The morning times., 1895-10-16
NEW T STREET RAILROAD
Con1ractG Saxton Will Begin
Work Tomorrow or Friday.
STARTS AT EASTERN END
1t VIII Be Pushed to Completion as
Fastas the Weather VIII Permit-F
Street Business Men Object to Hav-
ingthe Street Torn Up Before Christ
mas as 1t VIII Interfere With Trade.

The work of equ.pping the street line
with electric motor power VIII be formally
begun tomorrow or Friday. Several hun
dretl men have been engaged for the work
and on Monday the first rails of the new sys-
tenn will e laid.
The contract, as previously told in The
Times, has been awarded to Mr.. +. Saxton,
who equipped the Ninth street line, and he
has given the subcontractors instructions
to proceed al once with the execution of the
WORK.
These sub-contra ctors have been busy
withm the pas tfew days securing iaboScrs.
Tie men have been instructed to report al
tn working hour on Monday ymorning.
1hc work on the road will be begun Just
west of Lincoln Park, and Will be carried
through at once to Ninth street and it Will
then be extended TO Thirty sixth street. IL
the weather permits the whole line VIII he
equipped this winter, II not the line VIII
only he completed To Ninth street.
INTERFERENCE WITH TRADE.
The business men on + street have niadea
request to President Phillips that the work
on street be deferred until after the
Christmas holidays. as they think that the
tearing up of the streets will seriously
interfere with the holiday trade.
The president of the road has not, it is
stated, allowed the desire of the business
men 10 enter at all into the execution
of the work on any section of the road
This had been left entirely with Mr.. saAton,
and he has Instructed his sub-contractorS
as possible. 1t is, however, the intention
of the contractors to interfere as little as
possible with the traffic on street, so that
the winter trade will not be affected.
The new track will put down a the rate
of from 900 to 1000 feet per day double.
and as ia st as the laying of the track is com
pieted, the conducting rails will be put IN
1t has not been decided as yet where the
power-house will be located, but it is
expected that the cars. will be operated
from the power house which it is proposed
tp
of the Ninth street and Belt lines.
WORK ON THE SHORT LINE.
As soon as the material arrives, which
will be in day or two, the short line OF
the Metropolitan which extends from Ninth
to Seventh streets TO the car Houses will
be started, so that passengers Will not
have to transfer from the Ninth street
line i'm order to reach upper Seventh street
The Knox Express Company has been
engaged for some time in distributing the
yokes and rails, so that they will be con-
venient for the workmen. They are now
distributed from Fifteenth and East Capt.
tOl streets to the Baltimore and Ohio depot,
and will be placed along the entire street
route.
The tool chests, picks, and slovels will
be placed along the route for the, workmen
to-day unless there is a change in the
programme, and horses and carts will be
employed to haul stones for the work
and the carrying away of the excavations
to the dump.
Mr. Saxton has instructed the boss con-
tractors only To employ Washington labor
erS and teams.
as the street line is completed the Belt
line win be begun. Both the Belt line and
Ecking ton road will be done at one time, II
sufficient workmen can be secured.
The grading on the Washington and
Maryland electric line, with which the
lexington line Will have connection, has
been almost completed to the District list let OF ?,
for the laying of track and ballaStiDg.