Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-17
GEORGETOWN LAUNCHES
CLEANUP CAMPAIGN
Placards Ask Citizens Not to Throw
Papers and Trash in
the Streets.

Piacards designed to aid in having a
cleaner Georgetown are being distributed
through that section of the city today
marking the beginning of the campaign
of the Georgetown Citizens Association
to clean up this section of the city. The
association at its meeting last night in
structed the special cleanup committee,
which has been working out its campaign.
to begin at once the distribution of the
placards requesting persons not to throw
paper and filth into the street, but to
carry them TO the waste paper boxes. The
placards We're on hand last night and
each member was given a supply for the
purpose of distributing them where they
would do the most good.
The committee also reported that April
the city street cleaning department
would assign seventeen white wings to
the Georgetown section. and that as many
waste paper boxes would be placed in
the Georgetown section as the aSsoc1a-
ton should designate.
Troubles of Street Sweepers.
some OF the troubles which face the en-
ployes of the street cleaning department
in performing their work. He called at
sweepers have to go around wagons and
other vehicles when sweeping the streets.
He declared that he called this to the
attention of the street cleaning depart
ment and was Informed that the sweep
er operators could only request drivers
to remove their wagons and if the request
was not complied with the sweepers just
swept around
J. Holdsworth Gordon. chairman of the
in re-
port favoring the Australian method of
land registration, and a resolution was
adopted urging the Commissioner to
recommend the change to Congress. 1t
was pointed out that it would take con-
gressionai action to effect the change.
Mr.. Gordon declared that this method
resulted in speedy sales, speedy loans.
and, what was more important, a person
always had title. instead of mass of
evidence showing title as under the sys-
TEN now is vogue here.
Discussion as to Hucksters.
The hucksters came in for an attack
by Henry w. Offutt. who declared that
in this city the hucksters paid only a
very small license compared with that in
other cities. He said that they kept their
produce in stables overnight, and were
not inspected as much as the storekeepcr.
Collins. however. took issue with these
two speakers. and expressed the opinion
that hucksters helped in holding down the
cost of living He also took occasion
to defend the inspection system of the
District. declaring that if the produce
carried by these men was in any way
bad the Inspectors would not let it get
out. The whole matter was referred to
the committee on commercial interests
Some discussion developed over the
question of increased membership. 1t was
pointed out that the mistaken idea ex-
listed that only property owners could
be members of the Georgetown Associa-
ton. The association proposes to start
membership campaign and to educate
the people to the fact that any citizen
may become member of the organiZa-
ton.
A resolution requesting the trustees o.
the Peabody Library. in the Curtis School
to open the library in the afternoon in
addition 10 the evening was adopted.