Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-07
EAST END SUBURBS
MEETING OF CITIZENS AssoCIA-.
TON LAST EVENING.

The first meeting OF the East End Sub
urban Citizens Association for this season
was held last evening at 1896 H street
northeast President VIM. II. Earnest pre-
siding. Mr.. Earnest delivered an address.
and routine business was transacted. A
special committee was appointed to request
hearing from the board of District Com
missioners, in order that several matters
of Importance to the section represented
BIZ the association might be called to their
attention.
Mr.. Phelps. chairman of the committee
on sanitation, reported that two obJec-
tioEable houses had been ordered destroyed
by the District health department, and that
encouraging work was being done along
Bladensburg road. ]. A. Rupert, chair
reported that the Commissioners had prom
Used to expend the appropriation of S5OOo
for the improvement of Bladensburg ROAD
as soon as possible Temporary improve
ments will be inaugurated at once. and
permanent improvements made next spring.
In his address President Earnest said:
I'VE owe a duty to ourselves, as well as
to those members of the association who
for one reason or another, find 1t incOn-
venient to attend our meetings. to follow
UP all those bills we have been working on
since our organization.
1.-The bill for the widening and improve
ment OF Bladensburg road is of the greatest
Importance, as this is the great highway
from which all other streets in our section
must radate. With this road improved as
It ought to be, other improvements VIII
follow as a matter of course. This bill
should be introduced as soon as Congress
meets, and be pushed with all the vigor at
our command.
Having secured dedications of all the
land necessary for the opening of r street
and 2Sth street, we should insist on the
passage of that bill. as it would open up
tirely lacking in public highways. The
Con missioners are back of us. and all IT
lacks is little more push to get the bill
through. am glad to learn the executive
committee, at its last meeting, decided to
follow these two bills up.
1.-The M street bill needs attention, as
those who opposed US in that matter seem
to have been busy during the past summer
The committee that called on the Commits
sioners on Monday decided to see the cor
poration counsel in regard to this bill.
"Other associations are after the author1-
ties continuously, working night and day.
and II we expect to win out we must follow
their example. Our section has been ne
elected for so many years that 1t increases
the difficulties under which we labor. but
we must not be disheartened In few
years we hope to see the improvements for
which we are working made and then we
will reap our reward. With a road OF
standard width, and with street cars rum
ming to the District line, everybody seems
to agree that our section will develop and
be made to blossom as the rose. The chair
man of the street extension committee seems
to have the hardest task of any, but am
glad to acknowledge he has been making
steady and lasting progress, and that he
has made no mistakes. My thanks are due
and hereby extended to each of the other
members of the executive committee for
their assistance in the past
at is gratifying to me and to all OF us to
know that the Commissioners appreciate
the work we are doing. and they seem will
ing at all times to assist us In any way they
can This in itself indicates progress. 1
car also state that they have always ap-
proved of every move we have made thus
far, and granted US every request We have
made of them. I fiatter myself that no
other association can point to such a
record"