The morning times., 1895-07-16
Street Extension Commission
Closes Its Doors for Awhile.
CONSIDERING COMPLAINTS
A bout Thirty Written Objections to
the Plans of the District Commis-
sioners Have Been Filed-Each WIN
BE Examined and August st Com
pIainants anSubmit More Evidence.

The time allowed in which to file pro-
tests against the proposed plan of street
extension, submitted some time ago by
the District Commissioners expired By
limitation yesterday
1t was expected that the office of the
street extension commission would have
been Hooded with protests from the citi-
Zensalong theline ofthe proposed extensions.
Up TO late hour yesterday, however,
there were only about thirty protests filed
with the clerk OF the commissioners, some
Few OF when were of q very mild nature.
IN all there are over fifty papers on the
subject flled, some OF them endorsements Of
the plans submitted by the District Com
nissIoners, and others suggesting small
additional extensions and improvements.
Or course, all protests entered and for
warded yesterday Will be received 0ud
entertained by the commission, hdt after
that date all further objections are Dared.
To-day the papers on file, referring TO
street extension, VIII be classified Under
their proper headings aud submitted TO
the commission for consideration.
COMPOSITION OF COMMISSION
The commission is composed u: Seer. .'tary
or war Lamont, Secretary of the Interior
Smith, and Chief of Engineers Gen. w. p.
Craighead, aud in all matters relating
10 the proposed plan Of street extension,
It is board of final resort. on their
decision IN each particular and n all cases
depends the adoption or refusal of the
plans proposed. The protestants will,
OF course, IN cases ing the consider
ation aud adjustment of damages and
compensation, be privileged to appeal from
the commission to the civil courts, whose
finding viii be final
The commission viii take all the papers in
the several protests under adviseneut to-
day, and between now and August st Will
thoroughly investigate the merits of each
case submitted to them. Beginning on the
first Monday in August each of the protest
ants will be given a public hearing before
the commission, in the office o fthe Secretary
or war, at which time he viii be allowed
to introduce new evidence pertinent to the
protest. The hearings will be continued
from day to day unH the list is exhausted
after which the commission viii render
its decision.
THOSE WHO PROTEST.
The following is a hseof the protestauts
and the extensions to'which they object
Leroy Tuttle protests against the exten--
sion OF So street and Connecticut avenue
northwest: George and Thomas Fields,
against street extension through their prop
change OF grade and widening California
avenue;G B Goode, against the abandonment
OF Ontario avenue Irwin u. Linton, against
extension Of Fourteenth street through
lands of Louisa Kuhn
Enoch Totten protests against street ex-
tensions through his lands on Seventh street,
known as the baseballpark; Emma l. Ypder,
Observation-Disclosures fXtecnthStreett through
her lands in Mt Pleasant; NJ F. stoddard,
against extension OF Columbia road,
Nineteenth street and Wyoming ave
nue.; NJ T. Britton and A. NJ
Parker, against the stopping the
northern extension Of Twenty second street;
b. F. Leighton, against extension Yer
mont avenue; George H. Dana ct al,
against extension of streets in Lanier
Heights; G. V. Riley. against the bends
and spreads" in extending Connecticut
avenue; DR.. T. T. Sewers and Mrs. Henry
May, against change OF Prospect and Cres-
cent streets; Gen. J G. Breckenridge,
against closing Ontario avenue and Colum-
bia road; W A MalOy, against changes
in roadways between Rock Greek Park
and Soldiers Home.
OTHERS HAVE OBJECTIONS
Dr. King objects to the closing of
Warden avenue and advocates extension
Of fexisting street lines; j. B. Henderson pro-
tests against change in Prospect street,
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets
northwest. w. A. Watson and n. E.
Young against extension Sixteenth street
northwest; Cynthia Quackenbush, against
occupying her land on Columbia Road with
out just compensation; Joseph Burden,
against steXtensionofVe Vernontavenuethr through
Whitney at Soldiers Home; George W
Barry, against extension of Bismarck street
and closing of Lincoln street; Alice S Hill,
against extension OF yelling and Hunt
ington Places; Dr. j. w. Little, against
widening Lydecker and closing Morgan
avenue, in Holmead Manor.
Some of those who favor the proposed
plan are:
Elizabeth s. Calvert, who suggests ex-
tension of Connecticut avenue and Twenty
second street in a straight line. Donald
Mcpherson advocates extension of Con
necticut avenue George A. Armes sug-
gests Connecticut avenue be extended in
a straight line. Col George l.. Andrews
is against any change IN the north line of
Mintwood place. Benjamin 2. Davis
urges prompt action in street extension
plans. Mount Pleasant Citizens Asso-
citation favors extension OF Piney Branch
boulevard.