Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 6

0 NEW CONDUIT USE BY FALL PLANNED Elaborate System to Provide Capital With Water Being Rushed. ‘Wastitngton's immunity from er famine will be increased in September, when the engineers in harge of the bullding of the new vonduit expect it to be put in service Rapid progress is being made on the entire project, an inspection tour of the whole system this week, revealed, but the conduit itself from eat Falls to Dalecarlia will be completed during the Summer months and it will be placed in use immediately so that a thorough inspection may be made of the old conduit which has done service for more than half a century. All that remains lete th Daleca a to be done to com- erway to the present reservoir at the District line is to finish the 2,800 foot tunnel throu, rock fre the inlet gates at Gr 1 e point where it with the concrete conduit of the blasting of the is completed and the ce ow is being put in. When mpleted, the water line or service. wetically new tunnel ment lini this work is ¢ will be re Reservoirs Ready in Fall The new filteration plan la and the two dist ing reservoirs at various altitudes will have to he ompleted and the various connecting pipe lines laid before the entire plant will be r This will be about two 1 the ‘two high altitude be completed in the Dalecar. The work is being done under the direction of Maj. James O'Connor, United States Army engineer office in charge of this district, and under the general supervision of E. D. Hardy. With Mr. Hardy a representa- tive of The - made an inspection trip of the entire project during the week from the two high reservoirs in Georgetown to the intake tunnel at the at Great Falls. The great engi work behind the whole project ressive, and those who turn on spigots in their homes to draw water for various purposes littie real ize the work of the engineers and the corps of experts or even the gigantic plant involv ting that water to them. It territory. Water Tested Daily. First an examina the present filtrs lan Park, ad where one of t s made of plant,at McMil- Soldiers’ Home, ers were ex- s take | samples of the water thorourgh test to assure a pure supply With the new plant in operation, once the water reaches Dalecarlia and s through the great filters now erected there, will not be ex- posed to the open alr again until it runs out of the spigots and hydrants in various pa or all of the new reta re being covered over with concrete whole will be topped b; earth and sod, giving effect After v rty wen and give it a resery the he first high reserv located on Rids 1 and Randolph street. A deep hole has been excavat- ed the the cont ady have finished much of the walling an- concrete flooring, and be ready to mold the conc this project will be completed in the fall, it will be seve: before it is actually pl 1use the connecting pipe lines Lave not been laid. However, t ontract for the Iine to this r s been lef the contracto; at Dalec making the cor ting rlia rete pip Line I'ollows Roadway. This line will follow the south side of Con t road from Dalecarlia to Reservoir street to Ridge road to the reservoir. In this project concrete pive will be used for the first time in S water system, and engineers that it w be much more ser e than the old cast iron pipe. The manufacture of these secti ms of pipe on the scene of the project s an interesting operation. The first high reservoir, which will be fed by s inch pipe line will have a cap: 15,000,000 gallons. When completed this and the second high reservoir wiil c 1bout $300,000 each, The second high reservoir is located at what will be Forty-fourth and War- Ten streets, just west of Wisconsin avenue. Rapid progress is being made on this project also, and it will be com. pleted, it is estimated now, by Fall It will be a gi ntic concrete water container. A continuous stream of goncrete 1s kept pouring into the molds and rapidly shap. oy molds and rapidly shaved up by the ir | and | PLENTY OF WORK FORDISTRICT LABOR 1846 Persons Find Jobs| Through U. S. Employment Bureau Last Week. Employment conditions Wash- ington, improved by recent work awarded on the new conduit to carry |water from the upper Potomac to| Washington and by the boom in building operation: about the Cap- ital, have never been so good as they are today. The past week, up to| noon yesterduy, set a new high rec- ord for job placements during the| 1st three years, according to Robert | Pilkington, director of the Wa h- | lington office of the United States | Employment Service. | t hundred and forty-six per < were placed in jobs t week Mr. Pilkington said, tha largest num ver given positi by the public em. ployment service sin rector three years ag cent of this number were conunon | laborers, many of them hired to work on the new conduit. Wa weelk, which were reg: for common labor, are being paid for men on the conduit. Nearly a sco of carpenters have been placed in |employment during the week, while many more jobs await men to fill them in buildings now under con- struction. The clerical sftuation wa: the employment service director to be only fair, although there are fewer distressing cases in Washington than there were a few months back, when several score