Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-25
SCHOOL SITE PURCHASES.
Answer OF the Commissioners to the
Taulbee Resolution.


Taulbee Resolution.
Representative Taulbee, chairman Of the Sc
lect committee to investigate the purchase of
school-house and other sites by the District
Commissioners, sent them letter saying: II
! am directed by the select committee of the
House of Representatives. appointed pursuant
to the resolution herewith submitted TO re-
quest that you will, at your earliest convent
ence, transmit to me for the use of said COM
mittee Information as to the number of pur-
chases of real estate for the use of the District
Of Columbia during the four years last past.
giving the location Of each piece Of property.
together with the purpose for which it was
purchased. the price paid therefor, of whom
purchased, and to whom such payment was
| made; as to whether each or either of the
purchases were made through persons desig-
mated or employed by you; the amount paid
and by whom paid TO such persons so employed:
the names of the parties joining in the deeds
OF conveyance to the District Of Columbia or
20 any such agents or persons SO employed or
designated by you. l am further directed by
the committee 10 inform you that il is the pur-
pose of the committee to proceed with the in
vestigation contemplated by resolution at as
early day as practicable, by taking evidence
and otherwise and that it is your privilege to
be present, either in person or by counsel. dur
ing said investigation, and to produce before
the committee such relative and competent
evidence as you may desire bearing on said in
vestigation."
REPLY OF THE COMMISSIONERS.
The Commissioners late yesterday afternoon
sent to Chairman Taulbee an answer to his
communication, in which they say:
In compliance with your request, under
date of the 18th inst. pursuant to the House
resolution of the l4th inst. relative to the
action of the Commissioners, in purchasing
real estate for the use of the District, the Com
missioners enclose herewith tabulated state
ments showing the location of each piece of
property purchased; the object of the pur-
chase, the price paid therefor, of whom pur-
chased, TO whom such payments were made,
and the date OF each purchase. With refer
ence to whether any such purchases were made
through persons designated or employed by
the Commissioners the Commissioners have to
reply that no persons were employed by them
for the purpose indicated, there was no APP
preparation from which such persons could be
remunerated. The commissioners are unable
to state what compensation was paid by the
| owners of real estate who sold their property
to the District to any person who negotiated
such sale. Such information may probably be
obtained from the persons who made such ne
gotiations, and the Commissioners suggest that
they be summoned The Commissioners fur
thermore are anxious that your committee
should be placed in possession of full informa-
ton on this subject, and desire that the matter
be given as speedy hearing as possible"
THE SCHEDULE OF REAL ESTATE PURCHASES.
The letter was accompanied by schedule
of purchases of real estate for use of the Dis
trict, from July 49, 1884, to January 10, 1889, as
follows:
SCHOOL SITES.
July %, 1884, Blair, purchased from Della
Chapel, So. S5S, 1, between 9th and
7th northeast, 22O14 feet, Is $40 cents per
. J,,l,
Mason, So. 23S S, between 18th and 14th
northwest, 25,S3S feet, As cents per foot. SILL
IA; December 10, 1884, Wormley, from
Chas. G. Sloan, So. so, Prospect, Georgetown,
l3,25S:65 feet, % 2-10 cents per foot, $3.50;
July "a, 1885, Maury, from Frank b. Smith, So
1910, b, between 10Th and 18th northeast. 49,
79l. 63 feet IS cents per foot, S3.3S2 so: Decem-
Der 10, 1886, Bradley, from W. S. Cox ct al So
266. I315 between C and ID southwest, 1888
feet, 81 $40 cents per foot, $500; September
g. 1886, weightman, from ]. ". Sinclair. ir..
SO. SO, 23d and NJ northwest 1865 feet 80
cents per foot Sl3, SASS; March 90 1887,
Phelps, from Martha NJ Read, SO. 36l, YER
mont avenue, between L and U northwest, TO-
30, 1887, Carberry, from Thos. w. Smith ct al,
50. s12 9Th, between d and Z northeast, Il, 9l1
feet. 30 cents per foot, Sc, 456 April 90, 1887,
Giddings from Thos. Scrivener so. 100, G., be-
tween Sd and 4th southeast IL, 377 feet 50 cents
per foot, 81, 1889; April 26, 1887, Blake. from
Capitol, between X and L, 1889 SO feet, 65
cents per foot, IS, 9S5; August 20, 1888, Burr
vile, from Chas. A McEuen, So. county, Burr
vile, one-third of an acre, S435; August %,
1888, 5th street southeast, from JAS A TAYLOR
SO. $685. 9Th, between G and Virginia avenue
southeast, 10, 800 feet &c CLIO cents per foot
$4,000; August 8, 1888, September g. 1888.
street, between Sd and AZ southwest, from
Chas. II. Parker, So SAL, l, between Sd and AZ |
southwest, 14,209.S5 feet, 60 cents per foot.
S8,517.7S; September q, 1888, Arthur. from
Chas. W. Baldwin, So. 633, Arthur Place north !
west, 1O,6O5.4S feet, 81 per foot, SO COS. As; |
August %. 1888; September %, 1888. New |
Hampshire avenue and r street northwest |
from B. Crane and ". p. Lipscomb, SO. 155. r
and New Hampshire avenue northwest IL AGO |
feet, SLAP 40 per foot, S16,322 September q,
leSS. corner LIST and l. streets northwest. from |
Michael Is. Harlow, SO. 621, corner LIST and l. |
northwest, lo500 feet, 81 per foot. Sl0.500;
September 49, 1888. Brightwood from trustees
Emory chapel, SO. county, Brightwood, one |
third OF an acre. 500; October 6, 1888. LIST |
street, between and southwest, from Henry |
A. Willard so. 57S, LIST, between and c south |
west, 1900 feet, 10 46-lOO cents per foot |
1886; November q, 1888, 22d and L streets
northwest, from Chas ". Baldwin, So SO, 22d
and E northwest 9,199.33 feet, 81 40 cents per
foot, $500; January 10, 1889, addition to lot.
from @. III. Cragin, trustee, SO. A, interior lot
z, 400 feet 81 $40 cents per foot 81 500; Janu-
airy 10, 1889, addition to lot, from Cloa A. |
tlelds, So. A. Montgomery, Georgetown. L. $40
feet, S1.96 $40 per foot house and lot $1,000 |
POLICE STATION SITES
August 20, 1884, sixth precinct station. from
Marion V. Thompson, So. 4sl. 9Th, between NJ
and N northwest 1868 feet, so ITO cents per
foot, "a, 1905 so; July &c. 1885. seventh precinct
station, from Chas. Stott, SO. $50, New Jersey |
avenue, between ID and + northwest. 6,605 feet. |
81 $40 cents per foot, SO, 400 August Z. 1888, |
ninth precinct station, from Daniel s. Pickren, |
so. 1886, 9th, between Maryland avenue and G |
northeast, 5,6se6s feet, AZ 2-1O cents pr foot,
S2,400
Engine house site-August 4, 1884. No. en- !
CINE house, from Chas b. Pearson. So 1853, r. |
between 9th and 10th northwest, $500 feet. 90 |
$40 cents per foot, S2.425.
Pump-house sites-July Is, 1886. pump house, |
from John Wagner, SO. 50, Q, between 32d and |
SD, 600 feet, so cents per foot, $780, July g. |
1883, pump house, from heirs G. W. Riggs, So |
IFS, U, between 10Th and 18th northwest, 9O99 |
feet, 25 cents per foot, S2,275.
LOCAL NOTES.