The Washington herald., 1912-08-03
EEWSOPALEXANDRIL

Fly swatting Campaign Almost An
initiates Insects in the
Market House.
Alexandria, Va, Aug. z-"since the ny
swatting crusade begun tn this city,
find but comparatively few fies IN thu
city market" said prominent member
Of the City Council tonight. when ques
toned by q reporter for The Washington
Herald on the matter.
He said that for several years past HI
has been going regularly every morninl
to the city market to purchase his sup
plies At this time OF the year he
found fiies in abundance. and he asserted
the butchers experienced no little amount
of trouble in warding on the pests.
The Councilman reiterated that q mum
prizes IN this contest have practically
cleaned up the city market Of flies, and
that it is almost as hard to find ny In
the inclosed part Of the market building
during the early morning hours as 1t il
to find a needle in a haystack.
Since the Inauguration of the fly-swat.
ting campaign, many youngsters have be-
gun the work of killing the pests, and
one of the points to be attacked first was
the city market, where they were found
In abundance by the youngsters.
In conclusion the Councilman stated
IL the contest has done no other good
than to rid the market of flies, II has
accomplished its purpose, owing to the
fact that formerly the pests proved q
great source of annoyance to those hav-
ing business at that place
Studies will be resumed by the public
school children of Alexandria September
8 next and the work Of issuing permits
to the children to attend these schools
will be begun the week Of September 2
This was decided by the city school board
at its meeting last night The school
children will. therefore, resume their
studies then after more than two months
vacation.
Another matter passed upon by the
board is that the pupils in the first and
second grades will have two sessions
daily, obviating the necessity OF renting
an outside building for the purpose OF
accommodating the owe aow school pop
ulation of the city. These two grades.
1t is anticipated, will be- considerably
crowded at the coming session, hence
the need for two sessions in order that
all may be accommodated. Sessions will
be held in the forenoon and afternoon
and they will be of four hours each.
Within the next few days the police
will begin the work of waging a crusade
against the owners of all unlicensed dogs
in the city. Members of the Police De-
partment were to-day engaged in the
~lrlr .E
have obtained licenses for their dogs from
1 list compiled for them by City Auditor
z. F. Price. Upon the completion of this
work the work, the rounding up of the
owners of unlicensed dogs will be begun
and the owners will be cited to appear in
the Police Court. and under the law fines
will be imposed.
Charged with obstructing the sidewalk
in front of his place of business by
sign, Tony Fiermonte. who conducts a
fruit store at 15os King Street. was ar
raigned in the Police Court to-day on
of Policeman Rawlett. The
accused was told by the court that it
was unlawful to use more than twenty
inches from the building line proper for
display purposes Fiermonte agreed to
remedy the evil and obey the law in
he future, and he was accordingly ac-
Iuitted.
The time limit for the filing of lists of
certified players of the Sunday School
Baseball League with ]. T. Preston,
secretary of the league, expired Tues
lay last and only three teams identified
with the league have filed their lists
.hus far. Owing to the fact that there
appears to be some misunderstanding
among the members regarding this mat
.er the limit for filing same has been
until Monday next.
Contrary to expectations Judge r. H.
L. Chichester. of Fredericksburg, Va,
give his opinion in the quo warranto
instituted recently by
Robert s. Barrett against Urban s. Lam
bert for the latters seat in the City
Council 1t is, however, expected that
within the next few days the opinion
will be announced by Judge Chichester.
Arguments on the roceedings were heard
before Judge Chichester.
charter has been granted by the
State Corporation Commission to the
Bellevue Realty Corporation. of this city,
With a capital stock of SIS, 900. Its OBJ
ects are a real estate business. Off
ers are: Guy H. johnson, president:
/ r. Barnard, secretary and treasurer,
9th of Washington; Gardner L. Boothe,
ice president, this city.
Irene Brown, charged with the larceny
{ money and clothing from Irene Nc
'ermott. was brought here to-day from |
by Policeman Roland. The |
oman will be given hearing in the |
olice Court in the morning.
Only nine deaths OF adults occurred |
ere during the month OF July, accord
lg to the death record kept by the
ealth department. This is regarded as
lateiy 5000 population.
The work of examining the two appli-
II teachers in the public schools was
,mpleted to-day.
apartment Of the Robert Portner Brew
e. Company, had an artery of his left
rist severed while at work this morn
q as the result Of the explosion of a
,ttle. His injuries were dressed by Dr.
lewellyn Powell
willard p. Graves has sold to Richard
Brooks. jr.. a house and lot On the
est side of Fairfax Street, between
rankin and Jefferson Streets A deed
r same was recorded to-day. II
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