Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-16
EXTENSION OF CITY STREETS.
The Pending Bills Approved by Com
mittee Of the Board of Trade.

The board of trade ask for q hearing before
the District committees of Congress in order
to present their views relative to the bills (Sen-
ate 1104, II. III. $3.50 now before both houses,
providing for the extension of the streets and
avenues of the city. The committee on streets
and avenues Of the board, of which Col. Geo.
Truesdell is chairman, has made q report on
these bills, in which it is stated that the bills
are identical, and direct the Commissioners OF
the District to establish permanent system OF
highways, as nearly in conformity with the
street plan of the city, as they should deem adj
vlsable and practicable in, through and upon
any existing suburban subdivision in said Dis
trict, and as far as they shall deem advisable
through intervening tracts of land"
These bills, the report states are proper and
necessary supplements to the act to regulate
sub divisions in the county of Washington,
approved August a. 1883. That act was the
first practical and effective measure looking to
the extension of the city streets by putting an
end to the long continued and highly injurious
privilege accorded to every land holder OF sub
dividing his holding to suit his own selfish no.
tions irrespective OF the plan of the adjoining
subdivision or of the plan of the city.
1t Is doubtful whether any single local
statute has been productive OF an
equal amount of good in the
District 1t was the result OF long and earnest
full suburbs of Washington from the hands of
selfish spectators and the first rocogni-
ton by Congress of the necessity of making
new streets conform to the city streets regard
less of the plans of existing intervening sub
divisions. 1t was public recognition by Con-
gress OF the necessity of such measure the
one now under consideration and q solemn
pledge that sooner or later it should be en-
acted into law. 1t ought to have been done
years ago. and every days delay adds largely
to the cost. 1t is second to none in importance
Tor the future of Washington"
These bills" the report concludes, while
not Tree from objection combine the best por-
lions OF various similar bills which have been
introduced Ill one or both Houses of Congress
from time to time, having the same object in
view, ana appears to provide carefully and well
for all of the necessities of the with some
MINOR exceptions to which the Distrc. Com
mlssloners have called the attention of Con-
gress. The committee believe their passage to
DC OF the utmost Importance to the present and
future interests of Washington"
The Canal and the Ii. and u. Railroad.
A bill was filed in the equity court for Wash
lngton county at Hagerstown yesterday by Mr..
5. Teackle Wallis of Baltimore, solicitor for
George S. Brown, James Sloan, jr., and Lloyd
Lowndes, trustees, plaintiffs, against the Ches-
apeake and Ohio canal company, George S.
Brown, John s. Cuttings, Frederick NJ. Colston
and Bradley 5. Johnson of Baltimore, and VIM.
Matthews of the District of Columbia, trustees
OF the preferred bonds. defendants. The bill
Is IN behalf OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company, and similar to that filed in this city,
as heretofore mentioned in The STAR.