Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

compliment to d. x. Hampstead.
the enrolling clerk of the House. was
paid yesterday by Representative
Mann. leader of the republicans. The
present enrolling clerk" said Repre-
sentative Mann. sis the best one we
have ever had" The House applauded.
Representative Mann took occasion TO
comp1imen Mr.. Hampstead during the
discussion of a minor bill.
The Washington District woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is to hold
its annual meeting in Union NJ. f.
Church Monday October 2. Reports of
officers and superintendent are to be
presented and Bishop W. F. Mcdonald
is to deliver the principal address.
The opening of Georgetown Univer-
silly and Gonzaga College has been
postponed to October by the Jesuit
faculties of these institutions. con-
forming with the decision of the school
board. on account of the infantile par
alysis epidemic.
Children who attended the Mount
Pleasant playground yesterday har-
vested a crop of peaches from the trees
on the playground. The children had
refrained from touching the fruit until
yesterday, when Miss Ella Gardner, the
director, told them they might gather
the ripe fruit.
j. w. Wallace. n street car conductor.
was thrown from his car near 5th and
Butternut streets last night about 9
o'clock and his head and shoulders
were injured. He was standing on the
running board of the car. when he hit
a trolley pole and was knocked off.
Wallace was taken to the Walter Reed
Hospital.
While roller skates near his home,
on the Conduit road, yesterday after
was struck by an automobile and
slightly hurt on the face, legs and
arms. He was able to go home unas-
sisted.
James Lee. coIored. 1907 street,
was taken suddenly i'll last night at
his home. An ambulance was sum-
moned and Lee was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital where-h died ten min
utes after his arrival His death was
due to natural causes.
Herbert l.. Davis, auditor of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, left Washington
today for an automobile trip to Selby.
\. C. He accompanied Representative
Edwin Y. Webb. whose home is at
SelDy. The auditor expects to return
in time for the converting of the court
in October.
All bureaus Of the Interior Depart
ment will be represented on the board
cision reached al a meeting of the Fed
Aral Employees Union last night in the
Perpetual building, 18th and E streets
northwest.
Rev. e NJ. Ellsworth of Lancaster,
ohio. is TO be the speaker at the Gospel
Mission tent at sth and I streets north
vest tonight Tomorrow night the pas
for and young people of kenilworth
Presbyterian Church are to take charge
{ the servicee Sunday at 800 pm
:rs. p. r. Byrne and Mrs. William
buckingham are to address the gather
i1-. Sunday evening the speaker is
70 be Mrs. H. F. Moore
The Capital Traction Company is
named as defendant in suit to recover
$50 900 damages filed late yesterday aft
ernoon in the District Supreme Court
by Josephine McLaren. who was injured
Tuesday while a passenger on a
14th street car. The car gave a
sudden lurch, it is alleged. and the pas
senger was thrown to the floor. She
alleges she sustained conclusion of
the brain and was otherwise seriously
and permanently injured.
community carnival Mt the Pet
worth School. sth and Shepherd streets
northwest Is to be opened at s O'Clock
tonight. under the auspices of the Pet
Miss Ida O'Neal. is to lead the grand
march. An extensive dancing program
has been planned. which will include the
butterfly dance tonight and the prize
dance tomorrow night.
Della MILLER has filed suit against the
Capital Traction Company to recover
$4,000 damages for alleged personal in
jury. The plaintiff says she was pas
senger August /, 1915. when a car of the
company collided with automobile at
Connecticut avenue and Bradley lane.
She was thrown against a portion of the
car. she asserts, and sustained serious
injury. Attorney Alvin l.. NewTnyer rep
resents the plaintiff.
King II. Young, clerk in the bu-
reau of mines, has been directed by
Justice Stddons to pay his wife, Elma
c. Young temporary alirnony of s45 a
month. The wife is suing for limited
divorce.