The evening times., 1896-04-09
TWO PROTESTS ENTERED
zoo" Gravity Railroad Bitterly
Attacked By Citizens.
BATHING BEACHBIDS OPENED
Eighty Bathhouses to he Erecteo ny
May 15-Only Three Bidders Com
uete-weIl to be Closed-Sewers 10
Re Lnid-Minor District Matters
and Daily Orders.

The Commissioners have forwarded 10
Ch,irmau Eabcork of the House District
copics respectively, of Tour
vicnrons papers filed with them in pro-
,est against the Incorporation of the MOUNT
p,sa~s,nt and Zoo Gravity Railroad.
Two of these papers have been hereto
fore noted in The Times, and were signed
nv Cen Ellis Spear, Il. Z. Davis and l.. 5.
Emery. i'm behalf OF the Mount Pleasant
CONGREGATIONAL Church, and by Gilbert
II. Towlcs, Charles j Bundy aud Gen. w.
W. Dudley, representing 81 s''phe
Protestant Episcopal parish
The other two protests were entered oy
Messrs. r. +. Pairo and A. b. jameson.
the latter for himself and Mr.. Pairo as
representative of the owners of block 36,
in the subdivision of the north grounds OF
co,umbian University subdivision, the block
embracing 11O,COG square feet OF ground
situated on the northwest corner OF four-
teenth street and Columbia road.
Mr. Pairo says the construction OF the
gravity road cannot fail to damage values
| in that section. The project, he ADDS. mas
| in 1t much to be condemned and but iittie
worthy of commcndaton. He urges adverse
| action on the bill.
| T.. j
| Of the road will he n bar TO progress sec
| ond only to the location of smallpox nos
| pital there.
| barring the pesthouse, ne says VIII
| which this section was threatened. can
| conceive of no greater nuisance that couid
| he foisted on any community thah sucn 'h
| establishment would be.
LABOR AGAINST NUISA Noes.
/ ID nt nd IL
| cinity, Mr.. Jameson continues. have Ia
| bored for more than quarter OF a cen
,ury'' TO prevent, and have prevented. the
| introduction of .nuisanceS in their terri
| tory. and now that they are about to reap
| the benefit of their ''long and patient
| waiting, to be threatened with the most
| ntolerable of nuisanccs, roller coaster
| is discouraging in the extreme.
The opponents of the railroad have an
nomccd their purpose OF contesung hs
| rrogrcss before the House and Senate by
| every possiblcmeans. andit issaid a petition
| signed by every property owner ana resi-
| dent willing to go on record against IL VIII
| be presented soon to Chairman Rabcock.
There were three bids received by Supt.
stevens. OF the bathing beach management,
Cor the construction of the projected new
| bath houses and these were turned over to
| thcCommissionerst thismorning. Thenafhes
of the bidders are L. F. Burner. Metcalf y
Lewis and Philip X. Pullian, the latter's
proposal, at $3.50 per house, being the
lowest.
The bids were solicited for fifty or more
houses" but it is understood there will
be eighty put under contract. aud that all
will be completed by May Is.
The superintendent is cnerge'icaliy at
work to have things IN readiness for the
opening OF the bathing season.
DAILY ORDERS.
Orders were officially promulgated from
the municipal headquarters today as fol
.ows:
| That 500 feet of 1o-inCh sewer be lait
n Eighteenth and Cincinnati streets; alSt
$50 feet OF 12-inch sewer and 43O fee
Of 1O-inch sewer in Cincinnati street. rnde1
permit sustem, and that sewers be con
siructed at the intersection Of Fifteenth
and streets.
That 162 feet of scCond-quaiity lS-incl
pipe sewer be laid in Twcnty-eighth street
from the end of the old sewer 10 ths
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
That an allotment OF SO, So be mad
for the current quarter from the appropri;,
tion for current repairs to county roads.
That the public well on Eighth street
between II and n streets northwest, b
closed.
The Capital Traction Railway COmpan
| has been directed to pave the space on tn
| near side of each of the street cross
| ipcs on the line OF its road on Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, bet wee II ThirdandE Eight
streets, for the accommodation Of tn
! patrons OF the road.
Passengers are obliged now, as the Con
! missioners say. to aliEht from the cars o.
| the unpaved space. to the detriment {
! public convenience and the injury of tn
parking.
Mexico to Come Into the Union.
up,, IInuu. Tcrrtorias Committee fpfla