Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
BUSINESS DISCUSSED
OBJECTIONS TO PLACING Ii
BRARY IN LINCOLN PARK.
Protest Against Proposed Undertak-
ing Establishment on East Capitol
Street-Other Matters.

Ter, vice president of the organization, occu-
pied the chair in the absence of President
Smith. One of the matters discussed was
a suggestion in a communication from the
Northeast Washington Citizens Association
for cooperation in the matter Of selecting
Lincoln Park as the site for one OF the
Carnegie branch libraries 1t was explained
that the executive committee at recent
meeting concluded it would be improper to
send the other association favorable re-
Spouse. Several members of the associa-
ton participated in the discussion last night,
Directing to appropriating the largest park
in East Washington for building of any
kind. BY a unanimous vote the association
declined to render the assistance requested.
Mr.. Weller spoke briefly of what the
Fifty seventh Congress did for East Wash
fngton, and said the people of the section
mentioned should feel that they are to be
congratulated. In addition to liberal APP
preparations for sewers and other District
improvements, he said, Congress provided
fer the enlargement Of the navy yard. which
will mean the employment of 1850 addi-
tional mechanics. Reference was made to
the late Senator Mcmillan, to whom credit
was given for the success of the union sta
ton project. The many improvements, he
| stated, mean employment for thousands of
persons and increased business on the part
of merchants.
Mr.. Weller referred to the Eastern mar
ket and said he hoped the increased trade
will be followed by the erection of a much
better building than the present structure.
Mr.. j. w. Babson said that Mr. Weller
had failed to tell of the failure of bill in
which the association was interested. He
spoke of the bill to appropriate 500, 900 for
the extension of the .workhouse across
Massachusetts avenue, for which he
thought every member of the association
should be extremely thankful.
Mr.. Weller, in speaking of what had been
accomplished by the association during the
last session of Congress, spoke of the pas
sage of the Seward Square resolution He
thought there would be no trouble in get
ting an appropriation for statue from the
next Congress. Reference was made to the
proposed statue Of Jefferson, and Mr.. We'll
Ter said that East Washington is the only
appropriate place for it,
Delivery Of Tax Sale Deeds.
A resolution introduced by Mr. Williams
rectted that by virtue of an act of Congress
of July 1, 1902, the Commissioners Of the
District of Columbia are delivering tax
deeds without any previous public notice
of sales or the reporting of the sale to
the recorder of deeds, as has been the Gus
tom in this District, for more than
quarter of a century, and that in many
instances the guarantees of tax deeds do
not record the same for some time thereaf-
solved by the East Washington Citizens
Association that the Commissioners should
be urgently requested to adopt a regua-
ton requiring that on each tax certificate
hereafter issued, it shall show on Its face
the fact that an application for tax
deed is then pending, or that tax deed
has been issued, and to whom issued with
the date thereof, on the property covered
by the said certificate, under the said act
of Congress- whenever such is the case.
Mr.. Williams explained the objects Of his
resolution and 1t was adopted. The secre-
tary directed to transmit a COPY of
the resolution to the Commissioners.
Mortuary Establishment Opposed.
Mr.. Berry presented a resolution reciting:
THAT 1t is the sense Of the East Wash
ington Citizens Association that some
measure should be adopted by the District
government to prevent the location of I'M
dertaking or mortuary establishments in
residential communities in which such an
establishment may prove detrimental to the
interests of the property owners, or OBJ
jectionable to the residents thereof"
In explanation Of the resolution he said
1t had been reported that establishment
of the kind mentioned is to be erected at
East Capitol and Sd streets. The property
owners and residents, he said, We're con-
siderably agitated over the affair. Funer-
ais would be conducted from there and
dead bodies would probably be kept there
from day to day. Such an establishment,
he said, is not pleasant to contemplate. He
thought each neighborhood should bear it's
own sorrows and that such establishments
should not be permitted in the residence
portion of the city where they are not
wanted. There are strict regulations gov
erning other business places, he said, and
he saw no reason why this business should
not come under some regulations.
protest against the proposed structure
for the use stated, Mr.. Berry said, has al
ready been sent to the Commissioners, and
he asked that the associa ton adopt the
resolution Several members participated
in a discussion of the question and the
adoption of the resolution followed.