Government employ | were summarily dismissed from their | posts. in held by The situation with regard to both skilled and unskilled labor in Wash- ington today is good,” Mr. Pilkington declared. ““There is no re on today {why any man who wants to wor | should be out of a job.” | Along with the unusual demand for all kinds of labor now apparent, the | Federal director sees a great demand {for unskilled labor of all kinds in | July and shortly thereafter, when Dis- {trict funds for the next fiscal ve | become available. Street impr - ments and many public undertakings, |involving expenditures totaling hun. drec of thousands of dollars, will cau: boom in the employment situ lation here, he said. Building con tinues to reach toward new peaks of actlvity, with building tradesmen con. sistently well employed and no slack ing off apparent. TELEPHONE PIONEER CHAPTER IN SESSION Officers Elected, and Day Includes Visit to Circus, Luncheon and Dinner. More than veterans” of the | telephone industry met at the City Club yesterday on the occasion of the | third annual meeting of the Alexander | Graham Bell Chapter, No. 15, Tele- | phone Pioneers of America, and elect- ed a new regime of offi P. O. Coffin, vice president and gen- eral manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., was elected president, succeeding W. B. Clarkson, general commercial manager here. IR Upper left: Roofing over the fore pumping it to the various alt SUnDAY SIAR, WASHINGION, D. €, MAY 17, { | WASHINGTON’S NEW AND SUPPLEMENTAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM NEARING COMPLETION storage reservoir at Dalecarlia, where the filtered water will be placed be- al reservy 5 in other parts of the city. Upper right: Showing the massive concrete pillars which support the roof of the reservoir shown in the left. Center: Lower: The sec d covered with s JEWISH ELEMENTS UNITED FOR DRIVE All Groups Represented in Pales- ed he first high reservoir, showing progress of the work. h reservoir. Both this and th: first high are to be finished in the Fall. All are to be roof- Bus Line Reports 483,077 Carried In Record Month States Shipping Board service. The formal dedication will take place in June. Mail boxes are being attached to street cars in some cities in England. 1925—PART C., . &ST.P. PROBE|DR. WALSH QUOTES 1. ORDERED BY L C.C. Receivership Probe Is Step Taken on Federal Body’s Own Initiative. Br the Associated Press. into the manage- | ment and financing of the Chicago, | Milwnukee and St. Paul Railroad, | which recently was thrown into re-| ceivership, was ordered yesterday by the Interstage Commerce Commission The three receivers of the propert H. E. Byram, former president of the road: Mark W. Pottel who resigned from the commerce commission last February, and Edward J. Brundage, were made respondents along with the corporation in the commission’s pro- ceeding. Times and places for hear- ings will be fixed later. Full Investigation. The commission’s order said that the step was taken upon its own motion, and that the inquiry would concern “the history management, financial and other operations, counts and practices of the ( i Milwuakee and St. Paul Railroad, in order to determine the manner and method in which the business of said company has been conducted, with a view to making a report and order or rders us may seem propriate. The St. Paul system, one of the largest in the country, was volun- tarily placed in receivership, with the announcement by its directors that the corporation would be unable to refund or refinance a $48,000,000 bond issue which falls due in June. ings during recent vears were said to have been inadequate to sustain the fixed charges and expenses though the valuation of the road is said to be close to $700,000,000. lts officers declared that competition from the Panama Canal on trans- continental busines: ompetition by automobile transportation routes, and low rates and agricultural depression in the West were responsible for the step. A special inqu! ap Receivers| [ sed. In financial circles some criti of the receivership as unnec has been voiced, and Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wisconsin, recen: nounced that he would ask a congres slonal investigation of the subject The Interstate Commerce Commission issued a statement touch some of the reports, which declared that no it prior to the corporation’s admission of inability to meet the liabilities. A speclal bill was introduced at the last session of Congress providing that the St. Paul road., which is indebted to the Government to the amount of about $60,000,000 for advances made after Government control, be given a lower interest rate than the § per cent now charged. This measure, how- ever, falled of enactment and was mentioned by the company's officials as an additional factor in forcing the receivership. RECEIVER WELCOMES PROBE. SEATTLE, Wash,, of an announcement from hington today that the Interst Commerce Commission, _following assing of the Milwaukee Paul Railway into a recel ship, had ordered an investigation, prevents comment, H. I president of the line, stated today. Edward J. here Brundage, eight attorney general of Illinois, ceiver with Byram and with Mark W. Potter, said “an investigation is wel- comed, of course.” vears Rat Exterminator Costly. LOS ANGE! . May 16 (#).