Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS
UNFINISHED CONDITION OF TEN
LEYTowN sUBsTATIoN.
About $2, 900 Needed to Complete It
MIR. George W. King Discusses
District Water Service.

pleted SO far as the appropriation goes ana
it Is estimated that 1t win require between
$1,000 and 5000 to complete the building
according to the desires Of the department.
While the station Is equipped with sewer
age service, there is no system in the vii
lage where 1t can drain. At present there
are several private sewerage systems in
operation in Tenleytown which operate on
the surface drainage system. Although
nothing definite is known as to the ultimate
plan for the disposal of the sewage It is
believed by citizens of the vicinity that
patent system will be Installed at the SUBJ
station. because 1t will be fully four or five
years before the sewer department Is en-
abled to have service at Tenleytown. The
work on the Oregon avenue sewer, which
will be the main trunk service for the part
of Tenleytown. Is far from being completed,
although several hundred thousand dol
lars has been expended and perhaps two
miles Of the sewer constructed. When COM
pleted this trunk sewer will drain the west
ern part of Tenleytown.
District Water Service.
Mr.. George w. King of 1925 32d street to-
day addressed the following open letter to
the District Commissioners:
TT is conceded that the United States
government has control Of the Washington
aqueduct. and incidentally the entire water
supply Of the District of Columbia, yet 1t Is
astonishing that the District, partner IN
the big enterprise Of supplying water, and
one-half sharer In the expenses incident to
the work, does not make more of an effort
to reduce many Of the expenses and to more
economically use the great water power
practically within its grasp.
THE taxpayers Of the District cannot I'M
derstand how the Commissioners can quiet
ly sit without making a protest to Secre-
tary Root against the granting t. the
Great Falls Power Company control and
authority over certain water rights at the
Great Falls. which power could be 50 eco
nomically developed and applied to the
working Of the pumps that are now and
will be In the future erected in connection
with the filtration plant and in the fore
ing Of water to the higher points Of the
District.
1.-The amount of money which is now pro-
posed to be spent for steam machinery for
the before mentioned purpose of working
pumps. etc, will be more than sufficient to
erect first-class electric plant at the Falls
on government property. The current could
be applied to electric engines in place of
the present and proposed steam machinery,
and thousands of dollars saved annually, in
the shape Of coal, employees, etc.
This principle, so simple and economical
in its application. will probably not meet
with the favor Of the parties now connected
with the water department of the District
of Columbia, who seem only too anxious to
build up costly plant, thereby having an
excuse to increase the water rent in the
future
Gen. r. ]. Meigs' idea of economy in the
cost Of the water supply and the reduction
of and ultimate extinguishment of the
water rents Is entirely ignored.
Sailor Drowned.
Herman Laurosch, a Frenchman, aged
twenty-five years, a sailor on the schooner
r. Mason. tied up at the docks at the foot
of Both street. fell overheard from the boat
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was drowned. The body was recovered
about o'clock. It. is supposed that the
man fell asleep, and losing his balance,
pitched into the river. The body was re-
moved to the morgue, and Coroner hewitt
issued a certificate Of accidental death.
Charles Sherman is captain of the schooner
and Is resident of Baltimore.
General Items.
Private Spencer Roberts Of the seventh
precinct accidentally slipped into an area
way in the front of a row of dwellings in
course of construction on 3Oth street, be-
tween Dumbarton avenue and o street, last
night, and sustained severe bruises on the
right side of his body.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at ST. Adams
Episcopal Church over the remains of Miss
Luella Willet, who died early yesterday
morning at the Georgetown University Hos
p1tal. rev. u. u. r. Bdtennani, pastor, Will
off1ciate. Interment will be made at Con-
gressional cemetery.
The firm of Van Deusen & Sampson has
commenced the construction of a livery
stable on 32d street, just north of the canal
The building will be two stories in height,
will cover about quarter of an acre of
ground and will cost 50 600. 1t is expected
that the building will be ready for occu-
pancy before December.
The engagement is announced Of Mr..
Enlfh Of
Katie Donahue of Springfield, Mass. The
marriage is to take place October 20 at
Trinity Church
The recent garden party held on the lawn
surrounding Trinity Church for the benefit
of the new parish hall and school, netted
little less than thousand dollars The
affair was most successful. the proceeds
being greater than the most sangu1ne an
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