Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-06
lAL REPORT COMMISSIONERS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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provements and changes requested by the
board Of education as far as the funds
Will permit. The appropriation for fire
protection was expended IN building fire.
proof stairways and fireproofing over
furnaces
Five thousand dollars was appropriated
Tor deep wells in school yards in the
suburban sections, and this amount was
expended in digging wells for eight
schools.
For repairs and improvements for
engine houses $4,000 was appropriated
and for repairs to police stations 5000.
These appropriations were practically all
expended. In addition. the superintendent
of repairs expended in repairing plumbing
In the public schools $6,S7S,53.
Electrical Department..
One thousand two hundred and ninety
new street lamps were established during
the year and $50 lamps discontinued.
making the net increase during the year
'6O lamps. The total number of lamps
in service is 1859, made up as follows:
Eanhthn gas lamps ............. 16
IiNdnuesceOt lamps. 3. S31
Street designation gas lamps 400
stree'-designation electric lamps. 20
-. 52s
1859
Nine and seventy-nine one -hundredths
miles of cable were installed during the
year and 2.4 miles of cable withdrawn.
Inc total amount of cable n service at
the end of the year was 104 60 miles.
Forty-one new fire-alarm boxes were
placed in service. The total number at
the end of the year was 500. The number
OF fire alarms received and transmitted
during the year was Las, of which 81
were false.
The total number of patrol boxes in
service at the end of the year was 800
the total number of telephone. tele-
graph and electric light and trolley poles
in the District of Columbia is Il 1862 The
work of electric wiring inspection during
the year shows an increase of nearly 100
per cent In the number of premises in
inspections
The fees paid for permits and GER
tihcates amounted to $5.172.
Gas and Meter Inspection.
Under the Office of the inspector of gas
and meters 1908 gas meters were tested,
and the amount Of fees collected was
s.. 1920. 1t is provided by law that the
illuminating power of gas furnished by
any gas-light company shall be equal to
% candles. and that the gas shall not con-
tain more than 20 grains of sulphur in
100 cubic feet, nor more than grains Of
ammonia in 100 cubic feet. and shall be
free from hydrogen sulphide.
The gas supplied by the Georgetown
Gas-Light Company is coal gas enriched
with oil gas, while that supplied by the
ture of coal gas and carbureted water
gas. The gas is tested at three stations.
In the southeast station tests of the gas
supplied by the Washington Gas-Light
with a maximum of 1888 candles and a
minimum of 1888 candles. At the CEN
trail station the mean was % ID
candles. maximum 25.9 candles, and the
minimum 1888 candles. At the northwest
station the mean was 1851 candles. max
imum 27.29 candles, and the minimum
2O.93 candles. On forty-four days the IL
Illuminating power was below legal require
ments at one station and on thirteen days
at two stations, and on one day 1t was be-
low at all three stations. On most of
these days the lowest result obtained was
between p and % candles.
At no time during the year did the
tests show the presence Of more than the
legal amount of ammonia Or sulphide in
the gas supplied by the Washington Gas
Light Company.
Hydrogen sulphide was found present on
one day in tests at the three stations
aUQ OH OlnoE DAYS III the test at
some one station.
Tests of the gas furnished by the
Georgetown Gas Light Company showed
the mean to be 1922 candles, maximum
27.31 candles. and minimum 1874 candles.
On twenty-nine days during the year the
candlepower was below the legal require
ment. the results running between p
and % candles.
On fourteen days excess in the amount
Of ammonia over the legal limit was
limo ,psn he
the amount Of sulphide found in this gas
exceed the legal limit and no hydrogen
sulphide was found in the gas.
The permits for various purposes other
chan building permits issued during the
year amount to 22,S6o, an increase o.
LIZA over the previous year. The fees
paid for these permits amounted to
3d. 1873.
Automobile Board.
The automobile board examined 1929
applicants to operate motor vehicles. OF
this number. 1852 were granted permits,
including 274 for electric vehicles, 1855
for gasoline vehicles. So for steam vehicles,
and 213 for motor cycles. Temporary per-
mits were granted to 115 applicants.
Duplicate permits were issued to 115
operators.
Numbers were assigned to 1856 electric
vehicles. 1,698 gasoline vehicles, 81 steam
vehicles, and 400 motor cycles. The fees
charged for these tags were 81 EACH In
addition there were also issued tags for
IL motor vehicles and motor cycles be-
longing to the United States and the
District of Columbia for which no fees
were paid.
The fees received for Identification tags
amounted to $4.752, and for operators
permits 81, 292, total of $6O44 The
total amount collected from the same
source during the last fiscal year was
$3,36S.
Plumbing Inspection.