National Republican., 1883-08-02
THE COMMISSIONERS.
Current Transactions at the Various Dis
trIct Onicea.

respecting the fourteen recently appointed
policemen that the following is their army
record: Jno. A. Pearson served in company
G, 9th infantry; Gilbert j. Fowler, battery f,
9th United States artillery and battery f. 4th
United States artillery Michael Hagan, ship
Tallapoosa; Francis L. Reddou, company /,
30th infantry; VIM. L. Maddox, ordnance de-
partment, Washington arsenal VIM. i. Cog
hill, battery L, Ath artillery, and ii, 2d artil-
lery; w. Il. Hawkins 47th New York, 9th
artillery and 1st and 9th cavalry; VIM. Hass,
in battery at West Point and in detachment
of cavalry there; Geo. J. Hilbus, signal corps;
Jno. G. Duly, battery &, 1st artillery; James
Law, battery l, 4th artillery; Jno. Boland,
battery ID, I'd artillery; James Moore, battery
b, I'd artillery; Samuel Brown, on the Benicia,
United States navy, and with fish commits
sionerS in 1874.
Mr.. s. z. Brown has been informed in ref
erence to the petitions of himself and others
asking that the original plan of the city of
Washington be conformed to in the extension
of streets and avenues to Mount Pleasant; (;
that the views of the petitioners are in en-
tire accord with those expressed by the COM
missioncrs and engineers of the district in
the annual reports from 1879 to date. Since
1850 small appropriation has been annually
made for the purpose of making sur
veys with reference to the extension
OF streets and avenues to the district line.
These surveys have now covered about
one-fourth Of the area of the district and in-
cludo the territory just north of the city,
where the irregular and unsymmetricai sub
divisions referred to by the petitioners are
being most extensively made. Tho data OBJ
taincd by the surveys is being now compiled
into a map at the present time, which will prob
ably be completed within the next three
months. On this map the proper subdivisions
h.. 81 Lee. st,, ,,,l1 h,t IN
dicated and if the plan is approved by con-
gress law should be passed to compel
luturc subdivisions to conform to it. II is
expected to have the whole subject in proper
shape tor the action OF congress at the next
session.
Public Printer Rounds has been notified, in
reply to his communication respecting an in
crease III the water supply of the government
printing office, as contemplated in the apprO-
priation act of the last session of congress,
that the construction given to the term CON
nections" so as to make it include service
pipes, is inconsistent with the technical sig
MITIGATION in which ii Is used in the appro-
priation act, and which alone was con-
sdered in preparing the estimates
on which the appropriation was based
These estimates were prepared in this oliice
and did not include service pipes for taking
water into the building but did include
the cost of necessary connections of the new
mains and iireplugs with existing mains,
without which no water supply could be in
troduccd into the new system. The appro-
priation will not be sufficient to lay the SER
vice pipe asked for and complete the laying
of mains and necessary connections before in
dicated, and for which the material has al
ready been ordered.
Judge Edmonds has returned to the city
and was ut his desk at the district buildings
yesterday. He said he had visited the Nir-
ginia hot springs and the Greenbrier White
sulphur and felt greatly benefited by his
trip.
The board of assessors yesterday made the
following changes in assessments in George
town, square AZ, lot 81, improvements in
creased to $4,000; square 81, sublot l, I'M
provements increased to Sl,5OO; square SO,
lot 204 improvements increased to S22OD.
In the city improvements on sublot ., square
$40, were increased from $4,000 to 14,0OO.
Slight changes were made in square 537; in
square 415, lots 80 81, 81, and 33 were reduced
from 800 to 5000 each; in square 1O parts OF
lot II were large increased. improvements
on lots - and 49, IN square G25, were increased
IRON 81 800 10 $500 parts of lots 81 and So,
in - L. Browns property in Mount Pleasant,
YER reduced to one cent per foot ; the prop
drty of Il. c. Murray was reduced to 90 cents
per foot.
Capt. IL. A. Green arrived here yesterday
with one of Jcnks's drinking fountains for
animals, manufactured at Pawtucket, Il. |.
The offer was made by Capt Green, the
agent, to the commissioners in June last, to
present the district with one of these plain
drinking fountains, and the commissioners
promised to put it up at some convenient
place for animals, if he would furnish it with
out expense to tho district 1t arrived yes
terday, and some place will be fixed upon for
it-possibly somewhere on or near Market
space. 1t Is plain, simple affair, and there
is no advertising scheme in II.
committee from East Washington, con-
sistng of MessrS w. q. Dodge, Geo. Nj.
Oyster, John f. Herrell, $. G. Mcdowell, e..
NJ. Clark, and S. II. Walker, OF the East
Washington association, called on the COM
missoners yesterday aud presented list OF
the streets and avenues which they desire to
have improved the next year, and asked the
commissioners to include the cost in their
next estimates for public improvement eX-
penditurcs' The commissioners promised To
do all in their power for Capitol Hill.
The following permits were issued from the
office of the inspector Of buildings yesterday:
John Grinder to build one two story brick on
G street between Four-and -a-half street south
west, to cost $l,i0O; John i. Bright to repair
dwelling No. 432 Seventh street southeast, to
cost $50; Mary A. Fenwick to repair house
No. $50 Twelfth street northwest, to cost
$1,000; j. Rohwold to repair house No. 92l L
street northwest, to cost 500; w. q. kietcr
to repair No. 1876 Nintccnth street northwest,
to cost so; Mrs. Annie Hodges to repair No.
1920 Tenth street northwest, to cost $3.50
build bake oven in the rear of No. l63j New
Jersey avenue northwest, to cost 800.
Deaths reported August /, 1853; Infant of
Georgana Newton, cholera intantum; Clara
Johnson, cholera infantum; Catharine Payne,
typhoid fever; Ella Simms, Phthisis pull
monalis; Isaac Bumbrle phthisis pulmonalis;
Henry Smith, entcro colitis; Mary L. Will
lnm5, meningitis; Oscar f. b. Wood, rubeola;
Thomas f. Coleman, phthisis pulmonalis;
Charles Hall, cerebral meningitis; Lucy A.
Sprague, measles; Henrietta Phillips, entero
colitis infant of Bertha Smith, congenital
debility; John Barry, paralysis.
OPERATION, or THE HEALTH OFFICER.
The following synopsis of the operations of
the health department for the week ending
July -, lss3, is presented by Health Officer
TOwnshend. NuisanGcs reported, 4l5; re-
ferrcd, llS; abated, 371 referred to commits
sioners, II official notices issued, 90 citizens
complaints received, 5j; cases referred to
chemist 81 cases referred to attorney, 3;
cases referred to coroner, l barials at public
expense, s; inspection of plumbing work
made, 25 investigations made to ascertain local
causes of zymotc disease, 2; oilal removed,
2i3 tons of garbage, 1850 barrels Of night soil
135 dead animals. Animals impounded, 10;
redeemed 0; killed, l. Amount of fees, $11.
Patients treated by physicians to tho poor,
3l7 white, ll3; colored, 20l visits, AS
office consultation, "a cost of medicine.