The morning times., 1895-10-22
FOR CREMATIN6 REFUSE |
Health Officer Suggests a Plan
for Burning City Waste.
OTHER THAN THE GARBAGE
Recon- mends the Construction of Two
Plants, to be Operated by the Ctty.s
Bids for New Pumping Engine.
Order Issued for Improyements-ln-
teresting Phase of Excise Law.

Health Officer Woodward has submitted
to the Commissioners the plans for the con-
struction of two crematories for the con-
Sumption oil cily refuse otner than garbage,
togeiner with an esiirffate of the cost.
One of these crematories, DR.. Woodward
suggests, as stated i'll yesterdays Evening
Tiiues, should be located on reservation Is,
and operated in conjunction with anelectric
light plant. Unjust be capable of consum-
ing sixty-six tons OF matter in sixteen hours,
and will be operated by the District.
DR.. Woodward estimates the cost OF the
site and construction OF such q crematory,
with expense of operating IL for one year,
at $4,000. He referred TO the subject III
his annual report, naming the crcmatory as
one among several desirable acquisitions,
and since then made up supplemental
estimate.
Eleven bidders competed yesterday for
the contract for furnishing the District
with n new pumping engine OF S,O0O,00O
gallons daily capacity. The bids ranged
from 500, 1850 to $S4, 100.
The engine is designed for use at the
U-street puupngstation,a and willsupplement
the one already there, which has capacity
of 100000 gallons. Taken togethe
these two engines will furnish a supply
aggregating 10000 gallons daily.
The one for which the bids were opened
yesterday will be put in place within
the coming calendar year.
BY an order issued yesterday the Commits
sioners transferred TO the parking commits
sion for its use in growing trees n strip OF
ground in substitute for the lot taken
as a site for The disnfectiDg plant.
A roadway to the disinfectiDg plant
was by the same order made through a
field sotuh of E street, about equi-distant
from the female workhouse and a d dwelliDg,
and adjoining on the west the strip OF
ground ira MS ferrcd.
SIDEwALKsA AND SEWERS.
The Commissioners have ordered:
Thatcement sidewalks be laid as follows:
In front OF No. 1914 Twent y-first street
northwest; in the. southside OF LIE Roy
place northwest; on the Corcoran street side
of No. 1925 Sixteenth street northwest;
in front OF No. 2Ol1 Q street northwest.
That 400 feet OF skin water main be
laid in Thirteenth street, between Lamar
street and Spring road.
That sewer be constructed across the
lands of Mrs S. A. ID. Weems, in the line
of the proposed extension OF Spring road
between Piney Branch road and brghtwood
aveuue, Vhareeable to appropriation.
That 100 feet of twelve-inch sewer be
constructed along the west side OF Eighth
street northea st, between East CaplJol
and A streets. and seventy-five feet OF
4 twelve-inch sewer In the south side Of
A street at Eighth street crossing.
s That 31o feet of twelve-inch sewer be
/ CONSTRUCTED in Thirteenth street extended.
between Yale and Princeton streets, under
permit system.
That water main assessment against
part of lot s, square 659, be Cancelled,
owing to defect in description.
4 committee consisting of ] X. Buckalew,
L. s. Lipscomb and st. George R. Raby,
representing the Mt. Pleasant Citizens
Association, called upon the Commissioners
yesterday to ask for the substitution of
steam fire engine for the chemical engine
now in use there, and 4 the conclusion OF
the conference expressed confidence that
the request would be complied with.
The Commissioners have Included in the
estimates for 1897 an item for the equip
ment OF a new steam company, and the
proposition made is that the chemical en-
gine be transferred to Brightwood and To-
cate the additional steam engine at Mount
Pleasant.
when the engine house was built at
Mount Pleasant it was constructed for the
sccommodntinn of a steam engine.
OF INTEREST To LIQUOR DEALERS.
Paragraph 4, of section 4, Of the District
excise law, requires every applicant for
license to make oath that he has not since
the passage of the act been convicted of a
violation of any of its provisions.
This places every saloonkeeper upon his
oath and honor at the present juncture,
wnen applications are being filed for re-
newals- of license, and practically makes a
single previous violation bar TO the ap-
plication.
Should it be shown that any one of those
who want 10 continue in business has at any
time broken the law, he viii be at once sub
jet to indictment for perjury, and this
viii of itself work a revocation of his
license.
1t is, of course, fair supposition that no
one thus subject will make application.
Another feature OF the regulations is that
which requires every application for re-
newal to be filed before 8 O'Clock p. m.
of November l, and this rule is TO be en-
forced strictly. All establishments that fail
to meet this requirement win be rated as
"new places" and will have to go through
all of the forms eXacted aboriginal appli-
cantS.
The board viii remain in session until 8
O'Clock on the date named, at which time
the privilege of renewal ceases TO all who
are not ION file"
The particular advauta ge held by those ask
ing for renewal licenses is that all original
papers hold good. including that containing
the signatures of residents.
COMMISSIONERS ANNUAL REPORT.
TheCommissioners' reportto the Secretary
OF the treasury OF the estimates Tor appr0-
piations for the year 1897 will be ready
for transmission to-day. As heretofore
stated in The Times the aggregate ex-
penditure contemplated in the report viii
be about 81 100000.
There have been some scalings from the
amounts asked by heads of departments
and of portion or the ins stitutions
partially supported by the government, but
in the averaging there are many items
increased above previous appropria tions,
and several interests, not heretofore treat
ed with a liberality deserved, have been
given greater consideration.
The report, of course, will be subject
to changes that may occur to the Secretary
of the Treasury as desirable, but it ts
the hope of the Commissioners that they
will fare as well at his hands as they did
last year, when the estimates went through
10 Congress unchanged.
Commissioner Powell expresses conf
denco in the life saving powers of the
Tenders now in use on the city street cars,
and expresses the belief that il kept in
proper repair they will do all that is
claimed for them.
AMERICAN TIN PLATE.