District ends fire alarm service with National Automatic
Electrical Engineer Alien advised the District to stop recognizing alarms from the National Automatic Fire Alarm Company due to a missing register and unreliable service. Commissioner Macfarland approved after noting the Treasury Department and several firms rely on the system. alarms will be routed by telephone to dispatch the nearest engine. The Treasury Building and other firms using the system will be notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Automatic Fire Alarm Company
Alien
Macfarland
Allen
Board of Commissioners
Treasury Building
Winder Building
Lansburgh & Bro
Seventh Street
Saks & Co
Bon Marche
Byron S. Adams
T. Grogan
House & Herrmann
W. H
Treasury Department
War Department
District Owes Maryland Indebtedness for Indigent Blind
Since 1899 the District government has not paid its share for the support and instruction of its indigent blind children at the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf Dumb and Blind in Maryland. The total debt amounts to 27022.24 dollars. Comptroller Tracewell reported the finding, noting lack of official notification and no indication in Interior Department auditor certificates that half the certified sum was to be paid by the District. The matter is referred to Auditor Tweedale for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Maryland
Treasury
Tracewell
the Interior Department
Tweedale
City bulletins mix ads and notices in Panama era page
Weather chief recommends Oberholzer to head Isthmian Panama weather observations. Public notices urge food and shop ads from Bobinger’s and Schneiders. Admission of geographic names board appointment and various commerce pitches decorate the listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Isthmian Canal Commission
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
George R. Oberholzer
Erie
Typhoid rates fall in district health report
Week ending May 26 shows 9 new typhoid cases and 21 discharges leaving 60 cases on hand compared with 62 last week. Scarlet fever 19 cases, diphtheria 10 discharged with 6 total, whooping cough 83 on hand, measles 19 new and 2 discharged totaling 61, chicken pox 16 new and 10 discharged totaling 60. Mortality at 92, down from 118. deaths 54 white and 38 colored.
Crusade For Clean Alleys Campaign Planned
Commissioner West 9 outlined a summer effort to clean alleys and back yards starting June 1. He ordered the Street Cleaning Department to prioritize inhabited alleys and urged inspectors to keep areas sanitary. The plan includes police and health officer cooperation to inspect cellars and yards and prosecute health violations, aiming to reduce insanitary conditions.
Mathews Case Verdict Reached in Police Probe
Superintendent of Police Sylvester told Commissioner West that inspectors Cross and Swindells have reached a verdict in the Mathews Mulhall case. Findings were sent to Assistant Corporation Counsel Smith, chairman of the police trial board. Papers will be returned to Maj. Sylvester and then to Commissioners. Captains Mathews and Mulhall face charges of official interference in the death of engineer Hugh Murphy on the Southern Railroad last September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvester
West
Cross
Swindells
Smith
Police Trial Board
Maj
Mathews
Mulhall
Hugh Murphy
Southern Railroad
Emancipation The Climax Nebraskan Leader Praises Lincoln Proclamation
Former Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska called the Emancipation Proclamation the capstone of liberty, likening Civil War bravery to epic figures. He spoke at the Grant Circle monument dedication in the Capitol rotunda, with a cadet parade and wreaths marking the event. Other ceremonies honored Lincoln and Indiana statesmen, while a Capitol wreath tribute honored Oliver Morton and Washington, as well as a well water protest near Sixth and G streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Thurston
Nebraska
U. S. Grant
U.S. Grant
Capitol
Abraham Lincoln
Leonidas
Thermopylae
Napoleon
Old Guard
Waterloo
Balaklava
Tennyson
Light Brigade
Thurston
Grant
Central High School
Fred J. Patchell
Army Organization
America
Dr. Wright
McKendree M. Church
Dora Hendrix
U. S. Grant Circle
Tweedale
W. E. Rogers
First Presbyterian Church
Jasper D. McFall
Misa Grace Ross
Lincoln
Parker Trent Lincoln
Indiana
Washington
Olver P. Morton
William Gray Beach
Indiana Sons of Veterans
George D. Brooks
Brooks
Virginia
Capitol Police Force
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fishermen
Penna, Ave
Potomac Electric Power Company
4Th Street N. W
Mitte
A. Eberly
John B. ES
S. Shedd & Bro, CO
Ninth Street
District
City Bulletins
Bobinger’s
Sixth St
Alschwee's
Schneider
Schneiders
Navy Yard Exchange
N. C. Upham
Homa Life Bidg
15Th
G Northwest
William McNeil
Bureau of Rolls and Library
Department of State
United States Board of Geographic Names
Charles Denby
United States
Shanghaii
Chicago Jewel Gas Ranges
G. C. A. Muddiman & Co
B. P. Hinkel & Co
Thorp Carpet Cleaning Co
Maine Avs
A. Muddiman &Co
American True Blue Ser
Hamburger Bros
PRIC
Kaufman
D. J. Kaufman
Ave
Crusade For
Murphy
Sixth and
G ‘Streets
Gasch & Birge
New York Ave. Nw
Health Department
Agricultural Department
Chestnut Farms
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Park Road
SIDE
GEO. Y. Worthington
N. W
Davidson & Davidson
G St. N. W
Naval Gun Factory
Laurel
Highlands
Capital Traction Co
Randle Highlands
U. S. Realty Co
Cor. 7Th and
Pa. Ave. Firemen’s Insurance Building
Petworth
Dinieg
Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co
F Street
M. N. Hekimian & Co
Cor
Ste. Ow
Surrey
T. E. Young
Fa. Ave
Phoos M
M. Brown
Jrto
Center Market
East Marke Highlands
Pennsylvania Avenue
FREIE
Randle
Laurel Military Band
Naval Gun Factory Band
Baltimore
Horn
Raitor
Lisle
I. Grosner
Pa. Ave. N.W
Great Atlantic & Pacific Mate
E Sts
Hlumple & Fyford
Mass
Eo Lacey
Cea
St. N.W
Capadine
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