The Washington times., 1894-10-12
Home for Destitute Women and Children
Suffers from Diphtheria-St. AIMS Infant
Asylum Must Have Sc, 500 Next Year
Annual Reports Submitted.

totore stated IN IHE LINES. which Will lnOiuu0
the street lighting, supervision of the over
head and underground wire systems. The
heating and ventilation OF the public school
buildings will also be supervised by him and
the best methods for sucn work ascertained.
There will be other business details. of the
multitude devolving upon the Engineer Com
missioner, also committed TO Capt. Burrs
charge.
Capt. Powell is personally acquainted with
his new assistant, and is pleased with the
selection.
Capt. Burr will be relieved at Norfolk by
Capt. Thomas L. Casey, jr.
Attorney S. I. Thomas, after careful con-
sideration of the question as to the owner
ship of the cobble-stones to be taken from the
tracks of the Columbia railway line, in con-
sequence of the proposed cable construction,
has rendered an opinion to the Commission
ers, in which he differs from their views. He
saws: IF the Columbia Railway Company
proposed to abandon its tracks ana the use OF
tho streets for street railway purposes it
would not be entitled to the cobbe-stones;
but since. under the direction of the authori-
ties. it proposes to relay the pavement with
other material. il is entitled to the old ma
terial."
GROUNDS FOR THE DEMAND.
The fact that Daish & Son were permitted
10 withdraw their bid for supplying the Dis
trict forage and thai bids for forage were
again asked and the contract awarded to an
other bidder is, In the opinion OF Attorney
Thomas, sufficient grounds for the firms de-
mand for the return of the deposit of 5000,
which, under the law. the Commissioners had
declared TO be forfeited Unless there was
something in the instructions 10 bidders or
some stipulation on the part OF Daish u Son
by which the deposit was forfeited the money
should be restored 10 them.
The Home for Destitute Women and Chill
dren. by Annie NJ. Purvis, secretary, in re-
porting its operations for the year, says the
comfort of the institution was seriously inter-
fered with from April TO July by the constantly
recurring cases Of diphtheria- The tnstltu-
ton was put under the care OF the board OF
health during those months, and the plumb
ing was condemned, and the expense incurred
for remedying defects amounted to 500. The
management complains of house opposite
as a nuisance that should be abated. rs 1t Is
believed the cause for the diphtheria cases
originated there in part. The desire Is ex-
pressed for the opening and improvement OF
Eighth street extended, its present condition
being a menace 10 health. An appropriation
OF SO, 900 is requested.
II has been the custom of the institution to
retain children until they are twelve years OF
age. instructing them in various kinds OF en-
ployment and teaching them TO read and
write No trouble is experienced in procuring
homes for them IN the North and West after
they reached the limit.
The foundling department was closed two
years ago.
Daily average OF inmates, 1876. In twenty
cases the board of inmates was paid by rela-
tives and friend. The gross amount received
during the year was 81 .09S. Total number oi
inmates on the last day of the fiscal year was
I3S
REPORTS OF INSTITUTIONS.
The National Association for Relief of Des-
titute Coored Women and Children reports
the expenses for the past fiscal year. inclusive
OF the appropriation, 10 be SO, 1876. The
treasurer. Bette q. Francis, presents an item
lied state ment Of the disbursements, and says
the Indebtedness of the institution will be
] greatly increased by the lst of July. An ap-
/ preparation Of $4,000 is requested to assist in
/ defraying the expenses OF the year 1885,
St. AIMS Infant Asylum. by Sister Agnes
] superior in charge, has made special report
! 10 the superintendent of charities for the yeal
/ ending June 80. 1894. The services of tht
sister superior and ten others were rendered
/ without charge.
Children of all nations and creeds, white
and colored, are admitted to the institution
| Fifty-nine infants were supported and cared
| for outside Of the asylum, the expense being
paid from the Congressional appropriation
! Deaths during the year. seyenty-seven. The
| cost per capita for the support OF the inmates
was about IS per month. which does not il.
| clude the infants supported outside.
The orphans are properly cared for until
they reach the age OF seven years.
Congress made its first appropriation to the
asylum in 1877. amounting TO $4,000. Ten
years later the amount was increased to
/ $4,000, and in 1880 an additional $500 was
/ allowed. Upon the organization of the board
of children's guardians the appropriation was
reduced by 30 per cent. The amount desired
/ for the next fiscal year is $4,000. The report
1 closes with the statement that unless Con-
I gress shall grant the appropriation asked it
/ will be matter ofimpossibility to obtain the
money necessary 10 properly care for the
! waits who are never refused admission to st.
AIMS.
One hundred citizens residing in the vi
cinity of the corner of Third and NJ streets
4 southeast. protest against the condemnation
and abandonment Of the public pump at the
southeast corner of said streets. They say
great distress will result from the removal oi
the pump, it being the only one within a ra-
dlus OF eight squares. and now supplying
hundreds Of residents with water, as it has
for the past thirty years or more. The SUBJ
scribers TO the protest regard the water sup
piled as the coolest and best in the city.
Orders issued yesterday: That a sewer in
kenesaw avenue, between Thirteenth street
and Sherman avenue. was added to the provis-
ional schedule OF 1896; that the old well at the
corner Of Providence and Thirteenth streets,
Brookiand, be closed and abandoned; that q
water main be laid IN Benning's road between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets also in alley
of square 49S; that n catch-basin be con-
structed in alley. square 1852; that a cement
sidewalk be laid in front of No. 1903 + street
and No. 1914 Twelfth street northwest under
permit system.
That work be done under the assessment
and permit provisions. as follows: New gran
\ lite curb in V street northwest. from Thir-
teenth 10 Fifteenth streets, $4,000. Sewer
connection in Valley street, Georgetown. Z
/ to streets 1928. Water connection, Fif.
| teenth street northwest, U to Y streets. S175
! First street southeast, d street to North Caro-.
lima avenue. $780, Oregon avenue, New
] Hampshire avenue TO Eighteenth street, 1906
III street extended, Twelfth street to Trinidad
! avenue, $50.
That &c. 400 second class granite blocks be
purchased at not exceeding S26 per thousand
/ for widening the roadway of Thirty-second
street, between NJ and streets northwest.
That the following public wells be aban.
! doned: On Georgia avenue, between Third
and Fourth streets southeast; at the corner o.
| Third and III streets southeast.
Governor Stanley, of the Soldiers Home
reports space covering three blocks on FRS
street, between r street and the gate of the
Home, where the asphalt paveing is lack.
! ing. The street is much used by the Home
and for driving. and the governor request.
that the defect be remedied.
STREET LAMPS NOT LIGHTED.
W. C. Allen, superintendent of lamps, re
ports tha: fifteen stHNet lamps. not lighted OF