Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-12

mended by the Citizens Committee.
The citizens county committee today sub
mitted to the Commissioners the following
schedule Of 'the needs Of the county,
STREET WORK
Lincoln avenue-Grsde. regulate and FUR
nish with sidewalks from Boundary street 20
Glenvood cemetery. Bunker Hill road-Widen
from Hardwood avenue 10 the Queens Chapel
road Fourth street northesst-Curb, side
walk and gutter from the Brentwood road 10
the Bunker Hill road brentwood road and
Patterson avenue-Grade and regulate from
New York avenue to the National fair grounds.
Providence street Grade and regulate
from Bunker Hill TO the Queens Chapel
road. Michigan avenue-Grade and regulate.
North Capitol street-Grade and regulate from
Boundary street north. II street-Pave from
Lincoln avenue 20 4th street northwest s and
I streets-Grade and regulate from Lincoln
avenue TO LIST street northwest First street
northwest-Grade and regulate from Boundary
street 10 Michigan avenue. Adams street
Grade and regulate from Lincoln avenue TO LIST
street northwest Illinois avenue-Grade.
Brightwood ayenue-pave, curb and sidewalk
from Boundary street to Grant avenue; pave
from Irving street 20 Whitney avenue; grade,
widen and regulate from Whitney avenue 10
Brightwood. Irving street-Grade and regulate
from Brightwood avenue TO lith street. Howard
avenue, Lincoln and Sumner streets-Grade
and regulate from 9Th TO 9TH streets. sixth
and Linden streets-0pen, grade and regulate
from Boundary street TO Pomeroy street
Boundary street-Asphalt pavement from the
P-street bride TO the Columbia institution for
the deaf and dumb, and that said street
be raised between 18th and 22d streets.
Fourteenth street-Asphalt pavement from
Huntington to Park street kenesaw avenue
Grade and regulate from l4th 20 10th streets.
Fifteenth street-lsrada raon ia
lumbia road to Grant street. Seventeenth
street-Grade and regulate from Park street 10
Piney branch. Brown street-Grade and regu-
late from Howard 10 Laurel avenues Column
bia road-Asphalt from Boundary 10 18th
streets; Widen and regulate from 18th TO l4th
streets. Ontario avenue-Grade, macsd-
amize aud regulate from Bound
airy to the u. :. Geological park.
California ayenue-Grade and regulate from
Columbia road 10 Massachusetts avenue. Con-
necticut avenue-Grade and regulate from
California avenue TO Moodley lane; extend
same from California avenue 20 Columbia
road; widen 100 feet from kalorama avenue 70
Columbia road. Woodley lane-Grade and
regulate and gutter; widen to 50 feet from Rock
creek to the Tenleytcwn road sixteenth
street-Grade and regulate from Boundary
street to Columbia road Lanier avenue-grade
and macadamize.
''Ihat the fund for grading streets at 10
cents per yard be increased TO $4,000. For
grading streets north of Boundary street lying
between Brightwood avenue and l4th streets
and south of Whitney avenue, $4,000. That
the extension of the principal streets and
avenues OF the city OF Washington through the
suburban districts nearly in conformity with
the plan Of the city as is practicable is Of the
greatest importance TO the citizens Of the
county and the public generally, and we would
urge early action in the matter.
SEWERS, WATER MAINS, Logon LICENSES, ETC
That the low ground north Of LeDroit Park
and east Of the Freedman's hospital 30 Col
lege street be provided with sewers and that O
sewer be laid on Trumbull street from 9th 10
It'll streets. That water supply and sewerage
system be provided for the thickly settled por-
tions of Mt. Pleasant. That water mains be
laid on Brightwood avenue northward to Whit
ney avenue. That the fire limits be extended to
cover the territory west Of Brightwood ave-
nue. from Boundary street to Whitney avenue.
Sewer Rock Creek valley from P-street bridge
to the United States geological park. IL Is
urgently recommended that the issuing Of
liquor licenses in the county Of Washington be
restricted to the lowest limit possible. That
pool selling in said county be prohibited. We
recommend that the entire Rock Creek valley
north of the United States geological park be
secured TO the public for q national park"
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
The citizens county committee is composed
of Gen. Swain, Col Truesdell, Jos. Paul, John
Saul, A. McLachlen, II. p. Waggaman, J. b.
johnson, b. p. Davis, Gen. Ellis Spear, Leroy
Tucker, jr.. DIR. ]. II. Brooks, Job Barnard and
Gardiner Hubbard and their duties are to look
after the interests Of the county.
AHEARING BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS
The gentlemen were shown into the board
room and given hearing by the Commissioners.
The committee, through Col. Truesdell, repre-
scented that the county had never received i'm
provements in proportion to the amount of the
taxes contributed by 1t; that the discrepancy
was at least one million dollars In favor of the
county; that about sixty-six per cent Of the
county revenues since 1874 had gone
to paw the sinking fund and interest
or the funded Indebtedness Of the District in
CURED under contracts with the board of pub
lie works, while the amount of that indebted
ness expended in the county was comparatively
insignificant; that of the SO, 000. 600 expended
by that board only about S5O0, 900 was ex-
pended IN the county, and that mainly
on the 1th-street road, l4th-street road and the
canal road, and few other roads which are
main arteries of travel between the states of
Maryland and Virginia and the cities of WASH
ington and Georgetown, and contribute very
little to the advantage of the county. through
which they pass. In the case of the canal
road the law provided that il should be an ex-
elusive charge on Georgetown, to whose pros
perity IT was exclusively intended and con-
tributed. Col. Truesdell called attention 10 the
necessity Of legislation for the extension Of
streets into the county.
GAMBLING IN THE COUNTY.
In reply to an inquiry as to the VIEWS Of this
committee on gambling in the county Col
Truesdell said that it was an evil which should
be restricted as much as possible, and the
liquor selling should be prohibited or restricted,
as the evils Of the liquor traffic are a greater
nuisance in the county than in the city because
mainly Of the accessibility Of the saloons TO
men and boys and the limited police surveil-
ance.
The Commissioners promised TO give ths
matter their serious consideration.
RRlEE COITRTSHIp