Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-22
THE BOARD OF TRADE
Business Transacted by the Directors at
Their Meeting Yesterday.
New Members Electcd-The Sewerage
mittee ON Streets and Avenues.

There was a brief meeting of the board
Of directors Of the Washington board of
trade at the Glover building yesterday
afternoon. Those present were: President
b. H. Warner, Secretary Wight Treasurer
o. G. Staples. and Messrs. Thomas Somer-
Vile. John JOY Edison, F. l.. Moore. C. C..
Glover, T. W. Noyes, s. W. Woodward,
Charles B. Church and Thomas w. Smith.
After the minutes of the previous meet
ing had been read and approved. the fol-
lowing were elected members of the board
Of trade. upon the report Of the committee
on membership: William Henry Walker,
Josiah Willard W. Mosby Williams, J. II.
Ralston. Charles A. McKevitte, John C.
Parker, DR.. Samuel s. Bond. Leroy NJ.
Taylor. jr.. Samuel Maddox. Weston Flint,
Henry Kraak, II. L. Rust, Frank H.
Thomas. S. H. Merrill. Richard A. Johnson.
Charles H. Alexander. William ]. Stephen
son. Rufus H. Thayer, A. GUIDE & Co., and
Charles w. Handy
Applications for membership were re-
ceived from the following. and referred to
the committee on membership: Seaton
Perry. Andrew Archer. E. ]. Burt. Frank
T. Johnson. Andrew A. Lipscomb. Fuller &
Fuller. Charles T. Wood. G. De Witt, o. T..
Thompson, w. H. Butler, VIM. H. Manogue,
]. Holdsworth Gordon and b. T. WEIGH.
Mr.. Somerville. from the committee on
buildings, reported that the rooms for the
board were being prepared in the Ames
building, on G. between 18th and 10Th
streets, and the committee was given au-
thority to make all the necessary repairs.
The Sewerage Discussed.
Upon the suggestion of Secretary Wight,
he was authorized to prepare suitable cards
Of invitation for members Of Congress and
strangers visiting the city to visit the
rooms of the board.
President Warner laid before the board
the bill. which had been prepared by
the District Commissioners as a sub
stitute for the one introduced by Senator
PETER, the title of the COMMISSIONER bill
being, "A bill to provide for continuing the
system of trunk sewers in the District of
Columbia, to provide for sewage disposal,
to lay out highways and for other pur-
poses"
The bill was Informally discussed, but
no final action was taken upon II, 1t being
laid over until the next meeting of the
board, Tuesday afternoon next.
The following report by the committee
on streets and avenues was read:
The question Of the proper extension Of
the streets and avenues of this city has
been pressed without ceas.pg and without
March, 1893, when the preparatory legis-
lation was enacted. March ., 1899. The first
bill for this purpose was introduced in the
Senate April 20. 1886. by Senate bill :A0l,
proposing an issue of two and a half mil
lion Of three per cent bonds to extend the
streets and avenues and to buy the land
for Rock Creek Park from p street bridge
to the District line. Had that bill passed
the work would have not cost over one
quarter the amount that will be required
at the present time. Congress did not
heed the wants OF the city at that time,
and the reward of this negligence will be
the greatly increased cost of the work.
one-half of which Is to be assessed upon
the property.
The city on the north from Rock creek to
LIE Droft Park is strangied with belt of
subdivisions of land laid out between 1865
and 1883, which have choked the city's
growth and retarded the march of improve
ments.
The District Commissioners have for a
year been engaged in preparing plans for
the correction of these inharmonious SUBJ
divisions. which are now on the eve of
completion.
The great avenues they propose to extend,
Massachusetts. Connecticut, New Hamp-
shire. Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island
and 18th street on the north and west, while
on the east will be New York, Della ware,
Maryland. and southeast Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania, will be opened. New north
and south streets will be laid out and old
will be mostly taken care of by widening.
The main object of the issue of bonds Is
to condemn and pay for the land, through
old subdivisions already laid out, necessary
for the proper extension of the above named
avenues and streets, and is not intended
for opening through acre lands. Under the
law of 1883 no acre property can be sub
divided without donating all proper streets
and avenues as required by the Commits
sioners; therefore. the entire area of the
District of Columbia now in acreage will be
furnished with highways in the future,
practically free of cost
The cost of land in the District is increas-
ing year by year, and what was imperat tive
in 1886 is more imperative in 1894. There
fore, your committee do most earnestly ap-
prove and urge the immediate passage of
the bill for the issue of bonds for the ex-
tension OF the streets and avenues of Wash
fngton city; and further that the expendi-
ture should not be limited to s1.15O.OOO but
sufficient to complete the work at once. as
this, We believe. to be true economy
]. HARRISON JOHNSON,
Acting Chairman
W. s. THOMPSON,
JOSEPH PAUL.