Evening star., 1915-11-16
GEORGETOWN CITIZENS
|NDORSE HALF AND HALF
Association Expresses Thanks to
Those Who Represented District
Before Joint Committee.

Unqualified Endorsement of the half
and-half plan for meeting the ex-
penses of the District of Columbia
was unanimously given last night by
the Georgetown Citizens Association
at its meeting held in the Potomac
Savings Bank Hall. Wisconsin avenue
and M street northwest. The asso-
citation also passed. a resolution thank
ing the members of the joint citizens
committee for their work before the
joint select committee of Congress on
the fiscal relations between the United
States and the District of Columbia,
and elected officers to guide it through
the ensuing year.
William A. King, in presenting the
resolution indorsing the half-and-half
plan. expressed the hope that all Of
the civic bodies of the District of CO.
lumbia would take similar action. A
copy of the resolution was ordered
sent to the joint citizens committee.
The resolution set forth that the as
sociation was ''in favor of the con-
tinuance Of the half-and-half plan as
the fairest in principle and the most
satisfactory in practice of any plan
ever proposed for the finances of the
District Of Columbia"
Resolution Expressing Thanks.
Mr.. King followed that resolution
with one extending the thanks of the
association to Henry B. F. Macfar-
land. Theodore w. Noyes. A. S. Worth
fngton, E. F. Colladay, D. J. Callahan
and Corcoran Thorn, constituting the
joint citizens committee, as well as
our fellow-townsmen, Thomas Brad
ley and Frank P. Leetch, for their
able presentation of the cause of the
citizens of the District of Columbia
to the joint committee of Congress at
the recent hearings"
Both resolutions were passed unani-
mously and without debate.
DR.. Howard. E. Ames attempted to
have the association reconsider its vote
on a resolution asking the District
Commissioners to keep the street rail-
way tracks from being transferred
from the M Street bridge over Rock
creek to the new Pennsylvania avenue
bridge, now nearing completion. DR..
Ames said he had} made a personal in
vestfgation Of the matter, and he had
found that there was no objection by
the people In the vicinity of the bridges
to having the tracks on the new bridge.
He also asserted that the transfer of
the tracks would lessen the number of
accidents. because the two curves which
The cars now make are dangerous ones.
E. A. Boeger said he had made
canvass of the merchants between the
bridges and 32d street, along M street,
and that the majority were in favor of
having the tracks placed on the new
bridge. Eighty-flve merchants, accord
ing to papers presented by him last
night, were in favor of having the
tracks on the new bridge and only
seventeen were against them and in
favor of having them remain ON the
NJ street bridge.
On the ground that the Commission
ers might think that the original reso-
luton had not been given due consid-
GRAFTON, Spencer Gordon, secretary of
the association. objected to a recon-
sideration. He said that if the vote was
reconsidered at this time and presented
to the Commissioners it might hurt
other resolutions presented by the as
sociation. A. X. Paris said he would
move to reconsider the vote upon an
agreement that there would be no. de-
bate on the motion. The matter was
closed when Frank p. Leetch, who Of
fered the original resolution, objected
to the reconsideration.
The following officers of the past year
were reelected for the ensuing year:
John Hadley Doyle. president; b. A.
Bowles, first vice president: DIR. H.
Janney Nichols, second vice president:
William NJ. Dougal, treasurer; Spencer
Gordon, secretary.