Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-20
DISTRICT AFFAIRS.
Situation Of the Fifteenth Street
Transfer Station Decided On,
INTERVIEWS ON GARBAGE
The Collectors to Be Provided With
Horns in the Future.
TODAY'S OFFICIAL ORDERS.

The transfer box for tine convenience of pas
sengers of the W. and g. R. r. Co.. will be To-
Gated in the middle of 18th street on line with
New York avenue.
This is practically the decision of the Com
mssioners. who for the past two months have
been giving the location Of transfer box seri-
GUS consideration. They realized the ne
cessity for some arrangement whereby the con-
gested state of affairs at this point could be
bettered, and Capt. Powell was given charge Of
the matter, to make any Recommendation he
saw fit.
1t had practically been settled to locate the
depot on the west side Of 18th street directly
opposite street, and make all transfers there.
The Washington and Georgetown Railroad
Company Was requested to submit plans for a
depot at this point, and did SO, but the designs
were not ornamental enough, and Capt. Powell
had one of his craftsmen make another and
more elaborate plan for depot. Since the dis
cussion in The STAR. however. Capt. Powell has
changed his views of the situation. While he
believes the plan first proposed to be good
one he is willing to try another, and as stated
above has recommended and the same has been
agreed to. to place the transfer station ia the
middle OF 18th street.
III COuNtredtlOu viii TcpOftci "a Ah1 oAAn
on the subject Capt. Powell said: "1agree fully
with The STAR in its solution OF the transfer
problem. The company should be made to es-
tablish a transfer station at the corner
Of 14th and Pennsylvania avenue, and
run the 14th street line directly up
l4th. The Commissioners, however. are
powerless to order this change. The charter Of
the company gives it the right to run double
track. Personally am opposed to double tracks
on streets. Why look at G street. more
serious condition Of affairs could hardly be
imagined. One track along that street Is
more than sufficient. The merchants complain
OF the hardship, but the charter Of the company
protects it, gives the Commissioners no power
to change the tracks My idea would be in re-
lation to the question of locating transfer
station for the ". and G. r. R. to get the COM
psny to make the change. We cannot compel
be willing to make the change unless the Dis
trict paid the expense incident thereto"
New Garbage Orders. e.
"Toot, toot. toot Open the gate, open the
gate"
The cry Of the garbage collector and the
sound Of his tin horn as OF old will shortly re-
sound in the alleys about the city. For some
time past the Commissioners have been
considering the best plan to enforce
a collection Of the garbage. The contractor
claimed that the fault was with the house.
holder and not with the collector. II the
| househoiders were compelled to place the
garbage in accessible place there
would be no trouble, they urged. The Com
missioners did not feel justified in ordering the
placing Of garbage outside of the gates in the
alleys. aud yielding to the request OF the con-
| tractor, decided to return to the old tin-horn
| scheme and allow the collector to blow q horn
for the purpose Of warming the householder
| that the garbage man was around.
| n0nager Bayly Of the National Sanitary
C0Apany had long and earnest conversation
win Ae4ommIssioners this morning in rela-
tioa = Ais subject. He contended that the
blowing OF horns was not a nuisance and
he believed il the collectors were allowed
| to use them the complaints would be reduced to
q minimum. He said that horns we're used in
the collection Of garbage in Baltimore. New
York and Boston, and he did not see any
| reason why they could not be used in this
| city. Commissioner Parker stated that ii
would be necessary to make police regulation
on the subject before anything could be done.
Upon reconsideration. however. he decided to
try the experiment and accordingly wrote the
following letter to Health Officer Hammett:
The National Sanitary Company constantly
complain that at a large percentage of the
residences the garbage is not accessible: that
repeated and prolonged calls and poundings
fail to meet with response, and that as . conse-
quence the garbage in many instances accu-
mulAtes.
AZ TUG uOp6 Vi COEreCtluR LUIS the ION ml6-
sioners direct that the National Sanitary Com
pany be permitted to blow q horn that notice
may be had Of their approach, that the garbage
may be collected without unnecessary delay.
1t will be the duty Of householders to
promptly respond to this call that collections
may be promptly made"
In conversation with reporter of The STAR
on this subject Commissioner Parker said:
I'VE have just appointed AN inspector for the
purpose of investigating garbage complaints.
IF he reports that complaints are groundless
we may deem il proper to publish the name
of the complainant who had no cause Of COM
plant or whose cause of complaint was brought
about through their own fault or neglect.
when we find that the National Sanitary
Company are at fault We will exhaust every
means, legal and otherwise. to correct the
service. 1t must be manifest, however.
to every one that garbage man
cannot break into house nor climb over a
fence to remove garbage. Last year at this
time there were as high as $50 complaints day,
now we averageless than fifty. quite difference
and not an alarming percentage for popula-
ton of 100000 people. One complaint for
every 5000 wouldn't seem to fore
shadow the cholera. The mortality statement
Of the health officer is most gratifying, and
shows the city TO be in an excellent sanitary
condition. So far as in their power the Com
missioners propose to keep it So"
President DAILY on the Horn.
President DAILY Of the National Sanitary Com
pany in conversation with STAR reporter this
afternoon on the instructions given by
the Commissioners allowing the use Of horn
in the collection Of garbage said:
Every garbage collector will be re-
quired to carry a horn and to blow
the same at each corner of a street or alley
and also in the middle Of the square,
and when the horn has been sounded as pro-
vided If housekeepers and others interested do
not set their garbage at some convenient place
for removal within reasonable time the cart
will pass on.
"When housekeepers and others have gates
opening upon a street or alley and will set their
garbage Immediately on the inside of the
door or gate. open or unbolted.
the garbage man will be required
to remove it therefrom, but in no case to waste
time to penetrate any considerable distance into
the house or yard. Where garbage is collected
from the front door, the sounding of the horn is
notice to householders to make the garbage &C.
cessible without delay. have no doubt the use
OF the horn will greatly facilitate the work OF
collection and give satisfactory results''
Today's Orders.
The Commissioners today ordered
That gutter on east side of LIST street north.
east. north of F street. be repaired
That the sidewalk in front Of 329. $50. 3S1
$50 and 337 Missouri avenue be repaired.
That the proceedings looking to opening O,
Potomac street, Georgetown, be dropped, and
the returns taken out by the superintendent @,
streets and cost OF same paid out of appropria