Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-05

because this portion of the city is being rapidly
built up, but because it opens up new street
out through a section which is almost impassa-
bic to vehicles during wet weather. Delaware
avenue is recommended for one square of paw
ing and which connects with stone paving on G,
completing a practicable and needed though
somewhat circuitous thoroughfare, and pro-
tecting the greatest slope of Delaware avenue
from the destructive washing OF rains.
WHEN PREFERENCE SHOULD BE OWEN
Your committee desires to urgently renew
the accommodation heretofore made, that
should to a considerable extent be given to the
grading and regulating Of streets. Paving
NAV be considered as in some degree q luxury
without which people may get along in COM
parative comfort; but grading and regulating
open to practical use streets which are not in
use and generally not disable, and that estab-
fishes practical means of communication,
which If not Immediately necessary for a resi-
dent population stimulate the erection OF new
buildings and other improvements in places
now desoate, and thus help not only to make
the city more comfortable and beautiful. but
also increase the value OF assessable property,
thereby in many cases paying for themselves.
And this argument. good and sound in any city
with topography like ours, is especially so in
Washington, where one-half of the moneys ex-
pended are appropriated from the national
revenues. The interest which the government
and the people of the United States have in the
national capital is not limited to the north
west quarter, but extends over the whole city
and District and to all parts alike. 1t is not
more to the advantage of the government and
the people that the northwest quarter should
be improved and made beautiful than it is that
the southwest, the southeast and northeast
quarters shorld be made equally 80. The peo-
pie have right to demand, and it is the duty
Of their Representatives in Congress to provide,
that the money they contribute toward the i'm
proTement of their city shall be apportioned to
the needs, fairly and equItably, without par
TALLY for any quarter.
1t is not only unjust to the people that their
half Of the District appropriation should con-
time to be expended so largely in comparative
Injuries for one favored section while other por-
tons. equally theirs in every way, are left in a
condition unsightly. uncomfortable and abso-
lu:ely dangerous to health but it is really also
inimical to the residents of the city, for it
should never be forgotten that the poisonous
exhalatlons OF the open sewers and filthy
streets and alleys and fostering deposits Of gar
bage and decaying carcasses on vacant squares
and lots are not confined to their own imme-
date vicinities, but are carried by the winds in
all directions, shat the curled darling Of lux
ury IN the most arlstocratlc quarter NAV die
from malarial poison originating in the distant
region of neglected and filthy homes of poverty,
ignorance and vice. We are all connected with
each other and cannot escape the consequences
BY ignoring the fact. but because the large tax
pave uO sO ikIOIt lllls IdCt anu 20
endeavor TO reduce fair assessments and prevent
or divert proper expenditures. il is found nee
essary for us in self-defense thus to urge that
Congress should exercise its sovereign power in
the interest Of the whole people for the welfare
OF ali.
ADDITIONAL ALLEYS NEEDED.
We also feel impelled by a sense Of duty to
urge that the District Commissioners should
use all their powers under the new law to secure
the pf ollay IF cudia
width for the passage of garbage wagons en-
tlrely through every square in the city, from
street to street, and of additional alleys where
necessary, so that every residence, whether
grea: or small. shall have access to an alley and
also n fair opportunity for the removal of the
garbage. which under existing conditions is
a constant and serious menace to the public
health. single epidemic of cholera of
typhoid disease might prove a very costly
means OF awakening our people to a perception
OF the vital necessity OF general cleanliness, and
which general cleanliness does not now exist
and cannot be obtained and continued without
such alleys as are herein recommended. The
municipal removal Of ashes, also. while not SO
necessary on the score Of health, would be a
great economy as well as convenience, and it
cannot be economically attained without the
opening of these alleys, the proper condition of
which thereafter should Of course be obtained
by police supervision.
THE STREET SCHEDULE.
Northeast-I0th street from East Capitol
street to II street, paving; I'd street from
street to street. paving; NJ stree. from North
Capitol street to I'd street, paving; 18th street
from East Capitol street to Z street, grading
and regulating street from 18th street to 18th
street, grading and regulating; Delaware avenue
from street,to ID street, paving; Massachusetts,
Avenue from I'd street TO 4th street. paving; 11th
street from East Capitol street to y street. paw
ing, 1lth street from u street to Maryland ave-
Maryland avenue to 18th street, grading and
regulating; street from Sth street to 11th
street, ravirg; street from Sd street to 9th
street, paving; LIST street from street to Chi
cago street, paving; 9th street from c street to
+ street, paving: B street from 18th street to
18th street. grading and regulating: I street
from 9Th street to 18th street, grading and
regulating: Tennessee avenue from Lincoln
Park to 18Th street, grading aid regulating;
4.h street from ID street TO F street, paving;
18Th stree. from East Capitol street 10 Maryland
avenue. grading and regulating; East Capitol
street frcm 18th street to 18Th street. paving;
East Capitol street from 18th street to 18th
street, grading and regul tting: 18th street from
East Capitol street 10 street, grading and
regulating.
soutLeast-D street from South Capitol street
to LIST street. paving; z stree: from 18th street
to 18th street, paving; 5:h street from c street
10 l. street. paving; 18th street from East
Capitol street to street. grading and regulat-
ing: S;h street from North Carolina avenue to
Pennsyly ania avenue, paving; 10th street from
pennsylvania avenue to G. street. paving; 10Th
street from q street 10 street, grading and
regulating; street (north side) from
9Th street to 9Th street. paving; 18th
street from street to L street, grad
ing and regulating; 14th street from b
street to street, grading and regulating; 18th
street from Lincoln Park to q street. paving;
l2th street from Il street to street. grading
and regulating; East Capitol street from llth
street to 18Th street, paving; Georgia avenue
from 18th street to l1th grading and regulating;
Kentucky avenue from Lincoln Park to Penn
sylvania avenue, grading and regulating; L
street from 4;h street to 9Th street. grading and
regula ting; A street from 9Th street to North
Carolina avenue paving; d street from 9Th
street 70 lith street. grading and regulating;
street from l4.h street to New bridge grad.
Ig ami regulating; 10th street from street 10
Georgia avenue. grading and regulating;
street from 7th street 20 Sih street, laving 18Th
street from East Capitol street TO II street,
grading and regulating, 18Th street from Penn
sylEania avenue TO K street grading and regu-
latlng; East Capitol street from 18Th street to
10th street. grading and regulating; 18th street
from last Capitol street to = street, grading
and regulating; O street from 18th street to 18Th
street. grading and regulating.
Under the call OF new business Mr., Weller
offered resolution approving the Commits
sioners action In their efforts TO get Congress
10 pass the Hunton liquor bill aud the associa-
unlrlflClsly cd he