Sixteenth Street To Be Residential Only Plan Backed by Letters
District Commissioners receive a flood of letters urging Sixteenth street to be reserved for residences and to be renamed Executive Avenue or Avenue of the President. Citizens insist no hotels or stores, with height limits proposed and legislative action sought to remove commercial use from the line of the White House approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixteenth Street
Executive Avenue
Special i
Congress
Clare B. Baldérum
W. D. Baldwin
C. L Shehan
Marcus Beauty
J. C. McGuire
Mary M McGuire
Jackson
White House
Alonzo OQ
John Miller
Mary J Dorsey
Henry F. Blount
George M Acker
James A Drury
Washington Channel Bridge Contract Let to Pennsylvania Steel
Gen. Mackenzie approves Col Hoxie recommendation for the Pennsyl vania Steel Company to build a steel bridge across the Washington channel. Bid was 98006 and the structure will span 162 feet with three 50 foot spans. The contract requires completion within one year as the highway bridge nears completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Channel
Mackenzie
War Department
Col Hoxie
Potomac River
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Philadelphia
Washington
Highway
Penmayl- Vania Steel Company
Potomac
District Health Report Shows Fewer Deaths Than Births
A district health bulletin notes ninety five deaths last week versus fourteen in the prior week. Mortality for the same week in 1904 was ninety four. Of the deceased, forty were white and eighty five colored. Typhoid fever cases decline, with two hundred fifty one under treatment versus two hundred sixty four the prior week and two hundred seventy two in 1904. Pulmonary consumption leads fatalities with thirteen deaths. There were one hundred twenty seven births, eighty four white and forty three colored.
Mutiny Charge Bridled as Deck Hand Assaults Passengers
Tazewell Brown a negro deck hand on the steamer Norfolk of the Norfolk and Washington line assaulted several passengers in a drunken frenzy between here and Alexandria Virginia and attempted to incite mutiny among the crew. He was overpowered by Capt Posey and another officer turned over to Alexandria police and later brought to Washington held at Fourth precinct for mutiny and drunken and disorderly conduct with a police court hearing set for today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Tazewell Brown
Washington
Alexandria
Posey
Release Sought in Habeas Corpus Case for Magdelena Spugmlade
Stefano Tambacchii petitions for a writ to free Magdelena Spugmlade from St Elizabeth's where she was confined in May 1890 under a district order without sanity hearing. He claims she is sane now and the restraint is void, urging release under a challenged statute. Also notes bank director election and unrelated advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Elizabeth’s
Stefano Tambacchii
Magdelena Spugmlade
St Elizabeth’s
District Commissioners’ Office
Tambacchi
Old Timers Plan Banquet for Fortieth Anniversary
The Oldest Inhabitants Association held a meeting at the Corcoran Building with seventy five members. A banquet to celebrate the fortieth anniversary was approved by subscription. The banquet committee includes Crosby S Noyes and others. Reminiscences on meeting nights were approved to resume with Marshal Wineberger and Sergeant Johnson preparing discussion topics. New members Sutton Crane and Crossfield joined. treasury shows $22.02.
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Corcoran
B. W Reiss
Allison Nallor
Crosby S. Noyes
William R. Smith
A. W Kelly
Samuel C Palmer
C. P Church
John R Major
H Reagan
Edward F. Croop
Crosby S Noyes
Inhabitants’ Association
Alta Farm
Noyes
Washington
Marshal Wineberger
Sergeant Johnson
Nallor
I Brary
Bouldwin D Crane
Jehiel Crossfield
Electrical Workers Vote on HQ Move to Indianapolis or Springfield
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members vote on relocating the general offices from the Corcoran Building in Washington. Choices are Indianapolis Indiana or Springfield Illinois. The decision, not final for sixty days, won’t occur before year start. current officers include Grand president F J McNulty and Grand secretary H W Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrical Workers
Indianapolis
Springfield
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Washington
Corcoran
Ind
Ill
F. J. McNulty
H W. Sherman
F J. Sheehan
F. J. Sweek
New York
F J McNalty
Peter J Collins
Boston
F Sullivan
Cleveland
Ghia
J J Reed
Erie
Georgetown Law Opens Year With Large Freshman Class
Georgetown University law department began the 1905 1906 school year with exercise in the HE street law building. The hall was filled with students and the opening enrollment was the largest in the history of the school. Addresses were given by university leaders and faculty members. Father Buell urged unity among all university departments and encouraged law students to engage with peers from other schools. Faculty changes included new lecturers and the retirement of Justice Morris. A new United States tactics and procedure course was added and several new lectures were announced. Suits for divorce were filed by Mrs Portia Hammond and Mrs Rosalie Moore against their husbands.
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Law Department
Georgetown University
Law
HE Street
Clabaugh
District Supreme Court
David H. Buell
Buell
Law School
Judge Clabaugh
Judge Cole
Tudge Clabaugh
John W. Yerkes
Internal Revenue
Rene Hollvid
John A Conway
Martin F Morris
the Court of Appeals
Holmes Conrad
Solicitor General
Aldis B. Browns
Washington
J & Easbey-Smith
Daniel W O'Donoghue
Clarence R. Wilson
Stefford
Law of Agency
Shepard
Gould
May Conrad
Yerkes
M. I. Colbert
D. W. Baker
City Bulletins Jostled Watch and Diamond Theft
George C Barker of 204 Indiana avenue northwest reported the loss of a gold watch and diamond set watch charm after being jostled by two Black men in the first floor hallway of the city post office early yesterday. The itemization includes various local advertisements and notices alongside the incident report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Barker
Indiana
Northwest
City
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Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Loose Leaf
Akes
R. P. Andrews Paper Co
la. Ave. N. W
D St
Priestley Cravenette
Friedlander Bros
Geo. E. Hebbard
9Th St
Selinger
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C Drug
Wei
Sewara
Home Savings Bank
7Th and
Mass. Ave
Dr. Lyon
A. Kahn
F Street
Deck Hand
Horsford
The
BR. Harrizon Johnson
South Washington
Shaffer
Health Department
Chestnut Farms
Geo. M. Oyster, Jr
Prop
House & Herrmann
Eye
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Georgetown
Justice Morris
Maj. Holmes Conrad
Stafford
Portia Hammond
Edward Hammond
Royal Hughes
Augustue Gray
Ner
Rosalie Moore
Henry Moore
Lis W. Preston Williamson
A. Herman’s Sons Co
H Street
Lal
Adler's
Victor E. Adler
Clothing House
7Th St. N.W
City Bulletins
Columbia Wall Paper Co
E Street No
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Catherine Banks
Kimball
Johnston’s
7Th St
Manhattan
9Th
F Streets
Chicago
Muddiman & Ce
Ith
Keene's
George W Evans
Nineteenth Street
Massachusetts Avenue
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Sitis
Armour
Swift & Cols
Climax
Swift & Co
Fairbanka
Cottelene
Fairbenks
Sunday Post
F. H. Smith Co
New York Ave
Udden’s Credit House
Gor
Hubbard Heating
F Strest N. W
Morin
Washington Gas Light
St. N
REGAL
Washington Store
Diamond Dyes
Earlington
Kinsman
U. S. Realty Co. Firemen's Insurance Co
la. Ave
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