Favor Fire Escape Law Exempts Fireproof Buildings
District Commissioners prepare a favorable report to Congress on the Allen fire escape bill. The measure, drafted by the Board of Trade and the Washington Business Men's Association, would exempt fireproof buildings from the fire escape law and require owners to provide escapes, shifting responsibility from occupants to owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Maine
Board of ‘Trade
Washington Business Men's Association
House of Representatives
Aleo Air Office
Anacostia Street Improvements Awarded to Matthew Myers
Efforts of property owners and citizens to grade streets in Anacostia culminated with a contract awarded to Matthew Myers. Improvements include Washington street, Bendall street, Jackson street, and Avalon street with specified graveling cobble guttering and grading. The cost is $2,479 and work starts early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anacostia
Mysra
Langdon Residents Seek Immediate Everts Street Grade Change
A petition from Langdon residents and property owners asks the Commissioners to uniformly grade Everts street between Twenty second and Twenty fourth streets. They urge prompt action as the District engineer plans a sidewalk there, but Engineer Hunt recommends delaying the grade change for now. The item appears amid varied local notices and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langdon
Everts Strees
Engineer Department of
Engineer Hunt
Highway Department of the District
Vesper Services At W C A By Mrs Gilbert Tomorrow
City bulletins note that Mrs James E Gilbert will send the W C A vesper service to-morrow at 4 90 pm at the W C A Home, 119 Thirteenth Street Northwest, with services continuing each Sunday thereafter in the W C A rooms formerly at the Colonial. Also ads for auctions, bankruptcies, and local notices appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E Gilbert
Woman's Christian Association
Thirteenth Street Northwest
District Health Claim Clash Over Bedding Damages
Mrs Frances McCarthy seeks eight dollars for bedding damaged during scarlet fever disinfection by District health authorities. Health Officer Woodward backs payment. the district auditor blocks it pending clearer information and funding from contagion-prevention reserves. The dispute follows disinfection after her daughter was admitted to Garfield Hospital on March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances McCarthy
Woodward
Health Department
Stable to Be Built on Seventeenth Street
Protests against a permit for a livery stable on Seventeenth Street between U and V NW were heard. The Commissioners granted a hearing, then approved the project after finding it compliant with the law and not a nuisance, with only proponents attending the session.
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Seventeenth Street
V Streets
Aary
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Saks
Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Crossett
Sea Island
Nsworth
Fine Sox
Friedlander Bros
Old Colony Coo
H Street
Europe
OLD Colony CO
Rouses Herrmann Cor
Congress
ORDER
Colonial
Roxbury Distilling Co
Balti- Toore, Md
Albert T Scanland
Eleventh
Western High School
Dex
Comley Bros
Wis
Center Market
James A Robinson
Atlas Austin
David A Reed
Charles Walton
Mattie Harris
Schmelcher
Navy Yard
Velati
Kimmel
Chicago
Muddiman & Co
Sampie
Colonial Hotel
Sth
Colt
Suimmer
Wm, Hahn & CO
Stsictoschemi
Penn. Ave
Washington Highlands
D. C
District of Columbia
Congress Heights
Washington Highlands Co
F Street
N. W
Druggiata
A. Eherly
Washington
M.S. MA
M.S. M
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Hecht
P. K
Marseilles
Manaachusetts Avenue
Wapenheimer & Co
I. Grosner
Ave. N.W
Sam
H Sts. N. E
7Th St. S. W
Horn
Selinger
Gov
Belmont Dairy CO
Honen
Bt. NM. W
Shedd & Bro. CO
Ninth Street
N-W
Fed
Hiermias
Arlington
R. P. Andrews Paper Co. Too
Louisiana Avenue
D Street
the Standard Dairy & Ice Co
Fourteenth St. N. W
Sheboygan
Phone West
JE. Dyer
A& P
Thea- Nectar
Aneat
Atlantic &Pacific Taco
E. Brandhea
Warner
Rochester
N.Y
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