Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
rcorresnondence OF the Alexandria GaSette.J
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.

General McKenna ana AsslsuauI Neoio
tary Day of the State Department..
The following fourth.class Virginia
uostmasters were appointed today;
Dover Mines, W. T. Taylor; Hilton's,
8. G. Owen. :.
yellow fever has appeared at Fort
Barrancas, near Pensacola, Florida. but
not in degree sufficient to alarm the
War Department officials, who feel that
owing to the lateness of the season,
there is little danger of spread of the
disease. A dispatch has been received
by Adjutant General Breck from that
most stating that one soldier had died
from the fever but giving no details.
Surgeon General Sternberg has been al
vised of the matter, but he does not re.
gard it as necessary to remove the gar
rison. :,
Probably for the first time in full
half century the Navy Department to-
day opened proposals for building a
full-rigged sailing ship, without steam
power. This craft is wanted for the
instruction of the cadets at Annapolis
in seamanship and navigation accord
ing to the old fashion. The depart
ment submitted an estimate OF S25O, 600,
but Congress cut the figure just in half,
90 it was no matter ofsurprise that when
the bids were opened to day none OF the
bidders offered to build the ship com
ple,e within the small limit, but SUBJ
mitted plans that would require a
large amount of supplemental work to
complete the vessel after it is turned
over to the government. The Bath
Iron Works bid Stl2,600 and Lewis
Nixon, of the Crescent Shipbulldlng
Works, at Elizabeth, n. j., sl2l, 800
While both were within the limit Of
appropriation, 1925, 900, each bidder
specifically stated that he had cut out
number of articles provided for in
the specifications.
After an informal hearing to-day.
Commissioner Forman, OF the Internal
Revenue Bureau, issued an order in
which he directed that the office OF the
collector of internal revenue for the
second district of Virginia be removed
from Richmond to Petersburg. Fol-
many years the Office Of the collector
was at Petersburg, but four years ago,
upon the earnest request of the collec
tor, it was changed to Richmond. The
present collector. Col. Brady. however,
contended that the public service
would not suffer by change to the
original location, and as his home is IN
Petersburg, it would be much more
convenient to him. A stamp agency
will be retained at Richmond. The
change will be made about December
l. Congressman Lamb of the Rich.
mond district and Mr.. Shelton of the
Richmond Chamber of Commerce op.
posed the removal, but the pace having
been set by Mr.. Agnew, in the Alex
andria case, Commissioner Forman
very readily acceded to Collector
Brady's reque At for the change.
The Assistant Secretary OF the In
terror decided to-day that the children
of a common Jaw marriage are as much
entitled to pensions as those OF mar.
riages sanctioned by the church and
the statutes.
The fall racing season closed here
to-day. 1t has not been a profitable
one either to the track or the horse
owners.
Robert Scott, son of Mr.. Frank
Hume, Of Alexandria county, has been
elected president of the Southern So
ciety of the University of Yale. Rob
ert graduated at the Episcopal High
School, near Alexandra, and is OF the
graduating elias of '9S at Yale. The
members of the society from the South
number about three hundred, and AL
exandria county is to be congratulated,
through young Hume, for this honor
conferred on one of her citizens.
Col. Brady, collector of the lower
internal revenue district of Virginia,
who is here to-day, having read in the
Gazette that Capt. McCaull, the repub-
lican candidate for Governor of his
State, does not want an office, says he
thinks the Captain, and every other
Virginia republican who, like bin,
doesn't want an Office, should have q
medal.
Congressman Rixey, of the Alexan-
dria, Va, district, accompanied by Mr..
J. E. Clements, of Alexandria county,
called upon the Secretary Of War to-.
day and gave him excellent reasona for
allowing the Secretary of Agriculture
to have the use of half of the unused
Arlington reservation on which to es.
tabish national agricultural ekperi'
M entail station. Secretary Alger seem
9 | pleased with the idea, and after lis
tening a,tentively to all his callers bad
to say, told them he would be glad to
consult Secretary Wilson on the SUBJ
ject. Messrs. Rixey and Clements then
sent to she Agricultural Department
and had a long talk with Secretary
Wilson, who agreed with them in ali
their ideas on the sGhiect, and said if
Congress would authorize MIN, he would
make the proposed station one OF
which the whole country would be
proud, and that no would do all he
could to promote their object. Mr..
Rixey will prepare bill for the pur-
pose and will introduce it as soon after
the meeting of Congress rs possible,
A new counterfeit $40 national hauk
note has been discovered on the Los
Angeles National Bank OF Los Angeles,
Cal. 1t is Photographic production,
printed ON two pieces of paper pasted
together, containing no silk or imita-
ton of it. On the whole the note has
q good appearance.
The Confederate Veterans Association of
this city will visit Alexandria with full ranks
next Tuesday night to attend the fair to be
held there for the benefit of the proposed
Apn Leo Memorial.
TIE BArTIsrs,-The 74th animal