The Washington critic., 1886-09-11
OUR STREET RAILWAYS.
How to Rench All Portions of the
National CuuItaI,

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How to Pench All Portions of the
national Capital.
Fare for each person ON all lines, cent?
Tickets are sold by driver or conductor of
all cars q Tor % cents good ON any line
Washint ton and Georgetown Railroad starts
AZ Georgetown, corner of High street, down
Bridge street, aero Rock Creek, cast along
Icunsylvania avenue passing circle con
tuiuirg NILS statue Of Washington; Cor.
CCtan Gallery, stat ., War and Navy Depart.
Wonts; lrcsidCutsl House, Lafayette square,
containing Mills equestrian statue Of An
drew Jackson; Department Of Justice (hult-
Ing at Filtt enth street, whore transfers are
given TO Fourteenth street Branch Fifteenth
street, past Riggs House aud Treasury De
Iartmcnt; again down Pennsylvania avenue
by Willardsand other hotels, and through
tile principal business portion of the city,
crossing seventh street west at Center
Market where transfers are given TO the
Seventh street Branch going north toward
Boundary street or south to Potomac RIVER,
past Botanical Gardens tQ Naval Monument
thCre transfers are giycn'to branch running
TO Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad depot, as
Ccndiug south side of Capitol lIill, contin
ung along u street south to Pennsylvania
avenue turning into Eighth street east. past
the Marine Barracks 10 Navy-Yard gate.
Neturning same route and conditions.
Fourtccutstrcet Branch 60 Starts NJ New
York avenue and Fifteenth street west, ont
Fourteenth street 10 Boundary, passing
Ilunklln square ana liNildS statue hN
turning same route. Transfers given tonnd
from main or Avenue line. Connects with
cars TO Mount Pleasant every half hour
Fare, . cents additional
Seycnth.strcct Branch Starts at Boundary
and runs due south across the city along
Seventh street west, passing Mount Vernon
Square, Patent and POstoflccs, odd Eel
lows Hall, crossing Pennsylvania avenue
at Centre Market and City Postuntce lwherc
transfers are given to the main or Avenue
line, continuing across the Mall, past the
Smithsonian Institution and National Mil
scum. TO the wharves Of the Mount Vernon,
Norfolk and other steamers and Alexandria
ferry. Returning, same route.
Metropolitan Railway Leaving GEORGETOWN
whore II makes circuit OF west lligli,
FayCtte, Second, Dumbarton and Mont
gomery streets, passing near Georgetown
College, Academy of the Visitation, High
Service Reservoir, and oak nm Ce.uc'cry
over Rock Creek to y street north thence
along Connecticut avenue, amidst tue phia'
tial residences of the West End, Including
that of the British minister; along seven
tecnth street west To II street north Four.
tccnth street to T., passing Willard and the
Ehbitt House, crossing Ninth street (whero
transfers are given 10 the Ninthstroet
BranCh). past the Patent and Post Offices,
TO Fifth street, to Louisiana avenue, passing
Judiciary Square, city Hall, aud Lincoln
Monument; Indiana avenue to G street, by
the Baltimore and ohio depot to Delaware
avenue. to u street north to First street
east, thence along East Capitol street TO Lin
coin Park Returning. same route going
west, except along New Jersey avenue and
D street instead Of Indiana avenue.
Cars also leave the west front of the STATE
War and Navy Depart ments at convenient
intervals connecting with above line az
Seventeenth and ii streets.
Ninth street BranCh-Starts at northern ter
minus of Seventh street west ,whcre II con.
meets with silver Springs Branclp, diyerging
TO Ninth street, thence south, passing
Mount Vernon Square, Masonic Temple
Patent and Postoiiiccs at II street (wherC
transfers are given to main line east oi
wesD, thence TO II street, passing Centre
Market and Baltimore and Potomac Depot
Sixth street TO Missouri avenue, to Four
asd.a-half street, thence TO the Arsena
gate and steamboat wharves, Potomac
River Returning by same route.
Silver Springs Branch-Starts from northern
terminus of Ninth.street Branch, following
Seventh street road, past Howard Uniyer
sity and Schuetzen Park, TO entrance &
grounds of soldiers Home. Returning
same route.
Columbia Railway-starts at Fifteenth stree
west, southeast of Treasury Department
along New York avenue to It's intersection
with Massachusetts avenue mt Seventh
street; thence on Massachusetts avenue &
II street north, past the Government Print
ing O1icc to Boundary and beginning O
Baltimore turnpike and Benning's Bridg
road. Returning, same route.
North Capitol and o Street Tor BelU Railroad
starts tiOTn NlHryllnu avenue anu foul
and.a-half street, thence east to First west
north to q street, west to Fourth street
north TO = street, west to Eleventh street
south TO Il street north, west to Fourteenth
street, south to Ohio avenue, east q
Twelfth street, south to Virginia avenu
and east to starting point. Returning, SAINT
route, except passing east over Instead q
7 street.
This line also has short connecting roads run
ming to the Centre Market Potomac rive
steamboat wharves, Bureau of EngraVin
and Printing, Washington Monument an
Eleventh and Boundary.
| Anacostla misunderstanding from foot {
Seventh street, along NJ street soutl
past navy-yard gate to Twelfth street cas
and over the Anacostia Bridge to unior
town and the Government Hospital for Oh
Insane. Returning, same route. Transfer
TO and from Avenue Line or Scventh-stret
Branch Washington and Georgetown Raj
road, 3 cents
Herdic coaches are running from the Navy
Yard via Pennsylvania avenue to Twenty
second and q streets northwest Fare,
cents; six tickets for % cents. Horse-ca
tickets are also received as fare.
uerdic cabs are run TO any part OF the city
Fare % cents, within | mile; IS cents pc
hour for one passenger; 81 per hour fo
more than one. Stands, East Capitol from
and Pennsylvania avenue and Sevcnt
street northwest,
The Parks.
Washington Circle Is at Twenty third street
New Hampshire and Pennsyyania avenue
and containing an equestrian statue {
Washington,