The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-28
GAS ORDINANCE IS
HELDUP BECAUSEOF
AN ALLEGED JOKER"
Alexandria Council Sends
Back Provision for Rose
: mont Mains.
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ALEXANDRIA VA. lime q

When the ordinance presented by the
committee on lights and general laws
providing for the extension of city gas
mains to Rosemont. a suburb, was
read at last nights session of the city
council, and it was discovered that one
clause expressly stipulated that In
event OF the question OF annexation to
Alexandria ever coming up, neither the
Rosemont Development Company nor
any of the suburbs residents using the
gas should oppose annexation, under
penalty of having their meters removed
and the supply Of gas cut off, a dis
cussion was suddenly precipitated.
The ordinance had been reported fav-
orably by the committee, and was on
its third reading, when President Snow
den called the attention of the body to
the apparent Joker" that had been
inserted. Objection was at once raised,
and the legality of such a provision
questioned. The matter was put to a
vote, and unanimously referred back to
the committee on general laws for re-
consideration.
The annual report of the city treas
urer for the fiscal year ending May 81
was read before both bodies, showing
lSSSlplS " $-OiJ1OO' WIFI
expenditures of s237,177.76. The report of
the gas clerk disclosed that $13,500 had
been turned into the general fund dur
ing the year, and that $1,000 had been
held in the emergency fund.
Charging waste of gas in the Alex
andria Hospital, an institution receiving
free light, Chairman Harrison, of the
be investigated, inasmuch as the hos
pital consumed about 2R per cent of
the entire output during the year.
Newell S. Greenway, clerk of the cor
pOration, acting under instructions from
Judge Louis c. Barley, late yesterday
afternoon issued a rule against certain
depositors in the Lovingston, Va,
branch Of the Virginia Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, to compel their appear
ance in the local court on July 10 to show
cause WHY they should not be pun
ished for contempt of court. These de-
positors, it is alleged, were permitted
by the cashier of the Lovingston branch
to withdraw their deposits after he
knew the concern was insolvent. Judge
Barley recently ruled that all such de-
posits should be returned and included
in the assets of the corporation.
James QuayIe. living on Franklin
street, reported to the police this
morning that his son, James, aged
fifteen. had left home at about 5
not returned. The boy had several
times expressed a desire to go to
Philadelphia.
Breaking a window glass, thieves
last night gained entrance to the shop
of Bobestaw Urbanski, a shoemaker
on Fairfax street. on the corner of
Duke, obtaining four pairs of shoes
that had been left there for repair
Marie Louise. the ten-month- old
daughter of Daniel and Sarah Suther-
land, died at the family residence,
3O6 South Henry street, this morning.
While under the influence of in
toxicants and in playful mood, Will
liam Strother, accompanied by Clar-
ence Dickson, both colored, placed a
ten-foot plank across the car tracks
at King and Washington streets at
about l o'clock this morning. They
were seen and arrested by Officers
Bell and Talbot. In police court this
morning Strother was fined $40.
Hope Council No. l, Daughters of
Liberty, of Washington, will visit
Friendship Council, No. %, of this
city, next Friday night.