The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-24
BUILDING A NEW TOWN.
improvements Going Forward Rapidly
at Northwest Alexandria.


A visit to the property which the North
west Alexandria Improvement Company is
transforming into beautiful villa sites presents
scene of busy activity. Fully one hundred
and fifty laborers and eighty-two wagons are
daily engaged in pushing forward the contem-
plated improvements. The streets and ave-
nues are being laid out, and an inspection
showed them to be fifty and sixty feet wide,
thoroughly dressed with the finest white gravel,
wide sidewalks, with side parking of the same
material cutters thoroughly cobbled, with
absolutely perfect drainage. Furthermore,
there will be public park, and it has been
decided to have the underground sewerage
system, stream running through the lower
part of the property being inclosed for this
purpose. Three hundred and fifty trees,
planted along the avenues last fall, are now
hourishing, and rows will soon be planted
along all OF the remaining avenues and streets.
Messrs Walden Il Co., the contractors, who
have undertaken the street improvements, are
under contract to complete this work within
six weeks, and during this time $25, 900 will be
expended. The ground lies upon beautiful
range of hills only 1900 yards distant from
Alexandria Station and 5000 yards from st.
Asaph Junction. The streets of the city of
Alexandria come within 800 yards of the ave
nues, and the connecting thoroughfare has
just been put in perfect condition. The
proximity to Alexandria aft ords advantages
and comforts which few subdivisions can
offer.
The entire improvements are under the i'm
mediate charge of Mr.. A. NJ. German. Each
day he drives over the property and personally
supervises its Improvement. The view from
most of the property is indispensable, ex-
tending from the Washington Monument
over Washington City, and following the Po-
tomac River and Maryland heights opposite
to Fort Washington, placing before the eve
most magnificent and diversified panorama
twenty-one miles in extent. The survey of
Mount Vernon Avenue, which has been ac-
cepted by the United States Government,
commands this view as far as Mount Vernon,
and passes through the centre of the property
with width of 100 feet.
There are at present five handsome resi-
dences on the property, and many more will
be erected after the other Improvements have
been carried out. With transportation facilities,
great consideration for those who reside be-
yond the limits of the city, Northwest Alex
andria is well supplied. There are two stations
within the bounds of the property, st. Asaph
and Alexandria. Thirty trains run daily
each way, making thetrip in fifteen minutes.
The fare is but six cents.
The officers and directors of the Northwest
Alexandria Improvement Company are gentle
men of the highest standing. The president,
Mr.. Benoni Wheat, is one OF the Oldest.
wealthiest, and most highly esteemed citizens
of Alexandria. He is president OF the Citizens
National Bank, the Alexandria Fire Insurance
Company, the Alexandria Water Works Com
pany, and numerous other institutions. Mr..
Joseph Broders the company's vice president,
is equally well known, and is vice president
of the First National Bank. Mr. George w.
Fisher, the treasurer, is a prominent Alexan-
dria merchant, and Mr.. George Wise, the sec
retary, is one OF the most substantial citizens
Of the same town. He holds many offices OF
trust, among Others that of secretary and
treasurer of the Alexandria Fire Insurance
Company. The directors other than the gen.
tlemen just mentioned are Messrs. Henry
Strauss, ? ecently nominated for mayor OF
Alexandra; A. &. Uhler, of Wimsatt 81 Uhler
Washington City; j. Clinton Smoot, Thomas
Leadbeater, and George r. Hill, all OF whom
are prominent and successful business men.