter
ests in Virginia and North Carolina.
The members of the lexington Fishing
! Club enjoyed reception and smo ker
| Wednesday evening, at the home OF Mr.
Edward Gummel, the club president.
Successful revival services are being con-
Quoted at the Waugh NJ. +. Church, Third
| and a streets southeast, under the direc-
tion of the pastor, Rev. o. Z. Eldrdge.
Fatner Gloyd, of st. Patrick's, and Father
| Mackin, of st. Pauls, will accompany
bishop heane to Rome. having received per
mission from Cardinal Gibbons for the trip.
Miss Miller has been placed in charge of
the Georgetown agency Of the Associated
Charities on o street. near Thirty-first
street, The office was opened yesterday
Tony Preiella. a fruit vender. reports
to the police that push cart with red
| body was stolen from Seventh street and
| Virginia avenue southeast Wednesday
| night.
Circular letters were sent out by the
AsSoriated Charities yesterday with view
of obtaining number of subscribers suf
| ficient to guarantee an annual fund of
5000.
\ mandolin club, IL nder the name of The
Omiads," has been organized in East
Washington with the following members
W. Todd, Charles Dieudonne, b. Roane,
and K. E. Weaver.
special meeting of Mount Vernon
Assembly of Painters, No. 174S, h. of L.,
was held last evening at Z O'Clock to take
action on the resolutions referred them by
District Assembly, 66.
The car tracks and street at the east
end of the NJ street bridge over Rock Creek
have sunk a maximum distance of nearly
two feet because of the digging of the
sewer at that point
Policeman Darlington, of the Ninth pre-
cinct, on post duty at Seventh street and
New York avenue, arrested George ].
RUPERT yesterday for failing to walk his
horse over the network of tracks at that
| corner.
The extreme cold weather of the past
few days has seriously interfered with
the work on the F street sewer The work
has not been stopped but the operations of
the automatic eNcavator are much retarded,
and the difference in progress is noticeable
Arrangements have been completed fol
musical and literary entertainment to
be given on December 10, under the aus.
pices of the ladies of the Twelfth Street
NJ. E. Church, TO- be held in Masonic Tenn
pie, Fourth street and PennSy ylvania avenue
southeast.
three days retreat for the parish
of ST. Aloysius' Church in honor OF TIE
Identification of the blessed Bernadine
Realino has just been completed The
services during the retreat were held in
st. Aloysius' Church under the direction
of Rev. Francis X. Brady.
The meli5ers OF The young ladies choi,
of the Y. W. c. I. T., recently elected of
ficers as follows: Miss Mary Drow presi
dent: Miss Josephine Gillenwater, secretary
and Miss Sadie Drown, director A vote
of thanks was passed to Mr. Robert S
Fountaine, formerly leader of the choir.
John Kuneber, native Of Switzerland
accosted Policeman Willingham of the
Eighth precinct last night and asked to be
''vagged," as he had neither money moi
friends, and needed place to sleep and
something to eat The officer sent him te
the station-house. where he spent the night
Edwin Barbour, prominent broker of
New York, is in the city. Mr.. Barbour is
Il nephew of the late ex-senator Barbour
OF Virginia, and takes an active interes,
in the politics of his native State, Judge
RiNey, Congressman-elect from the Eighth
district of Virginia, is his brother-in-law.
The National Rifles Armory was crowded
last night with the friends of Mr. j H
Cathel for whom an entertainment was
given. in which the U inform Rank, knights
of Pythias, the Colonial Beach Associa.
tion and the Athletic Association
of the Washington Light Infantry
took part. A musical. literary, and
athletic program was presented.