National Republican., 1883-09-17

have steadily rcfrained from using it TO re-
liove us although we pctitioncd and petit
toned. Finally last March appealed to the
courts and got an injunction against the
company using the three additional tracks
they had laid down here. They had five
tracks. Now they use in front Of my house
only two, In the summer time ] cannot
have my front windows opened for the
smoke und cindors. Persons cannot como to
see me in carriages, for the horses couldn't bo
kept standing. Sick people have no chance
TO live down here If their lives should de-
pend on quic-."
"Hou intend TO press the suits"
''Of course. We can got no rOlicf from
congress or the commissioners. We shall try
the courts. Tho railroad company cannot in
fiucnce them
On leaving Mr.. Knights that gentleman
showed the reporter how the front wall OF the
next building, a handsome, we'll built house,
was cracking and going to pieces.
Mr.. c. G. Anderson. who lives on the same
avenue, west of Thirteenth street, was out of
town, but Mrs Anderson informed the re-
porter that tho annoyance of the trains was
constant and literally uuboarablc Her chill
drcn going to school had to cross tho track,
and she watched them with q beating heart
every morning, noon, and dinner time going
to and coming from school, fearful lest their
dead and manglcd bodies should bo brought
home to her.
MIR. W. r. Walker told the reporter he had
retired from the grocery business. His loss
from the railway while he was in business at
that corner was Immense.
II had q largo country trade, worth SlJO
per day, which used to come over the Long
bridge. lost every bit of that. 1t comes
into the district by different route. Tho
people who crossed Maryland avenue to do
business with me did SO frequently at the
peril of their lives. Why. it was only to-day
that | saw lady have the rarrOwest escape
from being run over by n train. The engine
had passed, being uncoupled from the ears
and she started to cross. But the cars came
on after the engine, aud had she been a quar-
ter of n second slower her body would have
been mangled beneath the truck wheels"
Mr.. G. b. Church was another gentleman in
tervicwei on this question.
~ have q row of handsome houses, three
storiog, ten rooms, with all modern improve
ments, right across the street, in the most de-
srablc part of this section. Were they north
of Pennsylvania avenue they would rent
readily for $40 per month. get 5000 for
them and tenants move in and out, subjectng
ME to great loss. They cannot stand the an
noyance of smoke cinders and noise. have
had desirable tenants move in who were
charmed with the houses, but who had 10 20
way inside of week. Aud did not blaine
them. I'd have done so myself had becn in
their place.
1--WE do not object" continued Mr. Church,
"to the Conpany's right Of transit. The charter
gives them two tracks for passenger trains
That of course is Il nuisance, but one we
could not object to- What we have becu pro-
testing against is the making of Maryland
avenue freight yard l cannot sit on my
side porch i'll the summer time without
being filled with cinders and enveloped
in smoke The din is indescribable. You
III L
up. just now it is comparatively quiet.
About : o'clock in the morning it will
1reshen up TO such an oXtont that only q
dead man could sleep amid such din. PeO-
Ile don't generally want to get up at .
o'clock in the morning, hut that is the only
thing we can do hero except to endure in
nervous agony and CECitgm ent the turmoil"
How did they come to lay SO many
tracks"
Il understand the commissioners gave
them authority to do SO just before the Gar
held Inauguration, The company stated they
needed those extra tracks to accommodate the
great crowds that wanted to come to Wash
ington. Messrs Walker, Knight, DIR. Culver
aud myself called OH the commissioners, in
forming them that the company were using
these tracks for freight purposes aud ask ed
that they be required to take up these extra
three tracks. The commissioners, however,
didn't seem to think they had any power to
ulueF thc removal II secHlS tnat lalcIy uneN
have concluded that they have tho power, as
giyiug the company the right to use II public
ScrNation near New Jersey avenue woula
i.atc."
Mis- Fitzgerald lives on Maryland ave-
nuo 10 veen Ninth and Tenth streets, where
the din az turmoil arc the grltest How
the I,n ,,nonI onnIItSOn that square stand it is n
mvstrr,. rvopio r. Dalton lives on Virginia
uyonnn M9en Sixth and Seventh streets,
in tho netW'heart of the infected district
Mr. Efy EEGiy 4N Johnson has very fine
bonse ~, a GIriseet near Eighth, but it is less
comfortntI.e than would be o shGnty in a
9n;n'n Vocation. All the other parties to the
snj.Ss either live themselves in this ncghbor.
Sfioud and are personally subjected to these
annoyances or else own property in the in
iccted district, which has lost nearly all it,
value except tho duty to pay full taxes.