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preciate it's efforts. other business
streets have been looked after ana
hope something will come of the aSlta-
ton on the part Of The Times
Working for Years.
CHARLES KRAEMER, wholesale
liquor dealer, 1856 Seventh Street;
have been working for seven years 10
get an asphalt pavement for Seventh
Street. ] got a petition signed by every
property owner on Seventh Street from
Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street, and
presented II to the Commissioners OF the
District, who sent IL 20 Congress- Dut
nothing came of il. In summer, when
we are using the telephone. we have 70
ask those with whom we are taking 10
wait for wagons to pass before we can
! hear them. More horses fail on the cor
ner of II Street, after they get on the
asphalt, than in any part of the city;
Il am heartily in favor Of what Inc
| Times Is doing. and feel that every mer-
| chant on Seventh Street is OF tae same
mind"
A. T. EBERLY, of A Eberly's Sons.
stove dealers: 81 approve heartily Of
the attitude Of The Times on the
Seventh Street pavement. The Patent
Office is surrounded by asphalt pave
rnent one square below us, because the
noise of the cobblestone pavement an
noved the clerks, and yet the taxpayers
have TO endure II. our hrm mas AZ al
ways been active in the movement 10
have a better pavement. and wish Inc
Times success in it's efforts to get II iof
| US
! 4. c. JOY. confectioner. IA Seventh
Street: There is nothing that would
h so beneficial TO the merchants OF
Sc venth Street as the replacement CT
tie present stone pavement with thor one o 0l
,.otse arc terrible We hire men to
( water the street. and even then We are
| compelled TO clean off our cases TOUT i VI
five times day. hope Inc IlInes
Wood Pavement.
DIR JOHN r. MAJOR, druggist, cor
ner Of Seventh and G Streets: L was
very glad to see the editorial In me
Times. for asphalt pavement Is certainly
reeded badly on Seventh Street. Some
years ago was in London and saw that
one Of the business streets was paved
with wood. I asked merchants whose
business houses were on this street the
reason for this and 1 was told thai
originally macadamlzed It had beer
paved with stones. The stone pavement
drove away the carriage trade OF thai
section Wood was then used IN place
Of stone and the carriage trade re
turned. There Is no doubt that thous-
ands of dollars are lost TO Seventh
Street merchants because Of the stone
pavement. IL summer the noise Is In
| tOlerable. We have been trying tOl
thirteen years to get asphalt pavement
and l hope the efforts of The Times tC
that end viii be successful"
r HARRIS, Of r. Harris & Co
Seventh and D Streets. says: The
vibrations from heavy wagons passing
OR door along d Street and Seventh
Street have frequently Jared article.
DfT our shelves, in summer time, whe.
tho doors are kept open. the noise is 81
goat that we cannot hear ouTselve:
talk; carriage customers have fTequenC
~ told us that they have refraineC
from coming here because Of the in
convenience in driving 10 our store. The
Government has admitted the incOn
vebienc@ and annoyance suffered from
the stone pavements by having as
phalt put around the Land and Patent
Offices We have tried employing cOun
sci to represent us at the Capitol, bu
Tall we got was promises that have
never materialized.
Served on Committee.
GEORGE F. MUTH. dealer in paint
ers' and artists materials. AS Seventh
Street. says. I was a member of two
committees that appeared before tn,
District committees of Congress tive
years ago TO ask relief from the condi
items which prevail in regard to thi,
Pavement In winter IL is slippery anC
nasty. and in summer there is so mucr
roise and dust il is impossible 10 con
duct our business. My awning poles
are bent because heavy wagons canno
be controlled when they are ba cked VI
to my door
Il heartily indorse what The Time
has to say on the subject and earnestl,
- n direction "
meet with success.
s. HART. manager OF Lansburgh &
Bro. dry goods merchants, 42G-42e Sew
Ienth Street. says: I'VE have been ad
vocating this pavement question fo1
about seven years, but have always me
with failure. What we want is a pave