Want to Gut Stone Would Bring Money to City
A Washington commission heard two hearings on municipal building work. Journeymen Stonecutters urged cutting the building stone in Washington to create local jobs, while produce dealers on P street northwest sought equal sidewalk space to market vendors. The commission will decide in the coming days.
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Journeymen Stonecutters’ Association
P Street
Journeymen Stonecutters’ Association of North America
Riggs Market
Stonecutters’ Association
Dan A. Connor
James F. McHugh
Thomas A. Campbell
Washington
Connor
Association
McHugh
Granite Cutters' Union
Macfarland
Congress
L. P. Loring
Auditor Seeks Five Thousand Five Hundred Twenty Dollar Clerical Increase
Auditor Garrison asks for 5520 more for clerk hire next fiscal year. He requests 1800 for a chief audit clerk due to exceptional ability and experience. Recommend regular salaries for three per diem clerks and two additional clerks. One to serve as coupon clerk for taxes and verify coupons, another for accounting. Increase cited to handle rising district expenditures and audit workload. Transfer of per diem staff to regular payroll endorsed by Engineer Commissioner, tying clerical work to all appropriations.
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Garrison
Fertilizer Company Taken to Task by Commissioner West
Washington Fertilizer Company, hired to remove city garbage, faced over one hundred complaints and was ordered by Commissioner West to improve services immediately. Prior issues included spring congestion and a prior request for improvement with four extra wagons. Seventy eight complaints were filed the day before, and fines for justified complaints totalled 586 dollars in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Washington Fertilizer Company
Wrest
Commissioners Order Macadamizing Sixteenth Street Northeast
City authorities order Sixteenth Street northeast between Galea Street and Benning Road macadamized. Water mains to be laid on Thirty seventh Street northwest, south from Wisconsin Avenue, and on the north side of K Street southeast between Fourth and Fifth. Police arrest case over Ed ward Archambault fined $5 stands. Various sidewalk, paving, and lease actions noted including D street paving study and wharf subletting to Tangier Land Company.
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Sixteenth Street
Galea Street
Benning Road
Thirty-seventh Street
Wisconsin Avenue
K Street
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Police Trial Board
Edward Archambault
Fred A. Maltby
Douglas & Douglas
Bladensburg Road
Levis
Thomas J. Watson
WM I Street
D Street
Tenth
Eleventh
Congress
B. F. Leighton
Fifth Street
Square 270
Tangier Land Company
D. C. Brown
W. C. Haskell
Francis A. Hollis
Eletrical
Alfen
Fifteenth Street
Columbia Road
Sixteenth
Park Streets
Howard Avenue
Piney Branch Road
I Streets
Capitol Street
Jackson Place
Fernald
Balmore and Ohio Railroad Company
Massachusetts
Delaware Avenues
E Street
First Street
Kenyon Street
Thirteenth Streets
Twelfth Street
Sang
Gilmore Gle. Holmes
Representa
Stutler Readies Hearing As Twohey Absence Delays Probe
STUTLER READY TO PROCEED. Supt. Warner Brutler of the street cleaning department tells Commissioners he found papers in his office about charges against him by Royal Robinson. Twohey’s testimony not needed for further hearing. No reply from Twohey. telegram issue suspected. Hearing set for 10:30 and expected to finish today.
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Warner Brutler
Royal Robinson
Twohey
Stutler
Rusk
Adirondacks
Building Activity in District Rises in July over Last Year
Building Inspector Ashford reported July operations show 163 brick buildings 15 frame buildings 47 sheds with total construction cost 625 605 and repairs 116 991. Compared with last year construction cost 562 500 and repairs 120 208. Permits issued include brick repairs 104 609 frame repairs 9 556 brick dwellings 484 150 frame dwellings 2 800 apartments 60 000 store and dwelling 5 000 stores 329 008 workshop 7 008 warehouse 1 506 elevators 7 300 engine and boilers 81 400 heating apparatus 3 405 office brick 15 a carriage house 21 800 stables brick 32 1380 sheds frame 412 626 total 366 742 595.
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Ashford
Harding
Washington asylum seeks new detention hospital building
Supt Zinkhan of the Washington Asylum asked the Board of Commissioners to erect a detention hospital for mental suspects. Disturbances among patients in the existing strong rooms prompted the need for a properly arranged facility. Building Inspector Ashford estimated a small building could cost 95,000, and the commissioner asked Zinkhan to join Ashford on the grounds to explore alternative remedies.
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Washington
Mr. Zinkhan
Ashford
NO STAR CHAMBER TRIALS DISCUSSION RAGES OVER PROSECUTORIAL PRACTICES
Acting Prosecuting Attorney A Leftwich Sinclair declares against office based collateral in police court cases and vows cases with prima facie evidence will be tried by the court. He sits in for Prosecutor Pugh during his vacation and criticizes in office proceedings and noise pressure tactics. Employed staff at Freedmen Hospital face unpaid salaries as payroll awaits Comptroller’s legality opinion on pay subdivisions.
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Leftwich Sinclair
Sinclair
Pugh
Paice
Po- Mee
Macfarland
Harding
West
Comptroller of the Treasury
Freedmen’s Hospital
Trousers Prices Listed in Series
A sequence of trousers priced at 4.00, 5.00, 6.50, and 7.50 dollars appears in the listing. The items are presented without additional context or qualifying details.
