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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
23
Saks offers men’s hats and shoes at $2 with higher value than typical $3 grades. Describes derbys and soft hats in favorite leathers, all made for Saks to ensure quality and style surpassing rival $2 offerings.
Fletcher O Brockman international secretary of the Y M C A China and Korea will sail to Shanghai October 2 with ten university trained secretaries for key centers in China and Korea. President Woodward praised the effort as essential to extend Christian association work and noted funding covers three current secretaries in China and India. Wanamaker adds $50,000 for Seoul and Hong Kong building plans.
Leather dealer James Topham of Forrest marks fifty years in business with flowers at his shop. Friends visit throughout the day and vie for a glimpse of the veteran merchant. He jokes that he plans to keep working beyond the half century, quipping they won’t see him here then.
School board meeting last night at Franklin School with Dr Charles W Needham absent. No action on Swartzell but a special meeting tonight is expected to settle it along with the M Street High School matter. Probable final decision after Friday brief filing by Swartzell. Also lists kindergarten admissions, resignations, and promotions in local normal schools.
Andrew B. Duvall Jr may be named assistant to the corporation counsel as the Commissioners consider nine candidates for first assistant to E H Thomas. The nine contenders include Philip Walker W D Davidge Alexander Bradley Levi Dickey L A Batley D O C Callaghan John Gittings Raymond Dickey and Francis Stevens. Some supporters seek a place for Duvall in the office and the new counsel wants to learn office routines from Thomas.
Maj Simms superintendent of property for the TDistrict resigned to take effect October 18 and asked leave from October 1. The resignation was accepted. No action on his successor yet, but Manon Hargrove, assistant superintendent of property, is favored for promotion. One outside applicant reportedly considered.
The Commissioners approve a temporary revocable permit for Mr R L Thompson to use a coal yard in Square 8 Eckington. The decision was made by Col John Biddle Engineer Commissioner and colleagues after two months of public debate. Wires Underground plan advances as Western Union and Postal Telegraph push to bury overhead lines, with Fourteenth Street crossing Pennsylvania Avenue among first to go underground and C and Hunt reporting. The Piney Branch concrete bridge project across Sixteenth Street is awarded to the Pennsylvania Bridge Company, lowest bid. District Commissioners grant Payani a twenty one day extension to finish High School work. Quarantine at the District jail ends with 27 prisoners released after terms expire.
Washington coal dealers tell the Post that a major anthracite strike is inevitable by spring. They cite railroad fuel hoarding and miners tightening finances as signs. Dealers expect prices to rise midwinter and by spring, with storage battles fueling a long lead influence on costs.
In Washington the coal market runs hot with orders and busy yards as residents brace for winter. Amid reports of rising fuel use a police dispatch leads to the arrest of James A Wells in Washington on a murder charge in Amelia Virginia. Authorities state Wells admitted a prior visit and dispute with the victim Lipscomb but denied the murder allegation.
Ernest Gichner, shot at the Marine Barracks by government inspector Charles Beach, was reported yesterday at Providence Hospital improving rapidly and now sits up portions of each day. A hod-carrier, William Green, was struck with a hod during a building incident at Twelfth and F streets northeast, suffering a deep scalp wound and the assailant fled.
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