Evening star., 1922-10-05
WILL URGE HIGHER
ATERPRESSURE
Board of Trade Members
Plan to Push Campaign as
Safety Move.
FALL WORK TO BEGIN
Insurance, Milk and Health Meas
ures to Come Up at Meeting
Next Week.
FALL WORK TO BEGIN

With twelve committee reports
scheduled to be presented at the first
fall meeting of the Washington Bosyd
i Of Trade, to be held next Thursday
night at the City Club auditorium
committee chairmen of the board are
calling meetings to prepare material
to be submitted to the full board for
! action.
Two committees were in session
yesterday, in the boardrooms, in The
| Star building. The insurance COM
| presiding. and the public health COM
! mittee. with DIR. D. Percy Hickling in
| the chair, whipped into shape their
annual reports. which incorporate i'm
portart items beneficial to the city.
| An earnest plea for the support of
every member of the Board of Trade
| In the demand for a high-preSsure
service water supply for Washington
| is made in the report of the insurance
committee, adopted unanimously at the
meeting yesterday.
| Reasons for Water Plea.
Not only on the score of protection
to life and property but as an eco
I nomic factor in the cost of insurance
carried in everything in the city are
| the reasons set forth for the urgent
request for the high-pressure system.
The inadequacy of our water sup
ment, says the report. Fortunately
ior the health OF the city. largely
| through the untirng efforts of
Francis r. Weller, chairman of the
committee on water supply of the
| Board of Trade, this condition is be-
l - .aI1 raJ
| ply TO our reservoirs helps but little
! when it comes to fire protection
owing to the antiauated system of
delivery pipes which are practically
what they We're thirty years ago, in
spite of the tremendous growth OF
+! the city.
| owing TO this lack of proper de-
livery pipes. which would be dis
| astrouS i'll case of conf1agration, every
citizen who owns any property in the
! District pays Il half cent more than
is necessary on every 500 of busi-
ness property insured.
Other Advantages Seen.
I We can point with pride to our
broad streets. lack of overhead wires,
| efhcIent force of fremen and ade-
| quate fire e-tghting apparatus, but what
| does all this avail if you cannot get the
| water to fight fire?
| 1T is source of great qualification
|
| requirements that go TO make up a
| standard city we exceed by a good
margin except in the one item of de-
| Hvering water to street plugs.
| High pressure service will correct
! this and perform the double duty of
protecting our city and lowering
/ rates. which is all the more reason
| whr we should have i;.''
! The insurance committee of the
board has been called upon by Burt
I 4 H.
| ance, to aid in the recodification of
! local insurance laws, as the present
! code in effect in this city is not in
! accord with practices in other states
| or with recent legislation in the Dis
| trict. such as the new marine insur-
! ance law.
Many Vital Matters.
among some of the items that need
| attention in order to bring US in line
with modern practices" continues the
| report. ARE a resident agency law to
protect our resident insura nee men in
| the practice OF their profession and
| to prevent the loss of taxes right
! fully belonging to the District treas
ury: proper qualifications for agents,
| brokers and solicitors, to make Ger
tain that only the right kind of men
be admitted to the practice of the in
surance profession. so that the in
suring public may have its interests
r.
our license fees in conjunction with d
reciprocal law, in order that our local
insurance companies may do business
in other states without undue hard
ships which are caused by the obsolete
ness of our present laws"
Plans to enlist the entire strength
Of the board behind the milk bill now
in Congress for the District, which
will assure ali residents Of this city
pure and unadulterated milk, were
made at the meeting of the public
health committee.
The committee is expected to lay
stress on this matter in its annual
report and favorable action from the
full board is thought to be a GER
tainty.
Health Measures Urged.
Other matters taken up at the
meeting were: That each student Of
the public schools be given thorough
medical examination once year; that
the government acquire land up to
the head of Rock creek to overcome
| water pollution in the District; the
necessity for a'hospital for tubercular
I children in conjunction with the
| schooling of these children.
| DR.. Harvey Wiley made an address
| on behalf of a general hospital in
| this city, with the establishment of
| q moderate scale of fees.
! All Of these matters will be in
| corporated in the annual report of
| the committee.