—The Rodent Extermination Department of Los Angeles, organized late last year, reports that during the first four months of 1925 it cost the city $1.40 for every ptured, except in the harbor district, where the figure was §7 a head. The total cost to the city during the four months approximated 216 15th Street Entire 2nd Floor 4 Rooms Attractive for real estate builder or architect. $95 Per Month W. H. WEST COMPANY 916 15th St. M. 9900 application for aid had been made to | May 16 ®.—| core-| such | graceful speech, the thank | { Byram, ! | of lectures.” The course had been presented without charge, under aus- pices of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In his concluding address Father Walsh quoted liberally from officlal records he had gleaned while in vari ous parts of Russia, and through them explained how it impossible te do business with a nation which dis regurded international law and the generally accepted international pro cedure. The records, he sald, re vealed, on the part of the Soviet, an openly avowed policy based entirely upon self interest REGORDS OF REDS was Lecture Series on Russians Brings Thanks—Speaker Against Recognition. Not a Nation. The Soviet, Father Walsh said, was not a nation, but a political party, and had refused to define its boun- daries. Their documents, he said, showed definitely ihat they were at- tempting to make their revolution in- ternational, until the world should be under_control of the proletariat. The United States, he explained, upcn the ba s of his personal observations throughout Russia, should be very glad that recognition had not been extended. Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J., vice Prestdent of Georgetown University closed a series of 12 lectures on Rus- fa at the National Museum Friday night, in an address in . which he voiced strong opposition to recogni- tion of the soviet, and said the American people had ample cause to be thankful this Government had never orded such recognition. Father \Walsh spent nearly three years in Furope, 21 months of which were in Soviet territory. During h course of lectures, opening February 13, a attended by capacity audi- ences of fashionable Washington, the speaker gave insight into the eco nomic, political and social life of the | Soviet, from first-hand knowledge. Thanked by Committee. At the conclusion of the lecture last night, a committee from the audienc headed by Rear Admiral Benson, Mis Janet Richards and Dean Willlam Allen Wilbur of G e Washington University, waited upon Father Walsh and Dean Wilbur expressed in a Capt. Nichols, 11, Honored. Capt. W. H. Nichols, 83 years old, retired District Government employe, who formerly was employed in the District assessor's office, was pre- sented with ze bouquet of fllow- ers by the C of the F. A. A. M. Thur: Nichols has been s sly i1l for 3 He is one of two surviving of the late Lord Nichols S An inventor h s and up ar and savin clientele for the th: the dates convinein; cou b the i preciation “illuminatin of ‘the nd Announcement! We wish tc announce that Pauline Walters has purchased the Real Walter A. Buscher & Co., Inc., and will assure all of our clients that they will receive the same courteous treatment th have given them in the past. Walter A. Buscher & Co. Inc., By Walter A. Buscher, Pres. Istate business of THE FINEST BRIDGES Lead To LYON VILLAGE The house described below Lyon Villag downtown. is one of fif! and one of eight not yet sold. Only even now located in twelve minutes from Two-story, six rooms, sun parler, sereened porch, two tile baths with built-in “fixtures, hot-water heat. fireplaces In living room and muster bedroom. Modern in e respect. Excellent focation for pro- fessionul or business man. Fireproof garage. Price and terms on request. LYON & FITCH, Inec. Clarendon, Va, Main 4198 Open Sunday Clarendon 650 TWO EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN BUSINESS BUILDINGS Owner Will Sacrifice for Quick Sale, Warehouse Manufacturing Building on 7th Street NN\W., Near K n and interior arrangement make this mod admirably euited to irpose forced conerete. conatruction 3.story tapestry brick . eoliately fireproof, of rein- with provides quare foot. ctal occupies the entire lot 21x116, with a basement extending from the curb under the entire building and having an entrance in the sidewalk. —The first floor may be used as a store or office. Two wide alleys intersect at the eervice entrance. affording smple space for loading trucks which may be easily filled with gasoline from the 22( e tank in the basement hy means of the pump on the first floor. elevator facilitates the handling of materials. The building 18 ty and he: by steam. Act at once. This perty is not offered every day. Downtown Business Building Suitable to Any Business Y On 12th street. near G N.W.. contains about 5.000 square feet of floor epace. Thrée stories, lot 5.5 to & 30-foot alley. This property will make a fine home for your business or ‘a very attractive invest: t. e Priced, $38,000 for Quick Sale Dalecarlia Plant Studied. After visiting thi servoir, | Fred T. Iddings of Baltimore, C. H. | Weber, division manager