Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-31
ANACosTIA AND VICINITY.
Railway Service Shows Improvement.
Chicken Thieves Active-Briefs

The acute situation that was reflected in
numerous protests filed with the Commits
sioners of the District within recent periods
upon the part of the citizens of Anacostia
and the adjoining suburbs regarding the
hindrances to the prompt transportation of
street car passengers across the Anacostia
bridge, due to the enforcement of the regu-
lation limiting the number of people to be
carried in any one car over the structure,
has been cleared up, apparently to the sat
isfact1on of the public, and the holding I'D
of the cars at either end of the bridge,
with the attendant blockade of the line,
mas ceased. Present conditions are credited
to the efforts of the railroad company to
relieve the congestion by supplying addi-
tional cars on the line at the hours when
the travel is greatest.
William Joyce, a gardener living at Gies-
boro', was accosted at his home Thursday
afternoon by youth whose appearance led
to the suspicion that he was insane Mr..
Joyce supposed his visitor was an escaped
patient from st. Elizabeth's Asylum, to
which institution he conveyed him. Special
Officer Edward l.. Clark ascertained the
stranger was not an inmate of the asylum,
however, and the police of the Anacostia
station took charge Of him. The officers
learned the youth was Hyman Hellman, a
native of Russia, who had been missing
from his parents home in Baltimore for
three weeks: He is eighteen years old,
and detective took charge of him and he
was returned to his home, 131 Harrison
street Baltimore. He stated he had left his
home to seek work
Policeman Lamon c. Davis member of
the Anacostia force. who was summoned
to Mechanicsvflle, ST. Mary's county Nd
Tuesday last by message announcing the
critical illness of one of his children as
certained upon his arrival there that his
1ather, well the child Akc
old, had died Oscar Davis, his father, was
lifelong resident of that part of Mary
land and was sixty years old. He had been
railing IN health for a number of years.
but the end came suddenly. His wife and
seven children survive him. The funeral of
the child and the aged man was held
Thursday, the interment being near Me-
chanicsville. Officer Davis and his family
returned to their home on Monroe street
yesterday.
The activity of a chicken thief has been
causing the residents along the river front
some uneasiness. James Ware noticed
man emerge from his poultry yard a few
mornings SINCE and he frightened the in
truder away before he had effected an en-
trance to the chicken house. Peter Craig
also detected man endeavoring to break
into his chicken shed, and the owner scared
him off. Mrs. Angelina Pleasures was not
SO fortunate when the intruder called at
her premises She lost nine fine fowls
Thirty-three unlicensed dogs We're taken
up by the poundmaster's force as the re-
suit of operations in Anacostia and vicinity
yesterday.
Mr.. David T. N. Shank of 149 Jefferson
street, who has been spending a part of his
vacation in Atlantic City, has returned
home.
Mrs Annie Alsip of Hagerstown. Nd. is
visiting Mrs. D. T. Shank. her aunt, at 149
Jefferson street.
Mr.. H: J. Leonard, wife and son of Mid
dleton, N. Y, have been visiting at the
Government Hospital for the Insane, fol-
lowing trip to the jamestown exposition.
Mr.. Leonard is the steward Of the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, Middletown. N. Y.
Mrs Michael Lalley, accompanied by Nell
lie. her daughter, and Joseph, her son, Is
the guest Of Mrs. Edward L. Clark, her
sister, on Nichols avenue. Mrs. Lalley's
home is in Grafton, w. Va.
Miss Gertrude Tolson and Miss VirgYe
Stone will leave next Wednesday for a trip
| to jamestown and Richmond, Va Return
ing they will visit points along the Po-
tomac.
Miss Louise Weiss left for Colonial Beach
Thursday to visit friends. From there she
will go to Atlantic City, chaperoned by her
| aunt. Miss Anna Weiss. She will be absent
two weeks.