Evening star., 1929-12-21
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, December 81
| Especially Visitors to Mount Vernon
totaled sol oil for the first IL months
Of this year. according to figures just
compiled by the State Chamber of Com
merce. This is a considerable IN
| crease over the corresponding number
Of months last year. The tourist trade
now is at low ebb, as 1t usually is at
this time of the year. 1t is expected
that with the completion of the pro-
posed Mount Vernon Boulevard in 1882
the number of visitors to the shrine
will be doubled.
Fire shortly after o'clock last night
totally destroyed two frame dwellings.
1908 and 1910 North Fairfax street. and
occupied by Clara Samuel and Lucinda
Pryor, both colcred. As these houses
were located In what is now Arlington
County the Potomac Fire Department
was called In to aid No. / and No. 4
companies of this city. Damage was
estimated at approximately So, 500, partly
/ covered by insurance. While firemen
were unable to save the two, houses de-
stroyed because of lack of water sup
ply, they succeeded in preventing the
fire from spreading to a house to the
south occupied by Mary Thrope. The
l00-gallCn booster tank of the Potomac
department was the principal factor In
this work
Approximately $500 damage was done
to. residence at 48 East. Walnut street.
occupied by Edward Chauncey and l..
E. Cockrell. and owned by Joseph E.
Chauncey, by fire yesterday morning
The blaze started in a trash barrel in
the basement and worked its way up
through partitions as far as the Sc
ond floor. BY quick work the Alexan-
dria Fire Department was able to ex-
tmgu1sh the fire by the use. of che,ni-
Gals. Several other small fires, all con-
nned to chimneys, were reported yes
terday and this morning.
One hundred Christmas baskets for
needy white families of the city have
been prepared for the local Lodge of
Elks. No. 1853, and will be distributed 5v
the committee in charge of this work
Sunday. James Reese Duncan is chair
man OF the committee. The firm of Z.
E. Lawler & Co., wholesale grocerS. were
the low bidders on the baskets and put
them up. Each basket contains pota-
toes. smoked shoulder, coffee, rice,
flour. baking powder, lard, evaporated
milk, a can OF corn, tea. cans of peas,
sirup and tomatoes, sugar. oats, bread
and meal. The practice of distributing
these baskets has been carried on by the
local Elks for number of years past.
Herbert w. O'Meara was elected
worshipful master of Andrew Jackson
Lodge Of Masons, No. 120, at its annual
meeting held Thursday night. Other
officers elected were Riley w. Nixon,
senior warden; F. Clinton Knight,
Junior warden; H. H. Watkins. senior
deacon; A. L. Ladd, junior deacon; Will
liam Lewis Allen, treasurer; Oliver S.
Stone, secretary: w. H. Wood, senior
steward; Frederick L. Flynn, junior
steward George W. Zachary, tiler; Rev.
Edgar Carpenter, chaplain. Thomas M.
Jones, jr, Is the retiring worshipful
master
r. c. Bowton, superintendent of
schools, briefly outlined the work of a
class to begin here February and con-
tinue for eight weeks, when professors
from the University of Virginia will
give course Of lectures on the rearing
Of children at the meeting of the Wash
ington schoc, unit. nt-Teacher AS
sociation. held Thursday
Parents and all persons interested in
the subject have been invited to attend.
Mrs. Claude Haynes. delegate to the re-
cent State. PIT. A. Congress held in
tendance at the convention. The re-
mainder Of the meeting was given over
to Christmas program, featuring the
singing of carols by the pupils and
several recitations.
Funeral services for Mrs. H. e. Webb,
VINO oled THURSDAY, Will be held today
at o'clock at the Methodist Episcopal
Church South and will be conducted by
Rev. d. L. Snyder. pastor. Interment
will be in the Methodist Protestant
Cemetery
The meeting of the Civic Bureau OF
the fi2xandrla Chamber of Commerce, |
slated to be held Monday, has been
postponed until after Christmas owing
to the ncarness Of the date to the holi-
day season.
A pageant entitled "The Nativity" was
presented in Norton Memorial Hall of
st. Paul's Episcopal Church last night
by the junior choir and junior auxiliary
Of the church. The program was under
the direction Of Mrs. William L. Leitch
The body Of Harry Beasley, age Sc, of
29ll Thirteenth street northwest, Wash
ington, who died yesterday, had been
brought to Wheatley's Funeral Home
and will be buried from their Monday
afternoon at o'clock