The Washington times., 1914-01-19
LOCAL.

Suffrage in the District of Column
bia' will be the subject for discussion
at the meeting of the East Washington
Citizens Association in East Washing
ton Hall, 314 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. tonight. Reports of commit
tees will be received.
The man who steals chickens in Marr.
land is fine dOnly once while the man
who builds a henhouse here has to nav
tax equivalent to fine every year,
said II. Martin Williams, Reading Clerk
of the House, in a speech before :he
Secular League, in Phythian Hall yes
terday. This isn't fair, Mr. Williams
said, and he was supported by C. B.
Johnson. Spencer Heath, and r. T.
Devine, the latter an Erie, Pa, business
man. Max George and ]. Solomon took
opposite views.
A warning against storing OF exnIo-
sives on ships using wireless has beep
issued by the Bureau OF Navigation
Department of Commerce Radio IN
spectors have been directed to rfgidIy
examine wireless Instruments on vessels
carrying highly infiammable materials,
Benjamin J. Marsh, of New York
spoke on The Sense of Justice Ex
tinct" at the Y. NJ. C. 4. Yesterday
illustrate social conditions in Ameri1
can cities
Complaint has been made 10 tba
police that the laundry Of Chung Lee,
5S IL street northwest, was entered sun.
day, and T2 stolen from the caab
drawer. The robbery is belieevd bv the
ponce 10 have been committed by the
same thief or thieves who hav broken
into a number of Chinese laundries IN
dlrerent sections of the cItv on Sundav
afternoons recently.
Physicians at Providence Hos,ito,
reported today that Mrs. Belle How
ell Bohn. daughter of Rear Admiral
j. A. Howell. U. S. N; whose skull
was fractured in a runaway acciJent
near Warrenton. Va, SATURDAY snent
good night and, was resting com
fortably this morning Although Mrs
Bohn's condition is still rega Tded as
critical. hgpe is entertained for her
recovery. At her bedside is her sis
ter, Mrs. W. c. Neville, of the Ear
ragut, and Miss S. Fl. Neville. her
ME. Rear Admiral ]. A. Howell has
been notified. ''''>
The CDnico-PatholOgic Society. of
Washington, will present to Garfield
Hospital, Wednesday, rnemoriaI tob-
let to DR.. Henry B. DeaIe, who died
June 49, l9l2. DR.. Deale was one of the
founders Of the society.
"Clairns of Culture" was the subiac+
OF an ADDRESS by Rabbi Abram Simon,
COnRTnR1-
ton, at the Collegiate Club last night.
The Rev. DR.. w. ]. Kerby, Of the
Catholic University, preached to Gn0
members of the Washington section of
the diocesan union of the HoIv Name
Society, at annual vesper services vos-
terday evening at st. Augustine's Csfbo-
lie Church. He spoke on Good F;X
ample"
The meeting OF the Gaelic Societr If
Washington. scheduled for next Wadnas-
day night at the Willard, has been no.t-
poned until Thursday night. DR.. > I
LennoX will lecture and Mrs. William
Reed will give recital of folk songs.
The Central Union Mission has sent
out an urgent appeal for donations
of supplies and money. The recent
cold weather has driven hundreds nf
men to the mission for shelter and
the lack Of blankets and bedding has
deprived many Of these comofrts
J. Dixon Avery. a seventy-fye-vear-
old Pittsburgh dariyrnan, made his
fourth venture in matrimony today when
he procured a license at City Hail IN
marry Mrs. Marie r. Streiff, fifty-siS
years old. also of Pittsburgh. He tnI6
Colonel Kroll, the marriage license clerk,
that two of his former wives were dead
and that he was divorced from the third
The couple were married today by the
Rev l.. +. Purdum.