The Washington times., 1914-09-09
URGE NEW LIGHTS
ALONG 14THSTREET
Columbia Heights Association
Recommends Appropriation
Be Placed in Budget.

The campaign for a modern lighting
system on upper FourHeenth street.
where numerous accidents are alles "A
TO have occurred in the last few years
because of inadequate lights. is TO le
vigorously pushed this fall by the Co.
lumbla Heights Citizens Association.
Not content wiki the additional lights
on Fourteenth street a result of the
associations camra gn last sprins.
members of the association. at a spc-
oial meeting last night to consider pub
lie Improvements in the columbia
Heights section, recommended to the
District Commissioners that they place
Sn their estimates for the next fiscal
year an Appropriation for the purpose
OF placing the latest improved and up
to-date electric lighting system on Four
teenth street"
The meeting was called following re-
Celpt of letter from the District Com
1uissionerS requesting the association
TO make recommendation for public
improvements within its territory for
transmission to Congress in connection
with the preparation of the estimates
for next year.
Oppose Borland Amendment.
The first thing done by the association
was to go on record as opposed to the
Rorland amendment to the current Dis
trict appropriation bill. assessing one
half the cost of street paving on abut-
ting property owners
W w. Bowie, chairman of the COM
mittee on street improvements, re
ported that he would not recommend
any street Improvements under the
present law without first consulting
the abutting property owners
The resolution opposing the Bor-
land amendment was introduced by
Judge Bundy. and was follows:
BE il resolved by the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association, at A
special meeting. that in view of the
paving or resurfacing of any street or
avenue under the provisions of the
Borland amendment. this association
does not feel 1T liberty to recon-
mend any such improvements with
out first securing the consent of the
aouttIng properly owners, and that
copies OF this resolution be sent to the
District Committee in Congress- the
Board of Trade. the Chamber of Com
merce. Retail Merchants Association,
and the District Commissioners"
Await Installation.
Following the adoption of the resolu-
uon. J. Clinton Hiatt. secretary OF the
-h7SSNiolloiA- NdAltu dlleHllOn the 1aCt
that business men in particular were
eagerly waiting the installation OF new
lights on upper Fourteenth street, and
that the matter was one in which so
much interest had been aroused that he
thought II incumbent upon the meeting
TO recommend an appropriation for new
lshts. even if no other recommends
uons We're made.
Mr. Hiatt. who is chairman of the
Epec!ai lighting committee then present.
ed his resolution calling upon the Com
mlssioners 10 include in their estimates
an Appropriation for an up-to-date light
ing system. 1t was unanimously
adopted.
Members of the association declared
that the Borland amendment was a dis
crimination against all who have not
had the benefit of improvements in front
OF their property, and that II would act
as an entering wedge for the repeal of
the organic act Of 1873.
The association voted an appropriation
OF SIS for the Red Cross war relief fund. |