The morning times., 1895-07-28
Plans For the Third Extension
Section to Be Submitted.
STRAIGHT LINES TO RULE
Com pla inant Against Il Merry Co
Round Informed That the Police
Houses Not tOccupied-Thanks Ex-
pressed For the Car Tenders.

The engineer department will submit to
the Commissioners on Monday the plans
| for the extension of streets in the third
section as provided for in the highway
| commission act
Commissioners Powell has been in con-
sultation for several days with member
of the firm that has been engaged to do
the mapping aud the prominent property
| owners in the section have been allowed
! TO suggest changes and improvements.
There are over 600 acres in the third
section and IL is one of the most beautiful
aud valuable tracts around til Getty. From
| Thirty ninth street it runs west to the
west line of the District, and from Rock
Creek Park TO the Fort KlinGcr road
! Chevy Chase lies within this section.
! Under the law Of / SSS, Oak View Heights,
| Richmond Park, aud Armslcigh Park sub
| divisions were laid out aud the present
! plans must conform TO these. The plan,
which will be handed to the Commissioners
on Monday, is the third that the firm has
prepared, the other two having been re-
turned because they were not in accord
ance with the requirements
STREETS IN STRAIGHT LINES.
The estreets viii be made to pursue straight
lines, as far as this is possible, and to be
direct combinations of the streets as laid
down III the plan of Washington. Straight
! streets Will be used in the section between
Connecticut avenue and the Tennallytowu
road, and for part of the tract east Of
Connecticut avenue. In the remaining
! par. a slight variation for a straight line
cannot be avoided.
Parks and squares occupy an important
place III this section. The drives aud thor
! OughfareS Will be so extended 10 lead
! TO the TWO great parks the Rock Greek and
! the geological. one road VIII De up the
! Klingle Fork road, the second up the
! SoapStone Greek, and the third up the
| Broad Branch Road. Those property men
who have seen the plans are greatly plea sed,
! and II j thought all VIII be at last
satisfied with the street extension in
! the third section.
The many lived dmeTry-gO-round was again
/ brought 10 the notice of the Commissioners
yesterday.
a few days ago a letter was received
! at the District Building from j. Theodore
RupH, ia 2 street northwest, in which
the writer complained OF the existence of
a public nuisance upon the southwestern
! part OF the square between First and Third
streets and and Q streets northwest.
BREEpING PLACES OF VICE.
"On the above square, the letter reads
there is now located and, as ! have
been Informed, there will be for some time
to come. a meTrygo-round, swings, etc,
t which are running nightly and in con-
/ neCtion with the same, free theatrical
! performances of the commOnest klnC are
| given for the purpose of gathering as large
! a crowd as possible.
These places, as has been shown by
past experiences, are the center Of dis
| orderly crowds, breeding places Of crime
! and constant source OF annoyance TO
the good order OF the neighborhood, con-
| stitutinE n nuisance of the worst descrlp-
| ton The above place is far from being
! an exception to the general rule, every
| night the residents are required to listen
/ to the doleful tones of hand-organ, the
/ cheering o the crowd, composed OF persons
who are anything but a credit 10 the
| nelghbOThOOd and also surrounded by
small army of hoky-pOky, lemonade, and
clam men lined along p as well as Third
| street"
Mr. RupH also states that he is acting in
behalf OF the residents and property owners
of the nejghborhood and asks if there is any
law in the District by virtue of which the
| nuisance could be abated.
| The matter was referred to Attorney
Thomas and Commissioner Truesdell in
dorsed the paper with statement that he
favored proceeding in the police court
against the parties complained OF in the case.
Commissioner Ross agreed with this and
added the words ANY remedy that the
attorney may suggest.
Attorney Thomas opinion was handed to
the Commissioners yesterday and a copy
sent TO Mr.. RupU. 1t is 10 the effect
-that such places as referred to are not
licensed by the District. If the petitioner
can make a case against the proprietor
for disorderly conduct, he may proceed
against them in the police court, or If any
one is peculiarly affected by the nuisance,
he may eujoin the operation OF the merry
go-rOuud. 1t is suggested by Attorney
Thomas that the matter by called to the
attention of the lieutenant Of police for
that precinct.
The Commissioners yesterday approved
the opinion of District Attorney Thomas,
given in a case in which householder
eIter paying his annual water rent n ad-
vance, did not occupy the dwelling for the
full period, and he asked that the money
paid for the time in which he did not use
the water be refunded. Mr. Thomas holds
that the fiscal year of the Watert Depart
nlent shall coincide with the District OF
, Columbia, and that it is provided that IAN
, annual water rents or rates are due and pay
able in advance on the first of July in each
y,ar, and that all charges for specific sup
plies, or for fractional p arts of year,
{ are due and payable in advance ofthe use of
2 the water.
CITY Is NOT BOUND.
The law does not authorize the appor-
tionment of annual water rents. The
5 householder purchased the right to use
2 Potomac water at n certain house, and had
1 paid for it in advance. He did not use
il. and this was due TO his own change
of residence, and the city is by no means
] at fault The Commissioners approved
this opinion.
/ Among the communications received al
the District building yesterday, was one
which Commissioner Powell exhibited with
not little pride. 1t was addressed to the
Commissioners and was as follows:
Gentlemen: You are, no doubt, aware
2 of the accident which occurred yesterday
S evening on the lexington electric road, in
$ which three -year-old boy narrowly es
e capped death by being crushed under the
boy is my child and but for the feudes
! attached 10 the car, would now be ashapeless
mass of flesh
Though my child did not escape with
out injury, my object in addressing you is
} not to enter, at this time, any complaint
against the mana cement of the road or its
agents, butsmply ytoeXpreSS to the honOrahl
c Commissioners my thanks for the en-
e forcement by them Of the law which de
e mands the attachment of tenders on al
the roads of the city, but for which my
s wife and myself would have to mourn
. the loss Of beloved child"
This touching epistle was signed, JohT
Schutrumpf, No. 416 New York avenue
north west
RESIGNED HIS PLACE.
Private I t Barnes, of the fiF2 depart,