Evening star., 1912-11-24
HAS EYE ON SP0lS
Street improvements Soon to
Stop for the Winter.
COUNCIL TO MEET TUESDAY
Four School Trustees and Three Po-
lice Commissioners May
Be Elected.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| ALEXANDRIA, Va. November %, 1912.
| Contractors engaged in the work of
street improvements are endeavoring to
complete it before cold weather sets in.
With the completion of the work now
in progress no more street improvements
will be begun this winter.
1t is expected, however, that consider
! able street work will be started early in
the spring. The city council already has
passed a number of ordinances for the
| Improvement of certain squares, the prop
| erty owners having agreed to pay their
pro rata of the cost of the work, which
| ranges from S1.J0 to S1.75 a front foot.
Workmen have just completed the lay
| ing of asphalt block on Cameron street
| between Washington and st. Asaph
streets 1t will be opened for traffic
| next week
| More than half of the work of inn
| proving Washington street between Cam
| eron and Queen streets with macadam
| block has been completed. With the COM
pletion of this square the entire north
| end of that thoroughfare from King
! street to the corporation line will have
been improved. as will also two squares
| on the south side, making 1t one of the
most attractive streets in the city.
Next spring it is expected that the work
| of improving the south end of this street
| from Duke to Franklin street. will be
begun. Already property owners on two
of the four squares extending from Duke
| to Franklin street have agreed to the
improvements
Granolithic sidewalks are being laid on
either side of Alfred street between
Wilkes and Franklin streets. and the
RI will no ;,,,,nr To-
cadam. The completion of these two
squares will mark the improvement of
all of South Alfred street. One square
is improved with vitrifed brick and the
five other squares with tar macadam.
Joint Council Meeting Tuesday.
A joint meeting of the city council will
be held Tuesday night for the purpose of
electing four school trustees and three
members of the board of police commits
sioners At the last meeting Councilman
Bryan served notice that he would call
for joint session for the foregoing pur-
pose at this meeting.
For some time past the city has been
without a board of police commissioners
only one member of the old board, August
Oehlert, representing the third ward, re-
naming.
There are numerous receptive candi-
though none Of the candidates has made
formal application.
The terms of the following school trus-
tees have expired: o. F. Phillips, first
ward; Moxley lrven. second ward: Dr.
w. NJ. Smith, third ward; Frank Myers,
fourth ward
The joint committee on finance and
schools may make report on the cues
ton OF financing the erection of new
public school building at cost of $4,000.
no 0f a hIlildinQ has h46n aPi-
tated for some time past.
To Urge New Fire House.
Members of the building committee of
the Relief Hook and Ladder Fire Com
pany expect to shortly appear before the
joint committee on finance and public
property of the city council and urge the
necessity for the erection OF new house
for the company.
The building committee is composed of
]. D. Normoyle, William Cleveland, Jo-
seph De Silva, c. F. De Moll, G. NJ.
Myers, Anthony E. Smoot, A. {. Hull
ings, w. c. H. Wildt, Edmond c. Wildt,
C. Louis Folmar. Frank c. Spinks, James
w. Bales George T. Burroughs, r. S.
Barrett, j. Fred Birrell, Thomas Carter,
Windsor Demaine, Robert F. Downham,
William McMenamin. A. II. Oehlert, Ed
ward Padgett. s ": Pitts J. Edward
Schwarzmann.
The state department of public instruc-
ton has made the annual apportionment
of school funds for the various counties
and cities in the state for the year. Ac-
cording to the apportionment this city
will receive $7,3O.44, 1t having total
school population Of 1859, while Alexan-
dria county will receive S,S41.69, having
school population of 1904. Fairfax
county will get $15.24a92 having school
population Of 1913 The total amount to
be distributed throughout the state is
81 ,239 Asa. "a. there being a total public
school population of GIG, 16S.
Fire in an unoccupied house. 913 Wolfe
street, at o'clock this evening. par
tally destroyed the house. An adjoining
house on the east side. known as 911, oc-
cupied by Tillie Poindexter, colored, also
was slightly damaged. The origin of the
fire is unknown
A fire in the kitchen of house 217 South
Payne street brought out the fire depart
ment at 2:2J o'clock this afternoon. The
fire was quickly extinguished.
Reports on Finances of City.
The one-hundred and thirty-second
annual statement of the finances of the
city has just been issued by City Auditor
+. +. Price. According to the report a
total of SITS, A was collected during
the year.
The liabilities of the city for bonds and
temporary loans is $4,000, and the as
sets of the city, not including streets or
improvements of similar character, is
$465. 600. OF this amount $4,000 is rep
resented by the city gas works.
Rt Rev. d. j. O'Connell, ID. D., bishop
Of the diocese of Richmond, who will con-
firm a class at st. Mary's Catholic Church
tomorrow morning, arrived here this aft
ernoon, and is a guest at st. Mary's rec
tory.
Mutt and Jeff are the names given
the two new fire engine horses just pur-
chased by the fire committee of city
council for the Reliance fire engine com
pany.
The work of erecting a building at the
northwest corner of Washington and
Wilkes streets for the National Biscuit
Company will be begun Monday. The
building will be one-story brick struc-
| ture and will be a shipping depot to
various points In the state.
The colony Of Dunkards that recently
purchased the Hayfield farm, Fairfax
| county, west of this city, has taken pos
| session of the property and will soon
| start at work on 1t.
The brick work of the Westminster
| building being erected at the northeast
| corner Of Prince and ST. Asaph streets
| bv the congregation of the Second Pres
| byterian Church, is rapidly nearing COM
| pletion.
WILL RETAIN HIS POST.