THE WASHINGTON POST MONDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1917. HOUSE TO MEADE Y.W.C.A. Presents Camp Hostess Building for Visitors' Use. SOLDIERS APPRECIATE GIFT Work Council Warmly Indorsed by Baker in Letter Read at Exercises Returning Troops Forced to Walk to Camp Owing to Failure of Street Car Service.
(By a stat Correspondent.) Camp Meade, Dec. camp hostess houser for the use of the mothets, sisters and sweethearts of the 000 national army soldiers of the 79th division, was formally dedicated and blessed i in the presence of a large audience this afternoon by Bishop Murray, Maryland. The building was erectoff ed by the Young Women's Christian Association. "Bishop Murray praised the Y. W.
C. War Work Council and declared that hostess house would fill a need in every camp. Mrs. James Cushman; chairman of the National War Work Council of the Y. W.
C. made the presentation address. Brig. Gen. Nicholson, commandink officer, responded.
Gift Greatly thank you from the bottom of. my heart for this generous gift," he said. "At house of this character. is one of the most highly appreciated gifts that coma be. made.
LA letter from Secretary of War. Baker expressing his appreciation the work the Y. C. A. is doing is building such houses, was also read.
A musical program arranged by Assistant Secretary. Leonard, of the Camp Y. M. C. consisted of vocal, violin and cello solos by members of 'the 'Cadman- Concert Company, of Boston.
There was no let-up today, so far as visitors were concerned, and or more took advantage of the fine weather to visit their friends and relatives at Camp Meade. Rush Swamps Electric Lines. Eight thousand selectives, who have been on leave since Friday noon, visiting their homes in Pennsylvania, and attending the championship football game between Camp Meade and Camp Dix. had practically all returned by 6 o'clock this evening. Many of them burdened by suit cases had walk the two miles from Odenton their barracks owing to the failto ure of the electric car company to handle the rush arriving on special trains from the North.
The Camp Meade Military Minstrels, a company organized among the soldiers here Joseph E. Cunningham, one of the' assistant secretaries at the K. of C. building, held its first rehearsal at the auditorium tonight. CALL FOR TAX COLLECTORS.
1,000 Positions Under Revenue Law to Be Filled by Examination. The United States needs 1,000 men as income tax. deputy collectors at entrance of from $1.200 to $1,500 a year. Civil service examinations for these positions are announced to take ca place in Washington and a score of othor cities of the United States and its Territories. beginning today.
Requirements for taking the examination include two years' experience in double-entry bookkeeping, six months' practical experience and six months in internal revenue service or two in the practice of law, in addition to a commercial school education and three months' experience in doubleentry bookkeeping. Applicants are directed to apply for form 1319 at the civil service commission here. SOLDIER HIT BY MOTORCYCLE William Poulis, Fort Myer, Suffers Concussion of Brain in Crash. William Poulis, 26, a private of the Sixth field artillery, stationed at Fort Myer, is at the Casualty Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and other injuries as the result of being struck by a motorcycle ridden by Fred Kroll, 19, of Camp Springs, Spectators said the soldier was walking on Walker road southeast, when the motorcycle struck him. Kroll was, bruised about the head and body.
Both were taken to the Casualty Hospital. The soldier's condition is serious. POLICE SEEK NEGRO ROBBERS Purse Snatchers and Hold-Ups Foiled by Screams of Women. Two negroes are being sought by the police for the attempted robbery of two women Saturday night, the wouldbe robbers having been foiled by the screams of the women. A masked negro entered the store of Mrs.
G. Klein at 300 street northwest, and thrust a revolver in her face. When she screamed he ran out. Another negro attempted to snatch the purse of Mrs. Nellie Lay, of 206 street northwest, as she was walking along Indiana avenue.
She screamed and her assailant fled. Call Off Strike of 35,000. Fall River, Dec. threatened strike of the 35,000 operatives in the 110 cotton mills of this city, ordered to begin tomorrow morning, was called off tonight. Glimpses of Washingtonians Visiting in the Metropolis Special to The -Washington Post.
New York, Dec. It the parachute spreads out after the boches puncture the big sausage, I will get down to earth all remarked First Lieut. Le Roy B. C. Delaney, balloon observer, of 2007 Q.
street northwest, Washington, ati the Waldorf- Astoria. While Lieut Delaney was reluctant to talk about himself, what he did say shows "Lieuts." F. W. Youry and Jesse J. the aggressiveness of the Celt.
