Evening star., 1911-06-01
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Aldermen to Act on Amend
ments to New License Law.
CLOSE DEAL FOR CURRENT
Arlington Electric Company to Sup
ply Light to Several
Suburban Towns.
CLOSE DEAL FOR CURREN'

Suburban Towns.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. June 1. 1911.
A special meeting of the board Of alder
men will be held tonight at 8 o'clock for
the purpose Of acting on the amendments
| to the new license law. This board has
already passed the law as recommended
| by the finance committee of city coun-
| Gil. The lower branch of city council.
| at meeting a few nights ago. amended
| the law. principally among the amend
ments being a reduction Of the license
to wholesale liquor dealers and shippers
| from $225 to $1s5. It Is believed that the
aldermen will lock horns with the COM
| mon council on this proposition and that
they may non-concur In the action OF
council and return the license bill to
that body, minus any amendments. and
| make it read the same as it originally
did when it was adopted. as recommend
| ed by the finance committee.
Should this be done 1t is hardly
| thought that another meeting Of the
council will be called to act on the
| matter until the next regular meeting
of that body, which will be June Is
| next. In the meantime the city will be
| without a licenAe law. inasmuch as the
law cannot become operative until
passed by both branches, although the
new license is supposed to have gone
into effect today.
The Alexandria Electric Company re-
Gently closed out contract with the
Arlington Electric Company for sup
MI IN al tNf1 49,
| company, which will be distributed to
| the towns, of Falls Church, Ballston,
Cherrydale and other sections OF the
upper part OF Alexandria county west
| of Fort Myer.
Work is now under construction on
these lines, and 1t is expected that the
Arlington Electric Company will be
ready to deliver current in Clarendon
about the first OF August, and in the
| other towns In the early fall.
The Alexandria Electric Company
has recently placed contract for ad-
ditional machinery for the power plant,
| which will be installed this summer.
Refused to Pay Car Fare.
rendering union labor cards in lieu OF
their fare to Conductor Joseph Nowland
on the S:45 o'clock train out of Wash
ington last night resulted In John Frank
lin and Albert Williams being arraigned
in the police court this morning and
fined $40 each OF a charge OF disorderly
conduct on the cars.
Conductor Nowland testified that the
prisoners and two other men. whom he
did not know. got aboard his train at
Addison Heights and when he called
for their fare they declined to pay and
| refused to pass them and informed them
they would have to get Off. The men,
| he testified. became abusive. and two got
| Off at nearby station when the train
one. while one OF the quartet pulled him
OF his train by the leg and another
struck him with what he thought was
an umbrella. Rowland succeeded. in
away. One said this morning that all
were drunk. while the other did not re-
member anything.
Franklin later admitted his name Is
John Franklin Landrum. He is an um-
| brella mender from Washington De.
tective Burlinga1re OF Washington saw
| the prisoner this afternoon and asked
| him for an explshation of his possession
| of four planes, two pairs Of timers
snips and other tools.
| tools from a man near the south end OF
| the Highway bridge for 60 cents. The
| tools were turned over to the detective
and taken to Washington to be identified
was arraigned in the police court this
morning to answer q charge of cutting
| with knife Capt. B. W. Brambell Of the
schooner 8. p. Beswick. 1t was testified
| that fight ensuad when the captain ac-
| cused the mate Of selling q hawser and
discharged him. ordering him ashore. The
cut was In the lower part OF the abdo-
man. The court fined Paul So
Nelson. John Boswell and Susie Clark
| disorderiy and lighting the men fined 5.
each and the woman acquitted; William
Pye, colored. assatilting John Allen with
| assaulting and beating Mary Swan. also
| colored, acquitted; John Moore, drunk
and disorderly fned S.: Ben Jacobs, dis
orderly at the Union railway station,
THE The Y funeral Of Capt. Henry s. Pitts
| who died Tuesday, will take place at
o'clock this afternoon from his late home
1000 Prince street. Services will be con.
Quoted by Rev. Edgar Carpenter. rector
| Of Grace p. e. Church, and the interment
| will be made in Bethel cemetery. Mem.
| bers of Washington Lodge oi
Masons will attend.
Funeral Of Capt. King.
Funeral services for Capt. William M
King will be held at 6 o'clock this after
| noon at his late home. 11O North Payne
| street. Services will also be conducted
| by Rev.. DR.. Carpenter, and the inter-
ment will be made in Union cemetery.
| Members Of Andrew Jackson Lodge OF
Masons viii attend.
Robert e. Gronau. who was recently
chosen fire chief to MI the unexpired term
of late Chief George w. Pettey. was
sworn in this morning by Acting Mayor
Marbury. Chief Gronau will serve until
August I. when he will come up for re-
election before the city council.
In the corporation court this morning
the case Of NJ. J. Colbert and others
against the Washington National Build