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Download or read book Inhabited Alleys in the District of Columbia and Housing of Unskilled Workingmen; Hearing Before a Subcommittee on Fhe Committee on the District of Co written by United States Columbia and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... I there is no statutory or other definition of an alley. We recognize as an alley a thoroughfare laid out in the interior of one of our squares when the city was first laid out. In the interior of the squares at that time there were laid out certain thoroughfares, apparently designed for what might be termed service alleys, for affording convenient access to property, for the removal of refuse, for sewer and water connections, and matters of that sort. Those were known as alleys at that time, they are known as alleys now, and their designation can be changed only by an act of Congress. The Chairman. May I ask that if in the alleys you speak of the property belongs to any extent to the people in front on the streets? You say they were put there for service purposes. They were to serve the owners of the houses in front, I understand? Dr. Woodward. Yes, sir. The Chairman. Are these alley houses the property of the owners of the houses in front to any extent? Dr. Woodward. Not to any considerable extent at the present, time. The Chairman. It has changed then? Dr. Woodward. It has changed very materially. An objection lias been made to alleys on the score of their narrowness. That Is of course a very important objection, but the general plan of the alleys seems to me to constitute an objection even more serious than their narrowness; that is that they do not open directly on a public thoroughfare, after the entrance runs in a certain distance at right angles to the street, there will be a cross alley with no direct street entrance, and the houses built on the cross alley are entirely obscured from the view of the street. They are entirely cut off from passers-by except as they may come into the alley for business purposes or for purposes of...