Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-12
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Better Fire Facilities for Tenleytown De-
manded.is
The Transfer of ~ Big West WASH
ington Plnnt~Otker Local
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AS informally projected several weeks ago,
a reorganization Of the Tenleytown fire de-
partment has taken place. The new men are
in for work. There will be no internal jeal-
ousies. They have organized solely to fight
the common enemy. The company will have
no social features; 1t is intended to be fire
department alone. That business is meant
is evidenced by united move to be made in
a few days toward securing proper facilities
to fight fire with. A march will be made
en- the Commissioners. Tenleytown has at
present only reel and 100 feet OF hose.
There is no steam engine at all, and plug
pressure is all the force obtainable. AS
sistant Fire Chief Kurtz says that under
favorable conditions this pressure will throw
stream eighteen feet. At Tenleytewn.
however, this result can only be attained
below the village The elevation in the
town proper prevents the throwing OF
stream, according to Mr.. William Britt,
scarcely as high as a lamp post. In fact
difficulty has been experienced in filling the
road watering cart at the post office, the
section where the houses are thickest al
most continuous in construction from the
Grant road northward to the Brookville
road on one side and from the Grant road
to point within a few hundred yards Of
the District line, on the other.
The present fighting facilities are char
acterized as toys" They would produce
"fizzle' at a fire, 1t is said. A prominent
property holder in the village says the pres
ence there of steam facilities has become
glaring necessity. Tenleytown, it is claimed,
has a population now of over 1000 and from
GOO to $40 houses in the Teneytown terri
tory. The present reel and hose, even I'M
der an eighteen-foot pressure, could assist
In the eXtinguiShment only of the houses I'M
mediately on the road. Those on the side
roads would suffer total destruction.
The citizens claim that the importance OF
the place demands an engine house and
police station combined. Every prisoner ar
rested or every man injured is dragged three
miles to Georgetown. sometimes on an cleo
tflc car. at other times in wagons or on foot.
Died Old in Years.
Mrs. Anastasia Hebron, colored servant
of the kennon family for many years, died
at the Little Sisters of the Poor on Sunday
In her ninety-fourth year. For the past
five years she has been blin.l. During her
last days at the kennon home, Anastasia
set herself on fire several times accidental
ly. and Father Roccofort, who is the d.
rector of the Peter Claver Colored Bene-
fetal Society, of which she was a member,
thought 1t wise to have her installed at
the Little Sisters Home, where she would
be under a constant eye.
Deceased was remarkably well pre-
served woman, bearing but few Of the
wrinkles of time. She was buried today at
Holy Rood with Catholic rites, the society
attending in body.
Dent Iron Plant.
The deal involving the purchase of the
Dent iron plant On Water street is about
to be closed, it Is understood. Messrs.
Crosby, L!eb, Miller and others most IL ter
ested in the Georgetown and Tenleytown
Railroad Company. and the newly pur-
chased Potomac Light and Power Com
pany, are the purchasing parties. 1t is
proposed, 1t is said. to combine in the Dent
buildings the power houses of both cor
poratons The present. owner of the Dent
plant is the American Security and Trust
Company who bought it in at forced sale
for $4,000. The plant had cost consider
ably over 100000
Mr.. Dent Immediately asked for an in
junction preventing the confirmation of
the sale. This pending, therefore calls for
a compromise with Mr.. Dent.
Mr.. Crosby is now in the north Eegotiat-
ing for new machinery of the latest pattern
for the plants. r..
Rev Mr.. Bourne of the Grace Church has
brought his family from Atlanta and
moved into the parsonage that has just
been prepared for them by the congregation
of Grace.
Miss Helen Keller, the one-time deaf,
dumb and blind child (and the protege of
scientific men. notably among them Prof.
iSell, the expert III pnon"ticSl, anu the
young lady who turned up the FIRST spade of
earth preparatory to the building up the
Volta Institute here in Georgetown Is
now astonishing the scientific men who
have watched her case so carefully, with
the development of musical tones of quail
ity. Though she has never heard a note
Miss Keller promises to produce voice
rich in feeling and music. She is learning
through her keenness of touch, getting the
various vibrations and movements OF the
cal chords from her teacher merely through
outward contact with her sensitive fingers.