Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 5

* 0.C.OFFICALS DY BLANE FOR ALLEYS Declare Lack of Funds and Law Limitations Prevent Ending of Conditions. District offictals, including Commis- sioners Oyster and Rudolph, Health Oflicer Fowler, Fire Chief Watson, Vire Marshal Seib and Inspector Shel- by of the police department, testifled today before the special subcommit- o of the House District committee - they have been unable to maintaln sanitary conditions in some of the inhablited alleys. Dr. Fowler said it was utterly lm-i possible with the force he has at present to keep the alleys under supervision. lie explained that the alley dwellers are not at all par- ticular about their surroundings. They collevt all kinds of furniture, crockery and almost anything they can pick up at the places where they work, which they stack up about thelr homes in the alleys. They are 50 Indifferent, he said, regarding sani- tary conditions that {f they were given better dwellings In about a month they would have them In as bad gondition as those they now oc- cupy. During the past week he put his a t . Vlaces have already been cleaned, he #ald, and in other places the refuse hus heen stacked up waiting for the strect cleaning department to remove it. He advised the committet that it they would go back today they wouid find u decided improvement. « Keep Mace U Tiut this {s an extraordinary effort, he said, and his department cannot kicep it up. Lept bus . 10 ba done all over again in another sonth. e explained the working of his department, showing that after notice has been served every place wust be revisited and in the case of fallure to comply with the notice the corporation counsel is called upon to act. Congress provided only $2,000, he rald. for the abatement of nulsances. It cannot be done for enything like that money. He explained that this mouey I merely loaned to the District and is all paid back into the Treasury. Tight now $2.300 is needed for cases . already pending. The “only way to handle the situa- tion, hie wxdvised the committee, s to provide &n adequate force. He esti- mated he should have not less tha twenty-five sanitary Inspectors. Some | of th men are now getting $900 and under the reclassification. effective July 1, would receive $1,200. Representative Rathbone of Tllinois. chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the hearing, said: “To my ind It is a shame to ask & man to t for any such salary. It is to-|{ tally inadequate.” The members of the subcommittee agreed emphaticaily with him. Extra Inspectors Needed. Commissioner Oyster told the sub- committee that Health Officer Fowler had asked for six additional in- spectors, that on account of the lmi- tations placed upon them by the budget bureau the Commissioners have been forced to cut this to three and the budget bureau had cut out the three. Dr. Fowler pointed out that his inspsctors lose a great deal of time in the courts prosecuting cases. Last year more than 800 cases were taken to the courts. He complained that the nolle prossing of -these-cases se- riou: hinders his work. If fines were imposed, he said, the offenders would be more careful. “Without an adequate force we can- not do what is expected of us” Dr. Fowler said _Chairman Rathbone said that the health office request for additional sanitary inspectors was a very modest one and should have been allowed. Representative Gllbert of Ken- . who was formerly a Judge, said it had been brought to his at- tention that the slley law had been made Inoperative through court in- Junction. “Can't we change the law to make it operative?” he asked. “Why .can't clean up alleys eventually to abolish alley dwellings, which breed disease, crime and con- etitute a serlous fire hazard?"" i New Bulldings Banned. imissioner Oyster explained that no new buildings are permitted in the alleys. When a bullding de- teriorates 50 per cent it has to be demolished. “My thought is,” he sald, e force upon serving notlces and | The entire force has been | and the work would have | 8pectors and six privates. It is impos- Naval Hero Wins Medal of Honor For Rescuing 462 President Coolldge today for- mally presented the congressional medal of homor to Lieut. Com- mander Walter Atlee Edwards, U. 8. N., who as commandez of the destroyer Balnbridge, rescued 462 persons from & French mllitary transport on fire in the sea of Mamora