The morning times., 1895-09-29
Sewer WORK SCHEDULED
Additional Service Authorized by
the Commissioners.
CONTRACTS TO BE AWARDED
Water Mains Ordered, Assessments
Cancelled and Pavements Listed
for Construction-Thou>and-Doiiar
Liquor License Advocated-Bids
Opened for Public work

The schedule of sewers to be constructed
by contract under the lowest bid submitted
yesterday is not confined to any one sec
tisn of the city. The list, arranged in
sections, embraces n wide area.
Section A provides for 1,125 feet or con
crete or brick sewer in Georgia avenue
southeast, between Fourteenth and FIJI
tecnth streets.
Section b, $50 feet of brick or concrete
work in Z street northeast, between Thir-
teenth street and Tennessee avenue.
Section C, 800 feet of eighteen-inch
pipe sewer in Bismarck street, between
Sherman avenue and Thirteenth street;
also 800 feet of fifteeninch pipe in Yale
street, between Sherman avenue and Thir-
tecnth street. and $50 feet of twelve-inch
pine in Yale street, between the same
points.
Section d. 3S0 feet OF twenty four-inch
nine in Twenty-first street, between X
and L streets, and 100 feet of twenty-one-
inch pine in the same street between the
same points.
Section E, AS feet of eighteeu-inch pipe
I'm Twentieth street northwest, between
and l. streets.
Section +, $40 feet of 24-inch pipe in
Seventeenth street. between l. and De Sales
streets, and 90 feet of lS-inch pipe at the
intersection OF De Sales and Seventeenth
streets.
MANY POINTS FAVORED.
Section G, ESQ feet of 241nch pipe in
New Hampshire avenue northwest, between
and U streets.
Section II, 40 feet OF 24-inch pipe in
P street, between New Jersey avenue and
Third street.
Section /. 435 feet of 24-inch pipe in
street southwest, between Second and Third
Streets
Section X. $50 feet of 21-inch pipe in
Eleventh street southeast, between and
| streets: and Go feet of 1Sinch pipe in
Eleventh street at the intersection with
G street southeast.
High license will be the next experiment
in the excise lire that Washington, VIII
have to try. 1t is a pretty well assured
fact that Congress will be asked to amend
the liquor law by increasing the retail
license tax to $1,000, and the suggestion
will be backed by strong influence, includ-
ing official indorsement
Orders were issued yesterday as follows:
That 10 reinforce the six-nch mains In
Twelfth street northeast extended, Ivy City,
Mount OIivet, and Bladensburg roads, and
the twelye-inch main in Benning's line OF
twelve inch main with six-inch connections
be laid beginning at intersection OF Eleventh
and streets and running north Oh Eleventh
street to Florida avenue, thence east to the
intersection of Florida avenue and Bladens-
burg road to connect with twelve inch main
in Benning's road
ASSESSMENTS CANCELLED.
That water main assessments be cancelled
on account OF Burgdorf decision against lot
s, block IL, Brookland; lots 1 and
9, block 12, Brookland; lot 4. block 80, Co
!umbia Heights; also remaining installments
against lot II, block 10, Howard Univer-
sity: lot Z. block 10, lie Droit Park; east
half of lot %, Moore's Lane; lot 20, block
3, plat 8, Todd and Browns subdivision;
sublots 135. 1876, 81, l Al, and AZ, square
617; lots and E, Wright and Dale's sub
division: lot 53, square 151 and lots 54 to
So, square 937.
That cement sidewalks be laid in front of
No. 2010 Fourteenth street northwest; No.
1903 Twelfth street northwest, and No. Q
street northeast.
That an allotment of $4,000 from appro-
priation for current repairs to streets,
avenues, and alleys be approved, for use
in the current quarter; also allotment OF
$40, GOO for same purpose, for use in quarter
ending December 81, 1895.
That sewers be constructed as follows:
In west side of Brightwood avenue, be-
tween Rock Greek Church road and Whitney
avenue. in street southeast, betw cen Tenth
and Eleventh streets; in Johnson avenue. be-
tween r and S, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, square 207, and in Third street
northeast, between r and streets, Ecking-
ton subdivision.
That 357 feet of six-inch water pipe be
laid in the west side of Second street
southwest between F and G streets.
That the driveway across sidewalk on
the est side of Third street northwest, be
tween D and streets, be repaired.
That the sidewalk at the southeast corner
of Seventh and G streets northwest, be re-
paired.
Bids were opened yesterday for sewer
work in various sections of the city, the list
of bidders being as follows:
W F. Brcnizer, John j. Jacoby, Schooler
& Wormley, Harry c. Nichols, John P.
Larguey, James McCandlsh, Lyons Bros,
B. ]. CoyIe, Thomas Buckley, H. C. Bolden,
E G. Gumbert, and Lamb & Darby.
MINOR DISTRICT NOTES.
Additional privates on the police force
were appointed yesterday, as follows:
Edgar johnson. for duty at Garfield; L.
W Portion at Metropolitan Hotel; John
Painter. at the Corcoran Building; John
Mitchell, for the territory surrounded by
Sixth. Seventh. and C streets; Thomas
| C. Quantrcll with the street and alley clean
ing department.
Bids were opened yesterday for furnish
ing the District with cement, the bidders
being the American Cement Company, ]. G..
and j. NJ. Waters and James II. McGill were
| applicants. The amounts proposed ranged
| in price from 80 12 to 9S 1-2 cents per
barrel; 73 12 to 1912 per canvas bag,
and "A 9 to SO IL per paper bag, deliv'
| cred.
Steam engineers license was ordered to-
| day to be issued to applicants, as folio ws: {:
| First class. j. c. Johnson, James o. Kib-
bey and David Mcknight, Jr.; second
class, George F. Wilkerson and Charles
Moore; third class, George s. Beck.
The Commissioners have advised Mr.
| Ernest Flcgg, of No.54 Broad street,
| New York, that the plan proposed for Sc
| curing tho Ventilation of The nlunihinp