The times., 1898-09-13
WILL Al ACT With VIG0R
Northeast Citizens Discuss
Grade Crossings.
OLD QUESTION REVIVED
Committee lCriticises the ID. & o.
Road for Delayed improvements
Association Inquiries Into Taxa
tfOn ON College Property with IA
View to AbOlishing Exemptions.


ISOLATION met last evening at the North
east Temple, corner of ii and Eleventh
Streets northeast. 1t was the first meet
ing held by the association since its ad
journment for the Summer months last
June. There was large attendance and
President Evan H Tucker was in the
chair with MIR. Sowerbutts as secretary
An interesting feature of the meeting
was the reading of the prize essay on the
reclamation of the Anacostia fats, writ
ten by Miss Texie NJ. Townsend, by the
secretary, Mr.. Sowerbutts. The essay
was one OF twenty-nine written on this
subject by the pupils of woods College.
prize for the best having been offered
by Mr.. T. w. Smith.
Mr.. w. ]. FrizzeIl, chairman of the
committee on railroads, submitted a re-
port which was in part as follows:
Grade Crossings Discussed
According TO newspaper accounts the Balti-
more and Ohio Company is, and has for some
time been, drifting into a state of hopeless
Insolvency, and foreclosure proceedings NAV be
necessary to bring about a reorganization unle S
the several conflicting and antagonistic interests
became reconciled either through compromise or
night To the finish with survival of the fttest
Notwithstanding all this, Engineer Commits
niohti bidch III JHttFSisN on tuE }ln oil h1rcn
last, stated that an agreement had been reached
between the District Commissioners and the Bal
tmore and the Baltimore. and Ohio Company by
which. as he informed, within one year
after the company is authorized by Congress TO
make the proposed changes, they will have been
completed. He said The company will submit
bill to Congress in the early days of its next
session authorizing il TO proceed with the pro,
posed improvements and. 50 far as the Baltimore
and Ohio Company is concerned. grade crossings
in Washington will be things of the psst within
n year from next January"
Your committee are OF the opinion that with a
vigorous agitation against the antiquated grade
crossings by this association and the citizens of
Washington in general, Congress Will be
persuaded that the capital city should be pro-
vided with modern steam railroad terminals.
street improvements.
Mr.. II. II. Martin, chairman of the COM
mittee on streets and alleys, submitted
the following report:
Notwithstanding the fact that only per cent
OF the streets in the northwest section remain
unimproysd. and that most OF these have been
graded and regulated, and in fairly good
condition, larger appropriation is made every
year for the Improvement Of streets in that
section than for the northeast, where 6e per
cent OF the streets remain unimproyed, most Of
which In very bad condition; many of them
being in state of nature, with not even sidewalks
or CUTTERS.
annual appropriation of sl50,000 has been
made for resurfacing and repairs to concrete
payements, and this year that amount has been
increased to SlS0. .0c0 and il view OF the fact
that there are seventy-three miles of such pave
ments in the northwest, and only twenty eight
miles in all the other sections OF the CITY, (only
nine miles being in the n6sdheast), it is evident
that large portion OF this appropriation Is ex-
pended in the northwest section.
In view of this justice required that change
| be made in the method OF apportioning the sp-
| propriatons for street improvements, and we
recommend that in the future the apportionment
be based solely or mainly upon the percentage of
unimproyed streets in the several sections. We
| further recommend that the association exert
its influence TO secure larger appropriations for
| this work in the future than have been made
| in the past.
The committee also recommended a
! number of parts of streets in the north
east section of the city for immediate i'm
provement.
After lengthy discussion the report
| was adopted.
Tax on College Property.
| In response to a letter from Mr.. w. ].
| Frizzell to the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia asking for a list of real
estate, taxable and exempt, held by the
| Georgetown, Howard. Catholic and Col
umbian universities, Assessor Mathew
1 lrlfnDle 1uTnlSned ine LOlloW.As udld.
| Georgetown Uniyersity-Taxable prop
erty, S23, ,3G9; property exempt, s649, l4S
Howard University-Taxable property
$4,000; property exempt from taxation
$l99, $40 Catholic University-TaXablt
property, $500; property exempt from
taxation, $685. POS. Columbian University
Taxable property. s55, ,261; property exemp
| from taxation, $2l0.s1s
1t is the purpose of the association II
agitate this subject with view of having
the whole of the property of these anC
similar institutions placed on the tax list
| After brief discussion of the acctden
| which occurred on the Baltimore and OhiC
| Railroad on Sunday night at Delawar,
| Avenue and II Street, when one of il!
engines collided with a street car on the
| Columbia Railroad the following resolu
tion. offered by Mr.. FrizzeN, was adopted
| Resolved. That in view of the occur
renee last night at the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad crossing, whereby the fender o
a cable ear was cut off by a Baltimore
and Ohio locomotive, the committee or
steam railways be directed to request tbs
commissioners 10 station an officer at +
Street crossing to protect the passage Of
| cable cars"