The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-20

lie Declares That the People DO Not
Understand the Proposed S.~teuI.
The Collection and Disposition of
Gurhnge Lends 10 n ContrOV srsy.
Capt. II. G. Newcomer. Acting Engineer
Commissioner. cati,d the attention of
Times D., porter today 90 the details of the
plan for remaining streets ia the suburban
portion Of the District, which is just now
being discussed $50 widely. He said that
it was obvious from the character of the
letters written Co the Commissioners COM
rIainiu.. Of the change in names that heir
writer's do not understand the plan hose
who have written 20 the COmmissl, lers
speak hc said. about the new plan Great
ing confusion. VIII. it is intended 60 stop /
confusion as to the names Of streets and /
to render the finding OF any given street /
easy. OF one thing he said he WAS very /
sure and that was that hack drivers, /
strangers and others would not expert !
encc any trouble In finding the new !
streets. He said there Was confusion now, ]
but that ii would almost entirely be ,lim- /
mated when the new names were applied. /
~ means Of large chart. containing /
the names Captain Newcomer proceeded 7
TO explain the scheme lie showed that /
the plan contempIates the use of names /
phab,t Commencing with what is now
Street and going north over twenty
four Streets. under the plan proposed, the
names will be OF one syllable. and the
names chosen are as follows: Ames, ]
/ Blaine Clay. Dix. Eads, Foot. Grant,
| Hayes. JAY. King. Lee, Meade, Nash. Ord,
/ Polk Quarles. Rusk Scott. Taft, Uhl,
/ Vail Writ, Yates, and Zane.
/ As TO the propr:ety OF using these names
! Captain Newcomer thought that they
/ would compare fayOrably With those now
/ i'm use These names, Of cours7- he said,
would take the place Of those IN the city
/ from the Mall and East Capitol Street
I north and south The idea he explained,
was 10 supplaut the present alphabetical
names by the names Of eminent men. and
their Alphabetical arrangement ne added,
Will answer the same purpose and De Just
I as convenient as the letters Of the alpha
bet now In use.
Captain Newcomer explained that the
plan provides for the naming OF the
. short streets and places between the
longer ones by the following list or
names Ashe. Bache. Chase, Dodge,
Games, FielI. Gales, Holmes, James
Knox, Lloyd MeiEs. Niles. Orth, Pierce,
Quinn, Reed, SWayne, Todd, Ure, Vance,
Wayne, Yost. and Zahn-
Now" said Captain Newcomer, some
one has complained that Quincy Street
is 20 De changed 20 Quinn Place, and IN
that complaint it was mentioned that
such change would cause confusion Now
let us see about that. Suppose a stranger
lands at the Sixth Street station and
wants 70 be driven TO Quinn Place. The
driver knows that Quinn Place is above
! CuarIes Street and between that and
I Rusk Street just as he knows now that
Quincy Street is between = and r. The
/ driver also knows that Quinn Place is in
Z side Of The first twenty-<Our streets north,
because it is a name Of one syllable.
Vow" continued Captain Newcomer,
las we go above Zane Street according to
the plan we start over again with our al
pha betical names but this time with
names Of two syllabIes. 10 indicate that
We have reached the second division Of
streets north The names here are: Ad-
ans. Bryant Claiming. Douglas. Evar1s.
Franklin. Girard. Hamlin, Irving. Jack
sou. Kearney, Lawrence, Monroe, New
ton, Otis, Perry, Quincy. Randolph. Shep-
herd, Taylor Upshur. Varuum. Webster
Naucy. and Ziegler."
Captain Newcomer thought these names
! were just as ineligible as the others and
the fact that they are in wO syllables To-
Gates the division north Of Zane Street
and he thought there need be no Coufu-
, sion in that His idea was that the plan
thus fdT Is about as PLAIN ana simple as
anyone could make il The names in two
Syl4ables for the supplementary streets or
places are Alg1It. Benton. Gushing. Da-
ma. EdmCuls. Fulton. Garfield. Hooker,
Ingalls,. Johnson Kendall, Lamar. Man
ming. NewcOmh. CsgoOd. Putnam. Quit
man. Rodney sherman. Tauey. Upton.
E,Tplauk. warren, Aeamau, !.Hd Zullck.
Considerable complaint has reached the
. | Commissioners Of late relative TO the
/ failure Of the Washington Fertilizer Com
pany to make collections Of refuse
promptly. These complaints have come
from various sections OF the city The
, Commissioners. however. have received
an explanation from the company con-
tracing with the District for the renov-
al Of garbage, which shows that the fail
. ure last week to do the work regularly
was due 10 two causes. one OF them be-
e ing the enormous increase Of garbage
} arising from the use Of green corn and
l melons throughout the city. The weight
Of refuse was thus increased suddenly
! about 100 per cent. The other cause was
the breaking Of a car used by the COM
] pany in transporting the refuse 20 its
Z plant IN Virginia This weakened the
, company-s facilities just at the time when
the transportation facilities Of the com
> pany were strained to their utmost
= The company has also explained that II
! Fee taTnUoraril- chartered a scOW 70 take
I I some Of the garbage down the river I'M
! / I'll the broken car can be replaced II
. | states that the collections are now going
/ on as usual. and that there Will be no
- further complaint on the part Of resi-
Z / dents IN the city.
Andrew p Duvau, the Attorney for the
S District today forwarded 10 the Commis-
10 sIoners his opinion upon the communica-
a .Ion Of the Merchants Transfer and ,tor-
y age Company. stating that in excavating
y for the foundation Of its building on J.
- / Street. between Ninth and Tenth Streets.
{ a sewer has been uncovered running
s through the property The matter was
r. referred TO the Attorney for his opinion
= as 20 the right Of the District 70 maintain
= this sewer. With reference TO that ques-
ton tie Attorney says:
..It appears from the report Of the Su-
70 reriuteudeut Of Sewers that this sewer