The Washington bee., 1910-09-17
Citizens Appeal.
Deanwood Heights, D. C.,
Sept. II, 1910.

Honorable Commissioners, District of
Columbia:
Gentlemen: At a meeting of the
Northeast Suburban Citizens AssOcia
ton, held on the 9Th inst, a commit
tee was appointed to wait upon your
board and respectfully request consid-
Grafton of the following:
This Association, which represents
the citizens residing between Mime
sofa avenue northeast and the District
line, comprising the communities OF
Deanwood, Lincoln, Beverly, Burrville,
Linwood Heights and Grant Park,
have been and are still IN great dis
trees for the reason that the total abb
sence of lights in those sections and
along their lines of travel, afford
constant menace to life and limb and
invite attack upon peaceful residents
by the idle and vicious.
At the stations along the electric
line-Lincoln, at the intersection of
5oth and G., northeast, Brooks Station,
5Sth and 6Ist streets-where great
numbers of citizens get on and off be-
tween the close of day and midnight,
there are no lights whatever. The
swiftly moving, brilliantly lighted car
passes on, leaving the passenger to
grope his way by the aid of match or
lighted paper as best he may.
The fact that this section is without
a roadway, except tortuous path,
winding through private property and
a constant danger to man and beast,
by reason of holes and muddy gullies,
has previously been brought to the
attention of your honorable body.
This committee therefore prays that
in the distribution of the lights which
is contemplated, lights may be placed
at the points along the electric line
above designated and a few distributed
in the neighborhoods as heretofore
named.
The matter of lights is of so vital
import to those communities that any
kind of light will be thankfully wei
cOmed-electric, oil, or gasoline-and
if the operation of the same is con-
sidered inexpedient for any reason,
the residents thereof will undertake
their operation, if installed or set up
by your honorable body.
Respectfully, Willis w. Jones, presi-
dent; c. T. Mitchell, Jno. H. Paynter,
committee.
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Waycross, Ga, Sept. I.
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within, for a long time, to look the
editor in the face and shake his hand.
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returning from the Business League,
recently held in New York But the
league will not be discussed in this
article, for you have, in a previous
issue of your valuable paper, given
your readers a full account of that
splendid organization, headed by our
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Your fearlessness in defense of the
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