City groups meet to urge early action on Anacostia improvements
Representatives of two commercial organizations and citizens met Commissioner Macfarland in the District Building to press for prompt Congressional action on Anacostia Channel improvements. The session reviewed War Department and Senate Park Commission plans, noted Congress already appropriated 150000 dollars for channel work to the Navy Yard Bridge and 5000 dollars for a riparian land map, and discussed presenting a bill with best plan features and cost estimates.
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Anacostia River
Macfarland
Oatin
James Oyster
Business Men's Association
M. I. Weller
The
Board of Trade
Thomas W. Smith
Evan H. Tucker
J M Wood
J. A. Watson
J. C Leonard
W F. Gude
War Department
Senate Park Commission
Congress
Anacostia Channel
Navy Yard Bridge
Department of Justice
United States
Anacostia
District Court Upholds Outfall Sewer Condemnation
Judge Gould sustained the condemnation ruling for the Potomac outfall sewer near Government Hospital. The district won on the second appraisement after disputes over Virginia Maryland compacts and Congress authority. Landowners contended concealment of interstate accord. objection deemed a Virginia United States matter, not DC proceedings. District was represented by James Francis Smith. owners by Snowden Hill and others.
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Justice Gould
District Supreme Court
Government Hospital
Maryland
Virginia
Congress
District of Columbia
Potomac River
United States
Justie Gould
James Francis Smith
Snowden Hill
George C Gertman
Barnard & Johnson
RA Heiskell
Permanent supervisor of playgounds urged by Curtis
The playgrounds committee of the Associated Charities submitted to District Commissioners a report by Supervisor Henry S Curtis for 1905, requesting that the office of supervisor of playgrounds be made permanent with a salary of 2500. Curtis argues organized play under a permanent official is needed to counter rising restlessness among Washington children and cites the lack of organized play despite ample space. He urges presenting the matter to Congress as a public necessity alongside police, fire protection and education.
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Associated Charities
Henry S Curtis
Congress
Washington
New York
Boston
Chicago
Carnegie funds for giant projects planned for science
The Carnegie Institution’s executive committee discussed the next budget and will meet until December to select applicants for awards. Two major ventures are planned: a large expedition to West and East Turkestan Mongolia led by Dr Pumpelly and a continued magnetic survey of the North Pacific aboard the ship Galileo, reaching Aleutian Islands and Japanese waters.
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Woodward
East Turkestan
Mongolia
Pumpelly
Harvard University
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Aleutian Islands
China
South Sea Islands
Better Local Government. Valuable Suggestions from Committee of Three
The committee of three appointed by the Commissioners in August 193 to investigate District service methods submitted its final report yesterday. The panel, comprising Dr. William Woodward health officer J B Garrison auditor and Maj R Douglas Simms formerly property clerk, offered general and special recommendations including public work contracts office nomenclature and an amendment to the organic act to allow two remaining commissioners to form a quorum. Heads of departments support the ideas but say staff is too small to implement them. the report urges action even if it requires more clerks. The Commissioners called the report the most valuable municipal governance document in years and said it will guide recommendations to Congress for public service improvements.
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Garrison
R. Douglas Simms
1Ter
Congress
Rust Mite Damage Hits Cotton Crops in South
The Department of Agriculture reports rust mites or red spiders have been widespread in cotton growing regions over the last two years. The tiny yellowish red pests feed mainly on leaf undersides but may attack all plant parts. They likely affect the entire cotton belt, with notable damage in South Carolina and Georgia noted in 1903.
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Department of Agriculture
Sava
South Carolina
Georgia
Soldiers guard Frederick statue at War College site
The statue of Frederick the Great presented by the German Emperor is under guard day and night by armed guards after a bomb attempt. A new War College building progresses with completing walls and the massive stone eagle arrival, while fencing, steps, and grounds work move forward in coming weeks.
Miss Hallowell Poems Prince at Station and Theater
Miss Alice Hallowell of this city greeted Prince Louis with a poem at the railroad station before his departure. Later she and friends occupied a Columbia Theater box presented by George M. Cohan to view Little Johnny on his return.
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Prince
Prince Louis
Alice Hallowell
Columbia Theater
George M Cohan
Little Jolmule Jones
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