Evening star., 1917-09-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
First precinct police are searching

C111 NEWS LIN 0h1Et.
First precinct police are searching for
an unidentified individual who enjoyed
a chicken feast last night. 1t was the
| boneless chicken such as is used in the
preparation of chop suey and other
Chinese dishes. and there was more
than IS worth of it. Der Do complained
that it was stolen from his establish
ment at AIS 18th street.
Children playing with matches yester-
day afternoon started small fire in
the house of John Day, 62l Morton
street. Prompt response of No. % en-
gine company prevented the possibility
/ of much damage being done. The dam
age amounted to only $40.
| meeting of the Rhode Island Avenue
| Suburban Citizens Association will be
held this evening at o'clock at the
Sherwood Presbyterian Church.
The Washington Community Orches-
ira, which recently held its organiza-
tion meeting. will hold it's first re-
hearsal Monday evening al o'clock at
| the Wilson Normal School Director
Hamlin f. Cogswell says that the or
| chestra will consist of eighty pieces,
and although its personnel is essen
TALLY complete, there is still room for
| a few more musicians, either profess
sionals or amateurs.
| University Glee Club is to take place
at mass meeting of STUDENTS tonight
in CASTOR Hall in Georgetown. Officers
will be elected. Rev. John w. Coveney,
a new addition to the faculty in the art
and science department of the unlver-
sity, will preside at the meeting. He
will direct the activities of the club
this session.
A memorial meeting to celebrate the
eightieth anniversary of the birth of
Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, a Catholic
priest who was worker Tor REFORMS
in New York during his lifetime, is to
be held tomorrow evening at O'Clock
at Hickmans Hall. 1910 New York ave-
nue. northwest. Louis F. Post. assist
ant secretary of the Department of
Labor; Representative Crosser of Ohio,
H Martin Williams and Jackson H
Thatcher Post is to preside. Meetings
are to be held throughout the United
States; also in Australia. London, Glas-
. gov, Spain and Argentina In New
York plaster cast of the statue OF Dr.
McGlynn that is to be cast in bronze
by Edmond T. Quinn. sculptor, is to be
exhibited at the Hotel Astor
Members of the Warrington Shoe Re-
tailers Association are to meet this
evening at the New Cochran Hotel for
+, their first fall assembly. A dinner is
! to be held. following which addresses
are 10 De maze Dy A L. McdOWIil, "A IL
Geuting. secretary Of the National Shoe
| Retailers Association; J. =. Orr and
| DIR. A. Hart
Charles W. Lipp0ld. n policeman of
! the sixth precinct. has filed suit in the
| District Supreme Court to recover
| 1000 damages from the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for alleged personal
| injury. Lippold says he was pas
senger coming from New York to
Washington. April % last. when a
brakeman Of the company slammed a
| vestibule door against him and serious
| ly injured him so that he was six
weeks under the care of a physician.
Attorneys Hawken & Havell appear for
| the plaintiff.
Suffering from cuts about her head
and arm. Mrs. Rose Wannell. 1851
| Kramer street northeast. last night
| was taken to Casualty Hospital. She
/ told the police that she received her
| wounds during a domestic row. Her
condition is not serious.
! dog owned by Ira Newton, Ala
| bama avenue. Anacostia, last night at
tackled Harry Bell, colored, thirteen
/ years old residing on Stanton road, and
bit him on the left leg. The boy was
nol seriously injured
Gertrude Hurley. cOIOred. twenty-one
| years old. S20 Dixon court southwest
il dH carly iiouI tlllS morning pdT1lCl-
pated in an alteration at Sd and 1.
4 streets southwest and received a cut
across her stomach. She went home
after she had received surgical treat
ment at Emergency Hospital
William Buchanan. colored. twenty
eight years old, 1915 Linden court
northeast, yesterday afternoon was
treated at Casualty Hospital for stab
wound in his left arm. He said he was
cut by an unidentified colored man dur
ing a row near 18th and II streets
northeast
4 }. J. keefe. forty-fve years old, sO8
18th street. this morning about 80
o'clock fell on the steps in front of a
neighboring house and fractured his
right leg. He was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital
Louis Stein today sued Ellsworth T.
Simpson in the District Supreme Court
to recover $4,000 damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained Febru-
ary 10. 1917, when a team of horses col
lided with bicycle which he was rid
ing on Q street northwest between 7th
and Sth streets. Attorneys Wilton J
Lambert and X. H. Yeatman appear for
the plaintiff.
The Southwest Civic Association will
hold its monthly meeting at the Randall
School. LIST and I streets southwest. a,
s o'clock tonight.
| Arrivals at Camp Lee yesterday about
completed the second quota of 40 pei
cent of National Army men. NUMBERING