Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-15
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
CIRCUMSTANCES INTERFERE WITH
USEFULNESS OF TOWN CLOCK.
Nobody Charged with Duty Of Keep
ing 1t in Order-GeneraI
and Personal.
Evening Star Bureau.
No. T01 King st.
Bell Telephone No. lO6.

sEXANDRIA, Va. July L. 1901.
A peculiar set of circumstances has re-
Gently interfered somewhat with the use
f,lness of the town clock. The tower was
dark last night until o'clock. when citi-
zenS complained at the station house. and
Lieutenant Smith took the matter in hand
and had the face of the clock Illuminated,
as usual. There is trouble over the aues-
ton of whose duty 1t is now to attend to
the timepiece. At a recent meeting OF the
city council it was stated that the janitor
Of city offices had been lighting and wind
ing the apparatus without extra compen-
sation salary of sIO5 per annum. it
was pointed out. was being paid TO Charles
Adams, a jeweler. to perform the duties
of keeper of the clock. Finally council
abolished this office and imposed the duties
Of winding and lighting the clock upon the
janitor. additional appropriation for
these services being made. The resolution
will not go into effect until August l..
when the present janitor, ]. Chris GIL. will
be succeeded by William Craven. AS there
is no compensation provided for the duties
at this time the present janitor 1t is said.
cannot be required to discharge them
Last week the clock ran down and re-
manned out of service nearly twelve hours.
The unsettled condition of affairs has oc-
casioned considerable annoyance to citi-
ZCnS.
Funeral of Thomas LannOn.
The funeral OF Thomas Lannon. who died
Saturday afternoon. will take place tomor-
row morning at o'clock from his late res
idence. corner of Pitt and Cameron streets,
after which high mass will be said at St
Mary's Catholic Church. The wife and five
children of the deceased survive him. The
children are Mrs Ephraim Adams of VIII
mington, Del: Mrs. James p. Quinn. Miss
Dorothy Lannon and Mr.. John Iannon of
this city and Mr.. Thomas Lannon. jr. Of
Washington. Deceased was in the sixty
first year of his age. He was born in Ire
land, but came to this city early in life. For
the past twenty-five years he has been well
known as local grocer. having conducted
store at the corner of Cameron and Pitt
streets. The illness preceding his death
was brief.
General Matters.
The board of directors having in charge
the annual horse show at Manassas has
decided to postpone the event this year I'M
til September II and IL.
Acting Mayor Paff presided at this morn
ing's session of the police court. Joseph
Pollard. colored. was before the court on
the charge of assaulting Daisy Lee. Joseph
was assessed 81
Commissioner of Revenue Callahan has
forwarded to the state auditor the semi
annual report for this city of licenses coll
lected up to July l. The total for mer-
chants and liquor licenses was Si6:s3210
The July term of the corporation court
Tor the trial Of criminal cases, Judge ]. X
NJ Norton presiding, opened this morning
at II CLOCK. The several cases on the
docket are of minor interest
flnai arrangements have been made by
the Alexandria Light Infantry for the ex-
curslon OF the company tomorrow to River
view. The money raised on :he trip will
be appropriated toward dcfraying the ex-
pehses or the command Turing it's annual
taxxy h.
part Of this month
Messrs. j. Sidney Douglass and A. E.
Smoot left here Saturday night or the
steamer Dennis Simmons as guests of Can
tain Joseph Simmons. for a TIP along the
seaboard Of North Carolina
Mr.. James Marvin Brannin has gone to
his former home near Brandy Cuineper
county, to spend the remand er Of the sum-
mer.
Miss Lucy Douglas left Saturday to visit
friends in Leesburg. Loudoun county.
Miss Purifee Walker is spending a month
at the home of her father at Lfgnum. Gull
pepper county