The Washington herald., 1915-02-05
Obe Gown Crter

"HypnOtlsm" was the subject Of m
lecture delivered to the Sophomore
Class of Georgetown College by James
Harrahan last night.
The Navy Department yesterday L.
sued call for bids for the -onstruc-
ton of six hydroaeroplanes for the
navy. Bids will be opened Feb
ruary 81.
MIS- ANNA Sullivan. forty years old,
broke her ankle yesterday when she
fell from the steps of her home, 93S
Fourth street northeast. She was
taken to Casualty Hospital.
Mrs, Thomas McGee, sixty-hye year,
old, OF 14l2 Twenty-first street north
west, was injured when she slipped
and fell to the sidewalk near 1884
Connecticut avenue northwest, yester-
day morning. She was taken to her
home.
The formation OF nm "oId students,
association" will be considered at
meeting of several graduates and ex-
graduates of chemistry at George
Washington University, to be held to-
night at the Medical Library.
"EXperiences on European Battle
fields" will be told by Miss H. NJ
Boulnois, who has just returned from
Europe. at the morning service of the
Anacostia Baptist Church, Thirteenth
and w streets southeast. next Sunday
The Terminal Railroad Y. NJ. c. A.
plans to hold regular Friday and Sat
urday stereopticon lectures in the Y
NJ c. A. headquarters in Union Sta
ton. beginning tonight. THE Rhine"
is the subject of the first of the
series.
"kitchen shower, Is to be con-
Quoted = at the Chevy Chase School
this afternoon under auspices of the
lunch committee of the school. Parents
OF the children will be given an op-
portunity to meet Mrs. Crossley, the
new superintendent.
Capital Traction car and an auto
mobile driven by Herbert R. Eastwood,
5000 X street northwest, collided be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets on New York avenue north
west, yesterday afternoon. No one
was injured. The cars were slightly
damaged.
The police nre looking for the
driver of wagon who ran down and
seriously injured Richard Major, sixty,
colored. OF 5o6l= Nineteenth street
northwest, yesterday afternoon at the
Building. The driver whipped up his
horse and escaped. The negro was
taken to Emergency Hospital in
precarious condition.
The Commissioners left the District
Building yesterday afternoon to make
an inspection of the farmers produce
market stands just north of the whole
sale and retail markets in B street
between Tenth and Twelfth streets.
The addition OF one more shed is
contemplated. The present addition
was provided at a cost of $4,000.
The Washington Safety-FIrst Asso-
citation will hold a neighborhood meet
ing tonight at the Iowa Avenue NJ
E. Church under auspices of the Piney
Branch Citizens Association. Illus
| trated lectures will be given by F.
W. Fitzpatrick and w. F. Peabody,
who is president of the safety-first
association. President J. A. Cham
berlain, of the citizens association
will deliver an address.
Mrs. J. l.. WiImeth, president of
the Home and School Association of
the Monroe School, has called a spe-
cial meeting for today at o'clock
at the school building to perfect plans
for the starting of the diet school
in the early spring. There will be
an address by Miss J. p. Wilkinson
outlining the scope of the course of
lectures to be given on this subject.
The Park View Citizens Association
will hear an exposition of what gov
ernmental, semi governmental, and
civic institutions of Washington are
doing for the city at a meeting to
be held tonight The speakers will
include the three District Commission
ers, Conrad H. Syme, corporation
counsel: Snowden Ashford, municipal
architect; Edward F. Coladay, presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens
Associations: Allan Davis, principal of
Business High School, and w. II.
Richardson, chairman of the clean
city committee.
Police and fire department officials
Yesterday made personal, as well as
official acquaintance with Commission
er Louis Brownlow, recently installed
in charge of matters pertaining to
those departments. Shortly after the
new Commissioner arrived at his office
he went to the office of Maj. Richard
Sylvester, chief of police, and was pre-
sented to inspectors, captains. and
several other officers gathered there.
At IL o'clock he held in his own of1ce
an informal reception for Chief Wag-
ner, battalion chiefs, and other oft1-