Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1925, Page 10

10 J EXTENSIVE TESTS | FRIVER STARTED | cffort to Determine Extent of Pollution Begun by U. S. Scientists. places of the nto the Potom: rivers through the sewage outlets and | make \gerous for the bather and the number and volume of thelr legions are b £ ferreted out by sani: tary engineer the field and by bacteriologists g in the labora T} ation of | the pollution of the two rivers, which is being conducted by the United States Public Heaith Service, in uvn-‘ Anacostia TEST WATER IN POTOMAC FOR SWIMMING. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 19, 1925—PART 1.‘ T Gallatin street northwest; Mrs. Helen B. Eckman, Maryland avenue northeast; A, E. Tate, treasury de- partment, Southern Railway = Co., 1300 Pennsylvania avenue; F. Wald- | man, 237 Girard street; Burns C, | Downey, 2715 North Capitol street; | Clyde "H. Miller, apartment 508, 2901 Connecticut avenue; Miss Jane SHRINE CONTEST 3 Awards A red. |W. H. Pardoe Gets $500| e e s in, 1 L street; A. Puzzle Prize—H. B. Tally Wins. A F. Kreglow, ave- nue; Elmer C. Wood, 2 | Frederic A. Pullmann, ] street northeast; C. W. Fairall, R. F D., Odenton, Md.; Fred W. Rade, 1156 Fifteenth street; Howard L back, 3241 N streef Ethel Yassel, 3 Jenifer street K. Ber- William H. > street, was award Z for winning the cross-word puzzle con- | Kins. Room 330, | Building; Mrs test and Harvey B. Talley of the | son o Colonial Hotel won the § North Carolina avenue south 00 first prize | . o re. 29 P . of the limerick competition, both of | [ . which were conducted by Almas Tem- |}, SUeeH M% SN S Miss Helen ple for the benefit of the ecrip- |4 il 1530 Fast Capitol street: pled children’s hospital fund of the|ji. et S, Fessenden, 613 Seventh Shrine, it was announced night | gireer northeast: A. N Potentate Henry L: . The | Seventh street; Miss winning limerick is as follows: | s paetment 3, 1411 Taylor of $500 | t junction and in co-operation with the | - District of Columbia Government, as started on Jul and it is e pecte rt results will | be ngress when it con venes in the When the field 1d the ¢ of vario examined re it work is completed | us governmental the experts will | just where the sew from, me to be it aind whether or acticable locate a beach on any of | rrounding the National | ages be able to show not_ it bacilli the wa Capital | Cummings Takes Charge. | Surg. H United is taki investi D 8. Cummings of the blic Health Service | 1 interest in this nducted an in ymac River determine what effect, i g ington I the invest to consult on e — HARRIS & ane o ip) Decided to pilot a new aeroplane. | raeis. <oy He left the und with a smile, | street southeast But in a very short while 30 nty-fifth He got a good “drop” (not of wine) nk E. Johnson, Maine. Arthur Denninson, street ive-doll contest w M. Mower, southeast ing place; Fourth Sellers, Wesley st A man who was considered quite | A omis AY Tong, | Named. s of other places in the were: Cross-word puzzle— muel E. R: , 1133 Sixth 00; third, W Holst, 1015 and Olva H , 1321 M Limerick contest: Second, Miss H. E. Smith, Chatham Courts, $100; third . Darnell, District Building, $50, | Elmer C. ourth, Ira Y. Bain, 1821 Vernon | Onyun, street, $25 | Pearl E Awards of $5 were made to the fol. [ northes lowing in the cross-word puzzle con-| United Si s ter A. Seller econd street south- V. V. east s Laurette McKendree, Apt Hugo R street; Miss Daisey B Crochat er, 642 Trving street; P. E. Kin Washingt street; Miss Frances Denni man, 19 25, X-Y Building, Governmen Winners the limerick r awards in e made to A. S. Porterfield, 5016 cond street; Marie Pell- sey, 3 street; S. Lee Tuckett, Baltimore avenue, Takoma Park, Md Willlam W. Pugh, Glendale, Anna_ D. Davis, Room 330, State and Navy Building; James R. 5 Maryland avenue north Wood, 2121 H street: R. G. 1209 Kenyon street; Mrs. Young, 2825 Brentwood road Willlam F. Raymond, Band, city; Wal- The winnes contest H. ( fourt ree De Lavney, 1872 Monroe street; A. Kemman 19 1 street Baxter, Army Music n Barracks; Wiltiam Naylor road south: Room the matter details there ton Associate . Allen, charge of thi pollution at Engineer J the bu Cincinnati, All of tation, durir maps of th and maps showi drainage sys vicinity. Afte Gen. Cumn field and outlets. There are m vestigation ind perform some of the called to Washing nitary