The Washington herald., 1914-12-31
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ChiIdrea playing With matches
caused q $40 fire yesterday mornInf
on the second floor OF 1871 Twenty
4 nth street northwest.
With only s200 of the requisite,
amount lacking, officials of the Asso
ciated Charities are expecting to clos,
all Of the Fourteen Christmas oppor
tunities with a few days.
/ The usual New Years yiEiI ueryIc,
OF the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, which has been an attractIv.
feature of this church's activities fol
many years. will be omitted tonight
because Of the continued disability o.
! the pastor, Rev. Wallace Radcliffe.
Henry c. FreItaE, lunch room pro.
prietor at 21s Ninth street northwest
! was found dead in his room on tn,
third floor of the building yesterday
morning. Accidental asphyxiatioI
was the cause.
Homer Riggs, tweIve-year-oId 30,
! Scout, yesterday called at the White
House and presented TO President
Wilson a. New Years greeting from
! the Boy Scouts of Woodlawn Heights
! Presbyterian Church. New York
I Homer is visiting his grandmother
Mrs. Homer Riggs. III Maryland ave
nue. northeast.
I Y. VI. C. A. omcIaIs announce "Opeu
house" at their institution New Years
| Day. Many improvements in the build
| ing will be pointed Gut by guides the
visitors being expected to make .
thorough inspection OF the property
! Concerts will be given in the after
noon and evening.
District Sons of the Revolution are
| looking forward with interest to Feb
ruary ., when Washington's birth
day is TO be celebrated by the organi-
zation with an elaborate program. A
committee composed Of Col Archibald
Hopkins, DrI Gaillard Hunt, Prof
Harry Buckley. Col. George n. Rich
been appointed to arrange the obser-
vance.
An appeal for 81 contributions from
every resident of the District and from
every one of its 2,24o members was is
sued yesterday by the Young Women's
Christian Association, which is raising
money to defray expenses for moving
to its new headquarters on the upper
floors of the Federal National Bank
Building. Fourteenth and G streets
northwest.
The Young Ladies' Guild Of Casual
~ Hospital gave a dinner and recep-
ton to the nurses OF the hospital last
night. Twenty-Five covers were laid.
Miss May Hurlburt read a paper on
the progress being made by the guild
in its work for the hospital. Miss Mi
landa Adams, president OF the guild.
sang several selections, while Miss
Florence Palmer was the piano ac-
companist. Miss Adele Wilson, super
intendent OF nurses, presided at the
meeting.
The Girls GIee Club of George
Washington University gave a musical
in the Arts and Science Hall of the
school, 2O23 G street northwest, last
night The following members of the
executive committee made arrange
ments: Everill Worrell. president;
Mary TyndaIl. vice president; Marie
GatchelI, secretary: Elizabeth Rich
ardson, treasurer: Helen Cam. libra
rian. and Ruth Ayler. directress. Leo
Terry was usher.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No.
/, Daughters of Veterans, will hold a
public reception on New Years Day
at Grand Army Hall, 1912 Pennsylva-
mia avenue northwest, from 1 to
o. m. All Grand Army veterans, Sons
of Veterans, Spanish War Veterans.
and other patriotic organizations are
invited. Those in charge are Mrs. Hester
B. Tritipoe, president; Mrs. George A.
Howe, Misses Seton. Hayward. Ham,
ilton, Taylor HARRISON, Albright. Jost,
Mrs. Fauth, Mrs. Scott, and Mrs. Wash
burn.
Washington Lodge, No. Is, B--P. o.
Elks, have planned an elaborate en-
and watch party New
Years Eve at the H street quarters.
and have issued invitations TO 400
guests. A dance will be given, start
ing at $50 o'clock, and a varied enter
tainment will follow later in the even
ing. Tho entire clubhouse will be
thrown open for the evening. the spa
cious reception hall being ideally ar
ranged for dancing. and the rathskel-
Ter will be decorated in gala attire for
the occasion, which promises to be one
of the largest and most brilliant en-
of its kind in the history
of the Elks' organization.
Richard J. Harden Camp. No. :, De-
partment of the District of Columbia,
United Spanish War Veterans, will
celebrate New Years Eve by holding
its annual entertainment and dance at
PythIan Temple. An excellent pro
gram of vocal and instrumental music
and recitations has been arranged and
will be served during the
evening. The electrical effects used in
staging several novel features are in
charge of W. ]. Sammond, chief cleo
triclan of the Government Printing
once. The committee in charge of the
program is composed Of ]. z. Wilson,
chairman; William A. Bowling, A. L.
Smith. c. ]. Mccarthy, c. c. Almond.
B. $. Favorite, n. X. Thorne, Benjamin
l. Tubman, and William A. o'Brien.