Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1898, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898-16 PAGES. ttt ttteit+ PEEEEEEE PEEP EE EEE E ES = Open Every Evening Until Christmas. fe the : Where the useful and = beautiful join forces. PEE $be4 ‘Soft shoes for tender feet."|C|TY SANITATION Prices Cut When You Post Need Shoes. With cold and rough pavements you certainly need to be well “shoed” ate : e ; ~. A display of holiday goods that advances = every possible argument in their own favor. * se Nothing fills all requirements of a gift so well as fancy fur- stv niture. Not too prosaic and yet lasting and useful. Our stock To merely see it is a pleasure, and to think that the whole assortment this year makes an exhibition of surpassing magnificence. is yours to choose from, and that nothing in it is out of your ch, as our liberal terms of credit are always open to you. RERGRRRCRRRRAGRRISG ORR e ccs “ l * It costs | Full or +: nO more empty = cach | purses get =< to bu | « y the same -- On credit. treatment. = Lamps, Brass Tables with Onyx Tops, Pedestals, China = . Dinner and Tea Sets, Toilet Sets, Pictures, Bric-a-brac, Suites | $ of Furniture, Odd Parlor Pieces, Goldleaf Chairs, Corner + Chairs, Fancy Rockers, Pretty Parlor Tabl Ladies’ Writing Ladies’ Sideboards. Desks, China Closets, Music Cabinets, Morris Chairs. Morris Chairs, Bookcases, Combination De: You cannot think of any kind of Furniture that we have not got. * .\ small deposit will reserve any articles until you wish them de- a ae livered. ae j= S) c Q = Liberal Homefurnishers, en by EEE ew Credit Way. Our New Credit Way. = sSeateege It Doesn’t Cost : sit thts st ne Peop Store—to se bd assortment of Holida z d. reliable, it way is an on ne you cloth 4 zi CASH OR CREDIT. r $7.50 Men’s Suits, $4.56. oni at assist Shaeatoeceate Soafeeseaseeseos seetees seafeesees oSeeis | Have Your tee single | Pick from this broken tot o Phe ed cute rtm ‘They are made of th made of cassime 1 worsteds, in checks. pin striz n granite, finest of Thibets and Worsted checks and | and in Vue ths. in blue and biael ieee cece a eikaaa ae pasted and. three-butie rrasryab : ee silk or setin Lined. te $8.00 We Lead ’em All in Cape Values. ate 8 ( Ca sold iS 95 Wrappers for se 1 Ww i] d Outing Flannel ith pointe hers eund yo Anic 9 pes, K and fron TheJewelry Dept Contains the dsomest assortment of La. ve W s. RH Lar s, Cuff Buttons, Studs, OAM for yc $4.50 Ladies’ Rings,$2.88% § — Sotie ae : ie “. with precious ee = Se ots So aan $ “Gold Plate ¢ ns, ‘ years. Worth $28.50 Men’s Watches, $18.48. = & and we have cut prices just in the nick of time. No better or more h shoes were ever produced than these, and yet the prices are now down to a level with the cheapest kind of factory-made shoes. Ladies’ Kid and Box Calf Lace and Button Shoes. All the new styles. Hand-sewed. 6 5 Reduced to..... Misses’ Kid and Box Calf Lace and Button Shoes. Spring heels. Sizes 1 50 ° $1.50 11 to 2. Reduced to..... Men’s Nullifiers and Opera Slip- pers in great variety for Xmas pres- ents. 3oys’ Calf Lace Shoes. Reduced to...... Havenner’s sree 928 F St. N. W. ATLANTIC BUILDING. “Absolutely the best display of diamond jewelry in the city.” Thousands of shoppers are say ing of Salvatore Desio's store, on F° street, opposite Wood- ward & Lothrop’s: “Did you ever see such an assortment of Diamond Rings, : $5 to $500, - Brooches from $5 to $500, earring 1.2007” Many persons undecided as ; to the choice of gift come here, ° select and are pleased with both the article and the price. Engraving is a feature of our attractiveness to the public, and a special staff of engravers ° have been secured from New : York to do this work. 2 and uisites to e OIZFN.W.: No connection ler firm. Open Evenings. with any Thursday, Dec ember 15, Buy the Reliable Gill’s Candies For Satisfaction. We are making great prep: Christmas Candies. You ean buy some che but e better. P equitable 40 and 60 certs Ib, Leave your order at once. e110 921 F St. and Gill S, 1223 Pa. Ave. fons to sappl for your n r for sour 1 an in any other gift you ¢d namel Dressing Tables.$14.75 |) Mah. Dressing Tables. .$17.75 || 20 Cheval Mirrors. ... .