Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
OBJECTIONS TO METHOD OF WIR-
ING FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Mayor to Give Matter Consideration
Marriage of Miss Nourse and
MI. Myers.
Evening Star Bureau,
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ALEXANDRIA, Va, November IS, 1902.
The representatives of several insurance
companies doing business in Alexandra
have entered formal complaint with Mayor
Simpson against the present method OF
placing electric wires in buildings for light
ing. The agents have threatened to cancel
a number of policies unless some change IS
made in the system of granting permission
for electric lights and the manner in which
the wires are strung, claiming that the
presence of the wires as they are now put
up increases the probability of fires. Mayor
Simpson has given the matter attention,
and it is likely that he will express his
views in communication to council at the
next meeting of that body.
Recently council granted local merchant
permission to use the wires of the electric
railroad for current of electricity at his
place of business, with the agreement that
his gas bill would not suffer thereby This
provision was made because the city owns
the gas plant. Other petitions of a like ma
ture have also received favorable attention
from council
Married at High Noon.
The marriage Of Miss Edith Holmes
Nourse daughter of Rev. and Mrs. James
Michael Nourse, and Dr. Jesse Sidwell
Myers of Westminster, Md, took place at
noon today at the residence Of the brides
parents on Braddock Heights near this city.
The ceremony was performed by the father
of the bride In the presence of relatives OF
the two families from New Jersey, Phlladel-
phia Baltimore and Washington. 1t was
a quiet affair there being no best man and
no attendants to the bride. Shortly after
the marriage DR.. and Mrs. Myers left for
an extended northern tour. They will re-
side in Westminster, Md.
General and Personal.
The members of the Seventeenth Regf-
ment Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, and other southern organiza-
tons will be addressed this evening in the
opera house by Mr.. Ambrose Macneil.
Scottish orator. His subject will be "A
Legacy of Honor" 1t is the expectation
of the Daughters of the Confederacy that
many members of the southern societies III
Washington will attend.
The marriage of Miss Marian Chalmers
daughter of Mrs. Lillian T. Chalmers OF
219 South Alfred street, and MI william
Bryant will take place tomorrow evening at
St Paurs Episcopal Church instead OF at
the home of the brdeelect, as was mad
yertently stated. The ceremony will be
performed by Rev. P. P. Phillips, the rector.
A reception will follow at Mrs. Chalmers
home.
Judge j. K NJ. Norton of the corporation
court has entered decree appointing Barry
Buckley of Washington administrator of the
estate of the late Milton M. Wheat.
Mr. w. F. Lambert has returned from
New Orleans, where he attended the con-
vention of the American Bankers Associa-
ton.
Mr.. L. R. Washington has resigned his
clerical position in the local transportation
department of the Southern railroad and
will go to Bloomington. H., where he has
secured position on the Chicago and Alton
railroad.