The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-03
DEMAND FOR IMPRovEMENT.
4 Loan Suggested as the Means OF
NeetinE ENpenses.

4 Loan Suggested the Means OF
Meeting Expenses
There Is q pressing demand for certain
municipal improvements which have from
time TO time received consideration from
the committees Of Congress. and which.
in the opinion Of the Commissioners, can
not longer be ignored II would be an in
suit to the public spirit OF our national
Legislators to intimate that these Ieces-
sary improvements would for a moment
be postponed If the revenues OF the Dis
trict we're now sufficient to meet the Dis
t-ict's One-hah Of the expenditures re-
quired for their completion
I'll demand includes g municipal
building, the completion of the sewage
disposal system, the construction OF
&ate1 filtration plant, and the installation
OF :, complete system for the maintenance
Of "a abundant water supply TO ali parts
Of tie District
The Commissioners do not believe that
these Important and urgent matters should
be postponed until the revenues OF the
District become sufficient IN amount TO
provide for the payment Of the oDe-half
chargeable to the municipality. IN view OF
their paramount Importance to the very
we'll being OF the people Of the District,
and SO far as the most Of them are con-
eerned, 10 the health of the public officials
residing here, the public works mentioned
should be begun az once and carried to
their earliest possible completion
ITO accomplish this purpose one Of two
plans should be authorized by the Con-
gress-fTst, an advance By the United
States Of the amount necessary 10 meet
the Districts one-hsif Of the necessary ex-
penditures, to be repaid in annual Install
ments: or. second. the issuance Of bonds
to an amount necessary to me9t the Dis
trict's one-half Of the necessary expendi-
lures, to bear interest at the rate of 2 per
cent ger annUm. with the payment OF the
principal and interest guaranteed by the
United States.
1.-THE benefits to be derived from these
proposed public works would enure TO the
benefit of the people Of the United States
and the District Of Columbia during the
next century The Commissioners believe
that it would be g wise policy to make
these improvements for the Washington Of
the future, and to pledge future revenues
for the payment Of the same"
The Commissioners say, with reference
70 the proposed improvement Of the Ana
costa River by the Federal authorities,
that they regard this proposed improve
meGt as one Of the highest Importance to
the best interests of the National Capital.
In support of this view they say that
report upon the location and number OF
submitted by the Health Department shows
that, in the northeast section Of the city,
with a population of IL per cent Of the
said total, there were found q per cent Of
the total number Of maiaTial cases; in the
southeast section. with 10 per cent Of the
total population, II per cent of the total
number of malaria1 cases were found, and
east OF the Anacostia River, with per
cent o. the total population, the number of
malarial cases amounted to II per cent Of
the total.
Speaking OF the act or Congress creating
the Board Of Charities the Commission
ers state that the people of the District
were gratifed by the appointment of s. W.
Woodward, John Soy Edison, Simon Wolf
George ". Cook, and Charles P. Neill as
members OF this Board of Charities They
promptly took up the work assigned to
them by the act of Congress and will be
prepared to submit the preliminary report
respecting it at the coming session of
Congress. transmitting, IN the mean time,
an estimate for substantially the same
appropriation as was made last year for
the institutions under the supervision OF
the board. It is believed that this board
viii be able to carry out the purpose of
the act and thus bring about better sys-
TEN of public charities