Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-11-09
ALExAN D,RIA AFFAIRS
Athletic Sports at the Episcopal High
81 School.
The City Fire Department and Other
Local Note. of General and
Especial Interest.

cess. several Of the school records being
broken. All the pretty little girls and
many OF the older ones, for miles around,
| a sembled to watch the boys in their va
| rious contests.
| The sports began at 10 o'clock in the
morning and the program was not COM
pleted until nearly in the afternoon.
Messrs. d. B. Tenant. A. G. Randolph
and w. F. Bell were the managers, and
these young men certainly did well.
Messrs. w. H. Randolph, Garrett Wilson
and Willoughby Reade of the faculty acted
| as judges. Mr.. r. b. Wilson Of the Theo-
logical Seminary was the starter.
| Inc following Is a summary OF results:
Throwing the ball-Won by Mr.. Ran
delphi; distance. 312 feet II - inches.
| Potato race, $50 yards-Won by Mr.. Rust,
In minute and 81 seconds.
| Putting the shot-Won by Mr.. Holder
ness; distance, 30 feet inches.
| Senior fiat race, 44O yards-Won by }. r.
| McCulloch, in 90 IL seconds.
Junior running long 1ump-Won by r. A.
Cocke; distance, IA feet IL inches.
Senior hurdle race. six hurdles IN 14O
| yards-Won by Mr.. Holderness. in 10 2-5
seconds. This breaks the record of IL %
seconds. made in SO, by Sires.
| Flat race, go yards-Won by ]. F. Nc
| Culloch In % As seconds.
| Standing long jump-Won by MIR. Price;
distance, feet 10 IL inches
Flat race. half mile-Won by Mr.. Price
In minutes and 81 seconds.
| Pole vaulting, height-Won by s. c. Daw-
son: distance, feet inches.
Junior flat race, 440 yards-Won by c.
| X: McCulloch in minute and % seconds.
throwing the hammer-Won by Mr. Hol-
derness: distance, IS feet. This breaks the
record of 81 feet 1-2 inch held by 8. S.
| Hepburn, 81
Junior hurdle race, six hurdles in 40
yards-Won by Watkins in % seconds.
Senior fiat race. 100 yards-Won by j. F.
| McCulloch in 10 10 seconds.
Running high jump-Won by Mr.. Hol-
derness; distance, feet II IL inches
Junior fiat race, 100 yards-Won by G. r.
| McCulloch in IL Ito seconds.
| Pole vaulting Instrumentation by 8. c.
| Dawson. - feet inches. The record in
| this feat was 10 feet o inches, made In Oh
Sack race, 100 yards-Won by c. H.Cocke
| iE ~ 1-5 seconds
Cons olation race. 100 yards open to those
who have engaged in one or more of the
contests and have taken no prize-Won by
| Mr.. Baker in % seconds.
The prizes were delivered to the winners
by Miss Louise Burke. enc of Alexandria s
| handsomest young debutantes.
The City Fire Department.
The city Is said to be sadly In need Of u
new steam fire engine. and effort will
be made at the next meeting of the city
council to get the city fathers to purchase
one. Is -
Mr.. George, r. Hill. president of the
board Of fire ,wardens. wen. to Washington
| today at the Invitation Of the American
Fire Engine Company. to witness test OF
two of their engines which they have re-
Gently built on an improved plan. Mr.. Hill
will report the result Of his visit to the
| city council Tuesday night.
Bland, Who ,StEuck Blouse, Dismissed.
July %, 1880. Samuel Bland, a tough
negro. assaulted Sefer Blouse, well-knowr
upper King street saloon keeper. and then
skipped the city. He came back Saturday
for the first time and was arrested by
| Officers Sherwood and Proctor. This morn
ing in the police court Blouse refused to
| prosecute Bland for some unknown reason
and he was dismissed.
o. Ii. Lee Arrested In This City.
o. b. Lee. said to be Washington In
| surlnce agent, was arrested in this city at
the request of the Washington authorities
Saturday night. charged with stealing $40
worth of books. He was found at his
boarding house on upper King street and
quietly submitted to arrest Detective Car
ter of Washington came here for him and
took him back to that city. 1t is said he
failed to pay installments on an encyclo-
pedia and that the matter will easily be
Strengthened out.
| Police Court.
Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
of the following cases: Samuel Bland, col
ored; charge, assault on Sefer Blouse; dis
missed. Frederick Dean; charge, trespass-
ing OF the property of the Southern rail-
road; fined s.. Emanuel Ford; charge,
drunk and disorderly; fined s., Harry Jack
son and Joseph Scott two small colored
boys; charge, escaping from the work
house; had thirty days added to original
sentence. o. B. Lee; charge, larceny of
$40 worth OF books; turned over to Wash
ington authorities. Thomas Bryant, col
ored; refusing to work on chain gang; put
| on bread and water diet.
Frank Halls Injuries Serious.
The condition of Motorman Frank Hall
who was injured at the power house of the
| Washington, Alexandria and Mount Yer.
non Electric Railway Company Saturday
is considered very serious today, and his
friends much alarmed His jawbone
was set by DR.. Klepstein, assisted by DR.
Bitter, the dentist He is still in a semi
| conscious condition.
The Churches.
The churches yesterday, owing to the bad
| condition of the weather, were but SHINY
| attended
In the Methodist Protestant Church yes
terday morning anniversary services were
held and The roll of members was called.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will
shortly reopen their free reading rooms or
King street for the winter. These rooms
| were a source OF great deal of pleasure
during the winter months of last year to a
large rumber of young men, who will be
| pleased to learn that the brotherhood in
tend to reopen them again.
King Street Again Torn Up.
King street is again being torn up for the
purpose of laying new gas mains. For the
past several months King street has beer
in a dilapidated condition, owing to the
putting in Of sewer pipes, and many citi.
zens wonder that those In charge of re-
placing the gas mains did not avail them.
| selves of the trench dug for the sewer
especially as both belong to the city.
City Council Meeting Tomorrow.
The regular semi-monthly meeting of the
city council will be held tomorrow night in
the city hall! AS this will be the first real
meeting since the summer vacation, the
last one having been broken up by a Bryan
mass meeting, much important business
WILL it is said. be brought up. The Prince
| street extension, the purchase Of a new fire
| engine q resolution offered by Mr. Strider
to put watchmen at railroad crossings at
all hours Of the day and night, the election
| Of a police commissioner to succeed Mr.
Noble Lindsay Of the first ward and other
matters of an important nature will prob