The Washington times., 1894-07-31
CONCERNS OF The DISTRICT
Economy Must Be Practiced in the Use
OF Potomac Water.
ORDERS TO LAY WATER MAINS
Health Officers Term Of Office to be Three
Years-sale of Provisions Bought in Gen.
ter and K Street Markets Not ProhibIted-
Stabling Horses on Upper Floors.

The Commissioners desire the public to
know that the enormous consumption oi
water supplied through the Washington
aqueduct impels them to urge the Imperative
necessity for economy in its use. They say
that on June 2s over As, 900 gallons, or at
the rate of seven barrels a day for each Of the
22s, 600 estimated users of Potomac water
were delivered from the distributing reser-
voir. The prodigality which that fact dis
closes may, unless promptly checked, render
necessary the placing of the water distribu-
tion under a more rigid system Of surveillance
and restriction"
0orders to lay water mains were issued
yesterday by the Commissioners as follows:
In East Capitol street. north OF Lincoln Park,
at the intersection of Twelfth street south
east; in alley in square "a; in N street north
west, between Twenty-second and Twenty
third streets, and in Twenty-third street. be-
tween NJ and n streets northwest; In d street
southeast, between Eleventh street and Ken
lucky avenue; also three fire hydrants in the
same vicinity: in Eleventh street northeast,
between l and X streets; in F street north.
east between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets;
in street, between Tennessee avenue and
Fifteenth street northeast, and in Fifteenth
street, between and A streets northeast; also
fire plugs in the same place.
HORSES STABBED on UPPER FLOORS.
A communication signed Inquirer" was
received by the Commissioners yesterday, in
which the officials were complimented for
their recent regulation forbidding the stabling
of horses hereafter in upper stories of build
ings. The writer suggests that it should be
made to apply 10 existing stables. as well as
to those TO be hereafter constructed. 1t is
stated that it will be found that most Of the
livery stable keepers have their horses on the
second floor.
Richard Sammond has sent a protest to
the Commissioners against the removal OF
the pump at the corner Of Fifth and G streets
southeast.
Col John NJ. Wilson, Commissioner of Pub
tic Buildings and Grounds. has requested the
Commissioners to give him authority to make
excavations in the streets when the same may
become necessary to make connections with
water and gas mains.
The Commissioners yesterday issued an
order THAT hereafter the official term Of any
person appointed as health officer shall be
three years.
Engineer Commissioner Powell. in speak
ing Of this order yesterday. said that year
ago a similar regulation was made applicable
to other District positions. This was all that
the official had to say about it.
S. J. Fague in letter to the Commission
ers states that all corner lots on NJ street, be-
tween New York avenue and Vermont avenue.
which were assessed for a sewer on two sides
of the lots are entitled TO rebate.
Health Officer Hammet has objected to
James F. Nolan's proposed asphalt works at
Twenty-fourth and n streets northwest, as in
his opinion they would create nuisance.
THINKS THE GUTTER CAUSED SICKNESS.
Martin Schneider has complained to the
Commissioners of the filthy condition of the
gutter on the south side OF L street, between
Eighth and Ninth streets southeast. He
says that one of his children is now Ill and
he thinks thet the odor from the stagnant
water may have been the cause of the little
ones sickness.
The attorney for the District, in an opinion
submitted bv him TO the Commissioners. has
decided that the buying of provisions or fruits
in the Center Market or Northern Liberty
Market during market hours for the purpose
of selling them again In these markets or in
any part OF the city cannot be prohibited for the
reason that they are private and not public
markets. The law in the premises would
hold good, however, in the Eastern and
Western markets, which are owned by Ihs
District.
William Straus has applied to the Commits
sioners for permit to erect and operate a
Second and NJ streets southeast. Straus
says that he is employed at the Executive
Mansion and that the machine is owned
jointly by Charles Loeffier OF the White House
and himself.
The pump at the corner Of Seventh street
and Virginia avenue has been ordered by the
Commissioners TO be cleaned and the well
water examined by the District chemist.
A joint resolution asking for the publica-
tion of the laws relating to railway franchises
has been drawn up by the Commissioners and
sent to Congress.
Hereafter, by order of the Commissioners,
all private water mains laid in any street
where public water mains are subsequently
laid the former are to be disconnected from
the public mains.
wATcHNAN AT RAILROAD CROSSING.
William Alvey, general superintendent Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
was yesterday notified by the Commissioners
that watchman must be kept both day and
night at the grade crossing at Brookland, on
the Metropolitan branch.
Mollie Harris was yesterday appointed a
cook at the Washington Asylum, vice Mary
Tyler. removed.
7. d. Shoemaker, flour inspector for
Georgetown, in his annual report for the year
ended June 80, 1894, just submitted to the
states that he inspected 54,-
74s barrels OF flour during that period.
Building permits were issued yesterday as |
follows: Charles Farley, to erect No. 1884 |
Twenty-iirst street northwest, to cost S3. 500. |
II. Shadd, to erect frame house on Elvaus |
avenue, Hillsdale. d. c., $500. William Dun |
can, to erect a frame house on Central ave |
nue., Ivy City, $500. J. II. Grout, to improve |
Nos. sl2 and S14 Sixth street northwest,
$1,000. G. Taylor Wade. to improve No. GA |
: street northwest, $4,000. Mrs. John A. Lo- |
gan. to improve her house. corner of Thir- |
.eenth and Clifton streets, $500.
The wells at Sixth street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest and at Second and streets
northwest have been recommended by the |
health officer to be closed. He states in his |
report TO the Commissioners that the follow
ng wells have upon examination been found
% be free from impurities: Corner of Sixteenth
street and Connecticut avenue, Sixth street,
between Sumner and Lincoln streets on Vir-
sinia avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets southwest, and on Seventh street. be-
ween Pennsylvania avenue aid B street
northwest.
Mrs. Sarah Doughty has asked the Commits
ioners to allow her name to be withdrawn