at Richmond, the | and Miss Anna Lenman, chief oper: Continu show a steady N EXCLUSIVE AGENTS gain in_bus the Washington High on the Banks of the tine Fund Cam- 14th and K party, piloted now by C. E. Swift in direct charge of the two reservoir pro. Jects, went to the D Ci a plan which covers a va ritory on the south On the north side of this point § an open laki se of te de of the road. ‘onduit r the Dalecarlia reservoir, now used in connectjo; with the Washington water systom, En route a visit was paid to the tunnel operation at Upton street and Arizona avenue. where workmen are drilling through the rock there to comple the line to the Brightwood reservoir. The concrete base for the storage reservoir at Dalecarlia is In place, and the workmen now are engaged in placing the roof and large supporting pillars. Into this the water will flow after it passes through the 20 sigantic filters which are being erected. Here a gigantic. tower, 200 feet high is 1 the operations of pouring the conerete into various parts of the operation. The filtered r recep- tion basin is located nearest the road, | and behind it will be located the filters, and off to the east will be the two coagulating basins where water will flow after passing through the tower where the filtering chemicals will be added. To the west of the whole will be located the gigantic motor-driven pumps, which will drive the water to the various parts of the city and the reservoirs. Appearance Will Please. When this project is completed it will present a most pleasing appear- ance. The filter water reservoir will be covered with gr , and the other parts of the plant, with the exception of the coagulating basins, will be cov- ith an attractive building, with arge tower in the center. This tower will have an ornamental as well as a utilitarian effect because it is here that the water will have added the purifying chemicals. One of the most interesting parts of the whole project is the tunnel through solid rock at the inlet gates At Great Falls. The rock was blasted for the entire length of the tunnel, hich is reached by descent in a deep shaft. Although I~ is electrically Zzghted, it is necessaty also for the workmen *here to wear miners' lamps on their caps. A rallroad has been laid there, for the purpose of trans- porting the concrete with which it is being lined tes Are Protected. The entrance gates at the dam are protected by great steel rods to fend off logs and other large debris; and inside there are small screens to keep out the smaller material. The inlet ad at | the | | tor at Piedmont, W. Va., were elected v S and Miss Carolyn H. | ity was re-elected sec- treasurer. following executive committee | members were named: W. B. Beals, | outside plant engin: of this city | Alfred George, division auditor of re. | ceipts, Baltimore; Miss Ethelyn Good- toll chief operator, Lynchburg, and Charles M. Slack, plant wire chief, Charleston, W. Va. At the business session, R. H. Star- | rett, secretary of the national society, {announced that his organization will {hold it annual meeting here October {16 and 17 at the Mayflower Hotel. | Membership in the soclety is re- | stricted to telephone employes who {have been in the service more than | o | 1 years. There are 375 members of the local chapter. After the routine business of the | chapter had been concluded the mem. { bers were tendered a luncheon at the | City Club, following which the entire | membership went to the circus, oc- | cupying @ block of reserved seats. | _The third annual meeting came to a close last night with a dinner at the | Willard Hotel, featured by a number | of speclal entertainment numbers. Sues for $25,000. Mrs. Myra Collins, Shoreham Ho. tel, has sued the Black & White Taxi Company, for $25.000 damages for al- leged personal injuries. She was rid- ing In one of the cabs January 25, and at Fourteenth street and Columbia road the machine struck a rut in the roadway, and she was bounced to the roof of the cab, striking her head and injuring her spine, the plaintiff says. She is represented by Attorneys Wil ton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman and Austin F. Canfleld. —_— - gates have been completed and are ready for operation. At three places along the road are gigantic gates for controlling the flow through the new main. Should it be desired to cut out a section of either conduit at any time, it will be done at one of these gates. Tvhen water is turned into the new conduit in Sep- tember, the work of constructing the connecting gates to the old conduit will be started. All of the gates of the cld conduit are covered with houses, but it is the present intention not to cover the new gate controls. Eventu- ally it is the purpose of widening con- duit road to cover the new as well as the old conduit, and to put up houses over the gate controls, it is sald, would operate as an obstruction. paign. Levi H. David, representing the reformed element of Washington Jewry, last it announced as co-chajrman with Jacob Heckman of the men’s division in the $80,000 joint campaign of the Palestine Foundation Fund, the Ort and the Emergency Refugee Relief. Leading teams of reformed workers as captains will be: Capt. Julius I Peyser, Mordecai