Evening star., 1896-08-13
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Another EOpement of Young People Of That
Burg Brought to Light.
Serious Accident Narrowly Averted-
Arranging fpr Engineer An
gels FuneRal-Other Items.

Another eIopement has just come to light
In which the parties concerned are we'll
known Georgetown people, The groom is
Mr.. Notle H. Thothas OF 1911 35th street,
| a son of Mr.. ColurnbCs Thomas the we'll
known contractor. while the bride is Miss
| May E. Goddard. a pretty eighteen-year-
| old young lady, who is an orphan, and lived
| with the family Of Mr.. Hughes on 35:h
| street, not far from the residence Of the
| groom. The young people were married on
| June 1S. On that day, without acquainting
| any one OF their Intentions, they took q
| trip to Baltimore, and, visiting the parson-
| age Of a church. were married by Rev
| James P. Wilson. Since the marriage the
| couple have been living at 1880 33d street.
| The parents of the groom have forgiven
| the truant couple, and now they are living
| in happiness.
Ran Into n Buggy.
| About 10 o'clock this morning acci-
dent occurred on NJ street in front of the
| engine house, which fortunately resulted In
no more than the breaking Of several
spokes in a buggy wheel. AS train 214
! came up the street a buggy containing a
| man, who was partly asleep, started to
| cro IS the track. Ringing the bell furiously
and quickly applying the brakes, the grip
| man succeeded In preventing a serious col
| 1SlOn, STRIKING Inc buggy with SufflClent
| force to nearly turn 1t over. The force OF
| the collision thoroughly awoke the occu-
| pant. and. grabbing up the reins, he whip
ped the horse and drove away without ex-
| aminng the extent of injuries to the buggy
| O.. revealing his identity
| Two Arrests.
| Wing Lee. a Chinese laundryman who
| keeps at 3O73 street. was arrested yester-
cay by officer Witt on a charge of assault
|
| the story Of the trouble, it seems as though
| the parties had dispute. In which the
| face Of Marche was burned by pipe Of the
| Chinaman. The " hite man claims the
| leundryman hit him with the pipe, while
| the Chnaman claimed that the man ran
| into the pipe. The case was left to the de-
cis;on of the Police Court judge this morn
| ing, the Chinaman leaving s. collateral.
Conrad F. Arabin, grocer at SD and q
| streets was arrested yesterday on charge
| of obstructing the sidewalk. 1t seems as
| though the StOrekeeper left q load of wood
| out on the street longer than the law al
! lows, the police claiming to have warned
| him before of this matter, to which no at
| tention was paid.
Arranging for Anxclrs Funeral.
The funeral arrangements for the late
| John D. Angel nave not been completed.
| though it has been decided to hold the serv-
| ices Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The
| interment will be at Rock Creek cemetery.
| The engine house has been draped in bla ok
| in memory of the deceased. 1t is proha BILE
| that the funeral will be attended by dele
| CATION from the fire department. headed by
| Chief Paris, while the Veteran Volunteer
| Firemen's Associa tion and the Independent
! Order of Mechanics will also send dele
| cations.
Laying Underground Conduits.
The Potomac Electric Light and Power
| Company has large force of men at work
| laying its underground conduits in
| Georgetown An extra large conduit has
been laid on 33d street from the power
house TO NJ street. while laborers now
engaged in laying the conduts on NJ
street from the AQueduct bridge to Rock
creek When this IS completed. the con-
duts will be laid 32d street from NJ to
L street. that being all the territory for
| which the permit has been issued for the
| laying of the underground service. Ac-
| cording to the permit the company Is re-
quired to remove all its overhead wires
| within thirty days from the compile ton OF
| An Order Against Swimmers.
The members Of the Potomac and Colum
| bia boat clubs have been afraid to go in
swimming In the Potomac of their re-
| spective boat houses, because Of q notice
| received from the police on that beat. 1t
| has been the custom Of the men, when
coming in from a row. to jump overheard
! from the float in their rowing costumes
and enjoy swim. The order Of the police
| prevented this. An investigation revealed
! the fact that Lieut. Swindell of the seventh
| precinct had issued an order against swim
| ming, but which was misinterpreted by the
police. On account of the number of boys
| and men who go in the canal and river in q
| nude condition the order was issued, but
| the police took 1t for granted that the order
iod n q ytYoryn nayc IN, ov1 f4.1
| accordingly.
| The Girls Reform School.
Two inmates of the Girls Reform School
| (colored). on the Conduit road, were re-
| leased this week In order that they might
accept places. and two were allowed to re-
turn to their parents. One escaped last
Saturday morning, but was captured at
| midnight down in a South Washington
| alley. She was in the midst of a swarm of
bad characters, but no resistance was
| made. There are now twenty-six girls at
| this home.
| Notes.
Mrs. James A. Archer has left for two
| weeks stay at Culpeper.
! Mrs. Thomas J. Stanton and family are
in western Maryland, where they will re-
main for the month.
| Rev. DR.. w. c. Alexander, wife and fam
lily are summering at Aurora. w. Va.
| Gray Walters a messenger boy was ar
rested last evening for failing to have a
light on his bicycle. Collateral was left for
his appearance In court today by a lady
who knew the boy.
Israel s. Lee has bought of Jacob P.
| Clark lots "a and 81. block 3. Of the White
haven subdivision. The consideration is
| not named.
Misses Fannie and Flora Layton are at
| Washington Grove for the summer, occu-
| pying Idlewild cottage
MIR. Jesse H. Wilson and family have re-
turned from a visit to Asbury Park. and
Mlii spend the remainder Of the summer at
| Washington Grove.
| Col. Gordon Of Georgetown Heights, re-
tired, recently in command at Fort Myer
| Will leave tomorrow for Cape May. Allan
tic City and other northern resorts He
Will join his wife and daughter. who are
now at one Of the northern resorts.