Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-28
YOUTH UNDERWENT OPERATION.
Former Midshiprhan - Carey Dead -
Work on Monument Started.


Special Correspondence % The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS. Nd, March %, 1903.
Malcolm Gibbs of this=eity, son of Mr..
and Mrs r. E. Gibbs, was operated upon
on Saturday at Providence Hospital, Wash
ington. The operation was the result of an
accident which the boy met with last Mon
day. and which -necsssitated the removal
of his left eye. He Is eighteen years old,
and went to Washington about a month
ago to learn his trade in. the machine shop
at the navy yard While at work at the
bench a large piece Of iron, struck him in
the eye, which caused hin, to lose his sight.
Three valuable hoEses belonging to Mr..
Edward King of Davfds6aville, near An
napolis were killed by the electrical storm
while in the field Friday night. i u! Z
Mrs. Medford of Washington who has
been visiting her daughter Mrs. Roy 3.
Shaver of this city, left for q months trip
to Atlantic City.
tary of the Washington branch Y. NJ C. A..
who has been a delegate to the biennial
conference. in session here. returned home
today. Mr. Smith had charge of the music
Sunday, and the hymns by Fannie Crosby
were sung to his accompaniment on the
piano. ~,.it,7s
Mrs. A. B. Hoff, wife Of Lieut.. cambridge
Hod. is visiting her mother in Washington.
Mrs. Stott, wife of Midshipman Arthur
Curtis Stott, left today for Pensacola, Fla.
to join her husband. whose ship is there.
She will be absent three months.
Albert Mason Stevens has received the
Rhodes scholarship from Yale. He was
successful over ten other competitors The
scholarship is for the next year and enti-
ties the student to all privileges and $1,000
pocket money. The young man is brother
of Prof. w. 0. Stevens Of the Naval Acad-
envy, one of the instructors in the depart
ment of English and law.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company has received word to remove its
TO nnta frnr ha ~ 10 "a CHI
ington and Baltimore railroad, as steps
have been taken to change the power Of
the road from steam to electricity. The
work of electrifying the road will now be
pushed to it's completion.
Word was received at the Naval Acad-
envy today of the death of John Joseph
Carey late midshipman of the fourth class
at the academy. His death occurred at his
signed from the academy in February last
and soon returned to his home, where he
was taken with typhoid fever. His death
occurred Friday.
John H Mudd, former captain of the st.
Johns base ball squad. is now a member
of the Georgetown squad, and was SUBJ
stituted at first base in Saturdays game in
place of Hart when Georgetown played
Maryland Agricultural College.
People in Annapolis are still talking of
the falling aerolite, or meteorite, that at
tracted great attention here and in the ad-
jacent county Saturday night at 9:3O. 1t
was intensely bright and visible to resi-
dents of Chesterville, Milersville. David
sonville Brownsville, Taylorsville and Wa
terbury.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Annapolis Water Company held at noon
today Mr.. Harry J. Hopkins was unan-
imousiy reelected president and the old
board of directors, consisting of Mayor
Samuel Jones, James M. Muroe. Bernard
Wiegard and William IN. Woodward. was
reelected.
James W. Owens, esq, member of the
Annapolis bar, tonight delivered the third
in the course of lectures at Mcdowell Hall.
st. Johns College These lectures are
given in the department of university ex-
tension. Mr.. Owens subject was "Expe-
riences of a Confederate Private Soldier
During and Subsequent to the Civil War"
Work was started today on the erection
OF the Ward-Neuman monument in the
naval cemetery on the government farm.
The monument is being erected in memory
man, the two midshipmen who were killed
by an explosion on board the United States
ship Missouri while engaged in target prac-
tice.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Ward. u S. A. the
father of the young man, Is having tho
monument erected He, and his daughter.
Miss Katherine M. Wand, are in the city
in connection with the matter. Ward and
Neuman were chums at the Naval Academy.
They graduated together and were ordered
y ward 1sr ss was a appointed from New York on
May %, 1892 and Neuman from Califor-
MIA September 16. 1899. They were buried
side by side in the naYal Cemetery.
Little Emma Warffeld. the youngest
daughter OF Governor Warfield of Maryland.
today celebrated her sixth birthday at the
government house. where she was given a
birthday party by her distinguished parents.
There were thirty-fve children present.
twenty of whom were from Baltimore