The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-01-11
EAST WASHINGTON MEN
WISH IMPROVED STREETS
Paving Occupies Attention
Of Citizens Association.
DISCUSS PENAL COLONIES
Their Removal, It Is Believed, Is Nee
essary to the Prosperity of
the Section

At the monthly meeting of ,Gc East
Washington Citizens Association last
night in Donneu's Hall the repo~t Of
the committee on streets and alleys
was submitted by the chairman. A
Gtrouard- The report was accepted with
q few changes and is to be submitted
70 the Board OF District Commissioners.
The schedule Of streets and avanHes 10
be improved IS as follows.
Northeast section: Streets and ave
nues to be paved: p Street. be
tween Eleventh and Fourteenth Streets
three sQuares): Ninth street. between
II and Florida Avenue two ~quares)
Twelfth Street. between B and 9 Streets
zone square)- Street. between Ninth
Street and Maryland Avenue -four
squares and q half; 6 Street Is paved
from the railroad tracks 10 Fourth
Street, and the five squares from Fourth
Street 10 Ninth are included IN The es-
innate Of appropriation Tor 1903: Eighth
Street, between H and X Streets 1.-TWO
squares}; Eighth Street is paved from
East Capitol Street 10 Maryland Ave
me, and the paving or the street in
question from Maryland Avenue. IS in
cluded IN the estimates Of appropriation
for 1904; East Capitol Street. between
Fifteenth and Nineteenth Streets three
squares); Tennessee Avenue bet.eon s
and Fifteenth Street -four eduarcs):
North Carolina Avenue. between lin
coin Park and Fifteenth Street two
squares.
South Side Section.
Kentucky Avenue. between Lincoln
Park and Street tone =quarej; Twelfth
Street. between Lincoln Park and D
Street three squares): B Street. be
tween Eleventh Street and Kentucky
Avenue 1.-TWO suuaresl: c Street. between
Twelfth aud Fifteenth Streets three
squares)-C Street is paved from South
Capitol Street to Seventh Street. and the
four squares between Seventh Street AMI
Twelfth Street are included in the estt-
mates of appropriation for 1904: D
Street. between Ninth and Eleventh two
squares); Tenth Street. between B and
c tone square)-the squares from c 10
D are included il the estimates of ap-
preparation for 1903; South CaToHna
Avenue. between Eleventh and Thir-
teenth Streets 1.-TWO squarcs): Z Street
between Fifteenth and Nineteenth -four
squares) South Capitol Street from c 70
z Streets two squares)
Recommended for Grading.
The streets OF avenues IecommeEded
for grading, regulating. anu maca 1snafz-
ings: Kentucky Avenue. between 3
Street southeast to Pennsylvania Ave
nue. (six squares: Seventeenth Street
from E Street southeast TO Pennsyl-
vania Avenue three squa~es); Georgia
Avenue, from Eighth Street to Ninth and
from Eleventh 10 Seventeenth.
Particular attention was called in The
report. TO the improvements of Tonnes
see and Kentucky. Avenues. which are
considered a necessity by the committee.
They would give the citizens of Wash
ington a thoroughfaTe from the north
west section Of the city TO the southeast,
and from the southwest TO the northeast
TEe-totaI amount Of estimates of APP
propriatIons Tor street improvements
submitted 70 Congress through the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury by the District
Commissioners for 1904 are as fol-
lows Northeast section. 1852 see; south
east section. ST. SEQ. southwest section.
$50. 700. northwest section, $4,000,
Georgetown. 81. 600
Concrete Block Favored.
resolution was passed by the asso-
citation that he District Commissioners
be requested TO use concrete blocks il
preference to sheet concrete whenever
possible
The president Of the association
Thomas W. smith. then discussed the
rsmoval OF the correctional institutions
IN East Washington 10 some place out
side the city limits. Provision has aIread.
been made to remove the almshouse and
the potter's field But the District Con-
missiouers have already built an addi-
tIonal wing 20 the Jail and are cont lem
plating The construction Of another The
presence Of this institution and the
vorkhouse Is said 10 be injurious 10
property values IL the southeast sec
lion