Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-06

Cot0 0t0eo4e ~ the MARKET
| A PROPOSAL MADE TO rHR COMMISSIONERS BY
DIRECTORS OF THE Market COMPANY.
The Commissioners have received a commu-
nication from Mr.. John Casseis and Haliet Kill
bourn, . special committee, appointed by the
dtrsctors of the Washington Market company,
to carefully examine the buildings and i'm.
provsmsnss made BY the company with the
view Of extending the Improvements. They
| state their conviction that In order to perfect
ana scientific system OF cold storage must be
added 70 the present establishment. in
mssh,n. for mechanical rs re a and
.eniss : large piece Of ground will be required:
rs sSsS pump; and engines alone will
boilers, and smoke stacks. The only place
around the Center market buildings, which
pose named, is the northern central building.
now used by commission dealers, placing tho
boiler: and smoke-stocks In the rear of the CEN
accompanying plat. II this plan for refrigerat-
Ing and cold storage is carried out the commit
ing over the sidewalk on B street around To and
along 9Th and 9th street fronts of the market,
IN order to increase the covered space next TO
ducts"
oRJecfIoNs 10 THE PROPOSED LOCATION.
Fears are expressed that the room required
for the massive refrigerating machinery will
cramp the space between the south side of the
commission stores and the north side of the
street market building, and that there viii
be difnculty in operating large boilers in
proximity to the stands on which butter meat
DC, are spread Gold storage has been intro,
duced In markets In New Orleans. Kansas City,
Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
this city, is also provided with cold storage APP
paratus. An important interest demanding
cold storage is the trade in dressed beet, shipped
mere from the west in refrigerator ears, and
which In most OF the large cities is either de-
livered from the side tracks tn cold storage
rooms in markets, or taken from the large re-
which can be drawn into the cities with horses
on the horse-car tracks during the night time,
Dealers state that the best plan TO meet the re-
quirementS OF this wholesale trade as well as
that OF dealers in other perishabl products
shipped here, would be to place the refrigerator
machine on the southeast or mort beast corner of
the wholesale market grounds where the
railroad lines.
The advantages TO the neighboring farmers,
when the market Is overstocked are set forth
and 1t Is stated that AFTER taking out the narrow
strip on either side OF the wholesale market
grounds ample space would remain for hay
wood and other bulky articles sold on the
wagons.
The sixteenth section of the marke, cempanv,s
charter Is cited for the authority to use the
wholesale market grounds for cold and warm
storage of wholesale market products They
slate: IF the Commissioners desire larger col
lections made from the farmers and producers
the market company will enforce any reasona-
Ole schedule they may order, and will at once
proceed TO erect "A new line OF covered sheds ad.
Joining the cattle yards. deep enough to shelter
In the Center market as require teams
As the proposed Improvements on The whole
sale market grounds will involve quite a large
outlay, the market company would be willing
to pay to the District government a reasonable
annual rental per front foot OF ground occupied
by cold storage buildings in lieu OF uncer.
m ff.f n.
under the present contract. Il street south now
fronting on the Smithsonian grounds, was re-
moved south when the market grounds and
grounds at the intersection of Ohio avenue and
Louisiana avenue with 10th and 18th streets
were coded under the charter, leaving a wide,
open space through the center, still under gov
ernment control between the building line and
street. as now laid out. and extending the
whole length of the square between the retail
and wholesale market grounds. This wide
space is daily occupied by commission dealers
tor displaying and selling products shipped
here from distant points. The sidewalks all
around the square referred 10 are also used as
regular market stands. without interference by
the District authorities.
With these precedents Ii would seem highly
proper 10 allow the proposed improvements to
be made on the wholesale market grounds,
under existing stipulations with the market
company Tor reasonable rental TO the Dis
tricL"
SHEPHERD STILL USCoNscIous. w. s.
Shepherd, the Pension Office clerk who was
found in the river Monday afternoon. is still
unconscious. At Providence hospital the ply
sicians say no change has taken place in him
since he was brought there.
OFFICERS OF THE LABOR FEDERAr1oN.-The
Federation OF Labor unions last night elected
the following officers: President, +. w. Oyster
typographical union; first vice president, Thos
$. Denham, painters union; second vice pres-
dent, s. E. Boyce, bricklayers' union; recording
secretary, j. F. Billingsley, carpenters union;
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, George Huntington, car
rlage makers union; sergeant-at-arms, Charles
kellar, plasterers' union.
REAL ESTATE SALES.-Senator j. Donald
Cameron has sold to Samuel Maddox for SIO,-
$50. 16, two lots 25xl41.S1 feet each on the
west side Of New Hampshire avenue, north of
street-Martin f. Morris and VIM F. Ed
monston, trustees, have sold to Arthur w.
Machen, for $40 ZOO a tract OF land in the SUBJ
division OF Thos. Blagdens real estate in the
county, known as Argyle, Cowal and Lorn and
other tracts.
illuminating an Ex-COngressman.
A Galena, Ill, dispatch of Jan. 4th, says:
Richard MagOon, of Scales Mound, in this