Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-05

Central Organization to Represent All the
Various Localities

| A Central Organization to Represent All tn,
| Various Localities.
Citizens associations, for the promotion O
the interests OF the different sections of tn,
| city and county before Congress, are springin,
up all over the District. Yesterdays SrAn con
tanned an account Of the formation of such
society by the residents OF Trinidad and w
City, which took place Wednesday evening
Last evening the large dining room of the Hill
man House. on North Capitol street, was filled
with representatives from the various associa
tons in the northeast section of the county
Speeches favoring the formation of centrs
organization, to be known as 1.-THE North
eastern Improvement Association" were made
by Geo. P. Davis DR.. L. c. Loomis A. J.
BUTLER, A. H. Davis, Prof. F. D. Foster, Chas
ID. Lynch and others, after which the meeting
organized by electing DR.. L. C. Loomis as
Chairman and A. ID. Dewey secretary. In TAX
Ing the chair DR.. Loomis briefly outlined the
objects OF the proposed society and predicted
that through its efforts the northeastern sec.
ton of the District would soon receive what he
considered a more equitable proportion Of the
improvements to be made with monies from
the public treasury than it had been receiving
in the past There was no reason, he said, why
property values and public conveniences should
not be as great there as in the northwest. The
ground was as high or higher, the water sup
ply purer and even more plentiful and the
drainage was the best in the country. The
most extreme point represented was as near or
nearer the Capitol than Georgetown and all
that was needed YVES some means OF transporta-
ton and some streets through which to reach
the city. 1t was to promote such enterprises
for the gen6Al good that this central associa-
ton was to be formed. Mr.. Davis made plea
for the proposed Northeast Washington rail-
road. The road, he said, was not to be built
for speculation, but because the large number
OF people-many thousands-now living in the
territory to be traversed by the road required
some means of access to the city other than the
steam railroad lines. Tho route selected, he
said, had the well nigh unanimous approval OF
the citizens in the sections through which i:
passes. He presented a resolution adopted at
the citizens meeting ut Trinidad Wednesday
evening indorsing the project and asked the
central body to take the matter in hand.
The suburban villages of Brookland, East
and South Brookland, Winthrop Heights,
Langdon, Ivy City, University Heights and
Trinidad were represented at the meeting by
delegations, and steps were taken to FORM a
permanent society.
A. n. Dewey, Martin L. Gottwals, A. H.
Davis, L. c. LOOMS and Charles d. Lynch
were appointed committee on rules
and tho following we're appointed a COM
mittee to wait upon the Commission
ers and the District committees OF the
House and Senate to urge the granting OF
the charter to the Northeast Street Railroad
Company: L. c. LOOMS, Winthrop Heights;
Charles ID. Lynch. Brookland; l. ]. Baker and
A. NJ. Dewey, LangdOn; Theodore Holbrook,
l. Z. Childs and George p. Davis. Trinidad
Albert Gleason, N. May and George Sanderson,
Ivy City. Tho members present were en-
thusiastic over the prospect of improvements
In the northeast section of the District and ad-
journed to meet next Thursday evening at the
same place.