Owens, of Washington, are other offcers with me at the aeronautic concentration camp at Garden City, Long Island," he said. "It is second nature for the Delaney tribe to be in a fight. My father, J. C. Delaney, of Scranton, was the youngest soldier on the Union side in the civil war.
He was 13 years and 8 months old when he enlisted as a drummer boy. He came out at the end of the war a captain. He died two years ago. "My brother, Charles H. Delaney, emulated his parent and at the age of 13 years and 11 months served in the Philippines in the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers, entering as a drummer boy May 5, 1898.
"At the age of 17 I served in the Pennsylvania volunteer cavalry, Governor's troop of Harrisonburg, secting service in Puerto Rico. This up to date enlistment in the balloon service brings me up to 37 years and I am still going strong. "After the Spanish-American war I took to law." From the National Capital at the Hotel McAlpin were Mrs. W. M.
Charles T. Hallman, J. H. Winnemore, Lieut. M.
M. Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Mackinnon, Capt. R. H. Clemmer, Miss W. S.
Nichols, Miss L. L. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Klotz, Lieut. H. G. M.
Klinkowstein, E. T. Chewning, HerLewis, Maj. J. M.
Fulton, on Mr. and Mrs. bert Quick, R. H. Graves, F.
L. Middleton, Mr. Mrs. M. B.
Payne, C. C. Dill, Daniel Dillon, Mrs. Hinds, Dr. William Earl Clark, J.
M. Eaton, Charles A. Rogers, Capt. J. H.
De Visser, L. C. Drury, Capt. and Mrs. L.
Campbell, Mrs. E. L. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs.
A. Hinckley, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Kelly, Carl A. Litterst, Mr. Mrs. William Bride, Arthur Dorsey, and Mrs. J.
and. W. Staggers, Maj. Dean Langmuir and Austin Cary. Arrivals.
at the Waldorf- Astoria from Washington during the past week were Walter Burke, H. B. Ensihn, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, W.
B. Scott, Mrs. E. M. Proctor, Mrs.
J. G. Kitchell, Miss Condit, Col. E. A.
Deeds, C. R. Vincent, Ignacio del Valle, L. D. Burnell, Mrs.
Henry Miss Helen Porter and J. M. John Willet Jenkins, Mrs. E. G.
Clark, John A. Dacey, W. H. Carter, F. V.
Goss and H. H. G. Chapin, from the Capital were at the Breslin; W. Green, Elliott B.
Crulten, Emmerick and H. C. Fisk, at the Hermitage; Mr. and Mrs. R.
G. Proctor, Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Baker. R. S. Bishop, E. W.
Lee, C. S. Alden, J. R. Bowie, H.
J. Litt and Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Smith, at the Claridge. H. G. Williams, proprietor and manager of the York, had as his guests from Washington Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Hinds, Mr. and Mrs. P. E.
Rathburn, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Wheaten, W.
B. White, D. J. Grinsfelder, Mrs. N.
K. Tabler, Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Burton, Hilton Chisholm, Hugo Worch, S. J. Smith, Lieut. L. V.
Hall, D. L. Ballard, W. H. Plummer, Teasdale Fisher, Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Betts, George Berney, E. H.
Brian, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Murray, Mrs.
W. A. Elwood. Ethel Brockman, Ruth Simpson, W. B.
White, George Warren, Charles R. Gaskill, Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Havens, Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Farmer and H. T.
Carstens. "My dad is making more money as a ship chandler in Philadelphia than he would owning a baseball club," remarked Lieut. Earle G. Wagner, at the McAlpin. J.
Earle Wagner owned the Washington baseball club for 12 years, and sold out his holdings in 1901 during the Britherhood war. The family left Washington in 1902 and located in Philadelphia. Young Wagner is 24 years of age and was three years at Annapolis, going there in 1911. When he resigned he was rated as a midshipman. Later he joined the famous city troop of Philadelphia as a sergeant, and was stationed at El Paso.
Then he entered the aviation section of the signal corps and was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe. He was commissioned first lieutenant on the 8th of this month and is here with Lieut. Miller. in the same service, on a short furlough. Washingtonians at their favorite no hotels in the metropolis during the past were Mrs.
Francis J. Henry, at the Ansonia; Mrs. L. Menos, at the Marseilles; M. M.
Bennett, at the Sherman Square; J. A. Smyth, at the Continental; H. M. Curran, at the Collingwood; Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Brown, W. Bohokes and Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Manheim, at the Cumberland; J. H.
