The morning times., 1896-07-17
City Brevities

l III. "A n w lttiitI ICtuihCu iioih -
| two months visit to England.
| The annual picnic OF st. AIMS Aid So
ciety, Georgetown, viii take place on the
22d instant at Dumbane.
| The annual excursion and picnic Of the
Waugh Chapel Sunday school will be
| given TO Marshall Hall today.
Mr.. and Mrs G. W. Scott, Miss Bessie
| Scott and Miss Barrett Of A tianta, Ca,
are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
| Major j. NJ Burns, Capt. Forbes and John
Miller, U. &. A, are in the city and are
| ma king the Ebbitt their headquarters.
JIM. Alvey aud Thomas ]. Martie are
spending a few weeks in this city with
| William B. Martie, 713 NJ street north
| west.
Kate Shreeves, a colored girl, was ar
rested last nigat by Policeman Foley and
| locked up at No. s station for carrying u
| razor.
The tail grass In the parking about the
| city hall and Pension OFFICE has received a
cropping That il has needed for the last four
| weeks.
Maude E. shreve began suit for divorce
| yesterday against Charles E. Shreve. The
| papers in the case were withheld from pub
iication.
A bag filled with dead kittens was found
| by Sergt. KaDcher Wednesday morning in
an alley between Ninth and Tenth and o
and P streets northwest.
Auditor Petty, Secretary Tindall and
Property Clerk Beckett have been appoint
ed a committee to make an aprortionnent
OF the District contingent fund.
Gold withdra gals yesterday amounted
to $448 900, leaving the reserve ut the
close Of business al SOC, ,166 ,292. None OF
Nl,as xr-fth "a f,.r
The Washington Light Infantry AriIory
is again clear of the Christian EndeavOr.
paraphernalia aud Is ready for the next
enterprise that happens TO present itself.
Humane Society Agent Rabbit is max
ing war against the drivers or sore back
and otherwise unfit draft animals. Yestcr-
day he had several OF them in police court,
and they were fined $5 each.
Sergt. Daily and Officer Green, Of the
Fourth precinct, who were badly burned
by lye thrown in their faces during il raid
in South Washington over Il month ago,
have recovered sufficiently To return to
duty.
Charles Renbrow ,colored, seventeen years
of age, was locked up at No. station yes
terday afternoon for the larceny OF some
canned goods from the grocery store OF
John s. Cissell, No. 1O14 Seventh street
northwest.
There was Il large attendance again last
evening al the Victor Drum Corps lawn
fete. The guests OF honor were, Burnside
Post, No. 8, G. A. r.; Burnside Relief
Corps, No. 4, and the st. Paurs and
Henderson Drum Corps.
A team Of horses attached to a wagon
loaded with dirt. was picked up at the
corner OF Fourteenth aud Massachusetts
avenue northwest by Sewall Tascoe early
yesterday morning. The team was turned
over to the police of the Second precinct.
Enough OF the glass roof OF the rev pest
office building has been put in to allow
the men to continue their work in spite
OF the rain storms. Tie rain does not
now Interfere with the einterior work There
were 225men employed on the ne W building
yesterday.
Herman Rudolph, machinist, forty-two
years old, was taken suddenly i'll on Penn
sylvania avenue near Eleventh street north
west last night. and was carried into po-
lice station No. l. The police ambulance
was hurriedly summoned and removed the
patient to Providence Hospital.
Officer Copeland of the Second precinct
boaried an electric car at the corner Of
Ninth and F streets northwest Wednesday
evening and had Just seated himself when
he discovered a lady's gold bracelet with a
solitaire diamond set lying beside him An
effort was made to find the rightful owner,
but no on e claimed it.
The work of removing the lumber chairs
and other materials in and about the tents
on the White Lot has been something of a
honanZa for the expressmen, for they have
been engaged TO do the work. and TO them
it means about So a day. 1t will take
another tweuty-four hours work before
the lot will be entirely clear.
The Y. N. c. A. is at home again in
the old quarters On New York avenue. The
accommodations are not so great as be-
fore the fire, as only the two lower
stories OF the building have been rebuilt.
The apartments in these, however. are
Handsomely furnished. and have very much
the appearance OF the old home.
The pocketbook containing $13 and
valuable papers, which was lost by H. K.
Shaffer, of No. $50 Eleventh strectnorth-
west, at the Monument ON Tuesday, was
found by Mrs. T. f. Rhodes, of No 1925
Thirty y-fifth street northwest, and through
the medium OF the notice placed in The
Times it was recovered by the gentleman.
The raising of an immense derrick yes
terday afternoon at 1911 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, to be used in raising the
large cross beams to the front OF the build
the attention of large number of specta-
tors. The raising of the derrick was a tick
lish piece of work and had TO be carefully
performed.
Postmaster General Wilson Will deliver
an address at Chillicothe, Ohio, next Thurs
day, the occasion being that city's GEN.
tennial. The part of the State in which
Chilicothe is situated is u part of the
Virginia reservation, when Ohio was made
into State from the northwest territory,
and two OF Virginia's sons, fellow towns
men OF Mr.. Wilson. were prominent in the
early history OF the State.
The surveyors quarters In the city hall
have been removed to the old courtroom for
merly occupied by Judge Hagner in equity
court, No. 2, at the southwest corner Of
the building. Theattorneys' room, opposite,
will also be utilized for the same purposes
The old quarters Of the surveyors office
in the northeast corner of the building, sec |
ond floor. will be converted into a sessions
room for equity court, No. 2.
The work on Metzerott's Hall is well
under way and when completed will very
change the appearance of that
we'll known play house. The new stage
will be fifteen feet deeper than the old
and consequently will encroach somewhat
on the space heretofore part Of the audi
torium, but to have the room desired the
gallery will be built largely on the North
s,le of the hall. thus leaving the usual
space for the lobby.
Those Forty winks"
Most workers have experienced an ire
ct It,1 inr f.tEf al-esss