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the District fire department is shown
in the statement that during the
year there were placed in commission
one motor hook-and-ladder truck. one
motor pumping engine. four combina-
ton chemical and hose wagons and
one combination chemical and hose
, wagon equipped for heavy wrecking
work, built in the departments re-
pair shop. These replaced seventeen
horses. In spite of this. however.
twenty-one horses were bought dur
ing the year, while twenty-four were
transferred to other departments,
three were destroyed and one died.
Inauguration on February last Of
the two-platoon system. the report
states, has promoted efficiency and
the system is working smoothly.
bringing better working conditions
and increased satisfaction.
In this section of the annual re-
port the Commissioners also urge in
creased pay for members of the fire
department., stating that lib men sep
arated from the service in the year.
an average of one man every three
days. In most cases, the report stat
ed, the separations were for the ,rea-
son that better salaries could be
earned in other employment.
Health Conditions Reviewed.
The report of the health Office
showed that 2.S95 more deaths oc-
| Cured in 1919 than in 1918. with a
death rate for 1919 of 22.95 per 1000
population, as against n rate of 1859
for the preceding year.
The great increase, the report STAT
ed, was due to the influenza 3hd
pneumonia epidemicS OF the fall And
winter of 191S-19.
Deaths in the District in the fiscal
year 1919, the report stated, \were
e.5S2: in 1918, 6.6S7. OF the dNaths
in 1919. 2,O2S were due to infusnza
alone and 1925 to pneumonia fohSw-
ing influenza, a total of 1895. Re
viewing the visitation of infueAza,
the report said:
1.-The pandemic of influenza which
swept over the world and csdsednun-
first appearance in tH District of
Columbia about the middle of Septem-
Der. 1918. The FIST death was
recorded Septembe7 81. 1918. There
being no law in fofce in the District
of Columbia requifng the report of
influenza to the health department,
the Commissioners on October 3, 1918,
promulgated regulations requiring the
report of such cases. At the same
time the Commissioners ordered the
closing of the public and private
schools, churches, theaters, dance
halls and other places. The meetings
of fraternal Organizations were also
, prohibited. PHblic funerals also came
under the baH.
THO Unified States public health
service>-ator about this time took an
active part in cooperating with the
local authorities in combating the
| disease. The American Red Cross
also came forward with assistance.
AS the epidemic spread a temporary
emergency influenza hospital was es-
tablished and maintained by the
I United States public health service
at 612 F street northwest. All the
nursing activities of the District. in
cluding the Red Cross organization.
were consolidated and operated under
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The report states that the biennial
assessment of real estate for 1920
and 1921 has been completed and Is
being entered upon the ledgers. 1t
is pointed out that in making this as
sessment the assessors were con-
fronted with the choice of two prop
ositions: Either to appraise the
dwellings. at the abnormal prices
created by the war, or at what they
considered would be a fair value un-
der normal conditions. They adopted
the latter course: The selling value
together with a certain allowance
for the probable condition of the
market after a number of years, will
have to be the clue for present value,
in the opinion. of the assessors Office.
Work. ON Surveyors Records.
Work done during the year on the
renumbering of parcels of ground
throughout the District to clarity the
surveyors records is outlined as fol-
lows in the report:
"On January 6, 1919, there was
recorded in the Office of the surveyor
of the District Of Columbia, for aid
in taxation of real estate, a set of
maps embracing all the squares with
in the city of Washington. including
what was formerly Georgetown.
These squares are numbered from /
to 1901, with a distinctive lot num-
ber for each house or individual hold
ing of ground. under authority of an
act approved March 8, 1899.
when the city Of Washington was
first laid out the blocks and lots in it
were numbered, SO that the deeds
thereto merely referred to them by
numbers. These lots from time to
time became divided into lots and
parcels through deeds In which such
lots and parcels were described by
m metes and bounds, which necessitated
short descriptions of them on the tax
records. These descriptions. were Oft
en- faulty and resulted in defective
tax sales. The new numbering will
result in saving of clerical labor
and in a corresponding simplifcation
and accuracy of the records.
THE changes in suchs REMEMBERING
have been very extensive. The pub
lie should be apprised of these
changes in the designation of their
holdings with as much dispatch as
possible. and lithographic maps
for which an appropriation is neces-
sary and earnestly recommended"
Pro-RatinE Of Fees.
The report recommends that Con-
gress make provision for the pro-
quarterly on the first day of April.
July and October Of each year. This
Is to relieve motorists who buy ma
chimes in the middle OF the year Of
the necessity of paying a license fee
for the full year.
The report shows that receipts. of
the license bureau from all sources
for the last fiscal year amounted to
$334.37L53.' The amount for the pre-
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work was carried on through 131 diff
ferent agencies-the central library,
the Takoma Park branch, ninety-nine
grammar schools, Z high schools, seven
teen stations, four Fairgrounds, and
three miscellaneous agencies. In addi-
ton withdrawn books were sent to twen-
tySone charitable and correctional in
stitutions. At the close of the year
5S,S49 persons were registered as
borrowers of library books. These
secured library books exclusively
through the library service rendered
to the public schools.
Tramc Violation Arrests.
There were 1887 arrests made for
violations of traffic regulations, ac-
cording to the report of the police
department for the year. OF these
S.154 arrests were for violations of the
speed regulations. and S,543 for vio-
lations Of other traffic rules.
The police department reported a
total of 1886 arrests for 1919, as
against 43.24S for the preceding year.
or these. 57.57 per cent were whites
and 42.43 colored. Only 1.157 of the
persons arrested were unable to read
and write.
At the close of the fiscal year the
police department consisted of S54
men. as follows: Major and superin-
tendent. /; inspector and assistant
superintendent. l; inspectors. 3; cap
tains, IL; lieutenants. IS: sergeants.
54; privates, class 3. 492; privates,
class 2. rs; privates. class /, 1876.
The members of the police depart
ment are responsible for patrolling $40
miles of open street in territory
Of sixty-nine and one-quarter miles.
besides twenty-five miles of water
front.
Decrease in the number Of traffic
accidents during the year is noted in
the report, which says that wash
ington is perhaps the only one of the
large cities Of the United States which
succeeded in reducing traffic acci-
dents" Only seventy-six deaths from
traffic accidents occurred during the
year. as against eighty-six the year
before, a reduction of IL per cent.
Police Pay Recommendation.
Urgent recommendation is made
that salaries of members of the po-
lice department be increased to a
point comparable with policemen's s
pay in other large cities. and that the
force be augmented by addition OF
enough men to permit every member
of the department to have one day
off each week.
During the year 2,476 children un-
der seventeen years old were arNest-
ed for crimes of various kinds, these
cases being classed as Juvenile deli
QuenCy. oI the dFTeStS 1oO "ciC AoA
felonies and for serious crimes.
Fire Department Report.
The report of the chief engineer of
the fire department showed the fire
loss in the District during the year
was S967.432. with insurance of $19.-
1889, the loss being an increase of
s672.6S1 over the preceding year. The
number of alarms turned in during
the year was 2.225. of which twenty
cd I'm no n ar n
alarms. Five one-alarm fires during
the year occasioned losses of $4,000
or more each.
Disappearance Of the horse from
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operating expense was $3,672.01, leav-
ing net revenue of $10,165.50.
8Z,23O Enrolled I'm Schools.

