Low Bid or Lights Dispute Over Naphtha Mantles in DC
District commissioners consider lower bids or extending current naphtha and mantle gas lighting. Only bidder, American Street Lighting Company of Baltimore, raises prices. Congress funding shortfall and rival companies' lack of competition threaten dismantling incandescent mantles by July 1905. If no lower bid, Welsbach lighting may end for a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macfarland
Congress
Walter C. Allén
Welsbachightings
Washington Gas Light Company
Baltimore Company
American Street Lighting Company
Baltimore
Allen
Welsbach
Union Lighting Company
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
Rock Creek
Washington Gaslight Company
Hock Creek
Dist
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McKeon Pleads Not Guilty On Five Jewelry Swindle Charges
Joseph P. McKeon was arraigned in Police Court on five counts including two false pretenses two larceny charges and grand larceny He pleaded not guilty to all and waived examination in the grand larceny case A $1500 bond was set to await grand jury action He demanded a jury trial on four cases delaying proceedings about two weeks Authorities say he used a ploy to obtain a $200 diamond ring from a Pennsylvania Avenue jewelry firm on March 7 and also took a $30 camera and $10 in cigars and passed a $50 fraudulent check plus another small one He was captured by Detectives O Brien and Parham at a street NW house as a clerk from an F Street jewelry store arrived to show a ring to his made up wife The store alerted police leading to his arrest
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph P. McKeon
Scott Ta Ja
McKeon
Pennsylvania Avenue
H. A. Weaver
George P. Rice
Wiliam Hessick
O'Brien and
Parham
I Street
F Street
McKebn
Harbor Police Precinct Regulations Adopted by Commissioners
Harbor precinct rules for the metropolitan police force were adopted, establishing a lieutenant harbor master to command, with a sergeant acting in absence, and pilots licensed for the Potomac River. Uniforms to be set by Maj. Sylvester. effective July 1. Also notes crackdown on indecent posters and local court actions involving theft and child support.
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Potomac River
Metropolitan Police Force
Maj. Sylvester
Congress
Leutenant
J. R. Sutton
Sylvester
Owen P. Kellar
Christian Endeavor Union
Maj
City Bulletins and Advertisements in a Washington Paper
A city page lists a basement fire at 1710 U Street NW confined to papers with no damage and mentions various ads. Items include Haster Dinner menus, Kaiser teetotalism note, Nat Cap Munich Beer, James F. Oyster butter and eggs, a robbery case against Elijah Johnson linked to Mrs. Carpenter, sausage ads by N Ruth Provision Co, grocery deals, 3 pounds fig bars, gas range price, Harris New Blood tonic, Fassell ice cream, and local services from Reporter Printing and John Waldman tailor plus Donnelly’s whisky offerings.
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N. K. Israel
Ustrest
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Saks & Company
Seventh Street
A. Kahn
Rts
Prince Henry
Crossett Shoes
Easter Apparel
Adies
Uee
ARGE
WM. Hahn & CO
Sts. N. W
Pa. Ave. N.W
Avenue S. E
Y Gilty
Harbor Police Precinct
James F. Oyster
William Finke
Scott
Finke
Murry Barker
Lulu Barker
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
City Bulletins
Toledo
H. B. Chiswell
Kaiser
William
Nat
9Th & Pa. Ave
Elijah Johnson
Johnson
M. J. Fairfield Carpenter
N. Ruth Provision Co
J. T. D. Pyles
La.ave
Dangler
A. Bherly
Harris
Fassell
Superior Service
Reporter Printing Company
Reisinger
Cannon
Knw
West
Police Trial Board
von C. Fisk
Fisk
Mabel Straub
John Waldman
Donnelly's
M. Laa
Stoyne Muddiman & Cos ES
J- Jay Gould
St. How
OMS
W.l.douglas
Union Wae
Douglas
Denen
W. L. Douglas
Daniels
St. Louis
Corona Coltia
Brockton
Mass
G. C
Penn. Ave., N.W
China
Japan
Bay
House and Herrmann
Williams’ Drug Store
Ninth and F
Selinger’s
Morsell
Wao
Ala
A.kahn
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