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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
15
A bill prepared by Representative M Byrd and Adam Byré prohibits marriages between whites and Africans or Mongolians in the District. It declares such marriages null and void, punishes offenders with imprisonment up to two years or a $500 fine, and applies to marriages attempted outside the District. Commissioners will report on the measure in a few days.
Funeral services for Capt Joshua T Young of Fire Truck Company No 1 were held at his home 3129 P Street NW. He died Monday night and burial will be in St Andrew's Chapel Fairfax County VA. The fire department provided an honor detail from numerous companies and officers.
Health Officer W C Wood Ward Will reports to the Commissioners on market houses provision stores and conditions affecting food materials He is understood to urge regulations on plumbing and ventilation and seek Congress authorization for direct Commissioners supervision including meat stores markets and slaughterhouses He anticipates three days before submission to the Commissioners
District notes report inspector P Crandall suspended fifteen days without pay from February 1 by order of Tugmeer Commissioner Biddle for violating departmental rules. Other items include inspection of the War Department building lighting, revised TB hospital plans at the Soldiers Home main entrance with $100000 appropriated, harbor-construction inspections to improve wharfage, stone deliveries for the new municipal building, and a dispute over canceling assessments tied to the Washington Terminal upgrade.
Health Officer W. CO. Woodward reports nine deaths attributed to violence. Three are personal crisis reports. one by gunshot. one by formaldehyde poison. two due to difficult labor. one from burns. one from chloroform narcosis. and one from skull fracture by an accidental steam-engine blow in Virginia. Diphtheria cases rise to twenty in quarantine. scarlet fever and typhoid show changes with seventy-five typhoid cases under treatment.
Corporation Counsel E H Thomas affirmed to Commissioners that the deputy coroner is entitled to five dollars a day compensation while acting in either capacity. The deputy serves as assistant to the coroner and as substitute coroner in the absence or disability of the latter, earning for each day he is acting.
The Commissioners heard two appeals from the police trial board. Policeman J W Hall of the Eighth precinct faced a $40 fine for negligence when a revolver discharged in the squad room wounding Policeman Thomas Nolan. J H Leech of the Fourth precinct was accused of sleeping on duty. the board recommended dismissal but Leech cited lost sleep and entering a building on his beat as necessity. Both cases were taken under advisement.
Building permits issued yesterday include a warehouse at 1827 G Street NW for Thomas Hyde with Marsh & Peter as architects and WilliamS. Spencer as builder, cost $20,000, and repairs to a store at 625 Pennsylvania Avenue NW for M. Burt with Albert W Hunt as architect and H Maddox as contractor, cost $5,000.
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