Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-05
ALEXANDR|AAFFA|RS
Public improvements in Prog
ress Throughout the City.
MAY COMMUTE SENTENCES
Generally Believed That Lives of
Johnson, Pines and Dorsey Will
Be Spared by Governor.
Special Correspondence of The Star


ALEXANDRIA. Va. June 4, 1910.
Many public improvements are now in
progress in this city. The work of paw
ing the upper end of King street from
the corporation line westward to the
Union passenger railway station, a dis
lance of about five squares. is being rap
idly pushed to completion. When com
pleted King street. the main street of the
CITY, will then be paved from the river
front to the railway station, a distance
of considerably more than mile.
Next week the contractor will begin the
work of laying a granolthic sidewalk
and setting curbing around the Lee Pub
lie School for white girls on Prince street
The improvements will cost s1,754.
The work of extending the big trunk
sewer on Fayette street has been begun
This sewer will extend northward on
Henry street. 1t will eventually be eX-
tended northward, so as to drain the en-
tire northwest area of the city.
In addition to the foregoing, many 9th
er improvements are contemplated by the
city in the near future in the shape of inn
proved streets and sewers.
Communication of Sentence Expected.
1t is expected Gov. Mann will announce
his decision carly next week in the cases
of Calvin Johnson, Richard Fines and
Eugene Dorsey. sentenced to be electro
cuted Friday for participation in the muir
der OF Walter F. Schultz. Now that
Henry Smith has paid the death penalty
for his part in connection with the muir
der, and on going TO his execution assert
ed their innocence as we'll as his own, it
is generally believed here that it may in
iuence the governor to commute the
sentence to life imprisonment. Dorsey, the
third man, is said to be a physical wreck
and 1t is not believed he will live many
months longer. He was in a bad condi-
ton at the time he was convicted.
A special session of the circuit court
for this city, Judge J. B. T. Thornton pre-
siding, was held today. when arguments
for a new trial were heard in the case
of McMenamin against the Southern Rail-
way Company. The object of the suit is
to recover damages in the sum of $1,000
for smoke and SCOT from the defendants
engines, which, it is claimed, injured the
property of the complainant. a jury re-
Gently gave the plaintiff a verdict for
$3.50.
The annual examination of pupils in
the public schools of this city will be
begun next week. preparatory to the an
nual closing exercises. The closing ex-
ercises of the four schools will be held
closing each school will be fixed by the
superintendent The white schools will
proba bly, close first The public schools
throughout the session have been largely
attended.
A concert will be given Thursday night
next at the Young Mems Sodality Ly-
ceum Hall by the choir of ST. Paul 8
Catholic Church, Washington, under the
auspices OF Fitzgerald Council No. 400,
knights of Columbus. The chorus will
consist of fifteen voices, assisted by Ed
win G. Callow, reader and monologist,
with Prof T.. 7. Winchester, organist
and choirma Ster. The following solosts
will be heard: Master Joseph McGar-
raghy. Soprano Master Raymond King,
soprano; Master Edwin Roach, contralto;
Henry W. Jaeger, tenor, and J. NJ. Con-
nell, baritone.