Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-18
IN ALEXANDRIA COUNTY.
The Subject of County Roads Considered 1t 9
Meeting ut Walker School House.

The Subject of County Roads Considered ut q
Meeting ut Walker School House.
At q meeting Of the citizens of Alexandria
county, held on Monday night at Walker school
house, A. P. Douglas was elected chairman,
with Downey Woodward as secretary.
After a discussion was participated in by
Messrs. A. p. and W. W. Douglas, Joseph
Fields, John I. Birch, Robert Veitch and
others, resolutions offered by Mr.. James T.
Clements were adopted requesting the board of
supervisors to have all work on public roads
done with gravel and stone, and to commence
the work nearest the cities and to work there
from out into the county; providing for a COM
mittee OF three to wait upon the proper officer
OF the United States government and request
the repair of the roads through the Arlington
estate where the roads OF the county intersect
the same; requesting the county school board
to publish annual statements of the receipts
and expenditures of county funds for
school purposes, and requesting the board of
supervisors, the county clerk and the treasurer
to be present at the next meeting with state
ment as to the plans of repairing roads and a
report upon road funds to date.
Chairman Douglas, j. Z. Clements and Homer
j. Hirsh were selected as the committee to
request tine repair of the Arlington road
Mr.. I. II. Sypherd offered preamble and q
resolution setting forth that "the location of
Washington and Alexandria and the adjacent
counties OF Virginia, making her the thorough
fare OF all the tide of travel to and from the
said cities, neccssitates such an enormous ex-
penditure Of her scant means, owing to her
diminutive size and meager resources that ms
tce to ourselves demands that this rapidly in
creasing travel should be converged upon as
few lines rs possible, to the end that our labor
and means may be concentrated upon putting
such prominent roads in the best possible con-
dition," and declaring that our board Of
supervisors and county court be requested to
withhold their sanction to the opening of new
roads where the needs of public travel do not
presslngly demand them and that they be i'm
plored to set their faces against the demands of
the spectators in town lots, who have the
ceeek to ask the county to open, at the expense
OF our citizens, q highway by every subdi-
vision, whose outlets should be provided by
themselves" and that these authorities be re-
minded that Alexandria county has more roads
already than she is able to keep in good repair;
and that it Is the opinion of this meeting that
no new roads are needed BY the demands of
public travel in this county, but tina. all pos
sible resources Of the county should be ex-
pended on the most direct routes and upon the
straightest possible lines from the most i'm
portant points to the only entrance to the city
now provided Tor Us, namely, the Aqueduct
BRIDGE
Mr.. James E. Clements characterized. the
resolution as non-progressive. He said that
when syndlcates came into the county and
invested they paid all or nearly all the cost of
roads asked for and then put thousands Of dol
lars OF Improvements upon the before destitute
land. He said he would not vote upon the
resolution, as the courts settled such matters
upon evidence. The resolution was adopted.
Great Demand for Notes and Stamina.
The steadily increasing dersnd Of the gov
eminent for the printing Of treasury notes and
revenue stamps has for some time exceeded the
capacity of the bureau Of printing and engrav-
ing, and considerable embarrassment has re-
suited. The Treasury Department recently
endeavored TO arrange with the manufacturers
OF the steam plate printing presses, already
owned by the government but mot used since
1883, to waive their right to royalty ON these
presses 90 that they might legally be employed
temporarily to relieve the present pressure.
These negotiations having faijt 1, the depart
ment has now decided to organize and employ
night force 1t the bureAu, to be untitled
until the authorised extension Of the bureau
building b completed and room thus provided
TOR more presses and larger regular force Of
day hands. This immedists increase IN capacity
BY the employment Of night force viii enable
the Treasury Department. TO accumulate .
stock both OF treasury notes and revenue
stampA thus giving time fog them to ssason
and avoiding the necessity Of Dending out cur
rsncy IN ssGrssu" eondifion-