Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-10
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
| SUBURBAN SEWER.

A SUBURBAN SEWER.
The Commissioners have decided on Capt
Lusk's accommodation to build a sewer in
yelling place from its intersection with 14tl
street 70 University place, and up that street
TO Huntington place. The estimated cost il
s1,4O4-
An IMPROVEMENT IN ASAcosrIA WANTED.
Mr.. II A. Linger, president of the Anacostia
citizens association, has sent to the Commits
pioners petition from his association to grave
and regulate Jefferson street extended. in Ana
costa They say this street has been graded
and improved almost entirely at private ex
pense, anditis deemed only justice to the prop
erty-owners who are spending their money
upon public highway that the District gov.
eminent should gravel and regulate the samt
after the grading has been done.
STREET swEEPISas IN SEWERS.
Mr.. ID. e. McComb, superintendent of sew
ers, a few days ago complained that portion
of the street sweepings were swept into the
sewer catch basins on Pennsylvania avenue
between LIST and 18th streets northwest, on the
31st ult." The Commissioners will request the
health officer to prevent such occurrences in
the future. Capt. Lusk states that this prac-
tice il persisted in, will entail serious expense
on the sewer division in order to keep the
basins clean.
HOUSES IN ALLEYS.
The District Commissioners have considered
the bill pending before the House to forbid the
construction of tenements in alleys. They will
make recommendations to modify the bill so
a. to require the paving and proper draining
of alleys in which houses are built. They think
a sweeping prohibition forbidding the con-
struction Of tenements in alleys will work in
justice to poor people and working people
who would, If the alleys were closed against
them, be driven into the suburbs.
TO ROUND THE SQUARE.
DIR. Charles ii. Bowen in a letter to the Com
missioners proposes not exactly to square the
circle but make a circle out of Mt Vernon
Ha q Aul1 ha
oiated by those who live in the west end and
have TO drive down Massachusetts avenue, h
street or New York avenue to reach the capt.
toll II respectfully suggest " he writes. "a cir
Gle about forty feet in diameter. This would
give room for an easy driving curve. Asitisnow
the railroad tracks crossing at X and 7th and at
X and 9Th are the cause of numbers of break
downs by the tires wrenched from carriage
wheels and colliding of carriages at these
points by reason of the narrOwness of space
between curbstone and railroad. / know the
Senators and judges of the Supreme Court and
the west-enders would indorse the project.
Give us circle at this space instead OF the
right angles"
There are twenty corners at this junction;
hence the necessity for a circle. In a post
at this junction or have the city post-ofice
built on the square,"
VITAL STATISTICS
Health Officer Townshends report for the
week ending January shows: Number of
deaths-104; white, 80; colored, "A. Death-rate
per 1000 per annum-white, 21.49; colored.
2o.i2- Total population, 24.04. Thirty-eight
were under five years Of age; "a over 60. and
"a were under one year old. Fifteen of TIE
deaths occurred in hospitals and public insti-
buttons. The deaths by classes were as follows:
Zymotic. 10; constitutional, %; local, So; de-
vslopmentai. 8; violence, 4. The principal
causes Of death were: Group, 2; consumption,
II; typhoid fever, A: malarial fever, 3;
pneumonia, 13; congestion of the lungs, 1;
bronchitis, 5; pleurisy, 1, whooping cough, 2;
diphtheria, 1. Births reported-29 white
males; Is white females; 16 colored males; 20
colored females. Marriages reported-30
white; Is colored.