The Washington times., 1913-12-14
City News Notes

runoS 10 ennbfe the children of the
s nei; aborhood to use the Fairgrounds
OF the Petworth School during the sum-
ner have been raised by the Petworth
Playground Association, with a literary
and musical entertainment given at
Stanley Hail. Soldiers Home.
The first degree will be conferred by
Lebanon Lodge, No. I, F. A. A NJ. at
the next stated communication. Friday
ment oy Worshfpful Master Charles D.
Shackelford.
"ShsuId the Business High school
have a lunch room?' was the question
, Tor debate at the regular meeting of
the Daniel Webster Club. The decision
was awarded to the negative.
The Bureau of Fisheries reports that
450Ooo.OoO whitefish eggs have been
taken from Lake Erie, and 10000. 600
from Lake Michigan this year. The
eggs have been sent to the Govern
ment hatchery at Put-in-Bay on Lake
Erie and to various fish hatcheries to
be used in replenishing the supply of
wnitefish, which the Bureau reports has
been diminishing rapidly.
BY the assistance given by the
, American Colonization Society, which
paws all expenses, number of colored
persons are leaving the United States
20 go TO Liberia. Augustus c. Faux
ner. his wife and tive .Ve-year-old son,
Baltimore family. are the pioneers
In the movement to increase the innab-
. itants of the African Republic
The gypsy camp of Henry SfHnIcy,
in old Graceland Cemetery. was burned
out last night with loss estimated at
$50 One of Stanley's children is be-
Deved to have Started the blaze playing
. with fire. The tent anC much of the
family effects were destroyed.
l. The United States revenue cutter
Window has been dispatched up the
Brazos river to the relief Of the food
sufferers in Southeastern Texas. The
two counties OF Matagorda and Braz-
orias are under wafer.
several State line Communities, like
Bristol. Va--Tenn., and Texarkana,
Tex.-Ark., are affected by g provision
in the House postoffice bill. which pro-
Vides that no part of the 3ppropria ton
shon be used for any postoftice located
a certain distance from a Federal
building, where, in the same community
there Is another postoffice maintained.
WsshingtOn's Jewish population
will observe the Feast of Hanukah be-
ginning al sunset December a and
continuing until sunset December IS
Rosh ChOdesh Shebat. another Jewish
feast. fails on December -.
The Pennsylvania Club of the Dis
trict of Columbia WIFI observe its
twenty fifth anniversary with a ban
Quet AT the University Cub tonight
DR.. Charles w. Richardson viii pre-
side.
Nine consIsnmeHts Of desiccated
eggs. grapes. figs, chestnuts. tomato
pulp. phosphate Of lime and onion salad
have been seized by the Department Of
Agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture has
discovered a new stuffing for the
Christmas turkey. 1t is dasheens, the
root OF a pant which resembles that
known famIliarly as the elephant ear.
It is grown from the Carolinas TO the
Gulf.
wnshingtcn physicinns and service
associates OF Lieut.. Col. Walter D.
McCaw, retiring librarian of the Army
aad Navy Medical Museum, gave
i'oiorfe, McCaT and his successor, Lieut.
;Gl Champe c. McCulloch, jr, a dinner
at the University Club Saturday night
The President of Brazil, according
"a state Department advices. has desig-
mattel January l, 1914. as the day for
lting INTO effect the new Brazilian
law. fixing the meridian OF Greenwhich
az thC time basis for Brazil. The Peru
NIan government uses the meridian Of
Washington.
Congressman William 6. Barnes, Jr.,
of West Virginia, addressed the Wash
iaRton Chapter II the Phi Sigma Kappa
fraternity at the chapter house, III S
stree northwest, Saturday night DIR.
a q. King. of the medical department
OF George Washington University; Dr.
N. y. Sullivan, OF the Bureau of Soils,
DEPARTMENT Of Agriculture, and DIR.
Harry w. Tobias. make short speeches
Papers were read by DIR. William Rem
dell williams and Dr. John Edwin
Ho%scpasEc Homes s5 tie soc.is Missa,nstSSe hi tSe
sixteenth annual meeting and banquet
Of the erganization at the bellevue
Hotel Saturday night DR.. H H.
Hawxhurst and DR.. J. II. Branson led
the discussion. The speakers were
Dra @. W. N. Gusts, Louise Ross. G.
q. Btrdsali, r. 8. Copeland, T. s. Mac
donald. W. r. Buchanan. II. II. Hawk
hurst and Attorney A. A. Birney.