Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-08
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT
Drug Controversy.

| When the new schedules for furnishing
| the District with supplies were made pub
| lie, it was found, especially in the class of
! drugs, that the District had specified one
particular manufacture. 1t was the Park
Davis Company of Detroit. Heretofore the
drugs used by the District have been of
the manufacture Of Sharpe & Dohme of
Baltimore. AS soon as it was noticed that
oniy nose preparations manufactured by
fark, Davis q Company would be consid-
cred IN the bids, the Baltimore firm prompt-
~ protested. 1t was represented thai 10
specify one firm was to create monopoiy
WHlcn was not legal In this contention
tne iirm was upheld by several local drug
s!sts' whc wrote letters to the Commits
slonerS. In d letter to Messrs Sharne A.
DohIne today the Commissioners saw they
nave submitted the schedules to the pro-
posai board, which consists of Secretaries
OF inc Treasury and Interior and the as
siStdHt postmaster general, together with
letter relating to the same In the I'm
Sure' lhey add the specification will be so
ora"h as to obviate the objection raised.
Favorable Recommendations.
Inc commissioners have returned to the
president with favorable recommendation
house bill s4oo, to authorize the Baltimore
ana Washington Transit Company OF
Maryland TO enter the District
Resignation Accented
Inc Commissioners have accepted the
RESIGNATION of Fred l.. Rice of the metro
polltan police force.
Todny's Orders.
The Commissioners today ordered:
Inat Go feet Of eighteen-inch sewer be
built in Newark street between New Hamn-
shire avenue and It'll street, Petworth.
That sewer In the north side of : str.e+
northwest between 9th and 7th streets he
replac ed.
Ihat fire hydrant be erected at the
southeast corner of Virginia avenue and r
street northwest.
mat drinking fountain Ito be furnished
ny me washington Humane Society be
erected on the north side of Water Str.at
ABOUT forty feet west of Both street.
ihat $40 feet OF four-inch water main be
iaia IN the south side of New York ave
rue from the end of the present four-irch
main opposite lot A. square III. to the sly
men main in 18th street west.
mat a brick sidewalk be laid in front Of
- myrtle street under the provisions of
the permit system N
Proposals to construct Sc yers reo.;v.,
June l, 1896, are accepted as follows:
proposal of II. c. Bolden, to construct
sewer IN Georgia avenue and 18th street
southeast; proposal of Lyons Brothers. to
construct sewer in 18th street between Ken.
esaW and Grant streets. These parties are
me lowest bidders in the respective cases
ana are believed to be responsible
Inc proposal of the Washington Asnha1t
Block and Tile Company, received June q
800, 10 furnish the District with asphalt
paving tiles at so per thousand, is hereby
ceived. E'Po'"i *
An allotment OF 1882 from appropr:a
.lon lor parking commission for the cur
rent quarter of the fiscal year is hereby
approved. e"'
!hat 900 feet of siX-inch water main be
iald IN the north side Of Morris street be-
tween 9TH and 9TH streets northeast
, mat three-inch water main be laid in
oyphax court, between 3D.. Az, l. and K
streets southwest.
Bids Opened.
blos were opened by the proposal board
To-Day Tor hauling cast iron water pipe The
bidders were: Newbold & Co., 85 cents per
Ton or 2,24O pounds inside and 65 cents per
ton outside city limits G. w. Knox Ex-
press Company, within city 80 cents per
ton, and 60 cents outside city, Littleford
q G 1ivoro. ~ cents per ton inside city, and
Sl.U9 per ton outside civ