Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10
Praise for Commissioners.

President Tucker and DR.. Starr Par
sons, the latter chairman of the COM
mittee on educational Institutions,
praised the District Commissioners for
asking that power of appointment of
members of the board Of education be
transferred from the justices;-of the
Supreme Court to the Commissioners.
Attention was, called by President
Tucker to the attempt that members
of the House Of Representatives 'are'
making to nulfify the organic act,
and Mr.. Tucker said the association
expects Senator John Walter Smith
will take care of. the question when
the District bill reaches the. upper
body Of Congress.
Thomas Mcnamara called attention
to the need of catch basins between
Florida avenueyand. H street and 18th
and 18th streets to prevent damage to
property in that section every time
there is a heavy rain. Three inches
of mud is left on the streets after
rains, he declared. A resolution ask,
ing the Commissioners to make the
improvement was adopted.
Resolutions Of regret were adopted
because of the recent defeat Of Repre-
sentatives Charles o. Lobeck of Ne
braska and William J. Carey of Wis
consin. It was stated that both were
friends of the District.
new IHGulDCIS clSClSu dI0 JdCOD d.
Peterson, Hubert Newsom, George
Dovakas and Charles A. Peters.
Committees for the Year.
Committees for the. current year
were appointed by President Tucker
as follows:
Executive committee - Evan H.
Tucker, chairman; DR.. L. D. Walter,
Dr. Starr Parsons. Roscoe Jenkins. W.
ryl ~
Anthony, William ]. Frizzel1. Prof.
Percival Hall, Thomas L. McNamara
and James M.-Wood.
Committee on legislation-Evan H.
Tucker, chairman; William ]. Fritz
zell, Arthur Cowsill. DR.. L. D. Walter,
Burton T. Doyle and George E. Lit
tie.
Committee on publicity and mail
service-William J. Frizzell. chair
man; A1onzo G. Anthony, J. F. Broad
foot, G. H. Aschenbach. Clements Gel
P. O'Dea. Harry Williams, R. c. MUIR
ply and William H. Mcconnell.
Committee on streets, avenues and
alleys-W.; G. Lang. chairman: Fred
erick Kraus, D. D. Bowen. G. H. Brah-
Ter, Harry Bosch. William .Cramer,
Dale S; Venables, F. A. Norway W: W.
Deal, J. e. Diggle, II. r. Howenstein,
George c. Voneif, John Kindle, Vito
Luzopono, w. H. Whyman. William B.
Creecy and Jacob. Frech.
Committee on water. lights and sew
ers-Thomas L Mcnamara, chairman;
Weber, D. H. Ballauf James F. KEEL
ley. H. L. jenkins. c. E. Brawner, A. E.
Felser, j. W. Hughes. Martin McHugh,
Leopold Bickle, K. Bretler., John c.
Ronayne, p. j. ODea, Louis Northrup,
H. E. Glotzbach. w. H. 'Sardo and VIII
liam Maier.
Committee on Recommendations
w. G. Dunno, H. w. Roughly, w. s.
Bransom. John T. Roberts, Luther F.
Hall, W.. A. Hettinger. Thomas
Holmes, J. w. Annada1e, David J.
Evans, C. B. Matthews. A. II. McGhan
and Myer Molenoff.
Prof. Percival Hall. chairman; Edwin
L. Scrach. Robert Aaron. D. A. Fulton.
Gustav Hartig, H. EBAY, DR.. Lyman
Stead, George F. Hoover James A.
Early. NJ. J. Flaherty. 6. NJ Frye and
Alonzo G. Anthony - 49,
Committee on colleges and schools
Dr.. Starr Parsons, chairman; j. p.
Hawkins, Robert. Bowdler. Thomas
Regain, DR.. II. r. Schneider, James W.
sMeChesney,. Joseph %. +Bardroff. Will
liam Levy, IT, e. Riftle. DR.. Raymond
4. Fisher. George n. Boyd. NJ c. Raj
fel. Mrs. Emma Regaa and Mrs. Rose
Reid. -. =
Committee on public ut lities-Ros-
coe3 jenkins. chairman; George CARL.
William F. Dement,. Charles ]. Kropke,
w. II. Lanham. Pasaua1e Vesco, Henry
L. Sheldrake. H. C. ROUGH. w. II.
'Burch, a. C. Cryer. S. RI Hlanton and
A.. L. Vowel.
Committee on. police and nre depart
L. D. WAlt4E chairman:
W. II. Burch. NJ J. Co1linA J. n. Pat
ten. O. H Comm. ]. NJ. Burns, Samuel
ash w q 4SiYa YYnnl0ra