Cleaning City Costs Near Half Million This Year
Estimates for the next fiscal year call for an 8000 increase with 7500 for snow removal and 300 for two assistants. Total street cleaning department salaries would rise to 45429, while Congress has limited snow funding. Snow and ice removal remains a contentious item amid district budget requests.
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Iwf
J W Twoter
Swohey
S Holland
G W. i Mercer
Twohey
Mercer
Congress
Twohes
Amriut
My Twohcy
District Death Rate Grows in Week Ended Saturday
The District recorded 139 deaths last week, up 22 from the prior week and 5 more than the same week in 1905. White deaths totaled 76 and colored 63, giving a rate of 221 per 1000. Major causes included summer diseases, consumption, heart and kidney disease, malignant growths, pneumonia, typhoid fever, and apoplexy. Births numbered 12 white and 17 colored. Typhoid reports rose with 78 new cases. discharges were 26, five by death. Diphtheria held steady. scarlet fever declined to two new reports and four discharges leaving eleven cases in quarantine.
Commissioners fill vacancy in District inspector post
Dow appoints Julian O Hargrove as Inspector of asphalts and cements to fill Allen Wade Dow's resignation. Hargrove, former assistant inspector, earns 2400 a year. Building permits issued for projects on Massachusetts Avenue NW and G Street NW. Sewer contract awarded to E H G Gummell for Water Street sewer at 11750. Fire losses for July show 5791 in district. fire department had 59 alarms. John A Mead Company granted three month extension for coal-discharging equipment work. Ice cream note ends the item.
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Julian O Hargrove
Allen Wade Dow
Heo
Mr Hargrove
Ashford
Hennen Jennings
Massachusetts Avenue
George O Totten
C A Lang- Tey
Warder
Archhitect JR Bowen
G W Forsberg
George W Monague
Drich
B Street
B Huck
E Buck
Chuef Bell
John A Mead Company
New York
Commissioners Western
Turmoil Over Plumbers Lock And Secret Meetings
A published statement from Master Plumbers president Robert B Caverly details events leading to a lock and journeyman plumbers response. The reply notes secrecy at committee meetings, cites secretary H M Bhook, and mentions a motion by Mr Martin to have Master Plumbers and Local Union No 6 meet to settle grievances promptly.
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Robert B Caverly
Whon
Shook
Martin
Master Plumbers’ Association
No 6
Patterson Street to Receive Tar Coat for Experiment
The Com missioners order crude tar applied on Patterson Street northeast between North Capitol and First streets as a dust and mud preventive test. Twenty gallons at 50 cents per gallon will cover the street Saturday under the guidance of the cement and asphalt inspector and the street superintendent. The next surface trial is Monroe Street in Anacostia.
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Patterson Street
Canitol
First Streets
Monroe Street
Anacostia
Department of Agriculture
Washington Monument
Agricultural Department
Newark Street
Keno Road
Cleveland Park
FC Wight
Suday
Nurse seeks limited divorce from deserting husband Bond
Margaret M Bond, a nurse at St Elizabeth's Asylum, filed in District Supreme Court for a limited divorce from Joseph L Bond on grounds of desertion. She married him July 12, 1899 while both employed as nurses, says he has not supported her since May 1900, left her abroad, and only visited to push an absolute divorce. She now seeks legal separation with alimony, noting he is able to support her.
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Margaret M Bond
St Elizabeth's Asylum
District Supreme Court
Joseph L Bond
County Clare
Ireland
America
Ten
Tal
Absence of 13 year old Robert Lightcap alarms Chicago area
City bulletins note a missing boy, Robert Lightcap, age thirteen, from 8th Street Northeast. Police efforts continue after his disappearance last Sunday, with relatives in deep concern as authorities urge any information.
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Robert Lightcap
C Street
Furntebinga Department Bursting With Busy Day
In the Furntebinga Department the staff report they are as busy as they could wish to be. The statement conveys a sense of hustle and steady workflow across the division.
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Furntebinga
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E H G Gummell
D E McComb
James A Coyle
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Masters
Rodman
Ave
Rosenfeld
Magnolia Spa
Chicago-gene
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Muddiman & Co
Bond
Dan Doody
Munich
National Capital Brewing Co
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Stone & Fairfax
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Adler
Victor E. Adler
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Washington
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Columbia Graphophone
F St. N. W
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Fashington
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Rochester NP
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