The evening times., 1895-12-18

Washington is belcaguered with trolley
electric lines that reach their clutching
tcntacles of wires and nils out into the sur
rounding territory after the true manner of
the deviI-fish. That coiigress is besicged
with the representatives of these interests.
working for the Eikins- -Doian-WiIener syu-
dicate of Philadeipifia. fright lbe assumed
We're il not known with reasonable GER
staptys Sj-ks3oe- .. ssi>.v
environment OF thc-ti' : is just now be-
ing made more complete Jfthe trolley mag
mates do not fasten' thtir coils securely
about the place and finany break i'll, it
will not he for the lack or the use of all
the tremendous po wcr they command. They
certainly will string their lines like web
securely where outside and gain
vested rights in the city from which
they cannot be disiodgcd by anything
short OF big popular ma jority directed
plainly against them.
EIGHT IN OPERATION.
There are eight trolley roads about Wa sh-
ington already in operation.
The Great Falls line, recently built nd put
in use, runs up the river; with the picturesque
hill country about it, and the point where
the Potomac breaks through the Maryland
Virginia highlands, on the wa to the sea as
its terminus.
The Tenleytown road To Bethesda Park
comes next, and from it the Glen Echo line
runs down to the river at the now dilapi-
dated summer resort that was ct one time
the center of SO many hopes.
The Chevy Chase road, Intended to boom
the lands out toward the circle and the
Maryland line, is now under the control OF
the Washington and Georgetown Company,
or the Capital Traction but IL runs a troll
ley, not cable car. Its wires are under
ground as long Us 1t remains within the
boundary, but 1t shows the clOven foot the
moment 1t gets out.
Next In the circuit comes the Brightwood
road spinning its way out tn Silver Springs,
near Admiral Lees, ON Blair road, a nd reach
ing out tentacles to Takoma Park and North
Takoma.
The determined effort made by the Eek
inSton Company to hold its ground on New
York avenue, from which it has not vet
been wholly driven, will not allow 1t to
DE forgotten. Its managers have talked
much OF a change or motive power, and even
promised the introduction OF an under
ground electric system OF a pneumatic car,
but as q matter OF fact the trolley car
runs on and on.
:. ALL TO BE CONNECTED.
All these roads are soon To be connected by
the mighty arm of the Potomac Power and
Light Company reaching its trolley poles
and wires from Newark street on the Ten
leytown road. which this compa ny owns, by
way of Sherman avenue and the Soldiers
Home 10 the pOwcr-housc on the Brentwood
road east OF lexington.
But these are not all. On the other side
of the river the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon road. u trolley road, has come
up from the tombof Washington. and, skirt
ing the northeast side OF Arlington Gene
terry, has begirt the city on the south and
west from Alexandria TO Rosslyn. Even
now this company is seeking 10 get foot
hold at the river front on Fourteenth street
southwest, with every prospect of success
Finally. the Washington, Arlington and
Falls Church road has recently started its
cars again to Fort Myer. and it IS only
waiting a little delay in the courts till it
shall reach a big coil across Aquetluct
Bridge and connect its trolley poles with
the Potomac Power and Light Company,
which is supposed to have behind il the in
fluence of ex-Secretary William C. Whit
ney, apa<sible Presidentofihe United States.