Evening star., 1894-04-12
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
The Sale of the Stock and Fixtures of a
Railway.
Washington and Arlington Line Under
the Hammer-UnfOn Station In
dOrsed-PossibIe Extension.

Eleven months ago the Washington and
Arlington Railway Company ceased to
operate it's road through the lack of funds,
and up to the present time their four cars
have stood in the weather awaiting the
action of those having the best right to
move them.
On Saturday at noon all the company's
property IN Virginia. including the cars,
tracks, poles, wires and other equipments,
together with the franchise, will be sold at
public auction, and two hours later the
dynamos, engines and other machinery in
the power house in Georgetown. at the cor
ner of a0th and the canal. will be put under
the hammer to satisfy the claim of the
trustees of the bondholders. who have the
first claim on the property to the extent of
$4,000.
The trustees of the company are ]. r.
Cation and Hatley Norton, one of them
having been appointed by court Of Nir-
ginia and the other by a District court.
The Central Trust Company of New York
are the ones who represent the bondholders
and who are forcing the sale.
In all probability the purchasers of the
road will be New York and Philadelphia
capitalists, their representatives having
been here for some time getting an intell-
gent knowledge of the roads interests, that
bidding may be done with more satisfac
ton.
The Washington and Arlington Railroad
Company during its short life has been in
the control OF three parties, the original in
corporators, a western syndicate with Thos.
king as president, who bought il for $50
O1O. and the receiver. Mr.. Archibald Green
lees, appointed by a court of Virginia, ard
one of the District. He has not received
much during his occupancy of The office.
but has mainly established a sort of a pro-
tectorate of the property.
The road is operated by the overhead troll
ley system.
Should the power-house property not be
secured by the purchasers of the road
proper, the latter could be operated with
out much inconvenience or unnecessary ex-
pense, through power secured from the cleo
trlc works at the Virginia end of the Chain
Drldse' or from the Tenleytown Railroad
Company.
Bad management, it is said, contributed
largely 10 the poor success of the company.
Canal Scow.
There is being constructed at the canal
company's shops at Hancock a large and
costly combined scow and ice breaker to
be used on the waterway. The deposits
brought into the canal through the feeders
ana the small streams which empty into it,
in addition to the earth torn up and
brought in by heavy rains, make it neces-
sary TO keep u scow in constant use
Cave In.
The continued wet spell yesterday caused
cave-in on 32d street below Mt Tabor
Church. the culvert under the road that
leads from the old Olympic Park to the
Tavine at the south of the old tan yard
losing its solidity and crashing in on the
west Lights and protecting rails were
Immediately put up by the police Through
the culvert down to the creek runs the
water from the covered spring, which oc-
cupies the center of the park and which
formerly supplied the entire section with
drinking and household water.
Railroad Extension.
The West Virginia railroad which is now
being extended through Williamsport on the
canal to Hagerstown, it is claimed by some
inside railroad men. will. at a date not far
distant. be brought from the city of the
canal down the valley of the Potomac to
Georgetown, in spite of the operations of
the Baltimore and Ohio Company Through
an act of the Legislature of Maryland passei
nearly two years ago.it is claimed the West
Virginia road acquired the right to use the
bed of the canal for railroad purposes on
the payment of large sum, but on account
of restraining order issued by Judge AL
vey in the interests Of the bondholders of
H. the West Virginia was unable at that
time to take possession.
Daily a decision is expected in this mat
ter.
Real Estate.
Geo. w. Offutt yesterday sold to William
y. Payne part of lot c, in H. c. Jewell and
others sub Of lot 3, in Beatty and Hawkins
addition, and part of lot =, in the Slip"
square g.
In "Whitehaven," on the Conduit road.
near the distributing reservoir John b.
Hammond sold to James II. Cranwell lot 4
block 4, in Clark and others sub.
Coal Arriving.
Coal vessels, as early as the season is
have begun to come in and depart with en-
couraging regularity. The shipments on
the canal have been large to date and are
increasing in number daily. The demand
OF the manufacturing cities of the Atlantic
coast for Maryland coal remains unabated
The Union Station.
The commissioners recommendation of
the establishment of union junction at
the Aqueduct bridge, where all the five
projected roads may come in, meets with
the universal appreciation of the people
of Georgetown. The adoption of the recon-
mendatiOn will cause the following roads
to come in at that point: The Great Falls.
the Falls Church, the Arlington and Fort
Myer, the Metropolitan Street Extension
and the Washington and Georgetown
There is also under serious contamination
the establishment of line of steam
launches the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, TO run from this point to the in
tersecting spots of the upper canal and
Potomac.
There has been an exceedingly heavy
fall of snow in the mountains at the head
of the Potomac and all along it's upper
course, say canal men, and there is a
probability of the snow melting so rapidly
that, with the rain still falling a freshet
of proportions may result
Twenty-eiShth street between DumbartOn
and p has been ordered paved with as
phalt and its sidewalks repaved.