The Washington herald., 1914-04-21

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II 0be 0ovn Grter
meet tonight In the banquet room oi
lthe Shoreham Hotel,
Oliver r; Newman, president of ths
Board Of District Commissioners, wal
thirty-seven years old yesterday.
Mrs Archibald Hopkins Iectured yes.
terday afternoon at the Monday en-,
tertainment Of the Club OF Colonia
Danes. John Barrett will speak al
the meeting May IL. and Henry Davi,
on May is.
Angelo BoveIIo, who died ye.terda,
at his residence. SO4 North Capitol
street. will be buried in st. Mary's
| Cemetery, following mass at 81. Alo-
ysius' Church this morning at $3.50
O'Clock.
Commissioners Newman. siddons
and Harding appeared before a sub
VI llC otHdlt NOIn
mittee yesterday morning in refer
ence to the Works bill fixing rates for
taxicabs and other vehicles.
SiIas Arnold, forty-two years old
) fet inches tall, l70 pounds. dark
hair and mustache, was reported 10
the police late yesterday afternoon as
missing from 467 I street northwest.
He is a stranger to this city.
The young people OF the MetropoIi-
tan Baptist Church. Sixth and A streets
northeast are making preparations foi
an entertainment TO be given Friday.
the proceeds of which will go to the
cancellation of the church debt.
DIR. s. 4. Kenneth Mees. director of
the research laboratory of the East
man Kodak Company. lectured on
Physical Chemistry of Photography"
at a meeting of the Chemical Society
of Washington at the Cosmos Club last
night.
Miss Mabel Boardpan, head of the
American Red Cross. expects to leave
Washington the latter part of the
week for St. Louis to attend the con-
vention of trained nurses of the United
States. which is to be held there April
% to IS.
The CorinthiaB Yacht Club In plan
ming extensive improvements TO the
clubhouse and grounds and to the
berthIng facilities. Contracts for the
betterments will be let out as soon as
the owners of the property approve
the designs.
The Catholic University Calumet
Club gave a minstrel and vaudeville
show in the Masonic Hall. Brookland.
last night. The performance will be
repeated tonight in the Masonic Hall.
Thursday night in st. Patrick's Hall,
and Friday night in Immaculate Con-
ception Hall
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion will resume the hearings of the
citizens of Somerset. Nd, in their fight
against an increase in fare OF the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company and the Washington Rookie
willie Railway tomorrow.
DIR. r. J. Gould will lecture before
the third and fourth grade teachers
this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the
Thomson School DIR. Gould will ad-
dress the teachers of the grades from
the fifth to the eighth at the Nc
Kinley Manual Training School Thurs
day afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Commissioner Newman has called
meeting of the Independence Day COM
mittee for this morning at 1880 o'clock
in his office in the Municipal Build
ing. The letter suggestion contest, ii
is hoped. will stimulate public interest
in the Fourth of July celebration here
this year.
Oliver VI. Maxam, assistant general
of the United States
Life-saving Service. will give an Illus
trated lecture on the work of the
service at a meeting of the Washing
ton Society of Engineers tonight AT
S o'clock. The talk will be illustrated
with lantern slides and motion pic
lures.
Commissioners Newman and Siddons
and Auditor Donovan were at their
desks yesterday after a trip down the |
Potomac Sunday on the L. S. S. Sylvia, !
the practice vessel of the Naval Bat |
TALON of the District National Guard. |
The boat left the dock at 10 o'clock |
and steamed to Indian Head, return
ing at 6.
samuel MendaII, Ave years old, Of
49S F street southwest. while hanging |
on the rear OF an American Express !
Company auto truck. fell off on F
street. between Four-and- half and
Sixth streets southwest yesterday aft
ernoon. and one wheel of the car
passed over his legs. He was taken
to Casualty Hospital, but his condi-
tion is not serious.
Booker r. Washington Will he the
principal speaker at celebration OF
the eighty-eighth, anniversary of the .
birth of the late Senator John B. Hen
1erson, to take place here November Is
under the auspices of the Henderson
Memorial Civil Rights League of
America. a colored organization. Sem
ator Henderson was author OF the thir-
.eenth amendment to the Constitution.
II. Martin Williams, Herbert j. Browne.
Thomas E. Will, and James Hugh
Kelley are among the speakers sched-
lied to discuss "A Model Government
'or the District of Columbia-Autoc-
-acy or Democracy" at the Public Lii
1rary tomorrow night. The "Bruere
PLAN will be debated. The meeting
s to be held under the auspices of the
Study Club in Economics, and will be