Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-25
ALEXANDRIA.
TIE sPr.R STREET RAILWAY.


Mr l. W. spear. who largely instru-
mental In the construction Of the Mount
Vernon electric line and the establishment Of
New Alexsndr .. some time ago disconnected
himself from those enterprises and has inter
est. the northwest Of this city and has
purchased the right Of railway to the Po-
tomAc opposite Washington He has project
for street railway here a the basis Of an
electric road To Washington, ard be explained
In q general vay his plans to the city council
last night He proposes . road from the north
snl Of Columbus street to Cameron, thence by
Royal IN Duke and up Duke to West End and
tk- Theological Seminary. with routes on
King street. and also out Columbus some
other street 20 Northwest Alexandria and ST.
Asaph junction. These plans. he said. were
yet but general and would be determined more
sccurat.ly in the future. 1hs privilege asked
va opposed by Mr.. J. VI. johnson. ~ special
s,torney Of the Mount Vernon electric road.
On . speech. but was supported BY Capt.
BRYANT and Capt Muskback. and the ordinance
granting the right Of way passed the dermen
unsnimously and adopted in the lower
bosrd By Q vote Of nine TO seven, follows
Teas. Me--rs- Anderson. BAllenger, Mushback,
strider. smOot. McCuen, Davis, Kraft and
Fisher. Q. nays, Nessrs. W. =. Moore, C. y.
Moore. Jones. Harrison, Chler, Evans and
President Snovden, Z. IL 10 understood that
tbs Washington. Alexandria and Mt. Vernon
Electric Company intend to make Q legal con-
test in the matter.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
The two boards OF the city council held ses-
siOns last night extending from 7:30 O'Clock
until after IL o'clock. and the meetings were
attended by a very grsa. crowd Of interested
citizens outside the bar. The order for the
extension % the paid fire department so as to
snthorize the purchase Of horses and hose
wagons and the appropriation to employ driv-
ere for hose carriages was agreed to. and after
= very long discussion the boards granted TO l..
W. Spear and bis associates the right to make
stree. railroad on the streets Of
Alexsndris: and they referred TO the com
mittes on streets application Of
the Washington. Alexandria and Mt. Vernon
Railroad Company for an extension Of time
within which to complete its street railway IN
Alexsndri,. The Office Of veigher and in
sp-ctor % hay w,s abolished, 90 henceforth the
hsv trade in Alexandria 10 exempt from
municipal control An appropriation Of OIL 900
% the inirmary was reported on favorably,
but laid over and q months paw was granted
20 the SICK policeman Mr. Geo. ". Jones.
Some references were made of other matters to
Committees
Judge Norton has fined sefer Blouse s10o and
ordered his imprisonment in Jail for thirty days
for selling liquor without license. He has fined
l. Rrin ESQ. Chss. Fleischman s10 and Vim.
Jsven. sI0 for violating the liquor law and re-
voksd their licenses. The Sefer Blouse case will
be contested on habess corpus.
The Alexandria post Office has now been in
eluded in the classified list and viii hereafter
be subject 10 the rules Of the civil service.
The county board Of supervisors has author
tzed the United States government TO Law water
main. and also gas mains from the Aqueduct
bridge TO For. Myer.