Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
OPPOSED TO THE SITE
Citizens Who Protest Against Garbage
Plant.
Residents ef the Northwest File a
Paper With the District
Commissioners.

While the Commissioners were in board
session today Messrs. c. U. Kennedy and
VIM. l.. F. King, representing property
owners who object to the location of gar
bage crematory in square 49, appeared in
| the board ROOM and, without any comment,
presented the Commissioners with pro-
| test against the location of the garbage
crematory upt the site in that square
! purchased by the contractor. The lot pur-
| chased, as stated in The Star, fronts on
| the east side of oath street between
street and Rock creek.
The Protest.
The protest said: The undersigned, in
| advance of the granting of any permit for
| the construction of this crematory. in
| their own behalf and in the behalf of other
citizens, residents and property owners in
! the most desirable and valuable residence
portion of the nations capital, do earnest
| ly, emphatically, and respectfully protest
| against the approval of this purchase by
your honorable body, and against the
| granting of any permit for the construc-
| ton of the proposed building and plant.
A few of many and perhaps better rea-
| SONS, which ought to be patent to any one
| interested in the welfare and future of
| this city. and which seems to your petit
| TONERS to be sufficient in themselves to
prevent such contemplated approval and
| the granting of such permit, are these:
| IL.
| squares of the property of the British le-
| CATION and other of the adjoining valuable
| residence property, and the proposed ioca-
ton is such that the prevailing winds of
| all seasons in this climate will carry the
noxious vapors, gases and stenches, which
| must necessarily arise from its operations,
| into said houses, and thereby render them
| undeSira BILE, and in a great degree unin-
| habitable.
| Second. This proposed crematory will
also be adjoining square So upon which, at
| the northeast corner thereof, stand pub
| lie school, and row of new houses STANDS
| on the southeast corner of 23d and n
streets, in the same square.
| Third. 1t is within two squares of the
| Columbia Lying-in Hospital, situated in
| square %, and in same square and only
| one square removed from this crematory
| the weather bureau Is located.
| Fourth. Within a distance to be affected
| likewise by this nuisance at the corner of
| 18th and NJ streets. the Sumner Public
| School is located.
| Fifth. The proposed location will neces-
| sarily operate to concentrate the carriage
| Of the accumulated nuisances and debris
| of a great city through its most desirable
| thoroughfares, and will m:ngle with the
| carriages of tie citizens and visitors to our
| city, garbage carts, dead-horse wagons and
| other vehicles of similar kind
| Sixth. 1t is manifest that there are many
| other accessible locations which can be
obtained, against which reasonable objec
| ton cannot be made, while the present
| proposed location is at a spot where such
| nuisance is destructive of the personal
| rights, as well as property interests, of
some of the most desirable residents of
| our city.
| In conclusion, we beg your honorable
| body to be pleased to reconsider any favor
| able opinion and to grant us a hearing, at
| which We can lay before you more in de-
| tail weighty reasons which will move you,
| We cannot doubt, to reject any sought-for
| approval or permit for the erection of this
| crematory.
| And as in duty bound your petitioners
| will ever pray, &C.
The names appended to the protest in
Guided the following William C. Hill, A.
| ID. Addison, Charles c. Glover Thomas
Hyde. Jas. NJ. Johnson Richard s. Wind
sor, William l.. Bramhall ]. Henry Gulick.
| John w. Thompson, John F. Waggaman,
H. P. Waggaman, josephine A. Patten, H
Jacobsen. Wescott Wilcox & Heiston,
John b. Wight. William L. F. King. E
| Francis Riggs. Gardiner G. Hubbard, c.
j. Bell II. X; Willard, John w. Pilling.
J. v n. Huyck. Washington Danenhower
| Allison Mailer, jr., A. T. Brice, Admiral
| Greer and C. FL. Tickling
| Immediately upon the receipt of the pro-
test Secretary Tindan handed it to Com
| missioner Truesdell who will take the
matter under consideration before present
| ing Il 10 the board. No action was taken
| today upon the matter.
| Before deciding upon the site the garbage
| contractor conferred with the Commission
| ers, and they gave their consent and ap-
| proved the site.
The Commissioner mail this morning
| brought number OF additional protests
| against the location of the garbage crema-
| tory on the site selected
| RefriSernting Plant.
| EX-SiXth Auditor McConville recently ap-
| peared at the Commissioners office and laid
before the authorities plan, which, it is
| understood, has the backing of number
of big capitalists. The idea, he explained
was to construct in the District a refrig-
| Grating plant, with pipes and conduits
| laid throughout the city. and supply pipes
| leading into houses and business places,
| for the purpose of supplying cooling ma
terial to take the place of refrigerators,
and the expense of ice for filling the same.
Circulating through the pipes at all times
| IS a freezing fluid. which will answer
is understood. will be unlimited, and
the cost small. A long list of the
streets through which the company de-
sires to lay its pipes is before the Com
| missioners, together with the draft of a
bill which will be shortly presented in Con-
gress
District Notes.
The Commissioners have ordered fire
| hydrant to be erected at the corner of 9Th
and streets northeast to cost $50. Also
one at the corner of LIST and Carroll streets
| southeast and one at the corner of ID and
Carroll streets southeast; estimated cost,
$40.
The following alotments for use in the
| been approved by the Commissioners:
| Main and pipe sewers 500: Rock Creek
and street intercepting sewer, $500.
| Catch basins have been ordered to be
constructed follows: One at the north
east corner of ID IL and & streets north
west, and one at the southeast corner of
| 18th and streets northwest; estimated
cost, $40, chargeable to the Washington
| Mount Vernon and Alexandria Electric
| Railway Company.
A certificate of Indebtedness has been is
| sued against the Anacostia and Potomac
| River Railroad Company in favor of the
| Washington Asphalt Block and Tile Com
| pany for S. S203, for paving between rails
and tracks Of said company and two feet
adjacent thereto in street southeast,
from East Capitol to Sd street.
The Commissioners have granted Sam
uel B. Rose a license a master plumber
ana gasftter for one year from January l,
1896.
| Baltimore Markets.
BALTIMORE, December 14.-Flour dull uncha n.y.
ed-receipts, 14,ol5 barrels: shipments a31 bar
rels; sales, 425 barrels. Wheat dull and lower
spot and month. 6olea65As; January, 60 bid: May,