Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-04-18
The fire department gets an increase OF

| The following paragraph is omitted: THAT
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia
may hereafter, under such reasonable condi-
| tons as they may prescribe, authorize any tele-
graph, telephone, or electric light company to
lay wires under any street, alley, highway,
| footway or sidewalk in the District, whenever
| in their Judgment the public interest may re-
quire the exercise OF such authority, such
privileges as may be granted hereunder to be
| reyokablc at the will of Congress without COM
pensation, and this authority to continue only
until the termination of the Fifty-frst Con-
sress."
In the health Office seven instead of six sani-
| .ary inspectors, and two clerks at $1,000 each
| instead OF one are provided for.
THE COURTS.
The courts got increase Of IS, 500, the
main item being $500 for contracting cells
and improving the property next the Police
| Court, which is to be leased.
| An item is added appropriating $1,000 for
| clerical assistance and Incidental expenses for
| the commission on the compilation of the laws
1 OF the District of Columbia. authorized by the
| act approved March 2 1889, the amount to be
Immediately available.
| THE WASHINGTON ASYLUM
The appropriation for converting the maya
zine building at the asylum into female work
house is increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
s7.a5 e.0'''''H'' Oil 'HS male WORK mouse get
! The following new paragraph was added:
| That all of that portion of reservation Is ~
| ing 600 feet east of the east curb line of 10Th
/ street east and south of the south line of
street south be transferred to the control of the
| commissioners of the District of Columbia for
| the purpose of the burial of the INDECENT dead
| OF the District, to be known an addition to
| the potters' field and as portion of the grounds
OF the Washington asylum"
| CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
number of changes are made in the sched-
ule OF charities. The Women's Christian Tenn
perance appropriation of $1,000 is stricken out
and that amount is appropriated for the Hope
| and Help Mission. An appropriation of S400 is
given the Washington Night Lodging House
| Association. An appropriation Of $4,000 is made
for care of colored foundlings in addition to
80, 900 for the National Assoc iation Tor Desti-
| tute Colored Women and Children
Other changes are: For Children's Hospital,
| $4,000, instead of $1,000; for ST. AIMS Infant
Asylum, $500, instead of $4,000; for the Ger
[ man Orphan Asylum, IS, 900, with the clause,
| provided it furnishes a like amount" stricken
| out; for maintenance of the Church Orphanage
| Association of st. Johns Parish of the District
of Columbia, 81, coo, instead of 81 500; tor Asso
| ciation for Works of Mercy, i'll addition to
/ $4,000 for maintenance and repairs, land to
| complete purchase of lot. S6,042"
The National Homeopathic Hospital, which
was given only $4,000 for maintenance by the
House. now gets SO. 900.
| Three institutions not named in the House
bill are remembered. as follows: For st. Rose
Industrial School, for payment of indebtedness
and completion of building, -, 500; for House
OF Good Shepherd, for maintenance, $4,000;
for Little Sisters of the Poor. for maintenance,
| $1,000; for the Home for Incurables, for main
tenance. $1,000. No appropriation is made for
| the Training School for Nurses or for the
| Emergency Hospital.
The committee has engrafted on the bill the
proposal for a superintendent of charities,
who shall be appointed by the President,
whose duty 1t shall be to formulate such a sys-
tenn or plan of organized charities as will best
secure the objects contemplated by the several
institutions and associations for which such
appropriations are made. with the least inter-
ferance each with the other, or misapplcaton
OF effort or expenditure, and without duplica-
ton of charitable work or expenditure; and all
such appropriations shall be expended under
the general direction of the superintendent,
subject to the approval of the Commissioners
OF the District. He is also to examine into the
character of the administration of said insti-
tutlons and associations and the condition, suf-
ficiency and needs OF the buildings occupied
for such charitable purposes, and to recon-
mend such changes and notifications therein
as in his judgment will best secure economy,
efficiency and the highest attainable results;
and from time to time he shall report to the
Commissioners, who shall communicate the
same with their estimates for appropriations
to the then next session of Congress. The sal
airy Is to be SO, 900 per year.
THE WATER DEPARTMENT.
For the water department the following is
stricken out:
For one chief clerk, s1.5OO; two clerks at
S1.400 each; one clerk, 81 900: one superin-
tendent. l,6OO; one draughtsman. 81 500; one
messenger. $500; one inspector 80 per day,
S939; SIX inspectors at $500 each; contingent
expenses, including books, blanks, stationery,
forage, advertising, printing and other neces-
sary items and services, e, 500; in all, ST.
S3g"
The following is inserted:
For revenue aud inspection branch: For
one chief clerk, at 81 ,500 two clerks, at 81 400
each; one clerk, at $1,000; one inspector, at
S936; six inspectors, at $500; one messenger,
at 200. For distribution branch For one
superintendent at Fl GOO; one draughtsman, at
$500; one foreman, at 1920; one clerk, at
Sl,OOO; one time keeper, at $500: one assistant
foreman, at $500; one Taper and machinist, at
$500; one assistant Taper, at 5000; four
engineers, at S1,lOO each; one engineer (Sun-
day., at Sl56; one blacksmith, at $50; two
plumbers, at $50 each: two assistan. machin-
lists, at 1900 each; one property keeper at 5000;
| SIX tiremen, at $50 each; two fushers, at $40
each; one driver, at $3.50; one watchman. at
$3.50; one hOstler, at $3.50; one calker. at $50,
and three laborers, at $500 each, and for not to
exceed at any time two inspectors manufac-
| ture of cast iron pipe, at a maximum rate of "a
per day for such periods as their services may
be actually necessary 81 600; in all, S39, AZ"
PROPOSED INsTALLMENT PLAN.
The last amendment provides
THAT the amounts chargeable to the District
! OF Columbia on account of the establishment of
| a geological park in said District as provided
by section of the District appropriation act
approved March 2. 1889. and the amount charge
able to the District Of Columbia on account of
the water supply provided by the deficiency
appropriation act approved March 9. 1889, shall
be paidrespectively in twenty-five equal annual
instailments with interest at per cent per an
mum upon the deferred payments
An international Parcels Post.
In the house of commons yesterday the
Right Hon. H. C. Raikes, postmaster general,
said he was in hope that the negotiations that
had recently been renewed with the United
States government looking to the establish
ment OF parcels post between Great Britain
| and that country would be successful.
A Murder Twenty-Five Years Old.