Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04
BROOKLANH CITIZENS
MEETING OF ASSOCIATION HELD
IAsr hreHr.
Business of Interest Transatlantic
ports Of cySmmittees Received
other Mattefs Discussed.

A meeting of the Brpokland Citizens AS
ISOLATION was keld III the town hall last
evening at 8 O'clock, and was presided over
by the president, Mr.. A. F. K1nnan Inc
secretary of the association, Mr.. E. c. Ford,
being absent, Mr. w. a. Hathaway was
elected secretary pro ten,.. and read the
minutes of the last meeting, which. upon
motion, were approved as read. Dr. T. \.
Hull, chairman of the committee on SANTA
ton, was asked by President Kinnan If his
committee had any report to make, ana the
reply was that he had several things that
he wanted to lay before the association. lie
said it was the desire of the committee on
sanitation that the secretary of the assocla-
ton be authorized to write the Commas
sioners of the District of Columbia and ASK
that the several lots of low ground which
are located upon the south side of Dover
street between 18th and 18th streets north
east be Immediately filed, and the ponds
which are at present located upon the
ground be drained for the general good OF
the community. He was positive that the
commissioners could compel the owners or
the lots to drain and fill them if they were
residents of the District of Columbia, but
if they lived outside some other means would
have to be used to accomplish the object.
AS to the accumulation of snow and ice
upon the sidewalks, Dr. Hull said he
thought the police regulations should be
rigidly enforced, or, if it could not be, that
they should have the residents of the differ
ent sections scatter ashes so that the
danger of injury would be eliminated, or
at least greatly reduced. Several children
have been hurt by falling, and one has been
injured so that she may never fully recover,
all on account of the lax way the police
department has seen fl to enforce this reg
ulation continued DIR. Hull.
I'VE have model city and there is no
reason which can be given to why this
law is not enforced and thereby endan-
gering life and limb of the resident and 1
believe that it would not be a bad idea
if this law cannot be enforced that we
should as soon as possible get some laws
that could be enforced and some officials
that will enforce them,' concluded DR..
Hull.
Mr. w. A. Hathaway stated that he be-
lieved that the residents of the city should
be compelled to have the sidewalks clean
ed and said in the city of Pittsburg, Pa. the
police department say to to the resident
that he can choose between cleaning the
sidewalk or appearing in the police court
tor not doing so, and the result Is that the
sidewalks are always cleaned of snow and
Ice. He thought that 1t would be a good
idea to have the government do the clean
Ing In the District of Columbia
Cleaning Off Snow.
President Kinnan said that he thought ev-
cry resident of the District of Columbia
should be public spirited enough to clean
the snow and ice from his sidewalk and
not want the government undertake such a
gigantic job when the individual citizen
could arrive at the same results SO much
sooner and easier. he said that he had
information that the police department was
going to enforce the regulation, and that
there might be some Improvement in the
method Of remedying the evil before much
longer time has elapsed.
He also stated to the association that the
appropriation for abolishing the grade
crossing in Brookland, which the Com
missioners had included in their bill to
Congress, had been stricken out and that
he had written to Senator Allison, chair
man of the committees of appropriations of
the Senate, and asked for a hearing for
himself as the representative of the assoc
citation in which he would ask the commit
tee to insert the ITEM but that up to the
present moment he had not received an
answer to his communication. .-
School Teachers Pay.
Dr. T. Y.zHull, chairman on the commit
tee of sanitation, said he desired to say a
few words in behalf of the teachers Of the
public schools whose salaries at the present
time are so much lower than they should
be. "A great many of us here have been
school teachers some time in our lives he
said, but we have used the position as a
stepping stone in life and we can fully
realize the fact that the teacher, who in our |
public school of today, should be one who Is
going to make it a life work, and
proper remuneration for the services given |
the work should be paid for at it's true |
value. The boy student Of today is the
voter of tomorrow, and he upon whom the |
future prosperity of the country is to de- |
pend should not be taught by teacher who |
is in the position today and in another city |
all because of the fact that the |
salary Is not a proper remuneration for |
ability shown and for which other cities |
are ready and willing to pay for Persons |
with valuable IDEAS should be paid what |
they are worth, and then much better work |
can be done in the schools of Washington |
than is being at present done. / disagree |
with the authorities when they say that we
should have the children in the lower |
teachers, and l think that is an evil that |
should be remedied as soon as possible. |
The children at that age need the greatest |
care and the training of their young minds |
little or no experience" DIR. Hull then
talked of the idea of the establishment of a
post in the District of Columbia, |
and said that it seemed to him that the |
authors and supporters of the bill were try |
ing to take a backward step of $50 years,
but that he did not suppose that the sound |
Judgment of the members of Congress
would ever allow such an obnoxious law to
be saddled upon community.
The Whipping Post.
President Kinnan interrupted and said |
that he believed that the whipping post
should be established and that his opinions |
were directly opposite to DR.. Hulls. He
that there were 80 900 people in the |
District Of Columbia whose social position
did not make them fear a Jail sentence, in |
fact. they invited it, as it provided board !
for a term and proved a kind of vacation, |
where they were freed of labor for time |
and for these persons he believed that this |
form of punishment was the only proper |
way to remedy the evil:
DR.. Hull continued his remarks, saying |
that in his belief the bill to license builders |
was not good one, it would leave the
field 10 the large builder and crowd out |
the smaller one thus working a hardship.
He said that If the builders license bill |
passed that he could not see any use Of |
having the building inspectors Office and |
force and that it might Just as well be dis |
pensed with He did not think that any !
legislation on the subject was needed and |
that the builders sheard be left as they
are at present and the law not changed |
in the least gOist IL
Mr.. NJ NJ Mclean said he believed the |
salaries of the teachers should be raised so |
that good teachers could be kept in the pub |
lie schools of the tcity. He said that in the |
city where he camel from the authorities |
do not pay the school teachers less than |
other laborers. In the city of Washington, |
continued Mr.. Mclean, the school teacher |