Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
improvements to Presbyterian
House of Worship Projected.
PLANS TO BE SUBMITTED
Civil Service Examination Announc.
ed-Militia Officer Resigns-Court
News-Brief Mention.
PLANS TO BE SUBMITTED
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

News-Brief Mention.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April %. 1910
During the coming week the plans for
the improvements at the Second Presby-
terrain Church will be submitted to the
congregation of that church for ratihca-
ton. If these plans are ratified, which
action is regarded as more than likely,
the contract will be made and submitted
to the builders and within a short time
the work of remodeling the present edi-
fee, at the northwest corner of Prince
and ST. Asaph streets. will be begun.
The matter of improving this church
was taken up for consideration at a
meeting of the congregation held Febru-
airy last. At that time a large amount
was subscribed for the purpose. The
total cost of the improvements WILL it
is stated. be about $4,000.
According to the plans the remodeling
will include an additional story. making
the edifce q two-story structure. On the
first floor will be located the Sunday
school, which will be divided into rooms
by sliding glass partitions. On the sec
ond floor will be the auditorium. A choir
loft will be arranged for the accommO-
dation of thirty singers.
Considerable alteration is also plan
ned for the exterior of the building. in
Guiding the elevation of the present
tower distance of ten or fifteen feet
To the seating capacity of the church
will be added accommodations for more
than one hundred worshipers.
Civil Service Examination.
The local board of civil service exami-
ners announce that May - they will hold
an examination in this city for the posi-
ton of general mechanic. at a salary of
5000 year, for duty at the experimental
farm, bureau of plant industry, Arlington
Va. There will be no educational test for
this position.
The following examinations are an
nounced for June l next Botanical artist
Department of Agriculture bureau Of
plant industry, salary, 5000 year: bac-
THEOLOGICAL chemist, bureau of chemistry
Department of Agriculture tfemale), sal
airy, S1.20o year, at Philadelphia, Pa. {:
wireless telegraph operator, Philippine
service. salary, $1,000 a year.
School improvements Probable.
1t is expected that when the city coun-
Gil meets Tuesday night next the finance
committee will recommend an appropria-
ton for the installation of sanitary clos
cts at the Washington Public School for
Boys, and also an appropriation for i'm
proving the grounds surrounding the Lee
School for Girls. At the last meeting Of
that body the city school board asked
for total of 5000 for the work Several
small appropriations for certain street
improvements referred to the finance COM
mlttee at the last meeting of the council
Will, IL is expected, be reported on by the
committee at this meeting.
Evangeistic services will begin at the
Second Presbyterian Church tomorrow
night. and will be concluded May 8.
The services will be conducted by Rev.
z. T. Wexford. The services will be
held daily at 3:15 and pm.
Owing 10 the absence of quorum the
meeting of the city democratic commit
tee which was to have been held this
evening was postponed. AS stated, this
committee at recent meeting made ar
Judgements for primary. which will be
held May TO- All candidates desiring to
enter the race will be required to submit
their names to City Chairman Bendheim
on or before noon May next.
Lieut.. Cochran Resigns.
Second Lieut.. T. r. Cochran of this
city. battalion quartermaster and COM
missary of the I'd Battalion, LIST Regi-
ment of Infantry, has forwarded his res
igEation TO Adjt. Gen. W. W. Sale. Lieut.
Cochran gives stress OF professional du-
ties as his reason for retiring. He has
had long service with the Virginia mi
htia. Lieut. Cochran is resident Of this
city and during the Spanish-American
war served with the I'd Regiment.
\ meeting of the Holy Name Society,
which was organized Sunday last at st.
Marys Catholic Church, will be held at
4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the
Young Mems Sodality Lyceum Hall, at
which time officers will be chosen and
date and place for the holding of
dress on the aims and objects of the
society will be made by Rev. Father
1landley. e. S. +. All men and boys who
have made their first communion are
expected to be present.
The suit of William F. Downey
against the Washington. Alexandria
ord Mount Vernon Railway Company.
brought TO recover damages in the sum
of $1,000 for the killing Of horse and
damages to wagon belonging to the
plaintiff. will he heard in the corpora
ton court for this city Tuesday next.
General and Personal News.
\ reception will he rendered Rt.
Rev Arthur Selden Lloyd. bishop CO.
edjutor of the diocese of Virginia, at
Christ z. r. Church Parish Hall Thurs
day night next. Invitations for the re-
ception have been issued by the men
of the congregation of that church to
the men Of the other Episcopal church.
es throughout the city.
Members of r. F.. Lee Camp. Confed-
crate Veterans, Will tomorrow after
noon attend the funeral of the late
Mai Beverly r. Mason Of Washington,
whose remains Will be brought here
and buried in Ivy Hill cemetery. Mem
bers viii assemble in Uniform at their
hall AT 3.40 o'clock and he conveyed in
carr ages To the cemetery.
j. t.. Normoyie. real estate dealer. has
sold for H2rrie +. Wheat to Egbert a.
Thompson 7 house and lot at the south
east corner of Duke and Pitt streets
business meeting of Alexandria Lodge
Of Eiks will he held at it's hall at y
o'clock Monday night next.
The laying OF vitriled brick on the
square on Cameron street between Royal
end Fairfax streets was practically
completed this afternoon
The police have notified a number of
fishermen that all fish brought to this city
for sale must be carried to FishtOwn and
Abe required wharfage must be paid
The circuit court for Alexandria county,
Judge J. Il. T. Thornton presiding, will
hold session Tuesday next.