Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-04-13
In Message to Council lie
Recommends Plan For
Improvement
URGES NEW SCHOOL
Two Fire Companies Request Council
10 Repeal Speed Law Of Is Mile, IA
Hour While Responding to Alarms.

!, Mayer J. VI. Duncan in message
submitted to city council last n'%ht
recommended a oond issue in the sr'n
of $6O0,0O0 for the city to pay eli
certain temporary loans and also fol
the erection, of a new public schoo
building containing sixteen 70 .Ts
and construction an addition to =:
Washington school building Tor bI:s
to cost at an estimate Of $4,000 All
for other city improvements needed
The mayor recites that the scnoois alc
SO crowded that only half session i
held for some of the classes. He fr..
ther recommends the installation ..
modern heating plant for the city
hall building to take the place Of tn
Il twelve or more stoves now used.
Streets he urged to be improved
are: Washington to Franklin, Frank
In to Alfred; Prince or Duke, Com
merce from King to Duke, Fairfay 70
Old Dominion Glass factory and to
Bryant's fertilizer factory. He also
urges sewer for Hoff's run and the in.
provements of West street f"cn:
Prince to Oronoco, to connect with
! Walnut street of East Rosemont :he
tgas plant the mayor says IS prac
y tSally' worth the oopded Indebtedness
at- the present time and since 1902 has
turned into the city treasury S552, 900.
The mayor says the estimated re-
4 rnuc Of the city for the year Is
S275,0O0 and expense about S22o,ono.
He estimates "a saving Of expenses
this year owing TO the reduction n
the price of material.
1t also is recommended by the M
yor that committee of five repre-
sentative citizens he appointed 10 aD
praise&the city's holdings to place e
city IN a right light before the fran
cial world.
In connection with The proposes
foond issue the mayor recommends
that out of it the city pay off s14'.Mr
notes known as "gas notes AMI o.
t. account of the general fusd $Ge.oan
due the First National Bank. Ii was
referred to the joint committee on
streets, finance and schools.
Mayor Duncan in a separate pa
per urged council 70 appoint pur-
chasing committee to buy al! supol's'
/ for the city and that the committee
he composed OF from three t. f:v'
members. This was referred 20 ~!
finance Committee.
Kenneth w. Ogden, chief Of i;!e
fire departm ert, addressed joint
session Of city council regarding INC
need for more adequate watec supply
for fighting fires in different sec
lions Of the city In the southeastern
section he declared the conditions are
very bad and he recommended = t
The officials Of the city confer Oh the
subjec, with the officials of the Alex
andria Water Company. In that par
t;ca!ar sect;cn he said it would be re-
cessary to relay water two squares II
more than one engine was working
Other sections where the water supply
is deemed inadequate were namei ~
Chief Ogden Chief Ogden also recd
before the joint session a resolution
from the Relief ard Reliance Fire
Companies IN which they asked thai
the present speed law of twenty-five
miles an hour for fire apparatus while
Responding 10 fire alarms be repeal
cd and resolution also providing hat
the city be responsible for all ar"i-
dents to firemen while responding 70
fire alarms.
It was stated by Chief Ogden that
the men are not making demands BIZ.
simply requested this. The Chief "a:
ea that he had been quoted correctly
when it was stated That the c..y
council could not tell him now l. r..
the fire department" He. howav"~
stated that he did not say II to nast
council believe it was the "oig c,e.
He added that no legislative bocy !:
in position to make such stri7.:e |
laws for AZ emergene: department
without making them flexible. VIE
the new traffic laws were presents
he said he asked for more speed TIA
twenty-five miles and hour for III