Evening star., 1904-03-23
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
BUSINESS TRANSACTED BY CITY
COUNCIL LAST NIGHT.
Finance Committee Recommends a
Number of Appropriations
eral and Personal News.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March %, 1904.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Lead
beater in the city council last evening, at
| the regular semi-monthly meeting of that
body, directing the city engineer and the
committee ON streets to prepare plans for
! the improvement of the roadway on Wash
| ington street, and providing for the calling
| OF meeting of property owners directly
| interested to discuss the matter. Speak
! ing on the resolution, Mr.. Leadbeater said
| he believed that there is a decided senti-
| ment in favor of some improvement in the
| roadway of Washington street. The mat
| ter was referred for report to the street
committee, of which Mr.. Leadbeater is
| chairman.
A favorable report was received from the
| finance committee on bills amounting to
| $49S. incurred by the health department.
and the report was adopted. A resolution
| approprlatlng $60 for repairs to the fish
| wharf was reported favoraply and adopted.
A resolution was presented by the street
| committee directing the city engineer to
| prepare plans for a sewer under Washing
| ton, Oronoco and Pendleton streets, con-
Meeting with the Pitt street sewer, and
recommending the appropriation of ST. so
| for the construction. 1t was placed In the
| hands of the joint committee on streets and
hnance. The ordinance providing for gate
men at railroad crossings was taken up
and amended so as to require the Washing
| ton Southern Railroad Company to keep
| gateman at the crossing at Duke and
Fayette streets at all hours of the day on
and after April 1. penalty was fixed at
fine of from IS to SO per day for failure
to comply.
Appropriations Recommended.
The finance committee recommended the
following additional appropriations on de-
ficiencies pointed out in the report of the
city auditor: Street cleaning, $1,000: sala-
ries $40; chain gang, $3.50; poor house,
500; outdoor poor, $3.50: fire department,
$1,000; fire plugs, 500; electric lights, s4OO;
courts and Jail, $500; lunacy commission,
$50; coroner's inquests $50. A resolution in
troduced by Mr.. Brill imposing a tax of
$2OO year on any person or corporation Of
fer1ng trading stamps for sale In the city
and $50 year on any local merchant u.s.
ing such stamps was referred to the finance
committee. petition was received FROM
the Friendship Fire Engine Company ask
ing that the lot on which the engine house
was built be conveyed to the company. 1t
was referred to the joint committee on
finance and public property.
General Matters.
The case of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company against the First National
Band of this city. which was appealed from
the Alexandria court, was argued and SUBJ
mitted in the state supreme court at Rich
mond yesterday. Attorney James r. Cation
made the argument for the appellant and
Attorney John NJ. Johnson for the appellee
both of this city.
Funeral services over the remains of Hen
ry Schultz, whose death occurred Sunday,
took place this morning at st. Mary's
Catholic Church, Rev. Father H. J. Cutler
officiating. The interment was made in St.
Mary's cemetery.
The James w. Jackson Council, Junior
Order United American Mechanics, has ar
ranged to give a smoker this evening in
Pythian Hall on North Pitt street
The remains of Mrs. Helen v. Roberts
whose death occurred in Washington, have
been brought here for interment. The fu-
neral will take place tomorrow afternoon
from Grace Episcopal Church Mrs. Rob-
erts formerly resided in Alexandria ana
was well known here.