City plans include motorized fire apparatus and model house
City commissioners outline a winter budget with a $5,000 request for two automobiles for Capt. Markham and Capt. Kelly and assistants, replacing horse drawn vehicles. A $95,000 model Firehouse on Twelfth Street is planned to outshine others and serve as Fire Chief Wagner’s headquarters while motor fire apparatus gains support for improved efficiency and Rock Creek golf course upkeep.
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Twelfth Street
D Street
Fourteenth
Leon Dessez
Wagner
Engineer Department
Rock Creek Park
Brightwood Reservoir
Decline in Building Permits for August Report
Building Inspector Hacker reports a drop in August construction activity from the prior month. Permits totaled 31,104,322 with 67 dwellings approved, chiefly in the county area. Distribution of planned new construction and repairs reflects geographic spread across districts, with several named projects and firms listed among permit issuances.
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Hacker
Agust
T. Melton
Girard Street
A. FL Beers
A. Jeffery
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington Railroad Company
Second Street
Virginia Avenue
James McGraw
Fourteenth and
Water Street
The
Cosmos Clubs
Madieun’ Place
T. J. D. Fuller
William T. Lipscomb Company
Typhoid Cases Fall in District Report Week
Health Office reports twenty seven typhoid cases in the district for the week, down from thirty one the prior week and thirty one the same week last year. Seventeen deaths linked to consumption and pneumonia among the week’s toll, with births at one hundred twenty nine.
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Health Office
Onty
Meath
Gonzaga College Opens With Record Attendance
Gonzaga College opened this week with the largest attendance in years. Seventy new students registered on Wednesday. First year high has an enrollment of 40 boys, the largest ever for that grade. Faculty changes include Rev Eugene Del McDonnell, S. J., succeeding Rev Charles Lyons, S. J., as president. Rev Cornelius Glideapie, S. J., former president of St. Joseph's College Philadelphia, named minister. Rev Raphael OConnell, S. J., professor of literature and philosophy at St. Francis Xavier College New York, in charge of sophomores. John J. Monahan, S. J., succeeds Francia A. Byrne, S. J., as prefect of discipline. Rev John B. Pittar, S. J., continues in charge of Gonzaga School, opened this year with over 450 enrolled. Students of Gonzaga College and Gonzaga School and 400 Notre Dame Academy pupils will attend the solemn high mass of the Holy Ghost next Monday at 9 o'clock in St. Aloysius Church.
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yGonmga College
Eugene del. McDonnell
Charles W. Lyons
Cornelius Glileapie
St. Joseph
Gonzaga College
Gonzaga School
Notre Dame Academy
Holy Ghost
St. Aloyaina
Roash Hashana Observed by Washington Jewish Community
The Jewish new year Roah Hashani is being observed by orthodox Jews in Washington. The Washington Hebrew Congregation led by Rabbis Abram Simon and Louis Stern held its last service with trumpet rites. Evening services were held by orthodox churches, with a final service planned for 4 PM, featuring sermons by the rabbis. Atonement is on September 1 followed by the feast of Tabernacles.
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Washington
Rabb
Abram Simon
Louis Stern
Caffee Honored With Farewell Dinner Before Denver Move
Friends of J Hooper Caffes tendered him a farewell dinner at the Preas Club last night as he prepares to leave Washington for Denver Colorado. J Lynn Yeagle presented eight leather traveling bags and a Bert Repast and gold watch on behalf of colleagues. Caffee, a well known local newspaper man, came to Washington two years ago from the West and leaves amid regret for his health.
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J. Hooper Caftes
Preas Club
Caffee
Washington
Denver
Colo
J. Lynn Yeagle
Caftes
Bert
West
Nowa
Tll
Carnival for Children at Howard Playground
A children's athletic carnival took place at Howard playground in the Fifth and Whareats northwest area under Thomas E. Johnson Minna Price and W. Dummeld. It featured athletic events and an exhibition of the industrial work by the children, with weather not dampening spirits. Two sessions ran from 9:30 to 12:30 and 3:90 to 7, including folk dances and various games for all.
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Howard Playground
Whareats
Thomas E. Johnson
Misa Minna Price
Clifton Apartments Sold to Local Merchant
Lewis Breuninger sold the Clifton apartment house in Clifton street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northwest to Philip T. Hall for 110 960. The deal was handled through Charles Early Real Estate. The four story white buff brick and stone building, completed three months ago, has fourteen suites with modern appliances and a basement.
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Lewis Brewninger
Philip T. Hall
F Street
Clifton
Cltton “Street
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Charles Early
Ciifton
Breuninger
Cadet Uniform Contract Awarded to Saks & Co
The contract for furnishing uniforms to high school cadets was awarded yesterday to Saks & Co, the firm that supplied them last year. Officials expect the order to exceed 60 sets and require additional salt for storage and handling.
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Saks & Co
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School Board Delays Expected Attendance and Courses Change
Supt Stuart Locka forecasts about 60 000 pupils as attendance rises with next week’s registry opening. Board postpones meeting due to building readiness. Garfield School may open October. Plans include graded school course reforms and a proposed October flower show at school HQ. Armstrong Manuel Training School business programs move to Lucretia Mott building. enrollment expected to be large. a colored business high school likely to develop.
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Stuart Locka
A. Aiorim
Board of Education
Tha'beoend
Garfield
Blake
Magrudar
Phillips
Jackson
Sorori
Ghanger
Stephen Elliot-Kramer
Inter#mediate
Washington
Armstrong Manuel Training School
Lucretia Mott School
Armatrang
Engineer's Orders Approved For District Improvements
Engineer Commissioner Juoson vester ay recommended street and sewer upgrades in the District. Hiram W. Phillips of Boston to examine the outfall sewer from the sewage pumping station. The board approved the measures including water main cancellation and hydrant adjustments. Repairs include nine th street northwest resurfacing and catch basin construction at several corners.
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Juoson Vester
Hiram W. Philips
Boston
Mays
Board of Commissioners
Woodridge Street
Twenty-Fourth
Twenty-ninth Street
Cathedral Avenue
Hiram W. Phillie
Potomac River
Washington
Wewerage
Monroe and
Fourteenth Streets
Irving and
Warder Streets
Patreet and
King
Fourteenth
Mrs Emma Coffman Dies Quietly at Home in Vermont Street
Mrs Emma Coffman wife of Capt John Blake Coffman died suddenly last evening about six oclock at the family home in Vermont avenue northwest She had been under treatment for some time but death was not expected She was nine years old and born in Bier Md coming from a well known Maryland family She leaves besides her husband one son of nine Funeral arrangements will be announced today.
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John Blake Coffman
Farmilg
Ima
Vermont
Avenue
Coffman
Bier
Maryland
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