eer A Frost, in assistant surgeon general. ot W. H. Frost. in charge skins, ution upstream flow. In order to delermmel(inn | the fluctuation in bacteriological pol- | rea lution from month to month the | wher bacteriological content of the river | this, will be obtained from the records of |time. | the filtration plant. Aft in Ohic these officials held a consul ey examined 1costia investigation will be determined the |analy flow of the Potomac River, the volume |data of flow contributed by the Chesapeake | float { and Ohio Canal and the same data for [ mine Rock Creek Park. The upstream |any. idal flow from the main sewage out-| Dr. let will be determined by float meas- | take | urements. This consists of putting | tembi a fair-sized log in the river, weighted went into t various sewer ng, they xamined ny phases of the in- very stream in the vieinity w ows into the Potomac and Anaco must be tested, and this includes the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, waste. river to as thefr w dreds period Tnited Geologi vey and exam tion o teriologic The upstrea Anacostia T is the dete of the w to determine what if a -omes bac the large city sewer ou miles below Giesboro popularly referred to now plant. to get away from any wind and measuring the dis upstream during any period. Tidal kind it is. Hun-|gauges will be placed at Haines Point, | of data : a|the railroad bridge and the Key s and collected the | Bridge to determine the fluctuatiol Army E the | of the tides al Survey, the Geodetic Sur-| ~Data on the soundings of the rive: the ration plant must be| hottom in this 1 in order to other Government bureau: ream flow, mentioned for the purpose of com-| tests of vears, etc.|puting the volume of flow through- | Potomac and the channel. e tested. This section samples are to be|aj\p, ack flow cen have been mapped on a large | Raj. flood tides le map, which also is being u & oo sewage, | in computing the other hydrometric | arg > river from | features, it e Work Started July 15. he steel| Under the sanitary survey 1l sewers contributing both > and industrial waste ated and the principal ted with a view it they do with must tidal data, T f the out sc in fe: PDrownings Halt Work. The field n which now stes added throughout s being « Mr. Allen channel is being determined as nearly ade in accordance with a plan sub-| 55 possible. This information is be- tted by Mr. Hoskins and divided ned from the District sani- into three divisions, namely, bacteri ological, _hydrom r survey numt rious 1 heen using and takes the in the morn essary to d unt of in the rive needed in Most « done by indus- | as a nvestigat ndu is At Railr, and are to be made of the|and tributary to the various which dis ge efther | : has | continuously or at times during which | e police launches | jhterceptor overflows are in action. | 7 about 5 o'cloc During the two-week period that| Wi er, it was nec-|samples of the water will be taken | stron: this work on|yfr ~Allen will take about 15 or 20 | Velop drownings | samples s, taking these in the boat Was| morning and confining the afternoon | work to studying the various data field work |which must be collected to complete ($9 od in mak- | fhe investigation. The samples, after | maps ¢ sewage | heing t the hygienic | nity and thei to Pib: | oig indust lic Health Service at Twenty-fifth and | rious section northwest, where they are and study | being analyzed. | sovernment | The actual work of taking the sam- | as begun on July 15, but, | was stopped on account of the | t the boat was not available. { | % had Howe: police 200 this work the preliminar Allen consi out numbers ¢ drained by ta bureau data at latter \mou into the Ic determine the comir fore th comparing it with collected in th e the increase in| Tt is is city and Great|tion to reach any conclu ter is taken into|is believed to be one source of much amination of | pollution is Rock Creek at the point there is any where it goes over the dam f the otomac River. A reporter for The | tar was taken to this point and large | bubbles constantly breaking on the | surface pointed out. It appeared as hoiling water. To the trained eve of | sanitary engineer, it was said, this | d a heavy deposit of sludge, | | During this time Mr. Allen is study- | stems and the data. Rock Creek Blamed. t too early in the investiga- n, but what ing the sewer samples