Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-12
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
The 11lth Year of the University Begins
Tomorrow.
Annual Opening of the College and
Preparatory OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
and Personal News.

| Inc annual opening VI STtuISeto"h ohi"
versity, at the beginning Of the 111th year
| of the institution, will occur tomorrow
morning, and the usual custom will be OBJ
| served. A solemn high mass of the Holy
Ghost will be celebrated at o'clock in the
Dahlgren Memorial Chapel, at which Rev.
| John D. Whitney, 8. J., the rector of the
university, will be the celebrant. Rev. John
| H. ORourke, 8. j., of Frederick, Md, will
| deliver the annual sermon to the students.
The music for the mass will be exception
ally good, and will be rendered by ex-
clusively male choir. Mr.. George Herbert
Wells will be the organist for the occasion.
| The choir will be composed of the scholas-
| tics of the Society of Jesus attached to the
| university, assisted by Messrs. Gilbert Can
non, James Nolan, Edward Craig, Arthur
| Kenna, Edward Buckley, Bernard Ryan,
| Carl Reidt, William Mcfarland, E. j. Bra
| dy and A. S. Worthington. At the conclu-
| sion of the services in the chapel the stu
| dents will reassemble in the Castor Mem
orial Hall, where the marks of the last year
| will be announced, and the ass gnment to
| classes made In the afternoon the stu
| dents will assemble in the different class
rooms, the time to be spent in forming the
! acquaintance of each other and of their In
Structors.
| The opening tomorrow will be only for
| the college and preparatory departments.
The postgraduate course will not open for
several weeks. The faculty of the school is
almost identically the same as last season.
only one or TWO changes having been made
| in the annual orders of the provincial of the
society for the New Iork-Maryland prov
| ince.
! This year is the first since the change n
| the hours of holding class. The studies will
commence each day at S:i5 o'clock in the
morning and continue until noon. half
| hour for recreation will be given, and from
1890 until 1 o'clock will be devoted to
stuuy, with class work again from l to )
pm. Heretofore the students have had
class from $40 to II o'clock, from which
ttyr,n to N ~
lowed by an hour and half of study with
classes forming at } o'clock and continuing
until . o'clock. The change will be greatly
appreciated by the students.
improvements Made.
The annual renovations have been made
during the vacation months, and every
| thing is in readiness for the reception of
| students Many of the students arrived to-
| day. and tomorrow morning a much larger
| number is expected. There will be arrivals
| all of this week, and by next week the
students will have settled down to hard
work for the fall and winter.
Ihe handsome stone entrances have been
completed, and they almost completely
change the appearance of the front of the
main building. A collection of books. en-
cravings, china, pictures and other articles
valued at $4,000 is on exhibition in the
north building. The collection is the gift
of Mrs. l.. Beauchamp Hughes, who gath
cred the spt cimens during many trips made
through the principal countries of the con-
tinent.
The frescoing in the Dahlgren Memorial
Chapel is not quite completed, but the
scaffolding will be removed for the services
tomorrow.
Rock Creek Improvements.
The improvement of the Rock creek wa
terway, which is urged by the Georgetown
| Citizens Association, upon suggestions
| made by Mr.. Henry B. LOCKER, consists in
| the building of retaining walls, with pro-
| vision for electric railroad on one side
and a driveway and footwalk on the other
| side of the stream. This is regarded as the
most practical and most beautiful means
of approach to the parks, and the plan pro-
| vides for transfer stations at the NJ street
and p street bridges. These suggestions
We're made by Mr. LOCKER to the Washing
ton board of trade, on the latters invita-
| ton. over eight years ago, some time be-
fore he was appointed surveyor of the Dis
| trict. The subject is now in the hands of
| capt. Lansing II. Beach, and Mr. LOCKER
| has official connection with the present
| plans for the Improvement.
Progress on Electric Roads.
The work of laying the rails for the
| Georgetown and Tenleytown railroad is
| rapidly progressing. The contractor Mr..
! White. has a force of men working in Ten
| leytown. from the District line south and
| has covered almost to the Brook
| vile read. In Georgetown a force of men
! are employed in laying a track from P
| street north to L street. The grading on
| the Great Falls road is almost completed,
| and it is expected the rails will be laid by
| the fore part of next week, completing the
double track for the entire distance.
General Mention.
| Mr.. James During and Mr.. William
| Spates, who have been at Atlantic City for
several weeks, have gone to Blue Ridge,
| Md, where they expect to remain for two
| weeks.
Charles Cutsail, the twenty six-year-old
| son of Mr.. Charles Cutsail. died yesterday
evening at the home of his father in the
| county. The funeral will be held tomorrow
| afternoon at o'clock, from Bethesda
| Church, Montgomery county
Mr.. Robert Lowe has signed this season
| to play the leading part in Frohman' s
| Secret Service" which will shortly be put
| on the road. The play Is now being re-
| hearsed in New York city.