Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-12
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
SIDEWALKS FOR BRooKLAND.

SIDEWALKS FOR BRooKIAND.
In accordance with a request of the Brook
land Citizens Association, which was laid be-
fore the Commissioners and by them referred
to the engineer department for report, Capt.
Rossell recommended today. and the same was
approved by the Commissioners, that 200 be
spent for a board sidewalk to be laid along the
Bunker Hill road from the electric car line ter
minus TO the Brookland post Office.
PERTINENT QUESTION.
The Commissioners are in receipt Of letter
from Messrs. Fitch. Fox & Brown, the agents
for the estate of d. L. Yulee, in which they
state that about November "a. 1888. number
for the residence Of his clients house on Con-
necticut avenue was obtained from Mr.. Forsyth,
but that recently the numbering of the houses
has been transferred from the city surveyor to
the building inspector and the two houses re-
Gently erected by Mrs. Okie on Connecticut
avenue Immediately north of his clients house,
have been the means of notifying them that the
number given by Mr.. Forsyth to the Yulee
mansion was wrong and must be changed. The
question naturally arises. they say, if what was
supposed to be legal and official in 1888 is now
ordered to be UndOne. what guarantee has the
owner that what he is I ow ordered to do may
not be subsequently changed
WANTS MAP OF THE LAND.
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary Of
the Treasury to comply with the provisions of
the act of Codgress in regard to obtaining
property for the uses and purposes Of the
United States in acquiring title to certain
propertv in the city of Washington and Dis
trict OF Columbia. the acting secretary today
in a letter to the Commissioners requested that
a map be prepared and furnished to the treas
ury as soon as possible, showing a survey of
the tract Of land now occupied by the coast
and geodetic survey and the Maltby House,
together with the names of the owner or own
ers, the number of square feet embraced
therein and the appraised tax value Of such
property and what percentage the appraised
tax value is to the market value Of each Of such
parcels of property
The acting secretary says that this informa-
ton is needed for immediate use in connec-
ton with negotiations. &c, to be entered into
for the purchase Of said property by the United
States through the Secretary OF the Treasury.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The report of Health Officer Townshend for
last week shows number of deaths, 12S: white,
60: colored, IS. Death rate per 1000 per an
mum: White, 1874; colored, AL. Total popu-
lation. 26-6; 46 were under five years of age; %
were under year old, and 26 over sixty
wears. Twenty-Five of the deaths occurred in
hospitals and public institutions. The deaths
BY classes were as follows: Zymotic, 10; consti-
tutional, 80; local. 60: developmental, 10; vio-
lence 4. The principal causes of death were:
D;phtheria. 1; consumption, 10, diarrh9al, 1;
erysipelss, 3; typhoid fever, L: malarial fever,
/: pneumonia, 10; congestion of the lungs, 2;
bronchitis. 5; measles, s; whOoping cough, /;
cancers 6; diseases of the kidneys 4. Births
reported: % white males. 20 white females; q
colOred males, Is colOred females. Marriages
reported: II white, ) colored. Still-births re-
ported: white and cOlored-