02,230 Enrolled I'm Schools.
According to the statement Of the
superintendent of schools to the Dis
trict Commissioners, the total enroll
ment of pupils for the year was
62.239. OF these 22.111 were white
boys. S.093 colored boys. 22,240 white
enrolment was divided as follows:
Elementary, 8S.722 white pupils. 49,
2s2 colored: secondary. $3.50 white,
colored: vocational, SO colored, the
white pupils being enrolled in the
elementary schools.
Total enrolment showed net in
crease of 703, or 1.13 per cent. over
the preceding year; average enroll
ment was 52,S63; average daily at
tendance. 4s,0S0; percentage of at
tendance, 92.8.
Tabulation OF Teaehers.
A tabulation of the number and
class of teachers in the public schools
of the District shows thus:
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sons in a single day at the District
bathing beach was noted in the report
on the bathing beach and swimming
pool The beach was opened May s. the
hours gradually being increased from
noon to PM, until by June 10 the pub
lie had access to the water from am.
to pm. Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day Of each week being for women and
girls, and Tuesday. Thursday and Sat-
urday for men and boys. Classes in
life-saving and in swimming. the report
states. were successful and popular with
all classes Of swimmers.
Free Public Library.
The report Of the board of trustees Of
the Free Public Library with which Is
included the report Of the librarian to
the trustees) shows that in spite Of the
handicaps Of war conditions and the in
fuenza, epidemic the library has con-
tinued to render public service of large
extent and Of high quality, both before
and since the signing of the arrnistice.
[ERS
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IL
ed conditions and to make. provision
for the early acquisition of remain
ing parcels of land suitable for n
permanent park system which other
wise may soon be built upon and
their availability for park purposes
thus destroyed.
Permanent School Buildfnx..
During the war the construction of
permanent school buildings to meet
the needs of a constantly increa sin q,
school population practically stopped
Appropriations have been made for
some OF the buildings needed based
on estimates prepared prior to the
war. When the appropriations became
available the cost of labor and mate
rial had increased to such an extent
that the buildings could not be erect
ed within the funds available. These
amounted to approximately $1,000. 900.
AS temporary expedient, Congress
appropriated funds for the construc-
tion Of frame one-room portahIe
school buildings. These buildings are
a poor and inadequate substitute for
permanent buildings and they should
only be used under emergency con-
ditions until permanent buildings can
be constructed. The COMMISSIONER
feel that the time has come when
permanent buildings should be pro-
vided and sufficient funds should be
appropriated to build them''
10000 i'm Military Service.
The Commissioners point out that
the War Department credits the Dis
trict with having furnished 1928
men to the military forces in the
world war, as follows: Inductions un-
der the draft. 10000: enlistments in
the Army, 4.442; enlistments in the
Navy. $500. and enlistments in the
Marine Corps. 3T2. The Commission
ers estimate that 1000 District men
were in the military service when
this country entered the conflict, maxi
ing Washington's total more than
10000.
The report shows that George Pierce
Howell, jr.: Charles E. Hart and Eu-
gene B. Ely were appointed by the
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Forty-Six Prosecutions.
ION account of the high cost of
necessaries of life much time was de-
voted by this Office to the work of
making investigations. regarding the
sale of commodities by short weight
and measure, and inspectors paid
close attention to this branch Of the
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Net Taxable Assessment.

