Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-23
DISTRICT AT AIRS
A Train to Train Transfer Plan Proposed
in Report
II Does Not Meet MT. Dsniop's Views. How
eSer-Important Local AAAin
Transacted Today.

Burke. TO make an Investigation OF the
railroad situation at the transfer points
along its line and submit a report thereon.
together with any Recommendations or sug-
gestions he saw fit TO make. This report
was made today and is as follows:
There are five sets OF transfers given be-
tween the 18th street cars and the George
town and navy yard cars Of the Washing
ton and Georgetown Railroad Company.
namely:
i. Passengers between Georgetown and
Mount Pleasant 3 Transfers occasioned
by passengers taking wrong cars between
the Peace monument and 18th street north
west on Pennsylvania avenue. g. Passen-
gers between Mount Pleasant and the navy
yard T. Passengers between Georgetown
and the Baltimore and Ohio station. Pas
sensers between the navy yard and the
Baltimore and Ohio station.
i. 1t is proposed to do away with the
transfer station at 18th and G streets. cars
TO stop at that corner as at any other, only
when passengers desire TO get on or OF
Transfers at this point. instead OF as now,
;eorgetown 10 Mount Pleasant shonld re-
main In the Georgetown car until IL meets
northbound 18th street car, when opposite
each other these cars will stop, the con-
ductor of the Georgetown car will call out:
Passengers for lith street change cars"
and the passengers will walk from the
one. Transfers can be made from the 18th
street 10 the Georgetown cars In similar
protected space between the cars without
danger to passengers or Inconvenience TO
vehicles No transfer tickets viii ee rs
certainly be able to see that only bona noe
passengers make the transfer, in fact,
there seems to be less danger or fraud IN
this than in the present arrangement;
Furthermore. IL the system herein proposed
Is carried out there VIII oe mo s,a .naTn
later. save those from southbouDd cars 10
northbound cars, SO when the cars STOP
opposite. there will be no clash or one
crowd going one way and one another
2. Passengers boarding cars on Pennsyl-
vsnia Avenue between tne wait for the
right car. II they desire 10 go TO George
town or the navy yard. they should take a
green car: IL the Mount Pleasant or the
Baltimore and Ohio station is their desu-
nation. let them take yellow car No
time is gained by boarding wrong car ana
then waiting for the right one at the trans
fer point; the safest and least trouble
some way is to start right-ft viii save the
street to get a transfer ticket. and a wait
i'm the open air in any sort OF weather
Passengers Will soon learn 10 90 TINS II
I'm such cases and certainly the additional
safety and convenience Is worth the small
g. Passengers travelling from Mount
Pleasant to the Navy Yard are now trans
ferred at the Peace monument. When THIS
point is reached the conductor gives them
a transfer ticket, they leave the lith street
car and wait for a Navy Yard car
1t is proposed TO transfer pdsSNuScts
from the Navy Yard TO Mount Pleasant In
the same way, and for these reasons they
can be transferred at the Peace monument
as far the company is concerned, Just
as easily as they can be at 18th and G
streets. There Is less travel and more space
at the Peace monument than there is AT
18th and G streets; the transfer can be
made here without compelling passengers
to cross the street.
1. In the same manner and for similar
reasons passengers from Georgetown TO the
baltimore and Ohio station, and from the
Baltimore and Ohio station to Georgetown
should transfer a. the Peace monument.
). Transfers from the Navy Yard to the
Baltimore and Ohio station and vice versa
are now made at the Peace monument.
The curve at 18th street and Pennsylvania
avenue, at the south end Of the Treasury De-
partment, is a slight argument against the
system of transfer from car to car. pr9pos-
pen TO meet on the curve they would have
to be stopped some distance apart. or. II
il were deemed advisable not to stop at all
under these circumstances. the southbound
car should keep on until Il met the proper
car. 1t is not intended to keep either cars or
passengers waiting: the cars can keep on.
and II is just easy TO ride to meet your
ii is to wait at the transfer station
for il, and the schedule can be so arranged
that the proper cars will pass one another
either on 18th street or on the broad expanse
of Pennsylvania avenue between 18th and
18th streets. so that passengers Will rot
have to be carried far beyond the point
where the two lines come together.
Work of the Pound Master.
The number of CANNES in the city has
largely decreased this week and the men
at the pound have been kept busy killing
them Thus far this week 1877 dogs have
been killed. the largest number ever killed
in any three successive days in the history
of the pound.
This wholesale slaughter is due to the ef-
forts Of the police to enforce the law re-
qUiring collars and tags on the dogs and
their telling the owners that S fine would
probably greet them for violation Of the
law. As early as o'clock in the morning
men, women and children appear at the
pound to surrender their dogs. and many
OF them shed tears when parting with
their pets. Receipts are given for the ami
mails surrendered. as IL is necessary to
show them to the police I'm order TO con-
vince them that their dogs are among the
dear departed
Unsa nitnry Condition Complained OF.
DIR. Argyle Mackey Of TO H street north
east writes to the Commissioners as fol-
lows:
AT the earnest request OF numerous cit
liens residing in the vicinity of Lewis street
northeast. / respectfully call your atten-
ton to the unsanitary condition OF this
section, which shows a disgraceful neglect
District government At the rear of Lewis
and Turner streets northeast is a wide
alley. or more properly speaking a large
cesspool filled with green. stagnant water,
containing decomposed animal and vegeta-
BILE matter. principally the latter. the DIS
SuSllnC O0Or or WHICH extends over the en-
tire neighborhood.
ITO make matters worse an excavation
at the east end of this alley, presumably
intended for the laying of a sewer receives
the refuse from a score Of houses, which
collects month after month, giving or its
disease and death producing fumes. / do
not exaggerate when i say that know Of
many cases OF illness and OF five instances
of death among white infants In this neigh
borhood due to this frightful unsanitary
condition. Notwithstanding the sanitary
inspector for this section says he has re-
that the residents of this locality / am
told, have exhorted and entreatad the
health officer to do his duty, he has en-
tirely disregarded their appeals, and has
not made even an attempt TO remedy this
evil. 1 have no personal feeling against
DR.. Hammett, but consider IT a duty to
humanity to bring this matter to your at
tention. to enable the people of this
section to breathe air not laden with IN
fictitious exhalations. and to prevent us
from constantly being reminded through
our olfactory nerves Of the negligence and
tncompetency Of certain District officials"
The HOuse-tO-House Inspection.
The Commissioners have received from
Health officer Hammett the weekly report
of the house to house inspectors as COM
piled from the reports made by the differ
ent persons engaged in the service. The
report is as follows:
Number of squares inspected, &c; number
OF houses and premises tnspecrel cJal:
t.ar saf& 20