Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-12

Suppose you have worked and sacrificed
and saved and gone without necessities to
hood that was represented to be strictly
residential. with promise Of parks and
other beautiflcations. and suddenly you
would learn that a soap factory or a tam
merry was to be erected on q vacant lot
near you. Would you fold your arms and
say oh, well it cannot be helped OF
course did not expect this. but can keep
my west windows shutT"
Monument to Senator Mcmillan.
Mrs. Thurber mentioned the proposed
monument to Senator Mcmillan. and added:
'Of course you need the stable--we grant
you that, but Washington is full of vacant
lots where your stable could be built with
out menacing-ehe health of the entire city.
without jeopardizing the value Of property.
I'VE are not here to help lou select q site,
but If you want our services in this mat
ter we will gladly turn out in large num-
bers. as we have today, and help you, out
what we do want IS to impress upon you
as strongly as we can that we do not want
that stable on Bryant street. and we urge
you to reconsider your decision and an
nounce to us soon that McMillan's memory
is to be honored that our property Is to be
saved and that the great cloud Of threaten
ing disease will be dispelled. and that you
have selected another and more convenient
place for your stable 80,
Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor. who resides on
LIST street, said: II know little of bugs or
bugology, but I came here today to enter
my protest against the location OF this
stable on the site in question. II the people
Of this District were consulted outside OF
those of this section they would undoubt-
eddy refuse to allow the stable to be erected
there"
Universal Sentiment.
Capt Fred Beall said that he had advised
a young woman to invest her savings in
fhn oito Of ha
stable. but that If he had known that the
site was being considered for a stable he
would not have advised her to locate in
the section.
"It seems to me- he said, that the uni
versal sentiment Of the section Is against
the proposed building of the stable"
B. E. Murray. who resides on Adams
street, near the stable site, declared that the
property values of the section would go
down rapidly If the stable is built l.. c.
Wilson told the Commissioners that lady
who was about to purchase his property
wrote him today saying that she had read
of the question of a stable being erected
and in consequences had stated that she
would not have the property at any price.
At the close of the address Mr.. Farms
worth thanked the Commissioners for
their courtesy, and said that lie hoped
they would not allow the stable to be
built
Attitude Of Commissioners.
The Commissioners ap pointed a nearing,
according to their custom, as soon as they
were notified that there was protest" Com
missioner Mcfarland explained, and long
after announcement had been made that
this proposition under considera-
ton They will consider this case as though
1t were entirely new, and all the arguments
against the proposed action will be given
respectful consideration. 1t may very we'll
be that we may agree with the conclusion
of the protestants without agreeing to all
their arguments.
But whatever the outcome. l wish to
say that 1t ought to be assumed that the
Commissioners. who are working day and
night for the District of Columbia. have all
it's interests and the interests of all sec
tons at heart and will not knowingly do
anything to injure those interests. Specific
ally, it is incredible that they would do
anything to injure the water supply or the
long, or Mcmillan Park, which they desired
as a memorial of Senator Mcmillan, for
whose memory they have respect and re-
gard.
They are working constantly to increase
and improve the park system. 1t Is equally
incredible that they would do anything to
depreciate the value Of your property
knowingly and voluntarily.
and as this proposition originated with
the Engineer Commissioner, l want to say
that he is just as much interested in the
U.S. and just unlikely to knowingly
ommend anything that would, injure the
national capital. Like his predecessors he
Is doing his best to aid in making the
national capital as nearly perfect as pos
sible. 1t Is unjust to assume the contrary"