Creamer, at the Arlington; C. E. Raymond and R. B. Dunlap, at the Manhattan; S.
R. Smith, at the Longacre; Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Willjams, at the Bristol; H. A. Duc, at the Albert; G. S. Gottlieb and J.
W. Vansance, at the Wallick; M. E. Lowry, at the Broadway Central; Miss B. Reynolds and Countess Mankowski, at the Great Northern.
Horace R. Share, manager of the Hotel Flanders, at Forty-seventh street, just off Broadway, had as his guests from. Washington, W. D. Dodd Mr.
and and A. Mrs H. Tackett. Visitors from Washington, D. during the past week at the Navarre Hotel were Rodney Wells, H.
F. Knapp, H. L. A Record of Trust Faithfully Fulfilled We lay no claims to credit for a record of unbroken fidelity to the various trusts imposed during our history of over quarter of a century. It is what our clients have a right to expect.
It is what we were organized to provideEfficient and Effectual Service as Executor, Trustee, Administrator, Guardian, Assignee, Registrar, etc. We invite consultation about our service. THE WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY JOHN B. LARNER, PRESIDENT. Main Office: and Ninth Streets.
Branch Office: and Seventeenth Streets. ASKS WHAT BE ATROCITIES Rev. J. L. Gordon Bases Sermon on Gibson's Story of Belgium.
"I ask the kaiser and every proGerman in this country, What benefit was, gained by shelling the homes of defenseless women and children? said Rev. James L. Gordon, pastor of the First Congregational Church, last night, commenting the atrocities committed don the Belgians, as portrayed in "A Journal From Our Legation. in Belgium," written by Hugh Gibson and now running in The Washrington Post. Dr.
Gordon declared that every man should read this book in order to learn the truth about the war in Europe. He told how Hugh Gibson had worked to save the life of Edith Cavell, and by his efforts to save the Belgians from starvation had made the name of America respected for: all time. Dr. Gordon declared that if the kaiser had the opportunity he would devastate the city of Washington as. he had done the cities of Belgium.
City Briefs Secretary Pritchett announces meeting of the North Washington Citizens' Association tonight in Gage School. The executive committee of the District of Columbia State Equal Suffrage Association will meet at the headquarters of the National 'American Woman Suffrage Association Tuesday, night to start a "suffrage for. the campaign. At a meeting of the Anthony League to be held Thursday, at 1626 Rhode Island avenue, Albert Schulties, of the Chamber of Commerce, will speak on "Suffrage for the District." The Thomas Jesse. Jones report on "Negro Education" will be the subject of an address before Bethel Literary tomorrow evening in the Metropolitan A.
M. E. Church, by Prof. L. M.
Hershaw. Music will be furnished by the choir of the Shiloh Baptist Church, and a solo sung by Miss Martha A. Harris. haThe, "done its Dumbarton bit" to Club make of soldiers Georgetown in Washington comfortable by inviting men in uniform to use its clubhouse on Wisconsin avenue. Charles Trowbridge Tittman, bass barytone, will be the soloist at a concert for the blind given in the Library of Congress tomorrow The alumni of California University will hold a "get-together meeting" at the Home Club on Thursday night.
Senator Johnson, of California, will be the principal speaker. The Military Service Legion will hold a special meeting at the National Guard Armory tomorrow night. The Cathedral Heights Citizens' Association will hold its regular meeting in St. Alban's parish hall Thursday night. A reunion for the classes which have graduated from Business High' School in the last five years will be held at the school Saturday evening.
There will be dancing in the gymnasium. The Bryan-Buchanan Parent-Teachers' Association will hold a meeting in the Bryan School tonight. Boundaries for the new Peabody School community center will be drawn at a meeting held in the Peabody School tomorrow night. A meeting of the Case School of Applied Science will be held in the Ontario apartments tonight. The Florida Society- of this city will hold a meeting Friday night in the rooms of the Washington Chapter of the American Bankers' Institute, 1214 street northwest.
The Maine State Association will hold a meeting Saturday night in the W. C. T. U. rooms at 522 Sixth street northwest.
The Conduit Citizens' Association will meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in St. David's parish hall. "The Editor's Vien9 will be the subject of an address on Friday night before the meeting of the Scriblers' Club at the Public Library by Mrs. Florence J. Stoddard.
An address on Scandinavian peoples will be delivered before the Anthropological Society rom the. New National Museum tomorrow afternoon by Prof. Amandus Johnson, of, the University of Pennsylvania. WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEBATED. Speakers Offer Arguments on Issue at Secular League Meeting.
