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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
19
A fashion feature extols distinctive styles and exclusive fabrics, noting luxurious materials and unattainable values. The write up emphasizes high end design, craft, and the allure of premium textiles.
Howard Students hear Secretary Straus praise The Hague peace conference as a milestone in international and domestic progress. He credits Andrew Carnegie with funding a world peace palace and notes Roosevelt's prize money to foster industrial peace, urging law and national contentment as pillars of peace amid sociological vagaries.
The funeral for John K Pfeil who died early Saturday at his home on Twenty second Street Northwest will be held at 2 30 this afternoon. He was eighty three and had lived in Washington for over fifty years after arriving from Baden Germany in 1850s. A veteran of the Civil War he served in the Eighth Battalion DC Volunteers and later joined the George H Meade Post G A R and the Odd Fellows. He is survived by his wife six children several grandchildren and great grandchildren with two brothers surviving one in Colonial Beach Virginia.
District Commissioner Macfarland joins the fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Chicago Young Men's Christian Association. The two week program runs April 11 through 24 with a 100 citizen committee led by J. D. Shedd, who offers $100,000 toward a dormitory if a $1,000,000 fund is raised. A women’s banquet at Shoreham Hotel is set for April 4 at 1 p.m. Notables including Justice Harlan and Senators Borah Brown are expected. The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, founded at Miami College in 1839, is listed with leaders in charge of arrangements.
The Upton Brattan grant damage commission may report early this week on damages claimed by owners on the west side of North Capitol Street between Randy and Massachusetts avenues, square 8 and 626. The three weeks of hearings involve owners led by attorneys A H Hel J A Burkhart D J Darlington and Edwin Forrest arguing property depreciation from the Union Station plaza. The commission contends improvements increased adjacent land value offsetting potential damage. A Leftwich Sinclair represented the government.
Representatives of Gallaudet, Gruell Verein and the New Jerusalem Church attended the funeral of John Hitz superintendent of the Volta Bureau. Dr. Leo Vogel Swiss minister and Helen Keller were among mourners with Alexander Graham Bell and Clara Barton noted in attendance. The body to be buried in Congressional Cemetery. EF W Booth named acting superintendent.
Friends of poor children in the District launch an active drive to erect a larger building for the Episcopal Home for Children formerly the Bell Home. Two Miss Hawke pupil productions at Belasco Theater on April 29 will fund the building effort, with a matinee of Little Red Riding Hood and an evening carnival. The Bell Home serves summer and winter locations and is run by Episcopal church ladies across the diocese. Officers include President Mrs. W. C. Davenport and Vice President Mrs. H. Y. Satterlee.
Preliminary arrangements for the annual League of Republican State Clubs dinner were made at a meeting on Saturday night at the Pennsylvania Club. Five covers will be set, and demand for seats suggests a successful event. Speakers include Senators Clark Foraker Warner Landis Hayes and others.
Funeral services for Col John Cassels, chair man and financier, who died Saturday at his home on 1907 F Street NW, will be held tomorrow at 2 30 PM from the family residence. Interment will be at Arlington Cemetery. The service is under the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of which Cassels was a member. Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company called to extend sympathy. The funeral is private and floral tributes are to be omitted.
A Y M C A official, Mr Hibbard, lauded Japanese recognition of Y M C A services with a $5,000 gift and plans for a permanent Y M C A presence at Danny. Masons donate bricks and $30,000 is sought for the plant, while letters from camps and the division points boost the organization’s fame in Nippon.
Commissioners seek power to allow property owners to absorb land by closing any alley upon written application. A proposed amendment would make alleys private property and subject to assessment. If title rests with the United States, petitioning owners must pay at least the assessed value.
The National Geographic Society announces a special member lecture tomorrow evening at the National Rifles Armory 220 G street. Richard Kearton F I B of England will speak and show moving pictures of wild birds in their natural surroundings.
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