Evening star., 1915-02-11

urging the establishment of free Ii
brary. In 1895 the committee on chari-
ties recommended the establishment of
a food market where the poor. out of
employment. might obtain food on
credit. On the recommendation of this
committee the Washington Board of
instead of superintendent. The boards
view became law. In 1895 a special
committee visited the Governor of
Virginia seeking to suppress gambling
this committee aided in their suppress
sion. For many years the public schools
committee assisted the public school
officials in celebrating February %.
Improvement in alley conditions has
been urged and public Fairgrounds and
use of public school property for other
than public school purposes have been
recommended and urged.
ITO the features already cited these
may be added:
The code, Potomac Park. Rock Creek
Park, Union station, Lydecker tunnel.
highway act. Juvenile Court, Police
Training School. Normal School and
other school buildings.
with these and others unmentioned
there are to be considered the follow
ing monumental improvements. all of
which have had our earnest and in
sistent support:
Sewage disposal, filtration plant,
railway terminals, Cedar street sub
way, Connecticut Avenue bridge, Piney
Branch bridge, Highway bridge across
the Potomac, Anacostia bridge, Massa-
chusetts Avenue bridge, new municipal
building and the tuberculosis Hospital
For these last there were appropriated
between 1901 and 1909. $1s.o53, ,75O.1s.
All Should Aid Capital.
Realizing that the federal capital
cannot be improved and maintained
with the dignity which should char
acterize the capital of a great people,
and that private property here. how
ever valued. even if overassessed. can
not bear the burden of capital exist
ence. the Washington Board of Trade
has ever insisted that the whole peo-
pie should aid in the capitals welfare.
day fixed the ratio as half and half,
and it may be safely affirmed that not
anything, as yet. has been adduced to
warrant disturbance of this ratio.
with an eye single to the upbuild-
ing of this as a capital city. the mem
bers of the Washington Board of Trade
without swerving have insisted that
the federal Legislature should amply
and generously provide for improve
ment and maintenance. and, asser-
tions to the contrary notwithstanding,
its members. with their fellow citizens
here. have always stood ready to con-
tribute fairly and equitably to the
charges upon the city
"All of the committee reports, all of
the utterances of it's officers, all the
measures of the body itself, disclose
what was so well expressed, Novem-
ber Is, 1897, by a former president S
w. Woodward:
For Washington there is a magnifi-
cent future. Let singleness of purpose
and purity of motive be evident in all
we do, in this city's behalf. Let US
prove our patriotism and our devotion
to country by advancing the material
welfare and the national glory of the
city in which we live. Because we are
| without large commercial or manu-
featuring interests to aid us in our
| work. we should not sit with folded
hands. We should work intelligently
courageously and incessaptly.'
D. c. People Not Shirkers.
'"fhe people OF the District thirk not
| their responsibilities, nor their duties.
either as citizens thereof or as citizens
of the whole country. Feeling that