Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-09-02
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
OUTLINES ITS NEEDS
Electric Lights, Paving, Side
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walks and Schools Among
improvements Asked.
SENT TO COMMISSIONERS

SENT TO COMMISSIONERS
Requests for electric lights. paving
of streets and laying of sidewalks pre-
dominated in the recommendations Tor
improvements filed yesterday after
noon with the District Commissioners
by the Columbia Heights Citizens As
sociation, through ]. Clinton Hiatt. sec
rstary. These. with others submitted.
will be considered by the Commission
ers in making up their estimates to be
submitted to Congress in December
In the request for electric lights the
latest improved system is asked on
,J4th street from Florida avenue 10
shepherd street. while an improved
electric lighting system" is asked for
11th street from Florida avenue to
Spring road; Georgia avenue from
Florida avenue to Shepherd street, ana
in front OF the new Central High
School, on Clifton between 18th and
18th streets
better lighting system is wanted on
Harvard street from 18th to 18th street
and sufficient number of electric lights
at the west entrance TO the Powell School
on Hiatt place.
Paving Requested.
Paving of the following streets is re
Fourteenth street from Park road to
SAepherd street: New Hampshire avenue.
From Park road to Rock Creek Church
eesad and Georgia avenue: 11th street. from
N.oiumbia road to Spring road: Euclid
street. from nth street TO Georgia ave-
nue.: Park road. from 18th street to
Georgia avenue: Irving street. from 18th
u eth streets: Gresham place. from
Sherman avenue to Georgia avenue: 9Th
street. from L street and Florida avenue
to Barry place; Barry place. from Sher-
nan avenue to Georgia avenue: Harvard
sstreet. from 18th street to Georgia ave-
hue: Columbia road. from Sherman ave-
nue. to Georgia avenue: 18th street. from
FLORIDA avenue to Euclid street: Georgia
avenue. from Kenyon to Shepherd street.
Monroe street, from 14th street to New
Hampshire avenue: Otis place. from New
Hampshire to Georgia avenue: Newton
place. from New Hampshire to Georgia
avenue: Kenyon street. from 18th street to
Georgia avenue: and to improve Rock
Greek Church road from New Hampshire
avenue on the south to Rock Creek
Church road. which, intersects with
Georgia avenue on the north.
New Sidewalks Desired.
ing streets are asked for: West side of
18th street. from Florida avenue to
Harvard street; east side of 18th street.
from Chaplin street to Euclid street;
street to Sherman avenue: south side
of Princeton place. half of block, near
Georgia avenue; north side of Column
hia road. from Sherman avenue to
Georgia avenue, in front of the Mon
roe School; widen the sidewalks on the
west side of 18th street. between Har-
, ward street and Columbia road: also
other places on 14th street in front of
walk on the south side of Harvard
street in place of the present brick
sidewalks between 14th and 18th
north side of Harvard street. in place
of the present brick sidewalk on Har-
ward street between 18th and 14th
streets.
More Shade Trees, Too.
Planting of shade trees is asked as fol-
lows: On 18th street from Florida ave-
nue. to Columbia road. 9Th street from
L street and Florida avenue to Barry
place. Otis place from New Hampshire
: avenue to Georgia avenue. Princeton
place from New Hampshire avenue to
Georgia avenue: Newton place from New
Hampshire avenue to Georgia avenue !;
Belmont street from 9Th to 18th street.
To relieve the congestion of traffic in
front Of the ball park when league games
are being played it is requested that w
;treet be opened from 9Th and Florida
avenue through to Georgia avenue.
In considering increased fire facil-
titles for the Columbia Heights sections
the association wants an appropriation
for q new motor fire truck. to be in
stalled at No. truckhouse. on Park
road below 18th street. as well as a
new truckhouse in the vicinity of 9Th
street and Florida avenue An appro-
priation is also asked for the pension
ing fremen as requested by the Fire
mems Association.
Other Appropriations.
other appropriations are asked. as
follows: Increasing the number of
police of the city and thereby those of
Columbia Heights; increase for health
department, to be used for the proper
prevention of conta gious diseases COM
ing into the District and for taking
care of those developing here: to COM
plete Meridian Hill Park. for the pur-
chase of a tract of land known as
iPiney Branch Park and located east of
18th street for the purpose of convert
ing II into public park; for widening
Piney Branch Park by purchasing 100
feet on the north and 100 feet on the
south. thus making the park 500 feet
wide instead of 400 feet wide. as at
present; for the purchase of the pres
ent site of the Mount Pleasant play
ground, located between Park road and
Kenyon street and 18th and 14th
streets; for the purchase of sufficient
land for the locating of playground
in the associations territory. and for
the building of a swimming pool on
the government triangle at Sherman
and New Hampshire avenues and the
erection of suitable building thereon.
Special emphasis is laid on the need for
an appropriation for the purchase of
ground north of Spring road and between
New Hampshire avenue and 10th street
and the erection thereon Of sixteen
room graded school building four-room
addition is also asked for the Monroe
School. on Columbia road near Georgia
avenue. which would make this building a
sixteen-room school
A manual training high school is asked
for a site at 18th and Columbia road and
an appropriation for maintaining summer
schools in the District
1t is also recommended that the trolley
poles Of the Washington Railway and
- Electric Company on Georgia avenue
north from Florida avenue TO the Bright
wood car barn be ordered removed and
an underground system installed
better system OF street signs also IS
wanted on Georgia avenue from Florida
avenue to Shepherd street.