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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1910
Page
6
District Health Officer Woodward appeals to Washington residents to cooperate in enforcing sanitation rules in markets restaurants and lunchrooms. He notes funds are lacking for a full campaign yet urges shoppers to avoid untidy establishments and support inspectors progress while keeping violators in line.
The Meridian Hill park bill was passed by Congress, offering a prime site bounded by Florida Avenue Euclid Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. The hilltop location provides views of Virginia Maryland and the Potomac with White House and monuments nearby. Proposals include botanic gardens, with beautification likely to yield lasting public pleasure and pride.
The Rev P W Jeffries gave the welcome address at Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church South children’s day services. Children’s choruses and solos by Miss Margaret Denham Miss Alice Jones and Miss Dorothy Denham followed. Wade Deitrich spoke and recitations were read by Glennie Tomlinson Rosalie Bowen Fred Slanker and Pauline Horton. Three children Helen Coates Hilda Coates and Martha Horton were baptized during communion. Six new members joined: W A Dennett Mrs W A Dennett James Dennett Miss McCulloch Miss Mary Dawkins and Miss Ula Dawkins.
TTCO offers seven passenger cars at 4 dollars per hour and five passenger cars at 3 dollars per hour. Men's League at Communion grows beyond 400 members with a mass at 7 o clock yesterday at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart officiated by Rev. Joseph Magee.
The report describes recovery likelihoods for diabetics under Fulton s Diabetic Compound. Patients over sixty show about nine tenths recovery, those over fifty also respond well, while younger groups see reduced success. Under thirty remains highly uncertain with few pediatric recoveries.
The Women Equal Suffrage Association plans to empower female agents to pursue legal action against male harassers in Washington. R B Exekiel notes northerners are more brazen and urges action before summer ends. Women already act as truancy officers and Humane Society agents, and may receive broader police powers to gather evidence and curb the nuisance.
Fifty delegates representing about 1000 Socialist party members in Maryland and the District of Columbia opened a two day session at Pythian Temple. Prof. William N. Coleman was elected permanent chairman and committees were named to draft Maryland platform revise the party constitution and set statewide policy. Delegates plan widespread distribution of socialist literature to build membership and influence for the coming campaign aided by recent Milwaukee victory as a model.
Engineer C. O. Merriman aboard an excursion train on the Baltimore and Ohio from Winchester Virginia and Frederick Maryland applied emergency brakes when the locomotive hit an open switch near New York avenue freight station at about 20 miles per hour. The engine and train left the tracks but the engineer and fireman escaped by jumping. Conductor Grace led six coach cars filled with merrymakers bound for the city on a day outing, averting a possible disaster.
The Brewery Wagon Drivers Union No 33 at Costello's Hall named J C Kenny J F Smith and W Knudsen to confer with Milwaukee Schlitz and Pabst and St Louis Anheuser Busch reps on wage scale eight hour day and other conditions. Bottlers will appoint a parallel committee to join the talks.
After simple services at the Hodgson home in Falls Church Virginia Jeanne Hodgson Catlett and her two month old daughter were buried in Oakwood Cemetery. The two bodies lay in the same coffin in the arms of the mother as authorities note she poisoned the infant in New York with part of a cyanide drink before taking her own life. Rev A C Andrews conducted the Falls Church Methodist service. Four relatives carried the coffins to the grave.
Mer Falconio apostolic delegate guest of honor at the seventh annual meeting of the Catholic Educational Association to convene tomorrow in Detroit. He travels with Rev William Ketcham of the bureau of Catholic Indian missions after attending the Catholic Sioux congress at Fort Yates North Dakota last week.
City authorities seek Simon Bass, age 16, last seen yesterday morning, living at 206 P Street Northwest. Police believe he may have run away.
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