Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-11
LOCAL LEGISLATION
Bills Offered in Congress Affecting
District Interests.
4 WHOLESALE FARMERS MARKET
To Regulate Street Car Fares
and Transfers.
o Z H E r M E A S q r E S

ment of the Farmers Wholesale Market
| Company in this city. The following are
| named as incorporators of the company:
George Bonifant, Thomas Burr, George W.
Barnes Albert Stabler, Barnabas Bryan,
! Horace Crozier, George Holmes Washing
ton Eonifant, Samuel c. Fry, Augustus W.
Smith, Harry Rice, George j. Curtis, NJ. l..
| Littlefield. Henry Heider, John Snowden,
Arthur Cross, d. NJ. Gollinger, John X.
Brown, Andrew Bladen, William Weller,
Osborne Cissell, J. S. Gilis, Adolph Van
| Reuth, Edward B. Grain, T. B. Buel. James
Boyer and Gen.. Urich. The company is
capitalized at 100000, in shares of $25.
The company is authorized to construct
suitable wholesale market buildings upon
the following described grounds viz:
Bounded by line beginning at the inter-
section of the north line of B street north,
with the west line of 10th street west, rum
ring thence north along the west side of
10th street to the southerly side of little Is
street; thence westerly on the south side OF
little s street to 18th street northwest;
thence southerly along the east side OF SAID
18th street to the north line of b street
north continuing easterly on the north line
of street north to its intersection with
the west line of 10th street; reserving a
sufficient number of feet OF the before de-
scrbed grounds for the extension OF llth
street northwest across said grounds to the
north line OF b street north; meaning here
by to describe the same land as Is named
in the sixteenth section of the charter
granted by Congress to the Washington
Market Company; said extension of 1lth
street before described shall be graded and
fitted for use by said Farmers wholesale
Market Company, and be Kept as an open
thoroughfare for entering supon the east
and west sections of the grounds herein
before described, which the Farmers
Wholesale Market Company Is TO use ana
occupy. together with the emoluments of
the hay scales now located thereon. by the
erection of suitable buildings for wholesale
market purposes, including necessary staiis
and Sheds also for brick buildings along
the south line of little street and north
line of street north, said brick buildings
to be used for storing and keeping all klnds
of farm products owned and brought INTO
the city of Washington by those raising
such products, and which said farmers
shall have been unable to sell at wholesale
from their wagons.
The grounds hereby leased to the Farm
ers' Wholesale Market Company, lying
west of the west line of 1lth street north
west, with the apprrtenances thereon or SO
much thereof as are necessary snali pe
producers for the purchase and sale at
wholesale of the following articles, to wit:
Hay. straw, oats. corn, corn meal, SEED OF
all kinds wood for sale from the wagons,
cattle on the hoof, swine on the hoof and
such articles sold in bulk.
So much of the grounds hereby leased as
lie between the east line of said nth street
and the west line of 10th street may be
rsed by such farmers for the sale of garden
truck and farm produce at wholesale or ly,
and from their own wagons or from whole
sale houses to be erected on SAID grounds
as herein provided.
There shall be erected by said Farmers
Wholesale Market Company suitable walls
of brick or other substantial material along
the north and south boundary lines of said
leased land, excepting the spaces occupied
by buildings, and also the space where
l1th street crosses said land when extended
| ,1,Nf f.tn.1 md "a
retail, except as allowed by the corpora
ton ordinance of 1876, shall be allowed
upon any sidewalk or pavement within
three squares of the lands herein granted
to the Farmers Wholesale Market Com
pany except upon the sidewalk and pave
ment south of and abutting on the Center
Market.
The company must complete the buildings
within a year from obtaining the land.
The privileges conferred by this act sh
be enjoyed by the company for twenty
years on the payment of $500 year,
the end of which time, unless Congres
extends the lease, the buildings and
grounds shall revert to the United States.
The Suburban Railway.
Mr.. Richardson of Tennessee has intro
duced a bill! in the House to amend the
charter of the District of Columbia Sub
urban Rail way Company, changing the line
of route to read follows: On Florida
avenue to X street thence on X street to
North Capitol street. thence on North Capt.
tol street 20 G street north, thence on G
street to 18th street west Also beginning
at the junction of Bunker Hill road, in
Brookland, with 18th street and running
south on 18th street to Patterson avenue,
thence along Fairview, Corcoran and
Mount Olivet streets to Bladensburg road.
Also from the intersection OF Mount Olivet
street with 18th street extended, along 18th
street to K street. Also beginning at the
intersection of Queens Chapel road and
the BladenSburg road, thence along said
Queens Chapel road to 22d street, along
I'D street to Cincinnati street, along Cir
cinnati street to 24th street. along 2Ith
street to Galveston street. Also from the
intersection of Baltimore street and I'D
street along Baltimore street to 18th street
A Smithsonian Regent.
Mr.. Wheeler of Alabama has introduced
a resolution in the House providing that
the vacancy in the board Of regents of
the Smithsonian Institution shall be filled
by the appointment of Postmaster General
Wilson.
The Chief Plumbing Inspector.
Mr. Cummings of New York has intro
duced a bill in the House providing that
the chief inspector of plumbing in the
District of Columbia shall be a practical
plumber, who has been engaged il the
plumbing business for ten years more
ard shall furnish bond of 5000. The as
s:stant inspectors shall be practical plumb
ers, who have been engaged in the plumb
ing business for five years or more, and
shall file bond for $1,000
The Spinner Statue.
Mr. Curtis of New York has introduced a
resolution in the House providing that the
General Spinner Memorial Association,
which has prepared a bronze statue of
Francis E. Spinner, formerly treasurer Of
the United States, may be allowed to erect
he statue upon one of the approaches or
buttresses of the treasury building in
Washington, provided that no expense shall
be incurred by the government, and that
the statue shall be located and erected ac-
cording to the directions of the Secretary
of the Treasury.
Street Car Fares and Transfers.
Mr.. Mcmillan again introduced in the
Senate today his bill of the last Congress
to regulate fares and transfers upon street
car lines in the District of Columbia. 1t pro-
vides that tfe lawful ate of fare upon all
street car lines in the District of Columbia
shall not exceed cents for each passen-
ger and the companicS opera ting or here