Evening star., 1897-02-22
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Celebration Of Waahingaon's Birthday
Down the River.
The Mayor Objects to RepoFters-
Local Notes Of General and
Personal Interest,
EVENING STAR BUREAU.
No. 121 N. Washington street.
Telephone 1ffi

EVENING STAR BUREAU.
No. 121 N Washington street.
Telephone 116
ALEXANDRIA. Va, February p, 1897.
An exciting scene occurred at police head
quarters Saturday evening. the partici-
pants being Mr.. w. H F. Beekham. the
representative of the Star. and the mayor.
the upshot Of the matter being that Mr..
Beckham was ordered out of headquarters,
and orders issued by the mayor to the ef-
feet that he was not to be allowed to enter
the building. whether as the representative
OF a paper or in any capacity.
Mr.. Beckham has been In the habit Of
sending messenger to headquarters for
any news that might be on hand. Saturday
evening the messenger was sent, as usual,
and was Received and treated in a friendly
manner by the mayor until the latter was
shown the article published in Saturdays
the moral crusade. After he had seen this
article he left his private Office where he
mad just been trying a case. and, going
down stairs, ordered the messenger out Of
the building. telling him that he knew en-
tlreiy too much. and that he proposed to
run that headquarters to suit himself
Mr. Beckham then repaired to headquar-
ters. and IN the end met similar fate.
MT Beckham was told by the mayor that
ne knew entirely too much about the in
side workings of the municipal govern
ment and that he the mayor) would run
that office to suit his own fancy Mr.
Beckham then told him, upon being in
formed that he would be allowed to send
no messengers to headquarters, that he
would comply with the order. but he told
the mayor that If he did believe that off,
c1al would take advantage Of his official
position to punish him for contempt he
would tell him just what he thought of
nlm IN plain English. With that Mr.
Beckham was elected from the building.
subsequently he was told by the officer on
duty that he would not be allowed to again
enter the building
Yesterday morning Mr. Beckham went tn
the station house to attend to his reer1lar
dutfes. He fully expected to be arrested
Out mad made up his mind if such action
wa was taken to thoroughly ventilate the mat
however. and while there met the mavor
ne told the latter at once that he intend
eo TO visit the station house whenever be
pieaned p s,1 IN the pursuit of his business, and
& ne 9iu not propose to obey any orders is
sueo against his going there The mayor
then told him that the order had been
% reSclnded and he would be allowed to visit
poLce headquarters when he pleased
Inc Alexandria Light Infantry ,,ndsr
co command of Lieut.. Bryan. headed by the
Inlru regiment Drum Corps, paraded the
streets at noon today.
Lieut.. Bryan in Charge.
Lieut. Albert Bryan Of the Alexandria
Light infantry has received general order
NO. 3 from Col. Nalle of the Sd Virginia
regiment setting forth that Capt. G. A.
Mushbach had been retired by request and
the resignation of Lieut.. Monroe had been
accepted by the governor. This places Lien
tenant Bryan In charge of the company. and
ne Is ordered to have an election to fill the
vacancies as soon as he may see fit The
aate OF election has not yet been fixed,
put. as stated in The Star some time ago
Lieut. Bryan will without doubt be elected
captain of the company.
The general order No. speaks In the
highest terms of the retiring officers Cant
Mushbach and Lieut.. Monroe
Church Services Yesterday.
The beautiful spring weather of yesterday
morning brought out large crowds of peo-
pie and the congregations at the various
churches W ere larger than usual. Rev G.
A. Wilson preached morning and evening at
the Second Presbyterian Church. In all
Inc other churches resident rectors ofici-
ated The holy eucharist was celebra led at
st. Pauls Church at 7:3O am, and a, Grace
Church at IL o'clock. The services at the
railroad reading rooms Yesterday afternoon
We're very interesting and largely attended
Yesterday afternoon Rev. F. r. Benson of
the NJ +. Church preached the third of his
series OF sermons. Topics of the Times"
The subject was Modern Shibboleths."
The 22d Quietly Observed.
The 22d Of February which in former
times was gala day in this city, was to-
day observed very quietly. All the govern
ment offices. banks and post offices were
closed and some of the business houses
closed up after noon. Tonight the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics will
honor the day by giving a banquet at Odd
Fellows Hail. on North Columbus street.
The Young Mems Sodality Lyceum will
give an oyster roast tonight. There will be
special meeting of Alexandria Washing-
ton Lodge. No. % A. F. and A. NJ of
which Washington was member and
master. ~
DR.. Grammar's Grafton
Rev. c. E. Grammar of the Theological
Seminary. well known for his eloouence
and ability. today delivered an interesting
Grafton in Whittle Hall. at the seminary
ihere was quite large audience present
though the fnclemeDt weather of this morn.
ing kept many from this city away Who
had arranged to attend
The Fishing Season.
The fishing season has opened, and AL
ready some very nice catches have been
MADE The season opened little earlier
IMAM usual on account of the past winter
having been so open and the river SO free
OF Ice. So far none OF the fish houses at
Fish Town have been rebuilt. and it ia