on December 16, 19 The presentation was made in the rear grounds of the White House in the presence of the Sec- retary of the Navy, Rear Admirals Iberlee and Long, and & number of other naval officers, Mrs. Kdwards, the wife of Lieut. Commander Ed- wards, and & number of friends. —_——— the law should be extended to apply i to ruilroads, steam shovels, etc. Representative Glibert asked why the corporation counsel should not be called before the committee. “There Is no use in passing laws if they are not going to be enforced,” he said. Urge “Decent” Wage. 2 Representative Gibson of Vermont mspectors, even under reclussification, does not'give them a decent living | wage. “You cannot get law enforced luniess you pay a decent wage,” he said. Chairman Rathbone also added his opinion that there are a great many city employes who are not paid adequate wag % Chief Watson of the fire depart ment said that they have found alley dwellers coliect a vast quantity of iuflammable material and that the sheds in which they keep their fucl are the worst nuisance und menace, During the coal shortage the fire department was lenient in the matter of allowing them to collect and store inflammable material, but that now they are stricter. “You do not need lany further legislation to take care {of the fire hazard,” he said. “It 1s {not the building: ves, but {these collections of inflammable ma- tertal that constitute the hazard. “We have only ten men to cover the {entire District of Columbla in fire pre- vention week,” he said, “four in- {sible for th ratch the surface.” Asked by Chafrman Rathbone how large a force would be necessary to make an adequate inspection, Chief Watson replied thirty inspectors with the salary of private of class 3, which is $1.650 at present and $2,00 in the proposed salary increase bill. Inspector Shelby advocated giving policemen the authority of health of- ficers in reporting sanitary condi- tious, The proposal was discussed of hav- ing a combined force for santtary, fire aud police inspection. | STUDENTS AT PLAY KILL WOMAN OF 72 College You;hs at Target Practice in Yard, Wound Two; i Murder Charged. to even ’ By the Associated Press. | STILLWATER, Okla, February Stray bullets, fired by three Oklaho- +ma A. and M college students at a target In the back yard of their fra- ternity house here, late yesterday, Killed Mrs. Matilda A. Hodges, aged widow and ploneer resident of Still- water, and slightly wounded two other women who rushed to her as- sistance when they saw her fall. David D. Zine, Roy G. Doak and L i Earl Nutter, the three marksmen, all rested, formally charged with mur- der, and are to be given a prelimt nary hearing in justice court today. They spent the night in jail. | women, and were unaware that their | bullets had found human marks until | they were told & half hour later. The target first was placed on the {ground against' a barn, but inad- Vertently was raised, the college men ! sald, atter it had been knocked down. thus permitting the leaden missiles to carry through one side of the structure and out an open door in we extend the law to | the opposite wall. gradually so -as| s Woman Killed Invtantly. Mrs, Hodges, seventy-two years old, was pottering among her flowers on her lawn less than fifty yards dis- tant and directly in the line of fire. She was killed instantly by a bullet and her fifteen-year-old daughter, neighbors, ran to her aid. They were bending over the aged woman {when they also were struck by bullets, both recelving only minor “that the existing houses should be {flesh wounds. Fut in sanitary condition or torn down.” The houses, he said, are own- Word of the tragedy spread through the campus and hundreds of students {and faculty members followed Zinc,! ed by people who are able to put|Doak and Nutter as they were led them in sanitary condition. i Dr. Fowler told the committee that & total of 84,132 visits had been made by sanitary Inspectors regarding the abatement of nuisances during- the ! last year. Since July 1, he said, there | have been 4,000 complaints, 6,054 no- tices have been served and there have | eway to jail by deputy sheriffs. Counsel immediately was obtained and held a lengthy conference with County Attorney J. W..Reece in a futile effort to obtain bond. The court will rule toda: question of bail, but, regardless of the outcome of the hearing, the been 11,000 reinspections. | county