The Washington herald., 1912-11-24
Want Truck House.

Aenewed efforts are to be made by
members of the Relief Hook and Lad
der Truck Company to get the city
council to make an appropriation for
the erection of a new truck house for
the. company on the north side of
Prince Street. between Royal and Fair
fax Streets. The members of the build
ing committee expect to shortly ap-
pear before the joint committee on
finance and public property to urge
upon the city council the necessity for
the rection of a new house. Those
comprising the building committee are:
John D. NOrmOyle. William Cleveland.
Joseph De Silva, c. F. De Moll, G. NJ.
Myers. Anthony E. SmOot, A. c. Hull
ings, w. c. H. Wildt, Edmond C. Wildt,
c. Louis Folmar, Frank c. Spinks,
James W. Bales, George T. Burroughs.
Robert S. Barrett, J. Fred Birrell,
Robert F. Downham, William McMen-
amin. A. H. Oehlert, Edward Padgett,
Samuel w. Pitts, J. Edward Shinn.
John D. Webster, Erwin G. SchwarZ
mann.
Fire of an unknown origin in an un-
occupied house. 9l3 Wolfe Street. brought
out the entire fire department at 6
o'clock tonight. The fire also burned
the house occupied by Tillie Poindexter,
colored, 911 Wolfe street, slightly dam
aging it. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
An alarm of fire at 2:3O o'clock this
afternoon was caused by a slight bls ze
in the kitchen of house 217 South Payne
Street.
The annual statement of the finances
of the city has just been issued by City
Auditor z. +. Price. 1t shows that dur
ing the year a total of $17s,S50.H was
collected from all sources. The liabili-
ties Of the city for bonds and temporary
loans is $4,000. and the assets Of the
city. not including streets or improve
ments of a similar character. is $465, 200.
OF this amount $50, 600 is represented by
the city gas works
A high school monthly known as Ma
room and White" made its initial ap-
pearance to-day. 1t will be published
every month by the students of the
Alexandria High School The journal
contains twenty-four pages and is nice
ly gotten up. Herman PohI is editor
in-chief and Charles Sullivan is business
manager.
While walking along the tracks at the
Potomac yards yesterday afternoon
George Scott, fourteen years old. en-
ployed as messenger by the Southern
Railway Company. was struck a glanc-
ing blow by a torpedo when it was run
over by a locomotive. Scott was knocked
down and temporarily stunned, but es-
capped injury.
Contractors will Monday next begin
begin the work OF erecting a brick ship
ping depot for the National Biscuit Com
pany at the northwest corner of Wash
ington and Wilkes Streets.
The Southern Railway Company has
about completed the work of laying a
spur track to the proposed plant.
The Portner Realty Company, incor-
porated, of Manassas, Va, has been
granted a charter by the state corpora
tion commission with capital stock of
$4,000. officers and incorporatOrs fol-
low: Paul V. Portner, president; Rob-
ert H. Heth, secretary and treasurer;
o. C. Portner, and D. NJ. Pitts, all of
Manassas.
DEGREES for divorce on the ground of
desertion were given in the corporation
court to-day in the cases Of Alwilda c.
Hurdle against Eugene J. Hurdle and
Elizabeth T. Goode against Harry W.
Goode.
Capt. r. E. Knox, auctioneer, to-day
sold at public auction for H. Noel Gar
ner, special commissioner, a frame dwell
ing, on Wolfe Street, to n. s. Green
away for 800.