Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-03
District Government A0atrs.

Tie contract f,r furnishing and putting up
leatine apparatus for the new workhouse has
been awarded TO Mr.. H. 1. Gregory.
B. F. Harper and John E. Welch have
received commissions as additional privateS
on the police force, to do duty in the Sd
Geol ge1owr) precinct.
The District assessors have come TO the con-
cluSion to receive TO more personal returns
OF and after the 20th instant, but after that
date will proceed 10 assess all deliuquentS and
add the penal of so per cent As the law pre-
scllles. Ibis course is very reluctantly taken,
but thele seems lao other way to bring up the
assessments in time.
Auditor Vinson has informed the District
Conmis sioners that there has been collected
$26.2.25. " hich has been paid to the Neuchatei
Paving Company, also certificates to their
attorney amounting to s15,7s5 Il.
The report of the Health Officer for the week
ending Augus 3lst shows 40 nuiSances re-
port. d, OF which 2l0 were abated; deaths re-
ported, 95; causes of death investigated by
veStigatiOns for local cause of disease, 2; tons
OF garbage removed, 81 animal impOunded,
ia; redeemed "a. killed 40: also reports of a
large quantity OF unwholesome food con-
demned.
REDUCTION OF POLICEMEN's PAY.
The policemen yesterday received their pay
for August, and in the afternoon the District
commissioners announced that the salaries
hereafter paid the force would be as follows:
Privates-First years service, SO; five to ten
years SERVICE, $79; six to fifteen years service,
Yates have heretofore received $40 per monthly
The detectives pay is reduced from sl35 to sll0
per month; the pay OF lieutenants reduced
$s7 to $s5; station keepers are hereafter to
receive $43; telegraph operators, S65: police
surgeons, $500; laborers, S35: property clerk,
$50 respectively. The mounted force is to be
increased to 25 men, and to be allowed $40 for
expense OF keeping horse. More mounted
men men are soon to be put on the force. No re-
nf nov nf tha narin
tendent, the captain, the clerk in charge of
property, or the record clerk.
NEW WATER MAINS.
slX-lnch water main has been ordered to
be aid on street between I'd and 4l5 streets
SOUTHWEST, at all estimated cost of SSoS An
other main has been ordered ON the south
side of Qstreet, between 9th and 7th streets
northwest, at an estimated cost of $536. An
other six inch main is ordered on the west
side OF 9Th street, between / and l. streets
southwest, at an estimated cost of SLOPE, aud
AZ streets southwest, to cost not exceeding
1856. The street improvement now being made
on 14th street, between n and Boundary
to be laid by Messrs. Gray & King, in the way
OF making house connections, many of which
have never been made, and old ones replaced
by Lew pipe.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by. Inspector Entwistle M. s. Girls
wal, repair brick. sl1 street northwest;
slbo a.. A. koek repair 9dS brick STRUCTURE, no
OH stIee! northwest; Sl0O. z. Z. Greer,
streets n. W: $50. VIM. G. Downing, repair
brick, l3l4114 7th streetn.w.: SO. A. E. Burch
make addition to frame, 22lOI street n. W.. !; $50
Rev. Father Alig, repair brick house, 446
street n. w: $780, James Dobbyn, repair
frame, No. II 9th street u. e. sl25 Geo Rus
sell, repair frame on II street. between 9th
and 7th streets n. E.. $500. Charles White, re-
pair frame, sll A street n. e : s25. Solomon
Slower, repair frame, l street, between 2Ist
and 22d streets n. w; $50. Mrs StoughtOn,
repair brick house, 18th street, between f and
e streets n. W.; 500, j. M. Walker, repair
brick house corner 18Th and streets s. W.:
500. Isaiah Bool, repair brick house, 729 7th
street u, W; $3.50. E. and j Cammack con.
StIuct three three-StOry brick dwellings north
east corner 18th and E streets n. W. !; $1,000.
Christopher Hagar,- repair brick house, Sl7
18th street q. W.; $35.