Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-07
FOR DISTRICTS GOOD
Meeting of Business Mems
Association.
INTERESTING REMARKS
MAI. SYLVESTER ON PURITY OF
WATER SUPPLY.
Commissioner Macfarland Compliments
the Members on Hearty Co-opera-
ton With Local Authorities.

One of the most satisfactory and largely
attended meetings ever held by the Busi-
ness Mems Association of the District OF
Columbia was noted last evening at the
Riggs House. Several hundred of Wash
ington's representative business men gath
cred in the parlors shortly after o'clock.
and from that hour until after 8 they kept
| coming until all the rooms were crowded
and demand made for space in the halls.
Through the courtesy of w. F. GUIDE the
rooms were handsomely decorated with
choice blossoms Of the season, and every
man attending was presented with a bou-
tonniere he appeared at the hospitable
doors.
Following the business portion of the
program the guests were RECALLED with
delightful luncheon at the invitation Of
Col. o. G.. Staples, the proprietor of the
! Riggs House and a prominent member of
/ the association. A vote of thanks was eX-
| tended by the association to both of these
| gentlemen for their courtesy.
! Capt. James F. Oyster, the president of
| the association, presided. and later called
| upon Col E. B. Hay to take the chair and
| call upon members and guests for short
| impromptu remarks upon the requirements
! of the city. Both gentlemen made ideal
presiding officers, and the sallies OF Colonel
Hay were particularly timely and witty.
| Among the speakers were Major Richard
| Sylvester, superintendent of police; Com
| missioner Masfarland, DR.. d. Percy Hick-
| ling. Louis p. Shoemaker, president of the
Brightwood Citizens Association; w. V.
Cox, president of the Washington Board OF
| Trade; Judge Ivory Kimball and Colonel
| McElroy of the Grand Army of the Re-
| public.
At the last meeting, held in December at
the same place, when an election of officers
| was held, committee had been appointed
its work to consist of Investigating the
necessary requirements for marking per-
| manently the historic sites of the city.
OF this committee DR.. Hickling was made
| chairman, and at the meeting last night he
made an informal report of the work that
lad been done. He told the members that
| some progress had been made and asked
for extension of the life of the commit
| tee in order that more definite plans might
be effected for the work in hand. He recon-
mended that the committee of the Business
| Mems Association work in harmony with
| other organizations working along the
same lines, and said that he heartily APP
proved of the interest that has been taken
in permanently marking the spots in the
city made sacred by the historic scenes
which they represented.
Colonel McElroy, speaking for the G. A.
| R., said that the entire organization wished
to thank the citizens of Washington for
their kindness to them during the thirty
| seventh annual encampment here two years
ago. and said that there was not MEM
| Der of his organization but would like to
| here
| with the people of Washington. With the
| plans for marking the historic spots in the
| city and District he said he was in hearty
accord, were all the members of the
G. A. R.
Purity of Water Supply.
| Major Sylvester announced that he came
as the representative of the Fish and Game
Protective Association. the work of which
was to preserve the purity of the water
| nd to
radius of its activities. He said that a
| special agent had been sent out to inspect
| the waters of the Potomac and tributary
| streams; that his work had been exhaustive
and that report had been made In which
| it was related that all of the streams sup
| plying the Potomac and thence the water
supply of the city of Washington were In
some measure polluted in various ways. 1t
should be the work of the citizens of the
city and District, he told them. to see that
this pollution ceased, for. where such exists
it is a constant menace to the health of the
city. to say nothing of the damage it does
to the fish and game of the regions drained
by the waters which are so polluted He
told them that 5000 copies of this report
were to be printed and distributed among
the residents of the sections visited by the
agent in order that their cooperation
might be obtained and the water supply
maintained in purity, noting that the peo-
pie of the District had failed to accomplish
by law what they might hope to secure by
popular interest in the work. He then in
troduced resolutions, which were unani-
mously adopted by the meeting. asking the
Endorsement of the work of the Fish and
Game Protective Association and an extern
sion of its influence. The resolutions stated
that the Fish and Game Protective Associa-
ton of the District of Columbia for several
years having maintained determined war
fare against the pollution of the Potomac
river and its tributaries, secured effective
local legislation and made successful pro-
secutions against it by cooperating in Sc
curing the passage of laws looking to the
same end in Maryland and Virginia. Its
work should be heartily applauded and the
| earnest support and cooperation of the as
sociation be extended.
The influence of all the citizens of the
| District was offered in order that the peo-
| pie of the upper Potomac region might be
interested in enforcing the laws relating
to pollution of the streams covered in the
work of the Fish and Game Protective AS
| ISOLATION.
Now an Oldest Inhabitant
| Judge KimbaH told the members that he
was in hearty sympathy with their organi-
| cation and the work they had done and
were doing for the city of Washington.
beautiful cities of the world" and said
that whatever he could do to prove his sin
cerity would be done with great plea sure.
He told that he was now oldest inhab-
liant" having come here in 1863 and seen
the city grow out of the mudhoe it was
then to the thing of beauty it was today.
This organization and the board of
trade he said. ARE doing great work
!, | for the city and for their fellow citizens,
and they deserve the aid and encourage
ment of every worthy inhabitant of the
| caDital city of this great nation