Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-20
.BICYC1ERS' BABIES
Parents Can Again Take Their Tod
aers On Their Wheels.
OBJECTIONABLE REGULATION REVOKED
Waste Boxes Ordered for Use
Upon tho Streets.
BRIGHTWooD ENGINE HOUSE

Those owners of wheels. mostly parents.
who recently appeared before the Commits
sioners and entered vigorous objection to
the clause in section So article TO- Of the
police regulations, providing that no per-
son other than the person or persons pro-
pellfng any bicycle shall be permitted to
ride --on the same, have won the fight
Hereafter they may take the little ones for
an airing on the wheels to their hearts
content, for this afternoon the Commits
s1oners signed an order repeating the OBJ
noxlous clause.
The section, as amended. now reads: mo
bicycle shall be propelled across any in
tersectfng street in the city Of Washing
ton at q greater rate of speed than six
miles per hour, mort at greater rate of
speed between intersectlng streets and
avenues than twelve miles per hour; nor at
q greater of speed on any public street
OF roadway outside Of said city than fifteen
miles Der hour.
And the person or persons propelling the
same in violation of this regulation shall,
upon conviction. be fined not less than 81
nor more than $40. and every bicycle shall
at all times be under control Of the rider"
Waste Boxes for. Streets.
The Commissioners this afternoon direct
ed the property clerk Of tho District of Co.
lumbia to procure thirty boxes, substan-
TALLY Of the design submitted In the COM
munication Of the street and alley cleaning
department, and described in The Star
Tuesday last. The boxes are to be made
Of galvanized iron. % by 10 by IA inches in
dimensions. painted and lettered Waste
Boxes. and formed to fit the posts to
which they shall be attached.
1t Is stated in the order that the boxes
are to be used as receptacles for waste
paper and other light refuse. and to be
placed at such points in the District as the
superintendent Of street and alley cleaning
may designate. The price to be paid for
furnishing and erecting the boxes, 1t is
stipulated, shall not exceed $3.50 each II
made to fit tapering posts and "a each If
made to fit straight posts
Brishtwoods Engine House.
1t Is understood that. the Commissioners
have informally decided on the location
for the new fire engine house at Bright
wood The board late yesterday after
Iiooh' personally viewed the sires offered
and reached an agreement as to the plot
to be purchased. or course the price
and the condition of the title will figure
largely in the deal. The Commissioners.
the site they have decided on. but this
afternoon declfned to disclose its exact
locality or the name OF the owner.
Proposals..
Proposals were opened this afternoon at
the District building ror grading Connec-
ticut avenue and Harvard street in the
suburbs The bidders and their offers were
as followa
Gaskins & StEang. Connecticut avenue
1! cents a, cubic yard. the work to he COM
pleted in 40 days; Harvard street, % cents
100 days.
Henry Voigt.- Connecticut avenue, Is
cents d cubic yard, the work to be COM
pleted in 100 days i,
II.
a cubic -ysrd, the work to be completed in
I 12D daysJ.'H ~
Horne & Hussey. Harvard street. q 122
cents cubic yard, the work to be COM
pleted in 80 days. n@-= -aa' o-f
Andrew Gieeson, Connecticut avenue.
16 l12 efd'rs cubic yard the work I'd be
completed in 100 days: Harvard street, %
cents cubic yard. the work to be ON
pleted in 80 days.
g. B. Mullin, Connecticut avenue. 10
cents a cubic yard, the work to be COM
pleted in 119 days: Harvard estreet, % IA
eeHrs Il cubic yard. the work to be COM
pleted In 40 days. 20: Ie1!.G'--t' .',.Hea %
Bids for Asphalt Paving.
Proposals for laying asphalt pavements
in the District were this afternoon opened
at the District building. The bidders and
their Offers were as follows:
+, Barber Asphalt Paving Company, 6-inch
base sl63 square yard: s-inct base, 81 SO
:, 1dual y dIu, teSuFiaclls over cobble,
sl,io square yard; furnishing and spread
ing binder. $50 a yard. 81" .
'Bermudez Asphalt Paving Company-Six-
inch base. $1.15 a square yard: eight-irch
base. $1.95 a square yard; resurfacins over
oebble. 53 cents a square yard; furnishing
and spreading binder $3.50 a yard,
w ashington Brick and Tile Company
Stx-inch base. SLIT a square yard: eight
inch base. 81 a square yard.
School Estimates for lS97-'9s.
Messrs. Jesse Fl. Wilson. George H. Har-
ries, D. H. Hazen and l.. A. Cornish, repre-
senting the board of school trustees of the
District Of Columbia. visited the District
building late yesterday afternoon and urged
that the Commissioners forward to Con-
gress the estimates prepared by the trustees
Tor the school year 1S'1-pS, with all the
items included as recommended ParticuIar
stress was paid to the needs of manual
training and new school hlIiIdin.rs