Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-12
CAP TAIN MORROW
ISSUES HIS Def
Engineer Commissioners Alter
native in Stable Case.
THE PUMPING STATION SITE
Should Selection Be Rejected Will Do
Hauling by Contract.
HOW THIS ACTION WILL RESULT
Views Set Forth in Statement TODAY.
Other Commissioners Decline to
Go Into Details.
THE PUMPING STATION SITE
Should Selection Be Rejected Will D
Hauling by Contract.
HOW THIS ACTION WILL RESULT

Should Commissioner Morrow be outvoted
by the other two Commissioners in his eff
fort to locate the stables of the District
water department on a lot in the rear of
the new Irumbull pumping station, as he
was In the case of the Bryant street site,
he Will not look around for another avail
able site, but will make contract with
private concern to do the hauling for the
department. This is according to a state
ment he made today.
This apparent retreat on nay part" said
Commissioner Morrow, who is somewhat
incensed at the opposition he has had in
attempting to locate site for this stable
will not be victory for the citizens Of
Bloomingdale, who have protested against
these two sites picked out by me. l assure
you the residents up there will be the losers
If we turn the hauling over to a private
concern, because the first thing the con-
tractor will do will be to get a stable in
Bloomingdale within close proximity to the
pumping station; and it is needless to say
that the stable the contractor will put up will
be by no means as handsome and sanitary
and otherwise acceptable as would be the
stable the District proposes to construct.
Ours would have been a credit to the neigh
borhood and would be in no way objec-
tionable; but l will not vouch for the stable
that the contractor will erect. At any rate
1t will not be thing of beauty
Replies in the Affirmative.
When asked if he thought it would be
possible for the contractor to locate a
stable in Bloomingdale in view of the atti-
tude of the residents in that neighborhood
against such an establishment, he replied
very emphatically in the affirmative, eX-
planning that the stable will be under the
class of a private stable and, according to
the police regulations, 1t is not necessary
to oh ai n a
centage of the property owners within a
certain radius if the stable is built fifty
feet back of the prescribed building line.
According to Capt Morrow, the contractor
cap easily overcome this fifty feet by build
ing his stable on an alley, which he con-
tends would be the only practicable thing
for him to do.
1t is evident that Capt. Morrow Is de-
termined to have the water department
stables near the pumping station, despite
the opposition of the citizens of Blooming
dale. 1t has been suggested that consd-
cradle of his persistency in this case may
be due to the opposition he has had to con-
tend with and as one old official of the
District service explained it today, Army
officers don't mind little sniff of battle
once in a while even though the fighting is
confined to a bloodless battlefield, such as
a stable site.
Second Recommendation.
When Capt. Morrows suggestion of a
Bryant street site for the stable was do
feated he recommended the site behind the
pumping station, and inquiry is being made
whether not the two citizen Commits
sioners who opposed the Bryant street site
will likewise oppose the second site. and
what action they will take after that in
the event Capt Morrow recommends giving
the contract for hauling to a private
concern.
Capt. Morrow stated that he cannot see