The Washington herald., 1914-04-26
ALEXANDRIA MILITIA
AWAIT CALL TO arms
Capt. Slaymaker Gets Orders to Re-
cruit His Company Up to
Seventy.
MAI. HEMPHILL WILL SPEAK

| Alexandria. Va, April 25.-Capt. F. l.
| Slaymaker. of Company q, this city
known as the Alexandria Light Infan-
! try, today received orders from Charles
NJ. East. adjutant and captain. OF First
Infantry. Virginia Volunteers, to recruit
his company up to seventy men, its full
| strength.
1t is expected that at meeting of the
| company to be held at the armory Mon
| day night many names will be added TO
! the roster. Members of the company
are apparently eager to get word TO go
! TO Mexico.
, Capt Slaymaker is directed to hold
drills FIVE nights each week. Men who
have not had instruction in gallery prac-
tice. will be required to take the course
at once.
What is known as the Relief Asso-
ciation of Railway Employees at the Po-
tomac Railroad Yards was organized to-
night at a meeting at the Hotel Ram
mel. The organization starts out with
a membership of about forty. The Of
ficers are Harry Chambers. president:
Z. c. Crump. vice president; II. B.
Struder. secretary and treasurer.
Shortly after 3 O'Clock this afternoon
fire destroyed the stable and paper ware
house of the Virginia Glass Company,
the plant of which is located in West
End. west of here. also known as Duke
street EXTENDED. The origin of the fire
is unknown. The loss will he about
s4OO covered by insurance. The Reliance
engine from this city went to the fire.
In the Corporation Court Judge L. G.
Barley after hearing a number of wit
nesses in the case of Mrs. II. p. Wilson,
Of Hollins Hall farm, Fairfax County.
Va. against the Agricultural and Live
Stock Association of Northern Virginia.
save verdict in favor of Mrs. Wilson.
The question at issue involved an cleo
trir stove valued at $lJ, to which Mrs.
Wilson claimed she was entitled as a
prize for birds shown at a poultry show
given by the association in January.
Thirty-ivc candidates will be initiated
into Oriental Lodge. No. 6. knights of
Pythiss. Tuesday night. Work will be
conferred 10y i degree team from Wash
ington. The Washingtnnians will como
here escorted by William Carver's Com
panv No. :. Uniformed Rank. knights
OF Pythias Washington. They will bc
met at King and Payne streets by men,
bers of the local lodge and. headed by
march in a boiy to the Young Peoples
Building Aftcrward there Will be
banquet. which will be served by the
wives and sisters Of members of the
lodge. II is expected Grand Chancellor
Benjamin Baer, Of Luray. Va. will Re
present.
The body of an unidentified coIored
man, about forty years old, was found
floating in the dock at the acid plant
Of the Alexandria FertiliZing and Chemi-
cal Company this afternoon. 1t was
badly decomposed and evidently had
been in the water about two months. l.
was removed TO Dcmaine's undertaking
establishment. DR.. T NJ. Jones, coro-
ner. deemed an inquest unnecessary.
In the pockets was found SIS. together
with a memorandum, written on a pay,
envelope. addressed to either ]. or I.
Bayer. showing balance due of 81 l..
As the result Of a fall from a scaf-
folding while he was painting at Front
Royal. Va, Yesterday, J. r. Peterson,
OF this city. was badly injured. Peterson
was brought to this city and taken 10
the Alexandria Hospital and operated
on today by DR.. MI. Delaney for a
fracture of the spinal column.
o Mai. J. c Hemphill former editor of
the Richmond Times-D Dispatch. will de-
liver the annual memorial address at the
exercises to be held May . by r. E. Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans.
Among those injured on Wednesday
last in the occupation of Vera Cruz was
Lieut.. James p. Lannon. of this city.
Lieut. Lannon Is ordinance officer on
the batleship Vermont. He is well known
in this city, where he lived up to the
time of entering the navy.
James H. Posey. eighty-three years
old. died late last night at the homo
Of his son-in-law, Frederick @. Ayers.
Prince street. between Fayette and
Payne streets. Nr. Posey was q veteran