The evening times., 1896-09-18

The health office crusade against dealers
in unsouud foods advanced d step fur.
ther today, when inspectors j. X. Mothers
head and william Ii. Hoover swore out
warrants against Cealers IN meats, alleS-
ing that they sell ana expose for sale un-
wholesome meat, being unfit for use, and
against the laws of the District.
Those named in the warrants are: Will
liam jenkins, a bucaster, living on l.
street northwest; John II. Cox, 1923 New
Jersey avenue; Harry Avery, Center Mar
ket; David O'Conneli, -22S Il street south
west; Edward Nincoop, l413 Columbia
road; \. ID. Gaegher, Center Market, and
Francis Seymour, buckstcr, who is
charged by Robert Bankitt with selling
unwbolesome fowls on ID street.
The warrants were issued this afternoon
and will probably not be served until to-
MORROW. They are only a foIeIunner CT
what is yet TO come, AS The inspectors have
on their lists Ermbcr of other dealers,
whom they intend to charge with a like
offepse
VINEGAR ADULTERATIONS.
The following warrants have been sworE
out against grucers on the charge OF adu-
terating vinegar, in addition to those named
in THE Times this morning: w. T. Ashby,
800 street northwest. Willis johnson,
73l Seventh street northwest; Morris ..
Horton and Roy L. Horton, Third and
StTptUS HDEtuWeSt, i1D
Fourteenth street northwest; Jacob Rieh!,
sol Fourteenth street northwest; B. l..
Osborn, First and ID streets northwest,
]. Hall Semmrs, I1O Twelfth street north
west; Middleton q. and Charles II. Ger
man, OILS street; James Holmes and Louis
Holmes. First and L streets northwest;
Frank r. Daley, Second and + streets
northwest; Isaac II. Rucker and Bensa-
min l.. kucker, 2l1 Twenty second stIeet;
James Brown, go Second street; Ella f.
Mitchell, 800 Fourth street northwest.
Frank L. Buttenield, T22 Fourth street
northwest: Edward Hogan, sol New York
avenue northwest; william II. Hammersley,
523 Second street northwest; John W
Coon, second and streets northwest.
In the vinegar cases Assistant district
Attorney Mullo why continued the trial OF
those arrested yesterday until Thursday
next, when he VIII endeavor to dispose OF
them all at one time.
HEARD A DELEGATION.
A delegation OF the Northeast washing
ton Citizens Asso citation had a talk with
the Commissioners concerning street I'M
prOvements, grade CROSSINGS and safety
gates.
They asked for the improvement by
inacauaniiZirIg and gravelnng OF Tenth
street, between street ard Florida avenue;
Sixth street. between ii and n streets;
T. Street. between Sixth street and Florida
avenue; X street. between Seventh and
Twelfth streets; Callan street, between
Sixth and Seventh streets; Eighth aud
Ninth streets. hrt wecn h and Florida
avenue; Eleventh street. between Massa-
chusetts and Maryland avenues; Della ware
avenue. between X aud N streets, and
Third street. between II and l. streets.
Also the following suburban thorough
fares:
Twelfth street, between Florida avenue
and Mount Oliyet road, Gales street be
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth street.;
avenue, between Florida avenue
and NJ street The report was presented by
Ii. II. Martin.
Through Mr. FrizZell, the request was
also snade that safety gates should be re
quired at railroad crossings, and that the
h. Il o. Company should keep watchmen
at each gate, night and day.
President Tucker. of the association.
called attention to the crossings, and |
said the citizens are entitled to the use |
OF the whole OF each public street. He |
hoped that Third, Sixth, H, X, and l. |
streets would be pat in the schedule for |
so that by the time the
Baltimore aud Ohio Company shall >be |
ready, il it ever is, To elevate its tracks
the needed improvements may be made.
The delegation was composed of Mcssrs |
Tucker, Martin, Frizzell, Agate, SUwer
butts, Burke and Rose
Judge Jere Wilson. president OF the Gran
ford Paving Company, came before the
commissioners today in behalf of his com
pany and asked that the award of a con
tract for cement work in the District, for
which bids were recently received, shall
bc withheld, and that the beard leave
open the question as to what firm shall
10 the work, giving each property owner
who pays one-half the expense of laying
his sidewalk the right to cfoose the firm
no fnr NJ M, ,nff IA ma rti In
The argument advanced by Judge Wilson
vas that the Commissioners are not obliged
)y the law to advertise and place Under
the sidewalk work; that, in TACT
he laying OF ravements should rot tie az
sregated, since the Commissioners canno.
inow in advance that any part of the work
will be done.