The Washington times. (Washington, D.C.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-12
MIR. John ]. BeaII Presents Him
self and Is Qualified.
PENALTY FIXED AT $4,000
Peculiar Requirement Under the Act
by Which His office Was Created.
Tax Collections for Month of May.
Street Extension Changes RECON-
mended by the Commissioners.

liam Tindall, Secretary to the Board OF
Commissioners. His bondsInen were Messrs.
j. h Gordon and George F. Green.
Mr.. Bean was qualified under section
8 of the act of 1871, of the legislative
assembly, by which act his office and
many others Of more or less consequence
were created.
One of the singular provisions of the
law with which each official named
therein is confronted, is that which re-
quires the appointee to swear that he
is a resident and qualified voter of the
/ District The section quoted reads as fol-
lows:
That no person shan pe appointed to
perform the duties of any OF the offices
| herein created unless he is a resident OF
and shan have exercised the right of
suffrage in the District of Columbia
The public functionaries included in
this provision are the collector OF taxes,
coroner, water registrar, attorney and
assistant attorneys, surveyor, market mas
| tiers, superintendent OF schools, chief of
| the fire department, sealer of weights
| and measures, wood, coal and food in
| spectors, harbor master and physicians
to the poor
Like many other questions that arise
under the District laws, this provision
seems to require bridge or a conduit
to enable the officials to cross it, as it
is quite probable that there are those now
in office who never exercised the right
of suffrage according TO the specifications.
TOTAL TAX COLLECTIONS.
Collector Davis has at last succeeded in
catching 10 with his figures and is able
! TO announce the total OF the tax pay
| was at first supposed that the last days
receipts would reach 81 goo 600, but the
actual amount has been ascertained TO be
$733 900. This increases the total of
the collections for the month to $2,425,-
420, or S74 $50 less than the highest
/ guess made prior to the ascertainment Of
| the amount unaccounted on the last day
Those VINO now pay their taxes are hay-
| ing the interest added.
At conference held yesterday the Com
| miSsionerS decided to recommend TO the com
mission, composed of Secretary Lamont
| Secretary Smith and Chief OF Engineers
| Craighiil, certain changes in the plan Of
! the first section OF street extensions. These
| changes are made at the suggestion OF inter
| eSted property owners. and embrace among
other suggestions, the extension OF Sixth
street at the regulation city width for dis
| lance OF 500 feet, to intersect New Jersey
! avenue, extended, and to extend Vermont
| avenue TO the Whitney avenue entrance of
! the Soldiers Home grounds The Commits
| sloners have under consideration, also, O.
| proposition to recommend extension of
| Twenty-thrd street southwark and omit
| the widening OF Decatur street At the re-
| quest OF the Rock Greek Cemetery Company
! they also considered the proposition TO de-
| fleet North Capitol street at the cemetery
| grounds, TO avoid the mutilation OF lots al
ready sold, and the destruction of graves in
the course of the proposed extension
The width of Vermont avenue, extended,
| VIII be reduced from 100 10 100 feet and
there viii be small circle placed at the
| intersection OF New Jersey and Vermont
| avenues, to hide the reduction in width
CONTROVERSY ABOUT a STABLE.
a peculiar question has arisen over a case
! presented to the building inspector, affect
ing the construction of a stable in the rear
! of dwelling owned and occupied by Mrs
Mary l. Norton, at No. 1923 Sixteenth
street northwest, The law forbids the
! erection Of stable within twenty feet of
| dwelling, without the consent of the owner
! shall have been first obtained Mrs Nor
tons stable was objected to by her i'm
mediate neighbors, but the site of the pro-
posed construction was more than twenty
feet distant from each OF the dwellings
! The controversy became somewhat hit
! ter, and all parties interested sought the
!
while was seeking an outlet through the
purchase of another lot.
One OF her neighbors, Mr.. c.. L. Foster,
! OF No. 1917, on the same street, blocked
/ this project, however, by obtaining per-
NIT to build an extension to his dwelling
and this, in the eye of the law, as inter
preted, as effectually precludes the con-
| struction &C the stable as though the adj
dition were already built Mr.. Charles
! Ednonson, who represents Mrs Norton,
| applied for the stable permit yesterday,
but ii was denied upon the grounds stated.
Attorney Thomas will he asked to con-
strue the law.
IT was ordered YESTERDAY that twenty
seven gas lamps located in close proximity
to electric lamps at various points on
PENNSYLVANIA be discontinued.
That 324 feet of siX-inch water pipe
cross connections, be laid on First street
northeast, between S and W streets.
That $50 feet of six-inch water pipe
be laid in the south side of NJ street
| southwest. between Third and Four-and-
a-half streets.
That the sewer on the west side of
Eighteenth street northwest, between L
and NJ streets, be replaced
That drinking fountain be erected on
the northeast corner of Tenth and Fort
streets, which is to be furnished by the
Humane Society.
That water main be laid in T street
northw est, from First street to LIE Droit
avenue.
The appointment of Joseph W Croft as
an additional private on the police force
was announced yesterday, and he was as
signed to duty on Seatou street, between
Twentieth and Twenty first streets north
vest.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mortuary record for the twenty-four
hours ending at 1 O'Clock yesterday:
White-Eliza Bon, aged ninety years;
Mary P. Maddox, aged eighty; Thomas
Toomey, aged seventy eight; James A.
Sheehan, aged sixty-three; James H. Spill
man, aged fifty-seven; w. H >Horigan,
aged thirty -one; Mary E. Espey, aged
twenty-eight; Nellie Stiefel, aged twenty
one; Moses Walker, aged three months;
Josephine G. Williams, aged six days.
Colored Anna nda Lee, aged thirty
five: Nina Jones, aged twenty seven.
Building permits: Mary Dougherty, three
brick dwellings, Nos. 721 to 725 Virginia
avenue southeast, $4,000. Harry @.
Craig, general repairs and additions to
building, No. 1925 o street, damaged by
fire, 81 400.
A meeting was held yesterday in the
office of Commissioner Ross of the ladies
and gentlemen lately appointed as dele
gates from the District to the Atlanta ex-
position. An organization was effected
Uy elecllng MI henry +. blount as presi-
dent and Mr.. Conrad II. Syme as secretary
Messrs. W. B. Powell, superintendent of
schools; II. +. Blount, and Mrs James H
McGill were appointed subcommittee
to consider the scope of the work to be
done. The ladi es elected Mrs. McGiu
chairman to succeed Mrs. Wilson, declined
on account of i'll health.
The interests of Sergt Cross, in the
race for the inspectorship, were represented
yesterday before the Commissioners by
Mr. Thomas w. Smith and Dr. Hazen, who
gave him a high recommendation Sergt