Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-13
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.


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DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
Police Changes.
]. W. Everly has been appointed station
keeper at the first precinct police station,
vice w. H. Rollins, deceased.
Private j. E. Hartman has been promoted
to class two, metropolitan police force, vice
j. w. Jet, removed.
school Play Grounds.
Inspector of Buildings John B. Brady
made an inspection short while ago of
the play grounds (of the exclusive drill
grounds) Of the Central High, Henry and
Polk school buildings. and found them in
condition which, he thinks, should no
longer exist If the comfort of the pupils
be considered. To correct this state of
affairs Mr.. Brady has recommended. as
an absolute necessity, a special appropriate
ton of $6,9o7 for the work.
District Notes.
The Commissioners today disapproved the
application of Robert NJ. Went, of 7O1 18th
stret northeast, for a position on the met
tropolitan police force.
John Brady, inspector of buildings, has
notified the Commissioners that the ap-
preparation Of 81, 800 for the chemical en-
CINE house, lot and furniture will be in
sufficient to inclcse the lot, grade and pave
the same, and build the necessary store
house, so as to make the premises fit for
occupancy, without an immediate defci-
ency appropriation of $1,000 This work,
he says, must be done to make the build
ing available for service.
Wants Relief.
The building inspector is anxious to be
relieved of the care of the public scales.
In letter to the Commissioners he says
there is no good reason why these scales
should be sadded upon his office, and sug-
gests that the sealer of weights and meas
ures is the proper one to care for them.
bad Condition.
Building Inspector Brady has submitted
a report to the Commissioners regarding
the yards attached to No. 3 police station
on G street northwest, which he finds in
a deplorable condition upon examination.
bridging n DIFFICULTY.
Captain Beach, the new assistant to the
Engineer Commissioner demonstrated yes
terday that he was thoroughly familiar
with municipal affairs and was capable to
deal with engineering difficulties An in
spector informed him yesterday that the
contractor who is building the big Easily
Point sewer had struck a snag, and was
waiting for Instructions before proceeding.
The trouble was located at the corner of
10Th and c streets, and consisted of \ big
Captain Beach examined the matter at
length and decided to adopt the Chicago
method of bridging over, 1t would have
been folly to have dug deeper, for even
then the sand was bubblng up in several
spots, and to dig few feet deeper would
have brought water. The plan to make a
suitable foundation here lis to spread sew
eral inches of broken stone over the soft
spot, and ram it slightly. On top of this
will be placed thickness of concrete and
then hoor of cement. Long iron rails
will then be placed over the whole, and
cement enough placed on top to bring 1T to
grade. Under this plan, 1t Is believed that
the foundation will be ample to support
the weight of the sewer.
Ask for n Street.
The Commissioners today received a Pc
tition signed by a majority of the property
owners in square 2O5, praying for the OPEN
ing of a street through that square. The
petition, which was submitted by Mr..
George A. Provost, attorney for the Pc
titioners, represents that they arc the own
ers of more than one half of the real estate
in square 2O5, in the city Of Washington
and that the squares on either side Of
square 1O5 are intersected east and west
by short streets, namely, Wallach and
Caroline, the latter being forty feet at its
respective ends. Continuing, the petition
says
There is a 30-foot alley, paved and sewer
ed, running east and west through square
2O5, registering with Caroline and Wallach
streets, but extending to within 1873 feet of
14th and 18th streets. II this alley were
widened to 80 feet on 14th street. and to
40 feet on 18th street, the short streets
Caroline and Wallach, would be merged in
to one street, extending from 18th to 10th
streets, the desirability of which, from
every standpoint, is obvious, especially in
view of the great depth of the lots facing
street and U street, and abutting on the
alley, the rear end of which lots are now
entirely useless to the owners"
engineer department for investigation and
report.
Bills Received.
The following bills have been received by
the Commissioners for examination and re-
port: Senate bill $685. to incorporate the
East Washington Belt Line Railway Com
pany; House bill S057, to incorporate the
same; House bill S133, to regulate the prac-
tice of surgery and medicine license phy-
sicians, etc; House bill SO61, to amend an
act entitled An act to incorporate the
Maryland and Washington Railway Com
pany, approved August !. 1899. and for
other purposes" House bill 1885, to regu-
late fares on certain street car lines in the
District Of Columbia.
Regulating Fares.
The bill to regulate fares on certain street
car lines in the District of Columbia, on
which the Commissioners will soon make
a report, provides: THAT any passenger
having paid legal fare on any street car
line in the District of Columbia intersect-
ing or making junction with a suburban
street car line in the District whose cars
do not run to the central part of the city,
shall be entitled, upon an additional fare
of not exceeding cents, to continuous
ride from the connecting point in the cars
of the connecting lire to any terminus
thereof in the District
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Marriage Licenses.
Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following: Henry S. Balton and Lydah E.
French; John w. Staley of this city ard
Molie Smith of Albemarle county, Va;
Benjamin p. Pope and Julia Johnson;
Harry Cook and BERTHE Otterback; William
Robertson of Creev1, Va, and Mamie
Bradshaw of Rice, Va; Louis N. Began of
ST. Louis and Mary d. Thornton Of Balti-
more, Md; Lewis Gee CT New York and