Woman suffrage was debated at the meeting of the Washington Secular League at Pythian Temple yesterday afternoon. Miss Minnie Bronson spoke in opposition. The cause of suffrage was maintained by W. F. Lindas, Julian Pierce, Mrs.
Brooks, Mrs. Goulding, Mrs. Burritt, of Dr. J. J.
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King street, Alexandria, Va. embers of Alexandria Lodge of Elks, held memorial exercises in the of the Elks' Home last night. bers have died in the last year William P. Taylor and Fred M. Batchelder.
Ease C. Snyder, of Washington, was the ora Mr. Snyder delivered an eloquent address upon the timely topic, The Rey. Edgar Carpenter, chaplain or the lodge, gave a brief talk on the Order. Past Exalted Ruler Jace Brill responded to the mystic "11 o'cloc toast.
As the names of the deceased merabers of the lodge were called by the secretary stars on a flag at the back of the were lighted. A musical and litera. pregram was rendered during the by Miss Virginia Schwab, Miss non, Mrs. Herman Friedlander, Mrs. Harrie White, Mrs.
Sherman B. Kenneth W. Ogden, J. Wilmer Walls Alvin Friedlander, Sherman B. Fowler and Frederick Schwab.
These officers conducted the memorial ceremonies: Er vin George Schwarzmann, exalted ruler; T. B. Cochran, leading knight; A. A. Paul, loyal knight; C.
F. Johnson, lecturing knight; George W. Bontz, secretary; Herman Friedlander, treasurer; Thomas D. Downey, tiler; Robert F. Green, esquire; the Rev.
Edgar Carpenter, chaplain; George Kaus, inner guard; James Callan, August J. Pohl and Raymond Blumenfeld, trustees. Herman Friedlander was chairman of the memorial committee. Carlin Delivers Address. Before an audience that filled the auditorium of the Young People's building, Representative C.
C. Carlin delivered a stirring address- on "Our. Present Problems." The occasion the annual Thanksgiving and patriotic exercises Alexandria Council, No. 5, Order of Fraternal Americans. John H.
Trimyer, treasurer of that order, presided. It is stated that a recent canvass of the membership of Alexandria Council disclosed the fact that 21. of its members are now in the service of Uncle Sam, as follows: Five lleutenants, eight sergeants, one one musician and six privates. Will Talk on Food Saving. Mrs.
Gordon Smith, of New York, a daughter of Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, will on Thursday night deliver the first of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Cameron Club. The meeting will be at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Johnson, in Prince street. Mrs. Smith's topic will be "Food Conservation." Alexandria Couple Married. Mrs.
Bertha May Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey, and G. W. Welker, were married Thursday evening at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church by the Rev.
Dr. E. B. Jackson. Episcopal Mission Begins.
The Rev. Thomas Semmes, of Richmond, a former resident of Alexandria, last night began a mission at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. A large congregation attended. WAR AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.
Week of Educational Campaign to Combat Disease Begins. An intensive educational campaign to end with special services in churches throughout the country begins today under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Mass meetings have been planned in many cities. Community. centers are also expected to join in the BURTON HOLMES SHOWS ALASKA Noted Lecturer Delights Big Audience With Pictures and Descriptions.
Johnson, E. H. McDermott, Mr. and Mrs. T.
M. Dryden, Harold C. Hobart Myrtle Schellinger, C. W. McKenzie, Furneya, John A.
Daley, Mr. and Mrs F. V. Grau, Lieut. H.
Hall, C. E. Knickerbocker, A. R. Benson, E.
W. Harrigan, Carl Coleman and F. Froster, Delano, of the Federal reserve board, and Mrs. Delano, with their daughter arrived from Washington and were at the Biltmore over Thanksgiving; Waldimir Novitsky, French delegate of the Russian embassy at Washington, and Mme. Novitsky were at the Plaza for a few days; Mrs.
C. E. Bromwell and Mrs. W. McKinney were at the Biltmore; Edwin W.
Lee tained friends at dinner at the Claridge one evening last week; Capt. and Mrs. Spencer Wood were at the Plaza for a few days; Mrs. R. H.
Chapman. was at the Belmont; J. N. Van Der Houven von Ordt at the Netherland; Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. Oliver at the Vanderbilt; and Mr. and Mrs. Jerome N.
Bonaparte and Blaine Elkins entertained dinner parties at the Ritz during the past week. H. Grunebaum, C. H. Francke, Mrs.