attorney asserted he would Representative Gilbert sald he could | not see why 430,000 persons should be lkept In dread of fire, disease and crime by the 8,000 who have been the source of the offensc. There I8 no | Justification for truckiing with own- | rs of these alley dwellings, he said. | “We want leglslation drastic enough | to reach these people.” | Commlissioner Oyster warned the | mittee that they are not going to | make much headway with the courts, | ¢ “We have made effort,” he said, “but | tnjunctions have been served. We| are ready to Zo to any extreme to foree the issue In this matter. We | will not relax in our efforts to carry | thesc matters into court.” ' “Whatever laws you make we will | Go our best to see that they are car- | ried out,” Commissioner Oyster said. . Celln Alleys Menace. Dr. Fowler explained that the own- ers of alley dwellings will not clean up the premises because they expect to be forced out. “I have always re- garded the alleys in Washington as a. menace, but have been unable to carfy out what is needed for a gen- cral clean up” he said. He thought the responsibllity is largely that cf the tenant. Chalrman Commissioner Ry p%ln!ed out that the Luckwoofid‘flg: Ndrman cases ageinst the Distriot Commissioners on closing up of alley | houses are due to come up f tion In April. “We have &ttempicd 10 enforce the law, but have boen eq jolned,” he said. Maj. Bell, the engineer C " sioner, thought the act was ‘:IT.’:{TC “nough if the courts would uphold it lay the case before the grand jury when it convenes here Monday. Col- lege officials early today had fssued no_statement. The students’ parents have been summoned. Zinc and Nutter are seniors and Doak Is a junior. All are officers in the Student Reserve Officers’ Train- ing Corps and members of the local traternity of which Doak is president. protested that the salary of sanitary | leaders in student activities, were ar-| Firing with a .22-caliber rifie, the| | students said they did not see the| through the head. Mrs. Claud Davis! on the! WILL URGE FUNDS , FOR STREET WORK Board of Trade Members to Appear Before House Ap- | propriations Committee. | ] | A subcommittee of the committee on Streets and avenues of the Washing- ton Board of Trade will appear at heartmgs before the House and Senate appropriatlons committee and urge funds for strect improvement, it was declded at & meeting of the full com- mittes in The Star buflding late yes- jterday. George C. Shinn, chairman of the committee, was suthorized to appoint a speclal subcommittee to present at the hearings the results of the in- vestigations of a number of sub- committees into the street situation here showing that there are many urgent paving needs, not included in the present estimates. i The list of improvements which the ! committee will urge follows: ' Subcommittees of the committee on streets and avenues of the Washing- ton Board of Trade, after a thorough examination throughout the city, have reported to the full committec that the following streets which were not Included {n the estimates should be included in appropriations for im- provements: . Northwest. Improvement of roadway between | Park place and 1st street northwest. | (Webster street.) New York avenue from Florida avenue to 5th street and from 11th to 15th street. (The paving in be- tween the street car tracks ls badly | in_need of repair.) H New York avenue between 19th and 21t streets, resurfaced. Spring road northwest from Rock Creek Church road to 13th street, im- proved. Thirteenth. street northwest from Shepherd street to Crittenden street, tmproved. Buchanan street northwest from 13th street to l4th street, improved. New Hampshire avenue from Grant circie to the District of Columbia line (extenston). . North Capitol street from Florida avenue to Michigan avenue, resurfac- | ing. Oregon avenue west of New Hamp- shire svenue, need of repair. Sixteenth street from Florida ave- nue to Alaska avenue, resurfacing. Central avenue to New Hampshire avenue and Grant circle. resurfacing. M street from 28th street to 36th street, extensive repairs. K street from Wiscon 36th street improved. Wisconsin avenue from intersection of 35th street northward to Calvert| street, repaving between car tracks) needs’ repairing. Tunlaw road, from Arizona avenue, entirely resurfaced. Calvert street, opened up and paved | from Tunluw road to Wisconsin