Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-01
Substantial and Aesthetic
Events That Have Mark
ed It's Months. A
Proud Record.

Locally considered the closing year OF
the nineteenth century will probably be re-
garded by the historian who proceeds TO
recount Its grandeur and glories In the
closing days of the one auspiciously COM
menced as the most important in Its ca
reer up to this period The year 1900 has
been replete with those things which lead
% greater ones so far as the District OF
Columbia is concerned.
1t has been very emphati cally marked by
a more general awakening OF popular in
/ terest in the capital city and by more
! certain determination on the part of the
people at large to make the city worthy OF
It's eminent position as the home Of the
government of the greatest of world pow
ers.
In the more limited sense of regarding Its
affairs merely from the standpoint OF I'M
mediate environment the closing year of
the century has been scarcely less impor-
ant TO the District than in the broader re-
/ spot mentioned. Substantially and aesthet-
/ icallv ii has advanced in progress and
beauty.
The first characteristic is shown most
clearly in the new Evening Star building,
the most perfectly equipped newspaper
building in the world and a structure in
every way notable for it's chaste beauty and
impressive proportions. The second is IL
Illustrated by the many emphatic movements
which have for their ultimate purpose the
development of the city's picturesque pos
sibilities along the highest planes attain
able.
Actual accomplishments of things import
ant were many. A board of education was
created to take the place of system that
was widely regarded as inadequate for the
great purpose of juvenile enlightenment
and entered upon its responsible duties
with policy that makes the future ap-
parently free from opportunity for criticism
or antagonism. A board of charities to I'M
dertake The difficult work Of properly con-
Quoting the various eleemosynary institu-
tons and organizations was also created
and is proceeding with its exacting duties
along commendable lines.
Eleven street railway companies and both
electric light corporations were brought I'M
der the single management and control Of
a group of capitalists forming the WASH
ington Traction and Electric Company, and
authority to consolidate the railways thus
secured into single company was given
by Congress. Congress passed bills by
-hich the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
, Ohio railroad companies will be enabled to
establish permanent terminal facilities in
the city and do away with grade crossings.
Steps were taken to secure a filtration
plant for the water supply Of the District.
and very encouraging movement was In
augurated looking to the Improvement OF
the south side of Pennsylvania avenue.
/ The centennial of the removal of the seat
Of national government to Washington was
celebrated in appropriate form, the govern
ors of a number OF the states and terrific
ries of the Union participating in the ex-
/ ercises attendant thereon.
| A sad tragedy marked the close Of the
| year. Samuel Mcdonald killed +. H. Nor
! ris, auditor for the War Department, and
inflicted wounds upon himself from which
| he died a week later.
Accidents.
! January IS the dead body of an unknown
colored man was found in the Baltimore
ed Ohio railroad yards at lexington. Prof
/ H. A. Hazen of the weather bureau was
thrown from his bicycle by the force Of a
collision with pedestrian, on the 22d. and
badly iniureI hat he cd in he,
twenty-four hours thereafter John H
Hawkins, an elderly colored man, was
knocked down by an electric car near his
home on the night of the sd, and died be-
fore the next morning. February 2, Henry
b. Meakins, a retired soldier was founC
dead in bed from the effects of inhaling H.
Illuminating gas while asleep. Three days
| later Thomas NJ Farmer, a brakeman or
| the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, was
Killed in the freight yard at Benning. Feb
ruary IA Nathaniel Simms, a colored baby
aged sixteen months, was choked to deatf
while eating. February Is, Patrick Nc
Manon was accidentally run over by {
train in the yards at Bennng and killed
February Is, James Burke fell from tn,
art he was driving and was run over b,
ne of the wheels and received injurie:
which resulted in his death little later
March the four-year-od daughter O,
Mr. Frederick w. Winter was burned I,
death Earl w. Garrison. aged twent,
months, was burned to death March n,
Doris Padon, an artilieryman stationed a
Z the arsenal, was drowned in the Potoma,
March p. He would have been honora bi,
/ discharged from the service on the ensntns
| Day. April 3 Mason Marstellar was burned
TO death at the home of his parents No
SU3 u street northwest. April 10 j. Clar
/ enee May was knocked down by a Metro
| politan railway car and killed. and on IN,
same day Mrs. NJ. A. Ridgeway was killed
| by a Baltimore and Ohio train at Hyatts
/ VILE. Md On the goth of the same month
I Isaiah Redman, a freight conductor. wa
killed by train in the Baltimore ant
Potomac yards. April 80 Mrs Emma Burk
oied from the effects of falling down
shaft at the Owen House a few DAYS pre
vious- The same day William Carter. col
ored was killed by a Baltimore and OH,