Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-17
ALEXANDRIA AFT AIRS
Two Suits Pending for Receiv-
er for Emerson En-
CINE Company.
CLUB TO BUILD new HOME
Local I. 0. o. F. Lodges Visited by
State Grand Master Southall-New
High School Building Urged.
CLUB TO BUILD NEW HOME
Special Correspondence Of The star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star
i ALEXANDRIA, Va. April II. 1918.
i A second suit within a week asking APP
pointment OF receiver for the Emerson
Engine Company. Incorporated, of this
4 city. was filed today in the circuit court
(! for this city for Robert 7. Weaver and
r. Fl. Goldsborough of Washington by
| Attorney John S. Barbour. The object
| of the suit is to rescind certain contracts,
dated June 10. 1912. whereby the COM
plainants subscribed $4,000 of the stock
of the Emerson Engire Company, Incor-
porated. and to require repayment of
the consideration paid by compliments
under said contract to enjoin and re-
strain Victor Lee Emerson, Victor F.
Emerson and Henry F.. Jenkins, pending
this litigation. from assigning or trans
ferring any of their stock in the
Emerson Engine Company, Incorporated.
and to have a receiver appointed.
The other suit for a receiver for the
concern came up before Judge j. b. r.
Thornton in the circuit court at Ma
nassas, Va. Saturday last. and action
on the application was deferred until
tomorrow. Judge Thornton tomorrow
will hear both applications for the ap
pointment of receiver for this con-
corn.
The Emerson Company was organized
| here in 1906 and manufactures marine
and aeronautical engines. Its plant is
on the river front, which was formerly
the old Pioneer Mills property
Club Plans Annual Regatta.
The Alexandria Motor Boat Club at a
meeting last night adopted plans for the
erection of a new clubhouse. Specifica
tons will be submitted to several local
| contractors, and 1t is expected that within
the next week or ten days the contract
will be awarded and work begun. 1t will
| be erected sixty feet south of the Alexan
dria County Lighting Companys wharf.
at the Wolfe street dock. 1t will be a
frame structure two stories high and
will be % by 35 feet. Eight new members
were elected Arrangements for the an
nual club regatta, May 30 next, were dis
cussed. A. L. Uhler was named a COM
mittee to perfect plans to confer with
similar committees from four Washing
| ton clubs that will participate.
! The committee in charge of the cree
ton OF the clubhouse is composed of the
following: c. K. Sherman, T. l.. Hall and
i A. l.. Uhler.
a: N. southall, grand master of the
state I. O. o. F.. of Danville, Va. in a
| speech before the local lodges at a re-
ception rendered him last night. paid "a
warm tribute to the local organization
for the hospitable manner in which he
had been received. The occasion was an
official visit to the Potomac and sarepta
| lodges here and Falls Church Lodge.
Delegates from lodges at Accotink
Dumfries, Lorton and Occoquan also at
! tended. J. T. O'Meara, district deputy
! grand master. presided
Others who made speeches during the
evening were Walter T. Oliver W. NJ.
| Ellyson and Mr.. Payne of Falls Church
| Lodge, and D. r. Stansbury, H. Noel
| Garner, Mr.. Studs and j. William May
| of the local lodge. a buffet luncheon
was served by the Daughters Of Rebekah.
| Necessity for the erection of public
] high school building will be urged upon
members of the joint committee on
schools and finance of the city council
| at public meeting tonight by members
Of the Chamber of Commerce, Retail Mer-
| chants Association, Alexandria Trades
| Council and organizations affiliated with
| it. together with a delegation from the
| Fraternal Order of Americans.