The Washington herald., 1916-10-05

Reports to the Navy Department
from the Merritt Chapman wrecking
Co.. and from officers Of the wrecked
cruiser Memphis in San Dominican
most a complete loss. The Memphis
cost over 31o.OO0,OoO. She will have to
be blown up to prevent her becoming
a menace to navigation.
The National Commission of Fine
Arts will meet tomorrow and will
hold sessions extending over two
days. J. Alden Wier, painter;
Charles A PIatt, architect, and Will
lam Mitchell Kendall, all of New York
City, are new members who will be
here for the meetings. Many plans
for the improvement of Washington
will be considered.
Very Rev. DR.. Fitzgerald, prior Of
the Dominican Monastery at Brook
land. officiated at mass yesterday in
observance OF the feast OF st. Fran
els OF Assist. Right Rev. owen b.
Corrigan, of Baltimore. occupied a
throne near the central altar. The
Franciscan choir furnished the music.
Funeral services for William F. Tom
linson, for twenty years a clerk in the
government service, and a former news
paper man, will be held from his home
1898 Fourteenth street northwest at .
p. m. today. The church services will be
at Mount Pleasant NJ. z. Church, with
the Rev. Forest ]. Prettyman officiating
Interment will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Mrs. Josephine Hendley, long identi-
fed with charitable work in the District
will be buried today from the Church
OF the Ascension. Mrs. Hendley died at
the residence OF her sister Mrs. Bonita
Bryan, 1901 N street northwest
She was the widow OF james Dixon
Hendley. and is survived Dy one SON.
James A. Hendley, of this city.
The Rev. DR.. W. w. Evans, who died
Monday at the residence Of his son-in-
law, DR.. Edward B. Rosa, $40 Newark
street northwest, will be held at York,
Pa, this afternoon. DR.. Evans was 76
years old and retired from active serv-
ice five years ago. He is survived by a
son and a daughter.
A requiem high mass will be celebrated
at ST. Stephens Church at a. M today
for Michael Dorsey, who died at the res
Idence of his sister, 242S I street north
west, Monday. Interment will be in Holy
Rood Cemetery.
Funeral services for Timothy Sullivan,
who died Monday at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital. will be held at HindIe'a
Chapel today at $50 a m. A requiem
mass will be celebrated at st. Patrick's s
| Church at a. m. Interment will be in
Mount Ouvet Cemetery.
DEGREES further restricting imports. IONS
into France were received at the STATE
Department yesterday from the Consul
General at Paris. The new DEGREES pro-
hibit the importation of papers, card
| board. laboratory glassware and bro
MUM. The decree will seriously affect
American glass manufacturers who have
been making an effort to build up an ex-
port market in France.
]. Butler Wright who was recently
appointed counsellor at the United States
| Embassy at Petrograd, is expected to
leave for his new post in about ten days
Jordan Stabler, of Maryland, Wright 8
assistant in the Latin-American division,
may be appointed as his successor at the
State Department.
The coroner's jury yesterday held death
in the case of George s. Ferrow, of the
New Hampshire apartment house, who
died at the Emergency Hospital as a re-
suit of injuries received when he was
struck by the automobile of James Poyn-
ton, September 16, at Fifteenth and F
streets northwest, as due to unavoidable
accident
A letter received from Mrs Minnie I
CaEter, who was reported missing from
her home at go Raleigh street, Congress
Heights, since September q, by her hus-
band, William Canter, OF No. 25 Engine
Company, said she was nursing a doctors
wife in Newark, N. J. Maj. Pullman has
wired Newark authorities to make a
search for the woman.
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