$14.75 || Shaving Stand and Blacking Outfit eee NS, Tables in oak and mahogany fi ++ -$1.00 neon one yon aoe ranteed fo Boe reer ee $18.48 S $25 [en’s Watches, ; pon $14.48, 3 parchaved Open free 14- karat Gold - Anea & in ene nd ranteed $: See ee § AAS $22.50 Ladies’ Watches, $12.48. tit & z $30 Capes, $19.98. : El cm calary Gal pte oot eer Med Watches. Guarantend = sgedipteedlcoraiers $19.98 | movement. worn 2s we" $12.48 $1.35 Wrappers for 5yc. | $25 Ladies’ watches, Ladies Flat Jette and Outing F Wraprers, “Handeonarly Bntahed with, 9 $18.50. Hunting ¢ Guaranteed 29 ement I4-karat Gold-filled ars. Elgin and wt $18.50 SAMUEL FRIEDLANDER & CO., Lined waist, full ew See SOc. French plaited back skirt and felled seams, Go to Siccardi’s FOR BAKGALNS IN UMAN HalIn Hair Switches at Great Bargains, $3.00 Swilcbes reduced tc $1.50. .0U Switches reduced to $2.50. 1.00 Switches reduced to $5.00, Gray and White Uair reduced in same proportion Mme. Siccardi, Privateeghtt® ste Bezt to, Palais Royal. Private rooms for balrdressing, shampoulng and ayeing. sel3-18,t¢ ee: Sood Toys For The Girls DOLIS...... Z DOLL CARRIAGES. HOUSES. STOY, SEIDPHDGE AED $ ° <¢ | tel ) Be. to $5.00 . to $5.98 . to YR. Successors to the New York Clothing House, 311 SEVENTH STREET 311. LPPIPEOO PIT II DOOD e PROV BSTH SHEOOD de15-th,s.t-28 DEC PRC SCOOT COS COCRE SERS: AOQDODDEAOTOD SATAN SOME TS Annual Address of-Dr. Busey, Presi- dent of Medical Society. BEFORE THE ACADEMY =< OF SCIENCES Resume of History Covering Period of 107 Years. —— SEWERS AND , PURE WATER A number of prominent physicians and distinguished citizens attended the sixth meeting of the Washingion Academy of Sciences last night to hear th> annual ad- dress of Samuel C. Busey, M.D., LL.D., president of the Medical Society of the Dis- trict of Columbia. The meeting took place in the law building of the Georg>town Unt- versity. Maj. J. W. Powell, president of the Washington Academy of Sciences, presided, and introduced the venerable physician, whose work in Washington has left its 1m- print upon the medical history of the na- uonal capital. Dr. Busey was welcomed with great ap- plause as he cook his seat at the desk and read the report, which was entitled “The History and Progress of Sanitation of the City of Washington and the Efforts of the Medical Profession in Relation There He said, in part: Washington's Tour of Inspection. * “When Washington, March 29, 1791, made a tour of inspection to mark the meics and bounds of th» site selected for the loca- lion of the federal city, the territory com- prised, in whoie or in part, the farm lands of nineteen proprietors. he area of 6,100 acres was irregularly cut across by numer- ous farm voads for the convenienc? of those residing within its limits. There was but one roadway running through the en- tire area from Georgetown to the Eastern branch, but neither us course, beginning hor terminus is stated. “With a singie exc>ption the dwetlings and tne outbuildings were con- tructed of wood. Many of tne dwellings were capacious buildings, and known as mansion houses, denoung the home, wealth farm and social standing of the proprietor. Near by each on» of the stately mansions was located the family grave yard. The man- ion house of Young was built of brick, and the coctage of David Burnes was a long, one-story frame.’ Many of the out- arns, tenements and slave built of logs. “The city site was bounded on thre sid streams of fresh flowing water. The stern border along a bold shore by the Anac ving in depth from four and ix and a half homs of water, offe n opportunit for a safe harbor for a naval and mercan- tile maring and suificiently for an extensive commerc puthern boundary was washed by the rapid current of the Potomac frdm its de+p water at the mouth of Rock creck to its junction with the An: Rock creek on the wi then, as now, flowed through a deep ravine around the horse-shos bend to its outlet into the mac, It was then a_ pic m of unpolluted water, but is sluceway for the sewage of recenuy, of both of the . Nol aess offensive to ob- turesq. now one i open and until hboring. citie ation hitic emanations. Water Courses. © “In addition to the