Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-03
GOVERNOR GIVES AID
GoIdsborough Names Commit
tee on Sewage Disposal.
WILL ACT WITH DISTRICT
Problem Of Caring for Suburban
Refuse to Be Considered.
OFFICIALS ARE PLEASED
Rock Creek and Anacostia Valleys
Will Be More Sanitary if
Plans Garry.
WILL ACT WITH DISTRICT

The threatened delay in providing sew
age disposal facilities for Montgomery
and Prince Georges counties, Md, which
drain into the Anacostia and Rock Crook
valleys of the District Of Columbia. NAV
be avoided as a result of Gov. Colds.
borough of Maryland having appointed a
committee of citizens to confer with rep
resentatives of the District to study the
situation and make report to the legis-
lature at it's next session.
Appointed on the committee are Jackson
II. Ralston, L. L. Dent, Prof John r.
Cassidy, T. Howard Duckett, ]. Enos Ray
and Charles A. Fox, representing Prince
Georges county, and DR.. James Dudley
Morgan, William T. 8. Curtis, DR.. John
L. Lewis, j. Dawson Williams, represent
ing Montgomery county, and Dr. William
II. WEIGH. president, and Dr. Marshall L.
Price, secretary. respectively, of the
Maryland state board of health
Delayed by Legislature.
The Maryland legislature, at it's recent
session, passed bill memorializing Con-
gress to appoint committee for the
District of Columbia to confer with a
similar body representing Montgomery
and Prince Georges counties to study the
problem of providing proper disposal of
sewage in those counties. In the last
hours of the session the legislature failed
to pass the bill naming the members of
the Maryland committee
The proposed undertaking, as a result,
faced an interminable delay, but the
Montgomery County Medical Society
shortly afterward passed a resolution re-
auesting the Maryland state board of
health to take what action it could look
ing toward the appointment of COM
mittee to confer with the committee to
be appointed by Congress.
The Medical Society meeting, In turn,
was followed by a meeting held April
% at the Office Of Attorney Jackson H.
Ralston, in Washington. which was at
tended by citizens of Montgomery and
Prince Georges counties. subcommittee
consisting Of DR.. James Dudley Morgan,
Preston B. Ray, DR.. William II. WEIGH,
DIR. Marshall L. Price. William T. 8. Cur
tbs and Mr.. Ralston, was appointed to
confer with Gov. Goldsborough and re-
quest that he appoint a committee to take
the place of the one proposed in the bill
which failed to pass the legislature. The
committee appeared before Gov. Colds
borough at Annapolis and he granted the
request, the personnel of the committee
proposed in the bill
Officials Are Gratified.
The Maryland executive has not for
warded to Congress the bill memorable
ing it to appoint a committee for the
District of Columbia, but it is likely that
he will do so at an early date.
District officials. including Asa E. Phil
lips, superintendent of sewers, today ex-
pressed qualification over Gov. Goldsbor-
ough's action. They believe that any leg
islation to be recommended by the joint
committee will be given serious consider
alton by the Maryland legislature when it
meets two years hence.
The general plan under consideration is
for the Maryland authorities to build
sewers to the District line. where the
sewage will be emptied into interceptors
built by the District and intimately dis
posed of by the District. This will pre-
vent the sewage Of the Maryland commu-
mites from draining into the Anacostia
and Rock Creek valleys, and should. in
the opinion Of local officials. greatly inn
prove the sanitary condition of the val
leys.