Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-12

A pardon has been granted Frank Holmes
from the workhOuse, for carrying concealed
weapons.
Saturday the Commissioners issued an I'D
that the fee of the sealer of WEIGHTS an :, meas.
ures for the District of Columbia sb III not ex-
coed fifty cents monthly for each scale exam.
ined and sealed, as required ur,der the order
OF the 5th instant respecting the weight of
coal.
The board of fire commissioners have mott
fed the District Com .nssiOners, officially, that
they organized by electing Mr.. w. r. Collins
president, and Mr.. Peter f. Bacon secretary
and that they are ready to receive any com
to make to them.
In creating the office of sealer of weights and
measures for the District of Columbia, and the
appointment of MIR. James Small as sealer, the
District Commissioners were fore to abolish
Georgetown, and Mr., Boyd, Of this city, which
such officer for the whole District.
The District Commissioners have requested
Health Officer Townshend to negotiate for the
renting OF house No. % 4 street northwest
for occupancy by the Health department ana
the office OF the OdOreSS Excavating com
pany, at monthly rental not to exceed $65, of
be required to pay $25 per month, the owner to
pay all taxes and keep the building in repair.
The building on + street is to be abandoned.
THE SEWERAGE QUESTION.
A large delegation of citizens, embracing
merchants on the line of Pennsylvania ave
hue, clerks from the Post Office, Patent Ottice
and Treasury offices, and houSekeeperS on
Missouri avenue, waited on the District Com
missioners today to urge the necessity Of an
lnterceptlng sewer or some device by which
10 prevent recurrence OF the overflow OF
hlthy water from the sewers into the streets
commissioners heard their complaints and
assured the delegation that they were perfect
y well aware OF the evils which surrounded
them. and would be glad ii they possessed the
power to efeetualiy remedy them. The
limited amount OF funds they had to expend
the present year would not justify them in
making any radical change ia the present
sewerage system, but they would do all in their
power in the way of temporary expedionts to
prevent damage to health and property. MI
A. Watson, who has plan for an intercepting
sewer north OF the avenue, was present.
THE CONTRACTS
for finishing up the two wings of the new
,WOrkhcuse. to fit them for occupancy, has
day; Mr.. James G. Naylor has the carpenter
work; Washington Mendenhall the clustering
work: Messrs. White Bros. the iron work, and
MeSSfs Burns Brenner the stone work. This
work is to be completed within sixty days,
after which the wOrkhOuse gang will be sep
arated from the almshouse, which for SO long
managers and demOra'zation to all the in
rates. New industries will be introduced
and all viii be made to earn their bread or
Intendant Faehtz had b. en- forced to call upon
Major Morgan for the aid of the police force
in quelling INSTRUMENTATION and outbreaks by
Ine UnOD OF WOfRnOuoe cOnVlCtS, is represent
ed by the officials there as untrue in every
particular. No such attempts at escape or
INSTRUMENTATION have been made, and Col.
Faehtz is amply prepared to meet any thing of
the sort, no mater how well planned.
THE POLICEMEN's FUND.
District Treasurer Dodge, who now has
charge of the police.nen's fund.- mas written to
Major Morgan suggesting that the balance in
his hands, of 81, 7511S, be invested like the
rest, III 65 bonds. In reply Major Morgan
has stated that it is necessary to keep sum in
hand, as one of the principal uses to which the
fund is put is the advancing of money to the
men to get their Uniforms with. He states
that the aggregate approximate amount spent
for winter uniforms is 81 HIPS, and for the sum-
nler ones s. 200.
CALLED ON TO PROVE HIS ASSERTION.
Mr.. s. j. Brown, of Mount Pleasant, in a
communication to the Commissioners, states
that Ben amin 7. Davis a trustee of the public
The Commissioners have invited Mr.. Brown
to furnish them with proofs to establs h this
statement.
BUILDING PERMITS,
issued by the inspector of buildings: L. D.
Merchant make addition to brick house 100
East Capitol street 81 500. CHRISTOPHER Cock
Ter. repair brick house 935 4th street; $500. r.
Bradln, construct a tWO-StOry brick stable, 18th
strcet northwest: $3.50. st. Matthew's Insti-
ute, construct a three story college building
on Vermont avenue, between II and n streets
northwest, So feet front and so feet deep
$780, 10. Bernard BROKER, repair frame build.
repair stable in alley between Sd and 4th and
Il and l. streets northeast; $50. VIM. H. Lee,
construct a. Storeh0use and She'd corner Bridge
and Congress streets, Georgetown; SlC0.