Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-10
District Government Affairs.

District Government Affairs.
The police department is making arrange
mentS TO have the summer uniform ready for the
policemen by the 1st OF May next
The parties arrested by Special License Agent
Kan, Tor selling mattresses, commercial
| brokers, without license, have concluded 10 take
OUT thelr licenses ana thus quaSh the warrants
The Commissioners have notified the owner OF
the rented school building, at the corner OF 22d
street ana pennsylvania avenue, OF the condition
OF the building, and stating that unless the defects
therein complained OF be remedied at once, the
commissioners Con- will have the work done and the
cost ueaucted from the rent, or they viii yacate
the building.
Lieut. F. V. Greene has authorized the erection
OF gas lamps as follows: One on corner New Jersey
avenue and Virginia avenue southeast: one corner
New Jersey avenue and X street southeast: one
corner New Jersey avenue and street southeast:
one corner 9th and streets northeast one corner
llth ana Boundary street northwest, and one on
4tl street, between and streets northeast
Yesterday, Mr.. VIM. J. Murtagh, representing
.he 6th street and Bladensburg railroad before
me commissioners TO urge the necessity OF con-
Strhcting that road, and prevail on the Comm;s-
Ssoners to make favorable report on the same
Building permits issued by inspector Entwlse:
s.e.: $3.50. John NJ Wilson, repair brick. Ii3s i6is
street, between l. and NV: $50. A. r. Barker,
18th streets southwest $500 r. q. CampbelI
erect three story dwelling and stores, 10th. De
tween tween and sts; 5000. Mrs Elizabeth Force,
repair erlek. 4t9 10th st. NV: $1,000. VIM. Galt
build addition 10 brick, corner l1tn and Pennsyl-
Vania ave. NV: 81 900.
Mt T. j. Laurftzen. employed I'm the Office OF the
onildlng inspector. is bustly engaged In making
drawings or the alterations recomme nded by the
committee of safety to be made upon the school
houses, and for the notifications 10 he made in
!ac reconstruction OF the Jefferson building from
| the Old plans.
ofllclal examination OF the District government
building, on AZ street, its safety for the pur
poses for Which Ii is used.
The Commissioners have given authority 10 Mr.
w. A. WimSatt, the purchaser OF the fish wharf Ia
TINS city TO make any regulations 10 the clean
Ing OF fish necessary TO the health and cleanliness
OF the place.
In answer to request of persons who own lots
at lith and s streets for repairs the Commits
| sioners say 1.-THE whole OF the west side OF l4th
street Is Ia the same condition; nothing can oe
done with it until it is properly paved. This ought
10 oe Done as soon as the new appropriation is
available about July 1st'
In reply to petition for brick sidewalk and
gutter on Park street, Mt. Pleasant. ID. c.. the
commissioners inform the petitioners that they
| nave not the necessary funds for the cost
In reply TO request that more lamp posts and
| lamps be erected on Frederick. between Prospect
and Bridge streets, West Washington, the Com
| missloners state that they decline TO erect more
Jumps On that street at present
The application of the tanitors OF the public
school buildings to the District Commissioners for
| an increase OF pay has been before the District
Auditor for consideration, and has now been
reerred by the commissioners to the Public School
Trustees for report.
special assessments, has completed the revision OF
Ine Following assessments: Alleys in squares ~.
e6, 425 421, 1898, 21S. 234. 142 and Ia.
TIE DEMAND FOR SHADE TREES
In reply 20 communication from Dr. A. P Far
don aSk'"'- that shade trees be planted on 18th
street nded, from Boundary street to Columbia
roaa w. The commissioners 81 ate that the applf-
cation for trees within the city limits are already
more t'ian can be planted during the present year
Guy nlts, although IL has furnished the trees to
parties who plant them at their own expense.
BAD BOYS
the District Commissioners have addressed a
eter 10 Major Brock, or the police, stating that
Tie commissioners have observed that there are In
the District number OF vagrant and idle boys of
lender years, who will neither 60 to school nor
work, but who gain subsistence by begging and
other unlawful methods, and another more matured
GA, Gaass also growing up In idenesS and ignorance.
IheSe young lives, without the OF parents and
guardians, must be supervised by the authorities,
ana the Major is requested to instruct his officers
to arrest all such boys and present them to the
Police Court. on the charge OF idleness vicious
ness, or vagrancy, as the case may be. They add:
'rhe Reform School has more room now for so to
IS boys and the sooner the classes referred to are
looked after the better it will be for them and the
community"
GAS LIGHTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
The commissioners have sent note to Mr. G. Y.
AtLee, clerk to committee on supplies and accounts
board OF public school trustees. in reply letter
from him 1nclOsing bills OF the Washington Gas
Company for December and January. and request
ing examination into the cause of the seemingly
excessive charges for gas consumed in the Force
and Lincoln school buildings. The Commissioners
lnclose copy of report OF the superintendent OF
lamps, which states that he has made a careful
examination OF the buildings; that in the Force
the waste is at the burners-a common lamp burner
Il
the Lincoln the janitor lives the building which
accounts for the large bills. He ands no excessive
waste OF gas In either bu.Liing. He recommends
that the burners be changed In the two buildings |
AN ANGIE Mt MAP DISCOVERED.
District Surveyor, VIM. Forsyth, has discovered, |
among TIE old District archives in his office,
manuscript map, made In 1872, showing the bound
ary lines between the states OF Virginia now West
vifginia) MARYLAND and PENNSYLVANIA. The size
Is about twenty inches by four feet 1t shows |
bradd0cks BRAD road, on his march to Fort Duquesne, |
from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac river, to |
RED Stone Fort, on the Mongolia river, and the |
point where Lord Fairfax fixed stone at the head
OF the Potomac river In making the survey for the
boundary Zine; BraddOck's grave, In FennSylva- /
MIA, near the Maryland line, at Big Meadows. and |
many other interesting places. The map was made |
by Lawrence BrenZel, jr., and is an interesting |
relic OF the olden time. Mr.. Forsyth yesterday |
suggested to the District Commissioners that they
notify the governors OF West Virginia, MARYLAND |
and Pennsylvania OF the existence OF this maO as
1t may be important in fixing state lines.
Regulating the Chicago Wheat Trade. |
CHICAGO, March 10-The board OF directors or |