The Washington herald., 1907-09-12
TO ISSUE BULLETIN
Citizens of Southeast Adopt
Progressive Methods.
WILL VOICE THEIR NEEDS
IndOrse Plan TO Have the Potomac
Channel Deepened Instead of Being
Made WIder-Candidacy of LemueI
Fugitt for Justice of the Peace Is
IDdOrsed by the Association.

/ The Southeast Citizens Association, the
''babs organization of the District, last
night celebrated the fourth month of its
existence at Washington Hall, Third
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east, and. incidentally. transacted a good
volume OF business relating TO the gem
eral Improvement Of the southeast sec
ton OF the city. A. C. Herman presided
and Harry E. Gladman performed the
duties Of secretary
One Of the principal announcements Of
the evening was that the association now
has 109 members, a of whom were elected
to membership last night.
1t is the boast Of the Southeast Wash
lngton Citizens Association that it is not
bound TO follow in the tracks Of its pre-
ldecessors, but is ready to adopt any and
all innovations that promise well for the
progress and welfare Of the portion OF
the city bounded by East Capitol street
and the James Creek Canal One of the
Innovations which the association has
accepted is the publication Of a bulletin,
which will be the official organ of the
body II viii appear semi-monthly, as
soon as possible after each meeting 1t
VIII contain matters Of special interest to
| the association and of special application
TO Southeast Washington.
Publicity an Aid to Progress.
The plea Of the promoters Of the bulle-
tin is that one OF the chief powers OF
progress is publicity. and they propose to
put into cold type the proceedings Of the
/ association TO voice the needs Of the
southeast. and scatter II broadcast among
the people os that part Of the city, in the
expectation of arousing and feeding a
! healthy public sentiment toward better
ment Of conditions there.
The bulletin will be under the personal
supervision Of the secretary and several
members Of the executive committee Of
/ the association.
| Considerable routine work was done last
night in the way Of filing vacancies In
the standing committees and placing the
body on a strong working basis for the
/ fan campaign. After the appointment OF
the several committeeman, Mr.. Gould. Of
the Merchants and Mechanics Savings
Bank. offered the rooms Of the bank
gratis as a meeting place for the commit
tees of the association. The ofIer was ac-
cepted
William Is. Luckett. a Potomac pilot,
read a letter which be had written 10 the
board OF engineers in charge OF river and
barbor improvements. with special refer
ence 10 the proposal made by the board
as 10 the Improvement Of the Potomac
channel The engineers have recon-
mended that the channel, which is now
80 feet wide and "a feet deep. be widened
10 400 feet. with q depth Of a feet. Mr.
LuCkett suggested IN his letter that the
channel be allowed 20 remain az the
width Of 30 feet and deepened 10 an
average depth OF q feet, TO accommodate
eli deep-draft vessels.
This letter received the Endorsement OF
the association.
The candidacy Of LemueI Fugitt. for
Justice of the peace, TO I'll the vacancy
due 70 the death of Judge Lewis O'Neal
was lndorsed by vote of the association.
and a committee was appointed. consist
ing OF J. r. Adams, chairman; II. G.
Enrich, Ezra Gould, and II. X. Dough
erty. 10 call upon the Attorney General
and urge the claims Of Mr.. FUgitt for
appointment.
A committee was also appointed con-
slsting of 3. Siebold, Charles r. Mickey
and II. c. Enrich 20 confer with the
East Washington Citizens Association
with a view 20 active cooperation in
the way Of Improvements in East Wash
ington.
Committee on Charity.
Iedru Il. Miller presented proposition
that the association should appoint a
committee on charity. for the purpose of
administering help TO worthy poor in the
southeast part OF the city.
It was announced at the close OF the
meeting that H. c. Enrich had won the
prize OF s., coo fire insurance in the North
western National Insurance Company OF
Milwaukee for bringing in the largest
number Of members during the month of
August The policy was donated by
Harry E. Goldman agent for the com
peny.
The following were elected to member
ship last night:
John V. Schmitt, Capt James A. Mul-
hall. John B. Eberly. L. r. Miller. L. w
Bauer. Allan Davis. A. J. B. Larkin.
George p. Bohrer. J. II. Matthews,
Thomas B. Ditcher, George Hayes, a. f.
Powell, II. A. Callahan, and E. P. Halle
ton.