Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-11
The Alexandria of Our Dav

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and containing from sixteen to eioh;.os
ir habitanis has sprung. Comm Comm
all, however. who C aim Alexandra ssrsa.b
postc flee, who transact business here ana
who live 10 the en0irons in Fairfax anu anu
Alexandria counties two or three thon.ss.
additional souls coud easily be- eSunera.as
Beginning, as has been stated, in a tob,eo|
warehouse on what was then (.nd II NOV.
sometimes osled) Point Wesi, the citv Nv,
gradually extended its limits 10 HuS,'nS
creek ou the eou,h, 10 Fairfax cour.y O.. the
west and far into Alexandria cour.y on ,ho
north aud west, with the best ind!csfion,
that before another decade shall tsn
elapsed what are now fields in the ias'
named section especially will bes,uddsd viii
buildings or NETS morpbosed into sttsats
Not only has the city sterdity increased
it's area, but localities which rot so lonp esa
we're regarded as portions If the Polomso
river have heen reclaimed and houses 4,ec,
ed thereon. ThiH s notably the case q, 70.
CARDS Royal and Pitt streets extended. 40 !,
has been but recently thst maa mar,5
among US who recollec "a wren SHAT, VOC.
known as Petersburg valIs;" WAS H. ~
sort of seinhsuers and when lorgbosia lcsd.
ron and Pitt streets. Tire jncregs.,i NM,
Der of buildings throughout that SECTION :,
the last quarter OF q century has been ma
velous, aud the area covered by sa1-re-
r. dences from Queen street. north Is lsrce,
than the original plat OF the town. which
had its limits from Princess street 10 Dnks
and from the latter % Royal street.
Those OF Us familiar with the AIexand,I.
Of ante bellum Gays will RECALL the limo
when hcuses were few and far be.wee, a.
ter che left Princess street going north o-
west, wheu, barring few isolated bpud.pcs
and en- ice house here or ihsro. tie locally
referred to was sbo1t as spsrsey seti,d 40
Nebraska railroad station. A wax nav.
ever, 10 that neighborhooG now viii e7sil re-.
pay the obserVant. Hills haze been rs24d
ravines filled and squares graded, u biie
houses OF no mean pretepsion occupy sjiss
which few years ago 1t would haye bean
difficult to dispose OF to brck COMPANY.
Queen street has undergone wonderful
cnsDge during the same period, hCaGreds Of
new buildings having bsel built all he gsy
from Lee street to squares beyond the Geids
OF Colross, while Princess end Otoaoco from
Pitt street have followed In the general
to the west at no slow gai'.
II Ia thus shown that ground which few
years ego Gas uupr06uctiVe, burden 10 itl
owners and barely wCith the lsxa,ipn lsnd
that too, In what wos then he lasss m. ms.
ing portion Of ;he city, has become tie site
Of hundreds Of houses-many shove the ar-
erage In grsDdeur-and woald have proven
o lucrative investment to Gny one wbo could
have bought and held it fora few yea.s. 1.
1t not logical to infer lba. property in other
localities will invariably provo 81 valuable
In the near future, ard that invesim ent In
real estate anywhere 10 Alexandria is safe
and profitable?
Now while Wa have called stealion TO
the rapid improvement of Int one lccaitg
the fact that other sections have ,qlelir To-
creased In value ard Importance IL je-t as
apparent The Fourth ward, say from Pit
street westward to the buryirg grounds ard
almost to Hunting creek, has beer msd5 10
TEEN with busy life ty the recent erection Of
hundreds of nea., gu hs anita snd nlsny iue
dwellings. What were olsokaild fGds and
truck gardens q few yesia beck are EcT the
sites OF blocks of buildings, ard every dsy
witnesses The laying of foundations f5r new
a
ed by Columbus, Alfred, Wilkes aud Glib
bon strsetF. This spot was few years ago
field, bounded ou The north by deep gul-
ley-sbout az deso!a,e plec" IS hen exist
ed within the city Limits TIE gully has
long since been filed end every 200. Of the
adjacent ground, Mar which tbs frogs ofosR-
ed In our schocl-boy days, Il now occupied
by houses. square farther west exkibits
the same change.
The western aect'on OF the city from
Hunting creek Beyond The city Units on
tue north has grown am agiy. Every
street, especially those ,u0ning ncrn and
south, is being crowded with houses, while
in the region around the M.d.snd depot q
new city has appeared in recent yesrs
The steady land in many CAGES rspic) I'M
provement of every square In the oiIy llmid
could be described, cut whist were few
years sgo the environs have besu msinly re-
ferred to, and the nonclusion is iness;ible
that II property on the outskirts Of the city
is undergoing such steady Improvement
that within the heart Of the place il !ucreas.
ing in corresponding ratio. For idstaace, a
com para,vely short siIue sgO the haf 1lCCk
to the north of Chris Church, on Cameron
street, was merely an u5rloW6d field, aud
that to the northwest Of The cnurch, an Co.
umbus ami Cameron, Commons On which
oircuses pitched tent anG boys played ball.
To-day. ss is wel!-kDo@n, those localities
are regarded Is smong he mos. desirable in
the city, and at pfesent IL Sond be difficult
to purchase prora:ty thsre at anything like
q reasonable price. That street regarded
as the highest altitude Of Alexandra, is GER
tain to BIS extended rapidly northwasi and
almost the entire thorS ughfare will Iaegta-
bly, present the Sans espeot that is now
manifest 10 certain porlicns.
The fact that capitalists eod real estate
agents are now iurcirg thsir st'snion TO
is one Of ne evidences oil! { prom-
sing future for the city. Tae prcx mity Of
he city to the pat!ore; epl:si, Il De people
1rge, will Inevitably ne the making Of u, and
sooner or later IN Influx from that c.iy Will
'st 10 which will augment the va &c Q! every
IL use within our corporate Unite ard many
beyond. The increased number Of tralus
low run between the two cities hae EeDder-
I'd communication 80 easy that psTsoDs
working or trsnsac'ins busiUcss IL Wssh-
ngfon can pasa from city to city Qa.oker By