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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
13
Major Sylvester orders police to suppress disturbances during Christmas shopping nights in the business district. Captains will deploy extra officers Wednesday and Thursday evenings to keep sidewalks clear, protect workers and customers, and confiscate large horns. Guardians urged to help enforce the law and ensure a merry Christmas.
The weekly mortality report shows typhoid fever in the district easing. At week start 185 cases were under treatment, dropping by five by week end. Scarlet fever cases rose to 47, diphtheria fell by nine, and only one smallpox case was found. There were 114 deaths, up 17 from the prior week, and 171 births recorded.
The Washington commissioners forward a draft bill to Senator Gallinger to grant them authority to revoke master plumbers licenses when they violate District plumbing regulations. The measure raises license fees to five dollars, limits licenses to five years, and aims to curb repeated violations by licensed fitters and gasfitters.
George Hanson colored was convicted yesterday in police court of selling whiskey illegally at his home on U7 K street southeast last Sunday night. In default of a 150 dollar fine he was sent to the work house for 30 days. Frank West colored of the same address was acquitted. Neither defendant had prior police court record, making Hanson's 30 day term the minimum.
George Brown convicted in police court of lifting an overcoat laprobe from an automobile near Thirteenth and Deireete. He was sentenced to six months in jail after Policeman Murray chased and captured him. Thurman Burke alias Baltimore Kid, a cabman, forfeited $5 collateral for disorderly conduct after failing to appear.
A bill for the incorporation of the American Institute for Drug Proving seeks a 9 cent stamp for Washington study on drug effects in animals to aid disease treatment. Incorporators include J B Green, Benjamin Bailey, Will A Dewey, J E McClerland, George Royal, John P Sutherland, Edwin H Wolcott. The corporation aims to study drugs on animals and disseminate results.
Commissioner Macfarland said the commission would not appeal the substation case after reviewing the corporation counsel's opinion. He noted Congress has considered altering section 12 of the 1903 act with no action, leaving the city to grant a permit for a Fourteenth Street site under certain conditions.
Commissioners forward a draft to Senator Gallinger seeking immediate enactment. The bill would require alleys to be 30 feet wide throughout blocks for dwellings, bar new homes on non sewered alleys, and deny repair or reerection of existing dwellings if value has fallen over 50 percent unless compliant. It also forces stables and sheds to stay behind the front wall of alley dwellings.
The column lists private Xmas dining at The Toronto Dining Room, plus arrests by Central Office Detectives Parham and O'Brien of J. B. Wilson of Chicago, held at the First precinct. It includes telephone and price notes, Kodak and photo supplies by Lynn Heven Bays, Eastman Kodaks and other gifts, Schneider's Fruit Cake, nuts and candies specials, Epworth League reception at Mount Vernon Place Church South, and various local business notices about specials, lunches, and a civil service examination date in January.
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