The Washington herald., 1913-10-08
WRAPPED BREAD
FIGHT. APPROVED
Columbia Heights Citizens
Association Indorses
Campaign.
WOMEN CAST THEIR VOTE
Want Commissioners to Have Power
to Control the Weight and
Quality of Loaf.

! The Washington HeraId's campaign for
wrapped bread was approved last night
by the Columbia Heights Citizens Asso-
! citation when it was voted unanimously,
at a meeting at ]. Ormond Wilson Nor
NAL School, Eleventh and Harvard
committee on law and legislation that
the Commissioners take action whereby
they would be authorized 10 control the
weight quality of bread. ana its wrap
ping.
In order that the members of the asso-
citation might he stirred to activity in
lettering conditions. women living in the
vicinity were invited To the meeting; so
that when A. LeftwiCh Sinclair. chair
man Of the committee on law and legis-
lation, asked that the association approve
the findings of the committee regarding
wrapped bread. more than so persons
voted their Endorsement.
Mr. Sinclair asked that action be
taken by the Commissioners to afford
them vested authority to control the
quality and weight of bread and the
wrapping thereof" The unanimous APP
proval of the members was said by Of
fcers of the association to be an I'M
qualified Endorsement of The Herald's
campaign to control the wrapping of
bread.
Urge District Purchase.
A resolution. introduced by H. J. Clark.
asking that railroad companies be re-
quested TO furnish maps of Washington
and to have their conductors familiarize
themselves with names Of streets and
location of points of interest was ap-
proved
DR.. Benjamin F. Gibbs chairman, read
the report of the committee on recrea-
ton and amusements, in which the plan
OF the supervisor OF Fairgrounds to es-
tablish a department of recreation was
commended. The report of the commit
tee. which was passed. said that the |
Mount Pleasant playground, at Four |
teenth and Kenyon Streets Northwest. |
had had a daily average attendance of |
iS children, and that 99, Sg7 children had !
visited it during the 24 days it was |
open last year. The purchase Of the !
playground by the District was urged.
In speaking Of the creation of a de-
partment of recreation, the report said |
Your committee has investigated the |
matter of the creation Of a department Of |
recreation and would recommend that |
this association approve of hesplans OF |
the supervisor of Fairgrounds for such
A department as he has recommended to !
the Commissioners. We have made a |
study of the merits OF the plan TO open |
the public schools as social centers which
might be used for public meetings, recre-
alton purposes. and for the meetings Of
citizens associations, under proper con-
troll. and would recommend that We an
prove of such opening of the schol build
ings''
Awards of prizes for well-kept lawns in
the vicinity for the past summer were
There were prizes OF SIS, IS. |
and 81. which were won, as follows:
Falkston Courts, Fourteenth and Fair
mont Streets, first prize; A. F. Jorss, 1449
Street, second prize. and John
W. Ross School. Harvard Street, between
Eleventh and Thirteenth Streets, third
prize. Special mention was voted the fol-
lowing:
Special Mention Given.
A. H Plant. 1893 Euclid Street; Charles
Dismer, 1927 Euclid Street: c. H. Living
stone. Kenyon and Thirteenth Streets;
Belcourt Seminary. Girard and Thirteenth
Streets; Hubbard School, Kenyon Street, |,
near Eleventh Street: Powell School,
School and Lamont Streets; Roanoke
Apartments, l54S Euclid Street; Executive I
Apartments G401 Avenue of the Presi-
tents; DR.. H. c. Thompson, Thirteenth
and Monroe Streets; Edward Weight,
Thirteenth and Harvard Streets; Fred !,
srick Drew, 1875 Harvard Street; Charles -
z. Schaffner. Thirteenth and Harvard =
streets; estate of Mrs. Louise Muehleisen,
Fourteenth and Girard Streets; w. S.
Herndon, Eleventh and Euclid Streets: /,
Mrs. Mary E. Howard, 2725 Thirteenth
Street: ]. H. Wood, 1901 New Hampshire
Avenue; A o. Tingley, 2605 Fourteenth
street; William II. Saunders 1853 Fair
mont Street; James f. Jones' 1862 Otis
Place; George A. Mason, Fourteenth
street and Otis Place; Thomas L. Lloyd,
Avenue of the Presidents and Park Road;
W. A. Rogers, 2635 Avenue of the Presi-
tents: James A. Watson, Avenue OF the
Presidents and Park Road; c. w. King, i
r.. 1913 Monroe Street. and Col. w. H.
Michael, Thirteenth and Euclid Streets.
Claude n. Bennett delivered a lecture
m ''The South and Panama" The lee
ure of Mr.. Bennett was illustrated with
slides. Mr.. Bennett smoke
principally of the South's richness in nat
lral resources and the extraordinary ma
ure of the work necessary to the COM
'letion of the Panama Canal.