Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-21
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
ORDINATION SERVICES AT THE
EPISCOPAL SEMINARY.
Labor Organization Calls Mass Meet
ing for Tomorrow Evening Gen
eral and Personal News,
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special Correspondence OF Inc STAR
ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 81. 1907.
With solemn and impressive ceremonies,
and in the presence of some of the leading
Episcopal Church dignitaries Of the coun-
try. ordination ceremonies occurred at II
o'clock this morning at the Episcopal
Theological Seminary of Virginia, west Of
this city which marked the eighty-fourth
annual exercises of this famous institu-
ton. where many of the foremost Episco-
pal clers.ymen Of the country have received
their training. The clergy and candidates
assembled in Prayer Hail. and thence
marched In body to the chapel, where the
exercises occurred, and occupied seats in
the choir, Bishops Robert A. Gibson, D.
D., of the diocese of Virginia; Alfred A.
Randolph, D. D., OF southern Virginia,
George w. Peterkin Of West Virginia, and
Beverley d. Tucker, d. D., coadjutor, Of
southern Virginia, being In the chancel and
conducting the services. An able and elo-
quent sermon was delivered by Rev. VIII
liam E. Evans, D. D., Of Alabama.
The dcacons of the diocese of Virginia,
who were admitted, are as follows: Revs.
William Carter Harrison. B. A: David
Henry Lewis. Wiley Roy Mason. Thomas
Lowry Sinclair B. A, Lorenzo Davenport
Vaughn, Ivan Marshall Green and Alex
ander Stuart Gibson.
The deacons of southern Virginia are:
James Gilmer Busie and William Gibson
Pendleton.
Those ordained to the priesthood Of
southern Virginia are: Revs. ]. NJ. B. Gill
of All Souls Church, Portsmouth. Va;
Francis R. Lee Of st: Pauls Church.
was ordained to the priesthood by the
Bishop of Virginia.
List of Those Ordained.
OF the students graduating yesterday the
ordinations were as follows: Robert Evans
Browning, B. A.. was ordained recently by
the Bishop Of Washington, D. c., and is
now stationed at the Pro-Cathedral at
Washington; Rev. Myron Barraud Mar
shall was ordained in Portsmouth, Va, by
the Bishop of Southern Virginia; Robert
Albert Griesser, Phi. b.. was ordained by
kthe Bishop of New York. Rev. Milton
Roher Warsham will be ordained by the
Bishop of Kentucky.
The appointments as announced are fol-
lows: Rev. Lewis Carter Harrison, B. A,
to Northumberland county; Rev David
Henry Lewis to Goochland county, Va;
Rev. Wiley Roy Mason appointed to assist
Rev. G. P. Mayo at the missionary work In
the mountains of Albemarle county, Va;
Rev Lorenzo Davenport Vaughn to Essex
county, Vs.; Rev. Ivan Marshall Green to
Page county, Va; Rev. Alexander Stuart
Gibson F.. L., to assist in Gloucester
county, Va: Rev. James Gilmer Buskie to
Emporia, Va; Rev. William Gibson Pen
dleton to Accomac; Rev Myron Barraud
Marshall to missionary work in Brazil, and
Thomas Lowry Sinclair to China.
Daring Jail Delivery.
A bold and daring jail delivery was ac-
complished at the city Jail about 30 o'clock
this morning, when George B. Cluous, SEN
fenced to serve a term Of three years In
the state penitentiary, and Levi WEIGH.
who was completing term of ninety days,
made their escape. After gaining liberty
from their cells the men took several blan-
kets and quickly made an improvised rope
which they used in scaling the seventeen
foot wall of that institution. In few min
utes Warden Gambler was aroused, and i'm
mediately commenced an investigation. Po-
lice headquarters was at once notified, and
four policemen made unsuccessful efforts to
capture the fugitives without results This
morning City Sergt. r. II. Cox offered
reward of S10G for the apprehension of the
fugitives.
Warden Gambler stated that he was
aroused about las, and told by some of the
inmates that they had seen man walking
down in the yard. He says that after he
made a superficial examination he returned
upstairs and upon looking into the room
occupied by the men discovered it vacant.
An examination revealed that the men
had removed O. portion of the window
frame and then took out several bricks
in order to loosen the iron bars. This be-
ing done. they had little difficulty in