H. Gould, Miss, E. M. Hirsch, J. Grinsfelder, J.
A. Hobson, F. E. Woodward, Miss C. Hart, A.
H. Baum, J. MacFarquhar, M. Nusbaum, L. Reese and E.
C. Catchell were buy-. ers from the National Capital in New York market during the past week. Among the list of officers appointed at Plattsburg recently were Cortland K. Krens and L.
H. Green, of Washington, D. C. Both won a first lieutenandorinhe Small, infantry also in of class Washington, was given a commission as second lieutenant of field artillery. William Sherman Burns, son of the noted detective, well known in Washington, won a first lieutenancy in the infantry.
Cornelius O'Connor, well known in Wall street and Washington, earned a second lieutenancy in the field artillery. After taking luncheon with his mother at the Holland House Tuesday afterLieut. T. G. Townsend, 302d ennoon, gineers, stopped to chat with The Post correspondent.
After a few minutes' conyersation she reminded him that he must hurry up and take his French lesson. "You know, all the officers and privates in the engineer corps at Camp Upton have to come to the city twice a week and take lessons in the French language. We are all working hard and getting ready," said Lieut. Townsend. Before enlisting Mr.
Townsend lived. at 1524 Eighteenth street northwest, Washington, D. C. He was connected with the Southern Railway. The great winter drive on knitting received a severe setback in the lobby of the Majestic Hotel yesterday when a group of pretty young girls were industriously plying their needles for the soldiers.
Alone in a deep leather chair was a prim little lady who seemed to be making progress on a knitter which if stretched would fit snugly about Gen. Tom Thumb before he grew up. One of the young girls decided to go over and commiserate with the fellow knitter. "Isn't it fine that everybody is so interested in our soldiers?" There was a brisk nod and a speedlinE "Just up of what the kind needles. of a soldier sweater are you making?" "This is not a soldier sweater, young lady," was the snappy reply; "this is a winter sweater for Toodles, my dog." And all peaceful negotiations were broken off.
Prominent among those from the National Capital at the Hotel Astor during the past week were Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Joseph E. Kuhn, U.
S. Gen. Robert J. Wynne, Gen. H.
F. Hodges, U. S. Mrs. Romona O'Neill, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Trudewind, W. J.
Peete, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Messer and Miss A. H.
Messer, The following registered from Washington, D. at the Herald Square: A. M. Daly, L. A.
Speirs, D. H. F. Hilliard, Mr. and Mrs.
E. O. Bird, Edward Redfield, W. H. Sherman, H.
Esser, Leo B. Russell, W. N. Dook, C. W.
Richmond, William R. Wilson, C. H. Franke, Virginia D. Johnson, Capt.
R. G. Eaton, John A. Calborn, Edward Jerry, J. Broadbent and Mr.
and Mrs. Alterman. Many students of Washington colleges and schools took advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday to run up to New York. and many of them carved their own turkeys in hotels here. Among them was John G.
Petritz, who is attending Georgetown Law School. His wife, a niece of the Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, the famous Brooklyn divine, accompanied him, spending a few days at Park Avenue Hotel before her return to Washington. Washingtonians who were at the Park Avenue Hotel last week were Miss Louise Lewis, Miss Josephine G. Ellett, Mrs.
Francis Lee Stuart, Mrs. John G. Petritz, Capt. H. L.
Beach, Mrs. Sidney Appleton, Mrs. M. A. Flanigan, S.
J. Hodge, Charles D. Callahan, George Hewlett, D. C. List, Margaret D.
Willard, Maj. F. G. Bolles and Frank R. Hemlen.
RITES FOR DR. D. C. GORDON. Vestryman of St.
Andrew's Was Veteran of the Civil War. Dr. David C. Gordon, who died Saturday was well known in this city, especially in church circles, having been for years a vestryman of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
He was born in Mississippi I in 1836. Gordon was in the army of northern Virginia during the civil war, and after his marriage to Mrs. Ann McLaughlin Barnum, of Baltimore, lived in Warrenton, and in Culpeper county. He leaves a son, Malcolm Kenneth Gordon. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.
m. today at St. Paul's Church, Bishop Alfred Harding, Canon Austin and Dr. Talbot officiating. Honorary bearers will be Hon.
Hilary A. Herbert, former Secretary of the Navy; Leigh Robinson; Rear Admiral Endicott, U. S. N. (retired); Dr.