boundary water courses, there were several creeks into which nuinerous spring st s emptied along their way through the territo The three headwater branches of the Tiber, with sources at elevations varying from 11 and 7 inches to 26 feet and 7 inches the level of the tide, one of which f beginning in the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, penetrated the northern boundary line at different points between Vermont and New York avenu At or near the lauer point. they united in a common stream, which flowed along a valley in a southwest difection, re the elevation of tid>water in a depres: between Capi- tol Hill and Judiciary cros ennsylvania avenue at wi 1 street south, and thence by an a change in its course to its mouth at the foot of 17th street west. Its watershed covered hundreds of acres, snding from Lith sireet west far into the tern section. Its hanks were ‘originally witn trees and underwood of dif- varieties, and formed a romantic which was overspread in spring with wild ducks, and pene- up as Pennsylvania avenue, with multitudes of shad, herring, pike, perch, and other food fishes.’ One of its largest tributaries, now conc by im- provements, crossed Pennsyly me between 9th and 10th streets west, having its source in the springs in Franklin Squar>. cov ferent stream, and autumn trated as fas Rights Reserved “So much of the territory was wood land, that the original proprietors reserved the ownership of the timber, except such as might be reserved by the President, which was to be paid for ‘at a just and reason- able valuation.’ Some of the forests co of land. Many smaller : were occupied by clus- s and clumps of forest’ trees. Other larger and smaller areas were cov- ered with shrub oak, alder and thorn bushes and grape vines Mr. Wells, who E 1 in the original survey of th 3 ut at that time more t the territory included within i covered with woods and sw. “The swampy lowlands many acres, south of the I the river shore, along the valle James creek and the Tiber, including a greater part of the White Lot and the mall, which, for the most part were covered with shrubby growths and bramble and wau- kKapin bushe: But the largest continuous area of morass and s the tion known as the Slashe: along the northern boundary line fi miber to Rock creek, dipping in many places to the interior of the basin. “Around this great geological basin, with plateaus of moorlands and lowiaads; its arm lands and mori hills, valleys and in it ravines; spring and = drainage courses, there s nge of wooded heghts, extending from the Potomac on th t, to Little river on the west, with ele- ations varying from 200 to 420 feet above the level of the tide, and broken only by the creeks that penetrated its territory and the rivers that washed its shore lines to unite at its base in one great river that flowed through the gap to the bay. Along its course of irregtilar elevations, the many fields of view seem to rival each other in the grandeur, diversity and expanse of prospect that ‘marked the breadth of the picture, and the sfreng colors in the grand and environing ‘wall of forest heights, which rolled back against the sky, as if to inclose a noble area of landscape, fit for the supreme deliberations of a continental na- tion.’ Natural and Topegraphical Detects. It must be clear to every sanitarian that the contour and physical conditions of the floor cr the basin Were such as to unfit the site for the locagion,pf the capital of a great empire, and nothing less than the genius of L’Enfant, evolved under the di- rection and supérvision of Washington, could have devised @ plan which could overcome the natural and topographical ob- stacles and defects, and be developed into a city as grand and beautiful in all of its appointments as now stands upon the site. “The reclamation of Pennsyivania avenue was the first effort at street improvement, and perhaps notes the first attempt at sani- tation. When first laid out that part be- tween 15th street west and the foot of Capitol Hill was a beggy morass, covered with bramble bushes and subject to tidal inundations and storm water overflow. It was the habitation of game, venomous rep- tiles and pestiferous insects, and forbidden to man and beast.” Soon after the begin- ning of the foundation of the Capitol, in 1793, its improvement was set on foot by carting earth, gravel and ‘chips of stone, first to make footways, and then to fill up and level the center, until a rough roadway was incompletely prepared. This method of improvement was continued until by the act of Congress.of April 24, 1801, $10,000, Your Credit is Good. 13th and F. SS ac Your Credit is mod. A Gorgeous Exhibition of Goods Manufactured Especially for Gifts. eee We are late and must make up for lost time. The saie of the Reading stock has kept us so busy that we have not been able to turn our attention to holiday needs. The goods are all in and every floor is crowded with them. We'll sell them in double-quick time, for we've marked PRICES BELOW ALL PRECEDENCE. A Grand Stock of Lamps at Half Price. Amongst other good things we have the fn- est stock of Lamps ever produced. The ent re sample Hue of the famous Rochester Lamp Co. We bongbt them at a price that enables us to sell them for Just half what they ae worth, All the newest designs, and have the famous Rochester burners. $2.00 Lamps for $1.00 $3.00 Lamps for $1 $5.00 Lamps $8.00 Lamps $10.00 Lamps: $15.00 Lamps. $20.00 Lamps $40.00 amps. Morris Chairs. N for for for for for $1 for §20,00. SosCorConcodaeeSeoteeoncorzedaeicettetcocetconseesiny . Serco sensei seston such vari eS Chatrs you befo MOR: CHAIRS. = cushions, handsome Str & 3 + = e ve Oak Mahogany-finish mock- & ers, finely made, with sad. $1 88 dle’ seats... ° Beautiful Rockers, with ZH die or cobbler seats. in a mahogany finish = 2, = Gold-leaf Goods. iy Never was a prettier assortment, and now oe we have cut es to an alarming eatent, They won't s! a 3 Gold Leaf Reception Chairs....... $3.50 = 00 do. do. be enknenn §5. 0. an ee $4.25 Letentesgesteetentent Set reserved until you wish them sete Sosteetent Agents for the mete T Tost expensive we ve bever before u almost twice as much as the pric pment Buildings, Proclamation of The INDEX fied from the original government rex It is therefore authentic in every sem: mancipation,” too limited. to be refused, It was not a further edition, mand, Mr. has accordingly appointed a plications. The Hon, R, Ainsworth Spofford, Committee ‘There are each. has, cations, of book and if de8-12t ‘to be reimbursed by was appropriated ‘for footw for the convenience of Congre Congress Takes Action. “tn 1830 a committee of the House of Representatives was appointed to inquire ‘into the expediency of making provision by act of Congress or otherwise for the improvement and repair of the street in Washington city, called the Pennsylvaniz avenue, from the President's house to the Capitol, on the McAdam plan, or other per- manent manner.’ In its report the com- mittee pronounced the strect ‘neither safe nor convenient,’ and declared it to be a public highway, the improvement of which w necessary ‘to provide a safe and con- venient road of communication,’ * * * ‘not merely for the convenience of the citi- zens of the District of Columbia, but for members of Congress, the various and nu- merous officers of the general government residing in this District, and the citizens of the states who may have business to trans- act with Congress and these officers.’ The improvement, in accordance with the plan of the committee, to pave the space be tween the middle rows of trees with ‘sizable round stone’ or macadamize with ‘pounded stone’ and cover the other parts ‘six inches deep with clean coarse gravel,’ completed the reclamation of a large area of low and swampy land, enhanced the value of prop- erty, encouraged the erection of buildings along its course and supplied sidewalks for the pleasure and convenience of members of Congress, but only to a limited extent, if at all, improved the surface drainage. During the succeeding decades (1830 to 1850) the avenue was several tlmes im- proved by regrading and repaving with cob- blestones (by relaying of brick sidewalks and curbing), and since by paving, in suc- cession, with wood blocks, concrete and asphalt. “The mutilation of the scheme of the ‘grand canal’ by authority of the acts of Congress of May 1, 1802, and February 9, 1809, and other subsequent supplemental and amendatory acts, granting to the ‘Washington Canal Company’ a charter to construct for commercial purposes a canal along the courses of the Tiber and St. James creek through the territory from the foot of 17th street west to the Anacostia river at the foot of 2d street east, was the first enterprise materially affecting the drainage of the city. Through this water- == Artists can now obtain Rowney’s Famous Fnglisb Fister Colors It thay’ will only ask thet. Stalaes for brary, has accepted the position of Ge distribute the work. niticent Volumes of about We are open every evening until Christmas for your New Columbia Filter, Sete hetecestetetestetetererintetoonnioetnlntetie inl tio lintottaololn titolo lillie stntitielstolitipipistalptiislsls lntigliply Mes ‘opies of historic paintings, si an Encyclopaedia of U.S. rds st Original, Instructive, Fascinating. The original edition published by the Government was far Thousands upon thousands of applications had he Intention originally to publish but, on account of the unprecedented de- Richardson, who lad charge of the work, decided that a further but Ifmited edition ought to be made. Sommittee on Distribution to fill If a private publisher were to undertak could gain access to the than a million dollars to prod however, of ‘manufacture and price to meet expenses, ft will be done later, but not on applications during month of December. postal card request for full part.culrrs, addressed as below, will ample descriptive matter and full instructions for making applt- On ‘all requests accompanied { Cpholsiered. | do, ae. ay do. $6.00 $7.50 $9.00 $5.00 | $7.50 | wo $9.00 liareee . $4.50 | $4.00 in Divans, silk Gace $15.00 .., $40.00 Gold Lear « de. Solid Gat is Mi ik Vernis Martin Desk Martin Tatile, oval $10.00 | Martin ¢ ir, silk damask $7 SQ | Arm Chairs, in figured ye Large Mahogany Arm Rov r, upholstered — in mIrS—Vvery pretty design | Ladies’ Desks. Avast assortment! An Every kind of wood. We are | the prettiest Desks ever made | Ladie Desks for. ... Ladles’ Desks fer. . Ladies’ Desks % Ladies’ Desks for 1226 F sages = ‘ Pa written by our Presidents. Edited by the Hon. JAMES D. RICHARDSON, Under Direction of Congress It includes all the Inaugural Addresses, An including important seeret correspondence of th of our government from the first adwinistration of ual Messages, Spec Zes, Department all office treaied by the President b e Government. PROFUSEL wf. History. Washington. and It is He f the Congressional eral Secretary of the 700 pages It bears the Indorsement of two presidents Congress and thousands of other government officials and representative citizens, LIMITED APPORTIONMENT FOR EACH LOCALITY. it would cost vernmient records. less than Ten Dollars per volun The Committee on Distribution undertaken to distribute the work at a trifle over the dis*ributtc If it is necessary ya deposit of ON Will be laid aside and reserved pending fu u decide within ten days not to make a for the work, the amount will be refunded. All requests for further information Will recetve prompt attention, in regular order, dressed to AINSWORTH R. SPOFFORD, Committee Rooms, McGill Bldg. of al By | Bi, | and oil waters to the river. January canal al purpe constructed ved way the storm and sub: large area found outlet y of an act approve ‘ city purchased thi ontinued its use for commerc to 1871 all the sewers by the city emptied into it, through a greater part of its > aong a natural valley line it became the trunk irain for the central section of the c With lessened use as a business enterp: and continuously increasing accumulation of nd as iith, it became such a nuisance, offensive ilike to sight and smell, and such a menace co health, that its obliteration by filling, oegun in 1871, was completed in 1Ssv. “The constru om of the B street ant Tiber sewers, emptying respectively into the wotomac and Anac ia rivers, which filled ain and filth carriers, was a nce in the sanitation of the Street Improvement. ng the long period between the re- ion of Pennsylvania avenue and it improvement according to the plan of