District Commissioners push underground wires policy progress
The District Commissioners report steady progress in removing overhead wires to underground systems. Electric Engineer W. C Allen notes large numbers of poles and miles of wire removed by Chesapeake and Potomac, Western Union, and Potomac Electric. Vestal Telegraph delay prompts demand to remove all remaining poles within ninety days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macfarland
W. C Allen
Wee
Inc
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephony Company
Act of Conprags
Ares
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fotomac Electric Power Company
Vestal Telegraph Gable Company
Stagnant Pools Deemed Public Menace Health Chief Recommends Kerosene Use
Health Officer Woolward warns stagnant pools across the effy districts breed mosquitoes and pests. He urges kerosene treatment, one ounce per fifteen square feet, refreshed every two weeks if pools cannot be drained or covered. Also notes former Engineer Commissioner Will Model after Washington for Cuban fire engine houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolward
Effy
Woodward
Washington
Lintol
William M Bisch
Havana
Cats
Department of Public ‘Works
Morrow
Washington Houses
Cuba
Congress Heights
Bousi
Cpl Binck
Distriet
District exams seek resident physicians and inspectors
An August 13 civil service exam will select eligibles for resident physicians at Washington Asylum Hospital Home for the Aged and Infirm and Tuberculosis Hospital and for medical inspectors of public schools and police surgeons in the District service. Also noted is a nuisance complaint about a crowing rooster at 27 Brightwood Avenue North, prompting a district commissioners’ inquiry and medical input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Asylum
Uacoor
United States Civil Service Commission
Marmoranda
Jem
Monrom
Brightwood Avenue
Northiareat
Mpistriet
T. Loyd i Mockabew
Monroe
Mockatee
Mine Eliott
Tamb Pracinet
Police Sergeant Reward and Local Notices Summary
Police Sergeant H R Lobrean of the First precinct is to keep 90 percent of a bounty totaling 9 dollars from Capt BB Hyet for the arrest of Arthur W. Hudgins. District Commissioners will credit the remainder to the Continent fund. George F. Bowerman raises questions about notary fees for Sunday and holiday library matters. Miss Jean Mr. King is named a teacher trustee at the District Reform School for Girls at 40 per year, effective July. Building permits listed include two‑story brick additions on High Street and several two‑story brick dwellings in multiple northwest and southeast locations with varied costs and architects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur W. Hudgins
United States Army
Sergi H. R Lobrean
BB. Hyet
Cregten
George F. Bowerman
Reform School
Jean
King
Ashford
Moow Galt
High Street
Architest
Marsh & Peters
Rebardso & Marghes Cnc
George W Neris
Randolph Street
Northwent
Tao
AW Beers
Plenty Fatt
Charles Islinger
East Place
BW Kayser
J. E Newtoo
Fittesathtreet
NT Halter’ & Co
Bultdan Wot Seton
Holivingston
Abandon Old Depot 800M Sheds Light on New Union Station
Historic Sixth Street passenger station, built in 2873, will be abandoned around October 11. Trains from Pennsylvania, Southern, Chesapeake and Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Richmond, Frederikshorg and others will move to the new union station. Local resident Joseph B Bailey complained of freight engine noise and property damage, proposing freight moves to Shepherds Landing. carrier official Joseph Crawford calls the plan impracticable. It is noted northbound freight trains will shift to elevated tracks from Seventh Street about August 1.
