Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-23
MEETS WITH OPPOSITION
1arketmaster Williams Solution of a Local
Problem is Condemned.
Cttfsens and Dealers File a Protest
with the Commissioners, Giving
Grounds of Objection.

The recent report of Marketmaster Will
| Hams to the Commissioners of a solution
OF the market situation. which provided for
the location of the country people on the
east, west and southern spaces OF the
market. has provoked considerable oppo-
sition ON behalf CT the country people and
others In the locality, who are Interested
IN the matter. petition has been cir
| euiated and signed by all of the country
| people and number OF the residents in
the locality, protesting against any change
in the present arrangement of things. The
Petition. which was dated September Is.
was presented to the Commissioners today
by Mr.. Augustus Grimes.
The Protest.
1t is as follows:
The undersigned. citizens and business
men Of Georgetown. having a due regard
TO the interests of the public. humbIy rep
resent that in our judgment the produce
wagons from the adjoining farms of Mary
land and Virginia should not be parked
and backed up against the sidewalks en-
the market house space between NJ street
and the canal, for the following reasons:
FIRST because there is a hay scale for the
puoic use IN the rear Of said market house
occupying at least forty feet of space next
10 the NAL. which could not oe used at
all on market days, because of the p-.s-
ehce or produce wagons. Second, because
on this, the 18th instant, there are twelve
or n1teen wagons backed up to the east
side of the space on tine market space
proper, and no produce wagons on the
west side Of the market house preferably
on the east side because of the shade.
ihird, there. at this hour (l03o a ND, not
less than forty wagons are backed I'D on
Potomac street and Prospect avenue
preferably on the east side because of
shade and convenient to the public with
out having to cross the dangerous double
tracks of the Capital Traction Company.
Fourth, because IL the wagons were forced
to be parked and backed next the present
market house on the east and west sides
there Is not half the space sufficient for
their use. neither would the public willing
ly cross the above named double tracks to
DO their marketing, and thus the produce
wagons would be necessitated TO leave
west Washington altogether to find sale
Tor their produce
Justice Johnson's Comment.
At the bottom Of the petition Justice OF
the Peace Oliver r. Johnson of 122s 32d
street has the following to say:
Il beg to certify to the truth of the above
facts, without recommendation as to
changes"
The business people of Georgetown who
have signed the petition are: M. V. Fisher.
LIZ Potomac street: F. V. Ofutt 321s NJ
street: A +. Reynolds. 1909 Potomac street.
Geo. Elmer. 1904 and 12O6 Potomac street:
C = q; Elmer, 1860 Prospect avenue:
Sauter. 12l2 Potomac street Mrs J. H.
Biumenberg. 1222 Potomac street: j. w.
Hunter, 1220 Potomac street: William H.
shoemaker. 1210 Potomac street. Thomas
Garrison, 1211 Potomac street: Rhoda
Harris, 122l Potomac street: Charles Rey-
noids. l201 Potomac street; Henry Burke,
l.lS Potomac street: Philip johnson I2l4
Potomac street: Frank Howard, 1919 Po-
tomac street, and James o. Cation G. Sons
Those Who Sign.
The country people who have signed the
petition are: William T. Dove Montgom-
cry. Nd; Maria Morton, Cherrydale, Va:
Fanny Lee Cherrydale. Va: James Heath,
Falls Church. Va; William E. Hall. Great
Falls. Nd; James w. Wren, West End,
Va; Thomas L. Magruder, Cabin John,
Nd; Louis Harding, Cabin John Nd: Ell
win T. Wren, Fairfax county. Va; Henry
Smith, Alexandria county, Va; Wilfred
Faulkner, Fairfax county. Va; NJ f,
scn EaS, B ahn Va, Lewis s David
John. Md; James ii. Houser, Cropley, Md;
benjamin r. Hamilton. Cabin John, Md:
Albert Houser. Potomac. Nd; Chas Hard
lrg. Cabin John Md: Stephen IL. Carlisle.
Potomac. Nd: Henry NJ. Faulkner. Fair
fax county, Va: VIM r. Embrey, Cabin
John. Md; j. w Slater. Potomac, MI:
Alexandria. Va: William Hill. Potomac.
Nd: Levy G. Devaughn, Arlington Va:
Nelson Wallace Alexandria county, Va:
Alfred Fastian Alexandria county. Va:
Newton Robertson. Falls Church Va;
Conrad Bauch, Fairfax county, Va: G. c.
Walk ar. Fairfax county, Va: A. +. Follin,
Fairfax county. Va: F. A. Kirvy, Falls
Church. Va; Thomas Green. Fairfax
county, Va: Mrs. Magruder Cabin John.
Md: Mrs. ]. w. Wiley, Fairfax county,
Va: George Anderson. Arlington. Va. S.
j. Easton, Fairfax county, Va: James w.
Evely, Montgomery county. Nd; John c.
Lanham. Fairfax county, Va: Elvert
Clagett, Rockville, Md; Julius Scott, Ar
lnGton, Va; Hannah Brown, Alexandria
lria
county. Va: Anna Dixon. Cabin John, Md;
Ellen Goldman, Arlington, Va.
Sale of Manchester and River Queen.
Monday and Wednesday,. October is and
20. the receivers of the Mt. Vernon and
Marshall Hall Steamboat Company,
Messrs. James S. Edwards and Enoch l..
White, will sell the company's lands at
and near Marshall Hall, and the steam