Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-16
DEMAND OF CITIZENS
NEEDED AT CON-
GREss HEIGHTS.
Mass Meeting Held at Which Resolu-
tons Were Adopted Setting Forth
the Towns Demands.

A mass meeting of citizens of Congress
Heights was held at the town hall last
night, the object being to urge the Com
missioners to extend the sewerage and wa
ter systems to Congress Heights, to supply
additional street lights to that suburb, and
to urgently request the Improvement of
Asylum hill. The street car service. which
was declared to be unsatisfactory, was also
discussed at length.
The meeting was presided over by Oliver
A. Emmons. president Of the Congress
Heights Citizens Association, and w. NJ.
Sirfch acted as secretary. Chairman EN-
mons stated the object of the meeting, and
expressed his views to the best methods
to pursue to secure the improvements de-
manded. He told of visit made by himself
and Col. Arthur E. Randle to the District
commissioners, the presentation of the re-
quest noted and the evident desire of those
officials to comply. He also stated that Col
Randle had offered to donate to the Dis
-trict one mile of right of way, extending
from Nichols avenue to the Anacostia river.
for the sewer.
RESOLUTIONS prepared by Mr. Emmons
were read and unanimously adopted. They
rec1ted that Congress Heights has been
transformed in the past nine years from a
neld OF waving corn to a town of more than
100 houses, on graded streets with a popu-
iation of more than LOCO people; and urged
mat water and sewerage be s11pplied To
e0nsress Heights because of the following:
me iahd surface is level and should be
drained There is no water to be had in
case or fire. this condition having been cited
In report of DR.. Godding a former SUI
Terintendent at the Hospital for the In
sane.
1t was also declared that there is not a
proper water supply for more than 300
children attending Congress Heights School
The Sewer Drainage. 90,
Sewage at present of engine house drain
partly upon the surface of subdivision
and partly upon the street surface
Two churches ask for sewerage and water
supply
Inc y-borrowing value of the land is
rapidly decreasing because of the lack Of
drainage and water.
Consideration of public health demands
that the pumps of the town should be filled
and city water supplied also that box
closets should no longer be tolerated in
del sely populated subdivision such as Con-
g1ess Heights 1t was claimed also that
the people of this suburb pay annually more
than $4,000 into the District treasury. and
con parison of the location of the water
mains and sey erage for the city suburbs
will show that this request is one which
asks for less than its citizens deserve.
The next business transacted by the
meeting was the adoption of a resolution
regarding the condition of Asylum Hill.
1t was set forth that the hill between
Anacostia and the north gate of the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane is in such
bad condition as to greatly interfere with
travel to and from the city, and the Com
missioners are requested to take such ac-
ton, at once. as they may deem necessary
to put the hill in good condition
The subject of street lights was next
given consideration and disposed Of, a res
olution being adopted reciting that the
citizens and taxpayers of Congress Heights
and residents thereof hereby petition the
District Commissioners to place in and
around Randle Park twenty-four lights
This place is so situated it was de-
clared, that it is not only impossible to
travel in safety on account of darkness
but is unsafe to life and limb. The nearest
light to the residents is the one situated in
front of chemical engine company No. 5,
located on Nichols avenue, the distance
from the light to the park being about FIVE
squares"
After discussion of the street car service
between Anacostia and Congress Heights
Edward J. Newcomb moved that a COM
mittee of three be appointed by the chair
to take up the matter with the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company officials
and report at the next meeting The chair.
appointed Edward ]. Newcomb. B. H.
White and Victor Boyer as committee for
this purDOSe