Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-21
Council Approves School Site.

The city council at a special session
last night concurred in the action of the
board OF aldermen, at the meeting of the
latter body a week ago, in appropriatine
$4,000 for the purchase Of eight and one
half acres of land at the northwest cor
ner Of Cameron and West streets, as a
site for the proposed public high school
building. The property belongs to w. H
Hellmuth. The idea of the council in
purchasing such a large tract is to have
Fairgrounds.
1t Is expected a building to cost be-
tween $35, 900 and $40, 600 will be erected
The resolution was passed by vote OF
IL to 2 Those voting in the negative
were Councilmen Marshall and Burke
The proposed change in the city charter
by the state legislature regarding the
discussion. BY vote Of to the coun.
ell passed a substitute offered by Coun.
Gilman Brumback, providing that the DO
lice force shall consist of a chief and
such other officers as the council may
provide.
The clerk of the council was directed to
notify the state senator and representa-
tive in the legislature and urge them to
try to obtain the passage Of the amend
,nent to the charter.
There will be no special public observ-
ance of Washington!'s birthday in this
city. The banks, cityt offices, schools and
government offices will be closed all day.
however. and many of the stores will
close at noon: The Fraternal Order of
Americans will hold a patriotic celebra-
ton at Sarepta Hall, when an address
will be made by Rev. John L. Allison,
pastor Of the Second Presbyterian
Church.
The George Washington Birthday Asso-
citation. in accordance with custom,
will place a wreath on Washington
tomb. A committee of members of that
organization will leave here at 1880
O'Clock on the car Mount Vernon for
Mount Vernon. Members will assemble
at the rooms of the chamber of COM
merce.
The annual convention Of the fourth
degree of the Virginians of the knights
OF Columbus will be held at the Knights
OF Columbus Temple in Washington at
4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. NJ. J. Nc
Farland is local delegate and DR.. E. A.
German is alternate. There will be seven
candidates from the local assembly for
the fourth degree, which will be given at
o'clock tomorrow night, followed by a
banquet at the National Hotel
Tomorrow Is Tag Day.
Tomorrow is tag day. Every public
school pupil in the city was this afternoon
given liberal supply of the little card
board tags bearing the inscription "I am
dispose Of the tags to the public. Funds
derived from the sale of these. together
with the sale of the store, wagon and
residence tags, which are being sold by
a committee of ladies, will he applied to
the proposed playground and athletic as
ISOLATION Of the Alexandria High School.
The association now has on hand ap-
prOximately $500, that being the amount
raised here several years ago as the re-
suit of a similar affair held under the
auspices of the George Washington
Birthday Association.
Final plans for the celebration will be
made at a meeting of the general COM
mittee Of arrangements at 1880 o'clock
tonight In the rooms Of the chamber of
commerce.
A dispatch from Richmond says Samuel
Allen, colored. is being held by the police
of that city on suspicion of having muir
dered a man in, Alexandria. --llen also
is alleged to have shot another man in
the back during the progress of quarrel.
According to the dispatch, the murder
occurred about six years ago. Allen
denies the charge. Il
The Retail Merchants Association at a
meeting held last night unanimously in
dorsed the plan Of making all street i'm
provements out of the general fund Of the