Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-14

q washington: and SO much Of the act approved
May q, 1877, entitled IAN act approved May q,
board OF aldermen and common council OF the city
OF Washington designating o depot site for the
Baltimore . and Potomac railroad "a company.
said company TO lay its tracks on 9th
street and to construct depot at the corner of 9Th
and streets, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed And on and after the first day OF July,
1884 it shall not be lawful for said companies or
either OF them, to maintain their tracks or run
their trains in the city OF washington. except
upon the routes hereinafter designated.
The second section provides that all the tracks Of
the Baltimore Ohio railroad company shall enter
the city at the northern line OF Boundary street,
where 1t is intersectedbY 18th street east shall
thence follow the line OF that street east to Lin
coin square, thence through said Lincoln square
to North Carolina avenue. thence along the line
OF said avenue to its intersection with New Jer
sey avenue, thence across Reservation II to South
Capitol street and thence in curve to the present
line OF tracks on Virginia avenue.
Sec. provides that all the tracks OF the Ba1ti-
more and Potomac Railroad Company shall enter
the city on the northern shore OF the Eastern
branch OF the Potomac river at a point between l.
ana streets south and shall thence nee, follow dhe
may at any time direct that the tracks shall
be raised so as to conform to the grades shown on
Sec. 4 provides that from the junction of the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio and Baltimore
and Potomac railroad companies on virginia ave-
nue., Immediately west of South Capitol street, the
tracks OF the said companies shall be laid and
used in common and shall follow the line here
stated, to wit, from the point OF junction above
mentioned along the line OF said Virginia avenue
to Seventh street west, thence along the street on
the south of reservation at the intersection OF Vir
ginia and Maryland avenues to Ninth street west,
thence along the line OF Maryland avenue to the
Long bridge.
Sec. 5 provides that on the lines thus specified
the tracks shall be constructed in accordance with
the plans and specifications presented to Congress
by the commissioners of the District Of Columbia
NTH their report OF December s. ISL I1rded,
upon application OF the company or companies in
terested. to modify the details OF said plans during
the progress OF the work, when in their judgment
ii becomes necessary to do so; out such modifica-
lions Shall not be to the prejudice of the public
interests in regard to the proper protection of the
highways passed under, over, or through, by the
lines OF tracks before described
sec 3 provides for union depot for passengers
and express freight and for no other purposes
shall be erected Jointly by the Baltimore and Ohio
and Baltimore and Potomac railroad COM
p par at such point as they may select,
immediate vicinity of the joint line described
The said companies may, in addition. erect union
freight depot in the immediate vicinity of their
pendent freight depot or engine house at any
point OF their line or lines west OF South
Capitol street and south OF Maryland avenue, each
company to construct the necessary switches and
turnOuts 10 connect said depOtS or engine houses
with their main tracks, sc.
THE ALTERNATE RoUTR PROPOSED.
BY the communication from the Commissioners
to Congress, published in yesterdays STAR, it will
be seen that the majority of the board favor a
more southern line for the railroads through the
city. The tracks of the Baltimore and Potomac
road now emerge from the tunnel on street south,
and that street, in connection with Water street,
offers, the Commissioners say, feasible,
direct, and economical route to the north end of
the Long bridge. where a common and convenient
passenger station could be located, and ample and
suitable sites for freight depOtS abound In the inn
mediate vicinity, and in convenient proximity to
the wharveS OF the city.
Should this line be preferred by Congress, the
Two roads would unite at the intersection OF the
James Creek canal and X street south, by de-
Election Of the proposed line of the Baltimore and
Ohio road from New jersey avenue by way of
Canal street.