Ezekiel, I. B. Nord- linger, Maurice D. Rosenberg, Harry Roller, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Dr. Abram Simon, Harry S. Wolf, Jack Bernstein, Charles Goldsmith, Maur- ice Mazo and Dr. Bernard Baer. “With the reinforcements from the solidation of all the elements of Washington Jewry was made com- plete. An intensive drive will be made this week with the campaign ending a week from tomorrow in an elaborate banquet and dance at the Mayflower. “With the re-inforcements from the reformed group,” General Chairman Joseph A. Wilner said last night, “we should sail over the top. No worthier cause ever was put before the Jewish people of Washington.” The Palestine Foundation Fund is for the rehabilitation of Palestine, the Ort Reconstruction Fund for the re- construction of Central and Eastern European Jewry and the Emergency Refugee Relief Fund for the relief of Jews stranded in foreign ports. New York City has just finished a campaign for the Palestine Founda- tion Fund that went $233,000 over the top_of the quota of a year ago, the 1925 total being $733,000. This success was pointed to by Chairman Wilner as an indication of the advance made by the Palestine movement recently. Until the end of June, the close of its fiscal year, the American Pales- tine Fund organization expects to raise an additional million dollars in cash, and a special call has been is- suedl by the national officers to local committee heads and campaign lead- ers to strain every effort toward that end. The funds are needed, it was pointed out by Chairman Wilner, not only to keep up the normal program of work of the fund in Palestine, but to provide for the unexpectedly large stream of immigrants which has been pouring into Palestine and which is expected to increase. ‘ nig Rapid Transit Co. vesterday re- ported to the Public Utilities Com- mission that it carried 483,077 pay passengers in April, the largest number recorded in a month. The number of pay per month since Janus as follows: January ary, 397.01 April, 483,0 Despite the increase in traffic in April over March, the company’s net income for April was slightly lower, due to expenses deferred from the previous month, it was reported. CHICAGO TERMINAL OPEN $75,000,000 Rail Station Started in 1914 Is Completed. CHICAGO, May 18 (#).—Chicago’s new $75,000 union railway terminal opened tonight. Construction of the new terminal, be- gun in 1914, was halted by the war, and was resumed in 1920 when Joshua Severn River The Sherwood Forest Club —secking to enlarge its mem- bership and visitors' list, in- vites inspection of its grounds, golf courses, beaches, boating facilities and its stables, its cottages, clubhouse and dining halls. Accommodations for visitors available on reasonable notice. Cottages by the season, $300 and upward. Proportionate rates for shorter periods. For further information ap- ply 503 Fourteenth St. N. Telephone Main 7523. d'Esposito, chief engineer, returned to Chicago after serving in the United WING to the large demand for Paperhanging and have decided to close out our Wall Paper and Paint Depts. at greatly reduced prices. “While they last” Values from 7'%c to 30c— Per Single Roll for Suitable for every room. lmatchcd borders at 4c to 6¢c a yard. . { Regular $4.15 Patton Sun-Proof Paint, in al colors ... $ Regular $3.00 Star lef, in Painting, we @) Sold only with = all colors. .. .$2.20 a Gal Paperhangers’ Tools and Paintbrushes at Greatly Reduced Prices HENRY A. JAFFE 720 11th St. N.W. The Ambassador 1750 16th St. Apartments in high-grade build- ing on fashionable 16th St. 24-hour elevator and telephone service. Apartments contain 3 rooms, bath and porch. Convenient to bus line and two car lines. Representative on premises. H. L. Rust Company 912 15th St. N.\W. M. 6888 "PROPERTY OWNERS We Need Rental Property List Your Vacant Houses With Us Our Rent Department has a waiting list for modern houses in evt sec- tion. Over 500 New Tenants Secured Since January 1st It Us About Rent Problems o "Biter * You Personal " Bervice. [CAFRITZ COMPANY | Realtors 14th & K Main 9080 Bargain Home 37 Franklin Ave. Hyattsville, Md. Two Storles and Attie, Porch and Garage Bath, _Sleepin, CORNER LOT.. 105x155 Electricity, gas, hot-water heat. Comfortable 'in" Winter and delight: ful in Summer. Located at highes point _in Hyattsville. commanding wonderful view of city. Spacious porches. beautiful lawn, trees and shrubbery. $9.250 Beven Rooms, Apply Owner JOHN D. HOWARD ABSOLUTE AUCTION Dr. RIXEY FARM 219 Acres—Subdivided At Falls Church, Va. Monday, May 18th, 10:30 A.M. On the Premises—Rain or Shine This Farm will be sold, not offered. Your bid is ours. Two real bluegrass Farms, 6 miles from the Nation’s Capital, and many home sites. Herd of Dairy Cows, Hogs and Pigs, also Tractor and Farm Implements. All Live Stock, Farm Machinery, Personal Property Many Lots—Band Concert—Souvenirs in Gold Given Away—Very Easy Terms—Lunch Will Be Served CONRAD REALTY CO.,, Inc. Auctioneers for Owner Harrisonburg, Va. FOR COLORED 1719 Willard Brick home, containing 12 rooms and bath; 8 bed- rooms, hot-water heat and electric lights; will be vacant soon; immediate possession. See us for price and terms. On_Premises Phoue Hyatts. 146-M. Open for Inspection