The critic., 1891-02-28
AT TIE DISTRICT BUILDINGS.
Items of Interest from the Commission
ers' once.

ers' once.
PERMITS FOR ELgcrRfc CoNpUfTs.--On
January % the United States Electric
Lighting Company requested permit to
build underground electric conduits and
erect distributing poles in various streets.
Captain Lusk report on the subject as fol-
lows: "rhe company has already twenty
miles Of conduit in the city.
1.-THE extension asked for aggregates
length of near seven miles. IL the Dis
trict Appropriation act for 1902 provides
for electric lighting to the same extent as
the Senate bill, 1t will be necessary to
grant permission to lay conduit on Sew
enth street, from b street north to Water
street, and on Water street from Seventh
street to p street south; also along Penn
sylvania avenue southeast from Eighth
street to Eleventh street. The last-named
line is not asked for, but II will be neces-
sary.,
Seventh street west aud Fifteenth street
east, Is also not contained In the commu-
nication, but is asked for in another letter.
Under existing law the authority Of the
Commissioners To grant permits of this
class expires with the Fifty-iirst Congress-
What action Congress may take IN the
matter Is not apparent, but from the atti-
tude of the House, rs shown by the
District, bill as i passed that body,
~ NOuhu Sttth thht tnC BlODti NOuiNc
for the Commissioners is to await
the result of pending conference
upon the subjects of electrical lighting
and wires. IL that result should appear
to favor the extensions asked for the
necessary permit can be speedily granted,
with the period allowed by law for the
purpose;
is an important matter; and owing to the
value of the sidewalks to the District, and
to property owners, for the location of
sewer and water mains, ] recommend that
all future conduits and similar construc-
tions be confined to the carriageways.
"lf the Commissioners decide to grant
the permits asked for. or any part of them,
it would be best that the papers. bearing
on the question be returned to this office,
in order that the permit may be pyepaid
Commissioner Robert says This per-
init shall not be granted pending Con-
gressional action on the District Appropr
alton bill. Let the case bepostponed un-
til after the conference report"
CHANGES IN THE Police FoR$E.- Major
Moore has recommended and the
Commissioners have approved the
following promotions and appoint
quent % upon The removal % Of Sergeant
Trunnell and Privates @. l.. Grant and G..
w. Wall and the designations of Privatee
Gebicke and Elgin, said promotions and
appointments to take effect March l. 1891.
Acting Sergeant Charles Kerby, to be
sergeant.
Private +. E. Cross, to be acting SER
geant.
Private J. II. Heller, to be private of
class 2.
Thomas p. Hartigan, John Garraway,
Charles II Cowne, Thomas Laurenson
and Frank N. Burt, to be privates in
class /.
VIOLATION OF PLUMBING REGULATIONS
REroRTED.-Inspector Of Plumbing Rob-
bins has notified the Commissioners that
Bernhard Leonard, doing business as a
real estate agent at 4O7 Four-and,a-h
street., has connected eight houses
| on Third street. between | and X south
| west, by means of one sewer lateral with
| the public sewer and water services in
| violation Of the plumbing regulations.
| The inspector requests that the matter be
| referred to the attorney for prosecution in
| the Police Court.
THE COMMISSIONERS TmANKEp.-John
| a. Logan Post. No. 70, of Anacostia, d.
| e., have sent the Commissioners the fol-
meeting of the post, held on Mon,
day evening, February 25, 1901, it
was stated that you were finding
il difficult to comply with the
law requiring all appointees on the Metro
politan Police Force to be ex-Union sol
diers Oh account of age and consequent
| physical inability to perform the duties of
such position, and that you will therefore
endeavor to induce Congress so to amend
the law as to permit the appointment OF
sons Of ex-Union soldiers and sailors. On
motion it was unanimously voted that
this post indorse such action and respect
fully urge upon Congress the immediate
amendment Of the law in this respect.