Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS
WEST END PROPOSES SUCCESSOR
TO LIEUT.. JORDAN.
Pleasing Entertainment Last Night by
Cathedral School for Girls-Work-
man Seriously Injured.

The retireme of Lieut.. w. w. Jordan
as commander of the seventh precinct po-
lice station has quite naturally forced into
prominence several men as possible success
sors. A number of officers are being urged
and the friends of these gentlemen are
working strenuously to have their favorites
rewarded. The office is appointive and does
not become vacant until the retirement of
the present lieutenant is made effective.
There appears to be a unanimity of senti-
ment among the residents of both George
town and Tenleytown and the sections west
of Rock creek for the promotion of Sergt.
Henry Schneider of the seventh precinct to
the lieutenancy. He has been connected
with the precinct, it is said, for fifteen
years. and is a resident and property
owner of Georgetown. He is spoken of as
courteous and efficient officer in the dis
charge of his duty and it is claimed would
fill the office acceptably. He is compare
lively young man and is in no way dis
posed to further his own claims preferring
to stand upon his record for whatever pro-
motion may be given him.
Sergt. Schneider was Endorsed at the
meeting of the Northwest Suburban Asso-
citation Friday evening in Tenleytown and
his past service in connection with the
metropolitan police department was warmly
commended. number of representative
citizens of the west end, particularly bust
ness men and merchants are laboring to
secure his promotion because it is said,
Georgetown has never furnished a lleuten-
ant for the local station. Committees of citi-
zens have been appointed to appear before
the Commissioners to urge that the appoint
ment be given to Schneider, and have been
instructed to urge that promotions from the
ranks of the privates which will result from
the retirement of several older men now IN
the harness be conferred upon local officers.
Cathedral School Program.
One of the most pleasing events of the
season at the Cathedral School for Girls,
Tenleytown road, was the presentation last
evening of LAS You Like It." under the
auspices of the senior class. The enter
tainment took place in the auditorium of
the school, which was tastefully decorated
with ferns, Smilax and cut flowers. A large
audience. including the friends and ac-
quai1tances of the college girls, was pres
ent and applauded the efforts of the per-
formers.
Miss Anna Bourke, Miss Doubleday, Miss
Kathleen Bradley, Miss Helen Proctor,
Mss Ida w. Patch, Miss Esther Denny,
Miss Margaret Barr, Miss Jacques Starr,
Miss Helen Aldrich, Miss Helen Foulke,
Miss Priscilla Bell, Miss Fannie Barber,
Miss Beatrice Mahoney Miss Adele Steiner,
Miss Edith Boardman.
Misses Youmans and Fleetch managed
department. assisted by Miss Corbin, had
charge of the musical features of the pro-
gram
Commot Due to Liquor.
A half-pint flask of bad liquor caused a
lot of commotion and disorder, it is said,
last night about o'clock. The trouble
created by a colored man, Robert
Burgess, laborer who lives In George
r,1ia in ba
alley at the foot of 33d street until Robert
made his appearance. 1t: is alleged that
Burgess, through spirit of jealousy, had
a serious difficulty with a colored woman,
and that his purpose in going to the alley
was to stir up a row. He was found by an
officer of the seventh precinct clubbing the
woman over the head, and she was picked
up in semi-conscious state. Burgess was
taken to the police station and lodged Sc
curely in a cell. The woman's screams and
her cries of Murder and Help" brought
out the entire neighborhood. Burgess will
appear in Police Court Monday morning.
Electrician Badly Hurt
Benjamin O'Donoughue, twentyseven
years of age, residing at 1868 18th street,
Georgetown, and employed as an electri-
clan by the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company, was seriously hurt yester-
day while repairing electric wires on a
telegraph pole near Cabin John Bridge.
ODonoughue had climbed the pole and
cured a foothold upon one of the Stats
bearing the wires. but he had been work.
ing but a few minutes when he lost his
balance and fell a distance of thirty feet
upon a number of jagged rocks beneath
him. The injured man picked up by a
fellow workman in an unconscious condi-
ton. placed aboard a car and brought to
the corner of Both street and Prospect ave-
nue., and was thence conveyed to the
Georgetown Hospital ODonoughue is In
a ward at the institution. He is believed
to have sustained internal injuries.