The Washington times., 1913-10-13

Complaint was made TO the polio,
of the Fourtl, precinct today tina
| the lunchroom or Nicholas Marthe
ia F0ur-and-a-half street southwest
| was entered between midnight and
o'clock this morning and Sl03 StoleI
| from the cash register. The plac'
| vas entered by breaking the loci
| on the rear door.
Efforts on the part of the polio,
to get some clue to the identity o
snatChed a purse containing Sc from
Miss Agnes Strobcl. Of 6l2 Fifth
street northeast, have failed. Mis-:
Strobel was at Fifth and G street:
northeast when the man ran mp ant
wrenched the purse fr"m her. She
was unable to give the police a de-
tailed description of the rober.
Smoke coming from the rear Of ths
boarding house at 1911 K street
ncr thwest this morning resulted in
a passer-5y sounding an alarm Of firt
from the box at Fourteenth and X
streets. When the firemen arrived i,
was found the smoke was caused by
burning SCOT in the chimney.
More than 200 persons have asked
for prayer and fifty have expressed
conversion at the union revival serv-
ices now being conducted at the Cos
mopolitan Baptist Church, colorcd,
and which will continue until Novem-
Der 9. The principal evangelists
taking part are Mrs. Blackburn
Truxon, OF New York; the Rev. DIR.
Simon P. w. Drew, pastor Of the
Cosmopolitan Church: the Rev. c. II.
Hunkerford and Prof. James Wright.
Baptismal services Will be held at
the church Wednesday evening.
Miss Annie TaIbert. of street
northeast, he'd almost recovered to-
day from injuries received Saturday
night when an automobile in which
she and NJ. f. Irwin were riding was
demolished in a collision with one OF
the pillars of the elevated railroad
Island avenue northeast.
Preliminary plans for the Cat show
will lie formulated at the meeting of
the Cat Club, to be held at Mrs. Henry
l.. Vests, the president, at the Oc-
tavia, Tuesday night at o'clock.
At Phipps' Clinic Of the Johns Hop
kins Hospital today the condition Of
Lieut.. Col. David Du B. Galllard, one
of the directing engineers at the
Panama Canal, was reported to be
improved. His physicians declare he
spent a comfortab BILE night.
lain of the United States Senate. con-
Quoted both morning and evening
services at the Naval Academy chapel,
at AnnaE oils, Sunday.
Fifty persons were converted and
200 asked for prayer at the revival
services at the Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church Sunday. Speakers for the oc
casion were DR.. S. p. w. Drew, Mrs.
Blackburn Truxon, and the Rev. c. H.
DR. J. Franklin Jameson, of the Car
among the American scholars to lee
ture at Brown University during the
of the 150th anniversary
of the founding of the university. The
more formal commemorative exercises
will be held during the week Of Oc
tober 11-17.
Arrangements for the first of a Sc
ries of dances, to be given the third
Wednesday of every month at Carroll
Institute Hall, were completed at
of the executive committee OF
the Ida NJ. Galloway Auxiliary to the
Col. James S. Pettitt Camp. U. S. W.
V, held last night, at the home Of Mrs.
Kathryn Wood. 126 Adams street
for the purpose of devils
ing means to replenish the relief fund.
All Spanish War Veterans art in
vited to attend a nousewarming TO be
given by'Admiral George Dewey Camp,
No Z United Spanish War Veterans at
southeast, tonight at 7:3o O'Clock.
Roger Wetmore, son of former Sena-
tor Wetmore Of Rhode Island. who IL
confined to Garfield Hospital. with neu-
ritis, was reported unchanged in condi-
ton at the hospital this morning. Mr..
Wetmore's condition has not been fav-
orable for the past few days, but i'm
proYement Is expected.
Miss Elizabeth Stewart, Of Potomac,
Nd, is in Georgetown University Hos
pital seriously injured as a result Of
collision Friday night between a Capital
Traction Company car and the wagon
of John T Mack of Potomac, at Jeffer-
son and NJ stre0ts, Georgetown. The
wagon was demolished, and Mack and
Miss Stewart thrown out Mack was
not seriously hurt.
Ignorance of the mechanism Of .
magazine revolver, may cause the
death OF John Mason. colored an en-
ploye of the Portland stable. Mason
was showing the weapon TO John Un-
derwood. He told Underwood IL was at
safety" so II would not go on Under
wood took ii to examine and II was
the ball entering Mason's
stomach. His injury is serious and may
prove fatal
Miss GcneNieve Champ Clark. dnnRh-
ter Of the Speaker of the House, will
describe her recent tour of Europe at
the National Library for the Blind, 1923
H street northwest, Wednesday evening
at o'clock.
At a meeting of the Young WOmen's
Hebrew Association Miss Anna Horn
stein was reelected president. Other
officers elected are: Vice president.
Miss Henrietta Spiegleblatt: treas
urer, Miss Rose Lazerow: recording
secretary. Miss Anna Cooper inan-
cial secretary, Miss jennie Finger;
Miss Sadie Atlas
plan for establishing rescue
home similar to the Florence Critten-
ton Home, has been formulated by Mrs.
Elizabeth Ricks. a colored woman, OF