Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-31
RELEASE IS ORDERED SHIFT Street LIGHTS
Navy Cannot Hold Former En- Commissioners to Abandon
listed Man, Court Holds. Lonely Roads to Darkness
|CURRELL' s PETITION HEARD ALLEYS TO BE ILLUMINED
Corpus Proceedings 437 Lamps Unsettled Suburbs
Gain Liberty Be Discontinued.
LODGED IN INSANE ASYLUM OCCASION FOR BIG PROTEST
Gould Defines Order Effective Tomorrow-cizens
Of the Cover CUES
ttono Of Menta Hearing
Commissioners to Abandon
Lonely Roads to Darkness.
ALLEYS TO BE lLLUMINED
437 Lamps in Unsettled Suburbs to
Be Discontinued.
OCCASION FOR BIG PROTEST
Order Effective Tomorrow-Citizen
Associations May Get
Hearing.

With the discontinuance OF AT street
lights along suburban roads tomorrow
night the District will save about $1,000
a year and will light over 500 alleys with
the same lights. it Is expected, to great
advantage TO the police force.
Although the order OF August IL,
whereby a score Of roads would be left
without lights. does not become effective
until tomorrow, the District building has
been visited. several times by representa-
tives Of citizens associations. property
owners, real estate men, etc. The long
est Ioudest and most sustained protest
received by the Commissioners for q long
time Is now under way.
Commissioners Are Confident.
Despite this opposition the Commission
ers believe they are getting the greatest
value for the money by taking the lights
in from roads on which are comparatively
few houses and placing them In the dark
and crowded alleys, where all sorts OF
crimes are committed by night.
The protests. however nave Just pc
people who live in the sections affected
by the order that the Commissioners VIII
be besieged with hearings for some time
to come.
The streets and roads from which lights
will be taken are as follows:
Sargent road from Bunker Hill road
north to District line. % lights: Queen
Chapel road from Newton street north
to District line. q: Bunker Hill road from
Queen Chapel east to District line. 81;
Wheeler road. beginning with fifth lamp
south Of Alabama avenue, thence south
to District line, "a; Ridge road from Ana.
costa road to Bowen road. 80; Foxhail
road from Reservoir street to Newark
street and Nebraska avenue. 46; Nebraska
avenue from Newark street to Wisconsin
avenue, %; Broad Branch road from Mill
tary road to Rittenhouse street, 30; Rock
Creek ford from Military road to Broad
Branch road, 0; Central avenue from Ben
ming road TO District line, -; Suitland
road from Bowen road to District line.
IL; Bowen road from South Bowen road
to District line. H. Livingstone road from
Albemarle street to District line. 10: Nay
lor road from Alabama avenue to Dis
trict line 16; Branch avenue from Penn
sylvania avenue to Bowen road, IL; Mas
sachusetts avenue from California street
TO Wisconsin avenue. every other lamp.
total Of 81; Wisconsin avenue from
Tunlaw road to Massachusetts avenue.
every other light. total OF 8; Wisconsin
avenue from Newark street to Pierce
Need for Light in Alleys.
An inspection of alleys inside the city.
made to determine the number of dark
corners needing a little illumination. re-
suited in a report to the Commissioners
tnat there are 124 squares with alleys
completely lighted. 1913 partly lighted
and 323 unlighted. The number Of lamps
required to complete the lighting of the
partially lighted territory Is estimated
at 326. and 626 are needed to complete
the lighting OF the S23 uniighted
squares
The inspection did not include any
squares in the city limits having unim- 4
proved or undeveloped alleys. nor any
important alleys outside the city limits.
In a recent report to the Commission
ers the police department has given the
locations where 225 lamps are needed
on streets now unlighted There are on
file in the electrical engineers ONCE ap-
plications for about 200 lights on streets
and 80 In alleys outside OF the city
limits. In addition to this. there are 80
lamp-posts already erected In alleys
outside those limits. where improved
pavements have recently been laid. that
have not been lighted.
New Lights Ordered.
During the past month the Commission
ers have ordered the erection of 1874 lamps
on streets and forty-seven In alleys. This
is practically all the additional lamps
that can be put up this fiscal year with
the present appropriation.
Speaking Of this the electrical engineer
calls attention to the fact that the Phila-
delphia. Baltimore and Washington Kali
road Company and the Washington
for the maintenance Of street lamps along
their rights Of way. The District or
Columbia is trying to force the payment
from them by law. and should the Dis
A1x.ey q
year can be used for maintaining extra
| sired lamps.
President Price Asks Hearing.
WV. Price. president OF the Congress
Heights Public Improvement Association.
today conferred with Commissioner Ru-
dolph and other District officials as to
the cutting off Of lights in the suburbs.
Mr.. Price suggested that a hearing be
granted the suburban citizens associa-
lions in opposition to the action thatSas
| been taken.
It Is probable that there will be such
| a hearing after the associations have had
something to say on the subject. In the
absence Of Commissioner Judson. under
whom the lighting OF the District directly
comes, a hearing would be useless
Speaking of the situation. Mr. Price
said:
Between 400 and 500 lights in the suo
urbs Of the District are to be put out
tomorrow night. Every suburb Will feel
this keenIy.
while the more populous suburban sec
tons will continue to be lfghteo, the
thinly settled portions will be In dark
ness. Light Is about the only city con-
veniences these people have. 1t 10 UNI
doubtedly a hardship to take away from
them about the only thing they get In
Il for ha n
Indignation Is Expressed.
| The Congress Heights Citizens Associa-
ton held an Indignation meeting last
night Speakers said some hot things
about the District authorities responsible
for taking away the lights. Dscrfmina-
/ ton against the suburbs was charged and
it was alleged that the lights were to be
cut of so that money could be obtained
TO Rtye additional light to 18th and other
northwestern streets already thoroughly
lighted.
The thickly settled portion Of Congress
Heights il not to be deprived OF lights.
| OUTLYING portions are to be cut on
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PENALTY OF MURDER.
Negro Electrocuted for Crime Com.