Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-02
Soliciting Hospital Funds.

A special committee of five members
OF the executive committee of the Alex
andria Hospital building fund is today in
Washington soliciting contributions for
the funds. Those on the committee are:
a. D. Brockett, Worth Hulfsh, R. S.
Jones. Charles B. Swan and J. H.
Trmyer.
The committee at meeting last night
decided to have the Washington ORA
matte Club present a play entitled Tat
tiers" at the opera house June u for the
benefit of the fund
A total of SS94.95 was added to the
fund today, bringing the grand total up
to S34. 6625S
A contribution of $3.50 was received
from S. Kann Sons & Company of Wash
ington. being given the special commit
tee which visited Washington this morn
ing.
Among other contributions received to-
day were the following: ]. r. Haring.
500: Rebecca w. Dodge $50; Theological
Seminary Chapel, $50; Joseph Schwarz-
mann. SO; Jonah Bernheimer, $40; Will
liam Deiches & Sons, Washington, So.
Reservoir Dam Inspected.
Many city officials, representatives of
the company and others yesterday after
noon inspected the big Bancroft dam and
storage reservoir of the Alexandra
Water Company at Holmes run, Fairfax
county, six miles west of Alexandria
The total length of the dam will be 500
feet. with spillway of 200 feet. Its
maximum height will be 10 feet. When
full the dam will contain 100000, 600 gal
Ions or water, over years supply with
no rainfall 1t will contain 5000 cubic
yards of concrete and require about Il, 600
cubic yards of rock excavation and 20 900
cubic yards of earth excavation. Already
ll.co cubic yards of concrete have been
placed in position. 1t is expected the dam
will be completed by the middle of next
December. Water from this dam will so
into the two distributing reservoirs of the
company, having capacity of 16. 10000
gallons
The dam when completed will represent
an expenditure of about $50. 600. David
j. Howell & Son of Washington are the
engineers who prepared the plans and
are in charge OF the construction. The
Piedmont Construction Company is the
contractor for the dam
Ofhcials. of water company present
We're: Walter Roberts. president; George
1hier secretary and treasurer; Worth
Jacob Brill. J. NJ. Hill W w. Bal
lenger. Kenneth W. Ogden and c. J. ".
Summers; members of council. Urban s.
Lambert. John Leadbeater. Frank c.
Sp1nks, A. D. Brockett. John T. Harri-
son. Charles ]. Sullivan, r L. Monroe.
Thomas Chauncey, D. Monkey Low
Charles B. Marshall. Council-elect at
lending We're: N j. Lawler. Charles
Bendheim. George h. Robinson and c.
". Wattles.
Others present were: l. c. Dunn ci,v
engineer; d. J. Howell. constructing en-
gineer; z. G. Dunn. city engineer:
e. II. Callahan commissioner of rev
enue: p. F., German. tax collector: +
F. Price. city auditor; ]. B Walker, clerk
of gas; DR.. f. A German. city health
ofieer: DR., J: J. Garvey. deputy health
u I~Ych
Harry Hammond. member OF school
board: ]. T. Preston. secretary of the
chamber of commerce: C. d. Hubbard.
superintendent Of Alexandria County
Lighting Company; W. NJ. Reardon Rob-
ert Elliott. F. ]. Pollard. NJ L. Price,
Harmon Roberts, NJ. l.. Dinwiddie NAL
colin Mclean, Leonard Chesser. NJ.
Downey. r. L. Myers. jr.; Wilmer Scott,
\. j. Wedderburn, j. F. Peyton and NJ
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Cases in Police Court.
James Lucas, charged with stealing the