if into the | ition of Will Make Many Tests. Mr would 1 nsive ba resent the ould be es in the collected by | riod of 10 days or | five different points this v | its sur the made river Mr. Alle 1wo we in the Several Rock Cr be an equal the y \ter of | per end will | period and taken from near its mouth ore it joins with the Ohio Canal. Then ee series of us points on channel at the > Tidal Basin ill show any tween the Another se- | taken lines of ymac River | District - to Potomac | of water sam-| uken along the ia River from its junctior Potomac to the District more samples will be m the Ches o C: r the | the “take off” | samples ne ken durir 3 e nu wa int b and Own your own garage—your rent will easily pay for it thru our special terms offer. Just call— Lincoln Ten-One-Hundred pollution riation ¢ shores and of samples h shore from the Park. Another ples will be t with the | Several | BUNGALOWS GARAGES ASHINGTON CONSTRUCTION CO. 201 Fenton Court N.E. for water Seelk Data on several inte ken at 1 of th main to the Key 915 E Street For SALE or For LEASE New Store and Business T hree-Story Building Foot Alley in Rear Garage for 3 Trucks Electric Elevator Reasonable Price or Rental Satisfactory Terms Geo. W. Linkins 1719 K Street 233233f:t&tt“tttttmtt“tttttttt82288338823833838383883&3&82382838 $388838380888888838888888838888 7 %‘x’t Upper, left to right: H. S. Cummings, surgeon general, and W. F. l)raper.i Lower, left to right: A. F. Allen, associate sanitary engineer, and Dr. | ched a point in their inv Under the hydrometric phase of the | samples, which includes the study of the data <o that it will just submerge, in order (at hand, and that the prepa action, | the report and the recomm nce it flows |would take about another six weeks. | £y S s| PART OF TRAIN DERAILED. | rea will be obtained | All-Pullman Express in Accident, . PITTSBURGH The ponits where | mpe New York-St. Louls expre: | reported injured eported to westbound. the | immediately | passengers transferred. but that the Hotels, The following received awards Miss Mary Lacke: 1430 Rhode Is nd avenue: Betty Bradford, 3618 Connec s; | ticut ss L. M. Richey, the { angeline Hotel; Wilfred (. Page Fourth _street southeast; Jack nsel, McDowell, Va.; Bess A. D. Morrison, 1550 Kenyon street; Mrs. H Pyle, 614 B street northeast; Mrs. 1860 Mintwood place: Sellers, 504 Second street southeast; Mary Jane Wallis, Conduit road and W street; George P. I r, 437 Twelfth street »utheast; T B. Squadron, Bolling Field; Moses Of-| Eckloff, § 1 street; F Balsam, fenberg, 6319 Connecticut avenue; Miss | 1409 Foxall road: Mrs. Harriet M Lillian P. Nicholson, 1704 et: | Burnham, 3 and avenue: Miss evin W. Strausbaugh, 10 Seventh | Margaret N. N Third street street southeast; John S. Plerce, 113 | Harry Ca Squadron, Third street northeast; Charles S.|U.S. A rd Rohr Eby, apartment the Brunswick: | back, Charles I. Schwinger, 39 York | Va.; 0. W. avenue; Mrs. Everett M. 0 (Mrs. Laura M M street; John L. M .’ 3168 | street, Takoma Park, D. C; L. M Eighteenth street; George D. Sullivan. | Stallings, 500 New Jersey | 1471 Irving street; Mrs. Terrence R.|F m J. Mueller, Apt. 506, Pickett, Huntington Terrace, Be.|Connecticut avenue; R. C. Young, 282 thesda, Md.; Dayton A. Gurney, 1217 Brentwood road northeast; James W. orge H southwest | 210 "Union station 1754 Lanier place; | Wallis, " Forty-eighth | | nson, 1113 Sixth street W. C. Lyster Jones, room and 1 n, 638 E en, 1860 Mint Hammack, 1343 Miss E. | E Mu- | B Q|E Jdward Gree 1| Grace P. s Thelma Lee southeast; E wood pl: ot G have not | tigation | e they have made a study of but expect to reach it in a short | The investigators W /P, street; Stat W Louise reet Oscar T Glendale, Ma ink D. Roys, dale, Md_; Lester M. Myers, 56th Serv. pitol Unite dna ional 1612 710 Banner Glen er the collection of all the water and while they are being ed in the laboratory, the other will be collected, and then the studies will be made to deter- the upstream flow of sewage, if Draper estimated that it would until about the middle of er to complete the field work, Grant street, Riley, 18 Randolph p Dyre, 516 Butternut ion of wdations month or 2310 A 132322TTTIII8IIIITTITILIILILILL v T 1121 14th Street FOR SALE FOR LEASE New 4-Story Business Building No One Injured. Pa., July 18 (P).