Evening star., 1916-08-27
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Members-EIect Of City Council
to Take Up Duties.
MEETING AT NOON FRIDAY
Bar Association Pays Tribute to the
Memory Of Col. Francis
Lee Smith.
NETTING AT NOON FRIDAY
Special correspondence of The Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 20
Promptly at noon next Friday the mem
bers Of Alexandria city council elected
June 13 are to be formally inducted into
office and Mayor T A Fisher also will
sumo office for q second term of four
years from that date. June 13 one-half
of the membership of city council was
the common council and four members in
the board of aldermen.
An organization Of council will be ef-
fected by the election of president. vice
president, clerk and messenger in each
branch.
| Howard W. Smith. president Of the
| common council, it is thought will be
| reelected without opposition Capt.
| Albert Bryan, who is vice president,
it is thought will also~be without oppo-
sition, as will Daniel r. Stansbury,
clerk of the common council.
In the board of aldermen 1t is re-
garded as highly probable that F. F.
Marbury. now member of common
council from the second ward, who
was elected an alderman from the first
ward, will be chosen president, IS II.
h. Field, who at present is the presi-
dent of that body will, beginning Sep
tember l, represent the Scond ward in
the common council, he having moved
from the third to the second ward.
Luther H. Thompson will be reelected
clerk of the aldermen without oppo-
sition.
Committees to Be Announced.
The committee appointments in both
branches of council will be announced
at the first regular business meeting
of council September 8.
Members of common council elected
June 13 and the wards they represent
are: H. W. Smith and George H. Evans
| first: Henry X. Field and Jerome Kauf-
mann, second; A. ]. Pohl and H. r
Burke. third Albert Bryan and Clinton
S. Ballengek fourth.
The members of the board of alder
men elected at the same time, by wards
are: F. F. Marbury, first; w. W. Bal
lenger, second; J. T. Harrison. third ]
B. Fitzgerald, fourth. The new mem
bers of common council are George H
Evans. Jerome Kaufman, Henry X
Field. New members of the board OF
aldermen, F. F. Marbury, J. 7. Harri-
son.
Tributes to Late F. Lee Smith.
At a meeting of the bar association
of the city held at II o'clock today in
the corporation court room to take
| action on the death of Col. Francis Lee
Smith, a prominent attorney who died
yesterday afternoon at his home, 80
Wolfe street. committee composed of
Representative C. C. Carlin. Judge j.
x. NJ. Norton and Robinson Moncure
was appointed for the purpose of
drafting. resolutions of respect. A COM
mittee composed of Representative c.
&c. Cariin, Judge l.. c. Barley and John
NJ. johnson was appointed to eulogiZe
the deceased at the next term of court.
| 1t was decided by the members of the
association to attend the funeral in a
body. which will be held at o'clock
Monday afternoon from st. Paurs P. E.
Church, and which will be conducted
by Rev. DR.. P. p. hillips. rector. They
will assemble in the courtroom at 2:30
o. clock for that purpose.
C. Keith Carlin and Walter C. Foster
were appointed to procure suitable
floral offering.
John NJ. Johnson presided over the
meeting and c. Keith Carlin was sec
retary.
In addition to the members of the
bar association members of Alexan-
dria Washington Lodge of Masons. OF
r. Z. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans
and representa- tiveS of other organi-
cations with which he was identified
will attend the funeral.
Hunting Season Opens Friday
The hunting season In Virginia will
open Friday. All persons who engage
in hunting will have to take out a Ii
cense under the provisions of the new
game laws.
A license for residents to hunt in the
county in which they reside is 81. and
SO is the price required for license tc
hunt in any county in the state. Non
residents of the state are required to
pay license of s1e
A. J. Payne, game warden of Fairfax
county, says he will be on the job
looking after the delinGuents, begin
ming Friday.
Birds. especially ortolan and reed
are said to be plentiful just now in
lower Fairfax county.
II It is expected that the marshes lin
that county will be invaded by large
number of gunners from this city ard
vicinity.
Brief Mention.
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements for the Masonic bazaar
which will be held October to 90
have distributed booster buttons
among the members of that fraternity.
The centipede crew of the Old Do
minion Boat Club that will participate
in the regatta in Washington Labor