C. Shirley Carter, Col. Robert E. Lee and J. Winston Payne.
BAND CONCERT TODAY. This afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at the marine barracks, by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, William H. Santelmann, leader. The program: Symphony in fat (Opus (1) Allegro. (8) Scherzo.
(2) Largo. Allegro di molto. (a) "The Poet's Dream" (Opus 81, No. MaoDowell (b) "Scotch Poem" (Opus 81, No. 6) Mao Dowell Concert Fantasia Sacer a (Musician William Van De Wall) Suite, "Caucasian (1) In the Mountains, (2) In the Village (Solo obligato by Herman Kolodkin, viola; Silvio Onotry, oboe.) (3) In the Mosque.
(4) The Procession of the Sardar. Overture, "Mignon" Thomas "The Star Banner' A vivid picture and graphic description of Alaska were given by Burton Holmes in his travelogue at the New National last night, to the delight of a big audience of patrons of the popular offerings. Every phase of the icy clime was depicted 1 by motion pictures and other scenes shown on the screen. The travelogue was one of the most entertaining and instructive that Mr. Holmes has presented in Washington.
The land of gold and ice was portraved in a manner that unfolded all its char eteristics, both natural and artiAcial Icebergs moving seaward, some them in fantastic forms, and scenic sei sation. of the White pass and YuRailway as viewed from Mr. Holme special observation car over the most pie turesque sections of the line, were amor the interesting sights. Superb pictures of the flowers, fruit and the anima life of the region were pleasing features, while limpses of the gold mining country, including scenes of gold dredging and hydraulic mining on a colossal scale, were given In most comprehensive way. Uncle Sam's new Alaskan railway and the governs ment's experimental station were jeets screened in an educational There were numerous humorous sketches flashed refreshingly Next Sunday night the trave ogue will be "Circling' the Pacific It is described as a delightful cruise all the way around the Pacific, depicting scenes in Hawaii, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Hongkong, Japan, Alaska, Canada and the United States.
FIVE YEARS AT ST. MARK'S. Rev. William A. Wade, Lutheran Pastor, Honored by Congregation.
Special services were held yesterday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Eighth and streets southwest, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. William A. Wade. In Mr.
Wade's pastorate a number of improvements to the property have been made -and $10,000 has been paid on the indebtedness. MEADE NEGROES AT CHURCH. Gen. Ballou, Commander, Praised by the Rev. S.
P. W. Drew. Placing of Gen. C.
C. Ballou in command' of 30,000 negro soldiers of the United States army will aid in winning the war, declared the Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Church, in a sermon to colored soldiers from Camp Meade yesterday.
"Negro citizens will pray for your success," he said, adding that prejudice against the negro has lessened and the war had given the race the greatest opportunity it ever had to advance in the estimation of the world. $2,000 FOR K. C. WAR FUND. Seven-Day Campaign Launched by Sacred Heart Parish.
A whirlwind 7-day campaign was inaugurated yesterday afternoon by members of Sacred Heart parish at an enthusiastic meeting in the Arcade, Fourteenth street and Park road. The object is to secure Washington's pro rata share of the 000 war fund being raised by the PARIS N. W. 5th at 46th Opposite Shoreham Hotel New York ANNOUNCE Important Reductions IN Women's Exclusive Apparel Suits $25 $45 $65 $85 Formerly Up to Formerly Up to Formerly, Up to Formerly Up to $45 $75 $125 Gowns $35 $65 $85 $150 Formerly $65 Up to, Formerly $95 Up to Formerly $150 Up to Formerly $225 Up to Coats $35 $50 $65 $95 Formerly Up to $145 Blouses $5 $10 $15 Formerly Up to $28 Millinery for Immediate Disposal $10, $15 and $18 Formerly Up to $28 A Few Hats Reduced to $7.50 Knights of Columbus for cantonment assisted by William McGee. work.
Rover, state deputy, outlined work The Rev. P. C. Cavan spoke at sir masses yesterday, urging the people to support the Knights. William J.
Normoyle, of the general committee was in the camps and made clear that not one cent would be taken for expenses connected with the collection. A total of $2,000 was subscribed. Patriotism Calls for Thrift! Newcomers to Washington begin. aright by buying shares earning 6 Per Cent Dividends Perpetual Building Association Founded 36 Years Ago. LARGEST IN WASHINGTON-NONE STRONGER.
Assets Nearly $5,000,000 Eleventh and Streets N. W. JAMES BERRY, JOSHUA W. CARR, President. Secretary.
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