Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-26
BILL FOR TOWN BUILDING
AT EVANSVILLE FAVORED
Measure Now Before the Leg
isIation Endorsed at Big
Meeting Of Citizens.
special Correspondeuce of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
HYATrSvILLE, Md, January 26. 1912.
DIR. Charles A. Fox and J. Sfmms
Jones of Beltsville and a Mr.. Conner OF
Washington have purchased about forty
acres Of land from the Beltsville Land
and Improvement Company. adjacent to
the proposed Washington and Baltimore
boulevard, and are subdividing 1T into
three-acre tracts and Dne-half and one
quarter acre lots. The land lies to the
east Of the City and Suburban railway.
and is within easy reach Of it and the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
A resolution indorsing the bill for the
erection of town building for municipal
and fire department purposes was adopt
ed at a mass meeting held last evening
in Masonic Hall, with fully 80 citizens
present. The resolution was offered by j.
Moses Edlavitch and calls on the delega-
ton from Prince Georges county In the
general assembly Of Maryland to see to
the passage OF the bill authorizing the
mayor and common council to borrow
$1,000 for the purpose. The bill was IN
troduced in the senate of Maryland by
Senator Charles A. Wells. and petition
has been sent to the members of the
lower house, signed by 276 out of 17e
voters who cast their ballots at the last
municipal election. favoring the PROPOSE
ton. The Endorsement of the project last
evening by the citizens mass meeting, 1t
is said, practically settles the matter.
Matter Of Town Superintendent.
The meeting also ordered that the mat
ter of appointing a town superintendent
to take charge Of the towns affairs be
Gil, with recommendation for favorable
consideration.
The matter of extending the limits of
Hyattsville to take in outlying sections
provoked lively discussion, and 1t was
finally decided that the matter be re-
felred to the mayor and common coun-
Gil for the preparation of a bill extending
the limits of the town, provided the sec
tons to be taken in approve of such a
step.
The Prince Georges County Medical So
ciety and the Hyattsyille Citizens Asso-
ton suggested by Asa e, Phillips. SUI
perintendent Of sewers of the District of
Columbia, to have the Districts sewer
age system made available for the sew
age from the outlying suburbs in Mont
gOmery and Prince Georges counties.
At a recent Joint meeting Of the medi-
cal society and citizens association the
matter was fully explained by officers
from the state board of health and physi-
clans from Montgomery and Prince
A committee composed of prominent
citizens from Hyattsville, Berwyn, Col
lege Park, Bladensburg, Brentwood and
Mount Rainier was appointed to confer
with q similar committee named at re-
cent meeting of Montgomery county citi-
zens held at KensingtOn, to aid the state
board Of health in presenting to the leeis-
lature Of 1914 certain propositions which,
if enacted into law, will mean the con-
struction Of large trunk sewers in the
Anacostia and Rock creek sewage zones
to connect with the District of Columbia
sewers at the District line. DR.. Charles
w. Birdsall, president of the Prince
Georges County Medical Society, and
chairman Of the committee, stated last
night he would call the committee to-
gether in a few days for organization and
work.
Assessment Is Levied.
During the current week the mayor and
common council held a special session
and levied an assessment aggregatins
81 900 against the property owners for the
cost of roadway and sidewalk work done
during the current year. The property
affected is in Spencer street between
Maryland and Wine avenues; in Wine
avenue from Franklin street to Schley
avenue, and in Ralston avenue from
Wine to Washington avenue. The cost
of the work is said to have exceeued the
Of the property owners, and
there is talk Of repeating the law unler