Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-16
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

federal reserve board, in an address
last night before the Washington In
stitute Of Banking at 1914 street
Landed tho federal reserve system. The
speaker said that the currency of the
nation was more flexible than ever be-
fore, and that every branch of bust
ness benefits by this new currency act.
He spoke of it as a system long needed.
A musical Ii to be given Monday
evening at o'clock at the home Of Mrs,
Il II. Feathers, SIG C street southeast.
Vocal selections are to be given by the
Misses Emma Cohen. Florence Girouard,
Freda Steffen, Grace Wilson and Mrs
j, c, Kester, with Miss Mary Weidley |
as accompanied. The readers will be
Miss Grace Myers and Miss Estelle
Sawyer.
Louis Lombard of Switzerland 10 10
give Personal "reminiscences of Two |
Great French Composers, Massenet and |
Saint Saens." a. meeting Of the Art |
and Archaeology League of Washing !
ton tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in /
she auditorium of the Corcoran Gallery |
OF Art. Prof. Mitchell Carroll, presi- |
dent Of the league, Is to speak on An |
Sient Greek Music"
The Shamrock Club is to give its six
teenth annual st. Patrick banquet Mon |
day evening at the metropolitan Hotel. !
y number of prominent speakers are
expected to make. addresses.
st. Patrick novelty dance and oys-
ter roast is to be given tomorrow even
ing under the auspices of the organ |
committee OF the Washington Lodge of
Elks at the Elks' Club. The committee |
expects to have the new organ in |
stalled In the clubrooms by April l.
At meeting of the Society for Phiio-
sophlcl Inquiry. to be held at the Pub !
tic Library tomorrow at 4:45 pm, there |
will be a discussion OF the relations of |!
philosophy to religion.
The moving picture lecture at the
american University, Massachusetts !
noon at o'clock. will include the fol- |
lowing official Aims from the French |
republic: Monaco. from st. Paul TO
Entrevaux, Lyon, and Luchon in the
Pyrenee5. The public is invited.
A joint session of the Medical society
OF the District OF Columbia and the
Baltimore City Medical Society is to be
held In Baltimore this evening. Papers
are TO be read by Surgeon General Will
liam c. Gorgas, L. :. A; Col. Louis A.
la. Garde, U. S. A, and Maj. Robert Z. |
Noble, Medical Corps. L. s. A. The mem
bers of the local organization who arc
to attend the meeting will leave about
4 O'Clock this evening on a special train.
Plans are complete for 81 drag hunt
to be given by the Washington Riding
and Hunt Club tomorrow morning. 1t
is TO start from the Brightwood Hotel.
Mrs. Frederic L.. Huidekoper, 1914 18th
street has reported to the police the
loss of a Russian sable boa valued at
$500 The boa, she stated, was stolen
or lost last Saturday between Chevy
Chase and her home.
Mrs. Alberta Butler. coIored. OF BIZ
street southwest, this morning about
1890 o'clock was shot in the back while
passing near Sd and c streets south
west. She was taken TO Casualty Hos
pitai. where physicians said she was
not seriously wounded. She accused
her husband, John Henry Butler, of
having slot her, and the police are
looking for him.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Branch, No. Al. of the National League
of Government Employees last night, at
its Marca meeting in the Women's
Christian Temperance Union Hall |
adopted g resolution pledging it's moral |
support % the members of the street
car union now on a strike against the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany.
Mrs. Marion CrishtOn's preparedness
play, The People" is to be taken to |
New York after the presentation to-
morrow evening at the Casino Theater
where il ii is to open Sunday week at
the preparedness propa ganda. Besides
ington, tIrs. Creighton received many
letters o. congratulations from promi-
nent peo'le.
AIIeeins misconduct and naming a CO.
respondent, Mrs Ella 5. Davis has
filed in he District Supreme Court a
suit for an absolute divorce from
Cha rles Davis. They were married No
venaber II, 1910, and have no children
Attorney Edmund Darlington appears
for the ~7ife.
DR.. FaT-Cooper Cole. assistant curator
in the department of anthropology of
the Field Museum of Natural History.
Chicago, Ill. will deliver an illustrated
lecture On "rhe Pagan Tribes OF the
Philippines III the lecture hall of the
Public Library Monday at pm. under
the ausrjccs of the AnthTopoloeicai So
cicr-' of Washington The lecture Will
lie open to the public.
Fire I;,st night destroyed about s6000
worth "t hay and straw in the ware
h1uso OF =. r. Moran. lu55 Potomac
street. The fire probably was caused /
~ spontaneous combustion firemen
stated, and the building was only |
slightly damaged. !
Two new first-aia Glasses were formed
yesterday afternoon by teachers at the {
New Central High school under s,he
auspices OF the American Red Cross.
Members of the debating society of !
the National University Law School are |
TO hold a debate SATURDAY evening at /
N:4o O'Clock in the hail of the school, |
al6 18th street northwest, on the sub |
ject OF government ownership of public |
utilities. The debate is open TO the !
public
Raise $35, 0oo for Law School.
approximately $4,000 has been raised |
In the campaign to obtain 100000 for !
The erection OF Law school building
for George Washington University. ac-