Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette. ]

Washington, D. c., April IL.
Friends of Adjutant General Henry
C. Corbin, who was refused admission
to the membership of the exclusive
Metropolitan Club of this city, are
threatening to endeavor to disrupt that
organization in retaliation for the slight
that has been inflicted upon their COM
rade in arms. A movement is afoot to
persuade all army and navy officers be-
longing to the club to resign in a body.
If such a thing could be brought about,
it would prove a severe blow to the social
status of the Metropolitan. The idea is
derided, however, by those who were
most active in bringing about General
Corbin's discontinue. They say that
no such attempt can succeed, for the
simple reason that it has not the SYM
patty of either army or navy officers.
Although the latter as a rule, from mo-
tives of policy, made no objection to the
election of General Corbin, they have
shown no resentment on account OF his
failure. On the contrary, it is asserted,
that at heart and privately and conf
dentially, many of them were rather
pleased than otherwise, for they them
selves had been sufferers because of the
brusdueness of General Corbin, when
acting in the capacity of an Official SUI
perior.
Leo Cohen, an infant, by his mother
and next friend, Mrs. Rae Cohen, en-
tered suit today against the Capital
Traction Company for the recovery of
the sum of S25, 600 damages, alleged to
have been suffered by the infant on June
4 last, by reason of being run over by a
car belonging to the defendant company.
The declaration sets forth that on the
day referred to the boy was crossing the
tracks of the defendan6 company when
he was struck without warning by a
rapidly moving car, which injured him
to such an extent that he was compelled
to suffer amputation of one of his limbs
and was otherwise seriously and perma-
nently injured.
An appeal in the case of Whitaker
Wright, the English operator recently
arrested in New York, reached the Su-
preme Court of the United States today.
Wright is now in Ludlow street Jail I'M
der an order OF extradition on the charge
of having committed fraud while engag-
ed as director of an English corpora
ton. The Federal Circuit Court, sitting
in New York city, refused to admit
Wright to bail or to issue writ of ha-
beas corpus in his case. The appeal to
the Supreme Court is for the purpose Of
securing Wrights liberty pending the
examination of his books in England.
A motion will be made on Monday to
advance the case.
The light April showers of today did
not interfere materially with the attend
ance at the Benning races, and as those
races will end on Tuesday evening next
the crowds from now on are expected to
be large. The event of today will be
the Southern Hunters steeplechase when
the Chevy Chase Hunt Clubs best sports
men meet the Warrenton, Piedmont and
Pine Ridge Hunt Club men. 1t is esti-
mated that the "bookies" at Benning
yesterday lost more than $50, OOO-fve
heavily played favorites winning
The Comptroller of the Currency today is.
sued a call for statements Of the condition of
national banks at the close of business on
Thursday, April g.
| United States Consul Maxwell, at Santo
Domingo, reports that on the 9th instant the
insurgents were driven into Santo Domingo,
and only the batteries and infantry checked
the advances of the government forces. Firing
continued until the morning Of the 10th and
he says there is still desultory fighting.