Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-17
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| With the work of preparing the Dis
trict's annual estimates out of the way,
the Commissioners will now give at
tention to number of important utili-
ties matters. Among them is the prop
osition to extend the 14th street line
Of the Washington Railway an Electric
Company to the bureau of engraving
and printing, which is favored both by
the company and the federal govern
ment. 1t is anticipated that the Com
missioners' action will be favorable
and that it will be accompanied by
authorization for a bond issue for
financing the improvement
In framing the municipalities annual
budget the Commissioners put in three
weeks of hard work. holding daily ses-
sions practically the entire time. They
| were guided by the suggestions of ad-
ministration leaders that only the actu-
al needs Of the District should be pro-
vlded for. and as a result the total
appropriation recommended is about a
! million dollars less than the amount
carried in the last budget.
H. H. Ramsdell, clerk in the office of
DR.. William Tindall. secretary to the
Commissioners, is one of the very few
persons in Washington who know just
exactly what recommendations are con-
tanned in the estimates. They are not
| to be made public until after the con-
vening of the next Congress. Ramsdell
did all the stenographic work on the
budget, which contains more than 200
pages, each % by II inches in size.
missioners' mainstay in the budget
framing. This was not a new expert
ence for DR.. Tindall, who has asst sted
many board of District Commission
ers in getting the estimates into
shape. He is the one official who is
supposed to know everything about
District affairs and no one has ever
discovered that he doesn't.
A wedding that attracted much atten-
ton among District officials this week
was that of Roger ]. Whiteford, assist
ant corporation counsel, and Miss Mary
Edna Moves, which occurred Wednes-
day evening. at o'clock, in the First
corporation counsers office presented
the couple with a beautiful clock. Mr..
Whiteford has been in the District
service only a few months, but has won
distlnction In that time through his
successful handling of the loan
shark, fire escape and other cases. He
also has successfully represented the
ton
Miss Blanche Miller. stenorranher IN
Corporation Counsel Conrad III. SWINE
Is new acquisition to the ranks of
washington horSewomen Accompanied
by her cousin. Miss Mamie Miller. she
LOOK long horseback ride around
caya1.sviile and College Park. Md, last
sunday, and is enthusiastically plan
ning Tor other trips of the same kind.
we raced and had the time of our
iives, and now l have decided 1 would
IKE to be a jockey" said Miss Miller,
in describing the trip. 'It is great
sport. and several friends told me that
l rode just like I was used to it,"
Miss Miller hopes to be experienced
enough In horseback riding by next
spring to enter some of the contests
In the National Capital horse show.
Raymond F. King. clerk in the cleo
trfcal department. is expected back at
his desk in the District building Mon
day, after visit of two weeks in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Miss Minnie c. Lillis. assistant super
intendent of weights. measures and
markets of the District of Columbia,
who has been ill for more than a week
in Georgetown Hospital, is reported to
be better. Miss Lil1is was placed att
the head of the department of weights.
measures and markets following the
death of former Supt. William c. Has
kell. and directed its affairs until the |
appointment of John H. Sherman as
Col. Haskelfs successor. She expects !
to be able to return to her duties with
in a couple of weeks.
Calvin K. Lowe, clerk in the electrical |
has been granted leave of |
absence for a month. (!
William S. Jones. inspector in the |
electrical department. is enjoying a |
bicycle trip through West Virginia. He |
will not return until the end of the |
month.
DR.. William C. Woodward, health Of
fcer of the District, left Friday for |
Chicago, where he will attend a con- |
ference on public health matters He |
expects to return the first of the week. |
T. J. Crowell, chairman in the Office |
of the surveyor, Is planning to spend
the first of the week at his home in
Vienna. Va.
c. H. WEIGH. inspector in the health
depa rtment, is spending a short vaca-
ton at his home in Clarendon, Va.
John CAVITY, inspector in the sewer
apartment, met with an accident this
week while riding motor cycle across
the canal at 31st and K streets north
west He collided with a tow line of a !
canal boat, and was severely cut about
his face and hands. His machine was
badly damaged.
n G.. Abbott. clerk in the sewer de-
partment, is being visited by his par
ants from his former home in Asheville.
Tenn.
Miss Marion Ferguson, stenographer
in the office of the corporation counsel,
has been granted leave of absence of
two weeks |.
u A. Howard, formerly of the sewer
is again a member of the
,assonnal of that branch of the local