Evening star., 1901-03-12
AFFAIRS IN NORTHEAST
DISCUSSION OF INTERESTS BY CIrI-
zENs' ASSOCIATION.
Declaration I'm Favor of Change i'm
Date of Presidential
Inauguration.

At the regular meeting of the Northeast
Washington Citizens Association, held last
night, communication was received from
the East Washington Citizens Association
asking for an Endorsement of the report of
that body concerning the plan to increase
the number of parks and public spaces.
The report was indorsed and the committee
to which 1t was referred was instructed to
confer with committees of other associa
tions In reference to the matter.
Chairman Tucker, of the committee on
proposed legislation. submitted a verbal
report on such items contained in the Dis
trict appropriation bill of interest
to the people of East Washington. An ap
propriation of S39,IJO was made, he said,
for the improvements of streets in the
northeast section. This amount is not
large as was desired. Mr.. Tucker said but
was not so bad after ALL" Almost as
much money was appropriated, he said, for
the suburban streets as for those In the
city. For the city streets the appropriation
liz S150.OO0, while that for the suburbs is
$146sU0. or the latter appropriation, he
added, the sum of 800 is to be spent on
the suburbs in the northwest section.
Northeast Washington. Mr.. Tucker said,
Jared well In the matter of appropriation
for sewers. He mentioned the several
items Of the bill which have already been
printed in The Star. and referred to the
pumping station, which, he predicts, will
do grand work. A new school at Trinidad
was also provided for.
Railroads and Schools.
Chairman Frizzell of the railroad COM
mittee said he had no report to make.
President Tucker said now that the all
road bill had been signed it was the in
tention of the association to see that the
work is carried on according to law. A
number of complaints, he said, had been
made lately about the obstruction of street
crossings along the line of the railroad. He
said he had no doubt Maj Sylvester will
detail men on the crossings to make ar
rests if his attention is called to the OBJ
structions.
Mr.. Lang, speaking on the school ques-
tion, said there had been a great improve
ment in the schools since Superintendent
Stuart took charge. The teachers. he said,
had improved in their work because they
are no longer teaching in fear. He spoke
of the good work done by the teachers of
the kindergartens. and told of school chill
dren being taken to a bakery and shown
how bread is made. Then he said they
were taken to place where cows are kept
to show from where the milk supply comes
Major Burke said he realized the good
that is accomplished by the kindergarten
teachers and told an amusing incident in
volving the cutting of a paper that he had
laid aside for safe keeping His little grand
CIuQ ldu cut paper, anu lie was lOlu
that the cutting Of pictures from papers
had been taught the child at the kinder
garten. He sincerely hoped, he said, the
teachers would not conclude to take the
children to brewery to teach them how
beer is made.
The two commissioners who acted favor
ably upon the question of changing the
stopping of the cars from the far to the
near side were praised for their work.
Major Burke said that rule for the
stopping of the cars would ever suit every
body So far as he was concerned, he
would like to have the cars stop at the
corner where he happened to be at the
time he wanted to get aboard.
DIR. Kirby, as chairman of the sanitary
committee, said he favored the change for
the reason that there will probably be some
lives saved after the rule is changed. The
doctor then branched off to another topic.
He said quite number of cases of sick
ness had been caused by the inclement
weather the 4th of March, and he moved
that the association vote on a proposition
to change the date of the Inauguration
from the 4th of March to the 4th of May.
Mr.. F'riZZell suggested that the present
inaugural committee, Of which Mr.. Edison
is chairman, should be perpetuated for the
purpose of effecting the change mentioned.
DR.. Kirby then presented a resolution
which rected that 'it is the sense of the
Northeast Washington Citizens Associa-
tion the present executive committee on in
auguration of President should be perpet-
uated for the purpose, among Others of
exerting it's influence in favor of PROPOSE
tion to change the date of the inauguration
from the 4th of March to the 4th of May
DR.. Kirby, speaking in favor of the reso-
luton, said that the change was absolutely
necessary, and referred to the number of
inaugurations when the weather was bad
No one, he thought, could question the
wisdom Of the change unless the members
of Congress should object, because it might
lengthen the sessions. The motion was
adopted unanimously and copies of the
resolution will be sent to persons interest
ed.