Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-02
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Entertainment to Be Given
Under Father Ferry Tonight.
CLEANUP PLANS COMPLETE
Battle Upon Dirt Will Begin Next
Monday, Police and Citizens
Cooperating.
CLEANUP PLANS COMPLETE
'ecal Correspondence OF The star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 2, 1913.
An entertainment will be given tonight
at the Young Mems Sodality Lyceum
Hall; under the management OF Rev.
Father Ferry. post chaplain at Fort
Washington. The Fort Washington Coast
Artillery Band and an orchestra from the
| fort will participate.
A number of tableaus will be a feature
| Of the program. Chaplain Ferry will give
a reading entitled History of Fort
Washington"
Plans have been completed by the city
health department for cleanup week,
which will be inaugurated next Monday.
Back yards, cellars and alleys will be
cleaned, and rubbish carted off,
DR.. e. A. German, health officer. and
DR.. James J. Garvey, deputy health Of
ficer, have enlisted the cooperation of
the police and the members of the CIVIC
Improvement League. Boy Scouts VIII
alleys are given a thorough overhaul1ns.
Insane Patient Escapes.
Fannie Smith, colored, from Front
Royal. Va, who was being conveyed to
the asylum at Petersburg, Va, at $50
o'clock last night, escaped from a col
ored female attendant while awaiting a
train here She later was captured and
| today was taken to the institution.
A housewarming was held last night by
Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts who have en-
tered their new quarters over Sarepta
+, Hall.
Mamie Gray, colored, was badly cut
with a knife late last night. 1t is al
legged James Diggs, colored, welded the
knife He escaped.
Two handsome black horses for the
Columbia Fire Engine Company, just pur-
chased in Loudoun county by Deputy
Health Officer James J. Garvey, arrived
| here this afternoon.
The executive committee Of the Rose
mont Citizens Association. at meeting
| held last night. decided to recommend to
that association the purchase of a fire
engine for the suburb.
Mrs. Hanratty succumbs.
Mrs. Catherine Hanratty, widow of
Peter Hanratty, died at Z o'clock last
night at her home, S14 North Pitt street,
after long illness. She was fifty
eight years old, and is survived by two
sons and three daughters The funeral
will take place at 9 o'clock Friday
| morning from st. Marys Catholic
Church.
Charles Wick, colored, was brought
here yesterday by Deputy United States
| the city jail. Wick is being held for
the action Of the April term of the
United States court, which will convene
in Richmond. to answer a charge of
breaking into the post ofiice at Vic
Randolph Chapter Rose Croix, No. 8.
Scottish Rite Masons, and Virginia Con-
sistory, No. Q, will tonight install the
recently elected officers of those lodges.
Great Sacheu Whitley will tonight
voox 81 n nf3oio1 visit n ncooo1o Trfho
1, Improved Order Of Red Men, at its
hall.
A final decree Of divorce on the ground
Of desertion was given today in the
StanseH against Dwight 8. Stansell.
Revival services Of unusual interest.
in charge Of Rev. and Mrs. D. j. San
temier, are now in progress at the Free
Methodist Church. All are welcome
Two Law Firms Dissolve.
The law firms Of Moncure & Cloth and
Finney & Ball of Alexandria county were
yesterday dissolved by mutual consent.
Two black horses. weighing 400 pounls
each, have just been purchased by Dep
uty Health Oficer DR.. James j. Garvey
for the Columbia Fire Engine Company.
NJ B. Harlow has purchased from the
George Washington Monument Asso-
citation two building lots in section
two of the George Washington Park,
on King street road.
Harrie White, who was recently
elected secretary and treasurer Of the
Retail Merchants Association, as
sumed his new duties yesterday. The
sumed his new duties today. The
headquarters of the association will
hereafter be at his Office, 62S King
street.
The Old Dominion Boat Club will
hold its annual meeting tonight at the
rooms of the chamber of commerce, at
which time officers will be elected for
the year.
Arrangements have been made for the
installation of the recently elected off,
GERS of that lodge, which will take place
Monday night.