The evening times., 1896-06-15
City Brevities


Mr. Norman Robinson of this city is Visit
ing friends In Petersburg, Va.
President johnson, of the excise board,
is at Atlantic City. He Is expected nome
tomorrow.
of the police court today. Judge Miller
was in New York.
A big bell is being hung in the new tower
going up on the bank building on Four
Ieenth street near q.
Detective sergt. Robert johnson, one of
the veterans of tie police force, is confined
to his home by sickness.
1t Is stated that over LOCO applications
for work are On Tile in the several depart
ments of the District government.
In the absence OF DR.. Tindall Mr.. Clifford
Howard is serving as acting secretary OF
The board OF District Commissioners.
Arrangements have been made by the
Bank Clerks for their annual excursion on
the evening of June ~, to Marshall Hall.
Local anglers report that the Potomac is
too muddy for bass or perch fishing. Carp
and catfish. however. are biting, and num-
bers of them are being caught.
Tue Fourth precinct police are trying to
find an owner for a pusEcart. 1t was picked
up in South Washington after midnight, and
is believed to have been stolen.
Secretary Doyle of the civil service COM
mission, who has been for two weeks ON a
trip organizing new offices, is expected
TO return in week or ten days.
Cardinal Satolli's fayorite promenade is
the Capitol Grounds. Every fine afternoon
the distinguished prelate spends an hour IN
solitary walk through the park.
A Seventh street cable train last night
became entangled with buggy at the
corner of NJ street northwest. But little
damage was done beyond u brief delay to
traffic.
Walter T. Phillips, general manager Of
the United Press. passed through the city
last evening en- route to st. Louis, where he
will superiGtend the convention work for
that association.
Editor W. Calvin Chase has gone to ST.
Louis, travelling in special car. with each
sleeve of his spring overcoat provided with
the traditional knife especially whetted
for Col. Carson.
James Gottis, colored man, was treated
at the Emergency Hospital yesterday for
fracture of the leg. Gottis was kicked by
horse He was removed later to his home
No. 20IS Greer's court.
W. u. Jarvis has been selected as one of
the twu delegates from the District Of
Columbia TO the National Inter Denomina-
tionai convention or cClored Sunda schools,
to be held in Boston June 1926.
James English the head page of the House
of Representatives, left yesterday for his
home in san Francisco. Jimmie" is inter
ested in the settlement of his late uncle S
estate, from which he gets $40, 900.
TWO additional privates were placed Upon
the police force today. John l.. Dogan was
appointed for rservice on the steamer George
\ nj
in the vicinity of the Agricultural Depart
ment.
Among the washingtonians who have
gone To Woodside. Montgomery county, for
| the summer are Mr.. ind Mrs. W. c. Duff
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Thompson, Mr. and Mrs
Williams and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.
| JuDkin.
! The Board of Ushers and Young People $
Missionary Circle of the Eastern Presbyter
ian Church VIII hold a lawn social next
wednesday evening, at the home of Mrs
MeliiS, on Maryland avenue and ID street
| northeast.
Sixty-fiye bicyclists, representing not
| less than $1,000 worth of wheels in groups
| of twos and threes, passed down PennsyI-
| vania avenue from Georgetown within
fifteen minutes of each other yesterda J
| afternoon.
lawn party will be given Wednesday
| evening at Twenty-sixth street and Penn
| syivania avenue by the members of District
Lodge. No.3, l. o. 6. T., and Hope Juvenile
| Temple. No. IL. Several novel outdoor fea
| lures Will be introduced.
ChildreH's Day was observed yesterda,
| after On al Bethesda Church. The feature
| of the occasion WAS the music the clIoil
| being supplied by Instrumental music By
| Messrs. V. d. Watkins william L. Burlur
| and William A. Walker.
Arrangements have been perfected fol
| the holdingo of gospel meetings in Anacostia
| under the auspices of the Central CnioI
| Mission. Tic wagon has been assigned I,
Anacostia Friday evenings, and service:
are held al Haines Hall every unday after
! noon
| Coroner Hammett, who has been TN wei
for several days past. is off on a two weeks
| vacation. He will spend the time on bi,
pretty farm in st. Mary's county, Nd
| During DR.. HamInett's absence Deput,
| Coroner L. W. Glazebrook will be acting
, coroner.
The work of trimming the trees and re
moving ead limbs in the Capitol Ground.
Is now being vigorously pushed and vii
be'completed by the end of tire me nth. TIL,
special appropriation Of $500 for thi
became available Immediately upon tie ad
| tournament of Congress.
Clifford Rose the ell-known newspape
correspondent. attached to the staff of tn
L&sviIle Courier Journal, is victim o
the bike. Riding down Capitol Hill Sunda
morning he fell from his wheel fracturin
bone in his left heel. He was attende
at the Emergency Hospital.
Committees from nearly all of the Pre-
testant Churches are visiting houses in thei
vicinity and soliciting rooms for quarter
ing the delegates 10 the coming c. E. con
| vention. They are said to be meeting wit
success, and there is no doubt that eac
Endeavnrer will be provided for.
A coiored waif was left on the doorstep n
Theodore Gerhard's residence No. IL
Thirteenth street southeast. before da,
light yesterday morning The little on
was IN an old market basket and nearl
fanisbed- II was turned over to a co
ored woman, who will adopt the child
The Eighth precinct police found Sara
simms, colored, stretched upon tie side
walk III an unconscious condition in from
of No. 2023 Seventh street NJ rtllwest a bou
1918 O'Clock this morning She was RI
moved TO Frcedman's Hospital in the patrt
wagon and the case is being investigated
Detectives Horne and Weedon this NOR,
ing found fourteen -year-od Willie Ca
ter, who was reported missing from hi
home, No. sos Sixth street north west ,abor
ten days ago. The boy was in a chea
lodging house on b street. He gave no re:
sons for running a way from his widowe
mother.
The citizens of the northeast are col
siderably worried because no steps al
being taken to repair the damages su
tainel by trees during the recent heay
wind storms. The fact has developed that
proportion of the young trees were M
planted sufficiently deep. and as a Tesu
many OF them have been partically, III