Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-15
WILL HEAR REPORTS
Matters to Be Presented to
the Board of Trade.
TO MEET TUESDAY EVENING
Recommendations to Be. Submitted
by Committees.
w. H. WHITAKER TO LECTURE
Superintendent of the District
Workhouse Will Tell of the Con-
ditions at Occoquan.
w. H. WHITAKER TO LECTURE

! Announcement of the meeting of the
| Board of Trade set for next Tuesda !
| evening. January II. at the New Willard
| Hotel, was sent To members of the board
| today. The announcement contained the
statement that W. II. Whitaker, superin-
| tendent of the District workhouse at Oc- |
| coquan, Va, would deliver an illustrated |
lecture on conditions at the workhouse
The following reports and recommends |
| lions of committees have been placed on
| the program for discussion and action:
Law Committee.
That the subject Of the enactment of d
municipal code be forcefully brought to
| the attention of the Commissioners, and
| that the various other organized citizens
| and trade bodies and the Bar Associa-
! ton be requested to cooperate in a
| movement looking to the appointment of
commission for this work to be COM
| pensated either by appropriation from
Congress. or by the various bodies. or by |
| voluntary individual subscriptions or by
! all combined
| There being no statute in force in the |
District for the protection of innocent |
parties who deal with factors and other |
| mercantile agents intrusted with the pos
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is recommended that steps be taken to !,
| obtain the passage by Congress of |
modern factors act.
| Approval of House bill 1864. already |
| approved by the committee on public |
| health. providing for voluntary commit |
ment to the Government Hospital for the |
| insane. with slight amendment, how |
| ever. in section B. line II. by inserting |
| after the word 'authoriZed'' the words |
''in all cases in which the patient is not |
| INDECENT
Approval of devising some method by |
| which the present congestion in our law |
courts may be relieved and the conse- |
| quent long delays in the trial of cases |
| avoided. with the recommendation that |
| the Bar Association be requested to take |
| up the matter for consideration and ac-
| ton.
| That the Board of Trade request the |
| Bar Association to appoint a committee |
to consider and report the necessary |
amendments to remedy certain Imperfect |
tons and incongruities in the code lead |
ing to uncertainty in proper construction. |
That all proposed drafts of laws con- |
sdered by the Board of Trade and its |
various committees. if approved by the |
board as a matter Of policy, be referred |
to the committee on law before final ac-
ton, for report as to their legal suffi- |
cheney in form.
Parks and Reservations Committee, |
An adequate appropriation to commence |
| the work Of the improvement of Rock |
creek. according to the plans Of the Engi- |
neer Commissioner of April IL, 1893.
| Large appropriations for the further |
development of Potomac Park.
Ample appropriation to insure rapid |
progress in the work of the reclamation |
of the Anacostia flats
An appropriation for the purchase of all |
land not already owned by the govern
ment between Pennsylvania avenue and |
the Mall.
| No abatement Of effort to secure the |
carrying out of the Mcmillan plan for |,
parking for the suburban portions Of the |
Liberal appropriations for grading and |
improving both Meridian Hill and Mon
| trose parks.
| Streets and Avenues Committee.
| That the Commissioners be requested to |
narrow the foot pavements and widen |
the roadways on 18th and 18th streets
between Pennsylvania and New York
avenue northwest.
| That the Commissioners he requested
to obtain from Congress permission to
remove Belgium block paving from resi-
Dental streets and to pave such streets
with asphalt or some other equally good
paving ma erial.
| That the Commissioners be requested
| to promulgate regulations requiring tenn
porary buildings used in connection with
building operations to be so located as to
afford at corners of intersecting streets
an unobStructed view of vehicles APP
preaching from the contiguous cross
| streets.
That the Commissioners be urged to
| take up with the Secretary of the IN
terror or other proper government official,
| the ACCESSIBILITY of narrowing the foot
walks about the Interior Department
| building at the corners of 9TH and +, 9th
and"F, 9TH and G. streets northwest.
| Charities and Corrections Committee.
| That the proposed change in legislation
abolishng a board of charities in the
District of Columbia and substituting
therefore a director of charities who shall |
exercise his functions under control of the
District Commissioners be disapproved
| That electrocution be substituted for
| hanging a punishment for murder in
the first degree in the District of Column
bia
Membership Committee Luncheon.
The membership committee of the
board held its get together" luncheon
| this afternoon at the Commercial Club. |
| The names of a number of applicants
/ for membership in the board were
! favorably passed upon by the commit
! tee and will be finally acted upon by |
| the executive committee at its next |
| meeting.
| The public school committee Of the !