Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-13
District Cover omept Affairs.

The District Cor .lmissoners this morning
paid over 10 MT Biackford and Mrs: HitZ,
TepreSe ntlng lie Industrial Home School,
propriated oy Congress for charitable 'ins;i-
tn ions ii the District.
A Pc Citi0n numerously signed by property
tw cen East Capitol street and Maryland ave-
Uue, was left with the District Commissioners
yesterday asking for re-assessment OF tie
special improvement tax on Sth street.
Water Registrar Cox has called the atten-
ton OF the Fire Commissioners to the practice
OF some OF the fremen of attaching hose to
fire plugs and flooding the streets with water
for cooling the thoroughfares and laying the
dust, thereby wasting the water az this season
When the scarcity is so much felt and asks
d correction of the evil.
The District Commissioners have decided
that tie schedules for personal taxes under the
present tax law. will not be distributed by car
riers among the tax payers as has heretofore
been the custom, but that all persons liable TO
personal taxes will be required to can or send
10 the assessors office for them. where the rC
turns can at the same time be made.
COMMISSIONERS OF PHARMACY.
Mr.. John A. Milburn, of the committee ap-
pointed at the recent meeting of the District
druggists at the the rooms of the College of
Pharmacy, called at the office of the District
Commissioners this morning, to urge the
nominations made by that meeting for Commits
Sioners OF Pharmacy, offices created under the
that at that meeting, committee of three, in
Guiding Mr. Milburn, was appointed to pre-
lent the choice OF the druggists to the District
Commissioners. 1t is prODable that the Com
miSSiOners will take action very soon upon
this matter. Some complaint has been made
that Georgetown is not represented on the
son, John X. Major and Thomas X. SchelIer.
The latter Is not member OF the College of
Pharmacy.
A DEAD WAGON AND MoRGUE WANTED.
This morning, Health Officer T0wnshend
Coroner Patterson and Mr.. Caswell, commits,
sioner OF the Aims House, had a conference
with the District Commissioners in relation to
the want of some better plan for the removal
of dead bodies TO the poor house burial ground
Recently, several instances have occurred
where the rendering of this service has been
so tardy as to cause complaint; one case in
particular is that of the body of a cOlOred bOv,
who was drowned. The body was recovered
late in the evening, and DR.. Patterson telc-
graphed as usual for the wagon at the poor
house for the removal of the body. Instead of
prompt response to the summons, the remains
lay III the sun at one of our wharves until y
o'clock the next day. Nothing definite was
agreed to, but the opinion was expressed that
We should have an ambulance located at some
convenient place within telephone cOmmuni-
cation with the police precincts, and a mOrgue
for the safe keeping of dead bodies until re-
c0gnized by their friends, and metallic box
or case for transportation OF the same through
the streets.
OUR WATER WORKS.
10 may be Of interest to TIE STAR readers
to know that the total length of water mains
water in the District of Columbia is S9l, 7USl5
lineal feet. or 168 miles and 1851 linel feet,
and classified as follows: lst Laid By the
mains, 93, 80 feet, or 1899 5230mIleS ID Laid
by the District of COlumbia-36, 50 and 2linch
mains, 2 ,SiS feet, or 5.l44S $3.50 miles. Sd. Laid
by the late corporation of Westinghouse and
Iinch maius, 5000 feet, or 10.220J-518O miles.
Laid by the water department. since is organ
4at lial 70 July l. l9sMl2 and finch MAINS
Fire plugs in Washington SIS. GEORGETOWN
Sl-l56. Hydrantsiin Washington 2i2, George
town 1870. Pumps in Washington SO,
Georgetown y, County 22-l23.
THE DOG TAX.
Measures will soon be taken by the District
Commissioners for the enforcement of the
new dog law to create revenue in the Dis
trIct by levying tax upon all dogs therein.
and making such dogs personal property The
act fixes tax of g each per annum upon all
dogs owned or kept, said taxes to be levied
ara Corrected as other taxes makes il the duty
OF the collector upon receipt of the tax to give
to the person paying, for each dog SO paid for
a metallic tag stamped with The year, showing
that me tax has been paid. keep record OF
such payments with date, name, color and sex
OF such dogs, and copy OF such record, certi-
he'd under the official seal OF the collector snail
De given to any one demanding the same upon
payment of twenty-five cents therefor, and
shall be prlma facie evidence OF such pay
ment IN any court of the District. The pound
master shall during the entire year seize all
dogs found running at large without the tax
tag, and lmpOund the same, and if within
tOrty-elght hours the same are not redeemed
by the payment OF &, they shall be sold or
destroyed. Any dog wearing the tax-tag shall
be permitted to run at large and be regarded
as personal property, and any person destroy
ing the same shall be liable to civil action for
damages: The act imposes the duty of any
person owning dog to place around the neck
OF the animal a color, on which shall be
m z; the name of the owner and the letters
:, D. C., and to which collar must be attached
the taX-tag, under S. and not more than $40
penalty, Whenever it shall be made to appear
to the Commissioners that any dog or dogs
within the District are mad, it shall be the
duty of the Commissioners to issue procia-
nation requiring all dogs, for period to be
dehned by them to wear good and substantial
muzzles, securely put. on, to prevent them
SOnerS are about to enforce this act, and will
require The tax in all instances where dogs are
Kept, and the strict enforcement of the law
THE NEW SANITARY INSPECTORS
Yesterday afternoon Health Officer Towns
mend sent to the Di,trict Co nmissiOners & e
following list of nominations of six sanitary
inspectors In Pee and they were promptly confirmed
der de Me Williams, Md, James McV. MackalI,
Thomas III. Shepherd, John F. Dennis and
Samuel SAM ELL; a: Robinson They will enter upon
the police force of all further responsibilities
Tor the sanitary care of the District. Their
compensation, as fixed by act of Congress, is
SI,AU per annum. MIR. Dennis is the only one
retained of the old inspectors
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by the inspector OF buildingS:-Abr
r. Barker, construct seven 2story and base |
ment brick dwellings, 18th, between b and c |
streets southwest; ST., eco. Rev. Dr. DenniSon, |
repair a frame dwelling, CorcOran, between !
I'm and 10Th streets northwest; $3.50: C. Il.
l,umbarton, between Congress and High |
streets, Georgetown; $1,000. l.. Woodbury.. |
repair brick dwelling, corner Pa. avenue and |
Stn street; 800 Vim. B. Kibbey, repair a |
prlcK dwelling, 40 Pa. avenue northwest; 300.
Summer Entertainments,