Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-23

! cents: three-pound package 10 cents: four
| pound package, l. cents: tive-pound pack
age II cents: six-pound package. Ii cents:
S.Nen-pound package, ~ cents: eight pound
| package. 20 cents: nine-pound package -
cents eleven-pound package. "a cents.
Saving to the People.
Il; has also been estimated that about
Sl'n.Oeo,0O0 would be saved to the people of
this country in time, trouble and expense
which they are now put by reason of being
compelled to receive their packages at an
express office. which is an average distance
of many miles from the average receiver
| of the package.
| Were our manufacturers permitted to
reach the markets of the world through the
mails at the same cheap rates enjoyed by
iielr foreign competitors. many millions of
i. dollars worth of small articles of COM
emerce and manufacture could be exported.
| II Is therefore clear that If We, the manu-
| lecturers and merchants of Washington and
/ the United States. are to find new markets
| for our products in foreign countries, We
| must at least be able to stand upon the
same footing with foreign competitors.
| Give us the same aid and assistance in
securing foreign trade that our competitors
| enjoy and the products of American work
manship will invade every part of every
| country on the globe. where trade ia known.
from The Wild of the untutored saw
| age to the busiest commercial marts of The
enlightened Caucasian
| Public School System.
| 1T is a matter of personal pride to me.
as it would be all of you who are in
! terested in the welfare of our school, 20 he
| able to state that by the will of our board
| of directors l was enabled TO write. a
| time when the discussion was warmest a
| letter to Senator Allison. urging that one
| not a bona-tide resident of the District for
| five years Immediately preceding his ap-
! hal he eli for he.
! of school trustee. 1t was my privilege also
! to urge in this letter that the appointment
/ of these trustees should come through The
| Commissioners. not through the President
! So that our schools may be under the direC-
! ton OF actual residents of the District of
Columbia. men whose interests are localized
! here. as Illustrated by a long residence in
/ Washington and participation in bust
| ness and municipal affairs. 1t is gratifying
| to be able to report that both of the sug-
Sestions as proposed We're adopted and in
corporated IN the bill which became law.
Washington Convention City.
| Interesting as has been our social life,
which is designed monthly to bring
! gether in pleasant intercourse our member
ship and to discuss in open assoca ton mat
! tiers previously considered by the board Of
directors, no less energetic has been our
aim to attract to Washington the con-
vention city all large organizations and to
contribute by individual effort to the pleas
!
There remain many things yet to be ac-
complished. We wish Washington to be the
grandest city in the world. architecturally
complete, with surroundings beautiful and
lacking in essentials of magniiicence.
A few millions of dollars will do it. The
south side Of Pennsylvania avenue from
18th street to the Capitol must be grand
that other highways in other cities VIII
fade into insignificance. We look to
roads and streets extended. our sanitary
condition improved by better water supply.
We want municipal building worthy OF
| the capital of the nation, and a Police
Court building that would not be a disgrace
| to it. All these and many other things
| wish and are united upon"
Secretary's Report.
The report Of Secretary Buckley follows:
ut Is very gratifying for me to be BILE
to state that the association has, during the
year passed, despite the changes that must
necessarily ensue where a membership Is
SO large and the interests Of it's members
diversified, maintained its personnel prac-
tically intact.
I'VE have upon our rolls TO members.
and the demand for admission to the asso-
citation Is steady and Indicative of the i'm
press its good work has made upon the
community.
"The deport of our president having COW
cred in detail the salient features of
! record for the year, it merely becomes my
duty to append herewith my report, which
agrees with the financial statement OF
Treasurer Staples.
1905, $40, 49, receipts during the year.
81, 453; total, So. los III.
.EXpendtures-Saiarya and services, secre-
tary's office, 81 1850 so; rent and janitGr ser
vice, $47S5O; postage, $50: telephone. S27.5U:
office furniture, $134.45; banquet at Riggs
House, S2S7.40; stationery and printing,
$101.62; flowers Funeral Lawrence Gard
ner), $40; decorations at reception to Com
missioner Macfarland, $50; expense of meet
ingS, $101.25; check stamps. 81 10; balance
on hand November 30, 1850, S76.24 total,
81, 7oS. 49,
Treasurer's Statement.
o. G. Staples. treasurer. also read his re-
port. which was, he stated, simply IA repe-
tition or what had been already made known
by the secretary. All the reports were
adopted and vote of thanks rendered the
officials named.
A communication from the Tenleytown
Citizens Association, relative to the pro-
posed issue of $1,000, 600 of bonds for pub
lie improvements, payable in thirty years.
one-half by the United States government
and the other by the District of Columbia,
was read and the consideration thereof
postponed until the next monthly meeting
of the association.
A resolution offered by Mr.. W. ]. Lam
bert adopted, to the effect that Com
gress be requested not to take any action
on the proposed new code for the District
until the association has had opportunity
to more fully examine it's provisions