The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-04
AT THE DISTRICT CAPITOL.
Items of Interest from the Commission.
ers' once.

to-day granted the United States Electric
Lighting Company permission TO lay
underground conduits upon streets and
avenues as follows:
First street, west from Pennsylvania
avenue to b street south, thence on said B
street to Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
thence on said Pennsylvania avenue to
Eleventh street, distance Of about 400
feet; and OH Seventh street, west from II
street north to Water street, thence on
Water street to y street south, further
distance Of about 1850 feet or total dis
lance of about II $50 lineal feet.
Permission is also hereby granted to lay
further distance not to exceed total of
1850 lineal feet, on such streets and ave.
nues. or parts thereof, as may be selected
by the United States Electric Lighting
Company from the following list, pro-
vided that the aggregate length of conduit
laid under the provisions of this permit
shall not exceed five miles, or %, 400 feet,
es provided in the District Appropriation
act approved March 4, 1901. And the
United States Electric Lighting Company
shall give notice in writing to the Com
missicners of the District OF Columbia of
the streets and avenues, or parts thereof
thus selected before commencing any con-
struction under the terms of this permit
Eighteenth street west, from Massachu-
sets avenue to Florida avenue; Sixteenth
street west, from Massachusetts avenue to
Florida avenue; Rhode Island avenue,
from Fourteenth to Seventh streets; G
street west, from Four and. a-half to Sec
ond street west; Madison street, from
Pennsylvania avenue to II street. and ii
street, from Madison street to Seventeenth
street; Eighth street southeast, from
pennsylvania avenue to l street. New
Hampshire avenue, from Washington
Circle to Dupont Circle; II street north,
from Seventh street west to Fifteenth
street east; East Capitol street, from First
street to Eleventh street: First street east,
from East Capitol street to b street south;
Rhode Island avenue, from Scott Circle to
Fourteenth street west.
II being the express understanding and
agreement that this permit is not in any
way to relieve the United States Electric
Lighting Company from full and COM
plete compliance with any and all acts of
Congress hereafter passed in pursuance, or
board OF three persons authorized by the
appropriation act of August @, 1890, for the
District of Columbia, to consider the loca-
ton, arrangements and operation of cleo
trio wires in said District; and it being
further understood and agreed that any
and all overhead cables and wires, and all
poles, Of the United States Electric Light
lug Company, along the streets and ave-
nues specified, shall be removed Mt the ex-
pense of the said company within the
shortest practicable time after the compile
ton and full equipment of the conduits.
All work done under this permit shall
be i'll accordance with the requirements of
the Engineer Department Of the District
of Columbia.
The work to be done al the sole risk
and expense Of the United States Electric
f..l,N TA... loo.
and subject to the requirements of this
office, to be commenced within sixty (6W
days from this date, and completed within
one hundred and eighty $50 days there
after, unless further extended by the COM
missioners of the District of Columbia.
No part of the SAID conduits, or any of
them, shau be laid elsewhere than in the
carriageway Of the streets and avenues
upon Which they are authorized to be
Lighting Company, shall before conf
mencing work hereunder, deposit with
the Collector of Taxes, u. c., in such
sums and at such times as the same may
from time to time, during the progress of
the work, be demanded by the Commits.
sioners, an amount sufficient to meet the
estimated cost of restoring all street sur
faces disturbed TO good condition.
The commissioners also granted q per-
init to the Chesapeake and Potomac Tel
ephone Company to lay underground con-
duits under the same provisions govern
ing the Electric Light Company, with the
addition of this clause:
The aggregate length of all conduits or
subways constructed here under shall not
exceed five miles, as prescribed in the
Ra1rS !. i approximation act approved
The Telephone Company permit covers
the following streets:
Beginning at the proposed new Ex-
change, west side of Fourteenth street, be-
tween ii and l streets, running north on
Fourteenth street to with three S.duct
pipes, thence north on Fourteenth street
to X street with four S-duct pipes, thence
north OH Fourteenth street to NJ street
with one S-duct pipe, thence northeast on
Vermont avenue to Rhode Island avenue
with one 8-duct pipe, thence on Rhode
Island to Ninth street and on Ninth
street to Boundary, thence on sBOund-
airy to Eighth street with one g.
duct pipe, with branch from Rhode
Island avenue into alley in square 3Gi;
also branch at intersection Of Vermont
and Rhode Island avenues into square
N street, running east along NJ street to
Ninth street, north on Ninth street to
| alley in square 400 with one 6-duct pipe.
beginning at Fourteenth and X streets
and running west on X street to Fifteenth
| street with three S-duct pipes, thence on X
street to Seventeenth street with three
6-duct pipes, thence on X street to Nine
tenth street with two 8-duct pipes, thence
on X TO Twenty-ninth street with one
S-duct pipe, thence north on Twenty-ninth
TO NJ street and ON M to Thirty-first street
with one 6-duct pipe, thence north OH
Thirty. first street to and into alley in
square 3S.
Branch at Nineteenth and X streets TO
run north on Nineteenth to Ostreet, with
one Sduct pipe; thence north on Nine
tenth too street, with one 6-duot pipe;
thence with branches into squares 93, III
and 1874. Also branch on Nineteenth
street into squares 40 and III.
Branch beginning at Fifteenth and X
\ streets, running north on Fifteenth TO q
| streets, with one S-duct pipe; thence west
| on o street TO and into alley in square IL
| with branch from Fifteenth street into
square 1877.
| Beginning at proposed new Exchange,
OH Fourteenth, between ii and streets,
| running south on Fourteenth to q street,
to Pennsylvania avenue with five S'duct
| pipes, thence south on Fourteenth street
10 ID street. east to Thirteenth street, south
| 10 G street, east to Twelfth street, with
two Sduct pipes; thence south on Twelfth
street to Virginia avenue southwest, and
on Virginia avenue to Ninth street south
west, with one S'duct pipe, thence south
on Ninth to Il street, to and into alley in
square 412 with one 0duct pipe.
Branch Fourteenth and G streets north
west, running easterly TO Tenth street
| with two S.duct pipes; thence on Tenth
| TO i, east to +, to and into alley in square
377.
Branch Thirteenth and + streets north.
west to and into alley in square Pol.