The Washington times., 1895-01-19
DOIHGS Of The District
Health Officer Asks for Other
Quarters for His Force.

DR.. ". C. Woodward. health officer for
the District. has recommended to the Com
missioners that the lease of the building now
occupied by his department be terminated
upon thirty days notice, and that accom-
modations for the force be sscured in the
building of the Washington Title Insurance
Company The matter has been referred TO
the attorney forthe District to settle the legal
details.
The Commissioners have appointed Mon
day at II a. m. for a hearing TO be given the
Washington and Georgetown Railway Com
pany upon the merits of Senate bill 2434, ito
regulate the wages of conductors and drivers
and other employees OF the street railways in
the District
The bill provides that when the majority OF
the men employed as conductors and drivers
on such street railways shall consider them
selves aggrieyed by the insufficient wages
paid them, they shall have the right to no
tify the Commissioners. through which no.
tice arbitration may be secured.
1t also provides that eight hours shall con-
sttute null days work on such railways,
and they shall be entitled to extra pay for all
excess time.
Upon the recommendation of Health Officer
Woodward, approved by Commissioner
Powell. an. amendment to the bill for the
regulation OF the practice of medicine is pro-
posed which provides that any person not
connected with the ailopathic or homeo-
! paihic schools who presents himself for eX-
/ animation may be exempted from that part
OF the requirement that relates to the treat
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shall besabiect 10 the same rules that govern
in other cases.
1t is further provided that in all signs. pre-
+ scription blanks, and advertisements which
! such practitioner shall employ in the prac-
tice Of his profession. he shall distinctly state
the system he employs in his practice.
Referring to the recent order for the re-
moyal Of street distractions. Commissioner
/ Jruesdell said TO a TINES reporter that the
attitude of the board seems TO be somewhat
misunderstood and in certain instances the
order has been nisinterpreted. He said action
i was taken because the law required 1t. The
Commissioners almost daily refuse permis
sion 10 parties for certain privileges that
others enjoy without authority, and that
caused complaint. He thought the time had
. come for the Issuance of an order that would
( be general, and so moved.
The excise board read the papers in eighty
! eight applications for license yesterday, but
! did not definitely determine any OF the cases
All went over for one week.
The Commissioners have finally decided
that. while '.Staughton'' is without doubt thu
official orthography of the name of the stree
| designated as '.Stoughton,' there is no gooc
reason for changing it, since there is desir
! to name the streets after some comprehensive
plan.
Lots 16 to %, upon which st. Paul's Roman
Catholic Church stands at the corner of Eff
teenth and streets northwest, has been or
dered to be stricken from the tax books from
July l, 1894.
John S. Hayes yesterday obtained steam
engineers license Of the third class.
Willed TO the odd Fellows Thomas B
Turner, who died at No. go ! street on Jan
uary Il. in a viii filed Thursday left hi
properly to Maria A. Jordan. wife OF William
w. Jordan. at whose house he died. This vii
was made February IS. 1888. aud yesterday
will Gated October 10 last was brought in Civ
ing alto Washington Lodge. No. 6, |. 0. 0. f,