Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-28
District Government Affairs.

BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION or A BUILDrNG.
Bids were opened at IL O'Clock to-day in tho
office of the District Commissioners for the re-
construction and completion Of No. magazine
bulldlng In the old magazine grounds, East
Washington, for workhouse for females. This
Is located on the grounds OF the Washington
asylum. There were six bidders, the lowest
Sic, 800.
BUILDINGS ORDERED TO BE TAKEN down.
Building Inspector Entwisle to-day made
condemnations Id ma ton OF three oden buildings
ton, which he found i'm n apidated condi.
ton. They are ordered to b AIKEN down with
In 80 days. also shed at thefear of 61s 25th
street northwest belonging to Wescott & VIII
cox, agents.
OVERHEAD AND UNDERGROUND WIRES.
The District Commissioners have informed
Mr.. VIM. Dickson. OF the United States Electric
Light Company, that they have decided TO
authorize an overhead system of wires from
Virginia avenue, provided all the electric wires
and poles east OF 18th street are removed and
an Underground system substituted. The
Western Union telegraph company has In
formed the Commissioners that they are
making preparations to place a portion of their
wires In this city underground, and will be
able TO remove a large proportion of their poles
in the streets i'm the heart OF the city, where
they are most Objectionable. Their plan is to
start the underground wires from their offce.
corner 18th and K streets, by way OF r, 18th
and New York avenue and street TO 9TH,
there TO connect with pole lines. The com.
pany desires to build from this point new pole
lines running out 9TH street and New York
avenue to take the place of the lines now on
9Th street and other streets. They also pro-
pose TO run underground wires through the
Executive Mansion grounds from 18th street
and Pennsylvania avenue TO 18th street and
New York avenue (for which application for
permit has been made TO the com missioner OF
public th buildings ,d and grounds and dispense
This plan, they say, would give them less than
two miles of new pole line on 9TH street and
one-half miles of pole line within the city
limits.
have been issued by Inspector Entwisle TO n.
Anderson, repair brick 18th and q streets
northwest; $500. l.. ID. Burrows, erect frame
barn; 5000. Mrs. Lcarone, repair frame Penn
sylvania avenue. between I Tn and 9TH streets;
$500. VIM. =. Collins, repair frame $50 II
street southwest; 5000. Mrs. l.. Eenzig, repair
brick 1904 ID street northwest; $500. Mrs.
Nellie NJ. Clark, erect threestory and cellar
dwelling Rhode Island avenue, between 18th
and l4th streets northwest; $1,000. Mrs. Is.
Hammer, erect an Office and green house; 5000.
Michael Rupert erect two-story dwelling
alley rear of 400 9TH street northwest; S790. r.
A. Wood, erect a atwo-story and basement DWELL
ing south A, between Let and 2d streets SOUTH
story and celler store and dwelling, 14th, be-
tween n street and Rhode Island avenue;
5000. w. Dickens, repair brick, 18th
ton, erect two two-story and cellar dwellings,
9th and A streets southeast: $4,000. Z. Price,
repair frame, 1904 b street southwest: s1O0. j.
E. Wilson erect three twostory dwellings, alley
between 9Th and eth and and o streets;
$1,000. Jno. F; Murphy, repair frame north.
Mrs. q. Hancock, repair brick 1924 Pennsylva
mia avenue northwest; 81 200. Pistorio & Proc
tor, repair frame In beer garden on 9TH, above
Boundary; 500. John Sweeney, erect eight
two-story and cellar dwellings, 23d and L streets
northwest; S12, 900.
MISCELLANEoCS
Chief Cronfn has called the attention Of the
Commissioners to the necessity OF locating four
cisterns and a fire-alarm station at Mount Pleas
ant, and also four cisterns at Anacostia.
observation-disclosures g. Williams, OF Wis
consin, the register OF the land Office al Water
town, Dakota; Howard b. Abbott, OF Virginia, .
clerk OF class four In the General Land Once;
ana Geo. =. Emery, OF Vermont, a clerk OF class
TWO In the Pension Office, have resigned.
PROTESTING AGAINST THE APPOINTMENT or
OBRIEN.-There Ia dissatisfaction among some
OF the western steamboat and river men over
the appointment Of Mr.. Matthew O'Brien -
steamboat inspector at New Orleans. A
protest against the appointment has been
written with the view OF presenting IL 70
Secretary Manning. It charges that OBrfen
has been an employe of Huntington, and that
MS appointment was procured through Hun
ungton, Gould and other 'monopoiists," that
OBrien does not represent the people at all, but
u simply Intended TO subserve the interests Of
m0nopoifes. IL Is also charged that senator
stanford, Of California, representing Hunting.
ton, was mainly instrumental In procuring The