Evening star., 1913-10-14
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Reorganization of Tax System
of State to Be Discussed.
INJURIES TO BOY FATAL
Hubert S. Monger Has Skull Crush
ed While Working at
Bancroft.
Special CORES pondenee Of rhe Star.

Speclai orrespoDdence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. October IA, 1918.
The chamber of commerce will be rep
resented at a conference OF the various
commercial organizations of the state in
Richmond within the next few weeks for
the purpose of considering the alleged in
equitable system of taxation nov pre-
vaiing throughout the state. resulting it
is claimed in the burden of taxation be-
ing borne by the various cities. The COM
nittee from the local organization is
headed by JOHN w. May chairman.
The chamber of commerce Of this city
almost simultaneously with the Richmond
Chamber of Commerce. took up this mat
ter. and since then the question has been
taken up with the various commercial or
ganizations in the state, with the result
that considerable enthusiasm has been
aroused. Plans will be mapped out at the
Richmond meeting. for bringing the mat
ter in proper form before the session OF
the legislature next January. arc Forts
will be made to change the prevailing
system of assessment. Fl.
Records obtained several months ago
by the committee from the chamber of
commerce showed that out of the 100
counties in the state seventy y-one cost the
state $J92, ,25S37 and twenty mine counties
show a gain TO the state OF $29S, o46-oO.
The nineteen cities in the state showed a
total gain to the state last year OF
81, ,So4. 464A. :,
A special committee consisting of J. NJ.
Duncan, Walter Roberts, H. P. Wilson.
e. S. Leadbeater and J. Louis Loose was
appointed by the chamber to see what
can be done relative to the completion OF
this end of the Richmond to Washington
highway.
A committee consisting of W. A. Smoot.
jr.; John w. May and r. S. Jones was
appointed for the purpose of revising
the constitution and bylaws Of the
chamber
A letter of thanks was received from
r. p. Andrews, chairman of the joint
committee of the recent ashington mer-
chants boosters excursion, thanking
the organization for the hospitable man
ner in which the visitors were entertained
during their brief sojourn in Alexandria
on that occasion
Dies as Result of Injuries.
Hubert s. Monger, sixteen years old,
died at 10 o'clock last night at the Alex
andria Hospital, as the result of injuries
sustained by the overturnng of a drill
press on which he was working at Bar
croft Fairfax county. shortly after 8
o'clock in the afternoon. The body will
be shipped tonight to the home Of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert f. Monger.
Ellkton, Va, where burial will be made.
Monger was employed by the Piedmont
Construction Company, which is building
a dam for the Alexandria Water Com
pany at Bancroft. he served in the ca
pacity of steam drill helper, and was
on top of the drill when 1t overturned.
The crank shaft of the instrument plowed
its way through his skull, badly crushing
it.
Three employees at the. works rushed
MonSer i'll a buggy to the Alexandria
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seven miles. in half an hour Monger
was placed on the operating table and at
tended by Drs. Llewel1yn Powell and s.
b. Moore. He never regained conscious
ness. His father was also employed at
the place and he came to Alexandria fol-
lowing the accident
Elizabeth Boothe, twelve years old,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William J.
Boothe of 406 North Washington street,
while riding bicycle at King and Royal
streets at 5:3O o'clock yesterday after
noon was knocked from her wheel and
painfully injured by wagon belonging
to Armour & Co. and driven by G. w.
Smallwood. The title girl was picked up
by Alderman +. F. Marbury and j. Frank
Carlin and taken to her home In an au-
tomobile, where she is being treated by
Drs. Llewellyn Powell and Hugh Mcclure.
G. w. Smallwood, driver of the wagon
was taken in custody by Sergt. Wilkin-
son and Policeman Young, and q charge
of violating the traffic laws entered op-
posite his name. When the case was
called in the police court today a contin-
uance was granted until tomorrow at the
instance of Judge c. b. Nicol In order
that the Washington. counsel for Armour
& Co. may be present The accused was
released on his own recognizance.
Emma Thompson, colOfed, while in the
northeastern section of the city shortly
after II O'Clock last might, was struck
over the. head with a large wooden bar
by a colored man and badly injured She
was taken to the hospital. where she was
treated by Drs. Powell and klipstein.
Ex-Mayor Hayes to Speak.