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Sixth Arrest
District Commisssionern
Joseph Crawford
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
Outhern
Chesapeake and Ohio
Atlantic Coast Line
Seaboard Air Line
Richmond
Frederikshorg
Potomac
Sixth Street
Union Station
Mr. Crawtons
Commissionera
Joseph B. Bailey
Sixth Street Southwest
Shepherda Landing
Crawford
Seventh Street
Would Bar Substation Protest by Sherman Avenue Residents
Sherman Avenue residents and property owners protest Potomac Electric Power Company's plan to erect a substation on Sherman Avenue and Harvard Street NW. The petition, led by J Henry C Blewart, argues the substation would be a nuisance and ruin nearby residential property. Inspector Ashford said no application has been filed yet and the protest will be considered if one is made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Avenue
Power Company
Harvard Street
Potomac Electric Power Company
J. Henry C. Blewart
Fourteenth Street
Rulldinge Ashford
Potomac Power Report Fiscal Year 1907 Receipts and Balances
Potomac Electric Power Companys report to District Commissioners shows a cash balance on hand of 271033. a5 at year end, operating expenses of 1,555,850.20, earnings from operation 1,075,738.53, bonds sold 381,00, and 700,000 from temporary land. Miscellaneous income 18,240.72. Interest, dividends, and taxes 2, miss paid out, and 648,800 on monitoring bonds and certificates of indebtedness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac Electric Power Company
Haines
Carpenters Win Partial Pay Increase in District Shop
Carpenters in the district repair shop win approval for an extra per hour raise but reject the half shift allowance. Officials say the large amount of repairs on 150 school buildings must be finished within the school vacation window, forcing tighter schedules.
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Gounntealsmara
Public Charge Owning Inmate Home Lot Sparks Sale Claim
Miss Mary Shepherd aged seventy nine, resident at the District Home for the Aged and Infirm, owns a San Antonio lot valued at four hundred to six hundred dollars. Her nephew D G Morloon of East St Louis asked for power of attorney to control the property and wrote to Miss McAuliffe about papers. The matter was referred to the Bard of Charities and then to the District corporation counsel due to public charge implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Shepherd
San Antonio
Tex
D. G Morloon
East St. Louis
Mies McAuliffe
Crittenton Hope and Help Mission
Miss Shepherd
Wea
Lisa McAuliffe
Bard of Charities
Ie Biorson
Special Policemen Appointed for Weather Bureau Station
Acting Weather Bureau chief H E Williams secures Pinto T Lee and Moses H Brown as special policemen on Weather Bureau premises. District Commissioners back Morria Barnett to serve at the new Union Station daily from 4 PM to midnight per Vermont Marble Works and McNutty Bros of Chicago request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
New Union Staten
H. E Williams
Pinto T. Lee
Moses H. Brown
Bureu
Vermont Marble Works
McNutty Bros
Chiego
Morria Barnett
New Uning
Willis Moore Sells Home on Nineteenth Street
Willis L Moore chief of the Weather Bureau sold his brick three acre hed home at 1812 Nineteenth Street near Dupont Circle to Cal Crawford U A. The price is believed to be about 15000 and the transaction was arranged by William Mercoran Hill with Murray Cobb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Col. Crawford
Willis L Moors
Nineteenth Street
Dupont Circle
Cal. Medorem Crawford
U. A
Wiliam Mercoran Hill
Murray A. Cobb
Value of Georgetown Gas Plant Put at 625000 by Auditor Hearing
Baltimore expert Alden S. Miller testified the Georgetown Gas Light Company property is worth 825000 excluding real estate. W B Upton and Benjamin Woodruff offered valuations and stock price context as witnesses on plant site quality and future growth. Randolph recalled to establish witness competency with his pension background.
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Miller
Baltimore
Georgetown Corporation
James G. Payne
Georgetown Gas Light Company
W. B. Upton
Benjamin 8
Benjamin 8. Woodruff, Secretary of the Washington Stock Exchange
Alden S. Miller
Ithon
Iliam AW. Randolph
He, Utergas
Porry
Washington Chamber Considers Hiring Man to Boost Trade
At a subcommittee meeting of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, chairman F. P. May discussed hiring a first class energetic man to promote city trade. The plan aims to drum up business and publicize local opportunities, with full committee and board input anticipated next month and in September.
