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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
13
District officers and precinct squads, armed with pads and pencils, start tallying the city population. An expected 10 000 gain over last year brings total near 339 591 with many residents recounting ages, color, and household details while entertaining anecdotes of bachelor girls, gossip, and neighborly woes surface during door to door inquiries.
A substitute bill prepared for Senator Heyburn proposes a $21 million program to buy land south of Pennsylvania Avenue for public buildings. It would authorize a three member commission appointed by the President to negotiate prices with owners, with condemnation if no agreement. The bill allows limited annual spending of $3 million the first year, with further appropriations tied to negotiations and land value indications from the commission.
Health Officer Woodward reports 134 births and 115 deaths for the week ending April 4, with 89 white and 45 colored births and 61 white and 54 colored deaths. Diphtheria drops from 22 to 18. scarlet fever declines by two cases. Smallpox cases rise to 25 under treatment, 15 new cases placed in quarantine, eight recovered and discharged. overall mild epidemic with no fatalities.
Bids opened at the District building for a four-room brick addition to Gage School at Second and Kim streets NW. James M. Dunn was the lowest bidder proposing a cost of 20 683 dollars. Other bids ranged from 20 700 to 26 290 dollars by Humphrey Burgess Parsons Davis Kavayiat Wyno.
The K street bridge crossing James Creek Canal will be sold by the Commissioners on the recommendation of W J Douglas district engineer of bridges. The 58 by 34 foot plate girder steel structure with wooden floor will be removed soon as the canal is being filled in and there is no economical site to re erect it.
District of Columbia jury finds it not defamation to report police misconduct. Prof Edward L Morris, a biology teacher, was sued for 7000 damages by Policeman Sanford Emanuel after Morris alleged theft by the officer at O Street Market. The judge ruled the words were slanderous as a matter of law, though the verdict favored Emanuel on liability.
Federal grand jury for the District Supreme Court sworn in yesterday and to sit six months, with Justice Stafford naming Edward J Walsh as foreman. Washington notices townspeople about Mme. Staniews Parisian goods and a parlor sale at Arlington Street with up to 31.3 percent reductions before her departure. A realty broker, Charles H Weaver, sued for $15,000 by laborer George Jackson over injuries from a car collision at Thirty-fifth and W Streets on April 13, 1907. Various local ads mention malt bread, Connecticut Pies, and a Schneiders crab feast, plus a parade of housekeeping and wallpaper services and Heurich’s beer sales.
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