The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-25
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT
A Complaint of Foreign Matter in
the Garbage Cans.
The Washington Fertilizer Company
Objects to Certain Practices by
HousehoIders Further Protests
Relative to Changing street Names


Objects to Certain Practices by
HousehoIdcrs Further Protests
Relative to Changing street Names
The Increasing amount of foreign mat
ter received with garbage collections is
the subject of complaint filed with the
Commissioners by the Washington Fer
tilizing Company. the concern which has
the city contract for the removal of gar
bage from the District. The complaint
is voiced in two letters, one from the pres
ident Of the company, NJ. NJ. Parker. and
the second from A J. Morse, superinten-
dent of the garbage crematory.
Broken shells tin cans. crab shells. and
other foreign matter is what the objection
is aimed at. and Mr.. Parker claims that
It costs the company about sos per an
mum for extra help to remove this foreign
matter, besides extensive damage to press
cloths in the factory, even q greater loss
TO the company. Mr.. Morse says:
II beg to again call your attention to
the large amount OF fors ign matter, which
is daily received with the Washington
garbage. such tin cans, broken crock
cry, clam shells, glass, and. indeed, al
most every other species OF refuse mat
ter. The service of two men have been
almost constantly used at the factory en-
dcavoring to separate this refuse before
Il gets into the digestors. il is impossi-
bic, however, to fully accomplish this,
and much OF the glass, crociIery, and
other substances gets into our presses,
which as you well know, ruins our press
cloths, and destroys our press racks, The
expense in connection with this is con-
stantly growing and becoming a very ser1-
carting away the cans, and already ii is
matter of considerable moment what dis
position We shall be able to make of this
refuse.
II have been told that in Baltimore the
collector will not remove garbage that
has these foreign substances mixed up
with it,
Warner Stutler the Superintendent of
Street Cleaning, informed Commissioner
Ross yesterday, that a printed copy
of the regulations had been placed in
every residence in the District where gar
bage is collected The regulations provide
that no foreign matter shall be placed
with the garbage, and also, that the gar
baSe collector can refuse to collect gar
bage under such conditions. The regu-
lations also provide for the placing of
refuse matter, such as mentioned in the
letter of Mr.. Morse, in separate recepta-
cleS even from ashes. The collector of
ashes takes away this refuse in sacks
ana II " disposed of in an entirely diff
ferent manner than the ashes.
What action will be taken to enforce
the regulations in view of the complaint
has not yet been determined on by the
Commissioners.
Three additional letters. protesting
against the proposed change of names for
suburban streets have been received by the
District Commissioners. One communica-
ton. written by Rear Admiral Thomas
Selfridge, U. S. N, is addressed from
jamestown, r. l., where he now is. His
letter follows:
Il have been informed that it is con-
templated by you to change the name
'Kalorama Avenue on the corner of
which and Columbia Road have erected
an expensive residence, TO Yates Street
If / am correct L wish to make an earn
est protest against such change. The pres
ont name has been in use for a long time,
and a change would produce confusion
of location.
'Kalorama' is an Indian name, long
applied to the locality where the avenue
in question is found, of euphonious sound,
and well adapted for a long and impor-
tant avenue like the one in question, con-
Meeting Eighteenth Street and Massachu-
Sets Avenue. On the other hand, the
name Yates is Insignificant, and has no
local significance, nor historical to my
knowledge.
IT the name must be changed, though
] know of no good reason for such agi-
tation, let it be after one Of the States
or Territories, not already applied
The second letter is from T. A. Whit
tinston. rs Quincy Street, transmitting an
al.
heads of family and others, residing on
Quincy Street. protesting against the pro-
posed change of the name of that street
70 Quinn Place Mr. Wilmington says
that If the change can be prevented by the
Commissioners, the petitioners will be
under lasting obligations.
The third letter is an extensive COM
munication from Francis NJ. Cox, en-
gagged in the legal profession at 4l6-ils
Fifth Street, and an extensive owner OF
lexington real estate, who submits his
views regarding the proposed nomencla-
ture OF streets in subdivisions in the
northeastern and northwestern sections
of the District. He says:
Being the owner of improved real es-
tate at the corner of Fourth and V Streets
northeast, in the subdivision known as
Centre lexington, 1 beg leave to submit
very briefly some views / have regarding
the proposed nomenclature of streets, as
set forth in the recent report OF the As
sistant Computing Engineer.
My suggestions relate exclusively TO
subdivisions in the northeastern and
northwestern sections within the original
alphabet of the city, but outside OF tlori-
da Avenue; such as lexington, Centre
lexington, and Bloomingdale, and Le-
Droit Park. and / express the views of
rome other property owners of those sub
divisions as well as my own.
FLORIDA Avenue. which originally FORM
ed the northeastern boundary of the city,
takes a southeasterly direction, thus hi
secting a number OF the lettered streets in
the northwesterly and northeasterly sec
tions of the city, from W Street north
west, to + or g Streets northeast
BY the proposed plan of nomenclature
1t is proposed to change the names of all
these streets from the crossing OF Flori-
da Avenue eastward; w Street becoming
Writ, changing to Vail, u to Uhl, and
so on The effect of this will unquestion-
ably be, not only to perpetuate Florida
Avenue as the original boundary OF the
city, In conflict with the spirit of recent
and contemporary legislation, but to Gre
ate and Increase rather than reduce con-
fusion In the ascertain. ent of localities
il viii also. in the opinion Of real estate
men OF this section, in which / fully con-
cur, tend to impair the value Of real es-
tate in these subdivisions, and thus oper-
ate as an unfair discrimination against
them. The fact of being within the orig1-
nal alphabet OF the city has been deemed
TO be, and doubtless, is, an element of
value 10 property in these favored Ioca-
tons; but this fact win no longer be self
evident after the proposed nomenclature
has been adopted.
III must appear to your honorable
Board upon the merest inspection of the
plan of proposed alteration that there
VIII be considerable element of confu-
SION ana incongruity 10 a stranger who
starts out for drive along that fash
ionable thoroughfare of the northwestern
section of the city known as O Street to
IND himself suddenly in Quarrel Street