The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-01


ing of the time when one political party
will not want the earth
Representative Grout May every man
in the twentieth century do his duty 10
himself and his neighbor. May every
twentieth century man obey the Golden
Rule"
Representative Jet: May the people
who govern and who shall all come after
US, strive to carry out in this Republic
the ideals Of its fathers
Representative Kitchin: 81 hope that
the great problems that now irritate US
shall be rightly solved, and that no other
porplexing problems shall come upon us
Representative Lorimer:. Let us hive
a system of legislation wherein it viii be
impossible to ruin one mans bus ness
that another mans business may be made
more prosperous"
Representative Davis: Il wish that the
twentieth century may bring plenty to all
mankind, and that northers may stay
away from Florida
The District officials.
H. B. f. Macfarland. President of the
Board of District Commissioners: Il
would like to wish every man, woman.
and child in the District of Columbia =
happy New Year as we cross from the
nineteenth into the twentieth century. 1
wish for everyone that real and lasting
| happiness which comes of unselfsh liv-
ing, under a constant trust in God. Happy
! is the people whose God is the Lord
Il wish for the District of Columbia
all that it needs to make it, in every way,
| Capital worthy of the greatest pa ion
in the world. l hope, and believe, that
IN the new year we shall be able 10 be
| gin an improvement of the District which
| VIII go on throughout the new cen Jury
and viii make this the most splendid Capi-
tai in the world. l hope, and believe,
I that as We build up and beauty the Dis
] trict we may also make steady advance
! in moral and intellectual improvement"
John w. Ross, Commissioner of Tie
/ District: Looking to the needs OF the
/ future and placing one good thing he
/ lore another, l earnestly wish that the
1 coming year may give us the beginning
Of new municipal building"
Capt. Lansing II. Beach, the Engineer
/ Commissioner: L wish to see during the
coming year the beginning of work on the
municipal building, the execution of the
sewage disposal system at a rate which
! will complete 1t in five years the begin
ming of the reclamation of the Anacustia
Flats, and the work of abolishing grade
! crossings l think that if authority can
be obtained for these Improvements it Will
be the banner year OF substantial prog
ress in the District of Columbia
H. H. Darneille, Assessor: 7 desire
that all interests of Washington may get
| together and formulate scheme by
which the annual taxes may be paid with
out seeming a burden and source Of COM
plant to the citizen. That Congress may
see fit to increase the force in the offices
of the Assessor and Collector that they
viii be able TO properly perform the du
ties assigned to them"
E. G. Davis. Collector OF Taxes: my
wish is that the payments to the District
may be made in such manner as not to
overwhelm and drive 10 distraction the
Office force on the three days before as
sessments are DUE
DIT. william c.. Woodward the Health
Officer: u wish that the present wave OF
smallpox which has oyerspread the sur
rounding country and finds Washington
magnet will quickly spend its force and
return TO oblivion, where it belongs"
Warner Stutler. Superintendent of the
Street Cleaning Department: My best
wish for the New Year is that the Street
Cleaning Department may be granted an
appropriation sufficient to enable us to
make Washington the cleanest city in the
world, and that our citizens may be so
happy that they will have no further
cause for complaining pens and pencils
Walter C. Allen. the Electrical Engi-
neer: MY New Year wish is that the man
who wants a telephone, but who refuses
TO allow the wires to be strung over his
premises, and his next-door neighbor. who
also waits a phone, but who objects TO
the tearing up Of the street for placing I
the wires underground, will get together
and present a solution of the problem to
the department Also that the man who
sits on his front steps in summer in the
cool and pleasant shadow of the screen on
the electric light in front OF his house
will sympathize and be patient with his
opposite neighbor who complains of the
excessively strong light reflected on his
steps by the aforesaid screen"
Thomas J. Fisher, Superintendent of
Lamps: AT the threshold OF new year
and century my wish is: That I may be
able, with liberal appropriation, to meet
and grant the requests OF our citizens as
sociations, and few others who have not
the honor in the matter of placing street
lights in those portions of our great and
growing District needing same, not only
that the lights may illumine and show off |
the beauties of our wondrous Capital, but |
that the posts supporting the same may
be of the same service TO the citizen who !
wends his way home IN the wee small |
hours as that SO ably portrayed by the |
comic artists
George S. Wilson, Secretary to the Board |
of Charities: May the new year afford
some evidence that the time will come
when prisons and poorhouses Will be need !
ed TO more
The Commissioners Secretaries.
DR.. William Tindall, Secretary TO the |
Board of Commissioners: Il wish the !
English language contained a prcnoun of |
common gender, and then / wish that |
everyone had just enough work to keep |
him, her. or it comfortably busy with
high wages. Labor is ownership the
wild bee is singing but she sings to
better purpose when there is plenty OF
honey in sight"
Clifford Howard. Assistant Secretary of
the Board of Commissioners: 1T would
prove to me a source OF personal gratif- /
cation If during the coming year soEle one
in authority would have the roof removed
from the tower Of the city postofice
Such roof on battlemented tower is
about as effective. from an artistic and
practical point of view. as a derby
perched on the crown of a silk hat"
Frances !. Nye, secretary to Commits
sloner Ross: MY earnest wish is that he
people Of the District may receive so
much through the appropriation bill that
they will have less cause to call upon the
Commissioners and consume their valu-
able time
81 also wish that the tide Of prosperity
which is now flowing over the land NAV
never ebb; but that II Will so increase
in volume this year that ] may be lifted
by II and fioated into harbor even more
comfortable than the one in which / am
at present moored.''
Moncure -5urke, secretary to the En-
gineer Commissioner: Il desire to receive
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