Evening star., 1902-04-19
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
TRAVELLERS PROTECTIVE ASSO-
CITATION TO MEET FRIDAY.
Large Number of Delegates Expected
Thomas Fisher a Candidate for
Police Commissioner.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 701 King st.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 10, 1902.
Between seventy-five and a hundred del
egates are expected to attend the annual
state convention of the Travellers Protec-
tive Association, which will convene Friday
morning at 10 o'clock, the 25th instant in
the rooms of the Business Mems League,
corner of King and Washington streets
The cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Dam
vile, Norfolk and Alexandria will be rep
resented The address of welcome will be
delivered by Mayor George l.. Simpson, and
Col j. s. Harwood of Richmond will speak
In response. After prayer by the chaplain
the business session will be opened.
AT $50 pm. banquet will be served In
McBurney's Hall. The representatives in
Congress from the districts in which the
cities above mentioned are situated, have
been invited. Representative Lamb of
Richmond and Representative Rixey of this
district have signified their intention of
attending, and it is expected that the
others will attend also.
Ihe program for Saturday includes a
business meeting from 9:30, until noon
luncheon in banquet hall at AS pm. and
later an excursion to Mount Vernon and
Arlington Returning to Alexadria about
o'clock the delegates will leave for their
respective homes.
Mr.. Fisher in the Field.
Mr.. Thomas Fisher, well-known resi-
dent of the third ward, will be a candidate
for member of the board of police commits
sioners at the election this summer The
four-year term of Capt Herbert Bryant,
the present representative of the third
ward, will expire this year. 1t is not gen
orally known whether or not Captain Bry-
ant will be candidate for reelection
Mr.. Fisher has been a prominent local
democrat for years. Although he has been
recognized as party leader of influence, he
mas never before been candidate for office.
Ihe election will take place in the city
council next July
Officers Elected.
The following officers have been elected
for the ensuing year by the Seventeenth
Virginia Regiment Chapter, United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy: Mrs Frank ].
Brooke, president; Mrs. Thomas Perry, first
vice president; Mrs. A. E. Smoot second
vice president; Miss Lula Smoot, recording
secretary; Mrs A G. Wyckoff treasurer;
MISS Colquhoun, corresponding secretary;
MISS Lunt, registrar and Mrs w. A.
Smoot historian Owing to the inability of
the president-elect to serve at present Mrs.
w. A. Smoot, the retiring president, will
discharge the duties of that office until
June.
General Matters.
A meeting of the joint committee of
hnance and public property will be held
next Thursday night, when some action
will be taken in regard to the repairs need
ed at the city Jail. The matter came up
for consideration Thursday night last, but
1t was deferred until the report Of the jail
inspectors will have been received.
DR.. John S. Powell, state surgeon of the
confederate veterans, left here yesterday
for Dallas, Tex, where he will attend the
reunion of confederate veterans as one Of
the delegates from Virginia.
The Episcopal High School base ball team
and the Emerson Institute team of Wash
ington will play off their tie this afternoon
at the high school grounds. When the
teams met earlier in the season the score
was u to II.
An entertainment was held at the opera
house last evening under the auspices of
Golden Light Lodge, No. 337, Good
Templars, in which several Washington
singers and number of well-known Alex
andrianS took part.
In the police court this morning E c. At
well, James Wade, Harry Davis, French
Jones and William Whalen, jr., were before
Mayor Simpson on the charge Of destroying
private property. They were fined 50 each
A meeting of the Catholic Benevolent
Legion will be held tomorrow afternoon at
80 o'clock in st. Mary's Hall.