The Washington times., 1894-09-11
CONCERNS OF The DISTRICT
Report on the Condition of Wells Ad-
iacent to Suburban Schools.
CHARGE AGAINST A POLICEMAN
Health officer Woodward Drops the Case
Against DR.. H. P. C. hompson-Danger-
GUS Condition of Crossings at Benning's-
Dwellings in Bad Sanitary Condition.


report of the recent Investigations made of
the wells adjacent to school buildings in the
| suburbs, which shows the following results:
One well at Benning's, two at Brightwood,
and one each at Brookland, Hamilton road,
Grant street in Mount Pleasant, Soldiers
Home, and on Steuben street are reported to
be free from contamination. One each on
Benning's road, on Grant road, Tennallytown,
and at Giesboro good, but the wells should
be cleaned. One each at Tennallytown,
Bladensburg road, and at the corner of Sixth
aud Trumbull streets are rated as 'sus-
| picious," and one at Good Hope is in bad
condition and should be closed. Further re-
| port or meteorological examinations will be
made later
Mrs. Ella Jefords. residing at No. 1922
Twenty-sixth street northwest, has preferred
charges with the Commissioners against
| Patrick O'Brien, of the police force, TO the
! effect that he came TO her house on the night
! of August 26, and awakening her and another
! lady with two children-the latter three sleep
| ing In an upstairs room-made them all get
| out of bed and go outside; that the officer
| then released the other woman and the chill
| dren, but conveyed Mrs. Jefords to the sta
tion-house and locked her up, where she re-
mained until Monday morning for appear
! ance in court; that the reasons alleged for
| her arrest were that she was not married and
did no work, but that the charge against her
was dismissed by the court, but that O'Brien
| then threatened that when he arrested her
again he would ''give her HI"
| Mrs. Jeffords says she can prove that she is
! regularly employed by the Connecticut Pie
Company, and that the charge that she is un-
married is false. The policeman's eXpiana-
! ton of the affair is that the arrest was made
| upon the complaint of numerous citizens that
| the woman was keeping disorderly house.
! He says the charges were not sustained before
| the court, but that Officers Perham, J. J.
| Brien, and Mcdaniel are familiar with the
woman's reputation and have knowledge Of
her visitors. he denies that he threatened or
! cursed her.
CASE AGAINST DIR. THOMPSON.
Health Officer Woodward has withdrawn
the grave charges preferred against DR.. II.
P. C. Thompson, physician to the poor, who
was accused of giving a certificate of death
in diphtheria case as having resulted from
| putrid sore throat. DIR. Woodward's original
structures in the matter were severe. but in a
! letter transmitted yesterday to the Commits
| sioners he recommends that the matter be
| dropped, inasmuch as without verbal ex-
! plantations from either himself or DR.. Thomp-
son ''the unfortunate publication of the
| case was misleading ana l0llCteQ a penalty
/ he had not designed.
DR.. Thompson was at the District Building
yesterday and had conference with Com
missioner Ross. who approved of the health
officers latest suggestion, and there will be
no further proceedings in the case.
Leon A. Milstead, chairman of the Ben
ning's Citizens Association. has called the at
tention of the Commissioners TO the danger
Gus condition of the Pennsylvania Railroad
crossings at Benning's and Deanwood. He
says the railroad company has been promising
TO repair them for nearly year, but that
they have become a menace to life and prop
erty. The railroad authorities will be asked
to have repairs made at once.
1t was ordered by the Commissioners yes
terday that a sewer on Eighth street between
] and K, to cross K, and thence on K, between
Eighth and Ninth streets, be added to the
provisional schedule for 1896; that a sewer on
the alley in square l97 be also added to the
provisional schedule for 1885, tnat the public
well on Second street, between A and B
streets southeast be abandoned. and that the
public hydrant between l. and NJ streets on
Fifth northwest be removed.
INTERPRETED WITH A DEPUTY sEALER
The market-master in charge of the market
at the corner of X and Twenty-f1rst streets
northwest is alleged to have interfered in a
violent manner with deputy from the office
of the sealer of weights and measures when
the deputy was in the discharge of his official
! duty, and has been reported therefor to the
! Commissioners by the sealer Frank A. Bond.
| The deputy found man in the market with
a pair of unStamped scales which he had been
using for several weeks Upon refusal to
! have the scales properly stamped the deputy
! seized them, Mr.. Bond says, as he was obliged
TO do under the law, whereupon the market
master interposed to prevent the seizure.
! The market-master has been invited TO make
! explanation of the affair.
! X. T. Milligan, who owns the houses in Bas-
sett's alley, numbered ia, 116, and 115,
1 which have been the subjects ofinvestigation
! by the authorities as to their SAINT ary con-
! dition, in forms the Commissioners that he
! has complied with the health regulations so
| far as possible, introducing the improve
ments required; that the work was properly
/ inspected, and he thought the matter was
settled. He complains that the agitation is
iniuring the sale of the property.
Building permits were issued yesterday as
| follows: To George Davis. for erection of a
dwelling on Chain Bridge road $780, Lewis
! Kurtz, for erection of frame dwelling on block
| 8, Whitney avenue, g, 500. ]. L. Parsons for
private stable in rear of No. 332 Tenth street
$500. For repairs-Block Il YOder, improve
ments to store and dwelling No. 2019 Four
teenth street, $3.50. L. NJ. Saunders, for gen
eral interior repairs to store No 1719 Penn
sylvania avenue, $500.
All thedwelings on both sides of Thirtieth
street, from NJ to Canal street. are reported
TO the health officer to be in bad sanitary
condition, also the basement houses on J.
street in the same section. Diseases have
been prevalent in the neighborhood that
were directly due to bad hygienie, and 1t is
recommended that measures be taken to ef-
feet remedy.
COMPLAINT AGAINST A JANIToR.
Laura Cooper has lodged complaint with
the Commissioners against Patrick Tracy,
janitor of the public school building at Four
teenth and G streets, stating that Tracy has re-
fused to pay herthe sum of "A earned for work
done under the deficiency BILL" notwith-
standing he has received the money due him.
w. r. Edelin,, of No 620 Z street northwest,
in a communication to the Commissioners,
calls attention TO the danger incurred from
insecure fastenings on the cellar doors at the
Baltic building.
The complaint twice filed by James F.
Parker. of No. 1000 Fourteenth street north
west, concerning an alleged nuisance caused
by a juvenile band on street. between Four
gated by the police authorities, and the
opinion expressed that there is not good
ground for suppressing the band.
Superintendent ofSchoos Powell was at the
District building to-day TO sign the papers
necessary in connection with the purchase by
the District of the text books of which he is
the author.
Police Surgeon W. D. Cannon reported