Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-11
ALExAhsRrA
EFFORT TO HAVE DEPOSIT OF GAR
BAGE IN RIVER DISCONTINUED.
Visits Washington for That
PurpOse-InfuenceO of Senator and
Representative Solicited.
Evening Star Bureau.
No. 7O1 King ST..
Bell Telephone, No. JOG,
ALEXANDRIA, Va. May II, 1900.


Bell Telephone, No. 1O6
ALEXANDRIA, Va. May H. 1900.
| Pursuant to resolution recently adopted
| by the city council a committee left here
| this morning to visit Senator Martin and
Representative Rixey to urge them to use
their influence with the District Commits
sioners to have the depositng of garbage
from Washington in the Potomac. near
this city. discontinued. The committee was
composed of Mayor Simpson. and Messrs.
E. E. Lawler and George Appich from the
common council, and Messrs. Thomas Clark
and Jack Sweeney from the board of alder
men.
1t is alleged that barges laden with refuse
from the capital city are brought to the
flats opposite. Alexandria, where their con-
tents produce a stencil, which, during an
east wind. is almost intolerabe in this
city. The matter has become chronic
source of complaint here. and this is the
second committee which has visited Wash
fngton this year in the endeavor to have
the nuisance abated.
Columbia Pulverizing Company.
The Columbia Pulverzing Company of
Washington chartered yesterday by
Judge Norton in the corporation court. The
object of the company is to manufacture
ana sell instruments for crushing and pull
veriZing various minerals. and S20O.0JO is
named the capital stock. divided into
shares of $50 each. The officers are r. b.
Donaldson. president; s. w. Woodward,
vice president NJ. NJ. Parker, treasurer, and
Lewis Boyer, jr.. secretary. These. with
W. II. Hoeke and ]. Hall Lewis. the latter
of Philadelphia, constitute the board of di-
rectors. Col Francis l.. Smith is local
agent.
General Matters.
R. F. Power, employee Of the WASH
s,,Srx
| road sustained serious injuries last night
| by falling from a construction car at Four
Mile Run. He was brought to his home in
| this city, No. 312 South Patrick street.
where physician dressed his wounds. He
was hurt on the back and hip.
A committee consisting of Miss Bessie
Watkins. Miss Lula Smoot and Miss May
Green has been appointed by the Seven
| teenth Virginia Regiment Chapter, U. D.
c.. to assist in the decoration of confeder-
| ate graves Memorial day, the oath instant.
The chapter will hold a meeting next week
and arrange for observing June 3, the
| birthday of the late jefferson Davis.
| The base bali team of the Episcopal High
| School. near this city, will play d game
with the Gallaudet College team on the
| high school grounds tomorrow afternoon
Two Colored prisoners, Henrietta and
Richard Pines, mother and son. were the
! only ones to occupy the dock at Mayor
| Simpsons police court this morning. Rich
| ard was charged with firing a gun at a
colored neighbors house, and in the gen.
| erai fight which resulted Henrietta, it was
alleged. was the aggressor. After hearing
| voluminous evidence, Mayor Simpson dis
missed the woman d.. assessed her son
| $3.50
Mrs. Jane Lovelass. who died yesterday
at the Alexandria Infirmary. buried
| this afternoon from that institution. De-
ceased was eighty years of age and had
been at the infrmary for five years. In
terment was made i'll the Presbyterian
cemetery.
The Alexandria Base Ball Club will
shortly commence the work of inclosing
the old fair grounds. on Upper King street
that the club is in the District League the
management proposes to place a fast team
in the field.