Under the heading of real estate
assessments the report shows that
the net taxable assessment of new
for the last fiscal year
was $7.424,S77. after deducting the
value of structures damaged and de-
stroyed and the value of buildings
exempt from taxation. This total
assessment a was a substantial increase
over the preceding year. when the
total was only little over $4,000. 900.
Under the heading of personal prop
erty assessments, the report shows an
increase in the tangible tax in 1919
over 1918 of $3fg.34472. and de-
crease in the intangible tax OF
$le,260.05.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
ZIMMERMAN MAKING
SEARCH FOR LEDGE

J. F. Zimmerman, well-known
Fairbanks hard rock man, whe went
into the kantishna district several
weeks ago. is engaged at the present
time in making a search for a galena
ledge on the right limit of Eureka
creek, near the headwaters of that
stream.
Arrivals from the kantishna state
that Zimmerman recently found ga
lena float in the creek, and he IS
now working on the theory that the
ledge is near by. He is very hope
full of locating the ore body before
the close of the season.
Zimmerman went into the Kan
tishna on the McGonegal boat at
the time AL Copeland and Tom Blay-
lock invaded that district on a
prospecting trip. Copeland and his
partner, however, crossed over to the
Kuskokwim side of the range. while
Zimmerman confined his prospecting
to the Kantishna region proper. And
he had not been there long before
he discovered the float which con-
WINGED him that he was in close prox-
unity to ledge of galena.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09

