Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-05
SEWER BADLY WANTED
Mount Pleasant Citizens Discuss Some I'm
provements.
The Contagious Disease Hospital and
Street Extension Danger to
SchOlars-Use n Well. 20

The most important business transacted
at the regular monthly meeting of the Mt.
Pleasant Citizens Associa ton last evening
was the adoption of resolution protesting
against the location of a contagious hos
ptal in Columbia Heights on the site pur-
chased by the District, or elsewhere in that
section. The absence of sewer connections
in the village public school was again re-
ferred to. and the committee on sewers
and that on schools were directed to confer
with the school board and District Commits
sioners for the purpose of urging the lat
ter to order the of accumulated ma
terial in the construction of a temporary
sewer connection. ~
About the only other business transacted
was that of routine character, and dur
ing the rather brief meeting Mr.. Chattield
called attention to the dependence by the
children attending the village public school
on well for drinking water. In view of
the fact that the great majority of persons
suffering from typhoid fever were invaria-
bly, found to be drinkers of well water,
AR Chatneld thought that the well in ques-
ton should be at once examined and the
water analysed.
A member stated that there was no good
reason why the school should not be pro-
Vided with Potomac water, as the water
main was near the school house. The dis
cussion resulted in the adoption of reso-
luton directing the committee on sewers
ard water to request the District author
tiles to at once order an examination of the
we'll and water.
Section Sewerage.
Referring to the absence of sewerage ia
cilities in the village school, President J..
W. Somerville stated that in the District
property yard were thousands of feet of
pipe and hundreds of barrels of cement,
which could be utilized In. constructing at
least temporary connection between the
school house and the sewer. from kenesa W
avenue to School stree land thence through
a public alley to the school house. At the
suggestion of Mr. Somerville, the commit
tees on sewers and schools were directed to
request the construction of the sewer in
the way suggested by him, the sense of the
association being that the health of the
scholars and teachers are being endangered
by the absence of sewer connections.
Contagious Hospital.
Speaking of the renewed proposition of
the District Commissioners to locate a
contagious hospital in Columbia Heights,
President Somerville stated that while he
was reasonably certain that it would never
be located there, yet he thought it desir-
able and wise to let Congress and the Com
missioners know that the Mt. Pleasant Citi-
ZeDs Association Is now as violently op-
posed to the location of The hospital in the
section referred to as it was when 1t so
completely defeated the proposition several
months ago. The association unanimously
adopted the views of Mr.. Somerville, and
committee of three was authorized to pre-
sent the ASSOCIATIONS protest to both
houses of Congress.
Street Extension.
The subject of street extension was then
Informally discussed, Mr. Chaplin Brown
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proceedings in the courts. He commended
the courts, but remarked that it was an
undsguised fact that the Commissioners
of the District had not respected individual
rights. However, he did not question their
motives, believing that they felt that in
such a matter the rights of the individual
should suffer for the benefit of the whole
people of the District. What was most to
be feared, thought Mr.. Brown, was re-
fusal of Congress to appropriate the money
required which would amount, he believed
to not less than s13.0OO,000 for lands re-
Quired in section l.