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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1905
Page
37
The piece extols a tailoring system where no garment needs more than minor alteration, crediting in-house masters for quality. It notes the firm’s unique, seasonally consistent organization and readiness-for-service clothing, offering a booklet of sermons on clothes to interested readers.
District commissioners will take up the yearlong special committee report on government business methods. The panel led by Dr. Woodward and Maj. Simms proposed unified, improved practices with many recommendations likely to be adopted, some needing Congressional action.
After years of agitation Georgetown will gain relief from ashes and street sweepings dumped along Rock Creek. Engineers propose covering dumps with sweepings to allow vegetation on the slope. Beginning April 1, machine sweepings and material from unimproved streets will be dumped along Connecticut Avenue extended, ending dumps on the city side bank. About 12 000 cubic yards may be used on the Georgetown bank along Dumbarton Avenue, plus a narrow spine below N Street for hand sweeping.
Adverse report by Acting Corporation Counsel Thomas states the District of Columbia is not responsible for Lieut. John C. Daley’s horse loss after being kicked by a patrol horse at the Ninth precinct station and later shot. Daley claimed 165 dollars. Thomas notes possible right to stable use but finds no negligence and suggests Daley assumed risk. Also notes Mrs. Luddington, widow of W. B. Luddington, released from detention camp after nursing husband who died of smallpox.
A joint conference of the Board of Trade Business Men's Association and the inaugural committee will be held early next week in the Convention Hall project. Wegt, chairman, will issue the call soon and has secured information from Baltimore Cincinnati and Minneapolis on auditorium ere ction to inform the committees.
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