Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Athletics. including gymnasium drills
for boys and girls, indoor base ball.
military company relay races and tug
of-way, and other events are to feature
the annual excursion to Marshall Hall
June / of the Alumni Association of
Business High School Rev John Van
Schaick. jr.. president of the board OF
education, with other members Of the
board. ara to be guests Of the assoc
citation.
Arrangements for the memorial ex-
ercises at Congressional cemetery on
Memorial day are being perfected. Rep
resentative Ernest Lundeen of Mime
sofa Is to deliver an address. The
United States Engineers Band and the
nish music There are approximately
1900 graves of veterans in the ceme-
terry.
Thomas Jefferson Folk, thIrty-nine
years old. 1853 Wisconsin avenue. COM
mitted suicide in the bathroom at his
home yesterday by severing arteries
IN his arms with a knife. He was al
the bathroom and found him in the
tub. Death occurred at Georgetown
University Hospital about an hour after
ne was found. Folk. it is stated. had
had threatened to end his life. Coroner
hewitt gave g. certificate of suicide.
An ambulance belonging to Walter
Reed Hospital. a light motor delivery
vehicle owned by Joseph Phillips
dealer in Center market, and a two
horse team of the Smoot Sand Company
we're in a collision at Columbia road
snd 18th street yesterday afternoon.
The ambulance first came in contact
with the delivery vehicle and later
struck the sand wagon. Phillips and
his horses were injured and the We
hicles We're slightly damaged.
9Th street southwest. received a severe
injury to his face last night about 9
o'clock while passing Sth and D streets
southwest. He was wounded with a
brick that was thrown by an unidenti-
fed individual His wound was dressed
at Emergency Hospital.
Memorial exercises for Capt. Boyd
and troopers of the 10th Cavalry, who
were killed at Carrzal Mexico a wear
ago. are to be held under the auspices
of the National Memorial Association
at the 18th street branch of the Y NJ
{. y. at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
The alumni of New York City Col
1ege will gather at the. home of Max
well James, 1920 Fairmont street
northwest. Saturday. June 9. at pm
unions.
Plans are being made by the Georgia
Society of Washington to hold re-
Harris and the Confederate Veterans
from Georgia Tuesday. June 5. from
to 10 o'clock, at the Home Club. All
Georsians. whether members of the
society or not. are invited to be pres
ent. Jesse Mercer is chairman of the
executive committee.
DR.. Augustus Simpson Snve a lecture
on the ha1r and skin at a meeting of
the National Society of keep-Wells
last evening in st. Johns Church. Mrs.
Arthur Macdonald, president of the So
t,etS' spoke with regret of the loss of
1ne socletyS secretary. Mrs. Mary
Stevens BealL who died recently
Plans for the annual reunion of the
General Alumni Association of Howard
University have been Cancelled. If was
decided al a recent meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the organization
that this should be done, owing to the
fact that Howard University had an
nounced the elimination of all com
mencement features for this year after
the baccalaureate sermon, which was
delivered last Sunday. A statement of
the fiscal affairs of the association for
the year is to be mailed to each
alumnuS.
Prof. Jules Maillet, instructor in
French conversation and composition
at George Washington University, who
was taken ill month ago, has now
thoroughly recovered and is again
teachlng. Upon his return Prof Mail
let extended his thanks to the faculty
and students upon the interest they had
taken in him during his illness, ex-
pressing deep appreciation for, the
flowers Sent him. Following-the close
of his first days work after his return
he took the students to visit the old
Blaine, or Westinghouse, mansion
where he is living, showing them many
articles of historic interest there.
Plans for receiving the Washington
delegates to the craftsmanship congress.
to be held in Detroit in July, were dis
cussed at meeting of the Washington
Craftsmanship Club at the Raleigh Hotel
last night.
SHOW Labor May He Dignifed. fs to
be the subject of an address delivered
by Thomas L. Jones of the District
bar, before the Woman Wage-Earners'
Association, at 7e4 T street northwest,
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. There
will be a musical program. Men and
women are both invited to attend. Ad-
mission is free. Miss Jeanette Carter
will preside.
training and music departments of
Eastern High School gave an exhibit
ton of the work of those departments
at the school last night before a large
number of parents and friends of boys
and girls at the school. Various phases
of work which has been taught in the
three lines named were exhibited at the
school last night. The drawing exhibit
is to be displayed again Monday, from
! to pm.
William Edward Collins, sixty-hve,
$40 22d street, died suddenly at his
home this morning about o'clock. He
had been under the care of a physician
for enlargement of the heart. and this
morning when he became ill "A physi-
sian was summoned from Emergency
Hospital. Collins died before the ply
stefan reached the house.
Fire In a huge pile of metal shavings
at the munitions plant of the Washing
ton Steel and Ordnance Company. Gies-
boro. yesterday afternoon claimed the
attention of three companies of fire.
men. Inadequate water supply on the
company's property. police reported,
made it necessary to summon the Fire
fighter to get a supply from the river
Several minor explosions of gas &C.
CURED during the time the firemen
were at work, but no damage resulted.