The evening times., 1896-09-11
SAFEGUARDS At CROSSINGS
Official Order Promulgated by
the Commissioners.
MEET CITIZENS DEMANDS
Police Regulations Amended So as TO
Require Railroad Com panies to
Maintain Gates or Flagmen at
Every street Crossing-LightsM Must
Be Displayed.

The official order, noted in The Times
of Tuesday last, which requires steam raIl-
ways to omaIntaingates aud other means and
appliances for public safety at street cross
ings, was formally promulgated today
IL is made IN the nature OF an amendment
TO the last Ct ause OF section 81 of the police
regulations. That section, as thus amenoed.
VIII hereafter read as follows:
',All grade crossings or intersections OF
any steam railroad traces with streets, ave-
nues or 70 ads, sh all he made safe by the COM
pany OWNING or operating such roads, by
gates and electric bells or other means aud
appliances approved by the Commissioners
of the District.
LIGHT MUST BE DISPLAYED
Between sunset and sunrise OF each
day d LeadliSi,I or other equivalent re-
IlectiDg lantern, or Il hand lantern in tle
hands oil an attendant, 10 give due warning
20 persons near or CLOSING steam railroad
tracks vi the approach oI trains, locoilo-
uves or cars, shall be displayed upon the
advancing end OF every train of steam
railroad cars and single steam railroad
cars and locomotives notin trains.
1t shall be unlawful for any person to
set in motion, run or operate any tIain OF
railroad cars, single railroad car, OF loco
motive, without display OF such lights or
lanterns, over any crossing or intersection
named herein unless the same is guarded 10y
safety gates. as provided in this and the
succeeding section"
Ine ,ccv,lug section referred to is
that requiring steam railroad locomotives,
with or withoutcars attached, to cometo
full stop prior TO crossing street where
the tracks intersect with a street railroad,
ana To proceed only III q beoience to a signal
to bc given by the gateman employed by
which sucn locomotives are to pass.
The regulations also prescribe that the
safety gates shah be kept closed during
the passage OF cars over the crossing.
This amendment TO the regulations will
meet the demand of the citizens Of North
east Washington, who have been SO long
agitaung the question of requiring safety
gates to be maintained by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company a unprotected
crossings.
INSPECTING DAIRY FARMS.
The health office inspectors have been
employ ed for the past two weeks or more
in reinspec;ing the dairy farms for which
permits were issued after the adoption
of the milk law and the clerical force has
issued notices in about twenty cases for
the proprietors to SHOW cause by the 25th
instant why their permits should not be
revoked.
Quite number in excess of those men,
toned were found to have allowed their
premises to deteriorate, but only the
worst cases are to he made examples of
the Others showing that the dereliction
was not intentional and promising amend
ment
An order was issued today by the
Commissioners requiring the president of
the Belt Line Railroad Company to- show
cause within a week why the District
should not do a certain work hitherto re-
quired of him and charge the expense to
his company. The work alluded to is
the removal of the unused tracks leading
into the conipany's car stables at the
southwest corner of Third aud B streets
southwest.
The restoration OF the roadway and side
walk spaces TO their original condition by
repaving and making other needed improve
ments, was also exacted, a duty which un,.er
the law the company is obliged to per-
form, but has hitherto neglected, not " It'll
standing the Officers were served with a
notice.