The Washington herald., 1919-08-25
GEORGETOWN TO TAKE STEPS
TO USE OLD PUBLIC MARKET
Business Men Also Suggest P. T. Moran
AS Candidate to Fill Vacancy
For Commissioner

Georgetown merchants having set
a pace for lower prices for the ne
cessities of life at a time when the
high cost of living is recognized
as the most important problem be-
fore the American people, steps will
be taken to restore to its former
usefulness the old Georgetown pub
lie market, on NJ street. Several of
the leading citizens have taken up
the project and promise to carry it
to fruition- The nearest general
market for Georgetown house
wives Is the Western Market, at
Twenty-frst and X streets, nearly
a mile away.
Several of the business men along
NJ street and Wisconsin avenue re-
called when the Georgetown Mar
ket supplied the citizens of the old
town with fresh butter, eggs and
produce from the nearby counties
Of Maryland and Virginia, sold by
country men and women whose an
tique vehicles lined the curbs of
the contiguous streets. While the
Georgetown Market still is in opeT-
alton in a limited degree, several
of the stalls being occupied, ii was
POINTED out that a majority of the
stands are vacant, and country folk
with their home-raised produce are
not permitted to sell along the for
mer country line" as they are at
markets in the District.
This is rank discrimination
against the residents of George
town." a merchant said, -and we
are going to make some officials
show their hands, even if we have
to take up the matter with Con-
Gress, which body seems to be our
only source of relief from civic OPP
preston and neglect"
1t is proposed to have the vacant
stands rented to truckers and coun-
try people and restore old time con-
ditions when the good people OF
Georgetown could so to their own
market in the early morning and
procure fresh country butter and
eggs, fish and whatnot
Georgetowns Hat in Ring.
Georgetown has cast its hat in the
ring. It has a candidate for Dis
trict Commissioner to succeed Mr..
Gardiner. The nomination was made
Saturday by several business men
who declared that p. T. Moran, one
of the leading and most virile busi-
ness men of the ancient city, would
make an ideal official.
"As president of the Chamber of
Commerce he measured up 100 per
cent" one said, "and his highly sue
cessful business career marks him
as a man who can be relied upon in
any office to which he may be ap-
pointed. Besides he is a twentieth
century -up-to-the-m e-minute-man, and
has a wide acquaintance among
public men that count We want an
active commissioner who will look
intimately into the needs OF the peo-
pie. We need a man OF action, and
that man Is Patrick T. Moran"
When Moran was told OF the gen.
uine sentiment favoring him for
the commissionership, and asked if
he would accept II the job were
rendered him, hs smiled and said
Il have not had the matter under
consideration at all"
Alley Gets First Bath
Business men in the vicinity OF Wis
consin avenue and NJ street are happy
because a small alley running west
from the avenue has been cleaned for
the first time in sixteen years. The
Objectionable byway extends just
north of the Potomac Savings Bank to
an elevated. weed covered plateau.