Evening star., 1898-09-28
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Linthicum Institute to Open Doors to Stu
dents as Usual.
Difficulties With Which the Institu.
tiOn Has to COntcnd-General
and Personal News.

1t is announced that, contrary to expec
tatons. Linthicum. Institute will open its
doors this year, as usual, for the recep-
ton of students. The opening will take
place next Monday evening at Z o'clock
For several years the institute has been
badly off for funds. The property through
which it has derived it's revenue for the
payment Of salaries and settlement of in
cidenta expenses consists of a row of
three-story brick buildings at the south
east corner of 29th and P streets. They
have been vacant most of the time for sew
eral years. This so crippled the support
ing fund that the several members of the
school faculty last year consented to con-
tinue the work of the institute for q nomi-
nal salary Mr.. E. B. Hay and others ex-
acting nothing at all. The condition of the
treasury not having improved, the teach
ers rather than have the school closed this
term have rendered their services for the
entire year without compensation. Coupled
with the fact that the supporting property
of the institute has been bringing in prac-
tically nothing, comes now the discovery
that taxes amounting to over 81, 200 have
been levied against 1t, the trustees believ-
ing, like the school building proper, it was
exempt.
Mr.. William A. Gordon, the president Of
the board of trustees. is now trying to
have this 81 .2UO tax Cancelled on the books
of the District. In recent elaborate brief
presented to the Commissioners he out
lined the work the institute is engaged in; ;
the fact that not a dollar of its income is
applied to anything but the support of the
school; that it has educated District boys
free of all cost to the District for twenty
two years; that there is no other night
school in Georgetown, and that it is now
after a score of years embarrassed
financially. that it cannot possibly pay the
tax. He begs that, as the cause is purely
an educational one, no private party bene
fitting, the tax be remitted and the prop
erty as other public educational property,
be declared exempt
The Commissioners referred the matter
to Attorney Thomas of the District, who
reported that it IS not within the power of
the Commissioners to remit this tax, bat
suggesting informally to the petitioner that
Congress be appealed to- Mr. Gordon is
now at work upon a petition to Congress.
and will Use every endeavor to secure IA
vorable legislation.
The Linthcum Institute faculty is at
present composed of Messrs. E. B. Hay,
Edward l.. Dent, Jas. II. Taylor, r. Clinton
Balinger, F. J. Wissner and Nathan WE'LL.
Mr.. Jos. II. Lee and wife Of 1852 N street,
while on their trip to the New Jersey coast,
will attend the golden wedding of Mr.. Lees
parents at Atlantic City, on the Both of
September.
The forty-third annual grand rally Of
Ebenezer A M E. Church, street be-
Sunday, October 2. The following divines
will preach on that occasion: II a.m.,
Bishop ]. ]. Handy of Baltimore. Nd: 3
pm. Rev. E. w. S. Peck, DID, of the
Mount Zion NJ. f. Church; pm. Rev.
Bishop Johnson, DID, of the Second Bap-
tist Church. The choir of each church rep
resented will accompany the visiting PES
tors and take charge of the singing. Rev.
]. ]. Evans is the pastor of EbeneZer.
Mr.. William Scheele and Miss Beatrice
Boyle. niece of Lieut. Boyle were mar
ried this morning at Z o'clock in Trinity
Catholic Church. nuptial mass being cell
ebrate to further solemnize the ceremony.
wedding breakfast followed the we'd
ding