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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1910
Page
7
In a standout performance, Walsh delivers a stellar portrayal in the community theater piece staged at 618 Georgetown. The production centers on a bicycle bluecoat neighbor Mrs. Torreyson and features a lively race for a lead role amid a split-part setup.
The record charges Private J G Walsh of the Metropolitan Police District of DC with entering 1716 Thirty third Street northwest without warrant on August 7 1910 and crawling under a crib to catch a chicken and striking Mrs Torreyson’s cat with a black jack.
A police board trial room farce unfolds as Walsh defends himself against Mrs Torreyson and witnesses. The scene mixes a chicken chase, furniture toppled, and comic theatrics. Walsh denies wrongdoing while Torreyson presses legal action, with the board taking the case under advisement and Torreyson threatening Supreme Court appeal.
Plaster busts that have overlooked the pension office court for years are being removed after a 70 pound fall near the completion of the building. The heads, possibly symbolic of races and nations, will be offered for sale at auction as obsolete decorations from the inauguration era of presidents from Cleveland to Taft.
In Ogdensburg on September 6 two Montreal women watched as their husbands sank from a motorboat overturning near the St. Lawrence river. Engineer John Clendining of Brockville rescued the two women and helped avert further tragedy.
A pretty wedding was held at Blue House Geneseo with Miss Mary Juliet Sigik, niece of Julian G. Buckley, marrying Leonard J. Nicholson Jr. Both are from Washington DC. The ceremony featured hemlock, palms, roses, and asters, with Katherine Addie Slack as maid of honor. Rev J W C Cooper officiated. The couple planned a ten day Canada tour then will reside in Washington.
Washington Gaslight Company directors postponed a stockholders meeting to October 14 to allow registration of stock for voting. They recommended valuing company property at 13,000,100 for dividends and approving a 60 year 5 percent gold coupon bond issue up to 4,200,000 to refund existing debentures, finance future improvements, and adjust certificates at par.
President Taft anxious over news of Solicitor General Lloyd W. Bowers illness at the Touraine Hotel in Boston. Doctors say bronchitis and a tonsil abscess contributed to the attack, but recovery expected in two weeks. Bowers had been considered a near certainty for a Supreme Court slot or even chief justice.
A Washington Post weather bulletin notes a disturbance with showers moving over the northern and middle Atlantic states. A tropical disturbance forms south of Porto Rico with a 48 mph NE wind reported at San Juan. Temps remain hot in the east and central regions, cooler in the northern Rockies, with showers planned across the central and eastern U.S. through Thursday. River readings for the Potomac and Shenandoah are currently muddied.
A Washington aero club meets at the Central Y M C A to discuss leasing central city quarters and reorganizing its identity as a businesslike body ahead of the aviation meet at College Park on October 27. Committee Winslow Boeckh Holler to secure guards in the city center. Plans include displaying aeroplanes at Terminal M Union Station on October 3.
Archbishop Bruchesi urges calm as street processions carry the host. Read messages from King George and the Pontiff. Cardinal Vannitelli addresses the gathering in a ceremonial event on the occasion.
In Montreal and Washington crowds gather as the twenty first international eucharistic congress opens in Montreal with Cardinal Vannutelli present. At Beberich’s Sons in Washington a nine day shoe making exhibition uses 34 Craddock Terry machines to show leather to finished shoe, drawing hundreds daily.
Farmers in the District threaten to halt produce shipments unless the district commission’s order to remove city lights on country roads is rescinded. The issue was raised at the Randle Highlands Citizens Association executive committee meeting. Robert F. Bradbury said farmers are aroused and may ship by rail to Baltimore to pressure a reversal.
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