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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1906
Page
13
Commissioner West urged Congress to grant 15000 annually for ash and refuse collection from business places hotels and apartment houses. Current service covers only private residences boarding houses and small apartment blocks prompting demand for private establishments to be included.
Chief William T Belt of the fire department asks the Commissioners to decide whether licenses for theaters and amusement venues should require fire department approval before granting by the District assessor or rely on the building inspector's recommendation only. Hope-Neves urges consideration of fire protection prior to license issuance.
Washington may bar Salvation Army street kettle campaigns this Christmas season as numerous groups seek permits, risking a shortage of street corners. Police will not grant kettles until the Commissioners decide. Also, Susan White denied charges about running an employment agency and requested time to respond. Bailey and Rusk seek more time for street sweeping due to 6 am winter suspensions.
John M. Wilson president of the Washington Board of Trade urged the Commissioners to appoint Miss Marian T. Moss to run the municipal exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. Moss has long been in newspaper work and is well endorsed by several businessmen. The Commissioners have not yet chosen.
The Fifty-ninth Congress funded a new fourth-size fire engine arriving for Tennallytown to replace the chemical engine. It features two 35-gallon chemical tanks and can haul 1000 to 1200 feet of 2.5 inch hose with standard fire gear, to be tested at the yard soon. In other news Building Permits were issued by Inspector Ashford for two projects including a brick store dwelling at 317 Harrison Street and a two-story frame dwelling on Nickels Avenue, with estimated costs of 5900 and 2000 respectively.
District Chemist R L Lynen reports 106 Third Street NW building in insanitary condition with bad plumbing damp walls and poor ventilation in the sick bay. Overcrowding and fumigation in a small bathroom cited. recommends complete remodeling. Commissioners will act as soon as possible.
Alphonso M. Newell a sixty year old former clerk was sentenced to three years in Moundsville Penitentiary for assault with a dangerous weapon on Victor E. Adler a Seventh Street merchant. His attorney Julius I. Peyser urged jail time and said justice would be served. Justice Stafford cited a ten year maximum but imposed the smallest sentence fitting the crime.
The investigation into the Southern Railway wreck at Lawyers, Virginia on November 25, in which President Spencer perished, will be resumed Monday after delays caused by work piling up on General Manager C. H. Ackert and General Counsel Alfred P. Thom.
Commissioners oppose House bill to extend Nineteenth Street Northwest from Woodley Road to Biltmore Street. Engineer Commissioner Biddle reports adversely. commissioners may already possess required authority.
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