Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-15
10th street. as it would take away almost
entirely the grounds upon which their
homes are built

10th street, as 1t would take away almost
entirely the grounds upon which their
homes are built.
Claims Constitutional Rights.
Cynthia H. Quackenbush. through Will
lam Birney. filed protest against the taxi
ing Of her property on Columbia road with
out just compensation.
She says she has already been deprived
OF her constitutional rights In that sixteen
rect have been illegally but in point of
TACT TAKEN from her property On Washing
ION Heights columbia ROAD side) and In
Inat the commissioners of the District of
Columbia have steadily refused to ask for
an appropriation to make her compensa-
tion for the property taken from her. She
cohcudes: i understand the Commission.
ers have decided that in the future exten-
sion of the streets they will take sixteen
and a half feet from the Columbia road
side. forty feet from the 18th street side
of my property on Columbia road and a
width OF twenty feet for a frontage of $40
feet on my lots on Kalorama avenue.
Aside from the property taken. this would
Of the public"
George A. Armes protests against the
change Of Connecticut avenue and SAYS
That 1t should go through In a straight
begins In Woodley Park and runs to the
District line.
DE-. Little's Protest.
C. c. Tucker. on behalf of DIR. ]. W. Lit
tie. protests against the proposed increase
In the width of Lydecker avenue and the
closing of Morgan avenue in Holmead
Manor, and asks that he be allowed to ap-
pear before the commission and argue the
case.
Alice S. Hill protested against the extern
sion of Yelling place from University
place to 18th street, and of Huntington
place from University place to 18th street
The exte lsien CT these two streets would
extension Of streets and would not aid in
making them conform to the city streets
George w Barry protests against the ex-
tension Of Bismarck street through his
property.
Joseph Burden opposes the extension of
Vermont avenue through Whitney Close to
the Soldiers Home. The running of Yer
mont avenue as projected together with
the abandonment of Warder avenue,
amounts to a virtual con1iscation of the
whole of his property, he says, as it takes
It out Of the market. He says, further, ne
does not believe Congress will ever ap-
propriate one dollar to pay for all of these
proposed streets. The scheme looks like an
organized effort he says in conclusion, to
out any prospect of rendering any equiv
a1ent therefor.
Mr. Alban N. Nixon states that the pro-
posed street extension plan of the Commits
sloners AFFECTS almost every piece Of prop
erty of which he is the owner in the Dis
trict. On California avenue, lots IL and 1S
will be affected by the proposed widening
Of said street and also by the extension in
straight line of Connecticut avenue: lot IA
will also be affected by widening California
avenue. On the two first mentioned lots,
he says, he proposed building homestead,
but the unsettled status of street extension
precluded him from doing SO. He states
that If California avenue is widened or
Connecticut avenue extended he shall offer
no objection provided just compensation
adjudged by correct market prices of like
adjacent property, is awarded for property
SO taken.
In Behalf of Ontario Avenue.
Mr.. G. Browne Goode, in long letter to
the commissioners, protests as owner of
several lots on Lanier Heights against the
abandonment of Ontario avenue and the
extension of Champlain avenue. He calls
attention to the present excellent condition
of Ontario avenue, and declares that to
call the proposed extension of Champlain
avenue 18th street is entirely misleading,as
1t nowhere connects with 18th street. To car
ryChamplain avenue through the heights, he
says, will practically destroy ten valuable
lots and require the condemnation of at
least $4,000 feet of land, costing from 81 to
$1.5O a foot The estimated cost of opening
this small section of Champlain avenue win
probably be at least s150,O0O which would
be expended solely for the purpose of con-
Meeting Columbia road with the junction of
Ontario and Poplar avenues, a purpose
which Ontario avenue now serves well. He
says 1t is hard to understand what is to be
gained by the proposed abandonment of the
two blocks of Ontario avenue Immediately
north of Columbia road. 1t is the evident
intention of the commissioners, Prof Goode
continues. to afford a thoroughfare through
Lanfer Heights to the regions beyond, but
this would require a tremendous amount Of
filling and grading, the quarry road
would have to be filled to a depth of forty
feet or more, and the precipitous Poplar
avenue also for length of 500 feet After
crossing quarry road, a cut of twenty or
thirty feet will be necessary to bring It
down to the level of Kenesaw avenue as
now fixed.
I'm order. then, to carry this one nsig-
nificant street. Champlain avenue says
Prof. Goode, from Columbia road to KEN
esaw avenue. a distance Of about one-third
Of a mile, 1t would cost probably 100000.
1t seems scarcely probable that Congress
will provide SO large a sum for this particu-
lar purpose for many years to come for
no one wants this alleged improvement,
while there are numerous others that will
have ardent advocates. The result will be
that blight will be cast upon Lanier
Heights and vicinity for many years to
come, since no land can be sold, no houses
be built and no improvements projected
while this system of bikes and bitches is
threatening u.s.
In conclusion, Prof. Goode protests against
the injustice done the property owners on
Lanier Heights, who bought their land in
good faith upon streets that have already
been accepted by the Commissioners for
which official grades have been given, and
who have expended large sums from their
own pockets in improvements.