Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 3

‘D C. PROSPERITY REVEALED IN ’I'AXES PAID BY CITIZENS ‘I, Past Fiscal Year Revenue to U. S Than Any One of 25 States. ARTICLE 1V, BY TONALD A. CRAIG. king evidence of the material| 'l of | mount of | val taxes paid to the Government | Federal income {ax paid by r as compared with the| f erity ngto! and financial stability w is found in th Fed L3S amounts paid by the various States Residents of the District of Colum this city ha contributed to the Treasury dur- ing the fiscal year which ended June 30 last a total of §18,2: miscellaneous internal This was more than ount paid by any one of \of all the § It was more th the F10 tha, Federal Alabama, ado, Dela: ympsh New North Pakota, ¢ Rhod Czrolina, South Dako! Ttah, Vermont, Washington and W oming. ents of the Capital. Only Three Higher. rolina total tax .-{ 205 000 and a $51.10 per L with a popuia- - of .n A00 and a total tax of §1 Finicate with me by letter. Kiving names ind addrecses? 3 0 i ioned) MRS, J. H. ACTON : AL MEETING ( of the Laborers and Company will he held 11th. 1028, at 7:30 pm.. for the election of offic and_ all other b,nnr-l that may be bruu:hl before th: WM. A_BOWIE, Sec's-Treas [ eday. January X a o v ;:(M with 10 days after d.lu ret tice. HOY e RAYMOND M SIARTYXN. 6° | XOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT CHIN Park, formeniy owner of the Maudarin Cafe . has fold said bus 70 THE STOCKHOLD! tionai Capital Ins . et of Lox,u\hw to & resolution s of the Na S Parsnant oftice pan Fa ave. se. Wasmne L {o ouestion: o amengine i arter of said company so as 1o extend its Dueirem 10 inciude ihe making of rpurance; o0 dweiling souses etores and all kinds of Dusidines and | Soushold furniture and oth: against loss or o eyiione or oronto e b taken up for oo and the stockholders aaket vote for a r-solution authorizing such amendment. § REPETTL. LLAIZ\CE £ DONOHOE, o B b b FOTICE T AERERY HAT 1 annual meesing i the Shercholders ot 1 Nationai Bask of Washington D 1or the eicction of directors and the tran 8ction of such other business aa may some ung Wil be held at the ennaylyama Avenue orihwest. on Tuesday. Janusry 10t 1924 Tie nolte will remain_oben from 11 o #UCh Other business us may properly eome before it will be held at the offce of the {raeurer, 200 nw. Tyesday gary 10 19 Ao 5 M._WOOUWARD. Seerctar, e '7!; LHERS ™ MFE usl meeting of 1 P ihe Nortolk & Warhinewin: 1 ¢ on Compary witl e’ he b.m. holders Keam th el ew Veorgary 9 1 ing, on Wednesdus 280, el "o Wa' s & " Serretary AT EXTRE] At once. " Addrges THAT T wn Iy when ereat; A W R SOTICR 18 MvR be reaponavie for o N for interview. Executive Secretary Can you " LET US SEND YOU AN ESHMATP “gxfrm/sr g WRON S ADAMS PRINTING IN A HURRY Wieh wrsse bt pot g e 2 1)tk 5t NW _\X/‘mu:i—; To Bring meg 7'1’;111‘”&‘“7"” v' s & Hfliaap oo k2 itha 1) . wton READY VOR YOUR 1928 PRINTING NEEDS i e retenue | | ton D | tricity for general houschold use in | i | habitants, [ © | serving Fhome Line, 874 | District Gives More |D»u-'( of Columbia fourth, with a| { Ropulation of 530000 and a total tax or $33.75 per capita. x makes up the al revenue taxe: ures for the last three show the incr e | o income Kk of all in Nowin al v of the District: B anges have taken place in \d the rest of the world few years a r. telephone moving these thi d more are £ course n inys. The won- once av d.is worn off. Around them ¥ rreat industries. Much of the money of the ave Citizen of today goes into these ne channels, THE FEVENING every 3.6 people in the Distric Dur ing the last 10 years telephones here have increased 108 per cent, while ¢he population has increased per cent, Since May 1, 1918, the number of tele- phgnes has just doubled. The use of the telephone has also great creased, the average number of ¢ calls in the city being now in e of 590.000. The largest number of calls ever made on one November 17 last, when the de- structive tornado hit Washington, the ¢ being 650,000, is the headquarters of nke and Potomac group of telephone companies of the Bell sys- | tem, serving the Di of Columbi Baltimore and tho & Virginia and -West B B about 90 per eent of (hA h‘h’li)m wire in the Capital City I1s in unde ound cables. There are 260 trench wiles of conduit, 3,000 manholes and more than 000 miles of wire here Another of illustrating the de- velopment of ‘the Capital is to study the zrowth of the highway system in paved avea and total mile Capt. H. . Whitehur stant to the I zincer Comm mer of the Distric has outlined this situation for The Star: Road Mileage Gafns. king a five-year period prior to| 8 to 1912 an | past_conditior ‘we find a to s of opened and in the Dis | of this period of | 150.71 miles, at the close of the | period there is a total of 470.48 m A net increase for five iles, or an average inc during this period the paved are sed from 203.13 miles to adam aren . while the roads actu-| Autos on Increase, ure ¢ ued in 1918 0349, while last year the total wi §.856 for this class of car. he enormous increase in the num- of automobiles has meant that, even with the increase in the city ation, thare hag heen a falling the numher of passengers 4 by the local street railway and in the last few nher of y by the Canital Tu Railway & ic Anmn.'