Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-03
||C|TY NOT BANKRUPT
Columbia Heights Citizens Take
Ill Issue
WITH STOCKINGS CLAIMS
Need of High-Pressure Service Dis
cussed.
STATE OF DISTRICT FINANCES
Matter of Tree neutrality-suspicious.
ties Offered for United Efforts for
Municipal Improvements.
STATE OF DISTRICT FINANCES

| More than usual interest was shown in
the business before the Columbia Heights
| Citizens Association held at the Savoy last
night by reason of the fact that three
| citizens, not members of the association,
| made addresses each of which dealt in
practical way with the problems the as
ISOLATION has set itself to help solve.
| The meeting was called to order promptly
at o'clock, with the president, Judge
| Charles S. Bundy, in the chair. The min
utes OF the last meeting were read, and
1 upon motion were approved as read DR..
| Robert w. Talbot, Mr. Charles II. Mer-
rilatt, Mr.. Phillip F. Gerry, Mr.. James A.
! Wetmore Mr.. j. G. Townsend, Mr.. j. j.
| Lewis and Mr.. O. S. Fireman were elected
| members of the association. Mr.. George
| Simmons, the chairman of the committee
| on streets and alleys, presented a resoiu-
/ ton approving the bill now before Congress
providing for the widening of the section OF
FColumbia road east of 10th street northwest,
I and the laying of the walks on both sides
of 18th street northwest from Monroe
! street to Florida avenue.
Report of Executive Committee.
| The report of the executive committee
on Mr. Stockings argument against high
water pressure for fire protection was read
by Judge Bundy.
i Your committee has gone over the
, wear 1903 in each of the twelve cities cited
| by Mr.. Stocking in his argument before
the Columbia Heights Citizens Association
| at it's December meeting, 1903 The tables
| are found in bulletin No 90 Department of
| Commerce and Labor, bureau of the cen
,sus 1902 and 1903, which is perfectly &C
cessible to every citizen of the United
| States. These tables show the average loss
| by fire of the eleven cities with which the
| comparison IS made by Mr.. Stocking to be
| STG3 147 and not $156, 097, as stated by him.
| While this discrepancy Is not great only
| little over S3I, eyo it's occurrence cannot be
| overlooked in a comparison of this sort.
| The figures, however, when correctly stat
ed do show the fire loss in Washington for
| the year 1903 TO be $3.50, 924. while the aver
age loss of the eleven cities with which the
| comparison is made is S793, 14I, more than
| three times that of Washington.
| Your committee agrees with Mr.. stock
ing that this advantage enjoyed by Wash
| ington over the other cities is attributable
| to our wide streets and avenues prevailing
| brick structures in the business sections,
! reinforced by the efficiency of our fire de-
| partment. A comparison of the cost per
| capita of the fire departments in each of
the same eleven cities with the cost of said
| department in Washington shows the fol-
| lowing result, to wit: The average per
| capita cost in the eleven cities named in
| 1903 was 81 81 for each person, while the
| cost of same in Washington was only S1.23.
But why Mr.. Stocking should choose TO
! single out the city of New York for special
| and disparaging contrast with Washington
| Is not apparent to your committee, since the
| same table shows the cost in Boston and
| San Francisco to be much greater than in
New York. In Boston it is 1921 per capita,
| in San Francisco 1t is S279 per capita,
while in New York it is only S1.57.