The morning times., 1896-08-19
PROVIDING FOR REFUSE
Commission ers +, Will Place
Waste Boxes on Streets.
INTENDED AS EXPERIMENT
Thirty Receptacles to- BE Swung to
Must Employ Them in Dispensing
OF Paper Scrnps-PubIic Sewers
Ordered

IL was The superintendent OF street and
alley Cleaning department from whom cam e
'iie suggestion of having waste paper re-
ceptacies placed i'll public and convenient
places on the public streets. and yesterda v
the board officially indorsed it by ordering
the purchase of thirty boxes, to be located
as may hereafter De determined
The plans recommended are two, but the
device TO be employed is practically tie
same. 1t consists of a box with an
opening at the top for the reception of the
waste, the bottom being swung on hinges
so that the contents may be readily re-
moved.
These boxes Will be attached To lamp
posts, probably at intervals of about one
square, and the first trial is to be made
on Pennsylvania avenue. The boxes are
| 10 contain the words Waste paper box Oh
! tn" front, So that they may be distlng uished
1 from the letter boxes.
IN OTHER CITIES.
Superintendent McKcnsie has written
To Chicago and Philadelphia, where the
| system Is in vogue, and ascertaincd that
Tie cost there amounts to $4.7b and 50
per box, according to size. but the supe.-
lntendent says he can have them made here
of galvanized iron at from $3.50 To $3.50,
according to grade.
IL VIII he necessary before executing Thu.
| order to obtain permission of either the
Washington Gaslight Company or the United
STATES Electric Lighting Company, for the
USE of the posts or poles. The superin-
tendent prefers the electric light poles for
the reason that many of the gas posts are
used by the United States government
upon which to hang the letter boxes
The purpose TO be served is to prevent
the accumulation upon the streets of all
light refuse, including fruit peelings and
waste paper. Pedestrians will be ex-
pected 10 deposit all such trash in the
boxes.
| -. OFFICIAL ORDERS ISSUED.
The Commissioners ordered yesterday
that Il brick sidewalk be laid in Columbia
street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, under the provisions OF the permit
system, AT a cost of $3.50.
That an additional naphtha lamp he
erected and lighted Oh Nichols avenue,
Anacostia, and the next to the last lamp
Oh Nichols avenue, at the entrance Of the
Insane Asylum, be moved about 300 feet
south OF its present location.
- That an allotment OF 50, coo from the
appropriation for assessment and permit
work To be expended ON country roads nd
suburban streets in the current fiscal year
be approved.
That fifteen feet Of twelve inch sewer
and one manhole be constructed in Four
teenth street southeast, between b and G
streets, al an estimate l cost OF S65. charge
ahia n the "A NJ IN fnr ,,at
and pipe sewers.
The the sewer in F street northwest
between Nineteenth and Tweuty-first
streets. be replaced, at an estimated cost
of S1,703. chargeable to the appropriation
for replacing obstructed sewers.
That the sewer in the west side OF
Four and-a-half street southwest bet wcen
n and o streets. and also u section OF the
sewer in n street. from Fourand-a-half
street westward, be replaced, at an esti-
mated cost of ST ,226. charGcablc to the APP
propriation for replacing obstructed sewers.
That water mains be laid az follows
Nine hundred and ten feet of six-inch in
the north side of North Carolina avenue.
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
Northwest. at an estimated cost Of $S19.
"a. Eight hundred and forty feet of f"ur-inch
in the alleys OF square 449, "A an estimated
cost OF S5SS
Two hundred and twenty feet of Six
inch in Canal street southwest, from C to
First streets. at an estimated cost of S19S
-. PLUMBERS ARE LICENSED
That Joseph II McDermott, Robert Stro-
bel and Lawrence j. Manran shall each
eceiveiicenses as master plumbers and gas
Tor ia fitip,y IA
That a cement sidewalk be laid. OH the
south side of Massachusetts avenue. from
Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets northwest,
under the provisions Of the assessment sys-
TEN, in front of square 81 3, except the west
sixty feet of lot l and lots 1 aud Il.
The Commissioners ordered yesterday
that the unpaid taxes for the years 1890 to
1896, inclusive, against sublot 3S, Of
original lot 10, square GA, be received, ex-
elusive of penalties. The lot is tie property
OF the North Capitol Street Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The taxes were not paid heretofore, for
the reason that the property was carried on
the property books as exempt, and tie col
lection of penalty for each years derelic-
ton, was, therefore. deemed to be an
injustice to the church.
Mr. Nathaniel Mckay. of No. COS Tmr
teenth street recently complained to the
Commissioners of the foul odors arising
from the catcli-basin in the alley Of square
PAS, and asked that the basin be removed.
He was informed yesterday that the Com
missioners cannot consent to the removal.
but that orders had been given to have
the basin ceansed regularly. which, it was
bel eyed, would prevent the emission Of
Odors.