Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-10

| eligible applicants to decline appointment
when informed that their pay would be
out $40 per annum. Therefore I most re-
spec1ully recommend and urge that these
forty privates be allowed 800 per annum,
and they are included in my estimate
Anacostia Police Station.
Your committee calls your attention to
the necessity for new precinct building
IN Anacostfa, and requests that you recon-.
mend to Congress an appropriation of
sufhcient sum for that purpose. That SUBJ
urb has increased wonderfully; the coun-
try surrounding ii is being built up rap
| idly. 1t therefore ought to have protec-
ton of a full number Of patrolmen. The
men themselves ought to have the protec-
ton from the inclemency of the weather
that a suitable building VIII offer. 1t calls
| your attention to the efficient work done
by the force in the suppression OF gam
bling, and says that 1t Is gratifying that
park policemen are now clothed in blue in
stead of green much to the relief of the
wearer of the green.
1T recommends to the Board Of Trade
that it give its hearty Endorsement TO the
establishment Of national bureau OF
Identification, also to the need of n suit
able building and site Tor new Police
Court, and emphasizes this item by pre-
senting to you this fact, that the revenue
derived from the Police Court was $4,000
more in 1902 than the expenses of the
court. There seems to be no good reason
why relief should not be given to a money
making concern when it asks that a part
only of its net revenue be used to make IL
more efficient by housing IL in building
of sufficient size and sanitary in every par
ticular.
The Public Schools.
You have been particularly fortunate IN
having as chairman of the committee on
public schools a man who gives his whole
heart to his work. who loves children and
respects sex. and whose hand and pocket
book are ever open to relieve distress-a man
who is willing to give much of his time
in the interests of the schools of Washing
ton as he does in his own business; there-
fore your committee is one that you can be
proud of, ! know you are proud OF all
your committees. Where is there man in
the city of Washington who would give
three solid weeks of his time in the prepara-
ton of the work of an event in any public
matter where he in no way can he pecuni-
ariy benefited? And yet this chairman has
performed this work year after year with
out complaint and has placed before the
90, coo school children ideas and sentiments
which will increase their usefulness in life,
will make them remember the good men
who have stood up before them and have
spoken to them on public questions of In
terest. and have inspired these children with
loyalty, PATRIOTISM ana good cltZenShlp-
This man says something about public
schools, and he recommends for your con-
sideration several items, as follows:
"a new eight-room school building in
Mount Pleasant.
Relief in the sixth division, where, in
the Webb and Pierce School buildings. there
are but eight schools each, while in the two
buildings there are twenty-three schools in
actual operation, fourteen of them being
halliday schools
Relief should be given to Ivy City and
Petworth. He recommends increased build
ings attached to the Mckinley Manual
Training School and the Armstrong Manual
Training School; urges that active work
shall be commenced upon the new Business
High School; urges the erection of north
ern high school, new building for the white
and coored normal schools; urges an ap-
preparation by Congress of money sufficient
to buy school sites for future needs (and in
this connection | recommend to you the
purchase of school sites throughout the
whole District, locating them here and
there as commission may determine buy
ing them today for one-tenth or one-twen-
tieth of the amount IT will cost the District
when 1t is called upon to purchase when
actually wanted), and urgently recommends
the passage of a truant law and the erec-
ton of truant school,
Public Buildings and Grounds.
THE year 1904 will be a marked one be-
cause of the number of large improvements
which will be commenced and in the course
of construction in that year: The Union
railroad station the municipal building
the New National Museum, the Business
High School, the House of Representatives
office building, the new building of the
great new Columbian University the many
new school houses the great railroad
bridge and tunnels, and overhead railroad
construction, the new Department of Asri-
culture building and the many buildings
which will be erected by private enter
prises. 1t is suggested that work on the
municipal building should be commenced
even prior to the completion of the final
plans by contracting for the excavation
and placing of foundation walls to level OF
main floor
Your committee urges prompt action by
Congress on The Police Court building APP
preparation, and gives cosent reasons for
its contention, it also does when dis
cussing the necessity for the erection OF an
armory suited to the wants of our military
organizations, and for use also at times
when large conventions held here. as
well on that most important occasion the
inauguration of the President OF the United
States.
The public buildings committee report
is comprehensive; your attention is directed
to it as being worthy of careful study.
River and Harbor Improvement.
Recommendation is made by this COM
mittee that the channel of the Potomac
river be improved so that ships of ordi-
nary tonnage can come to our wharves
and docks, that is to say that the channel
of the Potomac river from its mouth to the
head of navigation should be improved so
that sailing and steam vessels can reach
the wharVeS of Alexandria, Washington
and Georgetown, even should said vessels
draw much twenty-four feet OF
water. AT the present time vessels draw
ing nineteen feet of water cannot
reach this city. The government is hamp-
cred in its work because il cannot load its
transports to their full capacity In the
transporting of coal from Norfolk to the
Washington navy yard. Its transports cam
not be loaded to more than three-f ourthS
of their capacity, because if loaded to their
full capacity they will not be able to pass
over the bars of the Potomac river.
This committee recommends that the
channel be not less than Twenty-Five feet
in depth in mean low tide from the Poto-
macs mouth 10 the head of naviec tfon