Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-26
ALEXANDRIA COUNTY NEWS.
Grading Of Railway Roadbed Nearly
Completed-The County Election.

The corps of engineers which has been
at work for the past two weeks placing the
last stakes for the grading of the roadbed
for the Great Falls and Old Dominion rail
way finished its work Saturday and the
contract will be let at once for the con-
struction of a double track electric road
from the Aqueduct bridge to the Great
Falls The work is to be rushed so as to De
we'll under way before Congress convenes.
The attorneys for the road, accompanied
by Mr.. G. w. Boteler and a notary, are to-
day having the last few deeds to the rights
of way executed.
For the construction of the new public
road in Washington district running from
near the brewery westward to the Dawson
property, Mr.. Jacob Birch was the only
bidder. The county court, which meets
Monday, will be asked to order the con-
struction of the road at once. SO that it can
be completed before freezing weather.
Another attempt was made recently by
the property owners and residents of st.
Elmo and Del Ray to prevail upon the Off
Gals Of the Mt. Vernon electric railway to
reduce the rate of fare between those subdi-
visions and Washington. 1t is said the Of
ficials of, the railway made the same state
ment that was made year ago, to the eff
feet that any reduction of fare would be
taken advantage of by the patrons of the
pool room at st. ASaph's, and as the pa
tronage and travel to and from that resort
is very large the officials of the road de-
cine to reduce the rate. The residents in
til neighborhood of the pool room say they
al thus brought face to face with another
70 rm of injury, due to the presence of the
pool room, to say nothing of the damage to
pi Operty and to the rep utatiOn of AleXan-
drIa county. Notwithstanding that the
court of appeals of Virginia, In the case OF
Lacy against Palmer. ninety-first Virginia
re ports. decided that this pool room was
r1aSs ha oil 10 nf
the state, it is alleged that 1t has been rum
ming ever since open and notorfousiy, and
that 1t is frequented by certain county Of
ficials, some of whom are candidates for
reelection to Office.
The nearness of the election has caused
the gamblers to bury their differences. it is
said, and the war that was raging for sew
eral months between the two factions of
the sporting fraternity has ended The
gamblers are now fighting as a unit for
their candidate for the office of attorney for
the commonwealth. and there is said to be
no scarcity of money among the political
heelers of the gambling element and will be
no scarcity on election day, notwithstand-
ing the drastic provisions of the Barksdale
election law, passed at the last session of
the legislature. There Is a feeling among the
people of Alexandria county that the legis-
lature should make the keeping of a gam
bling house felony. Confidence is express
ed that the candidate of the anti-gambling
element for the office of commonwealth
attorney will be elected by an overwhelm-
ing majority at the coming election, that he
will carry Washington and Arlington dis
tricts by majorities never before known III
county politics and will more than hold a
plurality in Jefferson district.
Mr.. Henry Lockwood of the Washington
Gas Light Company is having built a very
handsome and substantial home at Claren-
DON s. M. Dodd is the builder. Mr.. Lock-
wood will establish his permanent home in
Alexandria county.
The large house being built by Mrs. WOLF
on the Military road near Fort Myer will be
used by her for business purposes. The
contractors, Rotchford & Clark. expect 10
complete the same by December 1, when
Mrs WOLF will rent her present place of
business as dwelling.
Surgeon General Rixey, Dr. Taber John
son. Mr. George N. Saegmuller and many
other prominent residents of the county
have set November / as the day when they
win move into the city for the winter