The Washington herald., 1922-10-02
new MEMS CLUB
IS BEING FORMED
IN N. W. SECTION
Headquarters at 2422 X
Street-Electi0n to Be
Held Tomorrow.

A new neighborhood mems club
is being formed In Northwest
Washington. Although still In the
embryonic stage, the club, 1t is un-
derstood, will be modelled after the
AIoysius Club. in the Northeast. and
the Dominican Lyceum in the
Southwest
The club house will be located at
2i22 X street northwest. This
building, which contains eleven
rooms. is ideally suited for the pur-
pose for which it has been selected
and the work of conditioning it Will
soon be started.
At a meeting to be held at st.
stephens School. Twenty-fourth
ard X streets northwest. tomor-
row night. officers win be elected.
bylaws drawn up and other steps
incident to the formation of club
will be taken
The club, although principally a
social one. will be represented In
all major sports. as was the olu
that section of the city which was
dIsbanded nearly a decade ago.
The prime movers behind the new
club are Morton Anderson. Thomas
McGuire. William Roberts. Ray
Devlin. Lawrence Feeny, and Rev.
Fr. Fitzgerald. of St. Stephens
Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. I. INLAND. 213S y
street northwest. returned yesteI.
day from a two-week sojourn at
Atlantic City.
Members of Dupon Circle Clti-
zens' Association will gather at
studio Hall today at 4:45 p. M.
for the October meeting of their
organization
Secretary of War Weeks will ac-
cept the statue of Edmund Burke
which has been given to the United
States by the Sulgrave Institution.
of England The unveilinG will
take place October L.. The site
selected is the reservation at
Eleventh and 1 streets northwest.
Robert Lawrence. director Of the
Washington Community Music AS
sOciation, will soon move into a
residence at 1880 Belmont street
northwest.
Kappa Phi will hold its first
dance of the season October S, at
24oO Sixteenth street northwest.
The first fall meet OF the Mount
Pleasant Citizens ssociation will
he held October IA at Powell
School. according TO announcement
made yesterday by officers of the
organization.
Activities at the Wilson Normal
and Johnson Powell Community
Centers will be resumed this week.
F. W. Mackenzie, 1901 Ingomar
avenue northwest, has left for
Houston, Tex. to attend the con-
vention of the Laundry Owners
Association.
over 1000 visits were made to
the Woman's Welfare Council
Building. 1922 Eleventh street
northwest, during the past fifteen
months. according to figures on
file at the offices of the institution.
While en- route to Rock Creek
Creek Park yesterday afternoon. a
sightseeing bus of the Royal Blue
Line, operated by W. H. Simmons.
463 II street northwest. crashed into
4 car of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company, at the inter
section of Columbia road and Har-
ward street northwest. No one was
injured.
Memories of the days of yore"
are inspired by a thrrty-nine-year-
old theater program which has hung
in the box Office of Crandall's Met
ropolitan Theatcr since last Mon
day. The program. which bears the
date of December l.. 1883, an
nounces the first Washington ap-
pearancc of the late James O'Neil
at the National ThCater. in the
Count Of Monte Cristo."
The advertisements in the pro-
gram include one by the "MIsft
store" at Tenth and r streets an
nuunCInE sale Of ovCTroats at 50
a piece. and another setting forth
that pure old rye whisky could nc
had at So gallon or - cents u
quart. Woodward and Lnthrops
Boston Dry Goods Store" at that
time was located AZ 921 Pcu1Syl-
vauia avenue. and George T. Keen.
merchant tailor. at III Ninth street
northwest Orchestra chairs at the
National Thcatcr were 81 and gal
lcry seats -, cents
The program was presented to
CrandaIIs Metropolitan ThCatcr by
Anton H"ItmulIcr. ISo1 Fourteenth
street northwest. in compliment to
the film version uf Monte Cristu.
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