The evening times., 1896-07-20
+ENF0RCING THE NEW LAW
Police Notify Dealers to Lay
Aside Old Dry Measures.
LEXINGTON LINE TIME
Statement Showing Travel en- North
Capitol Street Line hat Does Not
Warrant IA Five-Minute schedule.
Bids Opened-Minor District Mat
ters and Daily Orders.

. The police authorities started cut To-Day
to enforce the new Ia in respect to the
measures 10 he employed in the sale Of veg
etlbles, and number OF dealers received
notice to abandon the old '.pecks," half
pecks'' and 'quarter-pecks."
Then arose problem. The new meas
ures could not lie obtained, the old ones had
to be thrown aside, and Il dealer could not
dispose OF his products without weighing
them.
Those affected by the order paid visit
TO Tie District building, and appealed 10
the Commissioners. A consultation WAS
had, Gen. Bond, scaer ur weights and
measures, was sent for, and Tie result is
that the law is suspended for one week.
Dealers have. therefore, until next Mon
day To substitute the new for tile old meas
ures, and Announcement is made that the
lawful sizes will then he obtainable.
All bids submitted recently for u site for
the Western High School have been re-
jected by the Commissioners, and an order
WAS issued today to solicit other bids under
new specifications.
SITES NOT ELIGIBLE.
The reasons assigned are that the sites
named are not i'll all respects eligible, and
the Commissioners believea better selection
can be made by extending the boundaries
of the territory within which property may
be offered.
The new boundaries will be all that
was included in the old, with an extension
on each side TO Thirty-fifth street west.
An additional inspector in the water
department OF the District government
is to be appointed soon, and the Civil
Service Commission has been asked TO
examine the candidates.
Eids were opened at tie District build
ing today for the contract or grading sub
urban streets. with results as follows:
c. II. Eslin, Illinois avenue, II
cents yer cubic yard: Massachusetts ave
nue. extended. "a cents; Bismarck,
Princeton. Yale, Harvard and Columbia.
10 cents.
Wunam e Ciaffey. Illinois avenue
81 cents per cutie yard,
| y yI,aSuG X %, massachusetts, avenue
| % cents per cubic yard: Yale, Bismarck
! Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia, 10 :
| cents.
C. b. Muiiin, Massachusetts avenue,
| Is 3-i cents per cubic yard.
| Darius Gaskins, Illinois avenue, 16 cents
| per UnIr Nara: Massachusetts avenue eA
| tended. . cents: Risr arck and the oti:el
| streets named, Is cents.
| Lewis y. Simpson, Illinois avenue, 81
| cents per cubic yard.
/ NJ. y. Knight. Illinois avenue, 81 IL
cents per cubic yard: Massachusetts ave
nue. extended, "a - cents.
Richard Horn and Thomas Mccormick
| Illinois avenue, 1872 cents per cubic yard
| Massachusetts avenue extended, 40 cents
| Bismarck and the other streets named, D.
cents.
James Frawley Illinois avenue. 81 cents
| per cubic yard: Massachusetts avenue ex
tended. 20 cents; Bismarck and the other
streets named, "a cents; James O'Day
| Illinois avenue. Ii 3-i Ccats per cubic
yard; Massachusetts avenue. / 5 A cents
] Ohm F KiIleen, Illinois avenue, 25
cents ber cubic yard: Massachusetts, ave
nue. extended. % "a cents; Yale and the
other streets named, 81 cents.
R. Seek, Illinois avenue. Is "a cents
per cubic yard.
Andrew Gleason, Illinois avenue, 1S L.
cents: Massa chusetts avenue extended, Is
cents: Yale, Bsmark ami the others named
Is cents.
Allen X Co.. Massachusetts avenue ex
tended, 2s cents per cubic yard.
Lyons Bros. IlliBnis avenue. 10 cent
per cubic yard: Massachusetts avenue OK
| tended SO cents: Yale, Bismarck and th
others named % 81 cents.
THE ECKINGToN LINE.
The manager OF the North Caplto, Stree
branch ofthe lexington and Soldiers Home
Railway was before the Com IL issioncrs to
! day with protest against the proposed
fiye-minute schedule or that line, and
stat ed that there was rot CROUCH travel ovel
the line TO Justify such a change.
A statement made UP by number o
the conductors was submitted by the man
ager. showing the rumier Of passenger
carried over that line by each car durini
several recent days. from which it az
peared that each car carried an aggregat
Of frum four 10 eight Passengers only, am
the manager argued from his that the con
pany cannot afford to adopt a schedul
which will double the service.
The order of the Commissioners which
caused the statement TO he prepared re
Quired the company to run its cars owe
the North Capitol street line. as well a
over the trolley line to Brookland, OF
a schedule which would give a car ever,