avenue. | Avon place, several bad sections in | need of repair. H M street from Pennsylvania avenue west to Canal road, in urgent need of repar. Wisconsin avenue near Dumbarton | avenue, badly In need of repair. Foxhall road, In urgent need of re-, air. | P ebraska avenue to Western avenue, | resurfacing. | Thirty-seventh street, patching in | numerous places. | Canal road, patching in numerous | Dlaces. . | Reservols road, patching in numer- | ous places, ! New Cut road, repairing. i New Mexico avenue, Klingle road, | Ridge road, unpaved and in very bad | condition 2 H The side streets off New Mexico | avenue are unpaved and almost tm- | passable. Small part of Ridge road paved but full of holes. i 25th street to reservoir, and T street fto 39th street, embracing a new sub- | {division known as Burlelgh. (These ! streets are unpaved and in very poor | |conaition.) . i All streets running off Condult road | | west to District line are unpaved. i | Kennedy street to New Hampshire |avenue, narrow, rutted, dirt road, quite | rough. i Northeast. ; Lights and general improvement of | viaduet on H street. ) | TImprovement of 19th street, from | Benning road to Gales strect. | Opening 19th street from Gales street {to_East Capitol street. i ‘Widening sidewalk from 14th and | East Capitol streets to 19th etreet. Finishing terrace on Tennessee ave- nue, 14th street and B street, around | Kingman School. Opening C, D, E and F streets, from 15th to proposed 19th street. i Repairing many “pot holes” on com- { | paratively every street in’ northeast sec- ; tion, particularly on I3 and F streets | from 12th to 15th streets. 17"16tn street, East Capitol to B streets. A street, 15th to 17th streets. i Improvement of roadway—particu- | !larly on north side of rallway tracks | Zon H street northeast between 15th | | and 16th streets. | i From the standpoint of safety the | | i i { avenue to | telephone poles where at all close to the roadway along Benning road and at Minnesota avenue and Gault place should be striped. The entire roadway from Chesa- peake Junction to the eastern ap- proach over the Benning viaduct should be made fully six feet wider {and the, several turns along the route | should be shouldered out So as to| make passing of traffic safer. ! The approach from the east to xhel Benning viaduct calls for immediate | betterment, as many accidents lrai nappening there with great fre- | uency. | AV tnital avenue from Benning road | to the Maryland state line should be widened and covered with' a good macadam surface. | utheast: Soxtonaton of East Capltol street from | s SethDaRE | ASKS ADVISORY BODY s junction witn Southers avenso and, FOR WELFARE WORK In order to get the co-operation of all groups interested in child welfare laws, William Hodson, of the Russell Sage Foundation, has suggested to the local commission on welfare legislation that a large advisory committee be organized. \ Mr. Hodsoa proposed that this advis- ory committee be made up of not more than twenty-five representatives of social agencles, to be selected by the Wash- ington council of soclal agencies: one representative from each of the citi- zens' assoclations, and one member from every organization of a general civic character. . Speclal committees also ehould be named from time to time, Mr. Hodson belleves, to assist in the study of particular phases of legislation under consideration. Justice Frederick L. Siddons, chalrman, and Frank Nes- bit secretary, of the commission, The corporation counsel, 1t was ex- plained, has ruled that if alley dwellings comply with the law in any ietail they cannot be considered ii- “Commissioner Oyster called atten- tion to the slaughtering af cattle at Center Market, “between the Capitol and the White House, as another nui- sance and menace to health” and said the Commissioners have been unable i0 stop it. Health\Officer Fowler has been endeavorlng to do so for three vears. Commissioner Oyster sald that s ‘long as he had been hers, 33ty Years, this condition ob- _eined”and ‘he called it a “disgra and menace.” el * Dr. Fowler also spoke of the smoke iaw violations. He pointed out that there Is a case now pending sgainst it federal bulldipg. The Court of Ap- veals has held that the smoke laws ~ 4Dply to the government as well as private bulldings. He advised “that ! penhorat of Loutsvill should be ex-officlo members of the several committees, in the opinion of Mr. Hodson. adea N LOS ANGELES SELECTED. Dyers and Cleaners Elect Officers at New York Session. ¢ NEW YORK, February 2.