Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-03
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
AGAINST THE TRACKS on K STREET


The Commissioners have received petition
from Thos. Cullin and forty other residents of
IL street northwest. IN answer to Messrs. Dwyer
and Parkers communication of the Both ult.
which was published at the time in The STAR
The petition says: In answer to Messrs. Parker
and Dwyer i'll their communication of March 80
! 1889, III which they state that only Two of the
slgners who objected TO the removal OF the
railroad tracks were residents of X street, and
/ that one. to their knowledge, was a property
| holder, we want to state that we did not state
| i'll our petition that we were residents of
| street. but residents south of X street But to
! convince the honorable Commissioners of the
| District and also Messrs. Parker and DIVER that
| the property-holders on X street do not want
the railroad on their street, but heartily coin
| eide with the committee who waited on the
/ commissioners, we herewith present this petit
ton signed by the property holders of said
/ street Messrs Parker and Dwyer also state
! that one OF the men who signed the petition Is
employed by the railroad, but he only gets
! paid for the labor he performs and has toied
! Tor many years TO accumulate q little property
| which Is as dear to him as the property Of
! those who are ciamOring to have the railroad
removed to h street. And Mr. Parker also saws
that he owns more property fronting on X
street than all the other directors together
3 which we can prove Is utterly untrue, as he il
only agent for a few small houses and a couple
OF vacant lots" The petition has been re-
ferred to the engineer department.
1
! The Commissioners are considering a new
phase of the effect of certificates of the COL
lector as to the condition of the tax accounts of
property. In the pending case certificate was
| issued from which the assessment for the i'm
provement OF b street north. adjoining the
capitol grounds, omitted, because the as
sessment had been made by the Sec
| Rotary of the Interior, and the record
| thereof not known to the District tax
officers The property to which the certificate
referred changed hands on the strength of the
certificate. subsequently the special assess
ment clerk ascertained that there was
such an assessment at the Interior De-
partment, and obtained and made note
| OF it upon the records of his office.
Another certificate on the property referred to
was afterward issued, and the newly ascer-
tanned tax put upon it, The property owner
applies for removal of the tax charge on the
ground that as the property changed hands on
the faith OF the original certificate of the col
| lector. IL cannot under the law be pursued fur
ther for any tax omitted therefrom, and that
the fact that the District tax officers did not
/ know Of the assessment at the time of the is
sue Of the first certificate, did not justify them
in including il in the second certificate.
BUILDING PERMITS
have been issued as follows: John F. Bar
rome, frame dwelling Bunker Hill road; 81 900.
j. +. Olmstead, one frame dwelling wv CITY:
$500. q. II. Kuhn. to repair one brick store,
1909 G street northwest; $1,000. E. G. Johnson.
5000. Calvin Bent, agent. five brick dwell
lngs lll2 to ll20, alley in square l6l; $4,000.
Calvin Bent, agent one brick dwelling, I12O
Connecticut avenue northwest; 81, 800.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Attorney Riddle, in an opinion to the Com
missioners, says he does not think the claim
ants make any satisfactory showing for re.
opening the case Of Atchison Young. con.
tractors for building the Tenleytown road.
The CUMBERLAND Coal TRApE.-The ship.
, ments from the mines of the Cumberland coal
region for the week ended Saturday. March 80
1889, were &c, IA tons, and for the year 699 sac
tons, decrease of 81 Iii tons as compared
with the corresponding period Of 1888. The
shipments to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
and local points were for the week AZ, 6O6 tons
and for the year were 52S. $50 tons, a decrease
of l24, 9o3 tons as compared with last year
The shipments to the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal were for the week 5.657 tons, and for the
, year to that date were $3.50 TONS an increase
of 2,sl6 tons as compared with last year. The
shipments to the Pennsylvania railroad were
for the week II, SS1 tons, and for the wear were
1863, $50 tons, an increase of 30,977 tons as com.
pared with the corresponding period Of 1883