in the United States since 1916 has
decreased from sos, 100000 to $685.
100000 in 1918, demonstrating the
fact that gold cannot be produced
proftably under present conditions;
and
Whereas, excluding Alaska, South
Dakota ranks third among the
states of the Union in the produc-
ton of gold and the welfare and
prosperity of the Black Hills mining
section of South Dakota is depend
ent upon the gold mining industry;
"Now, therefore, in the faith of
the premises,
Resolved, That the Congress of
the United States be respectfully
petitioned and urged to take as
promptly as possible, such appropri-
ate action as may be effective to
grant the fullest relief to the gold
mining industry of the nation, and
That the market value of gold
be fixed at not less than $50 per
ounce. and that all newly-mined GOLD
be paid for at the newly tablished
prices"
Lists have been circulated care
fully in all of the Black Hills towns
and mining camps and over LOO
signatures gathered.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
BUZBYY SAW ALASKANS
ON HOMEWARD VOYAGE

Jay Buzby, Fairbanks boy, who
returned from the States on the
last boat, reports that he ran across
two former Fairbanksans on the
ship which brought him back from
France. They were Virgil Myers,
son of Mrs. DR.. Myers, and Joe
Doran, both of whom enlisted early
in the war and managed to get over
TO France. Buzby did not knew
they were aboard his ship until he
CHANGED across them after they had
left Brest.
Buzby is the first Fairbanks BOY
TO return North from France. He
was stationed at Ploermel during the
entire time he was overseas, so did
not get into the fighting. But he
says there was plainly of rain, hard
ly a day passing without a shower,
during the three months he was
there. His station was about l20
miles inland from Brest.
Howard Curtis was met at Brest.
and he seemed to be pretty wei! o.
cupied with his port duties.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
MINERS URGING
GOLD STANDARD
OF NEW VALUE

The miners of the Black Hills
have started a movement for a re-
adjustment Of the gold standard at
one-third above its present level,
and an appeal has been made to the
South Dakota delegation in Con-
gress along these lines.
The following is the resolution
adopted by mining committee rep
resenting interested Dakota people:
eve, the undersigned gold miners
and other citizens of South Dakota,
have, with the intention of advising,
instructing and directing our con-
gressmen in the matter of desired
adjustment of the gold standard,
unanimously adopted the following
preamble and resolutions, to-wit:
Whereas, for sheer lack of suf-
fcient gold with which TO function,
the old gold standard established
two centuries ago has now utterly
collapsed, and
Whereas, gold standard can
only be re-established and steadily
sustained by vast increase in the
regular annual production of gold,
and efficient steps to that end must
speedily be taken; and
Whereas, the maintenance of a
gold standard rests upon the gold
mining industry; and
Whereas, the gold mining indus
try has suffered severely owing to
the scarcity and high cost of labor
and the prohibitive prices of ma
chinery and supplies and to such an
extent that more than one-third of
the gold mines throughout the coun-
try have been forced to suspend op-
erations; and
Whereas, notwithstanding the
recognized Importance of gold to the
welfare of the nation, yet it is the
only important product still selling
at the old standard price of s2767
established two centuries ago; and
Whereas, the so-called bonanza
mine is a thing of rare occurrence
and contributes but negligible
quantity to the total supply, the
stable supply being obtained from
large deposits of low grade ore: and
Whereas, there are vast deposits
of ore containing So to IS in gold
and one ounce in silver within the
gold mining states which will add
lsterially to the annual production
if a sufficiently high price is paid
for the product to stimulate pros
pecting and development of these
deposits; and there are. furth armorc,
innumerable veins which have been
neglected and are now untouched
due TO the high cost of development
and low price paid for the product;
and
Whereas, the production of gold
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
EXAMINER ENJOYING
REST AT BIRCH LAKE

