Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-07
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
More Than 800 Pupils Get Per-
mitS to Attend School.
INJURIES PROVE FATAL
Arthur Simpson, Employe of Wash
ington-Virginia Railway, Dies
From Fractured Skull.

! special correspondence OF Inc star.
| ALEXANDRIA. Va, September T.
| More than 500 permits were issued this
| morning to children to attend the pub
| lie schools. When the doors of the
armory hall were opened there was
large crowd of children, many accom-
panied by parents. seeking the permits.
The number issued this morning is
in excess of those issued on the first
day last year, and would indicate that
there will be an increased attendance
this session. Harre White and Fran
els Johnston issued the permits.
Permits will be issued to white chill
dren tomorrow. at the same place, and
| Thursday to colored children.
Friday permits will be issued to chill
dren living in the annexed territory,
which is west of Hooffs run, at the
West End SchooihouSe.
The children upon receiving their per-
mits reported to the schools and were
assigned by the teachers to the grades
in which they will study.
St Mary Academy, conducted by the
Sisters of the Holy Cross, reopened for
the schoo, term today. There was
large attendance. This week will be
devoted to the examination of pupils
and assigning them to the different
classe. Only half sessions will be held
this week
Injuries Prove Fatal.
Arthur Simpson, about forty-two
years old. an employee of the Washing
Virginia Railway Company, was
struck by work car of the company
shortly after IL o'clock this morning
while near the company's powerhouse
at Four mile run. Simpson was placed
aboard a train and conveyed to Wash
ington and rushed to the Emergency
Hospital, where he died at 11:40
o'clock without -regaining conscious
ness His skull was fractured. The
body was brought here this afternoon
and prepared for burial.
Simpson is survived by his wife and
one child, together with several sis
tiers and brothers. He lived on Wilkes
streets.
After David P. Corbett, who lives at
Ashburn, Loudoun county. Va, took a
drink from a bottle of whisky Sunday,
while in the northeastern part of the
city, he went to sleep, and when he
awoke. two hours afterward, his roll,
consisting of $50, was gone.
Corbett told the police about the af-
fair, and they took in custody Frank
Wilkins. Wilkins, it was testified, pro-
1t was also testified that Wilkins,
while in the corridor of police head
quarters, destroyed gas fixtures and
electric light bulbs. There was no evil
the taking of Corbett's money, but he
was fined $50 for selling liquor and an
additional fine of S25 was imposed for
destroying city property.
Elects Delegates.
r. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Vet
Grams, at its monthly meeting last
night elected delegates to the annual
meeting of the grand camp of the
state which will be held in Fredericks-
burg October 1921. The delegates are
John R. Zimmerman, Robert Hutch
ison, Booker C. Hall and J. B. Spicer.
In addition. all past commanders are
delegates.
A committee composed of John NJ
Johnson. John R. Zimmerman and Joel
o. Adams was appointed to draft reso-
lutions to the memory of the late Maj.
Holmes Conrad, who died in Win
chester Saturday.
A fine of $40 was imposed on Alex
Dodd in the police court today on a
charge of assaulting William Taylor.
Taylor claimed he was knocked down
and kicked by Dodd, and his left eye
fully corroborated his statement. Gus
Marshall and John Green. both colored,
got into an alteration and Green told
the court he simply had to fight as
Marshall was cutting at him with a
knife Marshall was fined IS and
Green acquitted. Wiley Powell. col
ored n-rrn1 WITH aron- '|i--" "-i'iin
Washington. colored. was fined $40 and
Washington also charged with ngnt-
ing, was acquitted. A fine of IS was
imposed on a man giving the name of
James Taylor for shooting pigeon
while on the river front
Sunday School Meeting.
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Alexandria Sunday School
Association will be held at 7:45 o'clock
tonight in the Young Peoples building,
at which time plans will be mapped
out for the Sunday school parade in
October and a day decided upon.
An important meeting of Alexandra
Lodge of Elks will be held Monday
night, at which time a trustee will be
chosen to fill a vacancy.
The Eagles base ball team yesterday
won two games from the Woodbridge
team, to and 10 to 2. The Eagles
celebrated the victory with red-fre
pa rade in automobiles last night.
The outing at the Dyke yesterday