—Los An- geles has been selected for the 1925 convention of the Natlonal Associ: tion of Dyers and Cleaners. Officers .lowghg ‘were: . Stoddard, Atlanta, Ga., presi- dent; Charles P. Gregg, lndlnna’;olls‘ Ind, vice president; W. Brace, Buffale, N. Y. segretary-treasurer; Ivan M. Tull, St. Louls, Mo., generai manager; A. F. Wunderlich, Toledo, Ohlo, sergeant-at-arms; F. W. Schop- e, Ky., chaplain. 1 Heights, Md., westward, with a Sfi%‘:: of ‘:mnle capacity over the! Hastern branch to make accessible thel Eastern High School to pupils from the section served by that route, and to create 8 ‘lnucix\ needed artery of travel that direction. m:su: ‘street—East Capitol to Potomac A th street—East Capitol to Massa- tts avenue. | e rect—15th to 19th. l B street—15th to 19th. C street—15th to 17th. i D street—I15th to 17th. Kentucky avenue—South avenue to I street. G street—14th to 1dtn streets. 1 Massachusetts avenue—I16th to 17th streets. Minnesota avenue from Good Hope road, Anacostia, to Pennsylvania ave- bridge. nulenh -'L:eat from Pennsylvania ave- nue to Anacostia bridge. 1 uthwest: Boh atrect southwest from B strect to the whart. —_— PHONE HEARING DATE SET. Rates to Be Studied at Public Meeting. ! The formal public hearing on the Ir:(el of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company will be held by the Public Utilitles Commission at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning, Feb- ruary 25, it was announced yesterday. Announcement of the hearing fol- lows an application from the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations; through Willlam McK. Clayton, for a reduc- tion in telephone rates. HOTEL INN Phone Matn soacdin m.as?'fiffi. g X Carolina THE EVENING -STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924, TWoodmard & Lpthrop The Growing Importance of the Tailleur and Its Accessories —from “The Breath of the Avenue,” the New York Fashion authority, exclusively to us in Washington, come these fashion notes. “It is difficult to say which comes first in importance—the tailored suit, or the tailored accessories. The blouse, the scarf, the right hat. the white flower, are as necessary to the complete tailored costume as the tailored suit itself. And, the woman who is abreast of fashion wants a tailored suit, and wants its nov And, though the tailored suit is French in origination—the American version is not always the strict O'Rossen type—it is less fitted, more informal, straight. boyish, less trying and more comfortable to wear—and its five smart types are shown in the Woodward & Lothrop collection of tailleurs for women and misses— The O’Rossen type, one-button tailleur The double-breasted alpaca tailleur The braid-bound O’Rossen or bovish type The slip-over, with “zipper” closing The tailleur with the smart cape back $49.50 $59.50 $75 The Smart Accessories Her Umbrella, whic! - under her arm, rain or shine. ma) be any color, with any kind oi han- dle, provided, of course, it is shor and stubby. Such umbrellas are these with contrasting color bor- ders, $10 to $18. The Overblouse, with tucked shirt front, and a boyish collar, is in crepe de chine, in porcelain, camelshair and white, $13.75. Her High-heeled Opera Pumps may be of suede in any dark shade or black ; these in black suede sketched. $10. Her Pocketbook is smartest when it is an envelope, with a strap, in moire, $9.50. Her Hat may be either the brim- 'ss or almost Dbrimless cloche, of or bangkok, straw or silk; it v have trimming as long as it doesn’t interfere with its close, trim lines. $18.50 to $25. Her Scarf, of silk, may be in a vari- ety of color combinations. And it may be tied about the neck like a stock, to be very smart. $2.50 to $12.50. . On Her Lapel she may well wear the Gardenia, 50c to $1. Her Sheer Stockings may be any one of the sunburnt nude shades. $2.50, $3 and $4. Her Short-cuffed Kid Gauntlets may be elaborate or plain—these sketched, $5. 'T'he Five Smart-Type Suits Sketched— The braid-bound O’Rossen suit, in twill, $75; the slip-over suit, in striped flannel, $59.50; the cape-back tailleur, in brick-stillbloom, $49.50; the Misses’ boyish suit, $49.50; the black alpaca, double-breasted suit, $59.50. Women’s Suit Section, Misses” Suit Section, Fourth floor Third floor