Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-21
District Government Affairs.

Lieut. F. V Green has recommended that
6f street Lamps 1e fo1 am p on s g h
tween and streets northwest
Assignments of witness fees In the Police
| court are not recognized oy the District auditor
| unless the assignment is acknowledged In per-
| son by the asSignOr.
| Mr. W. W. curtis, vice president OF the In
dustrial Home School, In note to the District
| Commissioners asks that new road be opened
| from the Tennallytown road communicating
| with the home. The note has been referred to
| the engineer department.
The District Commissioners have adopted
the IfnlngWeH gas governor for use In all the
public school buildings, police stations and fire
engine houses north OF street. and requtsi-
lions for the same Will be made at once.
About III dogs were impounded yesterday and
several thousand more can be spared from the
streets and back yards Of the District
The health officer to-day called the attention
OF the District Commissioners to the pool of
stagnant water at 10th street and Virginia ave-
nue. southwest, which has been nuisance OF
long standing.
The school board have presented estimates
for the repair OF the school houses for the next
fiscal year, aggregatipg $4,000, divided as fol-
lows: First district, 81 800: second $500. third
S1,G00: fourth, $1,000: fifth, $1,000; sixth. 500
and seventh. S4,u00
Yesterday protest was filed with the Dis.
trlct commissioners by property-hOlders ana
residents on 9th street northwest against the
paving OF that street, between and G streets
with granite block. They desire the asnhal1
pavement laid TO correspond with the other
has been referred to the engineer department
COMPLAINT OF THE GARBAGE SERVICE AS DgFEC-
TIVE.
Health Officer Townshend Last evening ad-
dressed letter to hir. Francis Garter agent n r
the bondsman OF Jones & Co., for removing the
garbage. from which it appears that the Health
officer Is not satisfied with the manner in which
that service is now icing performed He saws
a thorough examination into the means and
method used in the collection and transnorto
ton OF garbage and Offal, reveals the fact thai
tne service is detection and the means en-
ployed insufficient. Only nine wagons are en-
ployed 10 make collections, seven of this ntna
belng one horse vehicles and having ONLY one
collector with each. The area expected to be
covered by each and the garbage TO be removed
therefrom tIi-Weekly is out of all propOrtton
FOR instance. 1t Is expected that With one team
a tWOnOrSe one carrying seven barrels. two
men can collect three times weekly from M
that territory lying east CT North and Snn 1'i
Capltol streets the garbage from dwellings,. or
course. lC Is not done. That portion living Vnst
OF Norm capitol east OF 9th street and north
or PennSy IYaDia avenue TO Boundary street is
more territory than it is reasonable to s,lnnoSp
one man ruth One-hOrSe team CARVING tiye
oaIfels, can properly cover three times weekly.
hatt ,e . ane IS tlue Oh each of the other gar
cage districts. In none OF them is the garblpp
collected uniformly as per contract The more
GEN. ely populated portions OF some of the dis
t l are comparatively well attended to, the
remote portions III many instances entirely ne
greeted. In that portion Of the city living
north OF K street the garbage collector is almost
Unknown, and the same may be said of the
suburbs generally. In many parts not "a far
distant the testimony Of hundreds show that
G0llectloGs are very irregular and infreuuent,
lie reason or all this is that there Is not suai-
tiet force ar present employed to properly per-
lorin the work. 1t is necessary that at least one
additloEal team be placed at work east OF the
Capltol, two additional in the northern part OF
me city and suburbs, one In the western part,
and one in South Washington. The work is far
from being properly performed, and unless he
sees large Improvement In the service the
health o1iicer states that he will not be able to
I EeTtIiy at the end OF this month that services
Lave been duly rendered.