Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-16
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Stirring Activity in Real Estate and
Building.
Potomac Commandery Entertafns
New Officers Other Notes.

New Officers Other Notes.
The public installation of the officers Of
Potomac Commandery, No. 3, K. T., last
evening, at Masonic Hail. was an event of
deep interest, and over three hundred peo-
pie filled the hall. The ceremonies attend
ing the occasion were unusually impressive
The head of hundred thousand knights
Grand Master of Templars of the United
States w. La Rue Thomas. was present and
addressed the assemblage. Sir Knight
Frank H. Thomas of the Grand Command
cry of the United States installed the new
officers, and Sir Noble d. Larner, eminent
commander of the new commandery of the
District, added his presence and eloquence
| to the occasion The officers installed were
as follows: Eminent commander. William
F. Hunt; generalisSimo, S. NJ. 1eatman;
ceptain-general, DR.. ]. F. r. Appleby; Sc
nior warden, John w. Thomas; Junior war
Stcrch; treasurer, John Schultz; prelate,
Rev. r. K. Lewis; warder, William S.
Waddy.
Eminent Commander Hunt made grace
full speech on the conclusion of the in
stallation exercises. in which he acknowl-
edged the honor that had been conferred
upon him. ard he asked the cooperation
of the knights in making the coming year
| throughout met with hearty appreciation.
In addition to the above-named grand Off
| GERS, r. w. Darby, grand gencralissimo,
w. T. Galliher, grand Junior warden, Rev.
DIR. Simpson, grand prelate, and George c.
Corson, grand standard bearer assisted
| in the ceremonies. The assembled guests
were invited to the banquet room, and the
| lodge was closed in due form. The decora-
| tons of the place were varied and effective.
Palms, flowers and patriotic colcrs were
spread in profusion everywhere Refresh
ments and dancing were incident TO the
evening. Vocal music furnished by
| the commandery quartet consisting of
| Messrs. Hancock, Turpin, Jones and Kaiser,
! while string music was furnished by the
Sixth United States Cavalry Band of Fort
! Myer.
| Catholic Union.
At the last meeting of the Georgetown
Catholic Union officers for the ensuing year
were elected, follows: President, John
Jones; secretary, Thomas r. Fullalove;
treasurer, Frank V. Ofutt; librarian Chas
| Leasure; board of directors, George w.
| Manogue, Thomas O'Connor, John Crawley
! Thomas Smith and b. Periey Craig On ac-
count of the absence of the candidates for
| the vice presidency and assistant librarian
| ship, the election of these offices was laid
| over until the next meeting.
Building Operations.
Building operations in the West End this
| year are looking bright, and already a num-
Der of new houses have been started, with
| extensive improvements on old structures.
| Mr.. John Sis is erecting brick store at 1919
| 34th street, which will soon be completed.
| The row of houses erected by DR.. Richie on
VI street near the entrance to the Aqueduct
bridge is nearly finished. Mrs. Sheele of
$3.50 street is engaged in having an entire
| new front placed in position. Mr.. George
| Killeen of 1927 P street is having a rear
brick addition to his building while Mr.
| Charles Frizzell of Madison street near 35th
| street is enlarging his dwelling. AS soon as
| the weather becomes more moderate the
! building operations in the town are expected
to jump up at a great rate.
| In the county good deal of work in this
line is under way. and three new houses
are going up, in addition to the finishing
touches of good many more. Mrs. Mary
K Serrin is erecting a two-story and cell
| lar dwelling in the subdivision known as
| Harlem, the new structure to front on the
| Conduit road. Mr.. c. R. Morgan is erect
| ing two-story frame dwelling in the Fair
view subdivision, which will be located al
the junction of Connecticut avenue ex-
tended and the Grant road Mr.. ]. 2.
Clark is having constructed two-story
dwelling, fronting on the Conduit road.
Two transfers of property in this section
were yesterday placed on record. Mary L.
Hoffman bought of Felix Freehold lot j, in
Shepherds subdivision of Bealrs addition
to square 90. The purchase price is I'M
known, but the property is subject to a
to Martha j. Hill portion of the Friend
ship subdivision, described by metes and
bounds.
Notes.
The remains of Mrs. Lederer, former
resident of Georgetown, who died in Balti
more, reached this city at noon yesterday
Acting under instructions Undertakes
Clements took charge of the corpse and in
tered the remains in Holy Rood cemetery
The property owners and residents on [
street between 31st and 32d streets have
just complaint over the condition of the
sidewalks. Prior to asphalting the thor
oughfare the grade of the street was low
cred last fall, and the sidewalks remain il
a torn-up and dangerous condition.
A IL mber of firms of the West End hav,
gangs of men employed in cutting ice Il
store up for use in summer. Ice from tn,
canal is cut which is five inches thick
Miss Rebecca Dreyfus of Both street, who
for the past month has been visiting
friends in New York city, has returned
, home.
Sergt. George Hess of the county mount
ed force is off duty on account of sickness
The cold weather last evening drove min,
homeless people to the station house TO
: shelter, eight of whom were white men.