The Washington times., 1894-09-13
CONCERNS OF THE DISTRICT.

Market Master Burns Reply-Pro'
posaIs for Constructing Sewers.
The representatives OF Philadelphia Gre
matory had an audience yesterday with the
Commissioners with reference TO the intro
duction in the District of an improved system
of disposing of the garbage Health Officer
! Woodward and Superintendent Bailey, of the
Sanitary Company, were present. The Com
missioners are prevented by lack of funds
| from adopting that or any other improve
ment, but President Ross said they were
anxious to obtain information for future use.
1t is understood that a test will be made OF
| the method proposed, and 1t is probable that
DR. Woodward will inspect the crematory in
/ Philadelphia, or some other city, where 1t Is
in operation.
j. Eldridge Burns market master of the
market at the corner of X and Twenty-tlrst
| streets northwest, in reply to the charges pre-
| ferred against MIN by the sealer OF weights
! and measures, says the deputy from Mr.
Bonds office seized the scales in question
| from the market stand of Mr.. Green, while
the stand was in the care of colored man,
and that ii was done after the demand for the
! fee of Is cents was made and the deputy
| asked TO await Mr.. Green's return.
The colored attendant had but 10 cents,
| but the deputy said he had not the time TO
wait. Mr. Burns followed the deputy to the
corner of Twentieth and X streets. and offered
TO pay the fee, but the officer told him to
shut up. Mr.. Burns says the scales had
! been properly tested by the seaer Of weights
and measures on the 9Th day of June, and
the time limit had not yet expired. He says
| the report of the affair made by the deputy Is
| pure fabrication, and an attempt TO fore
/ stall the market master report OF the affair.
Sealed nrOnpSals for 4uGfrugtIpp nf
/ sewers and the necessary manholes in the
/ District we're opened in Commissioners
/ board room yesterday. The proposals were
/ for construction and keeping i'll repair of
concrete and brick sewerage, as specified, in
! Sherman avenue, between Farragut and
/ Sheridan streets; in l. street northeast, be-
/ tween First street and Delaware avenue; ia
/ B street southeast, between Nineteenth
! street and Anacostia River; in Fifteenth
! street northeast, between G street and Ten
/ nessee avenue; in Il street southeast. be-
! tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets:
/ Sherman avenue, between Sheridan street
/ ahd Whitney avenue: Sheridan street. be-
tween Sherman and Brightwood avenues: il
! Patterson street northeast between First and
| Second streets; In alley, square Ill: NJ street
| northeast, between First and Second streets:
! Second street northwest, between L street
| and Massachusetts avenue; Sixth street
! northwest between and streets, and
LHAAN 0AANIA Ab4 4AAIteaSSg DfthNIA y anu !
streets.
There were twelve bidders for the fifteen
sections as follows: James 5. Cater William
Hussey. Ralph WormieY, Joseph McCaudlish.
B. j. Coyle, Nj. F. Taty, John Z. Lyons. An
drew Gleason, Buckley IL Larguey. r. II.
Lamb, L. C. Gummel, and 2. Brennan.
The contract for the construction Of the
new school-house at the corner of School
street and Grant avenue northwest was
awarded yesterday to John NJ Gum upon
his bid of S2l. $685. This does not include the
removal of the old school building, nor the
furnishings for the new one. The cost Of re-
moving the frame structure. hitherto used
for school purposes, amounted TO about
$1,000.
The street railroad presidents were at the
District Building yesterday morning to in
spect the ear fender TO which their attention
was called by the Commissioners. The Wash
ington and Georgetown Company is now test
ing fender and will not for the present give
the new one a trial. Other roads, however,
will doubtless have several cars equipped with
the one inspected to ascertain its merits.
The war OF the factions over the appoint
ment Of a trustee for the Eighth school divis-
ion is still raging hot at the District Building.
/ 1t is probable, however. that the incident
will close soon, as the appointment of three
trustees is understood to be on to-days pro-
gramme.
In letter to the District Commissioners.
/ filed yesterday. Senator Pugh calls attention
/ TO the faulty construction OF the sewerage on
! both sides of street northwest. He says
/ the sewer cannot be flushed properly, and
the drain pipes in his residence are conse-
/ quently stopped up at times. He recon-
mends the introduction of an automatic
/ flush.
Orders were issued yesterday by the Com
missioners as follows:
That flag sidewalk around Dupont Circle
be relaid; that water main be laid and one
| fire hydrant erected on Sherman avenue, be-
| tween Princeton and Steuben streets.
The construction of an additional hospital
! at the almshouse will be commenced next
! week and the work will be done by the Dis
! trtct employees hitherto engaged on the re-
/ pairs to schoolhouses. The new building will
cost about $4,000, and will probably accom-
modate from forty to fifty patients.
The new engine-house for Mount Pleasant
has been located Oh Fourteenth street. be-
/ tween KENYON street and Kenesaw avenue,
| near the terminus of the cable car line 1t is
! believed to be the most favorable site for the
! purpose that could have been selected.
! Building permits were issued yesterday as
| follows: w. B. Shaw for dwelling on Ana
costa road, 200. Mrs. 7. I. Hurdle,
! dwelling on GRAFT road, Tennallytown, 5000
! c. B. Kerferstein. for row of eighteen
! brick dwellings, Nos. 20S to 242 inclusive.
Parke street northeast, $4,000. For i'm
/ provements and repairs: A. GUIDE & Bro,
/ for one-story greenhouse. on Harrison street
Anacostia, $4,000. Z. Jackson, repairs to
dwelling, No. 1908 Ninth street northwest.
$3.50.
John Green, chairman in water depart
ment, was yesterday appointed rodman in
same department, at $3.50 per day, and
! Henry Payne was appointed chairman to
succeed Green, at S2 per day.
The alley abutting the west side of lot 10
and south front of lots l to g. inclusive. in
square east of square 49, and running along
west side of lot 1, in Georgetown, has been
designated as a public alley.
George W. Reardon, of 1918 Ninth street
northwest, has lodged a complaint with the
! Commissioners of stable on Nine-and-a-
half street, near a dwelling occupied by one
OF his tenants, which he says has become a
nuisance.
Commissioner Truesdell returned to the
city on Tuesday, after weeks absence, and
was at his desk yesterday.