Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-16
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Citizens May Seek Injunction
Against Street Paving.
WANT WIDER HIGHWAY
Object to Having Roadway Cut to
Fifty.Six Feet-Wharf Lessees
Give Ultimatum.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special Correspondence or Inc star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 16. 1872.
Property owners residing on the four
squares on Washington street between
Queen and Duke streets, which are about
to be improved with asphalt block, may
institute injunction proceedings to prevent
the work, because they prefer to have the
street sixty feet wide instead of fifty-siX
as planned under the present plans and
specifications for the work.
According to the ideas of certain city
officials the cutting down of the road
way is necessary in order to save many
of the handsome shade trees on that
thoroughfare.
George E. Price & Co, lessees of the
city wharf, are determined that hereafter
all watermelons brought to this port
shall, as required by law, be landed at the
corporation wharf, or the required wharf
age. which is the privilege of the lessees
to collect, be paid.
William Arlington was cited by the les
sees to appear in court yesterday after
noon before Justice l.. H. Thompson be-
cause it was alleged he had brought a
load of melons here and failed to pay the
wharfage. Mr.. Arlington agreed to pay
the necessary wharfage although the
melons were not landed at the corporate n
wharf. This was agreeable to all parties
concerned, whereupOn the case was dis
missed.
Goes to Salt Lake City.
Carroll Pierce vice president of the
Citizens National Bank, left this morn
ing for Salt Lake City Utah, to attend
the annual meeting of the American
Banking Institute, which will convene
in that city Tuesday. Mr.. Pierce will
respond on behalf of the association to
welcoming addresses whicn will be made
by the governor and mayor of the city.
He will be gone about two weeks.
After extensive improvements, the
rathskeller of the Eiks' Home which
has been closed for the past two weeks,
will be reopened tomorrow. new con-
crete floor and other improvements have
been made.
NJ d. Harlow and wife have sold to
Richard NJ. Chambers house. 122 South
PeytOn street A deed of conveyance
was placed on record today in the Of
| flee Of the clerk of the corporation
court.
Samuel Bell, colored, of this city died
| in Washington yesterday. For many
years he was engaged in tugboat service
on the river.
Oehlert Free on Bond.
William Oehlert, who was arrested
yesterdy in connection with the rob-
berry of freight from car near Ed
sails Station, Fairfax county, yesterday
afternoon gave a bail bond in the sum
of $1,000 for his appearance before the
grand jury and he was released from
custody.
The body of Mrs. Roswell Broughton,
who was burned to death at her home
in Norfolk Wednesday afternoon last,
was shipped this morning to Culpeper.
Va. at which place the burial took
place this afternoon.
In the corporation court today John
W. Herndon qualified administrator
of the estate of the late Dabney Hern-
don.
Potomac Lodge of Odd Fellows will
hold a business meeting tonight.
J. Randall Cation jr., left this morn
ing for Atlantic City. where he Will
spend week.
Gardner l.. Boothe left last night for
Woodbury. Forest, where he will join
his wife and son.
George l.. Appich has returned from
business trip to Martinsburg, W. Va