Statue of Shepherd Figure Set for Eight Foot Bronze
Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar of Washington has been chosen to sculpt the bronze statue of the late Gov. Alexander R. Shepherd for the entrance of the new municipal building. The pedestal, to be built of Westerly Rhode Island granite costing four dollars, will rest on four giant blocks forming an 18 by 18 foot base. The eight foot figure, modeled in clay, will depict Shepherd in a business suit with a map in his right hand and a clenched left hand, symbolizing his stubborn will.
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Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar
Washington
Alexander R. Shepherd
van Amringe Granite Company
Boston
Dunbar
Gov. Shepherd
Rhode Island
Westerly
Rock Creek Cemetery
London
Ontario
F. A. T. Dunbar
Detroit
Society of Washington Artists
Wade Hampton
W.W. Corcoran
Corcoran Art Gallery
Hendricks and van Buren
Senate
William Ordway Partridge
Gen
Albert Pike
Chicago
Crosby
St. Paul
Alexander Graham Bell
Mrs. Bell
Gardiner G. Hubbard
United States Supreme Court
Hanna
National Museum
Statue of Liberty
Capitol
Sun Building Deed Records Made Involving DuLan y And Harper
Two deeds covering the Sun Building between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets NW were recorded yesterday. One deed dated August 1 from Richard M. Venable W Cabell Bruce and Charles McH Howard to H Rozier Dulany lists 210000. the other from Dulany and wife to Robert N. Harper and R Henry Lynn lists 214900 dated August 2. The property was sold under a District Supreme Court order in the Edwin F Abell case. A $150000 deed of trust in favor of the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Co of Baltimore was also recorded, payable in six months.
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Sun Building
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Richard M. Venable
W. Cabell Bruce
Charles McH. Howard
Baltimore
H. Rozier Dulany
Mr. Dulany
Robert N. Harper
R. Henry
Two Negroes Convicted in Police Court Row
Clifford Holmes and Thomas Cleveland were arraigned on assault charges after a group fight at 1408 Church Street Northwest. Holmes fined five dollars for using a dangerous weapon, while Cleveland paid ten dollars. both face jail time if fines aren’t paid.
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Clifford Holmes
Thomas Cleveland
Second Precinct
Holmes
Church Street
Cleveland
Kimball
Cost of Street Extension Reported by Jury
A district court report shows a condemnation jury awarded property damages of 14608 dollars and benefits of 7400 dollars for Budd place extending to Erie street and Euclid place extension through University Park lot A and Meridian Hill blocks. The jury, including Moss and Larner, viewed the property and will resume testimony next Tuesday at the courthouse.
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Budd Place
Erie Street
District Supreme Court
John A. Hamilton
Wiliam O. H. Church
John Mitchell
George W. Moss
James B. Ratcliffe
Clement W. Howard
Charles A. Baker
Euclid Place
University Park
Hall and Elvan
Meridian Hill
Justice Barnard
United States Marshal
Twenty-third Street
Street
California Avenue
Theorg
Nip
T. Larner
James B. McLaughlin
Louis Behrens
Percy 8. Foster
Frank B. Metzerott
Nicholas H. Shea
Albert F. Marsh
Hold-up Man Fined for Stealing Chinese Letter
In Washington Police Court John Selwyn, 24, was charged with theft after he entered Lee Sing’s Third Street laundry, held a rusty pistol to the proprietor’s head and demanded $20. Sing cried out and blew a whistle. Selwyn grabbed a Chinese letter from the counter and fled. Judge Kimball fined him $10 and sentenced a month in jail in default.
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John Selwyn
Lee Sing
Third Street
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Selwyn
Sing Sang
Sing
Kimball
Absent Parsons Cause Trouble in District Clerk’s Office
Clerks of the District Supreme Court report annoyance as ministers fail to notify absence from the city, delaying marriage license processing. Also noted are ads for goods and events including a Brookland social, beef prices, and local services, with injuries and divorces touching on local figures.
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Parsons
Imstrict Supreme Court
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the Smith
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Smith Premier Typewriter Co
Eleventh St. N. W
Washington, D. C
Victor E. Adler
Fen
Clothing House
7Th St. Hw
Schneider’s
Chas. Schneider Baking CO
Ag-151st NW
Geo. E. Hebbard
Spick
Span
Sultings
Light of
the & T Bedvard
Ofr
Corsy’s Modern Bakery
Horn
Clerks IN Auditor’s Office
District Building Notes
Finite
Aoa
America
Price
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
SUN
A Rae
5. M. Sons & Co
At &.Kann, Sons & Co
Dave Wolf
LIS
Csemssneen
Jali Akdee
7Th St
City Bulletin
12Th St. Muddiman & Co
Philippine Islands
Hadges
Advertiser
17Th St. Aw
Anthony Lawn
Brookland
D. C
Harry Singleton
Union Station
Casualty Hospital
Pyles
Holmes’ Bakery
1St and Sts
Hotel Johnson
Liberal Porfiona
George E. Woody
Campbell Carrington
Sadie Woody
J. T.D. Pyles
Wm. F. Nolte
Oc. A. Muddiman & Co
Ufus H. Darby Printing Co
Washington D.C
Rufus C. Darby
Piedmont Printing Co
Atlante, Ga
Heurich Brewing Co
Heurich
United States
Maerzen
Phoning West
Herrmann’s
Post
Forest City
Washington Post
Acatoss i
Yale Laus
Idry
Both St
New York Ave
Hubbard Heating CO
F Street
N. W
New Modela
Bowen
Lenox
New Progress
Tolman Laundry
John Lucis Co
R. M. Brown
Newsparr
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