— ullman train of the Pennsylvania oad, was derailed near Ingram, burb, at 6:06 this morning. Four left the rails, but no one have known as No. 7, was Both tracks were blocked result of the accident. A train was made up and the train, Electric Passenger Elevator Alley in Rear Satisfactory Terms to 3uyer or Tenant GEO. W. LINKINS 1719 K St. the offices of the Pennsylvania oad it was said three sleepers a dining car had left the rai the dining car had overturned, cause of the derailment not been ascertained thin the past two decades a g trade union movement has de. ed in Chile SRR e R e e e 0 | | | PEg2222222922322322222322322322324 Our Cash Prices are always lowest—you save on every pur- chase you make here. July Clearance of Women’s and Misses’ Footwear Bro%en lots and small lots of the season’s most popular styles — and our superior value. All Sizes Pumps Oxfords Operas Step-Ins Straps Front and Side Gore Military and Cuban heels Calf Kid Spanish and Flat heels Look through the assortment of hundreds of pairs—and buy as many pairs as you can. They are wonderful shoes—Sacrificed for clearance sake. Not all sizes in every lot—but every size in the combined lots. 8220312013022 TINIINIRAINTI|I{RIRIPEIN]1IN11G 4 ks Rohr- | venue: | 23323 13332338223 KLAN N GOLORADO LEAVES MAIN BODY Washington Heads Speeding to By the A DENV organiza Colorado to Dr. dragon of Colorado, and will the Denver voted to sanization, Dr tonight. tional organi The ¢ Klan ] ed m an affront to Dr. Following tion was passed asking Dr. Locke to head rinute of ation were filed here about two ago. Speed West in Planes. The 1 | executiv | Burns, 7351 Fifth street 1371 | northeast ney for The T papers also declares that a portion of the Den to “stan of the n: Doubt last nigl the org Clement. nison, and ves of the Ku K en route to Denver Washington, William Zumbrunn Denver by airplane from Washington in connection with the reported seces | sion of the Denver branch from the — | national body. The whereabouts of | s, anfinal ster ey fa| Tt i Tagon the Kian, however, could not be|Thieves After Watching 48 Hours learned. According to the Denver paper, the | BOSTON, July 18 (®).—Two Bost klansmen, if they were flying to |Dpolice inspectors put in 48 hours in Denver, would have to have left|West End garage Washington yesterday morning. Both | oz [ the Army Afr Service and the Bureau | Mmoblle mechanics to capture two men | of Aeronautics of the Navy declared | Wanted in Kansas City {last night no application had been | theft of a car owned by Joseph | made to them for aircraft for the|of that city June 28 last, it | flight and that no civilians had “gone ' known tods | west” over the airways for many Warned that | days. There are no commercial craft by the about Washington capable of making |and that one would attempt to sho | the trip with three in free if nered, the loca | such a short time, r as could be tched all garages until the ssociated Press, learned. wanted arrived. The mer R, July 18.—Fifteen local | sted after a struggle and tions of the Ku Klux Klan in | names of James Harrison surrendered their charters jugilist, of California and J. W John Galen Locke, ‘:rnlv-ii isher of California and Oklahom: follow The latter had a loaded revolver ir his possession. Both will be returne {to Kansas City = | LONG WAIT SUCCESSFUL. Police Sétt!e Money Row, Report Says. men were headed Kansas City authorities | police w car they were arry gave the Cardinal’s Condition Critical. QUEBEC, July 18 (#).—The condi | tion of Cardinal Begin was pronounced | critical at 6 o'clock this evening by the attending physician. 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Klan, which last night secede from the national or- Locke announced here He will resign from the na ation, he says, limax between the Colorado the national or; tion | st night Imper! rd | n a telegram, directed all| nd property to be held unless on written order by him. 1 the tele- Locke. demonstration, a mo- new organization, known men of America r- incorporation for this or 22 karat Fine denver Times says that three ix Klan are by airplane from Gold Crown and Bridge Work, per tooth, $6 and D. ¢ §8. Guaranteed. national attor- nd two other ex- mes were not di- the officials who will ar- | srrow, the newspaper the K re -t imes says that 100 other local nizations which took simi t night, surrender their the national body. 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