Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-04
AT AlRS.IN ALEXANDRA
The City Council Will Meet Next Monday
Evening.
Mayor Simpsons Decision to With
preparations to BE Considered.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 701 King Street,
Bell Telephone. No, 1O3,

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| ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 4, 1899.
| A special meeting of the city council will
( doubtless be called for next Monday even
| ing. Business of interest will then be laid
! before that body Mayor Simpsons de-
| cision to withhold his approval of the vari-
! Gus street Improvement appropriations re-
! Gently voted will be considered. 1t is also
| highly probable that Health officer Julian
T. Miller will call attention to an important
| matter. He has made two unsuccessful
attempts to convene the board of health
| for the purpose of considering sanitary
| conditions and the existence of yellow
| fever in Virginia. DIR. Miller stated to a
| Star reporter this morning that he would
make one more effort, and if that failed he
would recommend to the council the dis
missal of the entire board, and the election
| of new one. He saw no use, he said, in
| having a board unwilling to perform its
proper functions. DR.. Miller will attempt
| to convene the board some time this after
neon.
Another question for the council to con-
slider is an alleged nuisance on Cameron
street, on which a twenty-foot roadway is
being graveled between West and Payne
streets. Residents complained to the po-
lice of sickening odor arising, apparently
from the newly laid earth. Last evening
Oficer spinks secured a sample of this
earth and exhibited 1t to Acting City En-
gineer Corse and Mayor Simpson. AS sew
Il
en- out in this neighborhood Mayor Simpson
will advise an investigation.
Local Political Contest.
Interest in the local contest for a seat in
the house of delegates grows more intense
as the time for holding the primary, the
10Th instant, draws near AS before stated,
the fight is between Mr.. James r. Cation of
this city and Mr.. Frank Hume of Alexan-
dria county. Other names have been prom
inently spoken of in this connection, but
there is no doubt these two gentlemen will
divide the vote. Mr.. Hume has establish
ed headquarters in town and has made
active canvass. His supporters express
confidence in his success. Mr.. Cation has
canvassed the city and will probably can
vass the county next week. 1t is stated
| that political mass meetings will be held at
various places in the county, when the OPP
posing candidates and their supporters will
discuss the leading questions of the cam
paiSn. Whoever carries the city by a
considerable majority will doubtless win,
Tor the relative democratic strength of
Alexandria city to the county is said to be
five to one. Friends of Mr.. Cation predict
for him an easy success.
School Board Meeting.
The August meeting of the school board
was held last evening in Peabody Hall,
when the annual report of the clerk was
received. All of the teachers and janitors
who served last session were reelected to
their respective positions. The salary of
Capt. w. H. Sweeney, teacher in Wash
iEgton School, was increased from $50 to
$40 per month. Titles TO the two colored
school houses, Halowel and Snowden.
We're received. 1t was decided to open the
schools September 4.
General Matters.
Mayor Simpson heard the following cases
in the police court today: James Lewis,
colored, charged with being drunk and dis
orderly, was dismissed; Mamie Muligan,
charged with disturbing the peace with
boisterous language, was also dismissed;
Augustus Robinson, Edward Naples and
Alexander Nightingale, all small boys,
charged with disorderly conduct, were fined
$50 each, and in default were sent to the
workhouse for thirty days; Ambrose Coran
forfeited collateral on a charge of disorder
ly conduct.
The Mattcr-ButIer wedding.
The First Baptist Church, on Washington
street, was the scene of a pretty marriage
last evening, the contracting parties being
Miss Effie Matter, daughter of Mrs. Sarah
Matter, and Mr.. William II. Butler we'll
known young resident of this city Rev. j.
H. Butler, father of the groom, performed
the ceremony, which was witnessed by
many friends of the couple A reception
followed at the home of the brides mother,
on South Patrick street Mr. and Mrs. But
Ter will reside here.
The Alexandria base ball team defeated
a team from Falls Church on the old fair
grounds yesterday evening by a score of
Superintendent X. Kemper today COM
pieted the examinations for public school
teachers.