!nlr—n in 1915 was 113 1t jumped in | 9 to 173,604,816, but #ince then it been coming down. It was 54 in 1925, while in l total number flf lxn e two sys nrrnuhn;v o possession of the Public Utilities Com- | | mission. | The increasing popularity of elec { the per | | Washington is attested by { capita use of the Potomac Electric | Power Co.'s service from year to vear. In 1901 there was just one electric meter for every 100 of population. In 1920 there was one for every 10 in- and last vear there was one electric meter for almost every Washington family of four persons, The company’s power plant at Ben. | ning was first placed in service in 1906 with a capacity of 10,000 This has been ‘increased 15-fold, cul- minating in the installation of a 30, 000 kilowatt unit during the last y which adds 20 per cent to the to capacity of the plant, bringing the output to 148,000 kil The num- ber of meters in service increased ilowatts, ber 1, The city’s growth is shown by the | tremendous increase in the | consumers of gas for light ing and cooking purposes jto fizures compiled by the W | Gas Light Co.. there we: 550 con: sumers of gas here in 1918 and 2,970, 001.805 cublc feet of gas were sold In 1920 there were 8£4,319 consumers | and 4,47 cubie feet were sold, | while in just closed the num. ber of e T8 was 114425, with 5,455,665, 332 cubic feet of gas sold. Telephone “Center.” | | Washington has had the leading part in the development of the tele ‘phone, It was invented by a Wash- | { ingtonian, Prof. Alexander Graham | Bell. It was the wonder of the world i when, in October, 1877, a line was con- { structed from the office of the chief | =i, 1 officer of the Army in this city 1o 'ort Whipple, Va. The first tele phone exchange in the National Capl tal was opened for busincss in Decem.- | Burnet L. ving in Washingto perator. This exchange had a eapac. | ity of 25 lines. In 50 years the system has grown in this city from a few straggling lines, which at first had no means of connection with each other {*o a modern communication system which comprised 12 central offices, | 143,196 telephones, on the | | firet day of last month. There s now one telephone for ! | tinued with little change. | you can Live in these from 2,953 in 1901 to 130,000 Septem- |1 a .N-u from 164.27 miles to 160 | > period of the five year: Ipassed, from . incll shows a much ed condition, due ‘to the rapid owth and development of the city following, the war, which has con- y here was | ) STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928 tlie gain In total mileage has heen approximately 121 miles per year, re- sulting in a net gain of unimproved roads of approximately 5 miles. Growth of Deficlency. “It can readily he seen that, based upon these figures, if the present up continued In the 4 immediately before us, the dofl- ciency would continue to accumulate untll at the end of another five-year fons were improved s would:be ev allod present period hway Department to pa < has led the I adopt new polic appropriation nt the <uflicient ituation, wo, f n great unimproved streets it the amount of annot be decreased, into the future. it rtment, starting with ar 1930, were allowed an At progosed for 1929 ximately. §450,000 a year for new paving for a period of six years, and assuming a growth and develop. ment consistent with the last years, practically all of the streets upon which the ahutting property is now 50 per cent or more improved, and all arterial highways, would be taken earve of. However, it approxi- itely the appropntion proposed for ) for new paving is centinue (Continued on Fourth iPige.) METAL tefi- and such $1.50 Per | Window $3. 00 Per (Lasts forever. Satisfacti Col. 10384, 1 N 1130 Clifton St N.W, FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 nteed) The total mileage of ali kinds of opened and traveled streets and roads at the he- nning of the fiscal year 1923 was miles, while at the closa of the cd the total was 530.60 miles, showing a net increase for the five Par period of 63.36 miles, or an aver increase per vear of 12.28 miles | During this period the paved area in | crensed from miles to 307.87 miles, and the macadam area d 120.58 miles to 107.41 mi unimproved but traveled roads creased from 149.34 miles to 175.32 | miles. ‘The above figures show, in addi tion to the rapid growth in strect mileage, which means city that while a great deal of paving is Leing done the amount is not suffi clent to equal the average ye: growth, to say nothing of decrea: the deficiency accumulated. Of the new paving authorized during the five years a little more than 31 m a year has gone to replacement of other paving, such as macadam, cov ering of granite block, ete., and i% miles to paving rew ar _ while re 1 from CORCORAN COURTS 23d and D Sts. N.W. “Close to Downtown” Why epend the hours riding to office when De Luxe Apartments n the City CAFRITZ Mth nnd K NOTICE { YSTER BROS. is a net increase of 50.55 miles, | while the | in- | growth, | the only firm owned and managed by a member of the same family that has for nearly a century served with satisfaction the discriminating trade with the finer grades of Butter, Eggs and Cheese. 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