The Washington herald., 1914-03-13
Obe Down Grier

Private X. X. Price, of the Ninth Do
lice precinct. Is reported to be critically
Ill at his home, 5i9 Fourth street north
west. He has been a member of the
police force for twelve years.
The BriEhtwood Citizens Associates
will meet this evening at O'Clock at
Gallinger will be the guest of the as
sociation.
L. G. Carpenter, forty-nve years old,
Of Phoenix, Ariz-, fell on the ice at Fiji
teenth and streets yesterday afternoon
injuring his arm. He refused to go to
the Emergency Hospital and received
treatment at crus stone.
Mrs. Hazel KIee, who swallowed a
dose Of bichloride Of mercury by mis-
take Wednesday morning at her home,
40 Sixth street northwest. was reported
much improved by physicians at Cas-
ualty Hospital last night
Rev. Edmund T. sAanahan Ieetured
on the .'Anti-Intellectual Movement of
Our Times" at Catholic University
yesterday. The next lecture of the
winter course will be on The Temper
ance Movement in Europe" by william
De Lacy. March 10.
Secretary Of state Bryan will speak
on Opportunities of the College Man and
the World Peace Movement tonight. at
the annual smoker of Johns Hopkins
Alumni Association at the University
Club. Other addresses will be delivered
by Prof J. B. Whitehead. of Johns Hop
kiDs University. and Superintendent of
Schools E. l. Thurston.
The Civil Service Commission yester-
day announced that an examination will
be held April 4 for the position of ma
rine fireman at a salary of $40 a year
and rations aboard the steamer Swart-
wout. Service will be in the quarter
master corps and the successful applicant
viii be stationed at Fort Washington,
Md.
Rev. John r. QuIrk, of Georgetown
University, has accepted a professorship
of philosophy at Boston College. and will
leave Washington within the next two
weeks. For the last four years Father
Quirk has taught ethics and metaphysics
in the Junior grades at Georgetown Uni
versity. At Boston College he will teach
the same subject. but his classes will be
Of senior students.
While en- route 10 Pacific Coast, DIR.
Barton W. Evermann. who has been
designated chief of the Alaska fish
cries service, Bureau OF Fisheries, and
accepted the dictatorship of the mu-
scum of the California Academy of
Sciences, at San Francisco. intends to
visit most of the big museums OF the
country before assuming his new
duties
Ben G. Davis, town clerk; T.. Norman
Jackson. and J. W. Shade have been
appointed a board of assessors for Ia
koma Park, Md, with instructions to
prepare the annual realty assessment.
Efforts have been made to have the
board assess unimproved property at
IS per cent of its true value, and to in
crease the assessment on improved
property 25 per cent
Director GrosEmann, of the National
Associatiop>for Study and Education Of
the Exceptional Child. will speak under
rUspices OF the womans Alliance at All
Souls Church. Fourteenth and l. streets
northwest. at 1850 o'clock this morning
Twentieth Century Ideals and the
Child will be his subject. Other speakers
will include Health Officer Woodward.
Miss Elizabeth V. Brown, and Miss Mar
Sdret stewart.
Richard watrous, secretary of the
American Civic Association. will de-
liver an illustrated address at the
meeting of the Cleveland Park School
and Community Association Friday
evening, March 1S, at s in John Eaton
School. Lowell street between Thirty
third and Thirty-fourth streets. Mr..
Watrous will speak on suburban I'm
provements: What Has Been Done:
What May Be Done"
DR.. David L. Munson, thirty-one
years old, OF li03 Thirty-first avenue,
Seattle, Wash. engaged a policeman in
conversation yesterday at Thirteenth and
Ill streets northwest His questions led
the policeman to believe that he needed
hospital treatment Accordingly. DIR.
Munson is being held at the Washington
Asylum Hospital for observation as to
his mental condition. Munson came to
Washington Sc al days ago to take an