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Chamber of Commerce
F. P. May
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Mey
May
Secretaries Wilson war on tainted milk spurs reform
Secretary Wilson vowed to wage a campaign against impure milk mirroring his push for pure food laws. He has tasked Dr. B H Wiley, the government's chief chemist, to expose tainted milk dangers and mobilize public support for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
BH. P. Wiley
Dr. Wiley
Punished for cruelty at Pollen Court
Anes age reeating $150, Albert Smith, colored, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Kimball in Pollen Court to imprisonment for one year and a half for cruelty to animals and for carrying concealed weapons. He visited the grounds of an amusement company at Fitterath and Hat streets where he watched animals in the ring. A tunneler saw him slash a mule with a five inch cut drawing blood. Smith attempted to stab the mule with a razor and fled when the manager pursued him. The mule cut was noted. a small boy riding the mule narrowly escaped injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Smith
Kimball
Pollen
Smith
Fitterath
Hatreets
Mrs Charles Aldgely MacBlair Rites Held Today
Funeral for Mrs Charles Aldgely MacBlair of 2009 Utreat northwest conducted by Rev C E Holmead from her late home at 10 am. Burial in Congressional Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Survived by son Charles Ridgely McBlair Jr a brother D Preston Parr and sister Mrs J Hudger Brown. Out of town relatives arrival noted from Waldsnore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Holmead
Charles Aldgely MacBlair
Northwest
Charles H. Holmead
St Paul's PF. B. Church
Charles H. Kemper
A Browry
John Bunla
Andrew Lipacoma
Col
J Lo Smithmeéger
McDowell
McBlair
Florence Parr
Haltimore
D. Preslon Parr
Charles Ridgely McBlair
D. Preston Parr
Heyford
J. Hudger Brown
Hartimore
Washington
J. Badger Brown
J. Hurkice Brown
Hertec G. Laud
Waldlsnore
Funeral of Mrs. S. E. Hobbs in Oak Hill
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Susan E Hobbs wife of Treasury disbursing clerk Thomas J Hobbs at 3 30 pm from 1422 H Street NW with Rev William Tayloe Schneider officiating. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. The 83 year old native of Maine had lived in Washington over fifty years and was survived by her husband a son Col FE Hobbs GSA and two grandchildren Eleanor and Marion Hobbs.
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Treasury
Oak Hill
Susan H. Hobbs
Thomas J Hobbs
Treasury Department
H Street
William Tayloe Schneider
Church of the Incarnation
Oak Hill Cemetery
Hobbs
Maine
Washington
Col
FE Hobbs
G. SA
Elosnor and
Marion Hobbs
City Bulletins Laundress Appointed at Colored School
Deb orah J Trigg is named laundress at the District Industrial Home School for Colored Children in Blues Plain a with pay. Other items note prices for groceries and beverages, a police promotion for Guyer, a will probate for Cyrus Emmet Phelps and a crab feast promotion for Jamestown visitors in Washington.
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Kuppenheimer Clothing
Crgesaer
Herrmann
House & Herrmann
N. W
The
C. & P. Telephone Co
Horn, Talla
Ussian
Orty
Pettit & CO
Telegraph and Phone Companies
Postal Telegraph Company
Examinatio
Hew Terminal
Potomac Power Report
GrantMore
Public Charge
Willis Moore
Bfan
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Conn. Ave
Massachusetts Avenue
Wegro
Mrs, M'Blair
S. E. Hobbs
City Bulletins
Deborah J. Trigg
Industral
Blus Plaina
Kedake
Filma
Krouse's
Ninth Street Northwest
J. T. D. Pyles
Guyer
A. W Guyer
Cyrus Emmet Phelps
Agnes ©. Phelps
Jamestown
Muddiman & Co
Soa
Seetatae
Fieerzen
Benate—brewary
Eaington “Botting
the Mutual Life Insurance
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York
N.Y
Sewate
America
Anersea
Heurich Brewing Co
Frea USA
Evans
Price
Tng Sies
F Street
Goodyear Sompany
A. Eberly
M.A
Mayer & Co
7Th St
Castelberg’s
Ashington
Jewelers
Penna. Ave
Randle Hien
Sau Sromumunes
Moore Woptang Beate Capuinl Aa
Dupont Orale
Reaney Company
Greke
Pratt West
Beall magChly Pernana's
Senil
Platead Au
Pioduret
Rmalty Company
le Ay
Pes Av
Finamse
Ainairenes Sunding
the Sunday Post
Mal
POST
the Post Building
Washing
Coats
Pams
Cravenette
Victor E. Adler
Nessa Awe
4Th Street N. W
Ema
Hubbard Heating Co
Dd. of C. Real Estate
J. Fisher & Co., Inc
Washington Gaslight Co
Tenth Street N. W
Capital Loan CO
Iniarae
Don Citizeny Loan & Trust
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