Evening star., 1919-12-01
made, principally for the purchase of

made, principally for the purchase of
coal.
The report showed that the District
owned and kept in operation during
maintenance and supplies for them
costing s11,54s.63, an average of
$0.O4S3 per mile travelled. Repairs
cost $2.7O7.40. an average Of $0.0113
per mile travelled. Average mileage
of the cars was 5.946 miles.
| The District kept eighty-two horses
and mules at the municipal stables,
| cared for by fifty three employees.
| Each animals board cost $312.24 for
the year.
Work Of Plumbing once.
! During the year." the report
showed. the plumbing office made
26,435 regular inspections, as COM
! pared with 25,995 during the preced-
, ing year. 1t is estimated that the
total cost of new plumbing work in
stalled in private buildings was s778.-
S69, and of repairs and remodeling
work. $561,870. The best available
| estimate of plumbing work done by
| the housing bureau, the Army and
! other government agencies is $780,
600, making a total of more than three
| million for plumbing in the District OF
| Columbla The average number of in
| spections per day per man. field inspec-
| tion force, was thirteen and one
! third. and the greatest number in any
one day by any one man was thirty
| eight. There were twenty Police
Court cases for violation of the
| dismissed by the court, and fines
| amounting to s122 were collected.
[ Under the compulsory drainage
! act, forty-one cases were forwarded
by the health department and other
branches of the District government
for the installation of sewer and wa
! ter in those instances where the
owner had failed to do the work
after notice served upon him. In six
teen of these cases the work was
done by the owner or agent, in four
OF them the work was done by the
District of Columbia and the cost as
sessed against the property, and
principally on account of the appro-
prlatlon being exhausted within the
first quarter of the fiscal year.
During the year the plumbing
board held twenty-four sessions for
the examination of candidates for
license as master plumber and gas
filter. The total number examined
was twenty-nine. The number of
original candidates examined for
license for master plumber and gas
inter was fourteen. of whom two
| passed. OF the fifteen who had
previously been examined for license,
three passed and twelve failed.
The number of steam boilers in.
spected by the inspector of steam
boilers during the year was 431. in
Guiding 35 for the District Of Column
! bia and for the United States
Eight boilers were condemned as un-
mt for further use. The compensation
of this official is received from fees
paid by the owners of the boilers. The
total amount of fees reported by him
during the year was s2,155 and the
expenses of inspection $500, leaving a
net compensation to him of $1,S35.
The board of examiners of steam
engineers held SO examinations and
examined 12s applicants, of whom As
were found competent and 80 not. The
board also conducted examinations of
applicants for permits of operators Of
automobiles and motor cycles"
Public Street Lighting.
Showing how Washington is light
ed the report said:
There are $3.50 street lamps of all
kinds in the District of Columb bia, as
follows: