Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1922, Page 7

. . L] Co-operative Marketing Boon To Producer and Consumer By Preventing “Dumping,” Prices will Be Stabilized and Production Increased, Says Expert, Wh Editor's Note.—The following article by Mr. Sapire, recognized as one of the fore- _pmost authorities on co-operative marketing. is of timely interest in view of the meet- ing bere last week of the National Coun- €l of Farmers Co-operative Marketiog Associations and President Harding's letter indorsing the co-operative marketing pro- sram, BY AARON SAPIRO. Your American farmer is organiz- \Ing for business, and the accent is on the “business.” T am using the word in its literal sense. meaning trade, commerce. The more popular inference that he is or- ganizing “to get things ‘done” also applies, but it applies without any intimation of threat, menace or radi- cal measures of any sort Your American farmer is organiz- ing for business because he has found out that his methods of doing busi- ness as they have bveen conducted heretofore are the real cause of his troubles today far beyond any politi cal discrimination that he may think has existed against him Parely Economic Move. The co-operative marketing move- ment among American farmers today 13 purely economic, without any Ttical aspects whatsoever. and thers in lles a distinction which the gen- s govern- { «eral public is considering t ment should bear in mind. To say that co-operative marketing leaders do not sympathize with the sounder political aspirations of the farmers, that they do not feel grati- fled by every new strength which he mcquires in the government of this: country and that they do not 100k | with a certain friendly favor upon the general type of farm organiz tion which is quasi-political as well a8 educational in its _activities would be folly. Co-operative market- ing associations owe much to the help of such organizations as the farm bureau, the Farmers’ Union and others in the education of farmers to the need for co-operative marketing. Further, they have found, as an indispensable factor in their present success, the education of the banking interests of this country by the War Finance Corporation. a credit agency | of the United S government. to the fact that the co-operative mar- keting associations are safe and sound from a financial standpeimt and are fully entitled to the vast eredits which they require in their eperations. But the point is that government ald and the support of other farm organizations have no part in the permanent aims and operations of the co-operatives, once they are set up. They are designed to function com- pletely within our social structure as it exists today and without requiring any radical change, except in the present speculative system of dis- tributing farm products Te Stop Dumping. The whole idea of modern co-oper- ‘ative marketing is to stop the “dump- ing” and substitute therefor the “merchandising” of farm products. Every man knows, or should know, that the farmer receives, on the aver- ege, a smaller percentage of the con- sumer's dollar than the producer in any other line of American industry. He works harder and longer hours than anybody else, and vet his stand- ard of living today, except in certain marked communities where co-opera- tive marketing his for some time been successfully applied, is a gen- eration behind that of his city breth- ren. Everybody also knows that when the great crash in values began in the fall of 1919, whereas the other( commodities, as a rule, declined more or less gradually, and other businesses were able to adjust them elves to a process of deflation cov- ering many months, the prices on farm products crashed far below the levels indicated by the law of supply and demand almost immediately, and the average American farmer found himself practically ruined overnight. Al this is due to one fundamental { aifference between the farmer and other producers. Other industries are organized through the factory system for group production and even more highly organized by the combi- \nation of many factories, in many it- stances, into great mergers of one sort or another for group selling. © Group Production. The farmer has never been, and, be- cause of the inherent nature of his call- | ing, which scatters him in millions of complete production units all over the; face of the land. never will be, organ- ized for group production. And. until the coming of co-operative markeiing, | which is the only thing that makes po: sible organization for group selling | jmen |and it can’t get ho 0 Sees New Era. organization is a highly technical form of business institution. It is devised for the most sud ssful mar- keting of farm products in the inter- est of its member farmers, and for nothing else. It bears slight resem- blance to ary other form of Amer- ican business organization and has nothing to do with ‘consumer co- operation.” or co-operative buying, which is a cat of an entirely different color. No more ridiculous idea can be con- ceived than that the highest type ot co-operative marketing orsanization as it exists today has sprung full- fledged, within the past two or three ars, from the brain of any one man P of men. It is the fruit of a nd infinitely varied experience evolution of a successful form has been gradual. Co-operaticn very close to our new- est type, while practiced on a lesser cale. has been practiced in various countries in Europe for the past half century. Co-operation of a less efi- cient character has been gradually Browing amon, American farmers tor fully that period of time. For centuries the farmers of the world have been organizing, in_one way o nother, with the end in view of wequiring for themsel “middle _profit T s only a part aim of modern co-ope! itve market- ing. whose fundamental purpose ot climinating the dumping process has only been understood and evolved within the past few years. Further- more, we recognize the useful- ness ‘of the distributive, as distin- suished from the speculative, middle- man. Therefore past efforts have been mostly inefficient. but they have tended in the right direction To Make Farmer Master. Here is a process designed to t form the farmer from the siave the scape-goat to the merchandising master of the markets of the world. “urthermore, it is a process which has attained its ends wherever it has been_consistently applied. A dozen years ago, Fresno, Calif., a town which one might call the capi- tal of two of the biggest co-operative marketing associations in that state, was down and out. Traveling sales- men had quit “making” the place be- cause the credit of its merchants was little city, like not any good. The many moderately-sized communitie: nost of which don’t realize it, Wa: solutely ~ dependent upon the wel- fare of the surrounding agricultural population, and the surrounding agri- cultural population was dead broke. Today. vour last census will tell you. Fresno, Calif, is the richest place, for its size, of any town in the United States. © Of the fifty richest agricultural counties in America, ten are in California. The first two are in California. and five of the first ten are in California. And California is the land of specialty crops, between | 2,000 and 3,000 miles from its princi- pal market, with irrigation problems, the competition of Japanese farm bor, and other limitations that do not apply to many of the other rich agricultural sections of the United tes. California stands first in rural roads, first in rural schools and first in the salaries paid to rural school teachers and rural ministers. Co-operative marketing did this—d it practically all. Took Many Years. Now. such a development as this is the fruit of many years of correct co- operation, but sometimes the effect of proper co-operative marketing 1S almost instantly apparent. Down in the white Burley tobacco districts of Kentucky. Ohio and Indlana, where Judge Robert Bingham, with the help of other far-seeing leaders, organ- ized the tobacco farmers almost over- night into the Burley Tobacco Growers' Association. which soid about 75 per cent of the entire Burley tobacco crop in the first year of its operation, there are families of Kentucky tobacco farm- mers that have bought shoes for the feet of their children this fall for the first time in three years! Tt does not always work anything like that. You don’t usually control a crop to that extent in the first vear of opera- tion. You have the mortgage difficulty to overcome, vasj numbers of more or less ignorant farmers to educate to a loyal support of their organization. The Ameridan Cotton Growers' Exchange Tepresents this year, the second of its operation, only between one-fourth and one-fifth of the American cotton crops d of all of that be- cause so much of it is under mortgage, but it is functioning efficiently and the cotton co-operative movement is run- ning forward by leaps and bounds. The new wheat movemet is not even this far advanced. Some Not So Successtal. The great majority of specialty crop organizations, in the localities where they have been set up, are meeting with genuine success at the outset, but every once in a while there are hideous blunders of a costly nature. I know one specialty crop organization in the lia without organization for group produc- tion, he has never been organized for group selling. The result of the situation has been as follows: That, whereas other indus- tries, through a few gigantic Selling . ‘organizations, deliver their product gradusily, throughout the vear, under expert merchandising and financing guidance, to the markets of the world s those markets will absorb them, the farmer, producing throughout the year, has heretofore sold the entire fruits of his year's labor within seventy davs on the average, after harvest, each of the « individual millions of farmers. knowing nothing about market conditions, know- ing nothing about salesmanship, dump- ing his product in competition with each one of his fellow farmers in that one brief time without regard to the absorption powers of the markets of the ‘world. Speculative interests acquire this farm produce for what they choose to give for it and then deliver it to the consumers of the world more or less gradually after deducting as many prof- fta in innumerable turnovers as can be made. That is what is the matter with the economic condition of the American farmer today, and that—this dumping process—is what co-operative marketing is designed to stop. A modern co-operative marketing 1 9th and Penn. Ave. ANNOUNCING —to the Washing ton public the ehange in managemen t of this up-to date restau- rant. Some of i ing Mond n nday— rfl'llllc by first-class ‘white orches- tra; the very DANCING Dinmer Parties a Specialty east, properly organized and controlling | nearly half of the product, which almost came a cropper in the first year of its THE SUNDAY effect of this business upon the con- sumer. _Farmers and their families, and the tiny rural communities which are de- pendent almost entirely upon their support, themselves constitute nearly half of the consumers of this country. Nevertheless, we will bar them from this particular phase of the discus- sion. The consumers who are to be considered here are the non-farming half of the consuming public. Admittedly, these new co-operative marketing associatlons are compact and powerful in form. Nay, more, a few of them control the saie of more than half of the commodity in which they are, operating, and all of them /are striving to become as large as possible and obtain control of a domi- nant portion of their crop. These crops are necessities which you and every other man must buy to eat and clothe yourself. Therefore, it is pos- sible that, before you understand, you view this movement with alarm and say to yourself, “Good heavens! What }is~ this—another group of terrible trusts which is springing up to turn Mr. Common People upside down and shake the last nickel out of his pocket > Nothing could be further from the actual truth, which is that these co- operative associations have got to make themselves a positive benefit to You, the consumer, or go out of busi- | ness. Supreme Court View. The Supreme Court of the United States not long ago had before it pro- -eedings to dissolve the United States Steel Corporation, which sells some- thing like 50 per cent of the steel pro- duced in the United States. Tn spite of our anti-trust laws, the Supreme Court refused to do this, holding that the United States Steel Corporation might be a practical monopoly and ot a trust in the offensive sense. It id not, found the court, indulge in pernicious practices to raise prices, it did not put competitors out of busi- ness, and, in general, it tended to do o the general public by its zing influence in the steel mar- nd not do harm. ion was based upon the Kket, That dec 2 way in which the United States Steel Corporation was being managed. At any time it might conduct itself dif- ferently and come und sions er the provi- he anti-trust laws. The your co-operative market- S tion is very different from that. The co-operative marketing as- I sociation has not the power to become an offensive trust, even If it wanted to. and here is the reason in a nut- shell: A co-operative marketing assocla- tion, no matter whether ft controls 10 per cent of the crop or 95 per cent of the crop, cannot control produc- tion. This Is not the case with your in- dustrial trust or even with a per- fectly organized labor organization. Your trust can shut down its fac- tories. Your labor union can call its workers out on strike. But no co- operative marketing association can make the American farmer strike or shut down American farms. Have No Strike Power. | Please note that T am not saying | that the co-operative associations do |not do this; T am saying that they cannot do It. It is beyond their power. One reason is that they are specifl- cally given no such power in_their contracts with their member farmers. If they were they would become flle- gal as being in restraint of trade, just as any other monopoly of simi- jar size would come under the com- mon law governing restraint of trade. They have to take in any farmer who wants to join on the same basls as every other farmer, and they have to handle every bit of the product which he produces. Another reason is that even If they were given the nominal power fo control production they could not exerclse it. Attempts to make the farmer cut down acreage or other- wise curtail production in the face of higher prices have been made again and again by farmers’ move- ments of a different type. They have always failed. The only production Teducer on the American farm is pro- duction at a loss; and then the farm- er, hoping alv to win “next year” in’ the wild gamble that now charac- terizes his business, produces in the face of loss to a greater extent than any other type of producer. Therefore it follows, as a matter of economic_law, that the instant the co-operative associations secure bet- ter prices for their farmers, barring the vicissitudes of nature, vou are going to have a greater production the following year. The fundamental law of supply and demand always holds In the long run as the lron law of prices, and that means that unless consumption o has been Increased lower prices must follow increased production. Must Boost Consumption. So you can see that it is absolutely necessary for the co-operativas to in- crease consumption, so_ that the in- creased consumption will absorb the greater supply of the product which the benefits which they confer upon their farmers bring into being. You cannot make the consumer buy things in greater quantity than he bougnt them before. You can only induce him to increase his purchases. And the only method of inducing him is to give him greater value for the money that he spends. Thus your co-operative association cannot held up the consumer, but must actually benefit him, or defeat its own ends. It _does this in many ways. By eliminating the purely specula- tive middleman and dealing directly with the distributor or the manufacturer, the biggest part of the profits—an en- tirely unnecessary part—now taken the consumer, legitimate f the product| best Chinese 5 - Cases, Ll beautif e $6.50 Up S 50 Un Ace. Ladies’ and Misses® Silver Uents’ Solid Gold Waldemar Luncheon, 46, 11 to 2 Dorine Cases, with silver Vest Chains, new styles, large Di @, 5to 8 strap, variety to soclect from, Sunday Dinner, 75c to $1.23 Lotior Foputar” Diamend | e My B5n, Freacs Ztos and Onyx Little Finger Rings, | Ivory, - organization through {rying to handle business before it was prepared to, them being horribly mishandled by a incompetent manager, and, in addition, being tricked into huge losses by a | speculative group which formerly con- | trolled the industry. Fortunately, how- ever, these tumbles, very frequent in | the past, are rare today and recovery is | prompt. The organization in question | is on feet again and doing busi- | ness this year. And all over the| country new organizations are spring- | ing up almost every day. | They mean, as immediate results | for the farmer, better prices, steadier | prices, opportunity for greater pro- | duction, direct sale from producer to | consumer, the elimination of specula. | tive waste, and cheaper money. Now, let us talk a little about the | WHEN YOU NEED A KEY You need our instant duplicating service Duplicate Key, 25c Bring your locks to the shop TURNER & CLARK Basement 1233 New York Ave, Ee—eeeeue Christmas the Choéen ime Of the Year to Express Our Sentiment by Giving Dependable Jewelry Gifts They Will Be Sure to Please if Bought From CARL PETERSEN & SON JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS 913 G St. NW.—Phone Main 633 Directly Opposite McGill Bullding 9 . 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By proper warehousing, Pproper processing, proper forms of transportation, the present complete destruction of much wealth each year due to inefficiency in these matters is saved. The extent of these savings in many instances can be imagined when it is truthfully told thut-co- operative associations have freqyent- 1y succeeded in doubling the farmer’s return for a given product without raising the price of that product to the consumer one cent. The result in these cases has been a double pro- duction and the consuming world has absorbed that production for the reason that the co-operative assocla- tion cgn and must share some of its savings with the consuming public. Where Consumer Gains, There are various ways of doing this. Tt is true that in only a part of the cases will you find the con- suming public given cheaper prices on the product. While frequently the case, that is only absolutely necessary where the product has already been merchandised, by competent manu- facturing interests of non-specula- tive character, to its fullest values. Very few, if any, such products exist. The way in which the sharing is mostly done is by increasing, through g00d merchandising, the value of the product to the consumer. He does not necessarily pay less money, but gets a thing of greater value for his money. Otherwise, us I have tried to drive home again and again, he would not increase his use of the product, When you grade a product so, for example, that the consumer can get exactly what he wants and does not have to take with it a lot of junk that he does not want, you are in- creasing the value of that product to the consumer. When you make it wholesome and_ attractive in_form, when vou furnish guarantees of qual- ity with it, when vou educate him to a score of uses that lie in that prod- uct which he did not know before you very distinctly increase its value to him. And uniess you can make him recognize that increase of value by such methody you must give him the product for less money. There is no_other way out. Remember this: The co-operative assocfation, being composed entirely of producers, has got to sell all of their crop. The speculator does not care whether the crop is sold or not— he is Interested only in the part he cares to handle. For all he cares, it can rot in the producers’ hands and the consumer can starve; a situation which, in fact, helps him to pay the producer little and charge the con- sumer much. He is not interested in volume; he is interested only in the profit margin. Stabllizes Value But perhaps the greatest contribu- tion of all that co-operative market- ing makes to the value of the prod- uct, from the consumer's viewpoint, is fits tendency to stabilize those values. Your manufacturing con- sumer, for example, will use the product to much greater extent, and can afford to manufacture it for final consumption on a much narrower margin of profit, when he can ®place greater reliability upon the probable cost of his raw material than he is able to place today. 1t may not be generally known, but the American Cotton Manufacturers’ Associatio at its last | ) {lived along_the D. C, DECEMBER convention roundly and ucquivocably indorsed the cotton co-operatives, saying that the manufacturers’ asso- ciation “commends the co-operative marketing idea in the sou'h’s great- est crop as a step that will tend to assure an adequate supply and at fair prices.” Taking part of the gamble out of the manufacture of farm products means taking part of the gamble out of the life of the ultimate consumer. The whole tendency of co-operative marketing is to stabilize prices all down the line, and no greater blessing can be conferred upon the average American citizen, who is in real dis- | tress frequently through the violent fluctuation in prices that we have today on the commonest necessities of life. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO BE BUMPED OVER RUTS IN AUTO TOUR OF DISTRICT STREETS (Continued from Sixth Page.) and to keep them up when they have been made. Wants Streets Occupied. Senator Curtis of Kansas, a member }of the appropriations committee who I has given much attention to District essfully put affairs and who has =i through many needed improvements in the District, admitted his interest in the improvement of Washington streets. He warned, howe against asking for street improvements when the land bordering the streets was not improved and actually occupied. Too many times, he said, recommen dations have b made by the Dis trict Commissioiners for street im-, provements where a few ons streets proposed be improved, or where the impro ment would benefit only the man who had sought to develop the street from the standpoint of a real estate deal. “We decided, he said. “that would not recommend the 1 a pavement except where at least one side of the street was completel occupied by inhabitated dwellings. PRUNING OF D. C. FUNDS CUTS IMPROVEMENTS TO OUTLYING STREETS Another season of muck and mud in wet weather and heavy dust in dry weather faces residents on streets in newly developeq sections of the Dis- trict as a result of the application of the pruning knife to request of the District Commissioners for funds for street improvements. Everything was knocked out of the requests except for improvements of the main arteries of tratfic leading into-and out of the Dis- trict. Not even funds for continuing projects already started in the city were allowed. Wi The requests which were allowed by ! the bureau of the budget, however, mark at least an attempt to bring the main lines of traffic up to something like the smooth roads of Maryland with which they conncet. In many instances these roads are in a particularly bad shape, consisting of badly worn ma- cadam, which is so far gone, in fact, that it is useless and a waste of money to even tiy to repair it. Many serious automobile accidents have been traced directly to ruts in the highways, which have forcea the steering wheels out of the control of the driver at the steer- ing wheel. It has been pointed out to the Com- missioners by the officials directly in 19, ng of | 22 PART 1. less to try to repair these roads, for as fast as the holes are filled up heavy trucks and other vehicles come along and push the filling material out of the Foles. The condition of these roads has been compared to an old suit of clothes— These zet 5o bad that not | even the stitching to hold a patch will stay, and then they become more eco- nomical to throw them away. The District officials asked for street | improvements which would tost more | than $2,000,000, and most of them were for improvement of streets in the newly developed sections of the city which are i00 per cent built up on both sides. The streets themselves in wet weather are nothing but veritable seas of mud, and they cannot be used by pede: trians or vehicles and are dangerous for both. But they will have to go along for another year, at least, without the improvements. ‘ However, some of these people may obtain relief, if they want to put up their 50 per cent of the cost of the street in advance, instead of taking three years to pay, as is allowed for streets paved under statutory author- lity. The Commissioners this year obtained a fund of $50,000 which they were allowed to use in paving any street. Half of this fund has been used up, but there remains $25,000 still to be used. This is sufficient to pave a number of squares with macadam. While there are a number of petitions on file in the District building for a portion of this fund, it was learned that the people, in many cases, are not willing to put up the money in advance. Only under such a condition can it be used. It was sald at the District building that parts of this fund will be immediately allotte to residents on any square if thelf petitions are accompanied by their 50 per cent share of the cost of paving. Conceded by Budget Bureau. The only street improvement items { which were allowed to go through the bureau of the budget and to reach the House appropriations com- mittee are the following. or_paving_west side of . “Ingomar street 1o Chevy Chase Circle, 60 feet wide.. $45,000 Northwest Paving Connecticut avenue, Porter atreet to Tilden 174 ave. reet, Northwest —For _j Military Foad ide . Northeast—For rond from en Southeast—For paving soutl entrance of St. Hospital grounds to Portland street, 40 feet and 58 feet wide Northwest—For paving bridge to Foxall road, 80 ng to Dahlia st 85,000 paving Bladensburg d of asphalt northward. 54,000 a feet wide ... 40,000 rthwest—For paving_Masschusetts enue. § street to Wisconsin ave- nue, 40 feet wide .. Northwest—For paving Rock _Creek Church road, 5th street to Upshur street, 30 feet wide .. Sontheast—For paving Good Hope road, Minnesota avenue to Alabama ave- . 24 feet wide —For pavh . 16th street to District line, 36 feet wide ... £ 100,000 These are all on the maln highways and are badly needed to give at least the tourist a smooth welcome into the District after traveling over the rib- bon-like roads of Maryland. 80,000 30,000 15.000 ~ t N Items Stricken Out. The items which were asked by the] Commissioners, and which were cut out, are: Jefferson street northwest, Geor { ventie to 13th street . $4.800 | | Ingraham street northwest avenue to 13th street. . 4,800 13th street northwest, 111 10 Jef- ferson street 2 . 12600 Sth street northwest, Buchanan to Crit- tenden street - . 4900 Oth street northwest. Buchanan to Crittenden streef . .. 4.800 Buchanan street northwest, Georgia avepue to Sth street . . 9,600 den street northwes! tony Qhris Men-- AL s 12 i, [ i Men’s Christmas Checking List For the Street Canes . $2.00 to $20,00 Caps ... 1.00to 3.50 Gloves . 250to 650 Silk Muffters 395to 1500 Umbrellas ... . 150to 1500 For the Person Belts .......ce.. . .S0to $3.00 Belts, with buckles 195 to 16.50 Handkerchiefs, fancy Silk ...eseees 7510 2.50 Handkerchiefs, 5 with initial 35t0 100 Hose, silk ....coeeeneen 75 to 350 Hose, silk and .wool. 100to 3.50 i Neckwear, knitted ... 250to 400 Ncckwear, silk. 65to 400 Shirts, dress .. . 250to 850 Shirts, madras .. 250to 600 Shirts, SilK .....ee... 600 to 15.00 Suspenders Seueesan - S0to; 200! Underwear ........... 1.50to 1500 House Wear Silk Lounging RObES. co.rnenenees-$10.00t0$75.00 Wool Lounging RODES .- vz eneeeeem 22.50 to 4000 Smoking Jackets .... 7.50to 2500 Slippers - 150to 500 Night Wear Bath Robes . $4.85 to $40.00 Bath Slippers...... 1.35 Pajamas, flannelette.. 185to 3.50 Pajamas, madras. 200to 7.50 Pajamas, silk... 7.50to 16.50 Outdoor Sports Flannel Shirts . Golf Balls Golf Caps .. Golf Hose Golf Jackets . Golf Shoes . Golf Suits Knitted Vests .., Sweaters, wool . Gloves, fur lined Wool Scarfs . For Motoring Camel’s Hair Coats...$25.00 Fur Caps .... X 7.50 Gauntlet Gloves .50to 12.00 Automobile Robe .50to 25.00 Steamer Rugs .. 25.00 Special! Men’s Initialed Linen ’Kerchiefs Box of Six This splendid Christmas Spe- cial will be welcomed by many women who are trying to think of something he will really like. And it will be equally welcomed by men—for whoever heard of a man who had enough handker- chiefs? Other handkerchiefs are priced as follows: Cotton Handkerchiefs, each. .. .25c, Séo, 50c Tnitialed Linen Handkerchiefs, 50c and $1.00 Silk Handkerchiefs, each. ......:75¢c to $3.50 avenue to 8th street . Decatur strect northwest, | 5 nue to Bth street L 40| Bty Varum streel nortuwest, it Circln 11.200 street ... EXC “tee west. Pennaylvania’ e Ath, atreet” porthwest, o S e e 3T m:r;u‘:'?;m P 4500 | Water sireet southwesi, G 'io M wireet 8700 to 16tk stre 6000 | Spring road, 14th STL o SEAAiN NecasOMMES Shriog jroad, Tib 1o 2 | Under the heading “grading to per- SolBewa iavEiTe X ' o |mit development which will respond Alton place sorth Shii o i to conditions created by grading. the LEL e 2 . Commissioners asked for the follow- 8th wireet northwest, liaw |ing: eagioee! mfflh'f'." Longfellow ' s | iDE items, which do not appear in the th street vorthwest, jEngsts Madison_ street 4,800 | Eckington terrace porthe 13th street northwest. liepherd street ... Kansas avenue northw _ street (10 per Tth street northwest, ster street ) o' W arnum t Gallatin street orthwest, Piney Branch roud 10 16ih street (not quite 100 per eent built up) ............ Ingrahzm street nor il 1o 91h street (75 t up).. 8d_street northea: st, Adams to Brrant 000 " Sigabee place northeast, 10th to 1 street ........ 8000 Tavlor street northeast, 10th to 12th street 5.000 This fund totals more dollars, and except streets are 100 per cent built up. Asked for Continuing Improvement: than a million In addition to these items, the (om- , have not yet been started by the Dis- highway department. missioners asked for the following items for the purpose of continuing systematic improvement: G street southeast, 1ith to 15th street $0.300 15th street northeast, B o I street.. 40,000 27th street northwest, K to L street.. 14.000 Randolph street northwest, Randolph street to Georgia avenue 4.650 Another effort also was made by the Commissioners to have the last of the granite block roadways In the District While the granite blocks in one instance have been covered with asphalt from the repair fund and a smooth roadway has been the result, most of the remain- ing granite biock roadways are on streets which algo carry lines. A top 1aid . layer of asphalt cannot be over these because it would have the effect of lowering the strect-car tra and make the roadway dangerou These roadways will have to be re- placed by specific authority of Congress. They are on main traffic thoroughfares | ‘o1 Georgi For e et northwest, avenue ... cat avenie . Rt 1o W street uwest, Macomb to ‘Biair road to pairs to suburban roads and streets the Commisioners were given i this year u fund of $225.000. The high- iw i | allowed ers 1o $2 artment asked for $350.000 for 000. This amount was hrough by the bureau to go where noted the | of the budget. There are yet three projects al swed lin the cu ot them wi! i spring, rrent appropriation bill whi: Work on ill be instituted early in the it was said. They arc Yuma ! street northwest, 38th to 39th street: i Tllinois avenue northwest, Webster to | west, H | | pointed {lands to the United. States, | Allison street, and 15th street morth- to T street. —_ DR. DE GRAEFF ARRIVES. " replaced by smooth and modern paving. | Do A G L . December 16. D. De Graeff, recently ap- minister from the Nether- arrived here today on the President Cleve- lland. D Japan b nointment. r. De Graeff was minister to efore receiving the new ap- 'GREENWICH VILLAGE | TEA ROOM The roadways and the amounts asked | 1731 H St. N.\W.—Tel. M. 2455 tor repaving by the commissioners and ‘which were rejected follow : 14th street west, C street north to B street south - . $30,000 | 103h Stveny souibieast, Fotomar avesns . to the Auacostia bridge - 33500 D street northwest, 6th to 11,200 Unsurpassed Service. Club Breakfast, 25c to 60c. ate Lunch, 50c. Special Chicken Dinner Sundays, Dinner, Toe. (Served from 1 ¢o 8 and 5 to 8) Homemads Pastries. H. A. SICKFORD, Prop. 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