The Washington herald., 1914-12-13
Oh. Dorn Gr..r

The WashIlEtOa Society of EnEineers
will hold its annual meeting at the
Cosmos Club Tuesday night.
yellow fever exists at Caracas, vene-
zuela, according to sdvices received at
the State Department yesterday. One
case has been announced thus far.
Today DiVfsIon Ne. J., Ancient Order
of Hibernians, will hold an important
meeting in Kidder Hall, Pennsylvania
avenue and Twentieth street northwest,
at ESQ O'Clock. Among the business to
be transacted will be the election of
ohicers.
DIR. FeIIS Won Lusckan, director OF the
Royal Museum Of Ethnology at Berlin,
will tell of the work of excavating the
Hittite ruins at Bogwaz-Keui in Asia
Minor in a lecture to be given Tuesday
night in the Public Library.
"a Familiar Talk on Egypt" will be
the subject OF an illustrated lecture by
Chauncey c.. Williams at s o'clock to-
night in All Souls Church, Fourteenth
and L streets northwest, the address
being one of a series planned by the
Liberal Religious Union.
The Petworth CItIEens' Association
will meet Tuesday evening at Petworth
NJ. E. Church, Eighth and Shepherd
streets northwest, the business session
ary program, to which families and
friends OF members have been invited.
Miles of dress goods, jewelry enough
for thousands of women. and miscella-
neous articles will be sold at the mid
winter auction of the Division Of Dead
Letters, of the Postofice Department,
to be held by C. q. Sloan, 1907 G street,
next Wednesday.
ChristmaE money will be furnished
to teachers. supervising principals,
caretakers. and janitors of the public
schools by advancing them half OF their
salaries for this month on December -.
The regular date for payment Of De-
cember salaries is January l. This pre-
Christmas payment has been made for
the last FIVE years. 1t entails the dis
bursement Of approximately 100000.
Mai Charles W. KutE, Engineer Com
missioner of the District, yesterday
made an inspection of the workhouse
at Occoquan. Tomorrow he will leave
for Atlanta, Ga, to join Commissioner
Oliver P. Newman in an inspection tour
of the Federal Penitentiary there, and
other penal institutions in the South.
The object of the trip South is to OBJ
tain ideas for a model house OF correc-
ton for the District.
Asa part Of the campaign which the
create sentiment for nation wide pro-
hibition, William D. Upshaw. editor of
the Golden Age. Atlanta, and one of the
vice presidents of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, will speak tonight
at the First BAPTIST Church. Sixteenth
and streets, on A Stainless Flag for
America"
RepresentatIVe Macdonald, Of MIchi-
gan. yesterday pledged his support TO
the Woman's Movement for Construct
i've Peace. when A committee of three
calico on him to assure him of the aid
of the organization in pressing his bill
providing for the submission the ques-
tiOn of the size of the fighting forces
Of the United States to a referendum
vote of the country.
Francis A. I. Connolly, William J.
Cullinan. John c. Mcnamara. John j..
O'Day. r. Edward Schlesinger. and
James d. Rishen will speak on the
literacy test of the Burnett immigra-
tion bill at the Hamilton debate at
CASTOR Hall, Georgetown University,
tonight. The judges will be Secretary