Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-10-02
The Northern Market,

Tie communication of "Fair Play, In favor
of the Savage site for the new northern market
Is too long for our columns but the points are
that it is but two squares east of the present To-
cation, but two blocks from the Seventh-street
railway, ard but one block from the Columbia
railway; that it is favOrabIy situated for water
and drainage; that the proposition of MI Corco-
ran Is admirable ard in the highest degree gen.
erous, but "as marketing and eating are very
practical everyday things to househOlders GEN
orally, convent enee and eligibility In a market
will be OF such paramount consideration to the
great public concerned as will far outweigh art
or art GALLERIES Of any degree of splendor or
ehnm;" that if the market is located on the
COTcoran square the population accommodated
by the Columbia railway east or west of Seventh
street will "have no choice in point of distance
after reaching Seventh street-as 10 the Central
market or the Northern market" and Gas the
Central market will always be the best supplied.
the class in question would naturally, from
choice, 60 there;" consequently the new north
eIn market would prove failure.
" Fair Play" think these considerations should
amer our views eondemnatory Of the purchase
OF the Savsg &c lot. They do not. wethink no
more deplorable event could happen for the in
terests of Washington than that the committee
should, in following their unaccountable predi-
lection for the unsuitable Savage lot, pay the
enormous price asked for it, and at the same time
offer the signal affront to Mr.. Corcoran of re-
fusing his noble gift. In no way can facts be
twisted to make the Savage lot as eligible a
position as the COrcorsn square. Primarily, the
new market ought to be on It'll street, the great
thoroughfare from the country TO and through the
city, just as the Center market Is and the present
Northern market. As regards convenience of
street cars, ii might well be ten squares as 1.-TWO
Squares" away. The new market should be d.
rectly on the railway, as is the Corcoran square
The population on the line of the Columbia
railway will be better accommodated By trans
fers landing them direct on It'll street at the
Corcoran square, than by being dropped a
square away from the Savage lot; and Ii must
be further considered that in a short time there
will probably be several other railways on let
tered streets interseeting Tth street above X.
Some of these viii doubtless cross eth street
at the COrcOran square. 1t is not true
that the people on the Columbia railway
would "haye no choice in point of dis
lance between the Central market and the
Northern Market" the Center market Is ON r
street, the Columbia railway crosses 7th street
at h street, the CorcOran square is on o street.
just half the distance. The great growth of the
city is nOrthward, and if the present Nothern
market was not placed too far out when many
years ago it was located in its present position.
the CoTcOIan square at street is certainly not.
IN view Of the fact that the city has grown
FAR last it, out 70 the very boundary. And
II Is idle TO talk of the Center market supplant-
ing the new Northern market in its supplies.
when the latter, at 9Th and o, is on the great
avenue of country produce, and in a position to
intercept il.