The morning times., 1895-09-05
CITIZENS STILL PROTEST
Location of Stevens School Still
Under Discussion.
ANOTHER HEARING IN VIEW
Union Veteran Legion Asks the Com
missioners 10 Aid in Getting the
Next National Encampment 10 Meet
in wnshington-Scho hool Site Selected.
Policeman Recalls His Resignation.

The property owners residing in the vi
cinity Of Seventeenth and G strects, near the
Miner school building, are not rela King their
efforts to prevent the temporary location Of
the Stevens school in their midst.
Ii is understood that the District build
ing wln be again visited 10y the repre-
seutativcs OF the protesting citizens who
viii make another effort To have the order
rescinded.
The Commissioners are really not able &c
make another disposition of the school, they
say. or they would gladly do so.
Il is claimed hy Mr.. T. +. Schneider. that
prior TO the construction OF the Cairo Flats
he was promised that the Miner building
| should not b. again occupied by colored
| school, but tho Commissioners say they do
not remember to have made such a promise.
/ and that al any rate the change viii be
/ but for few months.
The Stearus building, to which the child
I rcn properly belong, is undergoing recon-
I StructIOn
/ VETERAN LEGION TO MEET HERE.
The Union Veteran Legion was repre-
sented at the District building yesterday
10y a delegation who came Co. ask the CO.
operation oi the District Commissioners
IN an effort to have the national Cncamp-
meut OF the order for 1896 to meet in
/ Washington. The national encampment is
| q body that is composed OF about fifteen
hundred members, and always attracts to
/ the city where held a large number Of
/ visitors. II is anticipated that there viii
/ be $4,000 strangers IN Washington neXt
year IN case the meeting Is held here, who
viii remain the greater part Of a week.
! The Commissioners received the delegation
most CourteuusIy. and promised that an
invitation should be sent, aS requested.
General NJ b. c. Wright, Colonel c. E.
/ Troutmau and Captain NJ. N. Whitney acted
rs SpokeSmen of the delegation.
The proposal OF the Rock Creek Church
! Road Association TO sell 60 the District
/ lots ! TO s, both inclusive, IN the ChiIlum
4 Castle Manor subdivision, to be used asa site
! for school building, was yesterday ordered
TO be accepted, provided il meets with the
approval Of the building inspector and the
/ title receives the Endorsement Of Attorney
/ Thomas. The price to be paidis S2,506.50.
BIDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
The Commissioners opened the bids yester-
/ day presented for the construction Of two
school houses, the Tennauytown ard the
/ Grceuleaf.
For the first there were four bidders, as
/ follows. John h Hewlett, $4,000; G.
4 Thomas & son. Sl3,G36; George W. Cor
! belt. S13. 40. and James T. Levy. Sic. 300.
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/ 700: George W Corbett. S22, $50; Welton
q Watts, S2l ,631;V F. Montgomery, S2A-
433: Charles r Monroe, $50, $50; c.
/ Thomas & Son, $22, 329; John II Hewlett,
/ S27 600: John H Noland, S22, 500; W. W.
winfield, S23, $40; ]. NJ Dunn, S2I, ,s25;
/ j. J. Quinn, So. .6I9; y. F. Mockbee, S22,- :
/ 1s5
Messrs Hewlett and Monroe were the
! lowest bidders respectively.
J. W. Stoups was to-day appointed an
/ additional private of the police force, for
/ three years. to serve with American Sc
/ curity and Trust Company
Capt Lansing H Beach, assistant TO
/ The Engineer Commissioner, will repre-
/ sent the engineer department OF the District
at the second annual convention OF the
! American Society OF Municipal Improve
ments at Cincinnati. The society VIII be-
1 gin its session on the l1th instant
II was ordered by the Commissioners
! yesterday that the previous order accepting
/ the resignation OF Private ]. ]. Murphy,
/ Of the police force. be revoked, and Murphy
was restored To the force, the restoration
! 10 take effect this day. Murphy resigned
with the expressed purpose OF going into
| other business, but changed his mind
EFFICACY OF A GAS BURNER
BY direction OF the Commissioners, Mr..
5 Calvin Ford, inspector OF gas and meters,
recently made an investigation OF the
merits, involving the consumption and
candle power, OF the improved Welsbach
gas burner. with view to Introducing it
for street lighting purposes.
Mr.. Ford decides, after an exhaustive in
! quIry, that the burner is a gas economizer,
/ and that the Illumination it affords is far
superior To that derived from burners ordi-
narily in use.
He submits an elaborate array OF figures,
which epitomizes as follows: Value of one
cubic foot Of gas in candles 10y Welsbach
! burners, 1854; value OF same in standard
Argand. 3.S7; increase Of light with equal
consumption candles, 1867.
The improved Welsbach burner consume
! ing three cubic feet per hour, VIII yield an
! Illuminating power equal 10 55.G2 candles"
OFFICIAL ORDERS ISSUED.
Orders were issued yesterday, as follows:
That the public lin Thirty fourth street,
between p and Q streets northwest, be filled
! and abandoned.
That 5. Q. Kline, property keeper in the
Water Department, AT 5000 per annum, be
appointed store keeper at the L street pump
ing station at $3.50 per day, 20 date from
September /, 1895.
That upon street railways hereafter laid
with new rails no projection above the head
OF the rail win BE- allowed upon any cross
over, and no projection over quarter
of an inch above the head of the rail VIII
be allowed upon any curve.
That water main assessment against lots
16 and Il, Columbia Heights, block 80,
1 Rosedale, be Cancelled as requested by
owner, on account of the decision IN the
| Burgdorf case; and that the writer be in,
formed that the decision IN said case does
not contemplate the refundment Of any part
] - r1.a accn=gUaarT already ia