Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-08
DISTRICT AFFAIRS.
A New Site Favored for the Con-
tagion Hospital.
THE OBSERVATORY GROUNDS.
Proposals Received Today for q school
House site-Jewelers Who Buy Old Gold
Classed ~ Junk Dealers - Other Matters
OF Interest.

The Commissioners believe they have at las
found site for the contagious disease hospital
i and unless the United States objects, tn,
hospital will be erected on the ground
OF the old Naval Observatory, which i
designated on the mapas Reservation No. L. an,
situated between 23d and 25th streets south
vest E and the river front. Yesterday after
noon the Commissioners made careful investi
cation Of the site and they were all unanimou
In the opinion that it was by far the best loca
ZION yet found. The ground is high and wei
shaded and more isolated than any other loca
uon In the District. The Commissioners do
not believe they will have any trouble in loca
ting the hospital, and the attorney has beer
erected to look into the matter from
legal standpoint at his earliest convenience
Inc law relating to the purchase Of the site
gives the Commissioners authority to locate il
on any government reservation or District
property that is suitable, and upon this the
Commissioners have acted. A number OF
| propositions were submitted to the Commits
sioners today for the purchase of sites in diff
tersn' parts OF the city, but they were all sent
10 Inc nles. and this is significant action that
| the observatory grounds is the one that will be
| selected as the site.
NEW SITE OFFERED
Mr.. Robert Z. Morris has offered, for Messrs.
Joseph and Edwin Forrest, tract OF land COM
prising nineteen and half acres at the ter
| minus OF tho Hickey road for a contagious dis
ease hospital The price asked is SIC. 600, and
II the lot is accepted donation Of $500 will be
made to the District toward the improvement
OF the Hickey road. The property is well ele-
waited and in sparsely settled neighborhood.
PROPOSALS FoR A SCHOOL SITE.
Tha
for site for public school building within
the area between E street and Florida avenue
and 10th and 18th streets northeast
Duncanson Bros. offered lots Nos 20. 80. 81
and 81, in block No. 1. Trinidad. fronting ITO
feet on Florida avenue and l34lS feet on 18th
street east, for the sum Of 80 cents per square
foot
Weller 4 Repetti submitted seven sublots.
numbered ~ to 2S inclusive, in square 937. con-
tanning 1888 feet, at IS cents per foot; also
eight sublots. numbered 81 to 49, in square 937.
fronting on 10th street northeast, containing
18TH feet, at IS cents per foot and three
original lots, Nos. IL, IL and IS, in square 962.
at the corner of 1ith street and E street north
east, containing Is, l02 feet. a. IS cents a foot
B. j. Block offered part Of sublot "a in
square l02s, fronting lis feet on l4th street by
depth Of 100 feet, at 7s1z cents per square
foot
Barnes Weaver offered the southeast
corner OF l4th and streets northeast. having
l0l feet on + street and so feet on 18th street
At ~ cents per square foot; also all or any
part OF lot 5, square 1882 southwest corner of
Tennessee avenue and street. at 81 a square
foot.
s. Oppenheimer 4 Bro. offered lots q. %. 20.
80, 81, 81. 80 and "a, in W. and NJ subdivision
OF square 1929, at the corner Of l4th and r
streets northeast, having frontage of 1856 feet
on 4 street aud 20 feet on l4th street, contain
ing $3.50 feet. for 81. 900.
VIM, Mayse offered part Of lot II, all of lot
IL and part Of lot 49, in square 1923. aggregate
ing x, sol Is square feet. at 81 square foot.
p. A. Darneille offered original lots 10 and II
and sublots Is, l6 and II. ali in square zoos.
fronting i65 feet on g street between 18th and
18th streets northeast. at so cents per square
foot.
D. Biriwell submitted lot II in square loss,
fronting 100 feet on street and 100 feet on 18th
street northeast, at IS cents per square foot.
Mrs. Z. A. Riley offered lots 40 to 49, Dieu-
dome and others subdivision Of square iO5I. At
80 cents square foot.
@. Y. worthington offered original lots S and
in square 1907. fronting l5S. 9 feet on and 80
feet on 18th street northeast containing Is. 756
square feet. at 81 per foot
c. I. Yoder submitted lots II and is. in |
square 1880, at 81 per square foot
Barnes d Weaver offered lots II and 20. in |
square 1858, a. 15 cents per square foot
j. McCandlish offered much as desired of |
the triangular square north of square 1926 at 81
per foot
CHASED AS JUNK DEALERS.
Attorney Thomas holds in an opinion rem
dered today that manufacturing jewellers who |
buy old gold and silver should take out a jupk
dealers license. The opinion was called forth
by the report Of Assessor TrImble upon the an /
plicaton of jewelsr for an opinion upon the
subject. Mr.. Thomas says:
II have examined this case and while T
think there is grave doubt whether the law was
ever intended to appI. to respectable jewelers.
who buy old gold or who take il in ex-
'hange for goods, view my predecessor
seems to have taken in an opinion
1893. still as the matter has since been brought
10 the attention OF the Police Court.
where it has been decided that a MANUFACTURING
eweier who buys old gold and silver Is
o be ciassed as junk dealer regard the
decision of the Police Court MS judicial and
binding in its character. 1t is to be regarded
Is the law as far as tho Commissioners are con-
erned, until reversed or oyerruled in son,e
way. Ii would seem. therefore, that jewelers.
Who buy old gold and silver. or exchange goods
or Old gold or silver. are required to take out
unk dealers license
The Commissioners have been notified nv
Attorney Thomas that they cannot file suits
Without prepayment OF costs.
Attorney Thomas has decided that the per-
mission OF owners OF property within ninety
eet must De ootalned before a person can get a |
ermit to locate a steam boiler
The pastor of the North PRESBYTERIAN Church
Inferred protest yesterday against the grant
ng OF liquor licenses to Messrs. W. II. Zeh and
ulius Viedt, jr. The dealers in question are
'holesale dealers and sell liquor in connection
nth their grocery business
APPEALING FOR THE TREES
Prof. E. NJ. Gallaudet is friend of the trees
nd today entered a vigorous protest on behalf !
the directors. officers and students of the |
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
gainst the change of the grade Of NJ street be-
ween LIST and 4th streets northeast. which I
'ould necessitate the destruction of the beauti !
III trees and the sidewalk along the square -.
AIMED. Not speaking of other considerations ,
hich might be urged against the pro-
osed change OF grade, he says, it NAV truly
g said that to all the residents Of
.endall Green the destruction of the trees ON :
street would be real calamity. NJ street is !
he great promenade to and from the insti,u-
on and the grateful shade furnished by the
'ees now adjoining it has been boon of COM
,rs and heslth to hundreds of thankful pedes
rians. Ten years. he says would not be suffi- a
tent to replace those trees, and while c
heir successors were growing great discomfort I
nd no doubt actual physical injury would be
xperieneed by very many persons He sim