The Washington times., 1895-03-22

Hospital to the letter of the Commissioners
asking that a ward be fitted up in the in
stitution for the reception OF patients af-
flicted with minor contagious, and says:
Al am in fun sympathy with you in the
desire to provide for the suffering, and viii
at once have a ward prepared for such
/ cases.
| The favorable response coming so quickly
is especially pleasing to the Commission
ers, and a letter of acknowledgement was
at once returned. Col. Truesdell remarked
yesterday that there was much qualification
derived from the promptncss of the reply
as there was from the good news it con-
! tanned.
Application was made to Freedman's
Hospital by the health office yesterday for
/ the admission of a child named Eliza
beth Dawson, daughter of a domestic in
service al No. 1914 Twelfth street north
east. for treatment for scarlet fever. but
the application was declined by DR.. Daniel
H. Williams, surgeon in charge.
AWAITS SECRETARY SMITH s ADVICE.
DR.. Williams wrote a letter to DR.. Wood
ward, which he esubmittedto the Commission
ers, to the effect that ''this class of patients
has never been admitted to the Freedman's
Hospital" but tha$ he had submitted the
matter to the Secretary of the Interior and
was awaiting his opinion.
/ Meanwhile tie sick child is being cared
for by the family in whose service her
mother is, and until some other place is
provided She VIII have 10 remain there.
There has been no response as yet from
the Secretary i'll regard To the question
raised by the letter of the Commission
ers noted yesterday.
The resignation of c. II. Snyder as bridge
keeper at the Pennsylvania avenue bridge
over the Eastern Branch was accepted
yesterday, and b. T. stun appointed to
succeed him.
n T. Ha!ler took gouta permit yestcr-
day for the construction OF six dwellings
at Nos. 171T to 1877 willard street
northwest. They are TO hc 17xGo feet,
three stories and cellar, with brick and
stone fronts, and are estimated TO cost
S33, 600.
Permits for repairs We're issued as fol-
lows: Arlington Fire Insurance Com
pany, repairs To dwelling damaged by
fire at No. 612 FL street northwest, $500;
Bid Bros, general repairs TO dwelling
and store at No. 2U4 Seventh street
northwest, $500; Arlington Fire Insur,
ance Company, repairs to dwelling No
eco Fourteenth street northwest, $500.
PRIVATE BARNEY RESIGNS.
The resignation OF II. p. Barney as
member of the Metropolitan police force
was accepted yesterday, TO take effect
the 31st instant, ard leave to that date
was granted him.
Secretary j. q. Falck, of the Board of
School Trustees, has reported to the Com
misSionerS the following changes lis the pay
rolls OF the public schools:
Business High SchoOl-JCseph Cullcy, ap-
pointed janitOr 1t SCI per month, 10 take
effect March -. vice ". o Wetzei, resigned.
NJ. +. c. Walker appointed teacheT. "a
division, at S775 per annum, vice s z. Muir
ray, resigned; +. V. Montrop, transferred
from 3 division TO "a division, and reduced
from $3.50 to S425 per annum, vice +. NJ.
Adams, resigned.
NJ T. Ennis, teacher, 2B division, pro-
NOTED from S425 to $3.50 per annum.
! Third division. Eunice Welch, teacher,
promoted from $500 to $52o per annum,
vice Ennis, promoted; eR division, II. NJ.
Alden appointed teacher at $500 per annum,
vice Ennis, promoted
Night SchooIs-Franklin, NJ. 6. Finckcl
. appointed at $3.50 per night, vice j. t.
Coughin, resigned.
The foregoing changes to take effect March
/, 1895.
Seventh division. H. E. Cole, teacher
promoted from 500 to $775 o perannum, vice
S. c. SyphaX, resigned; 4. L. Cos;in, teach
|
NJ 0rme, teacher, promoted from $3.50 10
500 per annum, vice A. E. Cole, promoted;
Z. Z. Frances, teacher, promoted from $3.50
TO $500 per annum, vice Orme; A. Il.
Johnson, teacher, promoted IIom Souo
to $3.50 per annum, wee Frances; Arena
Z. Brooks appointed teacher at $500 per
annum, vice Johnson. Lawrence Terry APP
; / pointed janitor at sumner School, vice
T. j. Mitchell, resigned.
The foregoing changes to take effect
March 19, 1895.
Orders issued yesterday:
That the following work be done under
the provisions governing assessment and
permit:
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Lay cement sldewalks-In Twentieth
street northwest. between New Hampshire
and Connecticut avenues, in front of south
; forty-two feet OF lot 10, square 81; lots
Nos. 45 to 53, square 96: square 50: square
2 "a; lots 73 and 70, square 93; square 113;
square ia, except south siXty-nine feet
of lot l.
Set new SKIS granite curb-In Twentieth
street, between the avenues above named, in
front of lot 10, square 81; lot 70. square
93: squares 81, 95, SO, 113, and ia, ex-
cept south sixty-nine feet of lot /, square
: ia.
Lay cement sidewalk and set new granite
CuTD an IlOGlud dNeHue OIlHNtSI. LOttll
. Side, between Nineteenth street and Con-
necticut avenue.
Lay brick sidewalk in Park street, north
side between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets northwest, except in front of east
sixty seven feet of lot $50.
! Lay brick sidewalks and set new granite
curb in Florida avenue northwest, south
side between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets, and 7 street northwest, south side,
a between Nineteenth street and Florida
l avenue northwest, between I wentieth
street and Connecticut avenue, in front of
square 80.
That 345 feet of six-inch water main
: be laid in the south side of = street, between
Seventeenth street and New Hampshire
avenue northwest.
> Set new granite curb and relay brick
sidewalks in First street southeast, be-
tween ID street and North Carolina ave
nue., in front OF squares numbered 694
. and 734.
Lay new board walks in Moore's lane
west side, commencing at Elm street and
running about 225 feet north; in Dover
= street, Brookland, north side, between
. Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
. That the public wells in the south side
OF street. between Third and Four
: and-a- half streets, and on the corner OF
: Four-and-a-half and E streets be aban
doned and public hydrants be erected in
:, their stead.
> OFFICIAL CHANGES.
= That the resignation OF John Bippus
clerk in the record division of the engineer
department, be accepted, to take effec;