Federal Investigator Masterson,
who has been in Fairbanks for some
time past looking over the accounts
of the various federal officials in
the upper town, left for Birch lake
this morning. accompanied by Mar
shall L. T. Erwin. They expect to
put in a busy day tomorrow gather
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
ABOUT
GREAT BRITISH NAVAL
GUNS MADE PUBLIC

LONDON.-The British admiralty
has revealed that one of the devel-
opments of the navy in the war was
an 18-inch gun which fired a Y ton
shell, z feet long, 90 miles, with
sufficient force to pierce foot Of
the hardest steel. 1t was used in
the memorable attack on Zeebrugge
with excellent effect.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
No Cause for Worry.

Cholly: After all, fools make life
amusing. When all the fools are
dead l don't want to be alive.
Charlotte: Don't worry, you won't
be.-Boston Transcript.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09

Fresh garden seeds, just arrived.
Fowler & Morris. :
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09
ing fish from the lake, and will re
turn to town Monday.

Fresh garden seeds, just arrived,
Fowler & Morris.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09

Restaurant Tabs and Tablets at
the News Office.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-09

Birth Announcement Cards at the
News Office.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-09
The Coming Teleqraph Strike

The telegraph strike set for next Wednesday is annoying and inconvenent for/a day two but 1t will he quickly unless a muddling government unused 10 such things should somehow but unntentionaly proloug it. If however it will leave the handling Of it to the telegraph officials may predict that it will have passed by the end of the week, into the limbo whther all previous telegraph strikes. have gone.
 1t is not of record that telegraph strike has ever succeeded and we believe it is of record that no grapher who has taken part in a strike ever par cipated in another, if he had chance do unless he was a monomaniac on the subject of strikes and given to striking just for the fun of the thing.
 A telegraph strike requires material and it finds it in the who have come and learned the art of telegraphy since the last previous strike The striking employees has been 'out once out for ever and it a policy which has been pretty closely ad hered Now and then the companies have taken back a of exceptional ability when they believed that he had had enough striking last him lifetime; that he who could profit by exper- ience and that he immune strike as is the youth who has wrestled with measles or humps, to a recurrence of those affictions.
 The companies but for one thing could profitably relax this policy frequently than they have done but that thing is most vital one Neglect of it would destroy the policy whose force depends upon it's
 sidy, the regularity and certainty of it's enforce meut.
Arizona republican., 1919-06-09
The Laboring Conference

The backing and filling of the peace conference with respect to the treaty with Germany may have been foreseen when it was agreed among the dele gates that the open covenant should be kept closed at the end of nearly six months of treaty-malng on basis that had been by the president and had apparently been accepted by other great pow CTS We know almost nothing of what has been 0one. We know that the Italian claims have not been disposed of that the Japanese outrage against China has been unnimously approved and we thought We knew from the 10000 word summary of the SO coo word treaty, what had been proposed to Germany Now even that aperture through which we were sven a glimpse of the proceedings has been closed All the cable and telegraph tolls spent on the sum mary, all the time spent in reading it all the pense of printing it have been wasted.
 We are assured that the "big four are making no concessions to Germany, but they are a long time nal- ing no concessions. We also told that they are making more workable a treaty which the German protest did not declare 10 be unworkabe and we are informed that plebscites be ordered in terri ories which had been taken from Germany without eserve' Hints have gone out that the matter of in iemnity is to be rearranged as well as the subject )f German shipping
 From all this there is a suspicion that the treaty is being worked over and that the summary which met with approval in this country at least did not forecast the kind of treaty which it is hoped may be presented to the Germans, possibly this week.
 This situation robs the controversy in the senate over the alleged circulated copies of the treaty in New York. of much of it's importance. It transpires that the fnanciers who somehow came into possession of those copies know more of the real treaty than the senate and the rest of do We are all again reduced 10 the level of transformation uncertainty and doubt which appears to be shared by the peace con- ference itself