Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-17
Avenue Grades
to Be Changed .

AVenue Grades found that grades
! n along that thor
regular and would require change. In
The Star of October TO- 1870. IS a news
story on this point:
| Maj. Weyss. Gen. Michler's assist
ant. has prepared profile of Pennsyl-
vania avenue showing the grades.
lchanees of the curbs. sidewalks, etc,
10 be observed in laying the new wood
tpavt-ne Considerable difficulty has
been experienced in establishing uni
3formlty on account of the uneven
condition of the Avenue and the diff
ference between the north and south
icurbs. the latter being much lower
than the former. The old fashioned
ldea OF giving public thoroughfares a
! great curve has been entirely useless.
| as it detracts much from the appear
| ance Of the street. besides making tn
travel more difficult and increasing
the wear upon the pavements. The
most improved roadways. among them
the bouierards around Paris, laid out
| by the most experienced French en-
lgineers. are curved on the basis of
one foot in from so to 100 This is
found to he ample for drainage and
ADDS much to the appearance of the
broadway, besides making travel cas-
Ter Wood pavement also requires
less curve than eobble stones or
gravel. The Avenue as it now stands
1 IN some places has a curve of one foot
in fifteen. and the least curve is one
Inot IN sIXty-eisht BY the new pro-
nile the curve will be about one foot
In hfty-five on the south of the rail
! road track and one foot in eighty on
the north. The difference cannot be
detected with the eye, as the rise on
! the north will be but a fraction high
"a bAts
arrangement could be made without
interfering with the grade of the side
walks and in some places the filing
up above the base of the houses"
| In The Star of October u, 1870. is
an item, as follows, quoting from
| comments on the
Education in government clerks
| and d u C / o nal
! washington. facilities in Wash
!ington by two out-of-town news
| papers:
The government clerks in Wash
ington are described by a correspond
| ent of the Worcester Spy as intelli-
gent ard fine looking. though the
women, he has the bad taste to as
sert. are not handsome and look
weary. Many attend commercial COL
leges in their spare hours and others
the Columbian College Law School,
while two-thirds of the seventy med
| ical students in the Columbian and
Georgetown schools are government
! clerks. Many of the clerkships are in
themselves an education for certain
branches of the law, and in this way
] are turned to good account by young
men on leaving the civil service.
| This correspondent suggests that the
immense libraries and scientific col
| lections now massing at Washington
Should be made more available to the
educational interests of the country.
The Springfield Republican in the
same connection holds that Washing
, ton really furnishes one of the best
sites in the country for universities
of the highest class. This is true, and
our two colleges, Columbian and
Georgetown, are rapidly mounting to
that position. The libraries of Con-
gress, the Smithsonian Institution and
the departments, as well as those of
the colleges, supply rare and costly
works in all the departments of
science and literature; the law stu
dent has the great advantage of being
able to attend at the Supreme Court
and at congressional debates. and the
student of medicine has advantages
in the amount of illustration of vari-
Gus branches of medical science, such
as no other city in the country can
aHOfu. i ne museum IoT lHSldtlct,'
established by the medical depart
ment OF the United States Army, is
now, without doubt, superior to any
similar collection in the world, its
material having been obtained from
"a greater number of cases and
from a greater variety of climates
than has ever yet been brought TO
place in any country"
X x
The hog and cattle nuisance con-
tinued to give great annoyance in the
capital. In The Star
Hog and Cattle of October 10, 1870,
is printed a letter
Nuisonoo' calling attention to
the fact that a crop of grass had
made it's appearance in the X street
park, but that the hogs, cows and
goats had also appeared. and were
busy making the earth bare again.
The correspondent asks if the cor
poration was liable for damages in
fiicted in this manner. The Star
replied:
ut is our belief that the corpora
ton is liable for damages in this
case and We wish some of the in
jured property holders would have
the pluck to test the matter in the
courts. "A ." lHS1h5 VII 1oi
is about the only thing that will
bring the corporation officials up to
the work of executing the laws
against animals running at large. A
more ridiculous farce than the late
pretense to execute them was never
enacted. If the police took up any
of the stray animals they carefully
put them down again in the same
spot, for not hog, COW, goat or
goose is missing from its accustomed
Av,d 0f
did get so far on the road TO con-
tiscation and determination as the
workhouSe We apprehend they We're
speedily .pardoned out by our kind-
hearted mayor 10 get RIA OF the
clamor of the owners, every one of
whom doubtless put on poor face
and alleged that each individual hog,
cow sheep, goat or goose lmpounded
was the special prop. stay and sup
port of a larger family than followed
John Rogers to the stake. Our board
of health also undertook to do won
derful things in the abatement OF the
animal nuisance. but was similarly
bamboozled by the pig owners ana
ended by giving them PERMISSION 10
keep to the limit % of ten hogS IN
a pen or lair, until it suited their
convenience to kill their crop. Kill
ing time will occur with these hos
lords when the general winding ny
Of mundane affairs takes piace-not
a whit sooner-and then Wen wager
that in certain hog-infested wards
of this city the pigs will outsqueal
Gabriers trump.
Con Robert Z. Lee died at Lex
;neton Va. Wednesday, October II,
1870 The Star printed
Arlington the news AVS. Oh .n ntI I ,ns d ,
Estate. following published an