The Washington times., 1901-08-31
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT.
A Specimen of the Letters the Com
miss:oners Sometimes Receive.
Ingenious Rhetoric. bad Grammar,
and Strange ChfrOgraphy - views
of Residents of Goat AIIey-Amend-
ments to the Hospital Plans.


and Strange ChirOgraphy Views
of Residents of Goat AIIey-Amend-
ments to the Hospital Plans
The mails of the Commissioners fire.
! quently contain communications that are
very striking in photography and chirog-
raphy. Generally these missives excite
no comment beyond being handed around
among the clerks in the correspondence
division, and the peculiar mistakes in
| spelling and certain quaintness of express
sion are noted and sometimes laughed
about Some of these in the dull period
| of the summer make what an old editor
used to call Interesting reading" One
such was received by the Commissioners
| yesterday from the residents of Goat AL
ley, which is reproduced below:
I'VE the undersign residents of Goat
Alley, n. W. and citizens. of the united
| States, du here by make applica-
| ton to the Hornable Board of commits
sioners asking that the stoones in goat
| alley be removed and some kind of Belgen
| Blocks or fire Brick be laid in their sted.
| for the Amount of Rent which We has to
pay from time TO time gives US the right
| to believe that it will testify us in have
| ing better foot way.
| the stoone are very rough and dist
| grable under foot, and from the way that
they are 1t goes to show that they were
never laid in a machanic form.
I'VE disires to keep ii clean the sweep
| ers comes once aweek to perform their
| duty, and we residents useis our eXur-
sions to back them up in their way of
J keeping the alley clean but through all
they can du and all we can du 1t seems
J
turble rough.
I'VE truley believe If the alley was
Blocked II would be In more respectable
condition for reason they officers would
i not have it so rough under foot persueing
after their intruders, another reason as
the bad characters would move out good
thinking people would move in. whereas
the condition of the alley now, few re-
spectible people that cares to move in
the account of beaing filed with dis
ordiiy characters comeing in.
''it is not always the people in these
corts that gives the law so much truble
but IL is a few bad ones that moves in
and intices others from all directions
rushing the growler both men Boys and
girls not Regarding what they du or Say
and all they du are Cancelled from the
law by the same class, and the respecti-
BILE part has to be denoted of the same
repute, SIMPLIFY because we have not they
majoyity to Rull them out, under these
circumstances as other alleys In differ
ent parts of the City has been improved
we beg your attentshion to the same,
hopeing that our report VIII claim your
simpithey in the way of giving up some
thing fit to travel upon which We truley
believe you will for trulry believe that 1t
is from the dilabidated conditions that
causes NANNY to go down to perditshion.
which at the same time there Is always
space for improvement
furthermore we are satisfied that there
are propity enough In this alley to jestity
all improvements that your honarDIe
wish to say that the way these cobbles
are laid they are not fit for man or beast
to travel upon.
''the majority of goat alley Residents
to be trying to amend their steps In the
way of liveing and abideing more In the
law and also in the fear of God we has
good Meetings in the alley on Snndys
| and we would Disire to have eveary ac-
| comidation TO incurage the ones whome
God has sent out to declare his word wo
| a perishing would. --'s.
Therefore we now commit our COM
plante in the hands of the honarble board
| OF commissioners for their concideratlan n
| Hopeing that It will meet with their ap-
proyel and give us a hearing at their
! leisure.
! The Commissioners since the issue Of
| the programme of competition for the
| plans and specifications have been In con-
| sultation with several architects. Upon
! their representations and to further the
matter of securing suitable plans for all
| the buildings, they have amended the pro-
| gramme in the following particulars;
| THE front elevation, cross, section, and
| floor plans of the buildings will be on a
| scale of one-sixteenth of an inch equal
| ing one foot, instead OF one-eighth OF an
| inch equaling one foot, as named In the
| programme. br.
| '"The ground plan showing the grouping
| and arrangement of the buildings ana
proposed treatment of grounds will be on
| a scale of one-thirty- -secend of an inch
| equaling one foot, instead of one-sixteenth
| of an inch, equaling one foot, as named
| in the programme.
'',The larger scale drawings will be per
| mitted however in case work upon them
| has already been commenced.
| THE competing architects VIII not De
| required TO submit an estimate OF the
cost of each of the buildings and OF the
| institution complete, but the right is re-
| served to call for estimates subsequently
| If the same are desired.
| plans will be received up to noon OF
| October 25 1861, instead of October 10, as
| named in the programme, and the archi-
| tect to aid the Commissioners in ad1udg-
| ing the competition must be named by
| November ], 1871.
George Lee Orr, of 1122 Eleventh Street
northwest, recently asked the Commits
sioners If they would accept a portrait
| of the late BENJAMIN G. Orr. Mayor OF
| Washington, now in the possession of
| Major John NJ Orr, of Leesburg Va, in
| order that the same may be placed in the
benjamin q. Orr School. at Twining city,
ID. e.
| Commissioner Macfarland yesterday
| moved that the donation of the picture
| be suitably acknowledged, and that the
| picture be accepted with the thanks of
| the District for the purpose named.
| Edgar Frisby, of 1907 Thirty-frst Street
| northwest, recently addressed the Com
! missioners enquiring by what authority
| telegraph poles were being erected or
| Thirty-first Street. The matter was re
| ferred to the Electrical Department, and
| Walter G. Allen. the Electrical Engineer
has asked that Mr.. F-isby be Informed
| that the poles being distributed along
Thirty y-first Street in Georgetown are in
tended for use in the side streets between
Thirtieth and ThiIty-first Streets, and not
in front of the writer's premises.