First Survey Completed and Board of Education Requests Large Sum
District Commissioner's late session finalized the first department survey with a total estimate near 12.5 million, projected final not to exceed 11 million. Board of Education requests for next year total 2.484 million, adding dozens of new schools and staff, with several site purchases and building projects planned. The charities budget is reduced overall though new hospital and municipal programs are added, total 1.053 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Business High School
Anthony Hyde
Francis N. Cardozo
McKinley Manual Training School
John W. Ross
Normal School
McCormick School
Brightwood Park
Petworth School
Benning School
Anacostia
Normal School No. 2
Mott School
Fourteenth Street
Florida Avenue
George 8. Wilson
Board of Charities
Macfarland
Clifton's hump stays as grade dispute ends
The Engineer Commissioner received the engineer of highways report on Clifton street grade after the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association objected to the humplike grade. The report says changing the grade would require further legislation and that the current grade, adopted under prior acts and street extension laws, is best for current conditions. Col. Biddle will review the report and inform the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineer of Highways
Columbia Heights
Congress
Clifton Street
Citizens’ Association
PFERBERG SEEKS RELEASE IN FRAUD CONVICTION
Samuel Kupferberg, four months for conspiracy to defraud a Washington traction company, filed for habeas corpus in District Supreme Court claiming an incomplete docket and lack of arraignment or plea. Chief Justice Clabaugh ordered a writ returnable October 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traction Company
Samuel Kupferberg
Washington Traction Company
District Supreme Court
Julius J. Peyser
Kupferberg
Clabaugh
Kidwell Held After Not Guilty Plea in Robbery Case
Raymond Kidwell, arrested in Anacostia, pleads not guilty to robbing Fred H Kramer at his Harrison Avenue home. He is held for grand jury, $500 bond posted or jailed. Police report: gold watch and about $800 cash taken. $300 cash and checks unaccounted. Also notes a church Triduum for Hungarian martyrs and an ad for a digestive tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Kidwell
Anacostia
Fred H. Kramer
Harrison Avenue
Kidwell
Kramer
District Building Honors Reappointed Commissioner West
Employed workers gathered in the district building board room to celebrate Henry L. West’s reappointment by the President. Engineers and department heads voiced praise as West thanked them for loyal service and described progress toward a businesslike administration and reduced red tape.
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Henry L. West
B Hunt
Mr. West
Hunt
Col. W. C. Haskell
West
Mr.West
Auto Company Sued Over Fatal Washington Collision
Lettie Marshall sues Washington Electric Vehicle Transportation Company in District Supreme Court seeking 10000 damages for her husband Robert Marshall’s death after a collision at Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue last October. Attorneys Wolf Rosenberg Strasburger for plaintiff argue the car was operated by an incompetent arson. company lawyers Hamilton Colbert deny liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
Lettie Marshall
Washington Electric Vehicle Transportation Company
Hamilton & Colbert
Cline Auto Explodes In Front Of Riggs Street Garage
A large auto owned by A P Cline exploded while sitting at a curb in front of a Fourteenth Street garage. Cline, in the front seat, escaped injury but was shaken. Firefighters arrived as the car burned, its bottom twisted into a mass of iron. Cause unknown though likely fuel line or gasoline soaked ground ignition.
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A. P. Cline
Fourteenth and
Riggs Streets
Cline
New 3 story buildings on Fourth Street SE
New three story apartment houses Nos 309 and 311 Fourth Street SE offering six large well lighted rooms and tiled baths in each unit. Properties feature decorative finishes, large rear porches, yards and hot water heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
4Th St
Klopfer Awarded 3250 in District Case
A Circuit Court jury awarded Benjamin Klopfer 3250 damages against the District of Columbia for injuries from a sidewalk fall near Twelfth and C streets NW on February 16, 1903. Attorneys William Ambrose and Charles H. Merillat represented Klopfer.
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Klopfer
Benjamin Klopfer
District of Columbia
Twelfth
C Streets
Loises
William Ambrose
Charles H. Merillat
Wlopfer
Drivers urged to stay awake amid wagon patrols
Commissioner West and Maj. Sylvester back a new policy to curb drivers dozing at the reins and letting teams wander. The plan would make sleep at the wheel a misdemeanor punishable in Police Court. Also reported a colored man James Jordan acquitted of manslaughter in Hayes Court over a July 4 death, with the government alleging a bat attack.
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West
Maj. Sylvester
Pot
James Jordan
Edward 4. Jacobs
Hayes Court
Jordan
Jacoba
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Washington
Middleman
PBS
Saks & Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
L. W. Weed
Horn
the Tailor
Dong
Health Department
Chestnut Farms Sanitary Dairy
GEO. M. Oyster, Jr
Connecticut Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
Aia
Shedmarl Clothes
Isda
Pettit & CO
Selinger
Hubbard Heating Co
F Street
W. W
Lew Opape
ADLER
D Mass. Ave
N.W
Ave
Victor E. Adler
Glething House
7Th St. H.W
THE
Sunday Post
Clifton
Pferberg
St. Aloysius’ Church
Bede Oldegeer
Ing
Mount &T. Sepulchre
Kennedy
O. P
St. Dominic's Church
Seeee Veel
House & Herrmann
Eye
N. W
Employes
Auto Company
GLINE
BIG Auto
Morse
Capitol Hill
Capitol
Library
City Bulletins
Erie
Siup
J. T. D. Pyiees
la. Ave
Gessford
West End
Pa Ave. Nw
James F. Oysteer
Pa. Ave
Columbia Wall Paper Co
St. N. Ww
Muddiman & Go
Keene's
Joseph I. Weller
Udden
Hebbard
Orne
Geo
E. Hebbard
9Th St
M.S.M
Harvard
Rich
Tony
D. J. Kaufman
J. T. Walker Sons
10Th Street
N. We
Phome M
Oppenheimer
Henry Oppenheimer & Co
Baltimore
A.herman’s Sons Co
H Street
Priestley
Ercoats
Regal
New
Aluminum
Dangler
A. Eberly
Fanninsk A. Kah
Gia
Heart
U. 5
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