The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-07
City Brevities

| Hon. j. W Bailey or Texas came in
| yesterday.
Work has been finished on the artesian
well, Second and ID streets.
The first winter concert Will be held at
| the Marine Barracks today.
The parking On street, near Ninth
/ northeast, has been fortified.
| The lot at the corner of Tenth and L
! streets northeast is being graded.
| Master Mechanic Giles Of the navy yard
/ is seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
Mr.. Henry Kingsley, of Grant place is
entertaining friends from RChm ond, Va.
Mr. Rosc oe Bell of No. Is Fourth street
southeast is onfined to his home by Illness.
/ Water mains are being laid across the
pennsylvania avenue bridge TO Twining
! City.
Workmen are engaged in cutting down
! and grading the hill at the head OF Tenth
/ street
The three masted schC oncr Murray Vandi-
! yer, Harve de Grace, is lying at Williams
! wharf.
| The annual exhibition of the Washington
! water color artists viii begin toda at the
| Cosmos Club.
! The interior walls OF the first story of
| the l. street arrnory have been given a new
! coat of paint.
Argument in the street extension cases
| will begin tomorrow in the United States
| Supreme Court.
Thirteenth street southeast, from a to
! c streets is being graded. New curbing
| is also being set.
Mr.. J. 7. Jennings has been elected
president OF st. Peters CUmmandery,
| knights of st. John.
| The high iron fence surrounding Rock
| Creek Cemetery has been given new
coat of black paint.
Board coverings have been placed over
| the gravel walks of Mount Vernon Park
for the winter months.
Workmen are engaged in laying water
! mains along &c orgia avenue southeast, from
Twelfth to Thirteenth.
Au unusual activity i'll transfer wagons
yesterday indicated the return to the city
OF the Congressional set.
meeting of the Washington branch
OF the Socialist Labor party was held last
evening at Bunch's Hall.
Hon. John d. Crimmins, president of
the Metropolitan Traction Company of
New York is IN the city.
The new electric lights OF the Capitol
grounds were not in use last night because
OF a break in the apparatus.
A three-fcot eel was taken from the
water main at the corner of Seventh and
1 streets southeast Saturday.
william Marshall, coIored, rs Fifth
street southeast, received a spraned leg
in bicycle accident yesterday.
portion OF the western end of the
Soldiers Home grounds is under prepara-
ton for the planting of new shrubbcry.
A match game between the first and
second lowing teams of Carroll Institute
viii be played on Wednesday evening next.
No arrests were made Yesterday in pre-
cinct No. 8. The only business done dur
ing the day was the housing of one lodger.
Col. A. A. Pope, the senior member
OF the Pope Manufacturing Company, of
Boston, is the guest of Mr.. J. Hart
Britain.
northwest corner of Massachusetts avenue
and Fourteenth street is undergoing ex-
tensiye repairs.
a new schedule has been put into effect
Oh the Connecticut avenue branch of the
+ street electric cars The cars run half
an hour later than formerly.
Senator oorhees is ut the Riggs and
is reported TO have so far recovered from
his recent illness as to be able to attend
the opening of the Senate today
The street bed of Vermont avenue, be-
tween V street and Florida avenue, has
gradually sunk until now it forms a rest
ing place for great pools of STA gnant water.
Col. John P. Clum, of Colorado, will
lecture at Carroll Institute Hall on Thurs
uaN GA the GlorIcS OF America. - intro
ducing many scenes and stories, including
Pickett's famous charge.
Mr.. Louis Somers internal revenue col
icCtor, for the Lcadville, Col, district
who has been in the city for few days.
on social and official business, will leave
the city for New York today
The bicycle policemen ran down few
Sunday night lawbrea kers. Officer Du-
val arrested James Foster and Estes
captured George Robinson and William
Jones, all charged with fast riding.
Policeman Yetton arrested James Holmes
grocer, and Thomas Armat, real estate
AGENT yesterday afternoon, charged with
fast driving. The men were racing their
teams. Both deposited $40 collateral
A meeting for the purpose OF reorgan-
lZ!iS the Girls Friendly society or Eplph-
any Episcopal Church VIII be held by
the young ladies OF that parish on Wed
nesday evening in the yestr y-room of
the church. The society has a mem bership
of over 10000 in various parts of the
country.
.he Epworth League OF Trinity M E.
CiUr,h conducted the evening services at
the church yesterday, and large congre-
CATION enjoyed convention echo xervice
Addresses were made by several of the
delegates, and by Gen. Secretary Hines,