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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1905
Page
37
Fashionable Washington women discuss Lent fasting as a sign of self-denial and elegance. Budgets of meals shrink to simple breakfasts and light lunches, with dinners limited to six courses and no butter or wine. One observer notes long walks-turned-reflection, while others commit to concentrated mornings and abstaining from late suppers to improve health and complexion.
Petworth Citizens Association meets at William Gude home to urge more lower grade school facilities. EB W Oyster and others fault both past and present District Commissioners for half day sessions in first to third grades. resolutions call for expanded lower grade space and funds, plus transit and road concerns.
The Armstrong Manual Training School on P Street between First and Third streets NW hosts its closing exercises tonight starting at o'clock. A musical program and practical talks cover cookery to stenography and typewriting, with speakers including Mrs Bryant Miss Shaw Miss Quander Mrs Roberta Minor and others, plus presentations of engineers licenses to Messrs James H Tappe McComas Lewis and Charles Hamor.
Rev Albert Evans preached on prayer as the power behind church growth at the Assembly’s Presbyterian Church evangelistic series. He cited the healing of the lame man at the temple gate and urged consecrated Christian lives over a rush for wealth. Rev Joseph T Kelly led an appeal to the unconverted, with several seeking prayer, and Rev Tennis Hamlin was scheduled to preach with special gospel music to close.
Arthur S Browne presented a paper to the Columbia Historical Society in Shoreham recounting the origin of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia. He cited colonial language from parish records noting the London bishopric, land donation by John Bradford, and the first chapel site at Rock Creek parish Glebe and cemetery.
The suit, filed yesterday in Louisville, seeks a lien for 22173.06 on United States Treasury drafts and requests a court restraining draft removal. Adams D. Raub named receiver to collect Treasury checks. equity action outlines a contract for a government claim with Congress allowances totaling 128692.22 and 64346.11 due, half paid to complainants, half withheld. Justice Anderson appointed Raub as receiver to seize the drafts involved.
Bishop A M Randolph of Southern Virginia spoke on The Christian Family in a Church of the Epiphany lecture. He argued most marital alienations stem from property disputes and urged reverence for marriage despite lax laws and social change, warning against disloyalty to the home.
Police searched for a tall well dressed woman after a supposed suicide attempt at the filtration plant reservoir Monday night. Witness Watchman Hall described mud on her shoes and a threat to jump, while Patrolman Hunt also saw a woman in the area wearing a black skirt brown waist high heels and a gray hat with a chatelaine bag. A possible link to a Pennsylvania avenue lodging house infant abandonment was noted, alongside a report on a new volunteer training class at Associated Charities.
The Optimists Club of the Church of Our Father Universalist held a large banquet at Freund's with Col Henry W Williams presiding as toastmaster and Rev Dr Henry N Couden announcing a commission bestowing rank of colonel as an aid to Gen O G Howard. Guests included Rev John Van Schaick Jr and numerous attendees from Cincinnati and local society.
Rev Father Doyle of the Apostolic Mission House at Catholic University spoke at St Pauls Church on Fifteenth and V streets about divorce. He argued that modern social training breeds unfit wives, urging restoration of Christian morality and the three family principles: unity of one man and one woman, indissolubility of the marriage, and the divine contract.
A sales pitch offering a dollar’s worth free of Dr Shoop’s Rheumatic Remedy. The narrator explains rheumatism as poison in the blood and claims the German chemical ingredient makes a cure possible. The offer invites rheumatic sufferers to request the free trial and book by mail.
A deadly blaze traps families on crowded fire escapes as policemen and firefighters risk their lives. Policeman John J. Dwan heroically ferries a child to safety before a burning plank collapses. Lieut Bonner and Fireman Hannigan repeatedly rescue women and children, while others perish or are badly burned amid collapsing debris and searing heat. Fire Chief Croker cites delayed alarms and clogged escapes. Police Commissioner McAdoo defends the response as swift and adequate.
Prospect Hill Cemetery Association officers to be elected at Spanish War Veterans Hall 719 Sixth Street NW. German group report withheld pending local German paper publication. Next Tuesday evening meeting to elect officers. Blaze in Policeman's Home caused by overheated coal stove at 25 Tenth Street SE. Loss about ten dollars. Three bandits garroted in Santiago Cuba. Chacon Ortiz and Zulueta executed after murder conviction.
A Santa Monica area storm ends after lasing forty eight hours with Los Angeles rail traffic stalled for thirty six hours and a laborer drowned near Cajon Pass. Total damage exceeds half a million dollars across streets bridges and waterfront properties with rain measurements varied and line outages on Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads crippling coast traffic.
Heavy damage reported along the coast with planks and piers carried away by storms. At Santa Monica estimated losses reach 4000 dollars for pliers and a wharf. Long Beach crews salvaged boats and shore facilities. San Pedro section notes a $12 400 blow and other smaller losses from the same weather event.
Chicago University president will receive X ray treatment in Lakewood as guest of John D Rockefeller. Reports say the trip aims to assess medical care and potential return to Chicago. plans remain uncertain as family and staff coordinate treatment and travel.
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