The morning times., 1895-12-13

nearer TO the creek than TO n street. Lot
| . lies between the site and the creek.
The property contains 10,976 square
feet and has eighty feet front. 1t belonged
| 10 Mr.. 5. Oppenheimer. The SAFE was
made ycst erday, after fifteen days
| option, and the money paid by Mr.. Joshua
N warfield, the garbage contractor,
who had come from Baltimore 10 ciose
1 up the business. The approval OF the
| site by the Commissi toner's had already
| been obtained.
| Work on the crematory will begin AT
| once A brick wall, 45 by so feet, and
| high brick stack will b. built and the
\ cremating plant placed in II. The worS
| will be done by the Smith Crematory Com
pany, at a cost to Mr.. Warfield of 10000
TO $4,000. The plant will be given
ninety days trial before IL is accepted
| When approved the plant will be paid Tor.
NO BUILDINGS NEAR.
There are no buildings in block SO and
| none nearer than about q block and
| half away on n street, west of twenty
fourth, where there Is large uouDte
| house with row OF good HOUSES Just west
| OF them in the same block. There Is
| Dothing between the crenlatory anu tbe
| creek and coal Will he brought that way.
There is no cover to the Smith apparatus
other than the top of the furnaces, and
| all the operations win be performed in the
| omen air. a platform extends TO the
| mouths OF the furnaces and the carts
| drive up oD this and dump the contents INTO
| the furnace. If there should be hltch
| in the proceedings any time in dumping
I th,, contents of a cart. II is probable
| disagreeabIe smell would arise. III dead
| horses are brought in, as occasionally hap
| pens from far out i'll the country, where
| they have lain TIL the neighbors were com
| PEELED by the stencil 10 notify authorities,
| the sight and odor at the furnace would
| probably be offensive. Ii is said that the
| men who haul dead horses in such cases
| are sometimes made sick by the experi-
! ence and remain so for several days.
The Commissioners yesterday wrote to
| President Newbold OF the lexington street
| Railway Company to inquire whether tue
company has abandoned its road on
street. between Second and Third streets.
lexington. The company had tracks along
this block running up To Greenwood Ccnlc-
terry at one time, but cars have not been
| run there for some time and II is understood
| the track so much as-remains, Will be
! removed.
The publication OF the features of the
! bin changing the marriage law which the
| Commissioners ask to have passed, has
called TO notice the IA ct That a law already
! exists requiring ministers, under penalty
/ of a fine OF S25to $500, 10 report weddings,
! with age name. nativity. etc, TO the
| Health OFFICER within forty-cight hours
after the ceremony is performed
MANY MINISTER'S DERELiCT.1
| Nevsrthegcss. out of 1880 licenses is
sued last year only 2,3S1 returns were
MADE There wereuo prosecutions because
iit is impractitable under the present law
for the law officers 10 find out who Per
formed the ceremony. TWO methods nave
been suggested FOR renirdyIns thc defect.
| The first and probably the best, is To Issue
| the license directed TO particular minis
| ter whose nam is kcptin the record bOokln
the clerks Office. Heis thus made respon-
sible for the rctIrn OF The coupon, provided
for IN the proposed bill. a clause Is added.
| ma king the performance OF the ceremony
| transferable 10 some other minister IL the
one addressed is Tor any reason unable to
attend TO it.
The other method is to make the groom
responsible for the return. The objection
to this is that the groom frequently at once
goes out OF the jurisdiction.
| The Commissioners have sent to Congress
! a bill to amend the law Furnishing false
swearing before police department trial
/ boards, by applying the same penalties TO
| false swearing before fire department
! trial boards. They ask prompt enact
mcnt of the measure, as necessary to the
maintenance OF discipline i'll the fire de-
I partmcnt.
At a board meeting late yesterday after
noon they agreed that as a protection to
| witnesses, the testimony i'll cases before
| trial boards in the departments VIII not be
made public.
CLEANING OF SIDEWALKS.
At the same session they made orders
Instructing Major Moore To enforce the
| law passed March last. requiring side
walks to be cleaned within the urst iour
| hours of da ylight after the fail of Snow.
iii N,k al he : fr.pt
| cleaning department TO have Contractor
| Daggett, according to his contract, re-
| move snow from cFosswalks and cutters, 1s
directed by the same act.
In case citizens do not clear the walks
| of snow as directed, they may be fined
| 81 for each lot neglected, and made to
| pay the cost cf cleaning. which Will be done
| by the Commissioners. This cost is made
| a lien against the property The law viii
! cause all walks TO he cleaned.
The feature which interests the Commits
| sioners is a lack of appropriations 10 pay
for the cleaning they are directed to do.
They ordered that the work should be paid
for from the street cleaning fund, but
| deficiency will probably be caused. 1t is
estimated that il will cost $4,000 TO
clean cross walks and cutters as directed.
In addition TO the cleaning by citizens
| and by the Commissioners, Col. Wilson, as
superintendent of public grounds, is com
mandcd by the new law as soon prac-
ticable to engage help when funds are
available and remove the snow from all
paved sidewalks and cross walks in use,
| ..around, about or through the public parks
to an extent TO accommodate winter ped
| estrian travel" He must also personally
| or by deputy inspect the work thus provided
for.
In case the snow should turn 10 sleet or
otherwise become packed as ice the law
provides in each OF the above cases that
sawdust, sand, ashes, or some other suit
able material shall be spriDkled 10 secure
safe footing.
POLICEMEN AT CROSSINGS.
In reply to letter from President Il. F.
Baker of the Columbia Railway Company,
dated November 4, the Commissioners to-
day wrote that policemen are stationed
at each of the three crossings where street
cars are obliged temporarily to abandon
their motive power. These are at Ninth
and Pennsylvania avenue, Ninth and New
York avenue, and New York avenue and
Fourteenth street.
All special permits allowing occupancy
of the wagon stand on the north side OF
Louisiana avenue between Eighth and
Ninth streets have been revoked by the
Commissioners. The place, it is stated,
is designed for general use. This action
was in response to a letter from Charles
Washington. of No. 3415 Sherman avenue
northwest. who applied for a special
permit of the kind.
Third class engineers license was granted
Clancy 6. Day. and Edward Johnson's
commission as private policeman was re-
voked.
The report of supt. Miles OF tho tele-
phone service on United States telegraph