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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
4
Frans Halleen describes the Eckington accident before a coroner's jury, recounting how a great shock sent two to instant death. The case is described as without precedent and marks a pivotal inquiry into the incident.
The Washington coroner's inquest examined the deaths of Daniel Kelly and William James Regan electricians killed by 66 volts in a flooded Eckington car barn. Norman Norton, Franz Halleen, George Pickering, and others were shocked. Norton survived, Halleen testified vividly about the brief moments of sensory onslaught, while experts called the event an unprecedented accident and a freak of electricity.
Eighty children aged from 6 weeks to 13 years plus twelve mothers joined yesterday’s annual outing to Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park. The effort aims to serve 180 children this summer with continued fundraising and a special car provided by the Washington Railway and Electric Company.
Health department figures show 408 alley cats killed since July 1 under new District regulation. Most cats were solicited via telephone and letter requests. few were taken without consent amid objections from the Washington Cat Club. Mrs Henry L West lauds results and plans to seek club cooperation. The department will distribute a dozen traps citywide. bids called. A H ue McLean request urges boxed cats ready for transport when pound wagon arrives. families seeking removal must prepare tabbies.
Coroner Nevitt to hold an inquest at 11 this morning into the death of Walter J Alleger son of Dr W W Alleger of 143 U Street Northwest killed Tuesday afternoon by a work car on Tennally Town line near Wisconsin Avenue and Pierce Mill Road Conductor William Brown and Motorman Guy McCormick to testify Funeral services at 3230 o'clock at the Church of the Advent Second and N Streets Northwest Interment in Rock Creek Cemetery Pallbearers named Elwood Brayshaw Frank E Dunkin Edward Le Fevre Archibald McInnes Charles Ford Perry Stevenson
District Corporation Counsel E H Thomas directs commissioners to test the dirt removal law for sidewalk washdown from private property by rain. Owners may be notified to remove dirt under the April 14 1908 Congress act. If owners refuse, the district will do the work and assess the cost against the property. If the owner challenges the assessment he may sue to have it set aside.
Washingtonians flock to Colonial Beach for swimming sailing and boating with daily steamship service from Seventh Street Wharf and a Saturday afternoon run. The Great Falls area offers trolley rides picnics moonlit falls and free dancing and moving pictures at night. Chevy Chase Lake remains a popular family resort with Marine Band music nightly and pavilion access free for visitors.
City bulletins list steamer schedules from Seventh street and Fifteenth street for Norfolk Old Point Comfort and Zoo Park with frequent departures and rail connections. The Cosmos theater announces a second-feature act to supplement its bill next week including Rose Royal and Her Status Horse Chesterfield, touted as a premier animal posing act once seen on top vaudeville circuits.
Durie offers 50 cent lunches from noon to 8 pm at Harvey's located at 1th and Paay. Cambridge readers learn about reduced rates and service details for travel to Boston, Ocean City, Cambridge, Oxford, and other points via the W B A Electric Railway.
The Poli Players next week stage A Gentleman of Leisure a melodramatic farce about a midnight cracksman in a betting bid. Van Buren stars as the gentleman with Miss Jewes as the girl, while Mrs Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch features at the Columbia with a rich cast of 24 quirky characters. Belasco Roof Garden offers nightly Kinemacolor shows from 7:30 pm, with rain backups to the theater downstairs, and a slate of other acts and films at Cosmos and Echo Park through the week plus Sunday concerts by Soldiers' Home Band.
Siegfried Seherbau of the United States Marine Band married Marie Anderson, whom he met five years ago in Hamburg. The couple, who kept in weekly correspondence, married after the Neckar’s Baltimore docking, ceremony by Rev Otto Apitz at the dock. Also, Mrs R H Davis survived an attempted camphor suicide and returned home from Capitalty Hospital.
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