the committee of the House of Representatives street improvement was either stationary or so slow and unsatisfactory that citizens #rew weary in futile efforts to obtain passa- vie roadways for business purposes through she central and most populous section of she cit A few streets were year by year rudely prepared by filling the low place «long their courses, setting curbstones, lay- .ng sidewaiks, paving gutters along the curb anes and covering the carrageways wiih a few inches of gravel. In very many in- stances such improvements so obstructed she natural drainage courses that large areas of private property were submerged. “The introduction of Potomac water in 1859 marks an important epoch in the his- tory\of sanitation of the city. Previous to that time the drinking-water supply was ob- tained from springs, pumps, wells and, in a few instances, from private reservoirs of rain water collected from roofs. There is no record of any measurements of the level of the ground water in any part of the city, but from observation of the depth of wells and other sources it can be approximately stated to vary in different localities from a tew feet to greater depths in higher local- ities. The larger and smaller areas of por- ous soil must, therefore, have been con- stantly subject to capillary filtration, even to saturation, according to seasons, the amount of precipitation and the volume of water in the principal drainage channels. The geological character of the basin nat- urally favors soil polluticn from the seep- age of the many thousands of cesspools and other makeshifts, and finally leaky and j ’ accommodation. ; shipped, upon payment of a small deposit. Our terms of liberal, and every one has the right to use them. LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO., pers of the Presidents A HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY iz al « ident Washington to the present time. | Authorized, Supervised, Approved BY THE GOVERNMENT. : Every important transaction of the Pr 1 k ever produced tien of Ce) Ie 7. “Exceedingly valuable for in either pr ints ae In the homen of our people. =” |" Cither pablie Wbrart =A d their cabinets, the to publish Jt, even if he and he could not afford to sell it for to increase E DOLLAR a set r investigation, alar application You'll congratulate yourself if you have not already done your Christmas gift buying. Ladies’ Desks for $7.50 Ladies’ Desks for. $19.00 Ladies’ Desks for .......... $ 1 2.50 Ladies’ Desks for $18.00 Ladies’ Desks for $20.00 Ladies’ Desks for $40.00 Rugs. busy all the time. 6 Smyrna Rugs 310.6 Smyrna APH Sma euno= 9x12 Smyrno Ruge Fancy Rockers. Sao todoscor otrenae oncosel es oot etc Oe ety A perfect ceollecti n of all the newes: Mast phasing styles—prices range from 81 vp—and remember, all goods are marked down to belp us to cateh up Ladies’ Tiller Tables, Music Cabinets wts Couches. thing tn the shape of pretty Poent n possibly be thought of Goods bought now can be credit are most St. N.W. E utive Orders, with the history Proclamations, estions in conuectic parer t of po the engravings ulone ralts of the idents, Independence,” guing of the ‘y event of our istory Is cleacly steted. Each fact bas been veri PRESIDENT McKINLEY saye:— “I find it unusually complet and well edited.” not less t if ad- efective and house dra lution means, of course, water it all the shallow and many deep we which | have ny been drilled in the hope of securing a purer water supply Sewer Construction He “Sewer con uction was begun in ISIO, by an appropriation made by the erns ment of $120, to erect ‘an are on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between oth nd 10th streets.” I ing the period extending from that date to IST1_ num sums were appropriated, mostly intreduction of Potomac and general governme pended in the constru a few isolated exception in the city ing sou of M stre betw n 3d and 17th stree se s were designed to carry rm water, water and liquid sews to the The Franklin Square stream was the main trunk line, which in the beginning was only arched at street crossings, § it (Continued on Fiftsenth Page.) 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