Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-13
The District telegram Service.

PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION OF THE LINEs-A RE-
PORT SUBMITTED TODAY
Major W. b. Brock. chief of police. and H. R.
Miles, superintendent of the fire alarm tele raph.
to whom had been referred the subject Of making
an estimate of the cost for concentrating the
telephone and telegraph service of the District,
with a central office i'm the building known as
police headquarters. at AZ street and Pennsyl-
wanna avenue. submitted report to-day TO the
District commissioners. They state: =. We find
10y consulting with Superintendent Wilson, that
lt Is desirable to embrace i'm the telephone cir
cult sixteen public schools to wit: The Jeffer-
son. Chamberlain Wallach Lincoln. Sumner
Seaton, Randall, Franklin. Curtis. Lovejoy.
Bowen Cook, Peabody. Henry. Force, and
Riggs. These several schools can be con-
nected 10y placing them upon four circuits.
The total cost of erecting the lines for of the
public schools. including poles, wire Insulation
and labor is estimated at s7l1. To connect the
engineers office at the property yard, between
9th and 9TH and nj and n streets southwest
about one and half miles Of wire and three
new poles would be required. The property
yard at u street wharf northwest. and the pub
lie pound should be treated together i'm estimat-
ing, but should each be placed upon separate
wires. For the purpose of getting various cir
cults from headquarters TO the fire alarm
and police poles at 5th and ID streets
northwest, and to connect the Police
and Criminal Courts and the attorneys Office.
three substantial poles should be erected on AZ
cost would be about $50. making a total cost for
wire insulation. poles and labor of s1.24n
contingency of S226 is also recommended max
ing the sum total Of 81 500 for the erection Of
about twenty-six miles Of wire. The Washing
ton Asylum should be included. but the Dis
trict already own a line of wire and poles TO that
institution. which would fully answer the pur-
pose. no estimate is required for this. In max
ing complete telephone exchange for the Offices
of the District of Columbia the police wire should
ha Sa npla rad eho 1Snf hat fian
should be a separate circuit, this would involve
an expense of, perhaps, $500. which
might be added TO the above
estimate for the erection of circuts
The total cost of establishing a complete official
exchange, embracing all the routes named i'm
the report: also the fire alarm and police tele-
phone service would be 5000. leaving only the
annual rental of the telephone instruments to be
taken into the account. which would amount to
sixty-one sets of telephones at 80 per year
s6l0. The District is now paying an annual
rental for telephone service, 81 644 for cfrcuits
and use OF call boxes and telephones combined.
All the new poles needed in erecting the pro-
posed lines could be utilized for the fire alarm
telegraph purposes to good advantage.
The HowGATE CAsE.-The marshal Yesterday.
"a attaching the property Of Capt. Henry W.
against him by the United States. levied nnon
his credits in the National Safe Deposit compenv
and those In the hands of Mr.. James b. Winner
Inc answer OF the Safe Deposit company as gsr.
lisher has not yet been made.
IHE r. D. COMPETITIVE ExAMxAT1oN.-Tne
papers have been made up and report OF the
competitive examination in the Post once de.
partment to NIL clerkship in the e1 600 clas
submitted, but Acting Postmaster General Ty.
aer VIII not render decision a. to which Cogn-
petitor Is entitled to the place until tomorrow.
Death of . Naval ONlcer.
BOSTON. Mass. Sept. 1S.-Capt. X. R. Breona
o. the US Navy, died ct his residence here this