The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-07

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the use of the United States and the Dis.
trict Of Columbia,i 9bez electric lighting
companies are Tedhifed. al all times ID
furnish to the pubic ami to private ccr-
surleTs in all parts OF the District stand
ard arc lights of not less than /. 900 actual
candle power. at a rate mot exceeding S72
per annum for eachiarc light; and on and
after the 1st day of June. 1891. the maxi
mum price OF electric current sold or
| furnished TO any consumer in the District
Of Columbia must be reduced from the
| present maximum Of 10 cents per kilowatt
hour to not exceeding 10 cents per kilo watt
! hour. "
If consumers other than the Government
do not pay monthly electric bills within
ten days after they are presented the
companies may charge them IL cents per
I kiiowatt hour
Under the head Of tie Fire Department
three instead of two. assistant chief en-
! gineers are allowed. and the salary Of the
| clerk is increased from $500 to 81 goo For
| an additional stable in the rear of No s
engine house s., 600 is allowed, and for
improving and enclosing the grounds Of
| the Georgetown engine house and for pro-
| yiding a paved entrance thereto, 81 600.
| In the telegraph and telephone service
( the following additions are made: For
| superintendent 81 sec: electrician, 81 200:
| inspector Of lamps, 81 coo; three inspect
ors. 5000 each, and the appropriation for
! general supplies, repairs, etc, is increased
| from 81, 00G to $4,000.
! Under the head of courts two. instead of
one, deputy clerks are allowed, at 81 500
each and two instead of three deputy
clerks. at $1,000.
new paragraph in the bill appropriates
81. geo for defending suits in the United
States Court of Claims. and another allows
$4,000 for the care and improvement of
Rock Creek Park.
For the support OF convicts, S4S, 000 in
stead OF $4,000 is appropriated, and for
support of prisoners Si3, coo instead of
s41 O00 l., allowed. The appropriation for
contingent expenses at the Washington
Asylum is increased from $50 900 to $50 000
and the following new appropriations are
put in the bill: For building and furnish
ing a receiving ward that will protect the
hospital from contagion and disturbances
of all kinds SIS, 600; for special hospital
supplies and appliances, $500; for repairs
in the female wards, 1000; for plumbing
in nurses home. 500.
For a house OF detention for children
under sixteen years of age, and for girls
and women over that limit an appropria-
ton OF $4,000 is provided.
The Police Department.
Under the metropolitan police. thirty-five
lowed, fifty instead of twenty-five privates
OF class l. 900 instead of 200 of class 9,
twenty-oEe instead of twenty station keep
ers, eleven instead of ten laborers, twenty
five instead of twenty-three drivers. and
the salaries OF the drivers are increased
from $3.50 to $40 each
The appropriation for contingent ex-
penses under the Police Department is
increased from 500 $500 to s25, 900.
An appropriation OF s., SEQ is made for the
construction of an assembly hall at the
Reform School, and the following sums
are allowed for salaries for officials of the
Reform School for Girls; Superintendent
81 600 treasurer. $500: inatron, $500; two
teachers, at s4sO each; oyerseer. s72O; four
teachers of Industries. $3.50 each; engineer.
$3.50; assistant engineer, 1850; night watch |
man. $500; laborer. $500; $1,000 is appro- |
priated for the maintenance of the school |
and $1,000 for furnishing the new build |
ing.
For the erection OF a new four-room |
school building for the Industrial Home |
School, $50, 600 is appropriated. and the fol-
lowing additional appropriations are al
lowed under the head of private charities:
Church orphanage, st. Johns Parish, ST.
500: St. Joseph's Asylum, $500 and for
the INDECENT blind OF the District. 81, 900.
The following additional appropriations
are provided for under the head OF i'm
provement of county roads:
For grading and regulating Blagden Ave
nue., 1000; for improving Bladensburg |
Road from Fifteenth Street northward. |
SO, Geo; for grading aud matchmaking
Frankfort, Twenty and Twenty
fourth Streets. Langdon. $1,000; for grading
and macadamizng Erie Street, $500
For improving Connecticut Avenue west
Of Rock Creek, 1000.
For grading Illinois Avenue s.. geo.
For grading and regulating streets in
sub division, s., SEQ.
For completing the paving OF Nineteenth |
Street eXterded, between Florida Avenue |
md Columbia Road, $3.50.
For grading and matchmaking Eleventh |
Street extended, between Florida Avenue
md Lydecker Avenue. 800. eco
For grading. repairing. pavement of gut
ers, and improving Thirty-seventh Street. .
between New Cut Road and Tenleytown /.
Road and other streets il Burleith addi-
ion, 40g0 .
To construct masonry retaining wall !
Cincinnati Street and Woodley .
Road, $4,000.
The appropriation for sprinkling, sweep .
lg and cleaning the streets, avenues, etc. .
S made to include the cleaning of snow !
nd ice from crosswalks and cutters, and 1
S increased from $40 900 to $40, 600 ::
Disposal of Garbage. :.
An amendment provides for the collec- ;,
ion and disposal OF ashes and similar :;
efuse in connection with the street clean :.
lg service and appropriates $40, 900 there :,
or. Seventy thousand dollars is allowed ::
Or the collection and disposal of city :.
'aste, including garbage and dead ami Z
lals. An additional appropriation of $40 :.
90 is made toward the construction of a q
ridge across Rock Creek on the line of !.
Connecticut Avenue extended. !:
The following additions are made in j.
with the Washington Aqueduct: I.
or repairing the by conduit, Delecarlia {:
eservoir, 10000: for building combined ::
torehouse and stables at Great Falls,