Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-17
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Special Meeting of Council Held to Hear
Committees Report.
as to Character of
ments-GenernI and Personal.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 701 King Street.
Bell Telephone, No. JOG.
ALEXANDF

ALEXANDRIA. Va, August II. 1899
At the instance of Aldermen Curtin and
Clark and Councilmen Moore and Kelley,
who constituted committee appointed to
inspect certain gravel used on the streets,
a special meeting of council was held last
evening A complaint had been made that
the gravel placed on Commerce street was
not only of an inferior quality. but positive
ly unhealthy. and at the last meeting OF
council this committee appointed. Fol
lowing is the report in part:
your committee examined thoroughly the
different strata of loan Tin the gravel pit)
and found in what we term the surface
stratum, extending some four or six inches
in depth, sandy loan permeated sparsely
with fine gravel, which sfted as it was re-
moved, showing no adhesiveness, and was,
therefore, in the opinion of your committee,
unfit for the work contemplated. But be-
low this your committee found altogether
a different stratum. running down some SIX
or eight feet, which is compacty studded
with clay. gravel and iron the combination
cementing and forming a substance with
resistance sufficiently strong when properly
used a covering or top dressing to
foundation of broken stone that will prove
irresistible to usage for a long time. The
supply seems inexhaustible. and in the
opinion of your committee no better or
more durable material can be found for the
"tTk DelnS uO1t, anu SOui toiiiiiltNtt "'uih
recommend that your honorable body In
struct your committee on streets to pro-
coed with the work in hand
resolution offered by Mr. Smith for the
appropriation of 5000 with which to COM
piete the work of graveling Gibbon street
from Henry to Washington streets and CO.
lun1bus street from Gibbon to Franklin
streets, was referred to the committee on
streets.
Centennial Observance.
Preparations for the observance of the
che hundredth anniversary of Gen. George
Washington's death are being actively con-
Quoted by the committee of the Grand
Lodge of Masons for the state of Virginia
and by the local lodges. The Masonic OBJ
servances which will take place in this
city and at Mt. Vernon the 18th and 14th
of December next. are being thoroughly
discussed and planned. Judge r. T. w.
Duke, jr., state grand master of Masons,
and Col. X. Kemper of the centennial COM
mittee have examined the various public
halls in the city and decided on the Opera
House the place for holding the sessions
of the state Grand Lodge. which will cover
three days. The first meeting will take
place here December Is at 6 o'clock pm.
Tomorrow night at 7:30 O'Clock meeting
of the joint committees of Andrew Jackson
and Alexandria Washington Lodges Will
be held. when the local part of the pro-
gram will be discussed.
The program virtually settled upon
at a former meeting of the centennial com
mittee opens with the assembling of the
Grand Lodge of the state of Virginia in
this city the 18th of December. Early the
following morning the state Grand Lodge,
accompanied by Lodge No. 1 of Fredericks-
burg, Va, of which General Washington
member; the two local lodges. Fed
eral Lodge of Washington. d. c., and rep
resentative Masons from all over the world,
will proceed to Mt. Vernon, where the
funeral services of December Is. 1899, will
he IuDljcatpd a rV a poSSib1a
Fahey-DOnohue NuptfaIs.
a pretty marriage was celebrated at st.
Marys Catholic Church last evening at 6
o clock. when Miss Kate Donohue of WASH
ington became the bride of Mr.. Michael ].
performed by Rev. H. ]. Cutler. pastor of
st. Nary's. assisted by Rev. Father
OROr~ke, O.P.. of ST. Dominic's Church,
Washington The wedding in this city was
a change of plan for the contracting par
ties, they expected the ceremony to take
place in Washington, until it was learned
that n license could not be procured there,
as the groom was native of Canada. The
party returned to Washington on the 7:15
electric train.
General Matters.
Rumors were circulated here last night,
causing considerable interest, that the
negro who attempted to assault Mrs John
Huuisoh Deau near JdchSon city ndd peen
captured Sheriff Palmer of the county
stated this morning that the report was
entirely groundless. as, so far as he was
advised, the fugitive had not been seen by
officers of the law up to that time. The
sheriff expressed the belief that the man is
still in hiding in the county, and would be
apprehended in the near future.
Beverly Diggs. the colored man who was
terribly injured recently by being struck
by train on the Washington Southern
railroad, is resting easily at the Alexandria
Infirmary. He is expected to recover.
The District Lodge of Good Templars,
which embraces the lodges of Prince Will
liam, FAN fax and Alexandria, will meet
with Enterprise Lodge Saturday next at
Ida, Fairfax county.
Rev J. H. Butler of the First Baptist
Church is in Loudoun county near Round
Hill in attendance on the Baptist Assoca
ton for this section.