Evening star., 1895-06-04
STREET EXTENSIONS
The Map for Second Section Has
Been Finished.
LE@ DIFFICULT THAN FIRST
Fewer Subdivisions Have Already
Been Laid Out.
INCLUDES BROOKLAND
EM DIFFICULT THAN FIJI
IJpQp
IN NCLUDES BROOKLAND

At the morning session of the board of
Commissioners today the preliminary map
of the second section of the street extension
plan was submitted to the Commissioners
by Engineer Richards, who is in charge of
the work. The Star presents above a cut
of the second section.
Accompanying the map is the following
report, which explains it quite fully:
1 respectfully submit the preliminary
map of the second section for a permanent
system of highways. 1t is drawn on a
scale of one inch to 400 feet, and COM
prses all the suburbs and rural parks of
the northeast between North Capitol street
extended and the Eastern branch. The
area is about 800 acres, or little more
than Washington proper
A number of small and irregular subdi-
visions have been laid out in these parts,
but the land being comparatively cheap
ard some of the subdivisions being held by
a few persons rectncation VIII be the more
easily carried out.
Subdivisions under the law of 1SSS num-
ber about fifteen, and the plan Of their
extensions, together with the extensions
of the city streets and avenues, form
system that will require but few details
of study when compared with tne secti0n
lust completed, The configuTatiou Of the
gre und is we'll aGapted to straight line ex-
tensions, the only real rough parts being
in the vicinity of Fort Totten, northeast of
Soldiers Home, and the parts between
BIadensburg road and the Eastern branch.
The second section is well dotted with
cemeteries. seven in number, which, IL al
lowed to retain their present boundaries,
will seriously interfere with any complete
or welI-planned system of highways The
cemeteries well as parks and pubhc
institutions should be bounded by lines in
harmony with the plan of extensions.
Extension of City Streets.
The locations of north and south streets
are guided with few exceptions by the ex-
tensions of such streets from the city The
east and west streets are controlled in To-
cation by the city streets from H to w.
Above 'W" the existing subdivisions and
the plan Of section No. l, are made to de-
termine the relative positions of all east
and west highways.
The two subdivisions of Trinidad and
Brookiand, although not conforming to the
city system, have been improved to such
an extent, and are so situated that it was
deemed best to make no radical changes in
them Trinidad being next to the grounds
of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, 1t was con-
sidered unWiSe to extend the city streets
irto this subdivision and have them block
ed by the institutes grounds. This takes
for granted, of course, that the grounds of
the institute being owned by the United
States are permanent either for an institu-
ton or for a park. In the case of Brook
land its system is continued north to the
Bunker Hill road. south to Rhode Island
avenue, east to Queens Chapel road, and
vest to the Metropolitan branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The Brook
land system is rectangular, differs very lit
tie in direction from the city plan, and joins
well with the city system at the boundaries
named above.
The Avenues.
The avenues that will have their lines
extended into this section are Rhode Island
avenue, New York avenue, Delaware ave-
nue., Maryland avenue and North Carolina
avenue. Rhode Island avenue is extended
direct from the city to the Metropolitan
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
IT here takes a slight hend fo the south