National Republican., 1883-09-22
The Business Done ut the Various Local
Ofliecs Yesterday.

The business Done ut the Various Local
Offices Yesterday.
Building permits were issued yesterday to
Mrs. c. L. Bishop, to build one brick dwell
ing on New Hampshire avenue between NJ
and streets northwest, to cost $4,000; Holmes
IL Thompson, to build one brick livery stable
in alley between N and and Ninth and
Tenth streets northwest, to cost $4,000.
Tho commissioners have taken tho contract
for building the fourth section Of the Bound
Diary street sewer away from Coyle, the con-
tractor. The latter failed TO do the work in
suitable manner, and the commissioners,
under the law governing suCntmattUrs, re-
served the right to take the contract away.
The liquor traffic has been made the subject
of an interesting report by Maj. Dye, who
gives some important statistics. Ilo reports
that there are in the first precinct 81 retail
and Is wholesale licensed liquor dealers; third
precinct, A wholesale and 3S retail fourth
precinct, 50 wholesale and so retail; fifth pre-
Cinct 40 wholesale aud III retail; sixth pre-.
cinct 40 wholesale aud 3S retail; seventh pre-
cinct 12j Wholesale and "a retail. and eighth
precinct, so wholesale and SO retail. The to-
tai in the city are ssG, of which 447 are retail
and i39 wholesale. The number of places in
| the county has not been ascertained.
The increase of the estimate for the fire
department of the district for the next fiscal
year from S1Ol ,06O to SIG, ,llO, rs agreed upon
/ Dy Lne COMMISSIONERS, luCluucS Hn eNpcDul-
| ture of $4,000 for the organization of new
company and the erection of an engine house
near the northern terminus of Fourteenth
street northwest, and the purchase of three
| additional engines at II cost Of $1,000.
Among the improvements in the police de-
| parment agreed upon by the commissioners the
! estimate for which for the next fiscal year
has been increased from 1901 $50 to 1921 200,
will be the new station for the sixth pre-
cnct, which is to cost $4,000, and a stable for
| the district ambulances The number of men
of class one is to be increased from l35 to 142;
the salaries of lieutenants are to be raised to
81 200, and those of night inspectors to 81 800.
On recommendation of Mai. Hains, in
charge of the Potomac flats improvements,
tho commissioners of the district have issued
notices to sportsmen prohibiting cunning
between Easby's point and the sewer canal
Three men, Messrs. Charles Eller, foreman OF
the carpenters August Albert, and Edward
jenkins, were accidentally shot some days
ago, but fortunately neither of them was
seriously hurt.
Fifth street southeast is now being graded
paved and having sidewalks laid between
Pennsylvania and Virginia avenues south
east. The work is being done by Mr. p
Malone, who last week finished paving Nintt
street southwest, between Maryland avenue
and the wharves
Since Nov. |, 1882, the beginning of the
license year, $50 liquor licenses were ISSUED
in the district, 3sS of which were for whole
sale and 19S for retail licenses The tax OF
tho former is S25, on the latter 500. Out o.
the total amount received for licenses in the
district during tho fiscal year ended June 80
1882, aggr6gating $l23,17n52, fully one-half
namely S62 2Ol3.52, was paid for liquo licenses
Deaths reported Sept u: Infant Of Mary
and Arthur Washington, congenital debility
George Il. Barghausen, scarlatina; Mary h
Walker eliusion on brain; Samuel Myers
phthisis; Edward l.. Szer, overdose NOR
phine; Clara Guide, phthisis; infant of Sam
uel and Sarah Wilson, inantion Clania War
rem, congestion of lungs George A. Marceron
inanition; Joseph j. Paul, gastric fever.