CHAIN-GANG. The chain-gang has been advantageously used in grading and graveling streets, cleaning gutters, and digging tree-holes. The average number worked is seventy-five, with six overseers and from twelve to twenty carts. These men are imprisoned for petty offenses, and much prefer working to being confined in the jail or work-house. They work as well as paid laborers, and very few have escaped. The amount saved to the District, rating them at the same wages paid laborers, is $16,162. COMMUNICATIONS. I have received from your office 590 communications; of these, 508 have been acted upon. A large number of them are from the board of health, and some of these are of a very trifling character. In conclusion, I desire to thank you for the many courtesies extended me in our official relations. REPAIRS OF TRAPS AND MAN-HOLES-Continued. Twenty-sixth, between I and K streets, northwest. D street and Delaware avenue, northeast.. D, between Ninth and Tenth streets, northwest. E street and New Jersey avenue, northwest... F. between Fifth and Sixth streets, northwest. F. between Ninth and T. nth streets, northwest.. G, between Fourth-and-a-half and Sixth streets, southwest. L between Fifteenth street and Vermont avenue, northwest L street and Connecticut avenue, northwest. M. between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, northwest. X, between Fourth and Fifth streets, northwest O, between Fifth and Sixth streets, northwest P. between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, northwest. P street bridge, northwest. 9 street and Connecticut avenue, northwest. K, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, northwest. R, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, northwest. R street and Connecticut avenue, northwest.. Rand Boundary streets, northwest Delaware avenue and H street, northeast. Judiciary Square, northwest Massachusetts avenue and Eighth street, northeast Massachusetts avenue and Ninth street, northeast. Massachusetts avenue and Tenth street, northeast. New Jersey and Virginia: venues, southeast New Jersey avenue, between Q and R streets, northwest Nichols avenue, Uniontown New Jersey avenne and G street, northwest.. North Capitol street and Massachusetts avenue, northwest. North Capitol and I streets, northeast Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth street, northwest.. Rhode Island avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets, northwest First and Potomac streets, Georgetown.. First and Frederick streets, Georgetown.. Second and Market streets, Georgetown Fourth and High streets, Georgetown Fourth, between High and Market streets, Georgetown. Alley in square No. 180. Bridge and High streets, Georgetown... Bridge and Washington streets, Georgetown Jeferson and Water streets, Georgetown.. Jefferson street, near canal, Georgetown. High and Beall streets, Georgetown Alley in square No. 168.. Alley in square No. 178. Alley in square No. 257.. Alley in square No. 335. Alley in square No. 369. |