The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-21
FISHING INTHE POTOMAC
QUEsIiOA or ,OBHLE STOhES
1OBE IN ELECIJON IsSUE.
Prof. Leo Wheat ana Capt. Frank Guns
ningham Give Alexandrians SONGS
thing to Talk About.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, March @.-Spe-
cial.-Tne .shlng season Is now on ana
in a week or SO Fishtown will be In iuiI
blast, and begin TO ''smep to heaven.
This Industry is no longer what it once
was hereabouts. Comparatively little ish
f. now hacked here, yet true disciples oil
Eblcures declare the Potomac herring
to be still good. and as good as ever they
were. Some people, however, don't Ike
herring. and there are others who soon
get tired OF herring, just the same as
other things.
There are also other fish In the To-
tomac as well. Some mighty tine shad'
for instance. but these are just beginning
In run. Some schools down IN tiotlu"
have only Just begun their vacation soon
they will be up off the city. and ny every
hoy with a drag net Will be nahheu over
tho town-nlce ones "Only ten cents or
three Tor 4 quarter
Thursday evening an electric falh id',
into a fix, containing a coloreu man az"
woman, at the head Of King street. near
Hooff's Run. The pair were BABY pruls.u
up. the fix demolished, and the morse
leg broken. This IS fatal spot. Inc
town authorities have just begun to rene
dy it by extending Prince street.
A QUESTION OF STREETS.
Ut IS said that the May election Will
have for a factor general street improve
ments This is a much-neded thing YET
there IS doubt as TO whether II IS pest
TO begin such at this time or not. Most
OF the streets of Alexandria are paved.
The paving IS largely of cobDlestones ana
boulders. that were put down as far back
as General Washington's day. Some of
these, when dug around require three OF
four men to pry up and lift out.
The Federal troops paved one street
here during the war from funds collected
by fines and taxes on ardent spirits. The
bicyclers cannot stand the cobbleStones'
and to a man will vote FOR the candidate
opposed TO them used I'm paving hereafter.
Strangers who come here and get I'm
fix 10 be ratified over these cobblestones
and boulders, like Muldoon I'm the gravity
car want 10 get ont. Some want layer
OF oyster shells spread over the stones. as
they are now; others want asphaltum,
some vitriied brick. and others Belgian
block: while the average town cornell
man seems TO want the streets let So
renely alone and be patched up only as
they long have been.
MUSICAL STARS.
The Johns Hopkins Glee. Banjo and Nan
dolin Clubs gave an excellent concert
here recently. Last Sunday Miss B0udin,
OF Baltimore, visiting friends here, sang
I'm Christ church. and Professor Leo
Wheat. happening TO come in at the same
service. was invited TO play the occasional
That afternoon, at Mrs. Marbury's fu-
neral, Captain Frank Cunningham, ~
Richmond, who was also in town. sang
that beautiful masterpiece, Good Night,
and these things became the talk Of the
town.
The Presbyterians are now seriously
thinking Of calling a regular pastor TO
the Second church, recently minisf'red
10 by the Rev. Theron Rice. There are
several ministers spoken Of The salary
has not yet been decided on. Mr.. Rice
was given $1,000 and a house.
il is believed that tie call will be ex-
tended 20 Rev. Mr.. Thacker, Of Lsuis-
vile. Ky. a young man OF about twenty
seven. but the sermons OF Rev. Dr. VIII
liam G. Campbell. OF Roanoke, last Sun
day. lead many to believe that II he will
come here this selection would be far
the best. The Presbyterians here now
form but one congregation. The old
First church IS no longer ten
antcd--the main reason for this
given IS 10 the effect that IL
Is too far down town This con-
greeation was formed about 1850. and until
few years ago kept up a regular or
ganzati0n.