The Washington times., 1894-12-02
CONCERNS OF The DISTRICT
Commissioners Preparing Their Re-
port for Submission to Congress.
IMPORTANT MUNICIPAL ITEMS
Municipal Building Proposed-Four Hundred
Thousand Dollars Added for schools-Ad-
ditional Building Inspectors Needed for
Efficient service-Garbage Crematory.

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gress entailed upon the Commissioners the
task of completing their report, and yester-
day was devoted exclusively to that work.
The estimates for District appropriations,
not long since submitted to the Secretary OF
the Treasury, it will be remembered, were ap-
proved by that officer without change The
aggregate of those estimates were So, $685.
014.97.
Among the most important of the items en-
braced in the estimates was one for the sum of
500, 900 for the construction of a municipal
building. Such structure as the District
needs, and as the Commissioners have in
view, will accommodate all the departments
of the municipal government and if the plans
are carried out the building will do credit to
the Capital City. The appropriation asked
for will be insufficient, but it will mako fair
start toward providing a much-needed i'm
proyement.
There is an item in the estimates OF $400,
coo for added school facilities. 1t includes
100000 for each of two new high school
buildings, one in Georgetown and one for
the Business High School. Two additions to
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asked for. ana additions to ten others, the
appropriations ranging from 81 800 to S29,-
600. These increases are based principally
upon the careful estimates made by the board
OF trustees, as incident to the growth OF the
school population.
Four additional inspectors of buildings are
estimated for. These, the Commissioners
urge, are required for the purpose of having
more frequent inspections made of buildings
in course of construction, in order that the
safety OF the public may be secured against
the dangers resulting from imperfect con-
struction.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars
is solicited for raising the height Of the dam
at Great Falls and for providing against
damages from floods.
The inadeGuacy OF the present appropria-
tion for the garbage service, the Commls-
! sioners say, has apparently forced tue con-
tractor into insolvency. given great dissatis-
faction 10 the public. and menace TO health
| has resulted They ask for an appropriation
OF $40, 600 to be used for the removal of
| garbage, and $4,000 to provide garbage
crematory upon such improved plan as may
! be satisfactory after due investigation. The
! Commissioners want authority to enter into
| a fiye-year contract.
The bill now pending in Congress for re-
ducing the price Of gas to s. per thousand
! feet will continue TO receive the Commission
ers' sanction and support. The measure
! passed the House at the last session, and is
| among the bills TO be considered by the SEN
! ate at the coming session.
! The bill authorizing q loan of 81, 500, 600 for
! the extension OF streets and sewers will be
! strongly advocated at the coming session. In
case the measure fails OF adoption the Com
missioners will urge more liberal appropria-
! tions for sewers, in order that the extensive
! improvements needed and now contemplated
can be in a measure accomplished.
The estimate for street lighting is consider
! ably increased over the current appropriation.
/ The Engineer Commissioner finds the neces-
/ sites much greater than can be adequately
met with the funds at command, and street
I lighting is curtailed in consequence
Twenty Thousand dollars is wanted for q
! proposed test of the Aqueduct tunnel TO de-
| termine whether or not the tunnel can be
made useful and at what cost
The uniform addition of 10 per cent. to the
! pay of lremen is believed 10 be fair compen-
sation, and if allowed will still be less than is
! paid for the service in other large cities. An
extension Of the service is also recommended
/ by the addition of an engine and apparatus at
Anacostia; one at the corner of North Capitol
street and Florida avenue: a chemical engine
at Tennsllytown, and steam engine at the
! corner of New Jersey avenue and NJ street.
/ The expense attendant is estimated to be
| 500, 500.
The changes often occurring in the per-
/ sonnet OF the board and the necessary ab-
sence OF members at times are liable to i'm
! pede the public business. To this end the
/ Commissioners will ask of Congress that the
secretary OF. the board shall be made eligible
! to serve as a member in the absence of either
OF the civil Commissioners. This change will
also settle the question hitherto in doubt as to
the proper custody of the District seal.
The present morgue building is unsuitable
in point OF location, size, and arrangement,
and a modern structure is recommended.
The estimate for the increase of the tele-
! graph and telephone service. made with the
view OF extending the fire-alarm service, is
! deemed important by the Commissioners. a
! large suburban sectiorke without adequate
facilities in this particular, including Ana
costa, st. Elizabeth Asylum. the Reform
! School for Boys, LIE DrOit Park, Howard
! University. and all that portion of North
| Washington, from Seventh to Twenty-frst
streets, as far as the limits of Mount Pleas
ant; also Georgetown Heights Tennallytown,
Brightwood, and Takoma Park, Brookland,
! the Catholic University, and Soldiers Home.
These leading items were called to the at
! tention of the Commissioners yesterday, and
! they each said no discriminat could be
made as to their Importance.
They are deeply interested in securing the
municipal building, the passage of the bond
! BILL the cheaper gas measure, the free library
bill, the school appropriations. and the pro-
Visions lor the increase IN tue police and IRE
! departments, and the garbage service, but
neither of the members could say that he was
! able to determine which or whether either of
the measures should be sacrificed for the
benefit ofthe others. They hope to have all
their estimates and measures carried success
| fully through at the next session.
Building permits issued yesterday: J. W.
! Brown, dwelling and servants quarters,
Deanwood, $500; William Z. Hayes dwelling,
| Nichols road, 81 900, and Mary V. Bowen,
dwelling, Jefferson street, near Taylor. Ana
| costa. 50. 400
1t was ordered yesterday that permission
be given the Columbia Railway Company to
construct a 12-inch vitrifed lateral sewer
connection in space between its power-house
and carshed, connecting with sewer in Ben
ning's road.
j. B. Troteler, member of the police force,
has resigned. His resignation was accepted,
TO take effect November 80.
Among the protesters against the location
OF the contagious diseases hospital at Pleas
ant Plains are the directors of the Schuetzen
Park property, who filed a paper to that
effect yesterday
! work on the northeast fre-engine house under
| the orders issued by the Commissioners. but
| they serve notice that they do so under pro-
| test. Future contest of the permit is pos
sible.
Cabinets $2.5 per doz. Bishops, sO5 Pa ava
| n DEn