Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-20
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Delegates Arrive for Masonic
Memorial Meeting.
pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Y Special correspondence OF Inc star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 20, 1912.
Delegates representing the various
grand Masonic jurisdictions throughout
| the country began to arrive here this
| morning to attend the second annual
| meeting of the George Washington Ma
sonic Memorial Association, which will
convene at $50 o'clock tomorrow morn
| ing at the Masonic Temple. Thirty-five
states, by an equal number of delegates,
will be represented in the convention,
which will be presided over by Thomas
j. Shryock Of Maryland, president Of the
association.
The visiting delegates will be rendered
an informal reception at the Masonic
Hall tonight. The business session will
open at $3.50 o'clock in the morning,
when several addresses of welcome will
be made by the delegates and others in
attendance. This will be followed by
the reading Of the minutes of the last
meeting and the regular order of BUSH
ness. At o'clock an adjournment will
be taken for luncheon and at o'clocA
in the afternoon. the session will re-
convene. An adjournment will take
place at 5 o'clock, and at o'clock the
night session will be addressed by Rep
resentative Charles c. Carlin, who will
talk on the proposed temple which the
Masons contemplate erecting in Alexan-
dria to the memory of Washington.
V1S1C TO mount vernon.
The session will end Thursday aft
ernoon. when President Taft will make
a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, accom-
panied by the delegates and others, and
place wreath on Washington's tomb
That night Alexandria Washington
Lodge Of Masons will hold it's annual
banquet in Armory Hail. The affair
will be attended by the delegates and
most of the members of the two local
lodges. President Taft will leave Alex
andria at 8 o'clock for Mount Vernon
on the car Mount Vernon, returning
Immediately to Washington.
The board of managers of the Alexan-
dria Hospital has under consideration an
offer of a free site of several acres of
ground at the George Washington Park
for the proposed new hospital. The man.
ayers have appointed committee COM
posed of members of the staff of that
institution, who will view the grounds
offered and report back, and also on the
plans and specifications for the proposed
institution. The offer Of Edward L. Dam
gerf1eld Of his residence on South Wash
i'ington street is also under consideration
There will be a special meeting of city
council at 8 o'clock tonight, at which
time the question of whether or not coun-
Gil will purchase the six and one-half
acres of ground at the northwest corner
OF West and Cameron streets at a cost
Oh $lV,OIV DIS d site IOT the proposed
public school building will be determined
| The state corporation commission has
granted a charter to the Franklin Stor-
age, Drayage. Auction and Carpet Clean
ing Company. incorporated. Rosslyn. Alex
| andria county. with a maximum capital
stock Of 10000 and a minimum of 81 600.
The objects are storage business, etc.
Officers are: c. e. Myers, president; w.
G. Taylor, secretary; p. G. CARRIER, gen.
eral manager, all Of Washington.
he hoc Tod a
ment to the charter Of the j. ii. De Pue
& Co.. Incorporated, changing the name
I to Typewriter Rebuilding and Sales Com
pany, incorporated, and changing its prin-
| cipal office from Arlington to Rosslyn,
and its capital stock from 1900 to So, 600.
For a Confederate Monument.
| At meeting Of a number of women
held yesterday afternoon at the residence
of Mrs. L. w. Reid preliminary steps
were taken for raising funds for the pro-
posed monument to the Confederate dead
| to be erected at Arlington national ceme-
terry. About thirty women were present,
and Mrs. Reid was chosen chairman
Work of soliciting contributions will. 1t il
announced, be begun at an early date.
Thomas Garrison and Edward Brown,
young white men. who gave their home
| as Washington, were arraigned in the
police court this morning as suspicious
characters. Policemen Scott and Reid
arrested the men at o'clock this morn
| ing. Policeman Scott testified that the
prisoners at that hour tried the doors
or several stores on King street. The
men declared that they had just return
ed from the Potomac railroad yards,
| where they went in search of employ
ment. Both were acquitted with the un-
Outstanding that they would leave the
| city at once.
The marriage of Miss Mary E. Sheehy
OF Washington and George III. Beuchert
also of Washington, who Is assistant Sec
rotary of the Robert Portner Brewing
Company, this city, was solemnized a,
Ill O'Clock this morning at st. Mary's
Catholic Church. The ceremony was per.
formed by Rev. L. F. Kelly. Following
the wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Beuchert left
for a northern bridal trip.
Says Collector Assaulted Her.
+. M. 1Ieisen. collector for a Washing.
ton installment house, was fined $40 II
the police court today for an assault or
Pearl Coleman. colored. The woman ties
tined that he came to collect - cents or
Icurtains sold, it being regular payment
after which she claimed he struck her
Heisen denied the charge. Through his
attorney. Charles Bendheiin, he noted ar
appeal to the corporation court and gave
bond in the sum of 500.
final decree for divorce on the GROUND
or lnfidelity was granted I'm the corpora
ton court today IN the case Of Ruth C.