Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-10
HILLsDALE CITIZENS MEET.
Association Transacts Business of
Interest to Community.

The first monthly meeting of the Hills
dale Citizens Association was held last
Thursday evening in Odd Fellows Hall,
Sumner road. The committee on streets
and roads reported that the Commission
ers have approved the request for the i'm
provement of the footwalk on Nichols
avenue between Howard and Sumner ave-
nues. The walks are to be repaired with
gravel wherever required and pipe is to
be laid across Sumner avenue at the in
tersection of Nichols avenue. thus level
ing over a dangerous gutter which has
existed at this crossing.
The Commissioners also informed the
committee that the street railway COM
pany has been requested to place suit
able plank crossing at the corner OF
Nichols and Sumner avenues.
The committee on water and sewers re-
ported that the Commissioners failed 10
grant a petition for an extension of
sewer from Nichols avenue to the termi-
nation of Sumner street. on the ground
that Sumner street is not a public thor
oughfare. No sewer construction, the
Commissioners write. can be ordered until
the street is dedicated.
A committee composed of A. L. Craig.
Charles E. Howard and Allen F.. Jackson
was appointed to ascertain the status OF
the streets and devise, If possible means
of removing the handicap that is said to
retard improvements.
A letter from the Commissioners. in re-
SpOHSe 10 a request Tor aOO1tlOndl IRE
alarm boxes was read by the secretary.
The erection of a fire alarm box on How
ard avenue near the Baltimore and OHIO
railroad tracks was authorized. and an
other promised for Norris road wnen SUI
ficient funds are appropriated.
A communication was read from the
Rhode Island Avenue Suburban Citizens
Association requesting the Hillsdale As
ISOLATION to join with the several citi-
Zens' organizations in making a test case
of the question as to whether the gas and
electric companies have the right to
charge the consumer for the connection
from the middle of the street to the
meter.
A letter was also read from the Eas,
Washington Citizens Association embody-
ing a series of resolutions urging closer
intercourse among the several citizens
associations and extending a cordial in
vitation to their meetings.
Henry Matthews protested against the
practice of certain wholesale liquor deal
ers in conducting the sale OF intoxicants
through agents, who. he claimed. peddle
the liquor from house to house in wagons.
He also called attention to the large num-
Der of insane patients roaming the streets.
The matter was referred to the executive
committee for action.
The association passed resolutions in
dorsing the work of the tuberculosis con-
gress and directed the secretary to send
letters to the several churches urging a
visit to the exhibit in the new National
Museum Sunday.
The school committee reported that the
attendance at the night school was fifty
six the opening night There are three
teachers, and members were urged To
encourage attendance in order to secure
another teacher.
The committee in charge of the picnic
given last June by the association re-
ported a success.
The meeting was presided over by w.
K. Scott. The invocation was by the
chaplain, Rev. c. II. Parker.