National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-01-31

provoments, OF that its need therefor is
less pressing than that of some other Sec
ton. On the contrary, We assert that
whether wo regard the benefit to resi-
dents and property owners, or tho gem
oral interest Of the city, there is no sec
tion whose demand for new and first
clSss pavemeuts is so urgent. Let us
look n moment at the actual condition in
this respect of the district between Rock
Creek on the west aud New Jersey ave-
nue. on the east. Taking the north and
south streets, and going upon them from
Pennsylvania avenue north, We find that
F1RsT-CLAss ASPHALT AND GRANTED
PAvEMENTs TERMINATE AS FOLLOWS:
Twcnty.second street when wood replaced)
at NJ street.
:. Twenty.irst street, midway between @ and
K streets
Twentieth street, at X street
connecticut avenue, at boundary street,
Nineteenth street, at Boundary street.
Eighteenth street, ut 7 street.
New Hampshire avenue when wood re-
placed between 7 and q, at q street.
seventeenth street. at L street.
Sixteenth street, at Boundary street.
street.
Fourteenth street, at Boundary street.
Thirteenth street, at 4 street,
Twelfth street, at Rhode Island avenue, DO
tween + and q streets.
Vermont avenue, at X street.
Eleventh street, at o street.
Tenth street, at X street.
Ninth street, at Boundary street.
Eighth street, at II street.
seventh street. at boundary street,
sixth street, at r street
Rhode Island avenue, at Fifth street.
Filth street. at o street.
New Jersey avenue, at NJ street.
The o.og, Io,,N - ..a..\ .4.aat. ,u...
be said substantially to be all paved as
far north as and including z street.
Q street is paved between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets. aad between
Seventeenth street and Vermont avenue;
street from Sixteenth to Ninth; s
street from Sixteenth to Eleventh street.
With these data 1t is easy to see from q
glance at tho map that there is no lack
Of street space demanding improvement
in this section, and IL needs only survey
of the unimproved section and an oxami-
nation of the assessors books to under
stand the urgency Of this demand.
WITHOUT DETAILING VISIBLE AND NO.
ToRIoUs FACTS,
We will only say that, whether we con-
slider the value of the ground, either as
sessed or marketable, tho number aud
character of the buildings already erected,
OF the tendency and direction of the de-
velopment of the city as Enthusiastically
indicated by the course of its recent pro-
gress, the claims OF this section to i'm
provement are stronger than those Of
either OF the others, for which in the
report such disproportonate improve
ments are recommended.
Unless some one can say that tho
northwest has reached limit of devel-
opment, where it gives less promise of
future growth than some other section, IL
is idle to say that IL does not need these
improvements, or that its need is not com
mensurate with
ITS RIGHTS IN THIS RESPECT.
Again, it may be said that q compare
son between the large divisions is less fair
than to compare the relative importance
of immediate localities preferring claims
to improvement. TO meet this possible
objection we have caused to DO prepared
the following statement taken from the
books of the assessor, which, if not en-
tirely accurate, is substantially correct.
Its design is to show the assessed value of
land and improvements situate on both
sides of the streets recommended for
asphalt psvements by the commissioners
and certain of those in the northwest,
which, in accordance with the general
plan heretofore allowed Of improving by
continuous lines from south to north,
stand first in order for new pavements.
We will again take for comparison
THE FAVORED EASTERN SECTION.